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

@uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install #Qemu to the **headless** server running #NetBSD , just to run some other OSes in the console mode, the dependencies bring to me:

- SDL2 and SDL2_image
- flac, giflib, lame, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libopus, libvorbis, libwebp, mpg123, tiff — like I'm want to operate with images and audio files, not to launch some virtual machines
- spice-server, while I'm not planning to use it.
- wayland and wayland-protocols -- no comments

As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the #FreeBSD world: "many of opensource audio and/or multimedia apps are developed on any of Linux distros, not on *BSD, thus, to minimize mandated works of porters / maintainers / commiters, depending on what upstream depends by default is the only feasible way not to cause toooo long delay from upstream".

I lost link to his toot on the old account, but I has a screenshot: vhttps://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/tomaoki.png

One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

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drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

@jaypatelani

Please tell me you've fixed it. It's been two years, #FreeBSD is about to drop 32-bit ARM, and I've got a bunch of these cute little machines!#netbsd

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/09/11/msg008384.html

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Orange Pi Zero. with ethernet on board

@stsp @nlnet #NetBSD should also apply for funds. :)

Fosdem 2026 : BSD, illumos OpenZFS & bhyve devroom

Don't forget, you only have a week to submit your talks ! The deadline is the December the1st. ⏰

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/

#fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Illumos #zfs #bhyve

@rl_dane

My rule is just permit keepenv, with no persist. It's #NetBSD rather than #FreeBSD so doas.conf is in /usr/pkg/etc/, and it definitely retains the environment.

persist does not work on other than #OpenBSD, as far as I am aware. Try it without persist to see whether that's the problem.

#doas

@gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

#php #netbsd

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drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

@dmark Nice! A proxy for old browsers, which could be used with e.g. #Dillo

I'll definitely try to spin it up on my #NetBSD box

Have a great Friday everyone in the #BSD community! 😎 (The weekend is almost upon us!)

...and don't forget:
#RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#HackerNews #StaticWebHosting #IntelN150 #FreeBSD #SmartOS #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linu

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#freebsd #intel #linux #netbsd #openbsd

Why BSDs? https://lobste.rs/s/gdwxd5 #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
https://blog.thechases.com/posts/why-bsds/

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#はてなブログ #NetBSD

あまりにも衝撃的でこれをOSC/KOFスライドとかでサマライズして伝えることは到底不可能だと思ったので全文コピペです

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared https://lobste.rs/s/gj8uup #freebsd #illumos #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

@vtrlx BSDs do not have "flatpaks", they typically build from source. Flatpak is packaging medium, whereas BSDs have binary packages and packages built from source (#NetBSD pkgsrc, #FreeBSD ports).

Setting `general.useragent.override` in `about:config` to `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:140.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/140.0` (changing from NetBSD to Linux) does the trick.

But it's not nice!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

Hey Microsoft Outlook!
I'm running latest Mozilla Firefox ESR, 140.5.0 on NetBSD... that was released a couple of days ago!

I would not call it a legacy browser!

#firefox #netbsd #pkgsrc

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Microsoft Outlook web page that shows errors like ErrorOwaBasicUnsupportedLegacyBrowser and some SyntaxError due using Firefox on NetBSD (probably they do not known about NetBSD and relies on only known User-Agent:-s).

Where Have You Been for the Last 20 Years?

Walking away from the BSDCan final reception at Lowertown Brewery, Ottawa. The perfect end to a life-changing experience.

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

#BSDCan #MyNotes #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Life #BSDCan2025 #LiveLife

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115566280074527897

"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.

#RunBSD #illumos #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD

@cstross

Would #rclone work for you (plural) as a #Dropbox client?

It's in #FreeBSD ports (and thus #DragonFlyBSD, #GhostBSD, et al.), #NetBSD pkgsrc, and #OpenBSD ports.

https://freshports.org/net/rclone

https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/net/rclone/index.html

https://openports.eu/ports/sysutils/rclone

FreeBSD ports and OpenBSD ports also both have rclone-browser, but that's not currently in pkgsrc.

For completeness, I note that rclone (but again not rclone-browser) is in the #Tribblix and the #OmniOS packages collections.

https://pkgs.tribblix.org/tribblix-m38/

https://pkg.omnios.org/bloody/extra/en/catalog.shtml

Tribblix has a #WINE overlay, but I know nothing about it. On the gripping hand, @ptribble is actually here on the FediVerse. (-:

http://tribblix.org/overlay-wine.html

@nikatjef

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@vermaden/115564165835643603

I look forward to the @vermaden weekly newsletter as much as I anticipate a perfect tiramisu after a superb lunch. It is truly the cherry on top.
That special something that helps me kick off the week in style.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #Linux #IT #SysAdmin

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

Are you working on something involving a BSD system that you would like to share with others?

The Call for Papers period is open for AsiaBSDCon until November 30th, 2025 and for BSDCan until January 17, 2026.

Check out the websites linked in the article, and get that submission in!

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 or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #bsd #dragonflyBSD #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference