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

BSD-NL Conference Early 2026 - Eirik Øverby - On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgia https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF

#netbsd #dos #nostalgia

#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...

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

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

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd