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@mainframed767 oh look, ubunu legislating their flawed sense of morality in distro tools again, despite no one asking for their decisions. 🥱 moving on...

oh hey, guess who doesn't do this type of abusive "this release introduces breaking changes to core expectations"
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I have pre-reserved the names for the projects, and a few others. If you would like to take control of those, please email the admins so we can ensure the proper people have them.

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I love the dates in the timestamps of this page.

Contributing to NetBSD: Hardware
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#netbsd

Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025! 😈⛳🐡

54 days to go!

BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.

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

The schedule 📅 is at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

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Joey from Friends sticking his head around the door. It has the text: Did someone say tickets?

@netbsd If the latest release will run on a VisionFive 2 board, I'm all in.

#NetBSD #RunBSD

#NetBSD 11.0 has been branched, and the stabilization process now begins. Pre-release snapshots will be available for users to try soon(tm).

This will be the first release with RISC-V, C23, and POSIX 2024 support.

So today I tried my hand at compiling for the first time in the Pi4. I built conky because the version in #NetBSD is very old and still uses the former syntax for which my dotfiles don't work anymore.

From this, I learned that NetBSD pkgsrc provides the development files for pretty much every package you install. That's nice: they put the source in Open Source!

Also, the process was surprisingly not scary. This hardware is not exactly fast (though probably fast for its cost), and even then the build took just over 5min. Guess I'll be trying my hand at it more, then, for the software I didn't find there.

@charadon PSA #ZFS on #NetBSD is a thing too. Not appropriate for many of the older or constrained platforms, of course (sh3, acorn32, amiga, Wii)

I was having problems with rxvt-unicode in #NetBSD (I think they don't have its terminfo definitions by default) and xterm was pretty ugly to work with.

So I instead went with another old terminal I haven't used in quite literally a decade: Sakura. It's the terminal emulator used by the #SliTaz project, another ultra-minimalist lightweight Linux distro project. To my surprise: everything works very well, it's still pretty lightweight and also very modern!

I guess some bad things come for good reasons!

#oldcomputers

@charadon I think WAPBL came to #NetBSD first from Wasabi around the time softdeps was retired. FreeBSD then adopted it from NetBSD

@schmonz @lukeshu

I think that you possibly hadn't noticed before because it wasn't NetBSD; but now I've ported all three of #redo, #djbwares, and #nosh to NetBSD (testing on a non-amd64 architecture, no less!), as you've probably seen over the past few months. So now there's a system for building #NetBSD packages alongside Debian's, FreeBSD's, and OpenBSD's.

At EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb: "Liberating the social web using *BSD" by Jeroen - @h3artbl33d - and Stefano Marinelli, see https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/PJJLFV/

Schedule at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

To register https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

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I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

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Off to try booting #NetBSD on my Pi4 using the UEFI method (donno if I've set the SD card partition correctly)

That's is. I finally figured out. All these years I had been using the wrong OS on the Pi4 too.

#NetBSD showed me the true way on ARM!

@ermo

I was pointing out the poor state of the #pkgsrc doco in #NetBSD a little while ago. This is the area where #FreeBSD is equally bad with #pkgng.

FreeBSD's pkg-create(8) manual page assures us that +MANIFEST files must have "file" entries one per file. But the actual code for the pkg command only looks for a "files" object with an array of files.

Making manifest and "build-info" files for these tools is not a case of doing what the doco says to do.

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/main/libpkg/pkg_manifest.c#L114

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@codemonkeymike Debian is a fine choice, buuut have you tried #NetBSD? 😁

Dear #NetBSD people:

pkg_create(1) takes files with its -f, -B, and -b options. But there is zero documentation anywhere for what is supposed to be in the latter two.

Please document this, preferably on that manual page alongside where the contents of the first file are documented.

#pkgsrc

The European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 is getting noticed!

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Ako znaš čitati hrvatski, dobar si.
If you can't, you probably need to translate the article. ​​

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all operating systems suck uniquely. find the one that sucks the least for you and use it. also, shut up about it.

EDIT: "shut up about it", is about OS proselytizing. share all you like, just don't pressure me to use what you use. it'd be hypocritical to say this as I certainly don't shut up about my love for OpenBSD.

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