Jails for NetBSD

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@sylvie wow, this looks great! Guess I'm not the only one who thinks this is a good idea :)

#ALpineLinux and #NetBSD are the only OSes that keep my very old machines (turning 20 years old this year!) still running.

Enjoy!

@reallyflygreg @toddalio

I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed the people who don't understand technology (specifically: they think that everything works like their smart 'phone or Microsoft Windows 11 PC do) making policy; or that they did understand the technology and were just crap at drafting legislation such that it could distinguish the Microsoft Store, Google Play, the Apple App Store, et al. from #Ubuntu's package repository and #OpenBSD's ports tree.

And that distinguishing criterion is not #FreeSoftware. Given the aims, the #California legislators would want #FDroid to be required to hand over #AgeVerification data to free-software apps that F-Droid allows, that themselves want to impose age restrictions (on, say, showing certain content to minors) via the route of getting the account holder's age (bracket) information from the operating system via a 'signal' from the 'store'.

https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #Debian #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw

@AnachronistJohn

What I have here is AMD & i3 mobile processors on MiniPC. The ram is good I have 40 GB but alas the wrong CPUs

I'm interested in the images though. I'll DM you

#BSD #netBSD

Does anyone here have an Intel N100 / N150 / N200 or similar system on which they’d be willing to run a multi-hour benchmark?

These kinds of systems are touted as being cheap and performant enough, so I’m curious, but most benchmarks are too synthetic.

I have a nice, simple bootable image that’ll compile all of NetBSD as a benchmark. All you need is 32 gigs of memory, or for whatever disk you use to be a little faster than a USB stick.

#BSD #NetBSD

I foresee:

1. #Debian eventually following #MidnightBSD's lead and cutting #California off from #FreeSoftware; after lengthy mailing list discussions where at least one person tries to deny with convoluted nonsense the plain reading of the statute.

1. A storm when someone points out that the #MobaXTerm version of APT isn't exempt, nor is RPM. (Goodness knows what IBM is going to do.)

1. An even bigger storm when someone adds an 'age' field to systemd's JSON User Records, to be enforced and served out over Desktop Bus via a systemd-aged service or some such. Much fun if that someone comes from a #GDPR country.

1. Some nutter taking a Linux distribution to court because it doesn't enable developers to control whether 16-year-olds can install rustc and busybox.

#CaliforniaLaw #Unix #rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple.

But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories.

There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts.

#MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR

Aww, the new SSD in the #VisionFive2 doesn't work under #NetBSD. nhudson calls it "the remaining gnarly bug" 😢

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

The #eurobsdcon call for papers is on!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

We offer pre-submission mentoring, see within!

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

I've said somewhere I want to run NetBSD on a #286. Now obviously that's not actually possible, but I should be able to do the next best thing - run it on a 286 upgraded to a 486SLC!

But wait, most 286es only support 4MB RAM, although the ol' chum of a chip supports a whopping 16MB. So I have to find a motherboard that can do this.

Thing is, I already have one. See picture. But it's currently occupied doing very important Enterprisy stuff - it runs IBM OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition..but at least I know what I need!

Alt...

otherboard with a soldered 20MHz 286 CPU and a Citygate chipset.

Back in 2022, surrounded by colleagues who were infused with "open source scepticism", I wrote "Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html as an explainer.

Hopefully a useful thing for others too, with links therein #freesofware #opensource #enterprise #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux

Conferences - #asiabsdcon is only a couple of weeks away, the call for papers for #eurobsdcon starts tomorrow, and #BSDCan is on for June.

Read more via "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #development #networking #security

For anybody wondering why I prefer #NetBSD over #Linux, compare the code for a small tool like whois(1):

NetBSD:
https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c?annotate=HEAD

372 lines, easy to read

Linux:
https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/next/whois.c

1617 lines in the main program; unchecked malloc(3), misc buffer overflow opportunities, magic numbers, "/* This function has multiple memory leaks.*/", mixed spaces and tabs, another 2K of glue code, ...

KISS, man, KISS.

Jails for NetBSD

FreeBSD has its jails technology, and it seems NetBSD might be getting something similar soon.

Jails for NetBSD aims to bring lightweight, kernel-enforced isolation to NetBSD.

[...]

The system is intended to remain fully NetBSD-native. Isolation and policy enforcement are integrated into the kernel’s security framework rather than implemented in a separate runtime layer.

It does not aim to

https://www.osnews.com/story/144499/jails-for-netbsd/

#NetBSD

This article talks about an "age verification" law. Which it's titled as such, but it's more of a "mandatory parental control law" impacting all operating systems on PC's, mobile devices and general-computing-devices in California.

Reading the law's text it seems to require the OS to store a primary user's date of birth, and provide an API for finding out which age range band the user falls in. (<13 | <16 | <18)

Applications are required to query the API at first run, and behave accordingly.

It doesn't seem to mandate any VERIFICATION of the birthdate itself.

It seems to be an open question how #FLOSS operating systems and apps would abide by this.

#linux #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #haiku #haikuos

https://www.alstonprivacy.com/california-enacts-digital-age-verification-law

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

I see I have to pick up a few technical books at #BSDCan www.bsdcan.org
I have an outdated version of pf I have to update, and I really should pick up @mwl book on ZFS

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #BSD

Jails for NetBSD https://lobste.rs/s/wrfca5 #netbsd
https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

#NetBSD 🚩: for when you need your OS to run on anything, including prism power!

#Linux #unix #runbsd

Since the last article, the secmodel_jail / jailctl / jailmgr stack has moved closer to a coherent whole. The original guardrails remain unchanged: no modifications to existing kernel paths, no UVM hooks, no NPF integration, no hidden coupling. The scope stays explicit and the risk bounded.

Progress has focused on operations. Logging, lightweight supervision, and basic metrics are in place, shifting the question from "can this work?" to "can this be run?". Networking remains intentionally simple and host-based; for hard isolation, Xen is still the right boundary. Jails provide an operational frame inside the host, not a replacement for virtualization.

Resource budgeting is being prototyped again via the secmodel evaluation interface, touching allocation paths and scheduler run queues in a minimally invasive way, but it needs careful review.

There is now also a small landing page to make the ideas visible, including an experimental amd64 ISO based on NetBSD 10.1 for testing. If it sparks upstream interest or discussion around lightweight, explicit isolation on NetBSD, that is already a win.

https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

#netbsd

The NetBSD Foundation will participate to Google Summer of Code 2026!

Google Summer of Code is a great opportunity to contribute to NetBSD and/or pkgsrc!

To learn more please give a look to NetBSD Blog post: https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_tnf

#netbsd #pkgsrc

I think 2026 is the right time to bring back BSDmag

https://archive.org/details/BSD_Magazine_11_2014/page/16/mode/1up

#DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #MidnightBSD #RunBSD

What's the most popular wiki software for BSDs? What do y'all use? #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

(Edit to add: for a small team of mostly non-technical editors.)

Oh, nice, #NetBSD 11 on the horizon!

https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

A little late for me to announce, but RC1 at this stage. I wonder if I should install this instead of the stable release?

#RunBSD

#NetBSD Fun Facts
#Linux #unix #runbsd

@FreeBSDFoundation I think that was in 1998 because #NetBSD lacked drivers for a network interface that I had to use. They fixed that shortly afterwards.

The moebius #Ants continue to crawl on the Pi 0W, 2 weeks later. #NetBSD

Alt...

Mesh onscreen with 3d ants, escher like.

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Mid February #NetBSD #pkgsrc package counts for 2025Q4:

10.0: earmv4 12805 (didn’t have it listed before) 10.0: m68k 9622 (+1394) 10.0: powerpc 20711 (+2833) 10.0: sparc64 16866 (+1635) 10.0: vax 7495 (+748)

11.0: aarch64eb 24042 (+4001) 11.0: earmv4 4362 (+612) 11.0: m68k 8132 (+1271) 11.0: mips64eb 3852 (+363) 11.0: mipsel 440 (+449 - needs a new power supply) 11.0: powerpc 4552 (unchanged - needs space and power) 11.0: riscv64 18616 (+3233) 11.0: sh3el 7809 (+2239) 11.0: vax 5245 (+1879)

My old friend, a Raspberry Pi A+, has been running my home heating system for months, just like it did back in 2014.

It has not missed a single moment.
It has sailed through every so called cloud outage.
It kept working flawlessly even when the Internet connection was down, because it simply does not need it.

This is the kind of technology I love.
Of course, it runs NetBSD!

rpicaldaia# uptime
6:23PM up 78 days, 20:16, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.17, 0.13
rpicaldaia# uname -a
NetBSD rpicaldaia 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (RPI) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

Hey Mastodon!

🖥️ 💻

Calling all #mac #macos #osx #windows #linux #FreeBSD #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #desktop & #laptop users!

On your personal computer, what is your go to when you leave your machine unattended for long periods of time:

D-Bus is a message bus system that provides an easy way for inter-process communication.

> easy
> EASY

That is a lie and we know it by now.

#linux #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #programming