Off-topic: Any list or web forum for Linux system programming?

[fred smith]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:50:38AM -0700, Yong Huang wrote:
> (Excuse me for this non-Redhat question.)
> Does anybody know a mailing list or web forum dedicated to non-kernel Linux system progamming?
> 
> There used to be a newsgroup
> comp.os.linux.development.system
> which can be accessed from web interfaces such as
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/topics
> 
> It's meant for discussion of system programming on Linux, but different from lkml (Linux Kernel Mailing List), it's mostly programming in user space. Nowadays, like most of the Usenet, that newsgroup is infested with Spams, and system programmers have left the group.
> 
> Yong Huang

it's been ages since I've followed any usenet groups, but I used to read
comp.unix.programming (or was it comp.os.unix.programming) and also one
on threads programming. they were relatively free of spam, at that time
but I don't know their current status.

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