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I am now using a freshly built #PaleMoon web browser on #NetBSD and I feel like this is working out better than the others I've tried, including konqueror and badwolf. Fortunately they have enough plugins available to let me have vertical tabs, which I've come to think of as almost necessary to web browsing.

Alt...

Mx. Chara Aznable's cyberpunk.lol webpage shown in a `palemoon` browser window with a vertical-tab plugin installed, running on their NetBSD `ctwm` desktop

@raster I wish Steam ran games properly on #FreeBSD. I have no idea how Wine runs on #NetBSD or even if there's Vulkan support. I have just an Intel Iris Xe.

After like two weeks (okay not that long and I interrupted it a few times to shut the machine down or boot into Linux) the #NetBSD pkgsrc build of konqueror is finally done.

@justine Until recently I ran #NetBSD on an old Mac Mini. I couldn't get sound to work through the internal speaker or HDMI out. Didn't have an amplifier set up to test line-level analogue out.

New link saved:
NetBSD 11 from scratch | MeanMicio
🔗 https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/
In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD "from scratch", as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system. This…
#netbsd

@mirabilos

It's #FreeBSD, and the C library thereof. As I said before, It's not GNU anything, and as I've also mentioned, it's not even the same behaviour as the GNU stuff, ironically lacking the very behaviour that you brought up as what you didn't like, which was a deliberate choice by the people who wrote it all of those years ago because they didn't like that either.

@lanodan @benjamineskola @kimapr
#dd #NetBSD

If all of you all (you know who you are) currently exploring #NetBSD (for, uh, reasons*) would donate a little bit of money to the NetBSD Foundation, I am sure that sad little gauge under the logo would look a lot better.

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate

Because right now, it stands at about 12K out of a goal of 50K and it makes me sad. 😔

Donate! 💶 💵 💷

(* good reasons, I might add)

@mirabilos

That's not getopt_long(), GNU or otherwise, causing that.

It's complaining about *short* options, -s and -h combined into one, after all. It is actually functionality of non-long #GNU getopt: its argument vector permutation, described in getopt(3).

@_wiz_ actually discussed this on the NetBSD mailing list back when they wrote the #NetBSD getopt.

They were against. Neither getopt() nor getopt_long() do this in the BSD C library.

https://groups.google.com/g/muc.lists.netbsd.tech.userlevel/c/R8fQDQXFbn0/m/j-rDtXttIwcJ

@benjamineskola
#BSD

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html

#netbsd

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

#netbsd

#NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

Day 6

Getting acquainted with the 'vi' editor, which on NetBSD is the 'nvi' version. I created a '~/.exrc' file with a few options for more comfortable use:

$ cat .exrc
set showmode ruler
set number
set searchincr iclower
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-edit.html

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

@chadmccullough

At least, with #NetBSD you get 'pkgin' and a lot of nice people who compile stuff for you so you don't have to... And you can still use pkgsrc for something exotic if needed.

Especially on some underpowered machines, where NetBSD really shines.

Ask me how I know... 😉

@meanmicio

Very nice, but one little thing, I found I needed to add this entry to /etc/rc.conf

critical_filesystems_local="/var /usr"

But that was on an older release,which I kept when I upgraded from #NetBSD 10.1 to 11.o. Did something change with #NetBSD 11.0 where that is not needed ?

But will keep this for future reference!

Learn about software engineering for cyber resiliency at EuroBSDcon 2026 in Brussels:

The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source
Alice Sowerby, Pierre Pronchery and Peter Hansteen 2026-09-10, 10:30 full day

See https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

#eurobsdcon #bsd #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #development #engineering #cra #cyberresilience #cybersecurity

Just published "NetBSD 11 from scratch". I had a lot of fun writing it while diving into the internals of this great operating system. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful.
Happy hacking! 👇
https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/
#NetBSD #encryption #CGD #privacy #noAI #OpenScience

@mirabilos

It's not GNU anything at all. It's straight out of the BSD C library.

It was added to #NetBSD in 2000, and has been included in the #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD C libraries for about 24 years. The OpenBSD import was done by @millert in 2002. The original is credited to @_wiz_ and Dieter Baron.

#getopt #BSD

@mason @narkode oh I meant Narkode to send an email to see if those packages can be run on #NetBSD :)

Love booting to a Free/Libre operating system entirely made by humans. #NetBSD 😊 ❤️
#NoAI

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Boot screen from NetBSD 11 "customized" with the message "Welcome to the NetBSD 11.0 - noAI" Below the different boot options options: 1. Boot NetBSD 2. Boot normally 3. Boot single user 4. Drop to boot prompt

@mason Same here. #Debian is my OS since the 90s and now and then I used #FreeBSD, too. The Debian AI decision really annoys me and I would switch to #FreeBSD if I could be sure that their current policy will not change. From this point of view, #NetBSD would be the obvious choice. But I am not sure if NetBSD really can handle my needs (Data Science with Python, Polars, Jupyter, some proprietary software like Omnissa Horizon which I need for work etc...).