All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if #NetBSD permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.

I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.

#RunBSD #EndOfRant

I just installed a new battery on my test email server. Unlike the battery that’s close to absolute zero, the battery for my email server progressively lost capacity until it got to the point where it wouldn’t charge.

#NetBSD #mailserver

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This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi Zero in an official Raspberry Pi plastic case with a [Geekworm UPS Hat](https://wiki.geekworm.com/Raspi_UPS_HAT_Board). The new battery on it has been covered in electrical tape to hold the wires close and to secure the kapton tape holding the wires. The four LEDs are lit showing that the battery is full.

Ok, so it looks like this toot blew up.

And what can I say? If you liked it, I by all means encourage you to try #NetBSD out for yourself! If you've had enough experience in a Unix command-line, and isn't afraid to do some reading on the documentation, it's a very rewarding experience.

You can see how I ran NetBSD on the first Raspberry Pi (2012 Model B) in this post for the Old Computer Challenge. If *that* was usable, anything else is going to be great!

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Happy hacking!

#RunBSD

@ayke
Little things like that are why I <3 NetBSD :)

#NetBSD #runbsd

A new #blog post appears!

I discovered that the GNU D compiler has been broken on FreeBSD 14 for over a year and it seems no one noticed. Let's discover the issue and brainstorm some solutions to it.

A great case study for why operating system package maintainers matter.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250813.html

#dlang #dlanguage #freebsd #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #unix #gcc #gdc #gnu #compiler #compilers #d #linux #opensource #freesoftware

We could not pass the opportunity to inform you that in 42 days the European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 will start!

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org

You can find the schedule 📆 on: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

For everything else, peek at 🌐 https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

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

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

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"Daily Struggle" meme with a character attempting to push one of two red buttons labeled with contradicting statements. First button says: Life, The Universe, and everything Second button says: 42 Detailed on: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/daily-struggle-two-buttons

Found a good fanless, completely quiet PC with a LAN, WiFi, 2 COM ports, LPT, VGA and SSD inside — all that for the price of two good meals

It has 1 Gb RAM and Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz (i686, 32-bit). So I have a question to #NetBSD folks — how well NetBSD supports 32-bit architectures?

I want to do some #selfhosting, so I need to install some things: sshd, rsyncd, lighweight HTTP server (nginx?), syncthing, ejabberd, some mail server, etc Any chances that these software still builded for i686 and exists in NetBSD repos?

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Backplane of a fanless PC with a: LPT port, two 3.5 jacks, two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 port, COM-port, VGA-port, two WiFi-antennas and the DC-in 12V port

I think the "Kids in the Hall" character "Hecubus" would make a far better mascot, than the current "devil horns" mascot which some of the BSD distros use. Do you agree? See reply for image of Hecubus. #BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource

No really, I’ve spent the last few days in idle time looking at second-hand ThinkPads.

I’m thinking of getting an older X series or Carbon and putting #NetBSD on it as a lower distraction writing tool.

I have no option but to once again going to praise the #NetBSD on an amazing operating system.

Since I installed it on the Pi 4, the experience has been so smooth that I don't even realize I'm using a supposedly "cheap and underpowered computer" as it was the case with previous OSes. Nope, not anymore.

Instead, there are packages for everything, my architecture is treated as first-class, the performance is always high, and the more I learn about how to use it, the better my experience becomes. No other Linux or BSD met all of these points.

And to top it off? Booting up takes no more than 15-20 seconds. It's less than in my mom's Macbook Pro running Linux Mint!

Again, I can't *not* praise the NetBSD team enough for such achievements. Thank you so much for your hard work that clearly shows that you dogfood your development!

#RunBSD #BSD

#RunBSD #dragonflybsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

#virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, épisode 11, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

@justine What’s in my homelab? Hmmm…

The main NAT router / IPv6 router / firewall / DNS / DHCP / stratum 1 time server is a 2014 era AMD Athlon. Way back Fry’s Electronics was selling AM1 motherboards with quad core 2 GHz Athons, heat sinks and fans for something like $45. I bought quite a few. They’re reasonbly fast, tiny (mini-ITX), take very little power, and can take 32 gigs of memory.

My distcc / VM / qemu / NFS / sequence alignment system is a Ryzen 5900X with 64 gigs.

Building #NetBSD #pkgsrc binary packages are:

• Dual 1 GHz AlphaServer DS25 with 12 gigs of memory and mirrored SSDs compiling Alpha packages
• Original Raspberry Pi and RPi Zero compiling earmv4 packages
• Plextor PX-EH25L compiling sh3el packages
• VAXstation 4000/60 compiling VAX packages
• Pine Rock64 compiling aarch64eb packages
• Raspberry Pi 4 with hardware mirrored USB enclosure which runs as NFS server for all the pkgsrc build machines.

Then, for m68k packages:

• 1U Quadra 605, 33 MHz ‘040
• Quadra 610 with CPU clock doubler, 50 MHz ‘040
• Quadra 630, 40 MHz ‘040
• Amiga 4000 with Cyberstorm Mk III, 66 MHz ‘060

I also have a Sun Fire V245 to compile sparc & sparc64 pkgsrc packages, but that takes more power than the AlphaServer and the Ryzen 5900X combined, so I only run that in the winter.

ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D

#oldcomputers #occ25 #runbsd #oldcomputerchallenge2025 #100DaysToOffload

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Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

$ man 4 urtwn

CAVEATS

The urtwn driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the adapters. Additional work is required in ieee80211(9) before those features can be supported.

😭

#NetBSD

@jaypatelani Is there likely to be better support for 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards? #RaspberryPi #NetBSD

Heh, turns out @rl_dane was right; building the #tut CLI mastodon client for #NetBSD was pretty easy once I had golang (called go124 here) installed.

(Though I only tried doing this in my Pi4, not the OG Pi1.)

Side question to anybody else reading this: should I start learning Go? Or get back to really diving deeper into C as I started a few years ago?

@nuintari Indeed. To be clear, everything else is also self-hosted, we have plenty of rack space, redundant connectivity and LIR IPv4/IPv6. Backups are replicated across our datacentres and 90% of stuff is #NetBSD. I have my own homebrew photo browsing, but it's not pretty or suitable for the TikTok generation.

First question is what she actually wants to achieve; storage or sharing (probably the latter as there's a lot from her drama society).

What #computer(s) should I buy?

It's for software development on multiple platforms

#Architectures:
#amd64
#aarch64
#RiscV

#OperatingSystems:
#Haiku
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
#Debian with both X11 & Wayland
#OpenIndiana
#AlpineLinux

Suggestions are welcome

#NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better #RISCV Support - Phoronix

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-Released

New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds #NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up

#NetBSD 11.0 release process underway

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process