Spent the morning installing #NetBSD 11.0 over all the release candidates. In little while I'll upgrade the big one running 10.1 and ZFS. Congrats to all involved for a very nice release!

NetBSD 11.0 Released

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

#netbsd

NetBSD 11.0 released https://lobste.rs/s/pvrnor #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

🚀 It goes to 11! The NetBSD Project is incredibly proud to announce the official release of NetBSD 11.0!

This release brings massive performance improvements, modernized hardware support, and the rock-solid stability you expect. Whether you are deploying on the latest ARM64 servers or keeping a classic toaster alive, NetBSD got you covered.

A huge thank you to developers, testers, and community for making this happen. 🧡

Check out the release notes and grab the images here: https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OpenSource #UNIX #RetroComputing #Server

This works perfectly on my .config!

bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id mixerctl -w outputs.master++
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id mixerctl -w outputs.master--
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id mixerctl -w outputs.master=0

In case it's helpful to anyone. The brightness setting works right out of the box.
Now I'm trying to figure out why i3bar doesn't like my iwn0.

#netbsd #bsdunix #i3wm  #guufxmmp #guufitalia #guufITA

@bsandro what's the error you get? #NetBSD

@catsalad @nwbt @alice #NetBSD! And ants! And bikes! And ceramics! And science! And authors! And #monsterdon! And retrocomputers! And cats! And salad!

Happy World Wide Web Day! 🌐🕸️

Whether you're serving the web on heavy-duty enterprise hardware or some wild retro device, you know how this goes:

"Of course it runs NetBSD!" 🚩💻

#WWWDay #NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #Unix #WorldWideWebDay

we have WiFi and sshd

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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ssh login screen

and we're in!

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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screenshot of the login screen showing a successful login (and an NTP error)

raspberry pi zero booting NetBSD.

[PC Linux] --> ssh [rpi zero W (raspbian)] --> uart [rpi zero W (NetBSD)]

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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screenshot showing the logs of the boot sequence on a raspberry pi zero booting NetBSD. the partition grow step is ongoing

I've been trying to explore the world outside GNU/Linux (or, as I've recently taken to calling it, "Sexual predator userspace plus egotistical botlicker kernel"). Naturally, the first stop on this road is the fragmented world of #BSD.

I won't lie, the experience is very reminiscent of running Linux in the 1990s: hardware support is dicey at best, it's very rare to find commercial software that will run on it, and the guiding philosophy seems to be that user-friendliness is an undesirable quality that will only result in The Wrong People using your software. Nevertheless, I'm committed to giving it a fair trial.

So far my favorite variant is #OpenBSD, especially for servers. I like the fact that it's secure by default, rather than being a hacker's dream out of the box that you then have to figure out how to secure. But I have questions.

- One of the #FreeBSD features I've heard touted a lot is "jails," which I gather means "like Docker but harder to use". But this doesn't seem to be a feature in OpenBSD. Is there something equivalent in the OpenBSD world, perhaps under another name?

- The only *BSD that I know for sure has banned LLM contributions is #NetBSD. What, if any, are the LLM policies of OpenBSD and FreeBSD?

- Has anybody tried audio production in BSD? What's the experience like? It took years for Linux to get to the point where you could more or less do serious audio work, and I hate to think of regressing back to "if you buy this one particular sound card they stopped making in 1998 and recompile the kernel with a dodgy patch someone posted to USENET you can maybe kind of play a .WAV file".

Thanks in advance for your help!

(I have been informed by an anonymous source that "BSD jails" are in fact what they put you in if you use the software without a valid BSD license. I am not sure this is correct.)

@alter_unicorn @RussSharek btw Happy SysAdmin day!

#NetBSD #sysadminday #RunBSD

@peteorrall

It's been the OS installed on the computer I use the most at home since November, so, yes, mostly.

I have Debian on my work machine and OpenSuSE on my "gaming" SFF desktop.

Also have #OpenBSD on my old X200t, and am just getting started with #NetBSD on a hand-me-down Inspiron.

I love hand-me-down laptops. 😁

#FreeBSD

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

Today, I discovered the goodness that is mupdf: PDF, epub, jpeg, PNG viewer. Small, fast no drama program.

My tiny #NetBSD netbook is fast becoming a very viable workstation! 🤓

so, today I built evi, my favorite editor, in my SPARC NetBSD (virtual) machine.
worked at the first try (I can't find the classy screenshot with evi --version + uname -a to show off)]

evi is vim without the slop.
https://codeberg.org/evi-editor/evi

#evi #NetBSD #noia

comment troller les collègues avec classe:

#NetBSD

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moi de face, entre la bouche et la moitié de mon torse. je porte un t-shirt bleu avec le logo de NetBSD (avec le drapeau)

@leaf

Well I've been doing my part for many years. (-:

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/djbwares/

No, I don't accept plagiarism machines. Sadly, that the plagiarism machines nick and distort this very codebase is one of the bad things that I know about them. I happened to search something a while back, and got a misrepresentation of me, obviously abusing my own code, generated by one of the 'AIs'.

#djbwares #NetBSD #AIslop

@netbsd @rl_dane @bpl @jaypatelani @corvus @cmccullough @gmc

@jaypatelani

It's targetting anything that has the musl C library, or whose atoi() function overflows in the same way. The BSDs's atoi() overflows in a different way. But it looks like the #Illumos atoi() has the same overflow behaviour as #musl.

@bpl @rl_dane @corvus @cmccullough @netbsd
#NetBSD #StandardC #CLanguage #ISC #BIND #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

Happy #InternationalTigerDay! 🐅

Fierce, fast, and highly adaptable to almost any environment—sounds a lot like NetBSD, doesn't it? Whether you're firing up a modern server or breathing life back into your vintage Mac OS X "Tiger" era #PowerPC, NetBSD🚩 brings that agile power to your hardware.

Let's celebrate and support the conservation of these magnificent creatures today! 🐾💻
#NetBSD #TigerDay #OpenSource #UNIX #RetroComputing #TechCommunity #runbsd

@rl_dane

#Debian has caught up with that version of #ISC #BIND, as well.

https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/commit/cfc4bd23e8bd21508af8553d853a8974c0cce5f9?file_path=bin%2Ftools%2Fnsec3hash.c#7540f7456b991711c4c6b4efd41fc8b79d2c1174

But its source code repository won't be spotted as LLM-generated software by that WWW site that you are using, because unlike the comparatively diligent M. Zoulas of #NetBSD, Ondrej Sury (of ISC, who also commits directly to Debian) is not copying any of the change descriptions into Debian's source tree changelog, so there is no mention of the word 'Claude' in Debian.

https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/commits/debian%2F9.21/bin/tools/nsec3hash.c

@bpl @jaypatelani @corvus @cmccullough @netbsd
#AIslop

@rl_dane

Not as damning as one might think.

That's a commit to external/ where Christos Zoulas is importing into NetBSD's mirror all of the changes made to the original ISC BIND in version 9.20.24, en bloc. M. Zoulas didn't use the LLM, and the LLM-generated code is only one of a whole slew of changes made to the BIND source tree in that version.

The person who uses the LLMs is Michal Nowak who works for ISC in QA.

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/commit/e13302a6bc9b196564b5e7afe703fae24311ceeb

#ISC has an explicitly pro-LLM stance on #BIND, and I wouldn't be surprised if #Kea and DHCP follow suit.

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/merge_requests/12363

https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#contributing-code

There have been good reasons not to use ISC BIND for over a quarter of a century (monolithic software, runs with superuser privileges, multiple hats, lots of parsing). Alas, it is an expenditure of time and effort on the #NetBSD people's parts to switch to a non-LLM-generated DNS server software. But it is well past due.

@bpl @jaypatelani @corvus @cmccullough @netbsd
#AIslop

@netbsd 11.0 is being tagged Real Soon Now. We have some tickets ready to pull up to what will become 11.1 (already pulled up to -9 and -10 branches), but they are on hold. Thanks @riastradh !

Also very cool to see Radoslaw hitting #NetBSD up again

@bpl @jaypatelani @corvus @cmccullough

Well, that's kind of damning: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f3b327fa6f8b4ff6f758a8b9e8190aa20109e222

@netbsd ? 🥺

Re: tmux in OpenBSD, false positives are possible, because the tool is just looking at filenames and metadata, not actual file contents. If they're copying source code from a slop project, but not the metadata/commits, then it will give you a false negative.

#NetBSD #slop

This is the umpteenth time I've tried this, starting with version 1.6 😅

Could this be the definitive? I hope 💪

Now I have to config automount for external disk/USB keys and I need to find a way to encrypt my external disk and use it both in GNU\Linux and NetBSD.

GDC (I never tried it on Linux and I didn't find anything online)?
ZFS? Anyone have an idea?

I know I can use OpenSSL or GPG but I think it's better and more confortable to encrypt the full drive...

P.S. I love NetBSD but pkgin is really slow 😅

#bsd #netbsd #guuf #guufxmpp #guufITA #unix #unixITA

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My new NetBSD with i3wm, Alacritty terminal emulator with "macchina" output (top-right) and Alacritty with text "Hello Fedifriends" (Ascii art, figlet output, bottom left). The wallpaper is a black and white rappresentation of a scene from the book/movie Iron Giant.

@corvus @cmccullough

There's not a lot of options, sadly.

I'm experimenting with #NetBSD, as they have a strong anti-slop stance, but the second you start installing packages, you're getting slop. They can't police everything.

@aaron

In fairness, Debian/kFreeBSD was an on-going project for well over a decade, and there was even a Debian/kNetBSD several years before that. That said, their histories show that talk is cheap for the people suggesting Debian on a BSD kernel yet again.

If you encounter them, throw the cat amongst the pigeons by telling them that not only is Debian/Hurd an active project, unlike the dead Debian on BSD ones, it's also not a Linux kernel; and Samuel Thibault could do with the assistance. (-:

I don't know what M. Thibault's position on LLM-generated code is.

https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD

https://debian.org/ports/hurd/

#Debian #FreeBSD #Hurd #NetBSD #AIslop

Installed Dillo ( @dillo ) and NetSurf on that little #NetBSD machine.

Both are really fast, NetSurf seems a bit more complete. But I have a soft spot in my heart for Dillo, as I used it for years with Sylpheed to read emails that were HTML only.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/07/27) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/valuable-news-2026-07-27/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/07/27) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/valuable-news-2026-07-27/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

🚩 NetBSD 11.0 RC7 available

https://discoverbsd.com/p/3cfb38de80

#netbsd #bsd #opensource

Wait... #NetBSD has journaling in FFS? HOW?!? XD
#OpenBSD even jettisoned softdeps! Journaling would be amazing to have!!

(I think I understand their rationale, though)