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Catch of the Day: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" 🐡🦊

Hey Retro Fans!

Did you have a good weekend? Our bouncer at the FrogFind pond was certainly busy and waved a guest through yesterday that put a massive smile on our faces:

ArcticFox 52.9 on NetBSD!

Among hardcore Unix nerds, there is a famous catchphrase: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" This open-source operating system is legendary for its portability. It has been ported to run on almost anything with a processor—from old toasters and Sega Dreamcasts to massive server racks.

The fact that someone navigated to our pond using NetBSD is already awesome. But the combination with the ArcticFox browser makes it a masterpiece. ArcticFox is a lovingly maintained community fork (based on Pale Moon) specifically kept alive to enable modern browsing on exotic architectures, PowerPC Macs, and old UNIX derivatives.

Cheers to the tinkerers keeping exotic systems online!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

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TIL that #NetBSD doesn’t provide Linux emulation on #arm64.

#Fedora #Suse #Linux refugees are welcome to the #NetBSD world :)

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/10/both-fedora-and-ubuntu-will-get-ai-support-soon/5237409

#NetBSD

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/09/macos-27-threatens-to-bury-time-capsule-foss-brings-a-shovel/5234824

My Sunday challenge: installing #Devuan in place of #OpenBSD on my laptop so I can install #postmarketOS on an old tablet, because for some reason I only have a blue USB port on that laptop (my SFF PC has a whole bunch of USB ports, but none are blue). Let's see how well restoring the backup will work once I reinstall OpenBSD.

I wonder how many years worth of work would it take to create a #NetBSD / #smolBSD based mobile distro after #postmarketOS has done more progress...

I installed #NetBSD on my #Thinkpad T580. Amazingly, it works. If you select to install XDM (X Display Manager) during installation, then you boot to a graphical login that loads a very primitive X environment with CTWM a window manager for X that gives off distinct 1992 vibes, which happens to be the year it was created. It's an austere #UNIX environment. Perfect, honestly. There are modern desktops in the package repository. My first impressions are A+.

Lets try some #hashtag #wordsalad

Finishing internal #wiki notes on connecting across #Tailscale to boot a remote #Dell server via #iDRAC from a #proxmox iso image (on my #NetBSD laptop in a #Firefox window). Wipe, install, then install #pfSense and flip the Proxmox to be secured behind pfSense, and add a #Ruckus smartzone controller and some other VMs

All without physical access to the machine. Takes me way back to remote #Sun #Sparc installs via a #RS232 #Spiderport :-p

@codemonkeymike
https://discoverbsd.com/p/a91b288102

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/

@stefano in on the Fediverse.

There are a few others on #FreeBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD who will be willing to help.

@sashin

Sadly, the non-systemd distros are getting fewer and fiddlier.

The no-ai operating systems are incredibly few. The only one I know of off the top of my head is #NetBSD.

All of the other ones are slop-friendly or slop-neutral.

It's sad that #Fedora doesn't seem to have the will or perhaps even understanding to take a principled stance on this. I can't say I expected a lot better of them, but one can freaking hope.

@thezerobit

#NetBSD has a no-slop policy

Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them:

#Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you."
#FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!"
#NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D"
#OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too."
#9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?"

😆

(For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

@livefish Uh, I didn't remember that well — I showed you my #FreeBSD laptop or my #NetBSD server?

@domi

NetBSD as a Post-AI OS 🤔

#netbsd

The Wii homeserver is now live!

http://wii.sjmulder.nl

(IPv6 only, so if your ISP is stuck in the 1900s it'll have to wait until I get around to setting up some proxy or such.)

Edit: also proxied through IPv4 now

#Wii #NetBSD #HomeLab

@thestrangelet @cmccullough @mason

#NetBSD is the only one with a solid anti-AI policy.

@wordshaper @mhoye I feel vindicated for having stayed with #NetBSD for the last 15+ years.

Command:

echo hello,there |sed 's/,/\n/g'

Result:

#Linux:
hello
there

#FreeBSD:
hello
there

#NetBSD:
hello
there

#OpenBSD:
hellonthere

OpenBSD.... brah. 😓

@E

Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to #NetBSD

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/projects/mifwPqCq

Rendez-vous à 20h sur https://twitch.tv/imilnb ! #bhyve #FreeBSD #NetBSD #smolBSD

@imil As a fellow #NetBSD on #bhyve user, color me very interested

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Recently I got asked about my @BoxyBSD@bsd.cafe project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve.

But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @BoxedTux@mastodon.social) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation.

Hope you like this small update... Over & out!

#freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

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