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Second: The EOF character causes the #Debian #AlmquistShell to print the message about using the exit command, multiple times, and then the shell exits anyway.

This doesn't happen on Debian, only on the BSDs. I've built on Debian, #NetBSD, and #FreeBSD.

My first thought is that this is a libedit difference between the BSD version and the Debian port. It's the same tokenizer code in the shell in all three, so that doesn't seem a likely locus.

#UnixShells

First: I don't know what #glob and #fnmatch add to the #Debian #AlmquistShell. Nothing stands out as different with those features turned on.

The #NetBSD and #FreeBSD flavours of the Almquist shell don't use glob() and fnmatch() at all, and the BusyBox flavour is different, so this does appear (without checking the source history) to be a Debianism of some kind. It's unclear what it achieves, though, although it might that the reasoning does not apply nowadays.

#UnixShells

NetBSD/news68k 11.99.7
NWB-225 framebuffer on NWS-1750
wscons framebuffer console
#NetBSD

As part of my ongoing efforts to commit atrocities upon the Internet, I hereby announce two useless bots: @lsl1quotes and @lsl1comedian.

As the names might give away, this is about Leisure Suit Larry: In The Land of the Lounge Lizards. About once or twice a week, these bots will post or boost a narrator quote (the former) and a quote from the (terrible) comedian in the game Casino (the latter).

Follow away and boost away, but do so at your own cringe^Wrisk! Also, they're hosted off of a 486[1] running #NetBSD so they will be slow..

I take no responsibility for the way in wich none of the quotes have aged particularly well, nor do I claim authorship - this is all taken out of the game's resource files or collected during actual play. I guess if the current IP owners, or Al Lowe, aren't happy they'll let me know and I'll take it down..

[1] https://larry.weirdr.net/

#Sierra #Retrogaming #Larry

RT: https://larry.weirdr.net/lsl1quotes/p/1787491021.765986

A decade ago I worked with a guy whose opinion on tech I respected a lot. He was one of the most anal people I've ever known, in a (mostly) good way. His OS of choice was BSD.

Linus and crew's recent nonsense got me doing searches for OSes with no-AI policies. Lo and behold, seems that Iain was on to something all this time!

Got my first system up with NetBSD and my preferred Mate desktop this morning. It was fun, and a little challenging. :-) Reminded me of working with Solaris years ago, and of my first experiments with Linux (on PPC!) even more years ago. Installing and configuring NetBSD is not hard, but it does require me to pay attention, read a bit of documentation, and make decisions. I love that!

Thanks, Linus, for pointing me at what may be my new favorite OS. And thank you, Iain, for planting the seed that made me decide to give it a serious look this time around.

#linux #noai #NetBSD #SystemAdministration

Looking that FreeBSD has a bug in the Linux subsystem that prevents a proper 3d acceleration without fixing (I talked in my post earlier) I was thinking to pick in hand NetBSD and check if the acceleration there works, or if there are some issues running the Linux binaries.
The support on it is described being more raw, but the real question for an end user is just twice: does it works for what I do, and how?

#bsd #freebsd #netbsd #pcgaming

@meluzzy

I still use the Almquist shells for scripts. Having none of the heavyweight interactive and extensions stuff to initialize is a definite advantage, as Debian/Ubuntu found out years ago.

I am glad that yet another person has learned of the #WatanabeShell .

Line editing, via libedit, and history work in the BSD flavours of the #AlmquistShell, by the way. Debian simply builds it with editing and history disabled.

#UnixShells #Unix #NetBSD #FreeBSD

If you don't want your house looking like this support #antiai #noai projects like #NetBSD

Steam is notorious for being an headache to install on Freebsd, and the requirements of the linux-steam-utils package are not either a big deal for the system security, that even the docs recommends to make an user just for it.
But what run Lutris for Linux? It supports Steam between the clients, but I admit I never used Lutris with it.
Perhaps it could bypass the requirement to use Steam? A lot of games do not have need at all of Steam to run.

#bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #netbsd #pcgaming

RE: https://2137.social/@michal/117127795694314500

Mój wielki eksperyment już istnieje i „działa”.

Zapraszam fanów i krytyków ze wszystkich środowisk. Udokumentowany system najlepiej rozwija się, gdy poddaje się go krytycznej analizie:

Strona główna: https://bigcheese.llc
Źródła: https://git.sr.ht/~u64/mouse-src

Jak masz cokolwiek do dodania, chcesz wysłać hejt albo po prostu pogadać, mamy kanał IRC #mouse na irc.ergo.chat

#unix #netbsd #osdev #bsd #opensource #foss

Jay 🚩 boosted

Michał S. » 🌐 2026-08-20
@michal@2137.social

Od kilku tygodni pracuję nad systemem graficznym opartym na kernelu NetBSD... Wkurwiające jest to, że tyle programów zakłada że twój system jest Linuxem, albo że twój system ma uruchomione komponenty dla kompatybilności z Linuxem... To jest niesamowicie leniwe podejście I ledwo liczy się jako "działa na systemach *BSD!"

#unix #bsd #netbsd #deathtoshims

@jrdepriest #NetBSD is my preference, with #FreeBSD a close second.

Running #NetBSD 11.0 (from this year) on my 1997 Pentium MMX 233 MHz system out of curiosity, and it's facinating how the OS can boot relatively fast, text mode applications still usually launch snappily, but it takes five minutes for fontconfig to update the cache.

It also fails the "can this play Doom" test amusingly with Chocolate Doom: Chocolate Doom's setup program is too much for it to handle under Xorg between the S3 Virge GPU, 128 MB of RAM, and CPU.

Still really cool it works as well as it does on a system this old and supports all the hardware in it, though. And it can even touch the internet without me being worried of it being killed by long-lasting internet background malware radiation from the 90's!

#retrocomputing

👾 NetBSD 11 Is AWESOME on 1990s PC's! // Ionic1k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px8xP7ns8XA

#netbsd #bsd #opensource

@lukasrotermund On #NetBSD, depending on the file system type, backups are usually done by taking an FFS snapshot with fss(4), and dumping the snapshot using dump(8), or using ZFS snapshots, and zfs sending them somewhere. See https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_use_snapshots/

@ax6761

I think you're right. I'm on my #devuan box now, but firing up a #NetBSD vm on the excellent free [https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=netbsd] website, I see that luxi is on the list of pre-installed fonts.

Alt...

Screenshot from the v86 online emulator running FreeBSD, showing several Luxi fonts installed, and the fact that it's running NetBSD 4.0.1 (???)

Viewing a 1920x1080 [screenshot] taken from #NetBSD on a 1920x1080 laptop running #sway (#wayland) with 1.5x scaling set in sway:

nsxiv (X11) -- horrible blurry mess
imv (Wayland native) -- far clearer, but still blurry (can tell by looking at the parts that use bitmapped fonts)
swayimg (Wayland, maybe wlroots-native??) -- completely crisp

#FractionalScaling still sucks too much, y'all. 🫣 🙄

I love the fact that an idle NetBSD server is...idle.

load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00; up 10+23:59:43

#NetBSD #RunBSD

@phlash You could always add kern.heartbeat.max_period=0 to /etc/sysctl.conf, but if cpu1 has stalled so is dormant booting uniprocessor is no worse.

You could even try #NetBSD 10.1_STABLE as the subsystem panicking your kernel was introduced in 11. Probably won't fix your stuck CPU though

@phlash A quick workaround just to get #NetBSD running would been using boot -1 to boot uniprocessor

Walnut Pi zero
It even shows YouTube on this tiny screen!🤣

Unfortunately, try to find instructions for installing #FreeBSD or #NetBSD on the H618 processor – I don't think you'll succeed.
And that's what's stopping me from buying it.😕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4jN6DyF7M

Two new preprints from my #research center!

"Is Cleaning Costly? Evaluating the -fret-cleanAnti-Return-Oriented Programming Mitigation from the OpenBSD Operating System" — an evaluation and critique of #cybersecurity #engineering: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf (and #blog post about it: https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html)

"Write Your Way to Better Cybersecurity Awareness Training with Active Word Games" — about identifying creating cybersecurity training as a site of learning worthwhile of studying: https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Wroblewski_et_al_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#academic #academia #professor #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #linux #illumos #solaris #compiler #compilers #cybersec #cyber #informationsecurity #infosec

Ok. These patches fix the build of #pkgsrc/mail/thuderbird-154.0 under #NetBSD.

@theruran

Worth doing! If you find a config you like, please share! :D

I'm still rocking the default #ctwm on my #NetBSD secondary work machine, partially because I use deskflow to control it with my Debian machine's keyboard and mouse, so I don't feel the need to tile there.

Od kilku tygodni pracuję nad systemem graficznym opartym na kernelu NetBSD... Wkurwiające jest to, że tyle programów zakłada że twój system jest Linuxem, albo że twój system ma uruchomione komponenty dla kompatybilności z Linuxem... To jest niesamowicie leniwe podejście I ledwo liczy się jako "działa na systemach *BSD!"

#unix #bsd #netbsd #deathtoshims

I'd like to support #NetBSD in #iocaine's CI, at least to some extent, basically to run:

$ git clone https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine.git
$ cd iocaine
$ git checkout $COMMIT_ID
$ cargo build
$ cargo run -- -c $foo test suite

...and then report back to Forgejo.

I don't need Forgejo Actions, I don't need forgejo-runner, all I want is to have a commit status indicating the state (pending, success, failure, etc), and to optionally upload the logs somewhere (S3-compatible storage preferred).

Tasks would be sent via webhooks.

Is there an existing tool, available from pkgsrc that can do this for me?

Livin' dat #NetBSD life, fam. XD

Secondary laptop at work, mainly using it as an info display ;)

#NetBSD #AVIF

Alt...

A screenshot from NetBSD with three terminals, a firefox window, xload, xeyes, xlogo, xclock, and glxgears all running under the stock ctwm environment on X11

Doing a 'pkgin update && pkgin upgrade' on my little #NetBSD machine and I can report that #emacs 30 is the heaviest application at a whooping 47MB download... 🤓

For the interested, you can read a preprint of our latest #research on the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag here:

https://briancallahan.net/preprints/Callahan_Shaikh_IEEE_CARS_2026.pdf

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

The drop of 32bit support from Linux kernel could not be such a bad thing.
It makes NetBSD from a valid options into a necessity, because I don't count other projects with so many supported obsolete platforms.
I could hope this is going to give better visibility on this OS than it had up today. In general I found the BSDs much more leaner than many other linux distros.

#foss #netbsd #linux #bsd

@bellegraylane

Ah! I suspect that not carrying a CAT6 cable around my neck has been where I have been going wrong all of these years.

Although I am the programmer carrying a screwdriver that you've been told to beware of. (-:

I had a power drill in one hand and a power screwdriver in the other, the other day.

And #NetBSD on a TF memory card.

(Which I have to remember to upgrade to version 11.)

@Rob_l @Richard_Littler
#ComputerProgramming #DIY #sheds

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

I'm not the only person to provide a full off-line browsable HTML guide to my softwares in the box, also. (-:

In case anyone else hits it: The version of xgettext in #NetBSD 10.1 is old enough (0.16) that it breaks the #WatanabeShell build. You need the one that is in pkgsrc (0.22).

#UnixShells #nosh

Bleh. Our #FreeBSD system has developed some file-system corruption which has us thinking that we should reformat with a different approach. If only #NetBSD gave us better luck but I think I posted a while back that we could only ever get a limited-resolution framebuffer display going, whereas getting our #Nvidia card working with FreeBSD was relatively easy.

@armando @stuartl OK, the problem you will have with older versions of Receiver (as it was) is that they won't know new enough TLS, etc. to be able to speak to anything modern.

I never got 11.6 to work with modern--ish NetScaler even when forcing on SSL v2 and SHA1 cert signatures.

However, I now have a graphical #NetBSD environment to play with thanks to @lproven and his query about CDE to the NetBSD mailing lists, so I'll see how well modern Linux emulation works.