@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal @rasteri

Granted #Linux could rather drop support for other, more nieche architectures, but that doesn't make it better.

• Obviously #NetBSD takes over the "runs on everything" role, but that's becaise they didn't axe #i386...

Bulk builds on #NetBSD now even slower thanks to www/chromium.

Currently been building for 27 hours with no end in sight.

Nothing else comes even remotely close, second longest being libreoffice at a mere 11 hours.

#pkgsrc #bloat

Taking a Semi-Truck to Buy Salad: My Manifesto for Simple Computing

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/23/taking-a-semi-truck-to-buy-salad-my-manifesto-for-simple-computing/

#Computing #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #KISS #NetBSD

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

I just booted one of my #NetBSD boxes.

It is also one of my #PowerPC boxes.

from the boot log: `Dell Force10 Release 8.3.5.6
NetBSD 1.6.1 (S55) #0: Mon Nov 3 00:36:37 PST 2014`

Épisode 5 de la saga #NetBSD et #virtualisation avec #NVMM, avec un petit bout de #EdgeBSD de @khorben ! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Please tell me that you already know that the BSD now podcast exists. Also tell me that you have listened to at least a part, of one of the beautiful BSD podcasts

When I was not a part of the FediVerse, at least not the active part, because I've had my accounts for a long time, I knew about BSD podcasts but I never seeked one actively.

However you have no excuse, because you not only run one of the flavors of BSD, you are also part of the FediVerse so you have no excuses not to go and listen to the BSD podcasts.

There are so many diverse subjects, that all you have to do, is pick one that you like, download it in a client that's not encumbered by a massive company, preferably one that's also free Open Source, listen enjoy and learn

And there are many different diverse podcasts

I'll talk about those later

#freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #ghostBSD #podcast #BSD #now #BSDnow

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The image shows Antenna Pod, a FOSS podcast client, interface with a dark background. At the top, there are various icons and status indicators, including a time stamp of "01:12," a battery icon showing 71%, and a temperature of 23 degrees. The main visual element is a logo featuring a yellow disco ball with spikes, a red microphone stand, and the text "BSD NOW" in bold black letters. Below the logo, the text "BSD Now • 12 Jun" is displayed, followed by "615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked." A "Shownotes" button is present, and the playback controls are visible, including a progress bar showing 24 seconds out of 43 minutes and 38 seconds, with play, pause, and skip buttons. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.198 Wh

@stefano I wonder if there's a market for FTP accounts on a 386 serving static websites from DOS or OS/2. If a #NetBSD VPS costs $1/month, I should be able to charge, what, $1/year? :D

The IT-Notes blog is now served by the 1 euro/month #NetBSD VPS, too.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/

#ITNotes

@passthejoe @strlcat @dvandal @david_chisnall @davidgerard

On the contrary, they've all done one switch already, about a decade before systemd came along in the Linux-based world.

#NetBSD pioneered a major switch in rc at the turn of the century, with Mewburn rc, which #FreeBSD followed two years later. #OpenBSD has a similar, but incompatible, system that it switched to.

In further contrast, OpenBSD has run with #Xenocara.

#rc

📢 CfP is closed! 📢
Thank you all who submitted their abstract and willing to share their wisdom and wits at the *BSD 😈⛳🐡 conference of Europe!

Time to start cracking, selecting ✅, notifying 🔔and programming 📅.

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

📢 Less than two hours!! 📢
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September 25-28, 2025

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I've just found out that the network vendor whose products I used at work for years relies on #NetBSD software for its routers. 🤔

They don't specify what it's used for, as their firmware is closed source, but since they mostly use the Power (RISC) CPU architecture and have added IPv6 support all the way back in 2012, it would only make sense to use a OS with portability, stability and networking as a base. 😁

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Snipped from the Copyright notice: "Products from LANCOM Systems include software developed by the NetBSD Foundation, Inc. and its contributors".

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-140.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current ... #NetBSD #pkgsrc

Reposting to generate some load on the VPS 🙂

Why I'm Expanding My Blogging Presence

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/17/why-i-m-expanding-my-blogging-presence/

#Blogging #MyNotes #NetBSD #RunBSD

The My-Notes blog is now totally served by the 1 Euro/month #NetBSD VM I've described in a previous blog post - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

https://my-notes.dragas.net

#RunBSD #MyNotes

Randomly remembered the Powered by NetBSD logo I made back in university, and submitted to the project for their gallery—it's still there.

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/other-logos.html#:~:text=hclsmith%40glinx.com%3E-,From%20Wesley%20Moore,-%3Cwmoore%40cs.rmit.edu.au

#NetBSD

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EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
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Image of an bedside clock. It has the text: Tick Tock Tick Tock

For your Friday procrastination,

"Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" (2022) https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html

may still be worth reading (and I am considering a refresh or rewrite) #freesoftware #libresoftware #enterprise #security #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #opensource

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!

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

I'll take Wayland when it comes my way without me having to lift a finger, but until then I'm glad the X Window System is still around. Keeps this old hardware useful.

@jcm

The -S option to install is one possibility. It still has a window of failed transactions for any server programs that are spun up on connection, because it explicitly rmdirs and unlinks before the rename, but it's a lot smaller one.

#NetBSD has an -r flag.

#Illumos, AIX's installbsd, and Linux-derived operating systems with GNU coreutils do not have this feature at all.

#FreeBSD derivatives, such as #DragonFlyBSD, have -S, too.

As has #OpenBSD where it's always on.

#install

Mulling #eurobsdcon 2025 submissions.

You too?

Submit! https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/ by 2025-06-21

General info https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html
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#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

Some insights how my BoxyBSD project for the BSD Community boosted the Proxmox ecosystem and let me create several tools that were simply missing.

#Proxmox #OpenSource #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Ansible #ProxLB #Community #BSDCan #Hosting #VPS

https://gyptazy.com/how-my-boxybsd-project-boosted-the-proxmox-ecosystem/

📢 Time is running out!! 📢
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From the #eurobsdcon 2025 program committee:

We have a number of high quality submissions in, but we welcome more!

Submission deadline 2025-06-21 via https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
General info https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html
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#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

"Where have you been for the last 20 years?" - The question that changed everything. This isn't a BSDCan report, but a personal reflection on how impostor syndrome stole decades from me, and why it's never too late to find your community and live life fully.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MyNotes #Life #LifeReflections #LiveLife #Community #OpenSource #OSS #EuroBSDCon

Thanks to all our customers who run their own #selfhosting #NetBSD VMs with us for helping with this migration. Our #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD VMs were already running HVM. Yes, we #RunBSD and provide hosting in our UK datacentres (also #Windows and #Linux as required)

Busy week upgrading all VMs to #NetBSD 10.1 to allow switching to HVM from PV (as #XenServer and @xcpng have dropped support for PV and unfortunately do not support PVH either) which means moving to uEFI booting rather than pygrub loading the kernel. Just waiting for the next #pkgsrc quarterly release to move the remainder over with nice fresh packages.

@cR0w

It's called "wheel", damn it!

One has to love the push to using zero initialization so that programs always give you privileged group membership instead of membership of whatever random group ID number happened to be on the stack.

Security by uninitialized variable.

(-:

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Has anyone managed to get the JACK sound server going on #NetBSD? I'm getting these errors:

Cannot read socket fd = 10 err = Undefined error: 0
Cannot read socket fd = 6 err = Undefined error: 0
CheckRes error
JackSocketClientChannel read fail
Cannot read socket fd = 12 err = Undefined error: 0
Could not read notification result

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#BSDCan 2025 Conference Videos are available on Youtube for the 3 tracks.
#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD
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@jamesoff

I don't know whether you can get #TianoCore onto a 2. I have it on a #RaspberryPi 4.

It just drops straight in as an armstub in the Pi boot volume. Unlike OpenBSD, the NetBSD install image (for Pi 4, anyway) has enough free space for it.

@jmcwhatever is looking into the #NetBSD boot loader spinners, should you spot that.

Épisode 4 de la saga #NetBSD et #virtualisation avec #NVMM! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Did not get #NetBSD onto my Odroid HC4 at #BSDCan, but thanks to @overeducatedredneck , I better understand some of what isn't working.

Time to try out #NetBSD on the Pi2! Getting some guidance from a little helper for it. #RunBSD #CatsOfMastodon

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NetBSD first boot kernel messages - with a ginger cat head partially obscuring them

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A Pi2 in a rainbow case and a mechanical keyboard - with a ginger paw about to tread on a key

It is interesting how the world has historically varied on this, and what the default out of the box settings are.

Visual bells were the rage because they worked well with GUI terminal emulators, and didn't bog a real terminal down with waiting until the sound had finished before it accepted the next bit of output. They were also friendly to one's neighbours sitting on the next desk. (-:

And indeed on #NetBSD for example there's the whole wsbell(4) thing and the idea that a machine doesn't necessarily *have* a tinny speaker to make beeps, because it isn't necessarily a descendant of an IBM PC/XT.

In contrast, Microsoft Windows wants to play sounds seemingly at the drop of a hat; and the ethos has been over the years that all personal computers since at least the PC98 times have sound cards (or mainboard equivalents) and speakers and users always want sounds on, out of the box.

#MicrosoftTerminal defaults to noises rather than flashes.

#ComputerHistory

There is additional scripting incompatibility with the groupmod command.

In the #FreeBSD flavour the -l command-line option renames the group. in the #NetBSD flavour it is the -n command-line option.

So even a more complex pw() shell function that hoists the account name out and puts it at the end, does not work.

The #FreeBSD pw useradd/usermod commands are not compatible in scripts with everyone else's useradd/usermod commands.

With the #NetBSD/#OpenBSD and indeed #Linux shadow-utils useradd/usermod commands, the account name goes last, and it is a syntax error to place it before the options.

With the #FreeBSD pw command, the account name goes first, and it is a syntax error to place it after the options.

So pw() { "$@" ; } doesn't work for making portable scripts.

https://github.com/shadow-maint/shadow/blob/master/src/usermod.c#L1272

I wrote a simple gpioctl wrapper with Python in NetBSD RPi configurations. This wrapper cannot change the pin mode. Please configure manually in /etc/gpio.conf

the wrapper:
https://brew.bsd.cafe/maulanahirzan/Python-Useful-Scripts/src/branch/main/NetBSD-GPIO%20Example

config in gpio.conf:
https://github.com/catskillmarina/netbsd-gpio-doc

#NetBSD #arm #gpio #raspberrypi