There is some progress on the matter. Thomas Klausner suggested an OpenSSL patch he had found and Martin Husemann helped fix my `build.sh` problems. Testing it all since yesterday and so far it hasn't crashed! 🤞
#netbsd #openssl #pkgsrc #haproxy

It's been almost 2 days since applying the patch to #NetBSD 11.0_RC4's #OpenSSL and so far #haproxy is still up and running. It'll be pulled up to netbsd-11 branch before the release!

As the #FreeBSD pkg of the postgis extension is not tied to a database version and the #NetBSD one seems to be, I moved the geo databases to the former. The rest, to NetBSD.
Zabbix, on the other hand, might need to be a little more performant. We'll see.

1204605:20260608:155730.445 slow query: 6.477221 sec, [...]

Plan is to move Zabbix back to the faster machine when #PostgreSQL18 is set.

(15 minutes down time for export, copy, import, restart).

Alt...

Temperature of a CPU, with a gap for the database switcheroo.

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

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

I got the world's cutest little computer over the weekend thanks to @murble! It's a #Vortex86 of some kind, equivalent to a fast #486, and is genuinely #32bit so I shall no longer have to rely on emulation or running 32-bit kernels and libraries on 64-bit hardware for 32-bit testing! Gonna put #NetBSD on there.

But first, because it has no serial port and the only video output is VGA, I need to find a VGA monitor.

No #BananaForScale because I don't like bananas. Have an aniseed twist instead.

Alt...

A photograph of a ridiculously tiny computer sitting on a brown wooden desk. The computer measures 95 by 95 by 20mm. You can see the front, which has 2 USB ports, an SD card slot, pointless audio in/out, and a dinky little power button. The whole of the top surface is a heat sink and there are four screw holes going all the way through, presumably for mounting on the back of a monitor. There is a delicious aniseed twist on top for scale. Modern aniseed twists taste good, but are a pale imitation of the deep red that they used to be back in the good old days before all this woke nonsense about poisoning children with lead-based food colourings. It is ORANGE, which is wrong. And PALE ORANGE at that. I shall write a stern letter to my MP.

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@dfloyd888

Au contraire, mon frère!

#FreeBSD has a handbook that covers almost every basic config situation you'd face.
#OpenBSD has man pages covering nearly everything
I haven't gotten very deep into #NetBSD, but I'm sure its documentation is on point.
#9front has... 9front has... 9front has some very nice people on fedi who will tell you turn back now while there's still time 😂

The documentation experience on Linux is various forum posts telling you to try various things, none of which work, and maybe some obtuse documentation text file on kernel.org. Egad.

@jaypatelani

So yesterday #IOCCC29 awards were announced. See the final results.

FYI I develop my entries on @netbsd for maximum portability across BSD and umm well Linux (cough) - Install everywhere, work everywhere.

#NetBSD helps make the magic happen. Thank you.

@MaddieM4

Even easier for those who have learned the modern BSD ftp command. (-:

The BSDs decided that since the tool for fetching files was named ftp, they'd just augment the protocols that it was capable of speaking.

#FreeBSD has an extra fetch command as well. But all of them — #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, and the derivatives of those three — have ftp commands that speak HTTP, originating in a lukemftp (later tnftp) project by Luke Mewburn for NetBSD in the 1990s.

It's also in #Debian.

#ftp #fetch

The NetBSD 🚩 Foundation wrapped up its 2026 AGM! 🚀 Quick recap of milestones & future plans:
📦 NetBSD-11 (RC4) is on the horizon.
🌳 The massive migration from CVS to Git/Mercurial is officially complete!
🎓 #GSoC2026: 5 students onboarded (working on Wi-Fi stack upgrades, porting the #Enlightenment desktop @E , and more).
🛡️ Security: Onboarding as a MITRE CNA, preparing for the EU CRA, and enforcing "Anti-Slop" (no unreviewed AI code) protocols.
🔬 Long-term: Long-term plans to use formal verification tools, with Core open to funding active code audits.

Full log: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/annual_general_meeting_2026

#NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #GSoC #Security #Linux #antiaislop #FormalVerifcation

Sitting in on the NetBSD agm IRC, and excited to see that 11.0 release is maybe less than 2 weeks out! This will be my jumping off point into NetBSD.

#NetBSD

Hey #NetBSD folks. I'm looking for a nice routerboard that runs NetBSD. At least four 1gbit/sec ethernet ports.

I have a Banana Pi R2 Pro right now that I like. Will that work?

Any recommendations?

Tnx!

okay, pkgsrc on a RasPi 1 with 8GB SD card is not happening. I started cloning it last night and it's still going many hours later and already using like 50% of the free space.

I wanted to then add pkgsrc-wip and build Dragonfly Mail Agent to use instead of Postfix to see if it'd use less RAM, but ... no.

I guess it's live with Postfix, use Null Mailer, or have no mail. #NetBSD

Reminder: we have our Annual General Meeting today!

Saturday, June 6th at 14:00 UTC in the #netbsd-agm channel
on irc.libera.chat. You can use your preferred Internet Relay Chat
program, or join directly at: https://web.libera.chat/#netbsd-agm

There will be a series of presentations about #NetBSD followed by a
moderated Q&A session.

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2026/05/17/msg000397.html

Did some yak shaving today.

I want to use a USB to TTL serial adapter to let one Rasbperry Pi handle the serial console of another Raspberry Pi. But I’m using my USB to TTL serial adapter to talk to my Plextor PX-EH25L (SuperH machine) because the IDE disk in it died.

I found a couple of USB / Firewire IDE enclosures, but couldn’t find the PSUs. I tried an old AMD motherboard with IDE (and floppy!), but that POSTed once and never again.

I looked everywhere for something with IDE. My Amigas are busy, so I decided to set up a Cobalt Raq (MIPS). In order to use that to install NetBSD to an IDE disk for the Plextor, I first had to install NetBSD on it. However, NetBSD’s infrastructure was down, so I had to find a copy of the NetBSD Cobalt restore CD ISO elsewhere.

But I finally got #NetBSD installed on the Cobalt, which allowed me to install NetBSD for SuperH on the IDE disk for the Plextor, which freed up the USB to TTL serial for the Raspberry Pis, which I’m finally setting up now :)

SuperH binary pkgsrc building will resume soon!

holy frick my dudes, it is NOT easy to tell the #NetBSD Raspberry Pi image "save 1GB of space for me after the end of / when you expand it on first boot" ... I'm gonna have to give up on that for now 😵‍💫

smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs.

https://smolbsd.org/

#NetBSD #microVM #BSD #containers

@smurfd some network outage I think, haven't been able to get to mail for many hours.

#netbsd

#NetBSD
Merch

#somafm
Direct donations
Merch

#unix_surrealism
Direct donations
Merch

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia was great!

At NetBSD devsummit I have presented «Running Docker (and more) in NetBSD via Lima». Lima (<https://lima-vm.io/>) permits to run Linux virtual machines (as guests) - with port forwarding and volumes sharing - and I have showed how NetBSD is supported and works as host!

Slides available at <https://www.NetBSD.org/gallery/presentations/leot/eurobsdcon2025-devsummit-lima/lima.pdf>.

I have now also imported Lima in pkgsrc as sysutils/lima.

#EBC25 #netbsd #pkgsrc

This World Environment Day, combat e-waste by recycling your old tech with #NetBSD. Don't let planned obsolescence dictate your hardware's lifespan. Give that old machine a second life as a rock-solid firewall, file server, or lightweight workstation. 🖥️🌱
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NetBSD #RunBSD #RetroComputing #EcoFriendly #FOSS #Linux

I just updated my #pkgsrc wip packaging for the #VimClassic 8.3.0 release. It's working just fine on my #NetBSD 11 dev host.

If you want to test it, see the https://pkgsrc.org/wip/ docs here. I'm going to live with for a couple days and see about getting it pulled into main.

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#はてなブログ #NetBSD #pkgsrc #mikutter

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #badjoke

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BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Friday 2026-06-19: 14:30 - 15:20 DMS 1130
What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you?
Peter Hansteen
https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-What-has-can.html
To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #cra #cyberresilience #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers: Submit by June 20th!

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

hey #netbsd people! On 11.0_RC4 I have an issue with haproxy 3.3.5 from #pkgsrc 2025Q1. It randomly fails with:

/usr/src/crypto/external/apache2/openssl/dist/ssl/record/methods/tls_common.c:1902: OpenSSL internal error: Assertion failed: rl->nextwbuf >= rl->numwpipes || TLS_BUFFER_get_left(&rl->wbuf[rl->nextwbuf]) == 0

It had been working fine for months before I upgraded to 11.0_RC4. Any ideas how to tshoot it further?

bug report: https://gnats.netbsd.org/60292

@SamuraiSakura @lobocode

...but Bluetooth itself is NOT. 😆

(also, #NetBSD has it. The story with #OpenBSD is that #tedu basically said, "BT is a horrible mess, and we don't want to maintain this code anymore" and jettisoned it from the kernel. 😄)