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

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

I just picked up my #Digirig Mobile from my P.O box. I'm happy to report that both the sound card interface and the USB <-> serial interface are supported in #NetBSD 10! This came as a pleasant surprise after so many years of sound card & serial interfaces being only partially-supported or not supported at all.

I plan on using it with my GPD MicroPC 2 and arcOS, but it's good to know I can switch my decade-old Raspberry Pi 2 to NetBSD and use it on that too.

Ich muss sagen, dass mir #NetBSD 11.0 (RC6) recht gut gefällt. Technisch sauber, läuft hier ohne große Probleme auf einem älteren Laptop. NetBSD ist das kleinste Projekt untern den klassischen BSDs.

FreeBSD wird von Firmen unterstützt wird und die Foundation hat jährlich ein Millionenbudget. OpenBSD kommt immerhin auf knapp eine halbe Million pro Jahr und zu den Geldgebern zählen Microsoft, Google und Meta. NetBSD muss dagegen mit rund 50-80k pro Jahr auskommen, Großspender gibt es nicht.

Außerdem ist mir positiv aufgefallen, dass es im NetBSD ports system pkgsrc kein Port für den Xorg Fork "xlibre" des Impfgegners und Anti-Diversity-Aktivisten Enrico Weigelt gibt.

New #blog post arrives!

I discovered that, unlike what the documentation says, you in fact do not need GDC to bootstrap GDC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260713.html

#Unix #compiler #compilers #gcc #llvm #clang #gdc #d #dlang #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #dmd

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

From the Leanpub Blog: Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock

https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-three-essays-on-netbsd-by-chris-pinnock/

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #NetBSD #ELF #BSD #OpenBSD #operatingsystems

NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock

https://youtu.be/_AtoCTme0dw

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #NetBSD #ELF #BSD #OpenBSD #operatingsystems

Just a friendly reminder that this instance is running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD and littleFedi (not yet released)

#NetBSD #littleFedi #Fediverse

This is a periodic reminder that #NetBSD is cool.

#RunBSD

🚩 NetBSD 11.0 RC6 available!

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc6_available

#netbsd #bsd #opensource

@vees A bit like #netbsd 11.0RCn

Some of our #OpenBSD anti-ROP #research ended up on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xclcel/final_return_for_openbsd_anti_return

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #Illumos #compiler #compilers #GCC #LLVM #Clang

Looking for dirt cheap laptops as excuses to play with #NetBSD on them... First candidate on small publicity: an Intel Atom based "netbook" with just 1GB of RAM. It still costs a bit more than a few pennies though and I haven't received yet confirmation from the seller that it can still boot at all.

@bentsukun @tsutsuii
#NetBSD

@pertho

If 'go to' means first choice, where possible, then of course it is #httpd from #djbwares. Simple; static; secure; low resource usage; and I know exactly how it works.

One of the reasons that I maintain it is so that I can use it myself. (-:

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/djbwares/

It is running on #NetBSD for my public WWW site. But I have an internal WWW site where it runs on #FreeBSD.

Years ago, it was my own httpd and httppd, on OS/2. (-:

Buying tip.

I buy used hardware almost exclusively. I like getting older computer stuff from eBay. I tend not to think about the pricing a lot - I'll find a good price and buy a thing.

It occurred to me today that when they say "or best offer" they mean it. I bought a workstation from a vendor a few weeks ago, and it was decent. I wanted to buy another one today, but the price was higher, so I sent an offer for what I'd paid for the other one. It was automatically rejected. But there was a suggested offer on the offer page that was $4 more than what I'd offered, so I clicked that. It was automatically accepted.

I think henceforth if I see "or best offer" on anything I'm going to try it.

Anyway, this will be my first hardware dedicated to NetBSD in many years. I'm going to explore different options for layout, but I'd like to do ZFS root. We'll see how well that works. I never did root disk encryption when I was a NetBSD developer, but I'll want to now. It'll be fun figuring out how things have changed.

I think I'll subscribe to some mailing lists in advance.

#ebay #netbsd

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

I promised it, so here it is. This is a recording of littleFedi running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W on NetBSD.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #OwnYourData

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I promised it, so here it is. This is a recording of littleFedi running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W on NetBSD.

Everything is on the SD card, the database is SQLite, and caching is enabled.

Personally, I won't comment on responsiveness or anything else; I'll just say that when I use it (both via the web interface and with apps like MastoBlaster or IceCubes), I find it hard to believe what kind of hardware it's running on.

Users' sessions (by default, a maximum of 8 users but configurable) are kept "warm" with every interaction or federated activity for 15 minutes since the last login; after that, the server enters "low power mode" and simply processes incoming data without activating the (users' timelines, etc.) cache.

We don't need to get ripped off for more powerful hardware, which comes with outrageous costs these days.

We just need to optimize and build efficient software.

Abundance led to waste.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Optimize #ScreenCapture #Fediverse

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Screen capture - using littleFedi hosted on a Raspberry PI Zero W running NetBSD from a SD Card.

I promised it, so here it is. This is a recording of littleFedi running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W on NetBSD.

Everything is on the SD card, the database is SQLite, and caching is enabled.

Personally, I won't comment on responsiveness or anything else; I'll just say that when I use it (both via the web interface and with apps like MastoBlaster or IceCubes), I find it hard to believe what kind of hardware it's running on.

Users' sessions (by default, a maximum of 8 users but configurable) are kept "warm" with every interaction or federated activity for 15 minutes since the last login; after that, the server enters "low power mode" and simply processes incoming data without activating the (users' timelines, etc.) cache.

We don't need to get ripped off for more powerful hardware, which comes with outrageous costs these days.

We just need to optimize and build efficient software.

Abundance led to waste.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Optimize #ScreenCapture #Fediverse

People who are #Antiai , supporters of #noai should look into #NetBSD and donate to support such projects. Also #zig is anti AI for their development

@cavyherd @vinterkarusell

I loath waste just because something appears old (for Windows or Mac). "Rebuilding" used machines for 2ndary life (file servers, backup servers, mum&dad, young kids, etc.) seems wiser that putting into the trash.

A new 1TB SSD consumer grade is about 70 CAD; replace an old HD in a laptop with Win 7/10 on it using #GhostBSD instead and the machine can "fly". (Even Linux if you must.)

Had to move apt. once, had 5 or 6 old mini towers working. Put them on the street with "Ca Marche" pencilled on it and it was gone before collection next morning (I was in France at the time). They found homes for a while longer.

#NetBSD #FreeBSD

Ce soir, on compile du noyau #NetBSD dans le but de l'alléger ! Rendez-vous sur https://www.twitch.tv/ahp_nils !

I don't know if I'll manage to do the screen recording today or if it will end up being tomorrow, but I'm still amazed at how it runs on the Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD.

#littleFedi #NetBSD #Fediverse

Tomorrow, I will make a video of how littleFedi runs on this Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD.
Once the caches are warm, the performance is incredible.

#littleFedi #NetBSD