The scariest boot loader code https://lobste.rs/s/s5zoaj #hardware #netbsd #openbsd
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html

The #NetBSD 🚩community is amazing! 🔥
Let's come together to reach the foundation's $50,000 year-end goal. Your contribution directly drives the project's future and innovation. Every donation helps!
https://netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #OpenSource #FOSS #Donate
#outreach

Eight hours into my #NetBSD adventure and I have just had to read the kernel source code. Yay! The bit I looked at was distressingly clean and even had *comments*. Eeuuww!

Also, it is still building all the software I need. That's not the OS's fault, I didn't expect an emulated #Pentium to be speedy.

I have it running on #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Linux, #MacOS, #IllumOS, #iOS, and have a user on the legacy #Android OS. That's basically everything that matters.

Is there any platform where #tailscale doesn't work? 32-bit #NetBSD? No problem!

I mean, yes, "of course it runs NetBSD", but I really wasn't expecting "of course it runs *on* NetBSD".

Hurrah!

I've been using my Toshiba netbook for two days and I love/hate it.

The keyboard is very unergonomic. Maybe that's the reason netbooks are not popular anymore.

To find software that supports i686 machines is harder than expected. What's the purpouse of high level languages if not abstract the machine? Also I have found *zero* modern web browsers available for i686. Dillo works great for non-js websites, which are not a lot, sadly. Anything based on webkit crashes and I should try to find out why.

TUI/CLI stuff works OK, of course (Now I'm tooting with toot-cli), which kinda makes this thing ideal for hanging out in tilde servers.

But in general, it feels very cool to not need more than 32bits addr space and 2 GiB of RAM to do stuff. Of course I don't need a supercomputer to read some toots and to read some email!

#NetBSD #netbook #toshibaNB105 #toshibaNB100

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari/115737625174007924

#NetBSD

"What if" Wednesday

What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?

How long would your laptop last?

How long would your operating system last?

How long would the internet last?

#ShowerThoughts #WhatIfWednesday #FreeBSD #Linux #Computing #NetBSD #OpenBSD #OpenSource

New #blog post!

I install #FreeBSD 15.-0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. You can too!

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20251216.html

#openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #arm #arm64 #aarch64

My go-to is #WindowMaker though. Or, on super low end devices (486), ctwm (default in #NetBSD and #OpenBSD I think.

#NetBSD 10.1 was released on December 16 2024 - exactly one year ago.

Not a bad anniversary. Post your favorite stories and/or functionalities of NetBSD in the replies, I am curious to see who is using it and for what...

I investigated some #NetBSD/i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76815, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! 🤩

Have you used tiling Window managers? I'd really like to do more with NetBSD and the i3 window manager but I haven't set aside much time for that yet.

#netBSD #i3wm

Linux Mint Debian Edition will work fine.

Looks like you are a BSD guy, so I really like what I see in NetBSD and that likely would work fine on the T410, too.

#thinkPad #NetBSD

@thomholwerda @hp @CursedSilicon Even if ssh for HP is old, one can still use a modern system as a jumphost using ssh -J.

A Raspberry Pi or something similarly small / low power can run a modern OS (like #NetBSD), and you can offer key-based ssh to it, and allow ssh access from it to your HP. That’s one hopefully simple possibility.

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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

@librewolf Many of us are waiting/hoping for a #netbsd and an #openbsd version of #librewolf.

RIP mon cloud public #NetBSD ? Retour sur #OSXP et test de FireBot, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

I wish all my #BSD people a happy weekend! 😎

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

@aru I don't know, I just use it as a user. But there are a document at the #NetBSD wiki: https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/

As I understand, some code was ported from #FreeBSD (second line from the end in the linked page).

@codemonkeymike Give Sandi a #netbsd for #xmas and all will be good

@evgandr Here's the patch I use on #netbsd adapted from the original by @gdt
https://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/zfs.10.patch

Whew. I got #NetBSD 10.1 to boot all the way up on an Odroid M1S tonight. I added the M1S to the tiano core UEFI firmware originally written for the Pine64 Quartz64. It booted all the way with the first build! (Which was an unreal feeling.) The ethernet and eMMC aren't working, so I have a bit more work to do before I publish. (Stay tuned. Also, because I went the UEFI firmware route, this should get OpenBSD and FreeBSD support for the board.)

@ajroach42

That sounds like a really good plan. If the installer can use your wifi and get online, then you should be golden.

Download [the handbook] onto another device so you can have it handy when you're setting up your GUI of choice. It's quite well-written, and there's only a couple steps needed to get the GUI going: from memory, it's just a matter of installing and enabling the right video driver, and of course the GUI programs/desktop/environment you want. I'm running sway (Wayland) happily on it now, I know other folks have gotten KDE Plasma working.

Expect not-wonderful wifi speeds, but it's fine for casual browsing. Newer intel wifi chips might do better because of newer drivers. It's something they're actively working on.

If the installer isn't able to get online, you may run into problems, and might need to try a cheap USB dongle or try a different USB, or some other solution. But thinkpads are usually pretty well-supported. This x260 has been perfect.

If you get stuck, just holler. Lots of really friendly and helpful #FreeBSD folks on fedi! #OpenBSD and #NetBSD, too!

#TIL that there are no knobs in #NetBSD to configure #ZFS ARC memory consumption.

I started to use ZFS for my disk with backups and digital archives near a month ago, because I didn't want to think about changing sizes of LVM partitions. And my homelab server has only 2 Gb of RAM and some swap

Whoops. Not a good surprise

@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano

The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #DragonflyBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.

Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.

FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.

What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

Also, the @bsdcan call for papers is on until January 17th 2026 https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html #bsd #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware

Can't believe it's been three years ... Thanks everyone for joining community and making it great one :) #BSD matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#bsd:matrix.org #FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Well, fuck. As the apes at the end of the Spaceballs movie would say, there goes the planet.

https://aaif.io/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation-aaif-anchored-by-new-project-contributions-including-model-context-protocol-mcp-goose-and-agents-md/

#FuckAI #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Apperantly Linux™ introduced a bug many moons ago. Maybe in the hpwmi part. I know one of my notebooks was working couple years ago. Now it kind fo freezes when I activate WiFi via hardware toggle. Also openchrome driver seems broken.

Using #NetBSD the graphics with openchrome driver is working. Thanks @netbsd 🤗

@yrabbit

#FreeBSD has its Handbook. PC-BSD used to have one, too. #GhostBSD has guidebook doco on top of the FreeBSD Handbook. #NetBSD has its Guide.

#OpenBSD has not. It has just its FAQ, one of whose answers really should be (but the FAQ still lacks) the response that at least one person gives whenever this comes up: the "OpenBSD Handbook" is not like those others and it's the FAQ that people should look at when it comes to OpenBSD.

https://openbsd.org/faq/

@lopta @clf

I can likewise confirm, albeit that I'm using a wired network, that #NetBSD aarch64 also works on a #RaspberryPi 4, bootstrapped from #TianoCore.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi4

@rperezrosario #netbsd

I understand the strain on maintainers, but it's still sad to see #FreeBSD culling so many 32bit packages. #OpenBSD suffers from the same problem. It seems #NetBSD will remain the platform where you can still e.g. get a working web browser for a legacy system (#Arcticfox). Same applies to the Linux world.

I suppose I'll have to learn enough Linux for the Raspberry Pi experiments I had planned. I'm told #NetBSD doesn't run properly on the 64-bit boards.