Mal wieder ein etwas besserer #Golem #BesserWissen #Podcast zur Geschichte und Entwicklung von #Unix; inspiriert von Vorläufer #Multics sowie die modernen Nachfahren #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD und #MacOS sowie am Rande auch dessen Neuinterpretation #Linux.

"Podcast Besser Wissen: Von Multics zu Unix"
https://www.golem.de/news/podcast-besser-wissen-von-multics-zu-unix-2505-196557.html

#Betriebssystem

@Wintermute_BBS @VoidLinux I ❤️ #NetBSD (and the other BSDs too). Use it daily.

@arosano @justine I set up a virtual #NetBSD instance on #Hyperv. The virtual drive is 1GB. I have about 280MB of free space to play with.

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

@justine I recently got a cheap thinkcentre just to have a dedicated (not dual-boot) #NetBSD desktop

@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

@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.

@Wintermute_BBS @VoidLinux Since Voids package manager was initially written by an (ex-) #NetBSD maintainer and I was also a package maintainer for void (and sponsored a build server back around 2014), I do appreciate the code and structure. I'm a happy #OpenBSD user and since its roots are in #NetBSD I got a lot of love for NetBSD. The rump kernel is a _very_ interesting concept and I wish it would see wider adoption.

@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.

(-:

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #rwhod

*sigh* so yes, I admit it - my daily driver still is @VoidLinux for various reasons that make me sound like a #1990s #windows user reluctant to switch to #linux. It involves cheap USB grabbers among other things.

Yet I have a weak sport for #NetBSD 🧡 and while #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD get some fair coverage here on the #fediverse, I am getting the impresson that NetBSD is a bit under-presented here.

So, do you also 🧡 NetBSD?!

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.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟲 (Valuable News - 2025/05/26) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/valuable-news-2025-05-26/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟲 (Valuable News - 2025/05/26) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/valuable-news-2025-05-26/

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

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

🎉 "Choose your tools wisely!" screams the author, while secretly clutching their NetBSD-powered antique in a dimly-lit basement. 😂 Remember folks, your tech choices aren't about productivity, they're about emotional fulfillment and a desperate cry for attention. 🛠️✨
https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy #ChooseYourToolsWisely #NetBSD #TechChoices #EmotionalFulfillment #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated

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

Ich habe entdeckt, dass der Em Editor in #NetBSD immer noch existiert und (größtenteils) gesund und munter ist.

Alt...

Ein Bildschirmfoto des Em Editors in einem NetBSD-Terminalfenster. Er zeigt den Befehl '1,$p', der den Inhalt der Datei (ein Gedicht über Flöhe) ausgibt, und den Befehl '1,$x/fleas/bugs/', der interaktiv die Zeichenkette "Flöhe" durch "Wanzen" ersetzt.

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!

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

[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

So someone here did a poll so we can have some numbers about people who know about #BSD and their age:

https://fosstodon.org/@linux_mclinuxface/114356643693779995

It seems most BSD people are old. 71% have chosen "over 35 and know about BSD".

But a another good poll could be that how many #Linux users know about BSD. Maybe I should do one?

PS: I'm under 35 myself.

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FOSS #OS #OperatingSystem #opensource #freesoftware #opensourceOS #poll

I can understand the excitement you are having :>

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