Forget the chaotic Black Friday sales! 🤯 NetBSD 🚩 offers the BEST deal: it's 100% FREE! Always has been, always will be. Perfect for self-hosters and anyone seeking pure, open-source goodness without spending a dime. No catches, just solid OS. #NetBSD #BlackFriday #FreeSoftware #SelfHost #RetroComputing #OpenSource #Linux #RunBSD

@hazzino you mean like this https://eggflix.foolbazar.eu/w/39rCBjueN19t3xaAHBXDwH ?

#NetBSD on #OmniOS using #bhyve

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

Problems with drivers — make the devices as simple as possible so that the driver has no work to do — write to the register, read from the register.

And you'll get a working #NetBSD! After that, you can start working on SD CARD (which, by the way, is available on Tangnano20k) and other things. Although (!) I must note that even in this state, the OS is useful. Especially since Tangnano20k is four times cheaper than VisionFive 2 JH7110 RISC-V.

I looked at the current state of affairs
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/riscv/#index4h2

and what people are actually working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHTYV4MI8Y

I don't think it will be possible to run #NetBSD on #Tangnano20k so quickly.

@Jbb @kde I did. It just mentioned FreeBSD so that's a reason why I'm asking.

What about other OS and BSDs like OpenBSD whose port of plasma6 only runs by using xorg/xenocara?

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

multidisplay hack for #OpenBSD, #NetBSD xenodm/xdm.
```sh
#!/bin/ksh

# Define variables at the top for easy access
readonly MULTIDISPLAY_DIRECTION="--right-of"

# find list of connected monitors to span
monitors=$(xrandr --query | awk '/[^s]connected/{print $1}')

# the first monitor found will be the primary
primary=$(echo "$monitors" | head -n 1)

# initialize the xrandr command
xrandr_cmd="xrandr --output $primary --auto --primary"

# loop through the displays, assigning them --auto and MULTIDISPLAY_DIRECTION with randr
previous=$primary
for monitor in $monitors
do
if [ "$monitor" != "$primary" ]; then
xrandr_cmd+=" --output $monitor --auto $MULTIDISPLAY_DIRECTION $previous"
previous=$monitor
fi
done

# Execute the composed xrandr command
eval "$xrandr_cmd"
```

could drop in to your `Xsetup_0` file. written in ksh, should work in OpenBSD's ksh and NetBSD's ksh.

@amin @wyatt

The original #NetBSD [logo] was hella cool.

Of course, #OpenBSD's #Puffy is always [cool].

#FreeBSD's logo? Eh, a glowy red orb with horns. It's [fine]

I run FreeBSD but I don't tend to build it. I consume binaries. So sometimes I make assumptions based on its similarities to NetBSD, which was the first free Unix I ran.

Today I read that FreeBSD finally does unprivileged builds, to which I thought, "What? It didn't before?"

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

Meanwhile, NetBSD has been incredibly sleek in this department for many years now:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html

I should get back into NetBSD. I was initially enthralled by VNET jails but lately I find myself using simpler configs. I might find that I'm okay going back to running things in chroots. And it's not like I'd stop running FreeBSD.

#netbsd #freebsd

@morgant @s0x41 @golemwire

Hopefully the progress on #OpenBSD can be ported to #NetBSD without too much trouble?
I appreciate the fact that the presenter is basically saying, "This is a PITA, but yeah, it's the future."

The tremendous age of of X11 reminds me of that meme where this guy said he was working on a codebase and realized that the previous maintainer was his mom, and someone replied, "That's not how inheritance is supposed to work." XD

Day 20416, the wheel (group) keeps rising in popularity, meanwhile the WORKGROUP (group) keeps losing members.
Keep the wheel(8) spinning!

#Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@Cal @rhelune Did I miss something in the news about Debian and AI or LLMs ? I think Debian is for progressive ppl and activists very often a good choice. I did a search engine search about Debian and AI and this is one thing I found
(Debian AI General Resolution withdrawn - May 20, 2025)
https://lwn.net/Articles/1020968 (Another from April 2025 : https://lwn.net/Articles/1018497/) My association with the term Debian are the word grassroots and cooperation. It is not dependent on one company behind the scenes (like Ubuntu with Canonical) and it is volunteer based and its project leaders are voted for.

When it comes to Gentoo Linux, the good thing is that Gentoo has binaries since some time so you won't have to go through days or weeks of compiling any more. 🙂 And NetBSD is from the BSD family nice to have around for running on washing machines, obscure solar panels, maybe even iPods and Gameboys but as a desktop OS it might not suit as a daily driver, though I guess you can run emulation software with for example Gentoo Linux for things that you're missing on NetBSD desktop.

#debian #gentoo #netbsd

I wonder how many other #NetBSD devs got this spam?

Hello Stephen,

Many companies are using AI to reduce routine work and accelerate decision-making.

Is NetBSD planning to implement AI initiatives this year? We support teams in starting with small pilot projects that demonstrate their value before scaling.

Open to a quick chat?

Best regards,
Andy C
Devsinc

P.S. Simply reply with 'Stop' to opt out.

Someday it will be interesting to look at the minimum requirements for the RISCV version of #NetBSD — maybe it will fit into Tangnano20k #fpga?🤪

Finally! I'm exhausted all RAM on my homelab server, trying to install some python 3.13 things via pip, which involved compilation of some C++ things from sources

At least, I'm checked that kernel successfully kills some random processes, when it got OOM. Was very surprised, when I received some notifications on my phone about dead PostgreSQL, sshd and main nginx, lol

Still has no money to install the maximal amount of memory to my home server — 4 Gb (max for Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz)

#homelab #NetBSD #OOM

Alt...

Part of dmesg from my NetBSD box with some messages about OOM-killed programs: Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 8485.8485 (sshd), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 18496.18496 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap UVM: pid 17960.17960 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 2137.2137 (nginx), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 8777.8777 (ccl), uid 1001 killed: out of swap

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@golemwire

> Nice. (Two batteries? What kind of computer is it?)
It's a #thinkpad X260. They went from external-only batteries, to hybrid internal/external, to now internal-only batteries. I have one of each: x200, x260, x390, respecively. XD

> Cool to hear. I always heard that #Wayland was architected in a Linux-specific way (though I don't know how that could be, for a window protocol).

It was, sadly. #FreeBSD is the most linux-ish of the three major BSDs, so it got wayland support first. I think it's experimental on #OpenBSD, and not yet working on #NetBSD, last I heard.

Folks who say stuff like, "Hey, why doesn't NetBSD have Wayland working yet???" really frustrate the crap out of me. It's a teensy project with an annual budget of like $50k. It's not your mega kernel that's funded by the pocket money of trillion dollar gigacorps, shut up.

> I'd imagine most graphical BSD software is designed for X11. Did you have to compile e.g. foot from source? ;)

No, foot's a package. Just install and go. ;)
(At least on FreeBSD. I haven't tried Wayland on OpenBSD yet)

Just another honest weekend's work keeping an up-to-date browser working... On the other hand, the most trackable user agent in the world. #netbsd #sparc64 #palemoon

Alt...

Pale Moon 33.89.1 rendering a duckduckgo search for "user agent" on NetBSD/sparc64. sysctl output shows that the machine is a Blade 100 with an UltraSPARC-IIe at 550MHz.

Après l'autolargue, je propose l'autostart ! #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx/115599891811806575

All of them!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

I just wanna write silly softwares for #NetBSD and #plan9 that will be used by early 22th century post-apocalyptic survivors.

@uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install #Qemu to the **headless** server running #NetBSD , just to run some other OSes in the console mode, the dependencies bring to me:

- SDL2 and SDL2_image
- flac, giflib, lame, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libopus, libvorbis, libwebp, mpg123, tiff — like I'm want to operate with images and audio files, not to launch some virtual machines
- spice-server, while I'm not planning to use it.
- wayland and wayland-protocols -- no comments

As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the #FreeBSD world: "many of opensource audio and/or multimedia apps are developed on any of Linux distros, not on *BSD, thus, to minimize mandated works of porters / maintainers / commiters, depending on what upstream depends by default is the only feasible way not to cause toooo long delay from upstream".

I lost link to his toot on the old account, but I has a screenshot: vhttps://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/tomaoki.png

One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

Alt...

drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

@jaypatelani

Please tell me you've fixed it. It's been two years, #FreeBSD is about to drop 32-bit ARM, and I've got a bunch of these cute little machines!#netbsd

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/09/11/msg008384.html

Alt...

Orange Pi Zero. with ethernet on board

@stsp @nlnet #NetBSD should also apply for funds. :)

@AnachronistJohn I don't seem to be able to get the wifi adapter to show on the Pi 400. I tried switching to "eMMC2 SDHCI" on the boot settings and making symlinks to 43455 and 43456 but still... nothing. Any ideas?
#netbsd

Fosdem 2026 : BSD, illumos OpenZFS & bhyve devroom

Don't forget, you only have a week to submit your talks ! The deadline is the December the1st. ⏰

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/

#fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Illumos #zfs #bhyve

@rl_dane

My rule is just permit keepenv, with no persist. It's #NetBSD rather than #FreeBSD so doas.conf is in /usr/pkg/etc/, and it definitely retains the environment.

persist does not work on other than #OpenBSD, as far as I am aware. Try it without persist to see whether that's the problem.

#doas

@gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

#php #netbsd

Alt...

drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

@dmark Nice! A proxy for old browsers, which could be used with e.g. #Dillo

I'll definitely try to spin it up on my #NetBSD box

I'm trying to install #NetBSD on a Raspberry Pi 400. The display gets a signal but doesn't show anything.

Have a great Friday everyone in the #BSD community! 😎 (The weekend is almost upon us!)

...and don't forget:
#RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

@fedops @selea what's that? #NetBSD, you say? 😆

#DebianRocks