@LPI @FreeBSDFoundation …and I’m still running Sendmail on #NetBSD to this very day…

I wonder how long it's been since I used a github login? Enhancement time is nigh.

edit: not too long ago.
"If you recently signed in to your account, you do not need to take any further action."

Edit 2b: fix me please posted.
#Qgis #NetBSD
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/issues/1059

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/valuable-news-2026-07-20/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available.

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

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

I may miss the latest commit to #NetBSD/amd64-current. I will test the latest source code.

Hmm... On the latest #NetBSD/amd64-current, #pkgsrc/www/firefox-153 and mail/thunderbird-152 get segfault. I will bisect...

I think the time is right to follow Torvalds advice 😅 and finally "upgrade" my laptop to NetBSD.

I was trying to figure out whether to stick with stable or current, and also whether I should encrypt the entire disk or just /home and then the swap partition via rc.conf (if I understand correctly, that’s possible, right?).

Current is "solid" enough for daily use? Any advice? It's not the first time on NetBSD for me but I'm not an expert 😆

Found these tutorial online:

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/
https://vsis.online/posts/2024-05-27-uefi-full-disk-encryption/

#netbsd #bsd

BSDs update day 🙃

FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1

NetBSD 11.0 RC6

OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #screenshot #UNIX

Alt...

Left: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 Middle: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on NetBSD 11.0 RC6 Right: tmux session with bash and fastfetch on OpenBSD 8.0 Beta Snapshot

Just sent a little bit of money to the #NetBSD foundation @netbsd because I want you guys to release 11.0 soon!

Love it so far.

So, das Paket ist doch schon heute angekommen. Ist ein Thinkpad X260 - das hab ich günstig bekommen und mir geholt für Experimente mit #BSD. Ich hatte die letzte Woche schon mit #NetBSD auf einem Uralt-Teil rumgespielt.

Auf dem x260 war die Erfahrung mit NetBSD (11.0 RC6) aber ernüchternd. Langsam, Grafikprobleme und Firefox stürzte ab. Videomeetings (BBB) gingen gar nicht. NetBSD als Daily Driver kann man damit vergessen. Der Einsatzzweck dieses Systems ist beschränkt auf exotische oder alte oder sehr begrenzte Hardware.

Nun kommt #FreeBSD dran. Obwohl die Thinkpads zu den am besten unterstützten Geräten zählen musste erstmal gebastelt werden um die Umschaltung Headphones/Speaker hinzubekommen, siehe https://xyinn.org/md/freebsd/thinkpad_x260 - die nächsten Tage werd ich exklusiv dieses Gerät benutzen

Ok, last what-if / non-productive thing of the day was running #NetBSD on the Lenovo Ideapad S10 #netbook. You remember, the 7-10" micro laptops from 2008 or so, well it still works. Firefox 56 is too old to display YouTube but it can access dmesg.NYCBug ;-) Appart from that, that tiny gadget still works pretty well. And of course, it runs #WindowMaker.

I’ll keep it safe until the Zombie Apocalypse frees us from unlimited power supply, 4K Ad videos and heavy JS slop stuff.

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9057

@iaruffell

For what it's worth, I've long since been providing a terminal emulator, that runs on both #FreeBSD and #NetBSD, that can also optionally provide a Linux-format vcsa file, a format that #brltty already understands and can read.

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/brltty.html

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/console-terminal-emulator.xml

I wrote up that blurb in 2014, and it still does that today, although I did in 2015 make vcsa file generation a non-default option, as there's also a better full Unicode display file available.

#nosh

@kdedude @iaruffell
Not a braille display, but NetBSD is looking to put some money into improving screen reading for accessibility: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116936847540794228

#NetBSD

(1) I am looking for GPU which will work out of box and give acceleration to web browser and tetris. I am going to review bsd-hardware.info and dmesgd.nycbug.org, but if someone is aware of good card I will happily take any advise. No new cards, no big power usage, HDMI. Currently I have RX550

(2) If anyone archives e-mails on own computo, could you share what software do you use for that?

So the first victim for #NetBSD was probably not the best choice, but I'm not sure the other option is better.

I tried a Raspberry Pi 400. Downloaded `arm64.img.gz`, decompressed, dumped it to a SD card. Boot… nothing on the HDMI port. Hmmm, maybe it uses the other one? Swap over, power cycle… nothing.

While I _can_ use serial console, the point of this machine is to use it as a desktop.

The other machine I have spare is an Apple MacBook from 2008. Core 2 Duo CPU, 8GB RAM, Broadcom WiFi, NVidia graphics/motherboard chipset. The Broadcom WiFi and NVidia parts are what worry me with that machine.

@nixCraft refugees are welcome to #NetBSD https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

@argv_minus_one @radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @geospacedman @marcusxms #NetBSD doesn't allow LLM AI tainted code

@wfk

Already asked and already answered: #NetBSD has a fairly clear 'no LLM' policy.

If you are looking to financially support a #BSD, #NetBSD has the most humble budget of the three big ones and is rather behind on its yearly goal.

I think it's a good and reputable place for your donation dollars, and yes, I have put my money where my mouth is.

Overall, that was one of the fastest and easiest installations ever.

#NetBSD really shines on these little configurations. A small computer, that could have ended in the trash, is now a happy, productive little machine!

@radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

All of the major #BSD⁠s allow AI code. Even #OpenBSD. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#operating-systems

In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

#Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Now THAT is what I wanted to see!

#NetBSD is so much faster on this little machine than Fedora... 😋

Alt...

A blue NetBSD installation screen showing 11.0 RC6 formatting the main internal SATA disk.

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-153.0 under #NetBSD/amd64-current...

@tinker

On the BSDs you'll get either the (BSD rather than Debian flavour) Almquist or the Korn shells out of the box in the operating systems themselves.

The Z, Bourne Again, and Watanabe shells come as installable applications.

It's definitely worth learning the Almquist and Korn shells for scripting purposes, not least because they are what you'll get with 'sh' as the script interpreter; but also because the Almquist shell is lighter weight than the Bourne Again shell. As Debian people learned years go when they switched 'sh' to (their flavour of) the Almquist shell, it's worth the initial learning effort in order to not use the shells with many heavyweight interactive features when one is running shell scripts.

@0x09
#UnixShells #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #MirBSD

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

Finally,
$ time qgis --version
QGIS 4.2.0-Belém do Pará 'Belém do Pará' (exported)

real 0m2.083s
user 0m2.070s
sys 0m0.010s

#NetBSD

Just chipped in $15 to The NetBSD Foundation! 🧡🚩

One of the biggest advantages of NetBSD right now is their strict policy against accepting LLM-generated code commits. For a FOSS operating system, this is a massive win. It protects code provenance, avoids copyright pollution, and ensures every line is purposefully crafted and reviewed by actual humans.

If you value clean, human-driven open-source development, join me in supporting them!

🔗 https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #HumanMade #NoAI #AntiAI #RunBSD

@nuintari @underseamonkey
#NetBSD has ZFS, too https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/

Building QGIS 4.2.0 on #NetBSD, for a few hours now. CPU temp shows work. Betriebstemperatur chart is from the Zabbix tools.

Alt...

Green line showing CPU temperature as spiking after 9am.

The EuroBSDcon 2026 program is published: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

See https://2026.eurobsdcon.org for more info

To register https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Oh wait, I have this old laptop which may or may not work...

/me starts looking at #NetBSD 11RC6... 👀

I just picked up my #Digirig Mobile from my P.O box. I'm happy to report that both the sound card interface and the USB <-> serial interface are supported in #NetBSD 10! This came as a pleasant surprise after so many years of sound card & serial interfaces being only partially-supported or not supported at all.

I plan on using it with my GPD MicroPC 2 and arcOS, but it's good to know I can switch my decade-old Raspberry Pi 2 to NetBSD and use it on that too.

Ich muss sagen, dass mir #NetBSD 11.0 (RC6) recht gut gefällt. Technisch sauber, läuft hier ohne große Probleme auf einem älteren Laptop. NetBSD ist das kleinste Projekt untern den klassischen BSDs.

FreeBSD wird von Firmen unterstützt wird und die Foundation hat jährlich ein Millionenbudget. OpenBSD kommt immerhin auf knapp eine halbe Million pro Jahr und zu den Geldgebern zählen Microsoft, Google und Meta. NetBSD muss dagegen mit rund 50-80k pro Jahr auskommen, Großspender gibt es nicht.

Außerdem ist mir positiv aufgefallen, dass es im NetBSD ports system pkgsrc kein Port für den Xorg Fork "xlibre" des Impfgegners und Anti-Diversity-Aktivisten Enrico Weigelt gibt.

Belated Introductory Post:
I'm a Bay Area SRE, with specializations in Security, Unix Internals and Virtualization/Containerization.

I've been running Linux for 25 years, and have been playing with #NetBSD more in the last few years as it's resparking what I have always loved about computers.

I will mostly stick to computer nerdery here, but I may post race pictures at some point.

I don't have mastodon on my phone, so I may take multiple days to see your toot. I like the slower pace though.

New #blog post arrives!

I discovered that, unlike what the documentation says, you in fact do not need GDC to bootstrap GDC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260713.html

#Unix #compiler #compilers #gcc #llvm #clang #gdc #d #dlang #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #dmd