Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#freebsd #intel #linux #netbsd #openbsd

We just provide #BSD like #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd and several other ones, but also #opensolaris with #tribblix #omnios #openindiana. So, we’re also pretty niche and that’s totally fine ;)

#runbsd #opensource #ipv6

@d4gli @Paul @gyptazy

Why BSDs? https://lobste.rs/s/gdwxd5 #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/why-bsds/

NVMM – Trình quản lý máy ảo của NetBSD vừa ra mắt, cho phép tạo và chạy các VM trực tiếp trên kernel NetBSD với hiệu năng cao và hỗ trợ nhiều hệ điều hành. Đây là lựa chọn mới cho cộng đồng nguồn mở muốn triển khai ảo hoá trên nền tảng BSD.
#NVMM #NetBSD #Virtualization #OpenSource #CôngNghệ #MáyẢo #Linux #BSD #TechVietnam

(Note: Không kèm URL)

http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/from_zero_to_nvmm

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CISC NEWSのネットワークブート仕様調査 — AI は「仕様探索と検証のブースター」 - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/news-netboot_1
#はてなブログ #NetBSD

あまりにも衝撃的でこれをOSC/KOFスライドとかでサマライズして伝えることは到底不可能だと思ったので全文コピペです

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared https://lobste.rs/s/gj8uup #freebsd #illumos #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

Intel N150 có thể biến thành máy chủ tĩnh nhẹ, chạy trên FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD và Linux—đem lại giải pháp hosting nhanh, bảo mật và chi phí thấp. 🚀🔧

#StaticWeb #IntelN150 #FreeBSD #SmartOS #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #WebHosting #Hosting #CôngNghệ #MáyChuẩn #MáyChủWeb #LinuxViet #BảoMật #GiảiPháp #Mạng #IT #CôngNghệThôngTin

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

@vtrlx BSDs do not have "flatpaks", they typically build from source. Flatpak is packaging medium, whereas BSDs have binary packages and packages built from source (#NetBSD pkgsrc, #FreeBSD ports).

Setting `general.useragent.override` in `about:config` to `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0` (changing from NetBSD to Linux) does the trick.

But it's not nice!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

Hey Microsoft Outlook!
I'm running latest Mozilla Firefox ESR, 140.5.0 on NetBSD... that was released a couple of days ago!

I would not call it a legacy browser!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

Alt...

Microsoft Outlook web page that shows errors like ErrorOwaBasicUnsupportedLegacyBrowser and some SyntaxError due using Firefox on NetBSD (probably they do not known about NetBSD and relies on only known User-Agent:-s).

Where Have You Been for the Last 20 Years?

Walking away from the BSDCan final reception at Lowertown Brewery, Ottawa. The perfect end to a life-changing experience.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

#BSDCan #MyNotes #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Life #BSDCan2025 #LiveLife

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115566280074527897

"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.

#RunBSD #illumos #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD

@cstross

Would #rclone work for you (plural) as a #Dropbox client?

It's in #FreeBSD ports (and thus #DragonFlyBSD, #GhostBSD, et al.), #NetBSD pkgsrc, and #OpenBSD ports.

https://freshports.org/net/rclone

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/rclone/index.html

https://openports.eu/ports/sysutils/rclone

FreeBSD ports and OpenBSD ports also both have rclone-browser, but that's not currently in pkgsrc.

For completeness, I note that rclone (but again not rclone-browser) is in the #Tribblix and the #OmniOS packages collections.

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/tribblix-m38/

https://pkg.omnios.org/bloody/extra/en/catalog.shtml

Tribblix has a #WINE overlay, but I know nothing about it. On the gripping hand, @ptribble is actually here on the FediVerse. (-:

http://tribblix.org/overlay-wine.html

@nikatjef

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@vermaden/115564165835643603

I look forward to the @vermaden weekly newsletter as much as I anticipate a perfect tiramisu after a superb lunch. It is truly the cherry on top.
That special something that helps me kick off the week in style.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #Linux #IT #SysAdmin

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟭𝟳 (Valuable News - 2025/11/17) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/valuable-news-2025-11-17/

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

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

Are you working on something involving a BSD system that you would like to share with others?

The Call for Papers period is open for AsiaBSDCon until November 30th, 2025 and for BSDCan until January 17, 2026.

Check out the websites linked in the article, and get that submission in!

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 or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #bsd #dragonflyBSD #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference

Finally got around to writing a proper Wii boot loader for #NetBSD so I don't have to copy kernels to the FAT partition anymore.

The boot loader builds entirely from the NetBSD source tree using libsa + libkern and can access msdos/ffsv1/ffsv2 partitions on the SD card via MINI IPC.

TODO - find some way (without a keyboard) to be able to tell it to boot a backup kernel.

The Call for Papers period for both #AsiaBSDCon and #BSDCan are open, until end of November for AsiaBSDCon, until Jan 17 for BSDCan.

If you can, submit!

Or read "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 if you nee some background information #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD

BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.
Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.
#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

C'est l'heure de faire le ménage ! #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

I got a "hankerin'" (as we say here) to try daily-driving #FreeBSD again, but I kind of want to wait until the desktop installer is ready.

@evgandr, how fast did you say you got FreeBSD to resume from S3, again?

I wouldn't mind trying #NETBSD again, but the instructions for #FDE (#FullDiskEncryption) looked quite daunting.

#NetBSD 🚩

This Isn't a Battle

After reading a post describing the FreeBSD community as 'toxic', I share a different perspective. This isn't a battle. It's a reflection on coexistence, the original Open Source spirit, and the quiet richness of taking a different path.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/

#MyNotes #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #OpenSource

Pssst! BoxyConnect comes soon to @BoxyBSD!

BoxyConnect allows you to create a private network / private link between multiple boxes at BoxyBSD. And the best? You can even create this over different locations/countries to provide you more flexibility.

You can simply assign any RFC1918 addresses on your new additional network interface on both sites and communicate in your own private network - even miles away.

This feature is currently in beta and will hopefully be available to everyone (just like all other services of course for free). Enjoy #RUNBSD!

This new feature is powered by @gyptazy!

#BoxyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #SmolBSD #Hosting #SelfHosting #Provider #BSD #FreeVPS #VPS #opensource #community #education #openeducation

Alt...

Image of BoxyConnect for BoxyBSD which shows multiple locations where people can start instances, which soon can be linked within a private own network.

Since, one Java application (OpenHAB) is used on my #NetBSD server I met with huge swap usage — always near 512 Mb of swap was used. This wasn't good, since I'm using SSD — I was afraid that my old SSD will wear out and die, but for now I don't have money to buy a new SSD disk

Tweaked Java initial and max heap sizes (-Xms, -Xmx) and some settings for GC, to call it more often in trade of OpenHAB responsiveness — obviously it didn't help. Then I tweaked NetBSD memory management to force system to use swap only if RAM is almost full — by this cool guide: https://imil.net/NetBSD/mirror/vm_tune.html

And it doesn't help too. Suddenly for me, but looks like these settings were applied to the kernel after reboot, not after call to sysctl.

So, for now I have a system with 800-900 Mb RAM in use and ZERO swap in use

#BSD #memoryManagement

Which of the usual suspects will have the first dmesg sent in from the new Steam cube computer machine thingie, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #FreeBSD?

I am pretty undecided about this vote btw -

#OpenBSD has been first on a few modern platforms like the M1 macs and the RPi5, and when it comes to desktop use, it is possibly the easiest to work with, BUT
#NetBSD has the undisputable portability advantage, and has a noble and praiseworthy tradition of running on gaming consoles WHILE
#FreeBSD has the widest userbase and boy would these make a sweet sweet bastille or bhive enabled homelab, or a ZFS enabled streaming server...

Anyway, tell me what you think;

https://exquisite.social/@rqm/115555916678179950

@philpem I got the source in around 1999 after it was ported to #FreeBSD and I got it working on #NetBSD. I don't think it came via RISCiX, I think the chronologies wouldn't work

the list

#unix_surrealism #comic #poster #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #cirno #girl #daemon #puffy #rabbit #mata #openblade

Alt...

MATACORP'S MOST WANTED HACKERS Fish Daemon Cirno OpenBlade Rabbit Frederick "the Hammer" Glenda II Sphence Purple "Penguin" Pentium-M Man Girl

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115551343732704834

This is a great post.
It's not "against" something - it just explains why Tim prefers to use the BSDs.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #IT

@freezr

#NetBSD does not have MS-DOS drive letters in any shape.

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_bubblewrap_sandboxing
#Bubblewrap #BSD #Security

This Isn't a Battle https://lobste.rs/s/l4vg9a #freebsd #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/

This Isn't a Battle

After reading a post describing the FreeBSD community as 'toxic', I share a different perspective. This isn't a battle. It's a reflection on coexistence, the original Open Source spirit, and the quiet richness of taking a different path.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/14/this-isnt-a-battle/

#MyNotes #IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #OpenSource

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

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

#macos #linux #netbsd