@mccd #NetBSD is awesome NetBSD>>>>CentOS>>> Linux

I'm newbing hard today. Is there some kind of special trick to getting a NetBSD assembly program to write to STDOUT? I've included the special section indicating it's a valid NetBSD ELF program so it at least runs and exits correctly. I'm pushing the arguments to the stack and calling the syscall number from syscalls.master with syscall. Cannot get anything to print to STDOUT though.

#assembly #netbsd

Getting ready for #BSDCan

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

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A printed presentation slide featuring the BSD Daemon mascot holding a Canadian flag with a pitchfork. The title reads, "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs." The presenter is Stefano Marinelli, and the event is BSDCan in Ottawa on 13 June 2025.

See anything interesting on the #bsdcan schedule https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html ?

You can still register for the conference (tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks June 13-14, 2025) https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops

The final schedule for @bsdcan has been published: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html

#BSDCan #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #HardenedBSD

Make Your Own Internet Presence with #NetBSD and a 1 euro VPS – Part 1: Your Blog

｢ it's particularly efficient on low-power devices, like embedded systems or cheap VMs. Therefore, it's one of the best solutions for a small personal setup that can still deliver excellent results and simple management ｣

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

#NetBSD On The State & Future Of #XOrg #X11 • Phoronix

｢ Nia Alarie with the NetBSD project published a status re on the #XOrg graphics support. NetBSD maintains theirOrg stack as a somewhat fork of the X.Org codebases including with their own BSD makefile build system use, their "xsrc" repository that is a regularly-updated fork of the upstream X.Org code, and various X.Org DDX driver differences ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-State-Of-X11-2024

Final-ish schedule for #bsdcan dropped: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-all.html

You can stil register, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

#conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

Alex Haydock Saves a Nintendo #Wii From the Scrapheap — and Turns It Into a #NetBSD Web Server

｢ Inside the compact housing was an IBM Broadway, a PowerPC G3-based processor running at 729MHz, plus 24MB of high-speed 1T static RAM (SRAM) and 64MB of GDDR4 memory for a total of 88MB ｣

https://www.hackster.io/news/alex-haydock-saves-a-nintendo-wii-from-the-scrapheap-and-turns-it-into-a-netbsd-web-server-aebbf2c6492e

Unveiling the EndBOX https://lobste.rs/s/kvhjf8 #netbsd
https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

@jmmv 's Unveiling the EndBOX #NetBSD

https://www.endbasic.dev/2025/06/unveiling-the-endbox.html

Interesting #NetBSD/#FreeBSD difference:

They both have the hotkeys for switching KVTs that SCO Multiscreen had, but only FreeBSD remembers that Control+PrtScrn cycled through the screens on SCO Multiscreen.

#SCOUnix #SCOMultiscreen

As implied, the #NetBSD port of #nosh, #redo, and #djbwares is pretty much done.

NetBSD doesn't make it as easy to switch between process 1 programs as FreeBSD does, so the system manager is not tested. But many of the other tools from tai64nlocal, cyclog, and setterm; through login-envuidgid and envdir; to the service manager and console-tty37-viewer; have now been used in earnest.

There are known missing bits in #ifconfig and list-process-table. And UVT realizers are not tested at all yet.

I caused myself to waste several days with the #NetBSD port of #nosh by uncommenting NetBSD's supplied /etc/login.conf settings, to check that the code to use login.conf worked, without checking in too much detail what they were.

Someone had set the open file descriptor limit, in a vanilla installation the same as kern.maxfiles since NetBSD 10 ships with login.conf all commented out, down to just 128.

Very funny joke, Indy. (-:

https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/login.conf#rev1.4

The not-very-secret GOPHER server is well on its way to being back up; and those of you who know GOPHER will soon be able to get the latest development source snapshots of #nosh 1.41 and #djbwares 10 again.

*Of course* it is a machine running those self-same nosh and djbwares to serve up GOPHER et al.. The last one ran #OpenBSD. This one is running #NetBSD, hence the recent porting work.

It's not in its intended location yet. But it is facing the Internet now.

#redo

#NetBSD Bans #AI-Generated Code From Commits

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/18/netbsd-bans-ai-generated-code-from-commits/

PSA on the changed bus service for BSDCan conference goers.
The website has been updated.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/gettingthere.html

#Ottawa #BSDCan #BSDCan2025 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

I am happy to announce that my @FrOSCon talk proposal has been accepted! I will speak about #NetBSD, hope to see you there!

A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

NetBSD is an OS that I installed only a couple of times over the years, so I’m not very familiar with its installer, sysinst. This fact was actually what led to this article (or the whole series rather): Talking to a NetBSD developer at EuroBSDcon 2023, I mentioned my impression that NetBSD was harder to install than it needed to be. He was interested in my pe

https://www.osnews.com/story/142507/a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

#NetBSD

For those coming to BSDCan (bsdcan.org) next week long term forecast looks like it should be ok Wednesday but possibly a tad moist if you are flying in on Tuesday.

https://weather.gc.ca/en/location/index.html?coords=45.403,-75.687'

#BSDCan #BSDCan2025 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #Ottawa

@toomanysecrets

It's probably a rite of passage in becoming a software engineer to understand this.

I have a vague recollection of an explainer for this that comes up on #HackerNews every few years.

Interestingly, only #OpenBSD retains the full flaws of the original. #NetBSD and #DragonFlyBSD both add error checking, and #FreeBSD and #GhostBSD do the modern avoiding stdio and its rampant buffer rewriting thing.

#yes @WindOfChange

I upgraded my #NetBSD client in Hyper-V to 10.1. Wow that was easy and quick!

It has a 2GB virtual hard disk and 1024MB of assigned memory. My little oasis from Windows.

#RunBSD

If you haven't already, register now for #BSDCan at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

The main North American BSD conference, in #Ottawa

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #unixlike #conference #hacking #development

Want to speak at EuroBSDcon 2025? Submit via https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/ (until 2025-06-21)

Main conferfence site: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/, Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay ! NetBSD's efficiency and long-term support for diverse hardware help reduce e-waste. Let's all build sustainable solutions, in code and in the world, to #SustainableTech
#NetBSD 🚩🧡 @netbsd

Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer https://lobste.rs/s/kngyln #netbsd
https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

@jaypatelani

It's wrong in a couple of places. For starters, systems with EFI firmware do not require EFI partition tables. In fact it has things backwards. It's the older firmwares that place the requirement on what partitioning scheme is used; not the newer ones.

And as far as I know @emaste does not reject German keyboard layouts for #FreeBSD. (-:

It's on point about "What the Hell is enable cgd?" though.

#NetBSD #EFI

#NetBSD #runbsd
Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

Is there any documentation or guides that helped you a lot with bhyve?

#bhyve #vm #netbsd