Big kudos to the person testing #NetBSD 11.0 RC2 on an i386, loading the system from floppy disks. Gracias!

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2026/03/26/msg004230.html

A successful boot is often just beyond the moment you feel like giving up on that obscure piece of hardware. Keep hacking—the moment you can finally say, 'Of course it runs NetBSD,' is closer than you think.
#NetBSD 🚩 #RunBSD #Unix #Linux

I love this talk by Kirk McKusick of the history of the #BSD #UNIX history #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD https://youtu.be/bVSXXeiFLgk

The European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon 2026 will be in Brussels, 9-13 September 2026.

You can send your talk, tutorial, BOF or other session submission to our program committee before June 2oth, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

For more about the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #programming #devops #bsd #conference

#NetBSD folks, ive been poking at pkgsrc, after many years away. Being someone who doesn't like vanilla firefox, or chromium what do you all suggest in terms of browsers? If anything ? Thinking about putting together a NetBSD+XFCE machine.

WELP I can no longer say that #FreeBSD's draft policy on LLM code contributions was leaning towards #NetBSD's way of thinking of banning the slop code entirely. I was going off what was said at last year's BSDCan.

Apparently it's shifted since then. https://reviews.freebsd.org/differential/changeset/?ref=1487182

Hopefully it shifts back, before it's finalized. I feel a bit crushed. I've been talking about that prior draft policy as a positive indicator for months. Im realizing I had pinned a lot of hope on it.

I've been trying REALLY hard to stay away from software with LLM generated code. (sigh). Ive dived back into FreeBSD hard after many years away, and have even been trying to contribute some stuff to ports.

I guess if this goes south, ill be re-evaluating things. Maybe NetBSD? Though I know it's missing some things from pkgsrc that will hurt to do without. #bsd

@nuintari I think your mirror idea would work, but keep in mind that if you reach the maximum depth of your write cache, the physical disk will hold up writes to the RAM disk until things get caught up.

Something I don’t get: how can it take 40 to 45 minutes to back up, say, 128 gigs? That’s only slightly faster than free-128-gig-USB-stick-from-Microcenter speeds. With a decent NVMe SSD, that should take, say, 128 seconds or so.

RAM disks are great for certain uses. I’ve booted machines with no disks, create a RAM disk, installed #NetBSD on to it, chrooted to it, then run entirely in the RAM disk for months. It’s a great solution to certain problems.

(edit: RAM disk <-> physical disk hold up)

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New #blog post alert!

I muse about research some of my grad students and I did around independently evaluating some #OpenBSD anti-ROP mitigations, and I bid farewell to being an OpenBSD developer.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260322.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #unix #linux #compiler #compilers #rop #research

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-149.0b10 in my local pkgsrc tree on #NetBSD/amd64-current...

My #NetBSD web server is up for now
#hppa arch
HP 715/100XC anno 1995

i remind you i am not a web developer 🤣

paj.realnovum.com

📢 Looking for first-time *BSD speakers! 😈⛳️🐡

The EuroBSDCon 2026 Call for Papers is open, and we’d love to hear from you, yes you! Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters.

Have you:
- Discovered something cool about *BSD?
- Solved a tricky problem or learned a useful thing?
- Want to share how *BSD can make a first-time user experience better?

This is your chance to share your story, learn from others, and grow as a speaker in a supportive community.

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@jlw_the_jobber #NetBSD for sure ;)

Happy International Day of Forests. 🌲

While the tech industry burns megawatts and boils millions of gallons of water just to run the latest AI hype-machine, NetBSD🚩 is about extreme efficiency. Writing tight code that keeps the hardware you already own running for decades means less e-waste in the ground and less power pulled from the grid.

You don't need to drain a lake to run a server. Keep your old machines alive. Protect the forests. 💧🌳

#NetBSD #InternationalForestDay #FOSS #GreenTech #Sustainability #NoAI #RightToRepair #Ewaste

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“The legacy of the forest”
Country: United States of America

BSDCan 2026 is June 19-20, with tutorials 17-18. If you register before May 1, the closing reception is free!

Register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops

Talks day 1 of #asiabsdcon is about to start #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #unixlike #freesoftware #libresoftware #opensource

📢 Calling all BSD enthusiasts! 😈⛳️🐡

The call for papers for EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels is open, and we're looking for your brilliant ideas! 🌟

Got a groundbreaking discovery in *BSD applications, architecture, or implementation? Or maybe you've cracked the code on performance and security? We want to hear from you!

Don't miss this chance to:
- Demonstrate how *BSD are tackling today’s challenges and solving real-world problems.
- Explore the inner workings of *BSD, share your expertise on its design, structure, and innovation.
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Let's make EuroBSDCon 2026 the best one yet! See you in Brussels! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

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@DrInterpreter @AnachronistJohn @jns

@AnachronistJohn @jns @rl_dane I'm looking for an AI-free, secure OS that will let me pretend to be on Windows when I need to and still run ad blocking Chromium browsers, Zoom and solid free video editing.

I think all three major BSDs can run Chromium. I know for certain #OpenBSD can, pretty sure #FreeBSD can as well. My experience with #NetBSD is very limited, though, but probably.

As far as zoom, I'm afraid that's currently out of the picture on the BSDs, to the best of my knowledge. They used to have a web app, but I think that's gone, as well.

Among the Linux distros, Gentoo seems to have a pretty strongly anti-AI stance.

@Zenie @justine @prahou I find #NetBSD/evbarm works on the 32-bit boards. People tell me it (partially) works on some 64-bit boards but not mine. In fairness I think there's a lack of documentation for the SoCs.

@nuintari @mwl

A lot of the sysop infrastructure on the BSDs seems to still have the old reporting model of undergraduates running the occasional password cracker who need to be discovered first thing in the morning and told off by lunchtime, rather than an entire planet of malefactors attacking everything that they can reach all of the time, that one lone sysop cannot do anything to halt.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Some 2026 issues are fun.
Trying to host a simple webpage on my #HP #pa-risc
It crashes when i hit reload a few times on Firefox

What variables can i tune to make it a bit more stable?
#NetBSD #vintagecomputers

BSD was carrying you in the sand this whole time.
(well maybe not FreeBSD :P)

The developers of tmux and ssh don't use LLM.
And honestly tmux and ssh are the best things about "linux".

\o/ one of us , one of us ...

#openbsd #netbsd

Researching my NYCBUG talk on 1 April reminded me of FretBSD.

In 2003, @dvl and I put up a fake web site about the UN forcing #FreeBSD and #NetBSD to merge. The site is gone, but the text is archived at

https://www.freebsddiary.org/fretbsd.php

A ComputerWorld reporter contacted Dan requesting more details for a story, so: we won!

The fifth paragraph, or #OpenBSD? My career peaked early. That last sentence is the finest thing I will ever write.

Fantastic, my setup on #Netbsd netboot needed a few tweaks to get my #Ultra1 going also.

If you are thinking of getting your #SunMicrosystem going on NetBSD
i put the netbsd-install.gz in my NFS share
The manual is a tad off there.

Hi! I am #newhere

My name is Benny, I am a #NetBSD developer. I am in the process of transferring my account over from @bentsukun@mastodon.sdf.org.

Ok, lets crosscompile a small #NetBSD kernel for #VAX under #simh, I need every cycle for #slashem under my underpowered netbook. No, I wont use my netbook for it, but some amd64 machine there.

Trying #NetBSD/amd64 11.0 RC2 in a VM.

Three ways to look at the same machine - at the same time: a BIOS VGA console, a 256-color xterm, and a responsive web UI - all connected to the same cell and backup management backend.Which one would you pick?

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de

#netbsd #modernretrocomputing #freebsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd

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It’s becoming real... When you build clean interfaces from the ground up, the next GUI is not magic. It is a concrete architectural vision, solid technical design, and a few prompts away...

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de/

#netbsd #modernretrocomputing #netbsd-cells

@Mentalisk Thanks for the question...

To be honest, I’m not entirely sure what the exact path toward upstream integration would look like yet. I originally started this project mainly out of my own operational needs, although I did have the idea in the back of my mind that it might eventually become something that could live inside the official NetBSD tree or distribution.

That said, I think that point is still quite far away - and I don’t mean that in a negative way at all. NetBSD has a long tradition of stability and careful engineering. Experimental subsystems are not integrated ad-hoc, and I think that’s a very good thing.

For now I would actually prefer to give the project some more time to mature in its current off-tree state.

At the same time I’m already thinking about ways to make the feature more accessible and trustworthy for a broader audience without immediately requiring a merge into the official sources. For example, one idea would be to provide well-targeted patch sets for an upcoming NetBSD 11 release - either as source diffs for people who want to build their own kernels, or possibly as binary patch tarballs that could be applied to an existing system.

Most components are already modular enough to support that approach. The only exceptions are one or two small security-related patches in the main kernel that were necessary to restrict the visibility of certain system information.

Another important aspect is code review. From the beginning I’ve been transparent that I’m developing this project with AI assistance. That allowed me to implement my original concept and design much faster than I otherwise could have. I’m learning a lot along the way and improving my kernel development skills every day, but I’m definitely not an experienced kernel developer yet.

For something to enter the official tree, proper review by experienced NetBSD developers would obviously be essential - both technically and from a project governance perspective.

That said, I’m very open to discussion, feedback, and ideas. Where there’s interest and collaboration, I’m sure a path forward can eventually be found.

#NetBSD

#NetBSD #Linux #windows7 #macos