Some photos of Nagoya *BSD Users' Group and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth at Open Source Conference 2025 Nagoya (Japan) held on May 31.
We demonstrated some retro machines such as #NetBSD/macppc on Mac mini, NetBSD/evbarm on Raspberry Pi 3, NetBSD/i386 on Fujitsu laptop with old good Pentium CPU, NetBSD/evbppc on Nintendo Wii and #OpenBSD/luna88k and #FUZIX on LUNA-88K2 at the booth.
I also had a small talk about OpenBSD/luna88k and FUZIX. #oscnagoya

I boot up #NetBSD from the install image, and it has sshd, Postfix, and inetd running before I even get to set the superuser password. Fortunately, by default it's only listening on the SSH port, on both TCP/IP v4 and v6.

But given the amount of SSH attempts per second one has to fend off nowadays, and given that whether sshd is running is a configurable option in sysinst, it's a bit off that sshd is on until the installer turns it off, or one manually turns it off.

It's not even as if it's arguably useful at that point. The only non-service account in the account database at the time is root, and root login over SSH is disabled.

The same goes for inetd and Postfix. Those seem like something that should be off at first until the installer/administrator turns them on, too.

This is an operating system bootstrapped from an installation DASD, which hasn't done any installing at all yet. It has no business delivering mail or being ready for TELNET or finger.

#ComputerSecurity #SSH

In a little more than a week, people like me will be heading to #Ottawa for #bsdcan.

You can still register for the conference at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, and browse https://www.bsdcan.org/ for info.

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #unix #development #networking #devops #sysadmin #experience #conference

@lemgandi that's just Chris Barnatt who does gloss over things in a noob-friendly way.

"#Linux" is literally the #OS equivalent of a #Diesel engine as it's customizeable and resizeable from a single cylinder tiny unit that has less displacement than a pint to a giant heavy fuel oil ship diesel who's displacement is measured in cubic meters and everything in between.

• So people can have anything from tiny to huge and from minimalist to fancy with only hardware requirements and their own patience limiting them.

(Some folks will say #NetBSD is a two-stroke becaise it can be made to run on anything!)

Something i found really cool Japanese tongue twister
#NetBSD #RunBSD
https://youtu.be/J76S5q_ETfo

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-139.0.1 under NetBSD/amd64-current. #pkgsrc #NetBSD

I have a spare RPi 2 (model B v1.1) and 3 (B v1.2)... think I'll try #OpenBSD and #NetBSD on them to tinker with. Last time I tried OpenBSD was on my Ultra 5 back in, um, probably ~2008 (I should boot it and see what version is on it, if I can find suitable cables).

It looks like NetBSD runs on the Pi2 and OpenBSD needs >= Pi3 so I'll do them that way round I guess.

#RunBSD

Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.

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#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS

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Me, standing up and presenting myself. "I solve problems"

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Me and my wife, smiling while listening to an interesting presentation

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One of the staff members asking me something about AI

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The trophy - I won :-)

Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.

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#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS

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Group photo of the OSDay staff and speakers

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My laptop, with the BSD Cafe sticker, is projecting the BSD Cafe logo

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Me, giving my opinion about the Evolution of Open Source

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Me, explaining why I think we lost the value of stability

Hacker Public Radio BSD Overview https://lobste.rs/s/uvozyb #dragonflybsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
https://hackerpublicradio.org/eps/hpr4388/index.html

@claudiom @justine

I tried #NetBSD on a cheap second hand HP desktop, and I was pleasantly surprised to see an X11 login and full desktop environment come up right after installation. 🤓

@justine #NetBSD rocks on the desktop. People who say otherwise have probably never even tried it. #RunBSD

Another great episode of #BSDNow is out!

https://www.bsdnow.tv/613

@bsdnow @Tubsta

#Podcast #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

⚠️ Resources got restocked:

- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany

@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :)

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD

@farooqkz

The idea that one can just restart X servers and whatnot without rebooting has, apart from the re-executing process 1 thing which is one of the few new things in this area in recent years, been around longer than Linux itself has.

On old minicomputers and Big Iron multiuser systems not rebooting was *normal*, and that's the sort of mindset that Unix inherited.

It used to be a thing a couple of decades ago back when the BBC and others were running their WWW sites on commercial Unices to go to a particular WWW site that figured out the system uptimes and graphed them. The WWW sites running #Solaris et al. had uptimes measured in years. A stark contrast at the time to the likes of Microsoft IIS.

#Unix #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025

Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html

Event descriptions https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/

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

If you have missed The NetBSD Foundation 2025 Annual General Meeting you can read more and find logs here!:

https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/agm2025

#netbsd #pkgsrc

A small procrastination project with NetBSD Arm. Feel free to visit the web. The counter tracker is saved locally and will increase with every refresh.

https://netbsd.bsd-devlabs.one/

#netbsd #arm #raspberrypi

#NetBSD dropped i386 between NetBSD 4.0.1 and 5.0. And system memory requirement grew from 4 MiB to 32 MiB. What changed between 4.x and 5.x?
https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-4.0.1/i386/INSTALL.html#NetBSD/i386%20System%20Requirements%20and%20Supported%20Devices
https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-5.0/i386/INSTALL.html#NetBSD/i386%20System%20Requirements%20and%20Supported%20Devices
@netbsd

@ska

#rwhod is in #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #Debian, #Arch, and probably others. With subtle differences as they have diverged from the Berkeley root.

https://packages.debian.org/source/stable/netkit-rwho

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/netkit-rwho-debian

Amusingly, the Arch people have given it a systemd unit, but haven't given it a systemd socket unit or done any of the fork-removal work to let systemd handle the privileges.

And because their unit file/rc script doesn't specify the option, it still runs as the superuser on both Debian and Arch.

@ellenor2000

This is what happens when I finally get so exasperated at my machine slowing down in the wee small hours that I comb through /etc/periodic to see what it is actually doing and find rwho in there. Twice.

P.S.: By Friday, please.

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#FreeBSD #NetBSD #rwhod

I'm copying my pinned post from Twitter which reminds me of fun times with lovely people. I'd just left an AsiaBSDCon dinner with everyone in Tokyo:

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD? :'D

Belated Introductory Post:
I'm a Bay Area SRE, with specializations in Security, Unix Internals and Virtualization/Containerization.

I've been running Linux for 25 years, and have been playing with #NetBSD more in the last few years as it's resparking what I have always loved about computers.

I will mostly stick to computer nerdery here, but I may post race pictures at some point.

I don't have mastodon on my phone, so I may take multiple days to see your toot. I like the slower pace though.

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

Suite de la saga #NetBSD et #virtualisation avec #NVMM! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

EuroBSDcon 2025 CFP is still open (until 2025-06-21)

Are you mulling a submission? Get yours in at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Main conferfence site: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

I've installed NetBSD on my TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro yesterday to see how it works on current hardware and it worked very good except for the ethernet card.

But I have to say that I don't like some things about NetBSD. One is the bootstrapping of pkgsrc and the other is that some parts of the system feel very old including the installer which didn't worked at all (it jumped always back to the first step after the partitioning step) so I installed it manually with the shell

But it's overall a very good operating system with some special features.

#netbsd #unitedbsd #runbsd