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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

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

NetBSD archeology - where would one archive these CD(image)s other than in my dusty basement?

#netbsd #archeology #archive

@cienmilojos

"Get in, loser, we're installing #NetBSD!" 😆

@cienmilojos

I know that the #Thinkpad X260 runs #NetBSD well, and is pretty cheap.
It was the model recommended to me by the official NetBSD account on #fedi.

@cienmilojos

I'm not saying I'd stick with it, because I like i3wm/sway too much, but I gotta say that the stock #NetBSD GUI/X11 setup is the coolest/cleanest/slickest of the #BSD OSes I've tried so far. :D

#OpenBSD's is fine, but a little too colorful. #FreeBSD of course, doesn't have a stock/default GUI... yet!

Haven't tried #DragonflyBSD yet.

Forget the chaotic Black Friday sales! 🤯 NetBSD 🚩 offers the BEST deal: it's 100% FREE! Always has been, always will be. Perfect for self-hosters and anyone seeking pure, open-source goodness without spending a dime. No catches, just solid OS. #NetBSD #BlackFriday #FreeSoftware #SelfHost #RetroComputing #OpenSource #Linux #RunBSD

#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.

Problems with drivers — make the devices as simple as possible so that the driver has no work to do — write to the register, read from the register.

And you'll get a working #NetBSD! After that, you can start working on SD CARD (which, by the way, is available on Tangnano20k) and other things. Although (!) I must note that even in this state, the OS is useful. Especially since Tangnano20k is four times cheaper than VisionFive 2 JH7110 RISC-V.

I looked at the current state of affairs
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/riscv/#index4h2

and what people are actually working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHTYV4MI8Y

I don't think it will be possible to run #NetBSD on #Tangnano20k so quickly.

@Jbb @kde I did. It just mentioned FreeBSD so that's a reason why I'm asking.

What about other OS and BSDs like OpenBSD whose port of plasma6 only runs by using xorg/xenocara?

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

@amin @wyatt

The original #NetBSD [logo] was hella cool.

Of course, #OpenBSD's #Puffy is always [cool].

#FreeBSD's logo? Eh, a glowy red orb with horns. It's [fine]

Duh. No need to do troff -mandoc for #NetBSD man page source viewing. Just man file.#
#TIL
https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=groff

I run FreeBSD but I don't tend to build it. I consume binaries. So sometimes I make assumptions based on its similarities to NetBSD, which was the first free Unix I ran.

Today I read that FreeBSD finally does unprivileged builds, to which I thought, "What? It didn't before?"

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

Meanwhile, NetBSD has been incredibly sleek in this department for many years now:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html

I should get back into NetBSD. I was initially enthralled by VNET jails but lately I find myself using simpler configs. I might find that I'm okay going back to running things in chroots. And it's not like I'd stop running FreeBSD.

#netbsd #freebsd

@morgant @s0x41 @golemwire

Hopefully the progress on #OpenBSD can be ported to #NetBSD without too much trouble?
I appreciate the fact that the presenter is basically saying, "This is a PITA, but yeah, it's the future."

The tremendous age of of X11 reminds me of that meme where this guy said he was working on a codebase and realized that the previous maintainer was his mom, and someone replied, "That's not how inheritance is supposed to work." XD

@Cal @rhelune Did I miss something in the news about Debian and AI or LLMs ? I think Debian is for progressive ppl and activists very often a good choice. I did a search engine search about Debian and AI and this is one thing I found
(Debian AI General Resolution withdrawn - May 20, 2025)
https://lwn.net/Articles/1020968 (Another from April 2025 : https://lwn.net/Articles/1018497/) My association with the term Debian are the word grassroots and cooperation. It is not dependent on one company behind the scenes (like Ubuntu with Canonical) and it is volunteer based and its project leaders are voted for.

When it comes to Gentoo Linux, the good thing is that Gentoo has binaries since some time so you won't have to go through days or weeks of compiling any more. 🙂 And NetBSD is from the BSD family nice to have around for running on washing machines, obscure solar panels, maybe even iPods and Gameboys but as a desktop OS it might not suit as a daily driver, though I guess you can run emulation software with for example Gentoo Linux for things that you're missing on NetBSD desktop.

#debian #gentoo #netbsd

I wonder how many other #NetBSD devs got this spam?

Hello Stephen,

Many companies are using AI to reduce routine work and accelerate decision-making.

Is NetBSD planning to implement AI initiatives this year? We support teams in starting with small pilot projects that demonstrate their value before scaling.

Open to a quick chat?

Best regards,
Andy C
Devsinc

P.S. Simply reply with 'Stop' to opt out.

Someday it will be interesting to look at the minimum requirements for the RISCV version of #NetBSD — maybe it will fit into Tangnano20k #fpga?🤪

Finally! I'm exhausted all RAM on my homelab server, trying to install some python 3.13 things via pip, which involved compilation of some C++ things from sources

At least, I'm checked that kernel successfully kills some random processes, when it got OOM. Was very surprised, when I received some notifications on my phone about dead PostgreSQL, sshd and main nginx, lol

Still has no money to install the maximal amount of memory to my home server — 4 Gb (max for Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz)

#homelab #NetBSD #OOM

Alt...

Part of dmesg from my NetBSD box with some messages about OOM-killed programs: Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 8485.8485 (sshd), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 18496.18496 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap UVM: pid 17960.17960 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 2137.2137 (nginx), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 8777.8777 (ccl), uid 1001 killed: out of swap

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@golemwire

> Nice. (Two batteries? What kind of computer is it?)
It's a #thinkpad X260. They went from external-only batteries, to hybrid internal/external, to now internal-only batteries. I have one of each: x200, x260, x390, respecively. XD

> Cool to hear. I always heard that #Wayland was architected in a Linux-specific way (though I don't know how that could be, for a window protocol).

It was, sadly. #FreeBSD is the most linux-ish of the three major BSDs, so it got wayland support first. I think it's experimental on #OpenBSD, and not yet working on #NetBSD, last I heard.

Folks who say stuff like, "Hey, why doesn't NetBSD have Wayland working yet???" really frustrate the crap out of me. It's a teensy project with an annual budget of like $50k. It's not your mega kernel that's funded by the pocket money of trillion dollar gigacorps, shut up.

> I'd imagine most graphical BSD software is designed for X11. Did you have to compile e.g. foot from source? ;)

No, foot's a package. Just install and go. ;)
(At least on FreeBSD. I haven't tried Wayland on OpenBSD yet)

Just another honest weekend's work keeping an up-to-date browser working... On the other hand, the most trackable user agent in the world. #netbsd #sparc64 #palemoon

Alt...

Pale Moon 33.89.1 rendering a duckduckgo search for "user agent" on NetBSD/sparc64. sysctl output shows that the machine is a Blade 100 with an UltraSPARC-IIe at 550MHz.

Après l'autolargue, je propose l'autostart ! #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx/115599891811806575

All of them!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

This is how I originally got into #OpenBSD and one of the reasons I now use it so heavily (aside from the security & best-practices focus.)

In the late 90's, I had installed #NetBSD on a #Macintosh #LCIII. In the late aughts, I had a PowerMac G4 that I wanted to run haproxy on, so tried to install NetBSD. I was struggling with Open Firmware, trying to partition, etc., so I decided to try OpenBSD. It was was easy, painless, and had an haproxy package. Ran it for years.
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx/115599420760527062