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#netbsd boosted

[?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

10 days to go!
Minimal CDN on OpenBSD base with just two packages.

it-notes.dragas.net/2024/08/29

    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

    [?]Bitslingers-R-Us ยป 🌐
    @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

    @nina_kali_nina @tomjennings Wow. I had no idea that even older Linux was so memory heavy.

    I suppose it should be considered quite impressive that a 266 MHz SuperH machine running #NetBSD can compile more than 10,000 packages in just 64 megs of memory:

    https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sh3el/10.0_2025Q2/All/

    I love reading the stuff you post. Thanks for sharing! Even just trying to imagine writing programs where I'd have to specify from where the next instruction will be loaded is an interesting mental challenge. All of those old machines are fascinating :)

      Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

      [?]Bitslingers-R-Us ยป 🌐
      @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

      @nina_kali_nina @tomjennings How old do you need to get to run in 4 megs? I'm running modern #NetBSD 11 in 10 megs (Mac LC II), and it's hardly usable for much, so I'm considering an older NetBSD for this machine.

      NetBSD 11 running in 36 megs (Mac LC III+) is enough to compile large packages like Perl. Does Linux really need 64 megs just to run? Can you compile on it?

      It is amazing to think about how much was possible in hundreds or thousands of bytes. We need to resurrect more of that magical software.

        Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

        [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

        NetBSD-powered CDN: caching, TLS and performance on a shoestring.

        it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/03

          Stefano Marinelli boosted

          [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen ยป 🌐
          @pitrh@mastodon.social

          A little more than a week from now, people will start our trek to for EuroBSDcon 2025 (Sep 24-28).

          You can join us there!

          Program events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/sch
          Register 2025.eurobsdcon.org/registrati
          Main site 2025.eurobsdcon.org/

            Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

            [?]Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: ยป 🌐
            @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            Oh, looks like there is one problem with using cash register as a server :drgn_cry:

            The Intel Atom N2800 doesn't support VT-x, so I can't use nvmm NetBSD hypervisor. Looks like the only one option to sandbox some services, which should be exposed outside, is to use chroot and sandboxctl: cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/curr

              Justine Smithies boosted

              [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
              @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              12 days to go!

              Same concept on OpenBSD: WireGuard + PF + ad-blocking included.
              it-notes.dragas.net/2023/04/03

                #netbsd boosted

                [?]Kevin Karhan :verified: ยป 🌐
                @kkarhan@infosec.space

                @krutonium @landley @geerlingguy IDK but I also didn't knew that (i.e. as used by the / ) is out of patent protection...

                Killing non- support in Linux would be a death sentence for many .

                • And I don't think they can all be migrated to i.e. , as it already took huge efforts to get them away from & โ€ฆ

                  Ruben Schade :runbsd: ๐Ÿ”ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ boosted

                  [?]LFA ยป 🌐
                  @lfa@hostux.social

                  TIL: NetBSD has the file NetBSD.el in /usr/share/misc/ for setting its C programming style in EMACS

                    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                    [?]Andreas 'phix' Jonsson ยป 🌐
                    @phix@fosstodon.org

                    Starting the day with style.

                      #netbsd boosted

                      [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                      @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      13 days to go!
                      WireGuard + IPv6 + ad-blocking on FreeBSD โ€“ private, secure, minimal.

                      it-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/23

                        #netbsd boosted

                        [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: ยป 🌐
                        @kzimmermann@c.im

                        @ball no idea about 5B (though it seems that not a lot of OS can run well on it at this point, from a quick search online), but in the 4B is amazing!

                        The only "gotcha" is that you have to do the UEFI boot [1] on it, otherwise NetBSD won't recognize all drivers. Thus you boot the UEFI firmware off the SD card and then boot the OS from an external driver. However, once you set this up, it's amazing. You can max out all the RAM, overclock the thing and NetBSD provides the rest!

                        [1]: github.com/pftf/RPi4

                          Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                          [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
                          That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
                          This calls for a celebration! :runbsd: :freebsd: :netbsd: :openbsd: :dragonflybsd:

                          EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

                            Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                            [?]Ryo ONODERA ยป 🌐
                            @ryoon@mastodon.sdf.org

                            Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-143.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current...

                              #netbsd boosted

                              [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                              @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              14 days to go!
                              Benchmarks: FreeBSD bhyve vs Proxmox (KVM) โ€“ strengths and trade-offs.

                              it-notes.dragas.net/2024/06/10

                                Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                                [?]Andrew Ball ยป 🌐
                                @ball@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                @kzimmermann I would like a 4B or 5B but I have doubts about on them.

                                  #netbsd boosted

                                  [?]Andrew Ball ยป 🌐
                                  @ball@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                  Trying to stand up on a Zero 2W. So far it's not working.

                                    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                                    [?]Jan Schaumann ยป 🌐
                                    @jschauma@mstdn.social

                                    If you run NetBSD in a qemu VM, you can share a directory via VirtFS.

                                    qemu-system-aarch64 -virtfs local,path=/wherever,security_model=mapped-xattr [...]

                                    You need vio9p(4) in your kernel, and then mount it via

                                    mount_9p -cu /dev/vio9p0 /mnt

                                    What tickles me about this is that this uses 9p, the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol. :-)

                                    Quick write-up for my students:
                                    stevens.netmeister.org/631/vm-

                                      Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                                      [?]Andreas 'phix' Jonsson ยป 🌐
                                      @phix@fosstodon.org

                                      I just updated in wip. Im looking for people that would like to test on

                                        Justine Smithies boosted

                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                        15 days to go!

                                        Forging a FreeBSD backup stronghold with ZFS, jails and send/recv.

                                        it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/29

                                          #netbsd boosted

                                          [?]vins ยป 🌐
                                          @vins@snac.illumos.cafe

                                          Telescope [0] is an emacs/w3m-inspired browser for the "small internet"
                                          that supports Gemini, Gopher and Finger. Written in C, with a privsep design in mind.

                                          Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

                                          Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

                                          [0] https://telescope-browser.org/
                                          [1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches


                                          4:3 screenshot of emwm desktop on NetBSD/sparc64, showing a telescope gemini browser window (connected gemi.dev capsule's homepage), alongside a xnedit window showing the pkgsrc package Makefile, and a fastfetch output on a separate window.

                                          Alt...4:3 screenshot of emwm desktop on NetBSD/sparc64, showing a telescope gemini browser window (connected gemi.dev capsule's homepage), alongside a xnedit window showing the pkgsrc package Makefile, and a fastfetch output on a separate window.

                                            #netbsd boosted

                                            [?]Jan Schaumann ยป 🌐
                                            @jschauma@mstdn.social

                                            Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

                                            Some additional hints to set up your NetBSD environment for this class:

                                            stevens.netmeister.org/631/vm-

                                            With all sources extracted, familiarize yourself with ctags(1) et al to make browsing code a breeze:

                                            youtu.be/TWog5NklSws

                                              #netbsd boosted

                                              [?]vermaden ยป 🌐
                                              @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                              Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿต/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿด (Valuable News - 2025/09/08) available.

                                              vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09

                                              Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                                Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                                                [?]vermaden ยป 🌐
                                                @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿต/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿด (Valuable News - 2025/09/08) available.

                                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09

                                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                                  #netbsd boosted

                                                  [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                                                  @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  16 days to go!

                                                  FreeBSD tips: native read-only root filesystem, simple and effective.

                                                  it-notes.dragas.net/2024/05/31

                                                    #netbsd boosted

                                                    [?]Lobsters ยป 🤖 🌐
                                                    @lobsters@mastodon.social

                                                    Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD lobste.rs/s/eipoef
                                                    youtu.be/oo_8gnWQ4xo

                                                      Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                                                      [?]Jan Schaumann ยป 🌐
                                                      @jschauma@mstdn.social

                                                      Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

                                                      Our reference platform for this class is NetBSD. Some ways to get set up are:

                                                      Use an AWS image:
                                                      stevens.netmeister.org/615/net

                                                      Create your own AWS image:
                                                      netmeister.org/blog/creating-n
                                                      netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-amd

                                                      Install NetBSD on a Linode:
                                                      netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-on-

                                                      Use UTM / qemu:
                                                      stevens.netmeister.org/631/utm/

                                                      youtube.com/watch?v=hCqfmuG5Acc

                                                        Ruben Schade :runbsd: ๐Ÿ”ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ boosted

                                                        [?]Stefano Marinelli ยป 🌐
                                                        @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                        17 days to go!
                                                        The story of migrating an entire server from Proxmox to FreeBSD.

                                                        it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/21

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