I lost track of how much equipment I used SETI@Home on for burn-in during the #dotcom era. It certainly helped my status on the leader board.

#UltraSPARC #Alpha , all the good stuff back then when computing was fun #setiathome https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/

I lost track of how much equipment I used SETI@Home on for burn-in during the #dotcom era. It certainly helped my status on the leader board.

#UltraSPARC #Alpha , all the good stuff back then when computing was fun #setiathome https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/12/for-21-years-enthusiasts-used-their-home-computers-to-search-for-et-uc-berkeley-scientists-are-homing-in-on-100-signals-they-found/

Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html

#HackerNews #Kagi #Orion #Linux #Release #Alpha #KagiTech #OpenSource

Jank Lang Hit Alpha

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank

#HackerNews #JankLang #Alpha #GitHub #Innovation #Programming #Language

Possible regression in FreeBSD Installer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhym5mw/

#FreeBSD #alpha #pkg #KDE #Plasma

Possible regression in FreeBSD Installer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhym5mw/

#FreeBSD #alpha #pkg #KDE #Plasma

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html

For freebsd-update:

― "THE STEP OF UPDATING YOUR EXISTING SYSTEM FIRST IS NECESSARY …"

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhx8x53/

Screenshots below are of a multi-desktop environment system that used pkg for the update from ALPHA4 to ALPHA5.

#alpha #Cinnamon #MATE #KDE #Plasma #SDDM #Firefox #FreeBSD #Foundation

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html

For freebsd-update:

― "THE STEP OF UPDATING YOUR EXISTING SYSTEM FIRST IS NECESSARY …"

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhx8x53/

Screenshots below are of a multi-desktop environment system that used pkg for the update from ALPHA4 to ALPHA5.

#alpha #Cinnamon #MATE #KDE #Plasma #SDDM #Firefox #FreeBSD #Foundation

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003265.html>

― FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ns5onx/comment/ngjiwl9/> pictures a successful major upgrade that used pkg instead of freebsd-update.

#FreeBSD #alpha #test #install #upgrade #pkg #pkgbase

DO NOT USE FREEBSD-UPDATE TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA3

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003244.html>

FreeBSD bug 289769 - libsys.so.7 not found when upgrading userland with legacy freebsd-update

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289769>

#FreeBSD #upgrade #alpha #test

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA4 Now Available

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003265.html>

― FREEBSD-UPDATE SHOULD NOT BE USED TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA4 AT PRESENT.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ns5onx/comment/ngjiwl9/> pictures a successful major upgrade that used pkg instead of freebsd-update.

#FreeBSD #alpha #test #install #upgrade #pkg #pkgbase

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA3 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003240.html

― via https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nndsd7/freebsd_150alpha3_now_available/ with commentary from Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead).

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/

#FreeBSD #alpha #test

FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a58edbb8587af513a154ac01d922f611#file-pkgbase-major-upgrade-md-readme>

― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.

From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:

❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.

Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #alpha

DO NOT USE FREEBSD-UPDATE TO UPGRADE TO 15.0-ALPHA3

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003244.html>

FreeBSD bug 289769 - libsys.so.7 not found when upgrading userland with legacy freebsd-update

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289769>

#FreeBSD #upgrade #alpha #test

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA3 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003240.html

― via https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nndsd7/freebsd_150alpha3_now_available/ with commentary from Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead).

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/

#FreeBSD #alpha #test

FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades

<https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a58edbb8587af513a154ac01d922f611#file-pkgbase-major-upgrade-md-readme>

― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.

From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:

❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.

Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #alpha

FISHOOK ALPHA 0.1 JUST RELEASED 🥳
Interested in roaming around with a Fishing Hookshot 🎣 and a Flying Fishglider 🪁 ?

You can play 🎮 the game right here for free ! https://blessedsleepseeker.itch.io/fishook

If you want to talk about it, you can join the discord here : https://discord.gg/jkay9dBcwF !

I'm always interested in more feedback ! 👀

#godot #gamedev #release #alpha

FISHOOK ALPHA 0.1 JUST RELEASED 🥳
Interested in roaming around with a Fishing Hookshot 🎣 and a Flying Fishglider 🪁 ?

You can play 🎮 the game right here for free ! https://blessedsleepseeker.itch.io/fishook

If you want to talk about it, you can join the discord here : https://discord.gg/jkay9dBcwF !

I'm always interested in more feedback ! 👀

#godot #gamedev #release #alpha

While tidying up the cabinet in my studio, I found this box with 3 CDs. Alpha, of course, refers to the architecture. And there's a long story behind it that made me smile - which I'll publish on one of my blogs soon.

#FreeBSD#NetBSD#Debian#Alpha