@alanc @tedu #NetBSD:

./test
elapsed: 0.000299s

:)

My laptop is building pkgsrc/www/firefox-142.0 for NetBSD as final precommit check. #pkgsrc #NetBSD

Just placed an order for some #NetBSD goodies from @freewear

@Toxic_Flange now THAT'S how I'm supposed to maintain my #NetBSD toasters!!! ;-P

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A new gopher hole and gopher server are born!! 🎉

Finally the first private beta of Goophy is up and running on the Raspberry Pi with NetBSD. You can check it out with your favorite gopher client at:
gopher://lucio.albenga.es

I promise I'll put more content in the following days, but right now I'm excited to have it online 😅 Let me know if you find any bugs.

#Goophy #gopher #GopherProtocol #cprogramming #c #programming #devlog #selfhosted #gopherhole #NetBSD

@chongliss hi there! Sorry, I didn't see your reply until now for some reason (I didn't get a notification, possibly because the "@" got clobbered?)

I once owned a netbook with similar specs (albeit, more than 10 years ago). The sad truth that I can't sugarcoat is this: FOSS OSes do not speed up hardware. So while I'm cheering loudly for my D620 from 2006 that's running on NetBSD, I didn't mention that for some things, it's actually pretty darn slow. Namely: browsing with Firefox (Of course, we could say that this is more of a problem of Firefox rather than NetBSD, but the end result is the same). However, you can still browse rather OK with #Dillo.

The point I'm trying to make is this: #NetBSD won't "speed" a computer up. It's not performance-oriented like FreeBSD, and it may actually look like it's less responsible in terms of resource usage than Linux (it seems that it pools memory for future use instead of allocating it on demand). But you're going to gain in other aspects, like the simplicity of the OS structure, stability, the community and other stuff.

If you value more performance over the rest, from my experience Linux is a tad faster. A super slim system like #AlpineLinux is probably a great match, also with more drivers if your WiFi isn't well-supported in BSD. But it also won't speed up a sluggish application like a modern browser.

Anyway, hope this helps, and happy hacking! :)

Well it seems that I'm going to use an experimental feature in NetBSD, the wg interface for wireguard. Yesss why starting gently? I'm going all in!! 😅

Currently setting up the cross compile environment in me Devuan box.

#NetBSD #RunBSD #Wireguard

@unruhe Agrree! 💯 !

For now I'm downloading/unpacking pkgsrc on the running system with running sshd/ntpd — and the top case of the system just a slightly warm.

Looks like I can't fry an eggs with #NetBSD

Yesterday it was a lot of fun. I installed NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi 2 you see below. This machine is going to be the server for the beta testing of the project. There is a small thread on this here:
https://hostux.social/@lfa/115072908838339673

I recompiled Goophy directly on the Pi and I also installed Lagrange on my desktop to test everything with a second client. Devuan has no package for Lagrange so I built it from sources.

#Goophy #gopher #GopherProtocol #NetBSD #runbsd #RaspberryPi #Lagrange #Devuan

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Raspberry Pi 2 board with cables connected to it: hdmi, microusb, usb-A and RJ45

Okay, I left the working server for the night, while it was checking the newly connected HDD with Windows integrated utililty (don't know does it do something meaningful )

The device worked the whole night without the problems. At the end it was hot not warm, but I think this is because of some Windows processes which are doing some unknown shi^Wthings on the background

Now, with attached 250 Gb HDD from the shelf, it is ready for #NetBSD , I hope

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A fanless PC with Intel Atom with top board connected and with 250 Gb HDD connected to this board.

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The fanless Intel Atom PC in semi-assembled state with motherboard (bottom board) and the top board with COM port connectors and the HDD connected to it.

Man, #NetBSD continues to be super smooth!

Today I picked up my old Dell D620 and remembered that I had it installed from a few weeks before I tried seriously the Old Computer Challenge. And to no surprise from me, NetBSD continues to be amazing - even in this almost 20-year-old hardware.

And it wasn't even me who bought this computer. My parents bought it for me to finish my High School studies with Windows XP, and when I went to college, it was the computer that brought me to Linux. And I thought a Linux-based OS would be the last one that this computer would support until it finally gave out - until this year. And now I see that in a world slowly giving x86 the boot, NetBSD might as well be the only reasonable alternative in the future (well, until 2038, at least).

#OldComputers

In the end the program is small and the installation of #NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi already has the compiler available. I din't have to install any extra packages so I recompiled it directly on the Pi and it works like a charm 😀

Looking through the file system of this #NetBSD box and there is a file /init.core in the root directory 😳 Sounds like a bad time.

It seems I finally managed to make #npf work for my basic needs. Not bad for the first time using it and not being a nework wizard 😅

Now I'm wondering if recompiling my program directly on the Raspberry Pi or going down the rabbit hole of cross compilation 🤔

#NetBSD #RaspberriPi

It seems I finally managed to make #npf work for my basic needs. Not bad for the first time using it and not being a nework wizard 😅

Now is time to setup a NetBSD VM for recompiling my software for the very same #NetBSD version. No guys, I'm not going to do it directly on the Raspberry Pi 2, no no no.

My future NetBSD server finally arrived MWA-HA-HA !

Basically, it is just a part of POS terminal, so I can say that I run my services on the cash register.

But inside of it there is a fanless PC with a little motherboard and the top board with a 6 RS232 connectors, two USB connectors and a SATA for 2.5' hard drive.

4 Gb memory, Intel Atom N2800, 64 Gb SSD and free space for (another SSD?) WiFi card, integrated TWO (!) 1 Gbit Ethernet and much more USB, RS232 and VGA + HDMI connectors.

It works completely quiet, and just a slightly warming up when Window 7 is working.

After I change the CR2032 battery and find a M3x17 brass stand for PCB (one is missing ) — I'll install #NetBSD on it and will enjoy #selfhosting , finally

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Front view of AviPos 320 Duo Mini PC. It has a black extruded aluminum profile in the form of a radiator, "PRW" and "RST" buttons, two leds (red "PWD" led and the green "HDD" led), two RS232 ports (COM5, COM6) and two USBs (USB1 and USB2)

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Back view of AviPos 320 Duo Mini PC. It has a black extruded aluminum profile in the form of a radiator, plastic plug in place for antenna connector, jack 3.5 mm for audio output, two LAN ports, VGA, HDMI, power connector ("DC 12V") and the four RS232 ports (COM1-COM4).

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Disassembled fanless PC. The top board was unmounted and the motherboard is visible. Also the memory is removed too, so the CR2032 battery is visible. There is a BiWin 64 Gb SSD on the left.

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The disassembled fanless PC with motherboard connected to the power source, to the display through the VGA and to the keyboard via the USB. The DDR3 memory is connected to the motherboard. The red LED, indicating that system is powered, is lighting.

Let me grab a cup of coffee to read the #NetBSD npf doc. Never used it so I'm starting from 0.

Today I'm wearing the sysop hat. I'm currently setting up NetBSD after installing it on my Raspberry Pi 2. It was really easy to install and the doc is good so I'm not facing any insurmountable troubles.

#NetBSD #RunBSD #RaspberryPi #selfhosted

Just so that anyone coming across this #OpenBSD idea has any questions about the #nosh user-space virtual terminals:

In nosh uservts, USB HIDs are opt-in; whereas with most kernel VTs & X11, USB HIDs are opt-out.

The administrator has to explicitly choose (in the ways laid out in user-vt-realizer-configuration(5) which allow various combinations of address, class, and ID matching) to have a #YubiKey realized as a keyboard HID on the #uservt.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822064253

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux

Mission accomplished!
Config file works as expected and with this I'm ready for a first private beta 🥳

Next step: installing NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 2 for putting this online and see what happens 😉

#Goophy #gopher #GopherProtocol #cprogramming #c #programming #devlog #selfhosted #NetBSD #RaspberryPi

#introduction ― I decided to create an alt account here to allow me
to connect more easily with SDF community.

My primary focus will be on tech-related things I like:
#pkgsrc on #netbsd #illumos and #slackware
#unix #sdf #gopher #smolnet #usenet #dos #c #lisp
#selfhosting #homeserver #permacomputing #lowtech
#hamradio #progrock #progmetal #ambient #postrock
#90s #scifi #cyberpunk #novels #seinen #manga

@zolaris It's used extensively on #NetBSD despite many attempts to the contrary 🙂

A #Linux alternative? #Debian /Hurd shows microkernel #Unix dream is alive

#NetBSD

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/debian_hurd_13/

Attempt at making a robot cat using #NetBSD and an ODROID C2

https://codeberg.org/20-100/musCATv1

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@mjg @nixCraft @linuxfoundation

/etc is also specified in the SVID, volume 1, in the filesys(BA_ENV) section, and is in hier(7) across operating systems from #DragonFlyBSD to #NetBSD.

Let's not swing too far in the other direction just to counter the LInux-freedesktop-centric /etc/os-release myopia. (-:

#FreeDesktop #Unix #FreeBSD

#NetBSD question -- how long might I expect downloading/installing package sets to take on a VM? I've disabled ipv6 (I think!) using /etc/rc.conf ...

@dimpase @vitaut Me too, lol

Since the #BSD hastags already set in your previous reply — here will be a loooooooooong thread from people who actually using BSD everywhere (especially #NetBSD )

aujourd'hui, dernier live avant les vacances ! #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, épisode 11, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos #GNAT #GCC #GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

https://www.defert.com/musCAT.mp4

Of course, it runs NetBSD!

Credit: u/1r0n_m6n <https://www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/1msm1qs/of_course_it_runs_netbsd/> via @jaypatelani in Matrix

#NetBSD #cats #Caturday #SundayFun