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@claudiom

#NetBSD to the rescue!!

Small fix, big impact 🔧

Initial situation: The network card in my parents’ mini server (NUC5PHY, RealTek 8168/8111) wasn’t properly entering Wake-on-LAN mode during shutdown. The server powers down automatically after inactivity and is woken up on demand via cron (every 1 min) from their laptops. Without WoL, it just stays off → manual power-on required.

Solution: A patch for the NetBSD PCI network driver to hook it into the power management framework. On shutdown, the NIC is now correctly configured for WoL.

First tests: works as expected ✅

#NetBSD #WoL #homelab #lowtech #pragmatic

Commit: https://github.com/MatthiasPetermann/netbsd-src/commit/4e3ee0370c3a9811f841e826ebf332639404209e

Also obligatory desktop screenshot.

[1] https://shop.rabbitholecomputing.com/products/sata-pci-hard-card

#NetBSD #486 #NSFW #RetroComputing

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Screenshot of NetBSD X desktop using the default CTWM window manager. Hot-Babe (lightly clad; the CPU is running hot) in the lower-left corner, next to conky system monitor. Lower right corner has small terminal windows tailing the snac log and showing 'pfetch' output, respectively; both next to the virtual-desktop switcher in CTWM. Two main terminal windows: One running mrxvt showing 'lspci' output, another running irssi. Plain blue background.

#NetBSD 11.0 RC3 was tagged and will soon be shipped to a http or ftp server near you.

The decision was made to delay the release and make another RC because of a number of important fixes being pulled up. This included ZFS and swap reliability fixes, improvements to support for allwinner risc-v hardware, and a curses compatibility fix.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wlfi/name/george-goble-obituary?id=61144779

I remember the BBQ incident from years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sab2Ltm1WcM

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Unix

sysadmin socks && Thongs.

#NetBSD #Linux #FreeBSD #runbsd #unix

Scratch that last post about needing a #NetBSD VPS. Remembering ive got good internet these days; and found a NUC w/ enough ram on ebay for a good price.

Dear #NetBSD users what VPS service do you recommend ? I have spun up NetBSD on tunnelr.com before, but sometime after they switched management and names a few years back that dropped NetBSD images.

EuroBSDcon 2026's call for papers is open, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Here is a direct link to submissions form https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/submit/ew426G/info/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware

Have you registered for BSDCan yet? I finally got around to it myself a day or so ago ;) I really like to chat with Open/Net etc. BSD folks as well as Free since I'm a BSD Agnostic!

Full disclosure yes I am on the Committee but don't hold it against me.

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan

Trying #NetBSD again on an old Dell laptop that didn't cooperate last time.

I got #Slackware 15 on a #ThinkCentre M73 SFF (i3-4160 with 4GiB and an SSD), no sweat.

Then installed #OpenBSD on it just fine, it's running now.

However, #NetBSD fails on "no root devices" or similar and #FreeBSD, which is what i'd really like to install due to native #ZFS, just freezes on the boot screen.

These are all ISOs on the sabe Ventoy USB disk.

Boosts and suggestions appreciated.

I just released netbsd-gce-0.4.2, with some minor bugfixes and updates.

https://github.com/google/netbsd-gce/releases/tag/v0.4.2

#NetBSD #GoogleCloudPlatform

Okay, folks, gather 'round, because you are not going to believe this one. My friend who is working at NASA told me this confidential news , but i can finally spill the beans: NASA is officially running NetBSD.

Yeah, you heard that right. Turns out, when you need an OS that can literally run on a potato *and* survive the vacuum of space without a hiccup, you do not mess around. They have been working under wraps with their deep space division on something they are calling "AstroBSD."

Apparently, the Perseverance rover on Mars? Yeah, it is not just taking pretty pictures; it is crunching data with a custom NetBSD kernel.

This just proves what foundation has been saying forever: "Of course it runs NetBSD!" From your ancient router to a rover on another planet.

#NetBSD #NASA #AstroBSD #AprilFools #OpenSource #Portability #MarsRover #SpaceTech #GeekHumor

@cross

I likewise was going to point out 'Of course it runs #NetBSD.'.

Modern #FreeBSD has dropped 32-bit support and various older non-IA processors such as PowerPC, so is not the best fit for repurposed old machines.

@codemonkeymike

Ok, #NetBSD on Odroid M1S update: I'm setting this one down for a bit. I'm stumped by the ethernet phy and tired beating my head against it. I put in a PR for my current progress, and that's merged into the main repo. Spinning a release might be difficult (for submodule bitrot reasons), so I made a status post with release binaries: https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-on-odroid-m1s.html

I'm just going to use a USB-to-ethernet adapter for now and use the board for its intended purpose. Finally.

@napierge @stefano It is should be something like "wgconfig <WireGuard iface>". At least this is how I can get the same output on the #NetBSD

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Output of "iwconfig wg0" command on the NetBSD. It lists one interface and two endpoints

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Great NetBSD talk.

#NetBSD #unix

@mook Well, in this case, I have a #NetBSD image (armv7.img.gz) that I would really like to write onto there.

@trashheap @grahamperrin I don't know about #FreeBSD but #NetBSD has policy of not accepting AI/LLM generated code

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

@bytebro

It's very unlikely that anything of the sort will occur. There is simply a complete disconnect between Microsoft/Google/Apple user accounts anything that firmware can record in persistent storage before an operating system has even started up.

I predicted, as you probably saw, the form that the compliance measures would take for #Unix and Unix-like operating systems on 2026-03-01, and both 11 hours and about 4 days later they took that form from two different people. One with pull requests on GitHub, one in the very FediVerse thread that I began.

It is operating systems that will see (and indeed have seen) the updates bringing this. Not firmwares.

#AgeVerification #systemd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD

#NetBSD and #PA-Risc friends

after installing the #hppa version on 10.1

I am trying to get a ssh tunnel going across the Atlantic
Works fantastic if i DON'T use -N flag
Tunnel goes down after 30sec

so
ssh -C -R port:blabla:port user@server
work flawless

any ideas why?

maybe i am betting too much on my HP715 beast 🤣

@scott @nuintari Probably, fot #NetBSD the next analog of FreshPorts could be used: https://www.pkgsrc.se/