Announcing #NetBSD 11.0 (July 30, 2026)

https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

I am still totally floored by the fact that this 2 cpu, 2GB netbook feels perfectly usable under #NetBSD 11.

Despite my love for #Slackware I will be the first to acknowledge that Linux (in general) is now so completely bloated that good little machines are not usable with it anymore.

Kudos to everyone who made this a great release! You guys made my day!

(Also: isn't it weird that NetSurf is able to render netbsd.org and openbsd.org flawlessly?) 😉

And we are live from #NetBSD 11 Ladies and Gentlemen!

A little 'pkgin -V -4 upgrade' and everything is working perfectly.

I have somewhat improved my little tmux script, and I can now take the dog out for her late evening walk before retiring to bed... Good night everyone!

Updating #NetBSD 11.0_RC7 to 11.0...

Really smooth so far.

NetBSD 11.0 released

NetBSD, the operating system specifically designed to run on anything from a supercomputer to a toothpick, just released version 11.0. There's a ton of changes and improvements here, such as a brand new port to RISC-V, which supports a number of the more popular RISC-V SoCs (sadly, not the one I have just yet). NetBSD 11.0 also adds initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform, a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145663/netbsd-11-0-released/

#NetBSD

"All the open pullup requests will be committed to the stable branch shortly after the 11.0 release, and become part of the upcoming 11.1 release. We are currently aiming to release 11.1 within the next two months."

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released

Whaaaaaat?!?

Man, this is not your daddy's #NetBSD ... 😜

That will give a good excuse to test sysupdate though, so I am not complaining.

Sweet computer happiness: downloading #NetBSD 11 from 11.0_RC7 to update the netbook.

Sorry for the potato picture.

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A bad picture of a uxterm, with links downloading (slowly) the USB image of NetBSD 11. Fear not, gentle reader, as the whole thing is running in a tmux.

Finally #NetBSD 11 is here!

It's official, it's on the front page:

https://www.netbsd.org

(Now, where did I put that little USB key?)

Spent the morning installing #NetBSD 11.0 over all the release candidates. In little while I'll upgrade the big one running 10.1 and ZFS. Congrats to all involved for a very nice release!

🚀 It goes to 11! The NetBSD Project is incredibly proud to announce the official release of NetBSD 11.0!

This release brings massive performance improvements, modernized hardware support, and the rock-solid stability you expect. Whether you are deploying on the latest ARM64 servers or keeping a classic toaster alive, NetBSD got you covered.

A huge thank you to developers, testers, and community for making this happen. 🧡

Check out the release notes and grab the images here: https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OpenSource #UNIX #RetroComputing #Server

@bsandro what's the error you get? #NetBSD

@catsalad @nwbt @alice #NetBSD! And ants! And bikes! And ceramics! And science! And authors! And #monsterdon! And retrocomputers! And cats! And salad!

Happy World Wide Web Day! 🌐🕸️

Whether you're serving the web on heavy-duty enterprise hardware or some wild retro device, you know how this goes:

"Of course it runs NetBSD!" 🚩💻

#WWWDay #NetBSD #OpenSource #RunBSD #Unix #WorldWideWebDay

we have WiFi and sshd

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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ssh login screen

and we're in!

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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screenshot of the login screen showing a successful login (and an NTP error)

raspberry pi zero booting NetBSD.

[PC Linux] --> ssh [rpi zero W (raspbian)] --> uart [rpi zero W (NetBSD)]

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

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screenshot showing the logs of the boot sequence on a raspberry pi zero booting NetBSD. the partition grow step is ongoing

I've been trying to explore the world outside GNU/Linux (or, as I've recently taken to calling it, "Sexual predator userspace plus egotistical botlicker kernel"). Naturally, the first stop on this road is the fragmented world of #BSD.

I won't lie, the experience is very reminiscent of running Linux in the 1990s: hardware support is dicey at best, it's very rare to find commercial software that will run on it, and the guiding philosophy seems to be that user-friendliness is an undesirable quality that will only result in The Wrong People using your software. Nevertheless, I'm committed to giving it a fair trial.

So far my favorite variant is #OpenBSD, especially for servers. I like the fact that it's secure by default, rather than being a hacker's dream out of the box that you then have to figure out how to secure. But I have questions.

- One of the #FreeBSD features I've heard touted a lot is "jails," which I gather means "like Docker but harder to use". But this doesn't seem to be a feature in OpenBSD. Is there something equivalent in the OpenBSD world, perhaps under another name?

- The only *BSD that I know for sure has banned LLM contributions is #NetBSD. What, if any, are the LLM policies of OpenBSD and FreeBSD?

- Has anybody tried audio production in BSD? What's the experience like? It took years for Linux to get to the point where you could more or less do serious audio work, and I hate to think of regressing back to "if you buy this one particular sound card they stopped making in 1998 and recompile the kernel with a dodgy patch someone posted to USENET you can maybe kind of play a .WAV file".

Thanks in advance for your help!

(I have been informed by an anonymous source that "BSD jails" are in fact what they put you in if you use the software without a valid BSD license. I am not sure this is correct.)

@alter_unicorn @RussSharek btw Happy SysAdmin day!

#NetBSD #sysadminday #RunBSD

@peteorrall

It's been the OS installed on the computer I use the most at home since November, so, yes, mostly.

I have Debian on my work machine and OpenSuSE on my "gaming" SFF desktop.

Also have #OpenBSD on my old X200t, and am just getting started with #NetBSD on a hand-me-down Inspiron.

I love hand-me-down laptops. 😁

#FreeBSD

Can't believe it's been three years ... Thanks everyone for joining community and making it great one :) #BSD matrix room https://matrix.to/#/#bsd:matrix.org #FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Today, I discovered the goodness that is mupdf: PDF, epub, jpeg, PNG viewer. Small, fast no drama program.

My tiny #NetBSD netbook is fast becoming a very viable workstation! 🤓

so, today I built evi, my favorite editor, in my SPARC NetBSD (virtual) machine.
worked at the first try (I can't find the classy screenshot with evi --version + uname -a to show off)]

evi is vim without the slop.
https://codeberg.org/evi-editor/evi

#evi #NetBSD #noia

comment troller les collègues avec classe:

#NetBSD

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moi de face, entre la bouche et la moitié de mon torse. je porte un t-shirt bleu avec le logo de NetBSD (avec le drapeau)