Okay, you switch to #netbsd … but what about Python, Rust, Ruby, Godot, VS Codium, most other software one uses???

I quite like the "micro" terminal-based editor. as the name suggests it's like nano (rather than vim or anything) but 1000x better. syntax highlighting doesn't work in the #netbsd pkgsrc release though for some reason - but the binary on github works fine.

To be fair, I'm very impressed with the final result. A second run after a 400GiB sync from cloud storage to local #ZFS on #NetBSD took less than 2 minutes.

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Two runs of a program called rclone. The first copied nearly 400GiB in 4 hours and 25 minutes. The second took less than two minutes as everything had already been copied. 1% rclone sync --ignore-checksum -P sharefile: ShareFile Transferred: 393.167 GiB / 393.167 GiB, 100%, 2.048 KiB/s, ETA 0s Checks: 31505 / 31505, 100%, Listed 88431 Deleted: 254 (files), 11 (dirs), 4.719 GiB (freed) Transferred: 17333 / 17333, 100% Elapsed time: 4h25m23.6s 2% rclone sync --ignore-checksum -P sharefile: ShareFile Transferred: 0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA - Checks: 24282 / 24282, 100%, Listed 53438 Elapsed time: 1m41.2s

Think I’ll take #NetBSD for a spin today…

@drew i wonder, has anybody ever asked #NetBSD to reconsider the "core can approve slop" clause, or to publish some info on whether core has approved #slop so far?

sounds quite cool though! I'm still hoping somebody might fork an older #Linux #kernel - might be hard to keep that going but it would send a sign.

#LLM #NoSlop #ensloppification #AI #NoAI #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

Compilando librewolf con pkgsrc-wip en la máquina virtual con #netbsd 😎

#ruido_blanco

Anyway, the #FUTO #NetBSD kerfuffle has a very simple solution: the list of sponsors at the bottom of the page is split into two parts: non fascists sponsors on the left, and fascist sponsors on the far right, explicitly marked as such (and I mean: “Fascist sponsors: ....”).

Today I discovered:
/usr/pkg/share/examples/pkgin/preferred.conf.example
that goes in:
/usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/preferred.conf

non-bloated functionality is always better.

#NetBSD #FransNetBSDJourney #unix

I heard #NetBSD was trending, so decided to check whether we needed to fix anything to build edk2 under it

Not much.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/13332

La instalación de #netbsd en una máquina virtual, previa a la instalación en un #t400 ha sido mucho más sencilla de lo que esperaba.

Veremos con el hierro.

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una pantalla de una máquina virtual corriendo la última versión de netbsd con sistema gráfico, en el escritorio se ve un menú, una terminal con ufetch, firefox y por debajo está thunderbird.

Not as straightforward as on FreeBSD, but you can make your own read only NetBSD device quite easily. I've been doing it for years, and it works perfectly.

Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/10/make-your-own-readonly-device-with-netbsd/

#NetBSD #RunBSD

@peachfiend Yes, unfortunately, it is not like people are suddenly looking for alternatives to Linux, and #NetBSD was ready to catch them. Netbsd had little funding for years, and modern hardware support is not that good. In case you wanna have it improved in a couple of years, support netbsd now.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@dianea/117471549323589711

I made a new account to focus on my new major project, installing #NetBSD ...well, installing was easy, but now I can get my life back and take control with the UNIX Philosophy. There's even a wikipedia page on it, and you should read it and make it part of your daily life! It is the very opposite of AI Slop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

#netbsd boosted

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@dianea@mastodon.bsd.cafe

This is what I have been missing until this last week when I installed #NetBSD

Daily mail reports from the system on my own mailserver. This is what they took from us. Now I am getting it back. This network is mine once again. #RUNBSD #security

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Screen capture of X11 terminal window with the Alpine (Pine) mail client viewing mail from the local mail spool, showing security risks to be considered.

This is what I have been missing until this last week when I installed #NetBSD

Daily mail reports from the system on my own mailserver. This is what they took from us. Now I am getting it back. This network is mine once again. #RUNBSD #security

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Screen capture of X11 terminal window with the Alpine (Pine) mail client viewing mail from the local mail spool, showing security risks to be considered.

Got https://braincoded.software, now I need to find a good hosting akin to @OpenBSDAms but with #NetBSD *_*

@scott

It's the same with #DragonFlyBSD's DPorts and also the #FreeBSD ports tree. They all integrate building from source directly using the ports tree with installing binary packages.

https://dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/DPortsUsage/

#NetBSD

it's been heartwarming hearing people are installing #NetBSD. i just put it on my main desktop too! #NoAI #humanemacs

Exploring #NetBSD pkgsrc tonight in more detail on the VM, in prep for the bare metal install. It's really neat. I like how the package tools can be used on from-binary or from-source package installs interchangeably.

I also like how the NetBSD installer grabs the latest quarterly pkgsrc release when you install it from the install CD.

My package builds for #Fooyin and #ChiPass on #NetBSD's PKGSRC repository have gone into the main repo! :)

This doesn't mean there's binary packages yet, but you can build them by cloning the main PKGSRC repo and building them there as opposed to the less trusted wip repo.

got my distraction-free netbsd laptop set up nicely. posting this from the terminal using toot #netbsd

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screenshot of netbsd running on my laptop, spectrwm window manager

I just watched a 4-year-old talk on porting Wayland to Net-/OpenBSD.

All the cool stuff on your computer is in C but I learned Java and PHP.

#OperatingSystems #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Dell Wyse 7040 acquired. I'm thinking I might throw #NetBSD on there.

Installed #NetBSD on my ancient 686 netbook. Surprisingly easy compared to my OpenBSD (in fairness that was on a Raspberry Pi 3).

Curious to see how much of a headache package management will be, coming from Slackware. If things go well, I'll migrate my other machines over from Slackware.

if you missed configuring something during installation, and liked the little TUI interface for doing things, you can use it at any time afterwards in your installed system by just running sysinst as root. the 'Config menu' option likely has most of the things of interest.

you can also launch directly into the TUI partitioner with sysinst -p.

also! if the display messes up at any point while you are using sysinst, you can press CTRL+L to redraw everything. this sometimes happens if kernel messages print while you are doing something. (this keyboard shortcut works in other TUI programs as well)

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NetBSD/amd64 11.0's menu-driven install tool, showing its main menu. it is being run from a fully installed NetBSD system, not the installer image. out of the listed options, the "config menu" option, second to last, is chosen.

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the aforementioned config menu, including options to configure the network, timezone, root shell, root password, install binary packages, install pkgsrc (source-based packages), enable or disable some common daemons, add a user, drop to a shell, or exit.

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the aforementioned partition manager, showing a list of my system's connected disks and their partitions, as well as options to create a cryptographic volume (cgd), virtual disk image (vnd), volume group (lvm vg), or software RAID, update the device list, save any made changes, and finish partitioning.

If #NetBSD is so against Ai, then why do i have the option to remove everything but GPT?
Checkmate losers

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

#NetBSD does not use the code from #OpenZFS. Its #ZFS is from the earlier era.

Rob N had mentioned that already in https://social.lol/@robn/117316954913141549 .

@argv_minus_one @lispi314 @anemone

RE: https://mammut.moe/@gemelen/117321162964550753

@lispi314 @anemone

I am profoundly horrified.

The last thing I need is for my #fileSystem to randomly glitch out and trash all my files because it was written by the same bot that generated the reams of meaningless slop my coworker emails me every day.

And some of those AI commits are non-trivial enough that this is now a totally plausible scenario. See quoted post.

Jesus Christ. Abandon all hope. Copy-on-write file systems are no longer safe to use.

#ZFS #OpenZFS #NetBSD #FreeBSD

I am creating a new writerdeck, this time in NetBSD, on an even older netbook from 2010.

Installation was super simple. Configuration overall has been also very simple, and I have successfully ran the joplin cli by compiling it manually with npm (it took a couple of retries because of missing libs and it couldn't find the python binary under that name, it was called python3.11, so I had to soft link it).

I also switched to bash because I am old an I like what I like.

#netbsd #writerdeck

Contributing code to the BSDs.

OpenBSD uses CVS. Like git but from yestercentury. You type out diffs by hand & when they hear the noise of your typewriter they send someone around to check. It better be good this time.

With NetBSD it’s the same but different. You have to join a telephone tree first, but not on a Thursday because Martha leaves early to pick up the kids then.

Oh, & C only. But K&R C, not that modern Borland stuff.

#netbsd #openbsd #itsCuteInAWay

@ivanhoe #NetBSD was working on moving (or just mirroring, I dunno) to #mercurial for awhile too but it looks like that stalled.

@netbsd is there a post about this anywhere? I'm finding lots of documentation but nothing about a timeline.

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/mercurial/

I kind of like that #NetBSD still uses CVS. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Anyhow after having to deal too much with scons, now #godot runs on #netbsd

Re #AI or #NoAI #DesktopEnvironment for #Linux, #BSD, #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, forgot about #Orbitiny

It's a 1-person, QT-based, X11-only GPL project

Portable so you can try it without borking your current DE. I tested it a couple of years ago & again today, interesting but not enough to take me away from Xfce then

But I see no statement re AI on its site. & not on Fediverse, just Reddit.

https://orbitiny.com/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Orbitiny/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/orbitiny-desktop/

https://gitea.com/sasko.usinov/orbitiny-desktop

yeah. i am enthusiastic about #NetBSD and the no-AI slop policy.
but i think i am done with this. i haven't got the time.

db{0}>

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my laptop monitor, after "panic() at netbsd:panic+0x3c" and a bunch of other garbled jargon. i am dropped to a prompt: db{0}>

Day 35

Suspend/resume works perfectly on my Thinkpad T480s with Intel video. I made this little script, which is bound to a hotkey combo on Openbox, that puts the laptop to sleep, and upon resume 'i3lock(1)' provides a lockscreen:

https://codeberg.org/dwarmstrong/homebin/src/branch/main/x11_suspend

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

> AI-free operating system
> look inside
> Claude's Tab Window Manager

https://man.netbsd.org/ctwm.1

#NetBSD

@GreyUnix I would go with #NetBSD and or #OprnBSD! ❤

@freewear Looks like you are out of #NetBSD merchandise. When can we expect new stock?

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A screenshot of the Freewear web shop showing a NetBSD polo shirt and a notice box that the item cannot be purchased right now.

getting my personal thinkfleet ;) ready for upcoming the #slackware release and some #netbsd shenanigans

Now that NetBSD is booting (totally my fault that it didn't at first): the entire install procedure was incredibly painless so far. Old-school tty interface with menus, brief but helpful explanations, the whole system was installed in a couple of minutes. I already like it. Will conduct more experiments tomorrow.
#NetBSD

i may be late to the #netbsd party, but i’m about to go straight through a ring of fire and install it on a 64 mb mips-based cobalt qube 2.

@simon_brooke

#NetBSD works great under qemu, I have been running little VMs for ages with it.

The one thing that's a little bit annoying under qemu is that its DHCP server will present both IPv6 and IPv4 leases to the VM by default.

Which is a pain in the neck, since NetBSD will use IPv6 by default... If your ISP is IPv4, NetBSD will time out trying to contact pkgin repositories through IPv6. The solution is simple (disable IPv6 in system configuration).

@chadmccullough @netbsd

It's Monday, so what better time to install #NetBSD on my Laptop of Theseus, a long-in-the-tooth Dell Latitude.

First, I wanted an image so that I can restore my existing Debian Trixie installation, in case this goes horribly wrong.

I decided to create an image using #Clonezilla to a USB stick, so attempted to burn a Clonezilla ISO to a CD-R. Except the version of CZ I already had complained that it needed some runtime files, which it would like to download, which failed.

So I downloaded the current version, and that burned without issue.

But, I had also used Balena Etcher to install the CZ .iso to the USB stick I decided to use for the backup image, and it took several tries to wipe it clean, because I needed its entire capacity, and even after I deleted the partitions using Windows Disk Manager, it still showed up as partitioned with CZ.

Debian fdisk was able to actually wipe the partition table, and then CZ saw the entire stick as available. The actual space used is only 27 GB. so the image fit nicely on the 32 GB drive.

It took about 30 minutes to image and verify.

Well, look like NetBSD is the new cool kid of the block.
Let's hope it will help them gain maintainers, programmers and new hardware support.

Quickly checked but it look like my hardware isn't supported for now, maybe I should give it a try in a VM in the meantime.

#NetBSD

What if a regular, normal NetBSD installation is too plebeian for you? This is a quick overview which attempts to synthesize DW Armstrong’s tutorial on NetBSD encryption with the cgdroot page from the NetBSD wiki in a single MBR partition, divided into multiple disklabel slices to preserve MBR entries. ↫ indigoparadox Web Zone What if you need this?

Really pleased to have helped the test framework for compat_linux for #NetBSD land in #pkgsrc today:
https://pkgsrc.se/emulators/compat_linux_test_project

So get testing and fixing those low-hanging fruit!

I was finally able to run #Zotero on #NetBSD. Should I do a pkgsrc package @netbsd ?

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Zotero with sync functionality running on NetBSD