@kingocounty @mirabilos

IIRC, FreeBSD predictably floppy on the subject. :/

I haven't messed with #NetBSD much, either, because it doesn't have a built-in option for full-disk-encryption, but there's a [guide] for doing it manually. I've been dabbling in 9front (I don't know what their LLM policy is), so I will probably do a NetBSD install before too long, as 9front has definitely been stretching me. XD

As far as your reqs, I don't know about NextCloud or Synapse, but an IRC server and modern browser are both quite doable.

@kingocounty @mirabilos

"usable" of course is a very malleable word, but I know #NetBSD has taken a strong stand against it.

Finally found the #Pkgsrc news about Q1 2026:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2026/03/27/msg000392.html
As the pkgsrc.org site has no announcements since 2025 I guess there's a gap in the doc process, after role shuffling. Continued activity as shown by charts: https://pkgsrc.se/statistics.php
#NetBSD

@jmcneill

Also: it seems the #NetBSD Wii is actually on the Fediverse, because yes of course it is... Its owner can be found at @ltning

(I hope I am not starting a DDoS on that poor Wii by posting this...) ☹️

And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. 😂

Thanks for everything @jmcneill !!

(Now, where the heck did I put my Nintendo Wii...?)

@chesheer Ohhh , thats why I bet on #NetBSD for daily computing — any "newbie with AI" touching CVS — will be shot with heavy orbital ion cannon (I hope)

@ParadeGrotesque @ParadeGrotesque of course it runs #netbsd

Something I discovered recently:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool!

Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/

And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925

@rl_dane @EF

Yes. The #OpenBSD version does not work as-is anywhere else. Basically: either one modifies the code to conditionally-compile out the OpenBSDisms and loses functionality, or one takes the OpenBSDisms out completely and replaces them with sudoisms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36353756

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, and #Arch Linux have both Smith's and Overbruck's versions; #Debian Linux only the latter; #SmartOS only the former.

@ianthetechie @tubsta @dexter
#doas #sudo

Never mind just Linux; this would seem to raise serious issues for any group producing their own kernel without an army of lawyers on staff e.g. *BSD, RedoxOS, Graphene, ReactOS, Haiku, illumos and perhaps even plan9 and operating system textbooks and learning frameworks like FluxOSKit. There is furthermore some significant scariness about packets crossing borders rendering ppl liable for violations of all this when passing through spaces wherein USA agents may apprehend them.

https://youtu.be/SVGw0uY1dsQ

#telix #Linux #BSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RedoxOS #GrapheneOS #ReactOS #HaikuOS #illumos #plan9 #Hurd #FluxOSKit

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

@philpem #NetBSD/acorn32 did run on it as @bjh21 wrote the NIC driver, but 8MB was rather limiting!

@flibble @philpem The £575 included monitor, keyboard and mouse per client and a #NetBSD server doing email, intranet, firewalling, routing and fileserving. Also included educational resources and a full productivity suite. Also included installation, training and support with on-site visits

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

@jaypatelani Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself.

Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan this June #BSDCan

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A boot message ending in "bye bye from RISC OS!"

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A black monitor with small white writing on next to a grey computer with its lid removed and various cables loose in the top

@mrgtwentythree @slava @eschaton #NetBSD is way underrated @netbsd :)

@jaypatelani Nice! This is mine box there the #NetBSD is running. Basically, this is just a main part of the cashier (without the display). CPU: Intel Atom N2800, 4 Gb of RAM.

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Photo of the Intel Atom based, fanless machine, working as a server. There are a server, hub (made from an old router), fire extuinguisher and a turka with coffee. Each element has a cyan text with a name of an item.

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drag0n-server$ uname -a NetBSD drag0n-server.lair.internal 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 drag0n-server$ uptime 11:59PM up 5 days, 1:40, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.28, 0.45

@jaypatelani my VPS running NetBSD 10.1. Has WireGuard tunnels to 4 locations with full mesh BGP dynamic routing over the tunnels. BGP runs in GRE. Exposes a haproxy load balancer and reverse proxy for my internal Nextcloud, Firefly3, Frigate.

Has been rock solid apart of a strange OSPF (frr) issue where I can't establish session through GRE tunnel. There's some awkward GRE handling in NetBSD which I can't pinpoint.

All the best to NetBSD!

#netbsd #hobby #vps #networking #bsd #runbsd

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uptime, uname and list of processes running on a NetBSD vps

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

#MirBSD #NetBSD

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems

No #Netbsd
No #plan9
No #Haiku

#OpenBSD crashes after awhile

#Deuvan and #Windows2000 works

But i am looking for a viable #32bit system
Since Debian dropped 32bit

damn you 🤣

#compac #oldcomputers

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my picky Compaq that doesn't like all OSes

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Should we rewrite BSDs in Ada/SPARK!?
#runbsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Seriously how do i turn off #ipv6 on #NetBSD

#oldschoolnetwork for 1990s computing

lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things:

find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time.

no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big?

anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?

@hipsterelectron ofc useful for reading/writing historic classic UNIX volumes, including XENIX, PC/IX and such.

linux removed support recently, but netbsd has a good one. also #netbsd doing lovely things about filesystems overall. they can actually build filesystems as userspace libraries, and have a tar equivalent that works filesystem images in userspace, even on linux for free. use as fuse servers.

yesterday i failed to figure out out how do i submit a patch to #netbsd
i swear i could do that previously
do you just stuff it inline to gnats??
have i gone stupid
or do they not want to be bothered with my supremely important v7fs stability improvements

@aru Affordable: Raspberry Pi Zero (ARM). Obscure might be the Mango Pi MQ Pro (RISC-V) but I'm not sure whether NetBSD works on that yet. #NetBSD #RiscV

@dendrobatus_azureus @OpenComputeDesign @moses_izumi

It's still the primary fs of #OpenBSD, and perhaps still the default for #NetBSD. #FFS

@Enalys I just wanted to have a NAS at home and some small programs (like search engine/frontend 4get: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get), which were made with selfhosting in mind and don't require high-end i9 DDR5 64 Gb computer to work.
Then, I installed #NetBSD to a small Intel Atom based computer, setup Bind9 to have a nice hostname and a local zone for my home networks, setup DHCPD, etc — aaand, looks like I'm a selfhoster, lol

@vlkrs

Mmmm, miggy.

I bet #NetBSD would run on an #Amiga today! 😄

#FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MirBSD

@rl_dane @latelesley @justine re #NetBSD - there has been a lot happening here in the past two days:
https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/wayland

@latelesley @justine

I highly recommend throwing it on an old thinkpad (almost doesn't matter HOW old).
Also, you can get used thinkcenters for pretty cheap, like 50EUR or less. Just add a cheap SSD and you're golden.

I never graduated to daily driving OpenBSD (yet!), but it's great to have on my old Thinkpad X200t.

Hopefully #NetBSD will be able to profit from the wayland prgoress in #OpenBSD?