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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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

One thing about having a fever and being a bit “out of it”… it silences that inner critic that says something is silly or won’t work.

Last night I was tinkering with my Sun and wishing I had a wireless bridge (the study doesn’t have Ethernet yet). I rummaged and found an old RPi with a dongle. Threw #NetBSD 10 on it, set up wi-fi, set up a bridge… worked!

Won’t win speed awards accessing… my gopher and FTP jails. But, is a word with three letters.

a bug report about the "polish" keyboard option being broken in sysinst led me down a rabbit hole.

1. poland has a few layouts, naturally completely incompatible, but the most common is an extended US ANSI called "polish programmers keyboard"
2. ofc, our OS only had support for one of the more obscure ones ... on Commodore Amiga
3. on modern systems it'd fail to init the PL keymap every time, and fall back to US, which has all the basic keys in the same place (so, few ppl noticed)

#netbsd

EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 - Call for Talk and Presentation proposals is open

Feel free to submit at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.

See you in Zagreb!

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[Перевод] Сервер, которому не суждено было жить

На днях я прочитал новость, которая оживила воспоминания о важном — и болезненном — эпизоде моей карьеры. Это история о доверии, технологиях… и задачах, которые не всегда можно решить. Где-то 16 лет назад со мной связался давний друг. Его беспокоила ситуация, связанная с одним общим знакомым. Если в двух словах, то дело было в том, что один наш знакомый предприниматель — администратор и владелец нескольких компаний — внезапно скончался. Это был человек, который рулил всеми процессами, и его уход поставил жену с детьми в затруднительное положение.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/911044/

#ruvds_перевод #администрирование #обслуживание_серверов #бизнес #системное_администрирование #linux #netbsd

Sadly the #NetBSD bootloader and my 486 based systems BIOS do not work together.

Time to move to #NetBSD
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/linux-to-end-support-for-1989s-hottest-chip-the-486-with-next-release/

My #pinebookpro is now running #netbsd

gang here I come

It's all a bit "almost, but not quite", isn't it?

#FreeBSD has trouble with more than 4GiB of RAM on the #RaspberyPi 4, and does not even acknowledge the 5 (from 2023) in its doco.

#NetBSD does not support the Raspberry Pi 5 yet, has a 3GiB limit on the 4, and in its doco encourages EFI bootstrap, using a TianoCore port, over a more direct method.

But the Pi bootstrap that loads the EFI firmware doesn't support the EFI partition table, so one has to go back to using the old "MBR" one.

And USB doesn't work because the stock NetBSD build doesn't include pci drivers for the Pi. So one has to re-cross-compile the operating system.

#OpenBSD encourages EFI firmware, too, and has a workaround for the 3GiB DMA problem, but likewise the Pi 5 is alien to its doco.

The hardware vendor points at its own operating system, of course, which hides the details behind opaque tooling and whose doco calls such details "legacy".

New #blog post!

Let's explore virtualizing the different BSDs on Apple Silicon.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #virtualization #apple #macOS #arm #aarch64 #arm64

I had the fun of #fvwm3 segfaulting on my config… not quite sure what it was barfing on because even `fvwm3 -v` just segfaulted without any meaningful logs given… but I think it was related to a `PipeRead` judging from the `gdb` backtrace of the `core` file.

The config I have is based on what was an example config from FVWM2 circa 2009 when I was tuning it on an old Pentium II 300MHz laptop (which I now have #NetBSD on)

So I started afresh, and brought over the settings I specifically cared about, my key bindings. I managed to bring the window decorations across too.

Not hugely big on the permanent side-bar… I had a Logo,Z key sequence to hide/show it on the old config so I could use a near full screen… but we'll see how it goes.

Alt...

FVWM3 desktop environment showing MWM style window borders, gkrellm and stalonetray swallowed into a right-hand side bar, but otherwise stock FVWM3 default config.

FreeBSD and NetBSD Zig Cross-Compilation Support https://lobste.rs/s/glf6w3 #freebsd #netbsd
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-05-20

@scriptkiddie ...because #NetBSD won't run on a Raspberry Pi 400.

Can you help somebody skill up on a BSD related topic?

Submit a tutorial at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org for information about the conference.

See you in Zagreb!

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

People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk

Please boost

#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #IT #SysAdmin

Not a long time from now in a country close, close by....

The European *BSD event of 2025! 😈⛳🐡

Registration is open!! 🔖

🎟️ https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/zagreb/

Sign up early and sign up lots!

While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 🔥
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2025-07-15

For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference #Register

Alt...

UK Keep Calm poster, with the text Keep Calm and Register

listen to Grandpa.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Solarish

Do you have an interesting project on a BSD and want to present?

EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 - Call for Talk and Presentation proposals is open

Feel free to submit at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.

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Direction NetBSD pour le début d'une série de lives sur la virtualisation ! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #NetBSD #BSD #qemu #nvmm

Register now for BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/index.html and get the Saturday reception for free!

Schedule https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/timetable/?layout=room#20250613.detailed #bsdcan #bsd #unix #unixlike #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #libresoftware #freesoftware

#NetBSD https://mastodon.sdf.org/@washbear/114501668062966365

A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

#linux #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #aix #ibm #solairs #illumos #pkgsrc #opensource #freesoftware

You've probably seen the local root privilege escalation vulnerability in GNU screen(1):
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1

The note there suggests that #NetBSD ships with a vulnerable version of screen(1). This is incorrect: NetBSD includes screen(1) in #pkgsrc as a _possible add-on package_ you can choose to install. It does _not_ include screen(1) in the base system.

if there's anything to say about #NetBSD or even #OpenBSD users (to an extent) its:

"if there's a will, there's a way"

or perhaps more accurately:

"if there's a way, someone will, even if impractical"

@hanshuebner das ist doch was für die #NetBSD Bubble :-)

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist https://lobste.rs/s/ularz6 #netbsd
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/