Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing

#NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux

Some journeys don't end where you expect them to. Sometimes they bring you right back to where everything began, only with a lot more experience and a much better ecosystem waiting for you.

That's exactly what is happening with BoxyBSD!

In my (longer) blog post I cover my circuit, where I moved from bhyve to Proxmox, developed many tools for Proxmox and now moved back to FreeBSD with bhyve and Sylve.

More details in my blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/boxybsd-moving-from-proxmox-to-bhyve-with-sylve/

#RUNBSD #bsd #freebsd #boxybsd #openbsd #netbsd #sylve #bhyve #opensource #vps #vpshosting #opensource #community #bsdcafe #boxybsd

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BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD and bhyve with Sylve

@brubarwal @ParadeGrotesque Yeh it's a common issue, especially when you add CDNs into the mix. The only way for pkgin to work reliably is if entire package directories are only ever updated atomically. I do this for https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/ so you'll never see similar errors there, but I don't know that everyone else is so careful. If you just run naive rsync then files and pkg_summary will be out of sync until the entire directory has finished uploading. #netbsd #pkgsrc

@cks

The sad thing is, as I was saying last year, all of this is unnecessary. The kernels, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, and #Linux, all maintain almost all of the stuff that 'who' needs, and have done since the switch to POSIX sessions and process groups in the 1980s.

There aren't any needs for a parallel database outwith the kernel. A few sysctl/procfs extensions for reading the kernel's own list of sessions, and we'd be away.

https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/114505443570291573

@ariadne @ska
#utmp #utmps #ttylogin

Hmm...

I have a lot of issues downloading stuff with 'pkgin' which makes it difficult to install what I want... A lot of downloads end in: "package not found".

On the other hand, I think I'll only need to install emacs 30 to have a productive little #NetBSD machine.

Look, I just moved (almost) all of my website build to #POSIX #Make <https://www.man7.org/linux//man-pages/man1/make.1p.html>!

https://codeberg.org/aartaka/pages/commit/9f6daf6676f8b25b7859d7af46bf5a34fb606f03

It was fun, because POSIX Make is super restrictive! But the end result is that all the website now builds on #GNU Make, #NetBSD Make, and pdpmake <https://github.com/rmyorston/pdpmake>!

Next stop: writing #sysvinit services with POSIX make!

#theWorkshop

Hi! I am #newhere

My name is Benny, I am a #NetBSD developer. I am in the process of transferring my account over from @bentsukun@mastodon.sdf.org.

@LPI @FreeBSDFoundation …and I’m still running Sendmail on #NetBSD to this very day…

I wonder how long it's been since I used a github login? Enhancement time is nigh.

edit: not too long ago.
"If you recently signed in to your account, you do not need to take any further action."

Edit 2b: fix me please posted.
#Qgis #NetBSD
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/1059

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/valuable-news-2026-07-20/

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

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

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

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

I may miss the latest commit to #NetBSD/amd64-current. I will test the latest source code.

Hmm... On the latest #NetBSD/amd64-current, #pkgsrc/www/firefox-153 and mail/thunderbird-152 get segfault. I will bisect...

I think the time is right to follow Torvalds advice 😅 and finally "upgrade" my laptop to NetBSD.

I was trying to figure out whether to stick with stable or current, and also whether I should encrypt the entire disk or just /home and then the swap partition via rc.conf (if I understand correctly, that’s possible, right?).

Current is "solid" enough for daily use? Any advice? It's not the first time on NetBSD for me but I'm not an expert 😆

Found these tutorial online:

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/
https://vsis.online/posts/2024-05-27-uefi-full-disk-encryption/

#netbsd #bsd

BSDs update day 🙃

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1

NetBSD 11.0 RC6

OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #screenshot #UNIX

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Left: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 Middle: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on NetBSD 11.0 RC6 Right: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

Just sent a little bit of money to the #NetBSD foundation @netbsd because I want you guys to release 11.0 soon!

Love it so far.

So, das Paket ist doch schon heute angekommen. Ist ein Thinkpad X260 - das hab ich günstig bekommen und mir geholt für Experimente mit #BSD. Ich hatte die letzte Woche schon mit #NetBSD auf einem Uralt-Teil rumgespielt.

Auf dem x260 war die Erfahrung mit NetBSD (11.0 RC6) aber ernüchternd. Langsam, Grafikprobleme und Firefox stürzte ab. Videomeetings (BBB) gingen gar nicht. NetBSD als Daily Driver kann man damit vergessen. Der Einsatzzweck dieses Systems ist beschränkt auf exotische oder alte oder sehr begrenzte Hardware.

Nun kommt #FreeBSD dran. Obwohl die Thinkpads zu den am besten unterstützten Geräten zählen musste erstmal gebastelt werden um die Umschaltung Headphones/Speaker hinzubekommen, siehe https://xyinn.org/md/freebsd/thinkpad_x260 - die nächsten Tage werd ich exklusiv dieses Gerät benutzen

@iaruffell

For what it's worth, I've long since been providing a terminal emulator, that runs on both #FreeBSD and #NetBSD, that can also optionally provide a Linux-format vcsa file, a format that #brltty already understands and can read.

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/brltty.html

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-terminal-emulator.xml

I wrote up that blurb in 2014, and it still does that today, although I did in 2015 make vcsa file generation a non-default option, as there's also a better full Unicode display file available.

#nosh

@kdedude @iaruffell
Not a braille display, but NetBSD is looking to put some money into improving screen reading for accessibility: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116936847540794228

#NetBSD

@nixCraft refugees are welcome to #NetBSD https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

@argv_minus_one @radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @geospacedman @marcusxms #NetBSD doesn't allow LLM AI tainted code

@wfk

Already asked and already answered: #NetBSD has a fairly clear 'no LLM' policy.

If you are looking to financially support a #BSD, #NetBSD has the most humble budget of the three big ones and is rather behind on its yearly goal.

I think it's a good and reputable place for your donation dollars, and yes, I have put my money where my mouth is.

Overall, that was one of the fastest and easiest installations ever.

#NetBSD really shines on these little configurations. A small computer, that could have ended in the trash, is now a happy, productive little machine!

@radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

All of the major #BSD⁠s allow AI code. Even #OpenBSD. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#operating-systems

In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

#Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Now THAT is what I wanted to see!

#NetBSD is so much faster on this little machine than Fedora... 😋

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A blue NetBSD installation screen showing 11.0 RC6 formatting the main internal SATA disk.

Looks like it really is time to start paying more attention to *BSD. Does any of them have a clear LLM policy?
#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #UNIX

Building #smolBSD on #Alpine is an adventure: one first needs to edit Makefile and replace --quiet with -s (Busybox's sha256sum doesn't recognize the former option), then edit mkimg.sh and remove --show from losetup options (again, a Busybox quirk). Even then, the build is only mostly successful, and my attempt of running a full live setup... makes me think I should have RTFM for #NetBSD first.

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GNU nano screen, editing Makefile of smolBSD, highlighting option --quiet of sha256sum, should be changed to -s for Alpine Linux.

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GNU nano screen, editing mkimg.sh, highlighting --show option to be removed from losetup so that making the image works on Alpine.

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bmake error, kernel is still using the old partition table, partprobe needed (termux screen)

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NetBSD/smolBSD booting errors

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-153.0 under #NetBSD/amd64-current...

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/116929371961710937

Sad to see another vintage arch getting retired by an OS, wonder if #NetBSD still works on #loongson

Stefano Marinelli boosted

OpenBSD Journal » 🤖 🌐 2026-07-16
@openbsdjournal@mastodon.bsd.cafe

OpenBSD/loongson hardware platform retired https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260716110034

@tinker

On the BSDs you'll get either the (BSD rather than Debian flavour) Almquist or the Korn shells out of the box in the operating systems themselves.

The Z, Bourne Again, and Watanabe shells come as installable applications.

It's definitely worth learning the Almquist and Korn shells for scripting purposes, not least because they are what you'll get with 'sh' as the script interpreter; but also because the Almquist shell is lighter weight than the Bourne Again shell. As Debian people learned years go when they switched 'sh' to (their flavour of) the Almquist shell, it's worth the initial learning effort in order to not use the shells with many heavyweight interactive features when one is running shell scripts.

@0x09
#UnixShells #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #MirBSD

EDIT: the recording is available here: https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

Finally,
$ time qgis --version
QGIS 4.2.0-Belém do Pará 'Belém do Pará' (exported)

real 0m2.083s
user 0m2.070s
sys 0m0.010s

#NetBSD

Just chipped in $15 to The NetBSD Foundation! 🧡🚩

One of the biggest advantages of NetBSD right now is their strict policy against accepting LLM-generated code commits. For a FOSS operating system, this is a massive win. It protects code provenance, avoids copyright pollution, and ensures every line is purposefully crafted and reviewed by actual humans.

If you value clean, human-driven open-source development, join me in supporting them!

🔗 https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #HumanMade #NoAI #AntiAI #RunBSD

@nuintari @underseamonkey
#NetBSD has ZFS, too https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/

Building QGIS 4.2.0 on #NetBSD, for a few hours now. CPU temp shows work. Betriebstemperatur chart is from the Zabbix tools.

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Green line showing CPU temperature as spiking after 9am.

The EuroBSDcon 2026 program is published: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

See https://2026.eurobsdcon.org for more info

To register https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Oh wait, I have this old laptop which may or may not work...

/me starts looking at #NetBSD 11RC6... 👀