@jaypatelani #NetBSD is next on my list of things to explore. It seems like a beacon in the current tech mire of AI/corporate control.

We've all been there, but the #NetBSD way is different. Get the architecture right the first time. Why spend years fixing technical debt when you can build a stable, portable foundation from the start?

Reject automated bloat. RTAM( Read The Awesome Manual). Write code yourself. Run NetBSD.

#runBSD #UNIX #SoftwareEngineering #Craftsmanship #CodingMeme #OperatingSystems #antiai #noai

If your i915 GPU glitches like in the post above under your #NetBSD 11, try creating an X config with X -configure, then change the device type from intel to modesetting in a freshly created xorg.conf.new, and then try running with this new config. This change has completely fixed visual snow and glitches on my Comet Lake GT2

I put herbstluftwm on the NetBSD laptop. I haven't configured it yet beyond setting the mod key, but it's nice so far. I keep almost using tmux keybinds, but that's not right!

#NetBSD #BSD #Unix

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A screenshot of a tiling window manager. Three frames are shown, one of which is divided in half. The biggest frame shows fastfetch displaying basic system information, the second biggest frame shows Firefox open to one of my old posts with a cute picture of an Andean mountain cat with big paws, & the smallest one is the one that's divided in two. In one half of the divided frame are a terminal window stacked under a GLX gears window so it can't be seen & in the other half is a terminal window showing XWD about to be executed & have its output, which is this screenshot, directed into a new file. The GLX gears window shows an animation of three 3D rendered primary colored gears. Each window & frame is bordered by a green line to separate them from eachother.

BSD goo has been applied as somehow after recent #Pkgsrc builds, my VLC on #NetBSD can see media servers via DLNA. Yay.
Before I'd get "no driver pal" failures.

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Photo of VLC playing Daredevil on NetBSD 11.0.

Thanks to community driven projects like @netbsd we can take back the joy and ethics in computing. I'm in! ❤️🤗
Thank you for this wonderful operating system, and for keeping it away from Big tech LLM / GenAI.
#noAI #LLM #NetBSD
https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

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Picture taken to a laptop screen showing the console screen from a NetBSD 11 operating system. Some of the text: NetBSD/amd64 (tolstoy.gnuhealth.org) (constty) login: root Password: Aug 28 15:00:11 tolstoy login: ROOT LOGIN (root) on tty constty Last login: Fri Aug 28 14:50:18 2026 on constty Copyright (c): 1996... 2026 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. ... NetBSD 11.0 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 15:23:12 UTC 2026 Welcome to NetBSD! ...

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Hello, I'm Sean and I realized I've never posted an #introduction (better late than never). I'm a long time technology lurker but have decided to come out of the woodwork and actually interact with interesting people.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and work in the network services team at UC Berkeley. I have a background in #systems, #networking, and #security. I also have a long history of choosing operating systems that fade away after I've made them part of my day to day world. #CPM, #OS/2, #FreeBSD, and #NetBSD were my platforms of choice over the years. Granted the BSD's are still alive and strong, but just not as high profile as it was many years ago. BTW, I am team #WordStar :)

My father builds and fixes things. He's kept cars, tools, and electronics working years after others would have tossed them aside. I learned to solder from an early age watching him work and helping out with small things. I learned my love of creating and fixing things from him.

Oh, and if you haven't noticed I'm wordy.

NetBSD voor Pi is er, je kunt het downloaden als image.
Zie hier:
https://www.netbsd.org/
#NetBSD #raspberryPi

RE: https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/01a03e3d-1e73-7928-b396-db17b7f0f60b

@stefano is een bekende naam in BSD-kringen.
Hij plaatst regelmatig leuke dingen, zoals dit project. Hij heeft een Mastodon instance draaiend op een Raspberri onder NetBSD.

En kijk eens naar dat stroomverbruik!
Unix rocks.

#BSD #unix #NetBSD #Raspberri_pi

@stefano someone with an AI bot can auto reply to this toot to test #NetBSD

https://hackaday.io/project/643-minibsd-laptop-computer

https://github.com/sergev/LiteBSD

#bsd #netbsd #unix #arduino #pic #permacomputing

6 months ago, I stood up a #Matrix server using synapse and #OpenBSD as an experiment for Brisbane WICEN.

Matrix is great, feels a lot like Slack in terms of how it operates from the user. The fact it supports end-to-end encryption out-of-the-box is good for those that need that.

Not so great is its insistence that this be mandatory: the user has to be knowledgeable enough to back up their private key somewhere and know how to upload it back in, or have an existing client logged in that can "vouch" for any new client that logs into their account. I feel this will confuse and confound some of the less technical members of our group, so maybe not quite the holy grail I was after, but very close.

I won't ditch the server just yet, but time to evaluate something else: #XMPP. I've just installed #NetBSD (because, stuff LLM slop) on a VM, and I'll start working through getting ejabberd going.

XMPP isn't as far ahead on the many-to-many video chat that Matrix is (still in the design phase for XMPP, whereas Matrix Call has a working proof-of-concept based on LiveKit), but it is stable and well supported, so we'll give it a look.

@stefano They’re wonderful little machines! It’s amazing how much we can do with so little energy and minimal computing resources. #NetBSD is great with modest hardware :)

Mine takes two watts, but that’s because it has ethernet. Still, I love that we can run whole servers off of small solar panels meant for charging phones.

#Retrocompuing #OS2 #Slowcomputing #EuroBSDCon2026

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Memtest86 version 4.10 running on the machine, testing all of the 15 (really 16) MBs of RAM.

You haven't lived until you've slapped NetBSD on a Nintendo Wii and used it as a reverse proxy to your {Open, Hardened}BSD machines.

Either way, BSD all the way. The penguin shall be lynched tomorrow.

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #NetBSD #Wii

This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀

#FediTest #littleFedi #OwnYourData #NetBSD

Yesterday’s post received an unexpected amount of appreciation, and the little Raspberry Pi Zero W didn’t even flinch.

#littleFedi #Fediverse #OwnYourData #NetBSD

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2015 MacBook Pro running NetBSD.
old hardware having the time of their life.

#NetBSD

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Here's the #slashpackage for #Debian #dash 0.5.12.

As a bonus, I've added a small patch that sets up a DASH_VERSION variable and defaults PATH correctly (if unset) on #NetBSD, which neither Debian nor Xu dash actually do. If you know the #pkgsrc dash person, please let xem know.

https://github.com/jdebp/slashpackage/tree/trunk/shells/dash-0.5.12-debian

The Z, Korn, Bourne Again, and Watanabe shells all have similar xxSH_VERSION variables.

#AlmquistShell

I've build Debian #dash on #Debian, #FreeBSD, and #NetBSD . There are some slight differences between it and Xu dash (building both with libedit enabled).

Xu dash reads the locale settings at process startup, for example. Debian dash does not.

When (interactive) standard input is a pipe, Debian dash just reads it. Xu dash creates a second pipe at file descriptors 10 and 11 and tries to do odd things with tee(2).

Xu dash knows how to F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC. Debian doesn't.

#AlmquistShell

Eu tenho um note que eu acho que estou pronta pra instalar #NetBSD nele, no mínimo eu uso um QEMU pra rodar o #Haiku R1/beta6 nele ou tento um dual boot https://www.haiku-os.org/get-haiku/r1beta6/release-notes/

So now I'm thinking of building a non-Debian Debian dash. What a weird thing to write!

https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/117166557290914957

Even weirder would be a Debian Xu dash.

#NetBSD and #FreeBSD have the original (BSD) #AlmquistShell that dash came from in the first place, of course, so a non-Debian Debian/Xu dash is not particularly useful.

#Debian #dash

#netbsd boosted

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@andrew_shadura

It's interesting that M. Xu is maintaining two parallel dashes, though. It's not even as though the Debian dash has not tracked Xu dash. There are two different, current, maintained, and significantly divergent, flavours.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash/-/commits/debian/unstable/src/input.c?ref_type=heads

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/log/src/input.c

I actually haven't tried building the Debian dash on a BSD. I should try it. (#FreeBSD+#OpenBSD ports and pkgsrc use the Xu dash.)

@meluzzy
#Unix #UnixShells #Debian #AlmquistShell #dash #NetBSD

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@andrew_shadura

It's interesting that M. Xu is maintaining two parallel dashes, though. It's not even as though the Debian dash has not tracked Xu dash. There are two different, current, maintained, and significantly divergent, flavours.

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dash/-/commits/debian/unstable/src/input.c?ref_type=heads

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/log/src/input.c

I actually haven't tried building the Debian dash on a BSD. I should try it. (#FreeBSD+#OpenBSD ports and pkgsrc use the Xu dash.)

@meluzzy
#Unix #UnixShells #Debian #AlmquistShell #dash #NetBSD

RE: https://2137.social/@michal/117157348781332633

Chyba czas na nowy post na blogu… 👀 tylko jeden problem… nie mam bloga XD

#soon #unix #netbsd #starfive #visionfive2 #blogrecommendationsmostwelcome

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Nadeszła pora roku na absolutny bullshit. Dziś próbuję ogarnąć sterownik `simplefb` dla NetBSD na StarFive VisionFive2, i idealnie byłoby mieć działający sygnał HDMI. Trzymajcie kciuki 🫡

#netbsd #unix #riscv #simplefb #starfive #visionfive2 #afoowalksintoabar

Oh nice, the #Deskflow releases provide tons of native packages for the latest version, so I just updated it to the latest version on this #Debian box.

I'm hoping it will clear up some of the weird glitches I was having connecting from Debian/Plasma/Wayland to #NetBSD/X11/ctwm.

https://github.com/deskflow/deskflow/releases/tag/v1.26.0

Nope, spoke too soon. XD
The super key gets randomly stuck, and the only thing that can fix it is to killall ctwm (bounce X11). Derp. XD

P.S. Thanks to @etam for this solution: https://im-in.space/@etam/117162772780969631

Trotting out old standby #stalonetray to use with #ctwm on my #NetBSD box.

If you're using a WM/DE/compositor that lacks a system tray, [stalonetray] is pretty great. ;)

@stefano 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

and even more 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 just for running NetBSD in a raspberry pi.

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

@ralen Nope, this is ok because the binary packages in the main repo built from the same pkgsrc tree — so it will be strange if pkgin will be able to distinguish packages from main repo and locally built and installed one and treat them differently during update. This thing must do one job — install binary packages from repo with specified URL and shouldn't know about underlying shenangians, like pkgsrc and locally built packages . And if it see that e.g. "asterisk1337" got update — it will update it and rewrite locally built package with newer package from remote repo.

Common way to avoid the problem described in previous toot — use a local repository with necessary packages and update it first, before issuing `pkgin update`. FreeBSD is using this approach with poudriere.

But a more traditional way — just **don't mix** binary packages and software from ports/pkgsrc — and use solely one of two ways to install software in the system. IIRC, the FreeBSD handbook directly prohibits mixing `pkg install` with ports-based installation method. NetBSD docs mention that there are two main methods of software installation and user may want to choose one of them.

#FreeBSD #NetBSD

Finally, the end! I managed to replace binary packages from remote repo with some home-build packages from pkgsrc

#NetBSD #pkgsrc

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Output in the home server's console: 1.0.2nb2 => Creating binary package /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All/fail2ban-1.0.2nb2.tgz ===> Replacing for fail2ban-1.0.2nb2 ===> Updating using binary package of fail2ban-1.0.2nb2 /usr/bin/env /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_add -K /usr/pkg/pkgdb -U -D /usr/pkgsrc/security/fail2ban/work/.packages/fail2ban-1.0.2nb2.tgzRR> Packaging fail2ban-1.0.2nb2 ===> Cleaning for fail2ban-1.0.2nb2 RR> Re-checking for unsafe installed packages (unsafe_depends_strict=YES) RR> Packages to rebuild: rr> MISMATCH_TODO=[] rr> REBUILD_TODO=[] rr> UNSAFE_TODO=[] RR> No more packages to replace; done. + fail2ban + munin-master + py312-numpydoc + py312-requests + py312-sphinx drag0n-server#

Been using #Deskflow with my #Debian #Linux #KDE #Plasma #Wayland box as the "server" and my #NetBSD #ctwm #X11 laptop as the "client" or second screen.

It's amazing that it works, but it's buggy. I'll get a few repeat keystrokes, and sometimes the control key gets stuck.

P.S. Thanks to @etam for this solution: https://im-in.space/@etam/117162772780969631

#DontHateTheHashtagPlayaHateTheHashtagGame

Nadeszła pora roku na absolutny bullshit. Dziś próbuję ogarnąć sterownik `simplefb` dla NetBSD na StarFive VisionFive2, i idealnie byłoby mieć działający sygnał HDMI. Trzymajcie kciuki 🫡

#netbsd #unix #riscv #simplefb #starfive #visionfive2 #afoowalksintoabar

@gumnos

Hmmm, "PASS AIR BAG" must be the 2026 version of "Pass the Dutchie/Kouchie" 😄

Hey, you mentioned some compose key wizardry yesterday. How do I export #NetBSD's compose key setup into #OpenBSD? Because +"-"+"-"+"-" does not work properly in OpenBSD for me. :/

Also, unrelated, but for some weird reason, I have to do this in NetBSD, otherwise things like quotation marks come out looking like gibberish (both in uxterm and lxterminal, with any font I've tried):

case $uname in
	(...)
	NetBSD)
				#Somehow, having these variables exported breaks things,
				# so unset them and redefine them without being exported
				unset LANG LC_ALL
				LANG=en_US.UTF-8
				LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
				(...)

I export all those variables by default, but somethow that messes up things on NetBSD (and only NetBSD).

dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.

I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming my project onto his platform.

For free spirits, dropQbsd — compartmentalization without virtualization, based on BSD — can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQbsd

#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #openSource #privacy #sourcehut #digitalsovereignty

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dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.

I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming my project onto his platform.

For free spirits, dropQbsd can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQbsd

#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #openSource #privacy #sourcehut #digitalsovereignty

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dropQbsd has been moved from GitHub – where a copy will remain – to Sourcehut, its natural home.

I’d like to thank Drew DeVault for welcoming me onto his platform.

For free spirits, dropQbsd can be found here: https://git.sr.ht/~nobraininside/dropQbsd

#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #openSource #privacy #sourcehut #digitalsovereignty

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Anyway, the #golang #NetBSD #aarch64 builder now runs NetBSD 11 and Python 3.14!

Note to self: don't use "sysupgrade auto" when updating from #NetBSD 10 to 11. The etcupdate will fail because the running kernel is incompatible with the etcupdate binary. Ouch.

#NetBSD GSoC 2026 Improving RAIDframe

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_raidframe

AsahiBSD when?

#AsahiLinux #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD