I must admit, I like the Green on Black #NetBSD console better than the White on Blue #OpenBSD one.

@rqm bare #FreeBSD is enough here. But so was #OmniOS (although I had issue with SMB anonymous access with Thunar) and #Slackware with the ZFS slackbuild. #NetBSD also looked nice although I didn’t get far because it was lacking Linux emulation on arm64.

Repurposing a couple spinny disks that I was supposed to recycle, trying out raidctl with #NetBSD. I previously did a RAID install on another machine, then decided 2 disks were more important than one. #RiskyBusiness

Alt...

Literal screen shot of NetBSD raid set up. Last command running is parity rewrite, almost ready to use. We'll see how oddly this behaves in a few hours since I used existing partitions instead of full drive wipe.

70 days uptime on my #HP #parisc 715/100XC Webbserver running #NetBSD

Haha.. I think i will retire it from online duty
And let my #raspberrypi mini take over

Good experiment
Only thing i did was to tune nowait down from 600 to 100 in inted.conf on my httpd

As usual, YMMV. If you do not use archaic setups and do not care about 3D graphic acceleration, you will be content with NetBSD.

Thought-provoking words on #NetBSD posted by someone from Reddit who seems to know their stuff (https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1tki5xp/how_long_have_you_all_been_using_openbsd/oo2fa39/):

"NetBSD is a fine project. It just isn't on-par with OpenBSD's support for things it claims to support. Linux's kernel+GNU userspace would still work fine for many systems that NetBSD/OpenBSD supports if they wouldn't have started going all-in on adopting things like Rust."

"...while [NetBSD] claims to support a lot of old hardware and it does to some extent they are not doing as much testing as the OpenBSD project does. I can always be sure if OpenBSD claims to support a piece of hardware that it'll at least boot on it. This isn't true of NetBSD. There are a lot of older architectures NetBSD claims to support but if you attempt to install NetBSD on them you'll quickly run into various types of errors (if it boots at all). They just don't seem to have enough man power to keep support going for a lot of things they used to support or they aren't testing current versions of their OS on them. Most likely, whomever initially ported NetBSD over years ago just hasn't checked in awhile. But the release notes and man pages rarely seem to get updated.

This isn't 100% their fault. It's hard to keep a lot of things building on older architectures and machines now. Since a lot of projects have left everything but x86 and ARM behind and don't care if they break support for things outside of those two architectures. Hell even within x86 and ARM they don't care if they break 32-bit support and now expect you to run 64-bit."

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
~
~
~
Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
~
~
~
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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~
Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

@gumnos

You can resize horizontal splits with :res[+-]size
There doesn't seem to be a way to resize vsplits. XD

Oh...😅... any resize to the vi window itself causes all of the splits to go into the background. That's fun.

Confirmed that there's no :vs in OpenBSD vi. It does have :res+n.

The #NetBSD vi does have vsplits, though, and it even draw a pretty pipe character so you can see it more clearly ;)
It also accepts the :res command.

Edit: tpyo

It's a bit of a shame that this fella went to all of that trouble digging through Illumos.

https://youtube.com/v/tUqHsv6JarY?lc=UgwAiVOVkz-sP_j-H7J4AaABAg

#Illumos is one of the few platforms that does not have the <sys/ttydefaults.h> header from 4BSD. It was ironically quite the wrong place to look. The GNU and musl C libraries have the header, as do all of #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD.

The problem is that although <sys/ttydefaults.h> has been around since 1983 (1993 in its current form), almost no-one, apart from people like me who write terminal emulators and whatnot and cannot just use cfmakesane(), knows that it is there. It isn't in any manual.

Which leads to things like stty in GNU coreutils going all around the houses to do something simple, too.

#ttydefaults #termios #stty

Is http://bxr.su dead?

#OpenBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26/copying-remote-command-output-to-your-macos-clipboard/

#ITNotes #macOS #Mac #Apple #shell #ssh #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Terminal #Clipboard

Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

Once I figured out which files to write to the SD card for the NanoPi R2S plus and in what order for #netbsd, installing #openbsd was a breeze.

The second 1G network card is working—the very one that #FreeBSD doesn't recognize ;)

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Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

»Talking about the project image, this is devastating! No really, we use macOS while pretending to develop #FreeBSD? Is this a joke or what?

I must say I find #NetBSD and #OpenBSD better engineered, they work in a stable manner on the hardware they support. I was scratching my head about why (after all they are BSDs too and they, more or less, take some code from Linux, especially in the DRM department). Now I understand why!«

https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1635575-freebsd-foundation-executive-director-tries-daily-driving-freebsd-on-laptop?p=1635612#post1635612

#Dogfooding

@FiLiS @thomholwerda Who made that decision? That’s very strange, and I think someone would’ve had to have been deliberate to do that.

#NetBSD isn’t broken in that regard:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; NetBSD x86_64; rv:150.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/150.0

Both 1G network interfaces are working. The temperature ADC is functioning, and the processor frequency is adjusting—which is absolutely essential because this thing gets extremely hot. Even the all-metal case with direct contact to the chip doesn’t help.
#netbsd

Alt...

May 26 07:23:05 dual-router rabbit: /etc/powerd/scripts//sensor_temperature: (rktsadc0) critical limit exceeded [CPU] May 26 07:23:35 dual-router rabbit: /etc/powerd/scripts//sensor_temperature: (rktsadc0) normal state entered [CPU]

Alt...

Nanopi r2s plus

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still 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 the CFP text.

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

Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD.

Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful.

And… increasingly rare.

—
* My old Sun box. Which at some point ran Solaris/SunOS. You know what I mean.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/valuable-news-2026-05-25/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

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

Tomorrow I am going to install 10.1 again and follow above guide again. If it will not work, then...I do not know.

BTW OpenBSD advantage is that AMD GPU works out of box, disadvantage is "mediocre" support of non-FFS file systems.

This took a really long time :)
The instructions at https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/rockchip/ don't work—they don't mention uboot.img and trust.bin—so I got them from FreeBSD, though they're probably available in #NetBSD somewhere too :)

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Netbsd boot on Nanopi R2S Plus

Happy #BrothersDay from the sibling who runs on absolutely everything (yes, even the family toaster)! 🚩🍞

Taking a moment to send some love to my Unix-like family today:

To FreeBSD 😈: Thanks for always bringing the heavy-lifting and server muscle. Nobody I’d rather share a kernel subsystem or network stack with! 💪

To OpenBSD 🐡: My brilliantly paranoid sibling. Don't worry, I double-checked the locks, audited the code, and closed the blinds before posting this. Stay secure! 🔒

And a special shoutout to our loud, monolithic cousin, Linux 🐧! You might be everywhere these days, but we still love having you at the FOSS family barbecue. Just leave some market share for the rest of us, okay? 🍔

Here’s to the entire open-source community. No matter what kernel you're running, we're all pushing the ecosystem forward together! 🧡

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Unix #BrothersDay #RunBSD

The requirements are pretty low:

• NO IPv4
• min. IPv6 /48 subnet routed
• Network (ARIN/RIPE/…) should be personalized (netname, abuse,..)
• Optionally: BYOIP
• ARPA delegation for the net to my nameservers
• min. 2x 500G disk space (SATA SSD or better)
• min. 48G memory per node
• bandwidth doesn’t really matter (100Mbit is fine)
• Remote MGMT to systems

#bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #openindiana #education #learning #opensource

NetBSD on Raspberry Pi 3 (edited)

Raspberry Pi 3 is the best device which I can find. WiFi and GPU works.

#netbsd

Happy Weekend! In a few hours, Open Source Conference 2026 Japan in #Nagoya will be held at the Fukiage Hall in Chikusa Ward:

https://event.ospn.jp/osc2026-nagoya/

One of their talks is from the Nagoya #BSD Users Group, and seems to target #NetBSD in particular. That sounds pretty awesome, and definitely one of the ones I'm going to attend.

https://event.ospn.jp/osc2026-nagoya/session/2296979

I wonder what the chances are I'll find anyone from Fedi in there? Anyone feeling like dropping by "boring city" on a Saturday? :P

#OSC2026 #OpenSource #Conference

@bpl you will generally see your email at https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/index.html if not do reach out to team on IRC #netbsd-code @netbsd

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! 🌱

A diverse ecosystem is a strong ecosystem. In the tech world, NetBSD brings vital diversity by proving that clean, portable, and secure code can run on virtually any architecture. This adaptability keeps computing open and accessible to everyone.

Let's keep the digital ecosystem diverse. Consider supporting the NetBSD Foundation today by contributing code, writing documentation, or making a donation! 💻🚩
#NetBSD #BiodiversityDay #OpenSource #TechDiversity #FOSS #RetroComputing #Sustainability #Linux #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

@rqm

It certainly looks like it, doesn't it? Especially as that looks like the output of the dot.profile from the miniroot/ramdisc.

See the INSTALL notes. Installation over a serial console assumes 9600 BPS, and there's an explicit stty that forces that just after echoing that line.

#NetBSD