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.

LD0... A sudden flashback to RT11🤣 #netbsd

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NetBSD window. # sysctl hw.disknames hw.disknames = ld0 wd0 dk0 dk1

Hard to show with a screenshot, but the GameCube controller does work with games that use SDL2 for joystick access on #NetBSD Wii.

Added support for GameCube controllers on #NetBSD Wii. A new driver exposes the four GameCube controller sockets as HID devices that work with SDL / SDL2 as joystick devices.

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-146.0b9 in my local pkgsrc tree under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

I think #FOSDEM might be a perfectly good slot to provide people BSD based systems for free again.

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Trying #NetBSD/amd64 on an old, cheap Dell Inspiron laptop.

Quoi ? Encore de la #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM ? C'est tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Je vous préviens je pense que ça va être le bazar ce soir en live 😄 on va pas mettre 2h juste pour déployer le script d’init, et à un moment va falloir que j’installe la machine de prod et que je prépare le passage en #NetBSD 11 ! RDV à 18h sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

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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

Today's project is/was to get the extremely rare #Acorn A680 working. Given its rarity and how I seem to be the only one with a working install of #RISCiX (which is a #BSD from the late 80s), I used the #RiscPC with #NetBSD to make a copy of the disk beforehand.

NetBSD dumpfs recognises it as a FFS variant, but rump_ffs won't mount it.

As for the A680, smoke came from the PSU when I powered it on and it didn't work

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The internals of a very old computer with thick multicoloured power cables

@pfr As you wish

#crontab #FreeBSD #NetBSD

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Output of crontab -l on the two machines (first FreeBSD, second: NetBSD): drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ crontab -l 0 3 * * * /home/drag0n/.bin/get_exchange_rate.sh */10 * * * * /home/drag0n/.config/conky/get_weather.sh drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ ssh drag0n@drag0n-server.lair.internal Enter passphrase for key '/home/drag0n/.ssh/id_ed25519': Last login: Fri Dec 5 13:14:37 2025 from 192.168.1.3 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 NetBSD 10.1/amd64 (202412171413Z) Welcome to NetBSD! drag0n-server$ crontab -l 0-59/1 * * * * /home/drag0n/bin/smarthome.sh

@justine TIL about Radicale. Thanks, now I have one more good program to install on my #NetBSD box

@m0xEE @mia Same thing, but with newer Thinkpad (X220), lol

Kinda strange conclusions (I think this is bait, mb? But I'm drunk rn, lol ) — after installing completely different OS expect the GNU utils inside, which is used in GNU/Linux, and use ports instead of simpler package system from the start (which is really simpler, if you don't need some special compile-time options).

"Old school" installer in NetBSD? It works and it is enough to install the system. Especially, the system which able to run even on the Palm — the GUI installer doesn't have such portability.

> system with 0 usable accounts

useradd -m USERNAME

#FreeBSD #NetBSD

Happy Friday to all the #BSD folks! 😎

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd

@libremelon

Thanks!

It's a great little OS! Only complaint is that it's a little slow to resume from S3 suspend (about 8 seconds), but it does so reliably.

Some intensive processes like opening bloated web pages incur a bit of a hiccup/delay, and I'm not sure why. I know the kernel scheduler is tunable, but I haven't found out how to go about doing that yet.

They're trying to target laptops more, so there's still some work to be done.

Of course, heavy Linux games don't run (haven't been able to get #KerbalSpaceProgram to work on #FreeBSD yet), but simpler linux executables can run (even GUI ones), and the pkg repos are quite exhaustive, about as many binary packages as Debian (around 150k), from my estimation.

No flatpak, no Steam, so binary sources are limited, but there's tons of FOSS software that just runs without trouble.

The handbook (installable as a package or available on the web, both as html and pdf) is quite good, and fairly exhaustive, and to me, the biggest feature of the #BSDs is that they just make sense as an operating system, and aren't a haphazard and ever-changing collection of FOSS parts, like Linux distros are.

FreeBSD does take some manual configuration to get a GUI going, but it's honestly pretty easy, and the handbook tells you exactly what to do. They will have a GUI install screen in the installer soon, so that will become automatic.

I've got it running with #Wayland and the #Sway compositor, almost no issues. For some reason, neither i3status nor waybar have the ability to show Wifi link name and quality, so I developed my own little front-end script for i3status to restore that (I had to do the same thing for #OpenBSD for RAM usage).

I've had to come up with my own way to make sense of memory usage (a script that mimics Linux' free utility) and wifi link quality, but those were fun problems to solve.

After a week or two of hacking around with it and getting all my own scripts and little utilities working with it, it has now become almost completely transparent and gloriously "boring." Basically the same as running Linux for most everything I do. XD

It has fewer pain points than #OpenBSD (which I honestly love as well, don't misinterpret me): a rock solid filesystem (ZFS), and full emoji support (lol priorities, amirite?).

It also has very good full-disk-encryption baked right in, which I'm missing from #NetBSD (but plan on playing with that OS later on as well, because I want to try ALL THE #BSDs! XD )

As you can see the build process is smooth, the execution is blazingly fast. What more could I ask for?

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

So, I found this netbook and decided to fix it.

First step was easy: I tested NetBSD on it. (because it's a netbook, you see? 😜)

But the unit is in a sorry state. A USB port is so rusty that it doesn't work. I left the battery in a recycling point of my city because it was not safe to handle. Lots of keys from the keyboard doesn't work at all, etc, etc.

Let's see if I can find good parts for it. If you know where I can purchase parts for a Toshiba NB105 (NB100 series) in Spain or the EU, please let me know.

#NetBSD #netbook #toshiba #ToshibaNB100 #ToshibaNB105

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A screenshot of a computer, with a terminal emulator window. A fetch program was ran displaying NetBSD.

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A close-up photo of a USB port. The USB port seems to be very rusty.

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A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

Today I learned #netbsd has openpam and I don't quite know what to do with it...

https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.x-BRANCH/openpam.3

@netbsd #NetBSD

The Call for Papers for #bsdcan is open, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends) #bsdcan #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #sysadmin #devops #conference

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@csgraves

I mean, I didn't become a #BSD user overnight. It was an itch in the back of my mind for several years. When I had spare hardware that I wasn't using for anything else, I slapped #OpenBSD on it, and it mostly just worked. Then I had the pleasure of learning a brand new-to-me system, and adapting my various scripts to it.

A couple years later, when I had an opportunity to spend a little less than $200 on another laptop, I asked for a recommendation for one that worked best with #NetBSD, and was recommended the Thinkpad X260, which I'm typing on now.

If it's something you're curious about trying, don't make it an all-or-nothing zero-sum thing. It's a slow burn into increasing nerdiness. 😅

I must say, however, that my exploration of BSD was spurred on by the fusillade of non-sequiturs and logical fallacies I received whenever I questioned the wisdom of trends like #systemd-everything in the Linux space.

Every #UsrMerge discussion I read makes me grateful for the BSDs.

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd