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[?]vermaden »
@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08

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    [?]vermaden »
    @vermaden@mastodon.social

    Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

    vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08

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      [?]Nils »
      @Nils@mastodon.xyz

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      [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
      @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

      @h3artbl33d @justine @woe2you I'd have to check my email for specifics, but I reported it to Supermicro in around 2017. I think it took until 2019 or 2020 for the defaults to change to not having automatic failover to the system's primary ethernet.

      Server management is best done over serial. For contemporary x86, I just install some kind of Pi which can be accessed via IPv6. It provides a serial console and the ability to do a hardware reset of the x86 system. There's no sense in having a dedicated BMC that's too fragile to put on the Internet on its own, or paying for the datacenter to provide OOB connections to those fragile BMCs.

      Perhaps I'll change my mind when I can run #NetBSD on common (Aspeed) BMCs.

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        [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
        @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

        @justine What’s in my homelab? Hmmm…

        The main NAT router / IPv6 router / firewall / DNS / DHCP / stratum 1 time server is a 2014 era AMD Athlon. Way back Fry’s Electronics was selling AM1 motherboards with quad core 2 GHz Athons, heat sinks and fans for something like $45. I bought quite a few. They’re reasonbly fast, tiny (mini-ITX), take very little power, and can take 32 gigs of memory.

        My distcc / VM / qemu / NFS / sequence alignment system is a Ryzen 5900X with 64 gigs.

        Building #NetBSD #pkgsrc binary packages are:

        • Dual 1 GHz AlphaServer DS25 with 12 gigs of memory and mirrored SSDs compiling Alpha packages
        • Original Raspberry Pi and RPi Zero compiling earmv4 packages
        • Plextor PX-EH25L compiling sh3el packages
        • VAXstation 4000/60 compiling VAX packages
        • Pine Rock64 compiling aarch64eb packages
        • Raspberry Pi 4 with hardware mirrored USB enclosure which runs as NFS server for all the pkgsrc build machines.

        Then, for m68k packages:

        • 1U Quadra 605, 33 MHz ‘040
        • Quadra 610 with CPU clock doubler, 50 MHz ‘040
        • Quadra 630, 40 MHz ‘040
        • Amiga 4000 with Cyberstorm Mk III, 66 MHz ‘060

        I also have a Sun Fire V245 to compile sparc & sparc64 pkgsrc packages, but that takes more power than the AlphaServer and the Ryzen 5900X combined, so I only run that in the winter.

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          [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
          @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

          @q3w3e3 Perhaps an OS like #NetBSD that only targets i80486 and newer may work better.

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            [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
            @kzimmermann@c.im

            ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

            kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old

            Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning , I guess :D

            Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

            Alt...Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

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              [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
              @kzimmermann@c.im

              $ man 4 urtwn

              CAVEATS

              The urtwn driver does not support any of the 802.11n capabilities offered by the adapters. Additional work is required in ieee80211(9) before those features can be supported.

              😭

                [?]Andy Ball »
                @ball@bsd.network

                @jaypatelani Is there likely to be better support for 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards?

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                  [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
                  @kzimmermann@c.im

                  Heh, turns out @rl_dane was right; building the CLI mastodon client for was pretty easy once I had golang (called go124 here) installed.

                  (Though I only tried doing this in my Pi4, not the OG Pi1.)

                  Side question to anybody else reading this: should I start learning Go? Or get back to really diving deeper into C as I started a few years ago?

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                    [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
                    @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

                    @lproven @theregister #NetBSD still supports x86 systems all the way back to the i80486. It technically should run on 386 systems with 486SLC / 486DLC CPUs, but someone needs to test that.

                    It also runs better than one might expect on a 15 MHz system with just 10 megs of memory:

                    https://zia.io/notice/AwlYocTS4menr02Prs

                    https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8482

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                      [?]Stephen Borrill »
                      @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk

                      @nuintari Indeed. To be clear, everything else is also self-hosted, we have plenty of rack space, redundant connectivity and LIR IPv4/IPv6. Backups are replicated across our datacentres and 90% of stuff is . I have my own homebrew photo browsing, but it's not pretty or suitable for the TikTok generation.

                      First question is what she actually wants to achieve; storage or sharing (probably the latter as there's a lot from her drama society).

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                        [?]Lobsters » 🤖
                        @lobsters@mastodon.social

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                        [?]jbz »
                        @jbz@indieweb.social

                        11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better Support - Phoronix

                        phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-

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                          [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                          @jaypatelani@bsd.network

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                          [?]Jay🚩 »
                          @jaypatelani@lemmy.ml

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                          [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                          @jaypatelani@bsd.network

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                          [?]HackerNews VN bot » 🤖
                          @hackernews_bot_vn@mastodon.maobui.com

                          NetBSD 11.0 đang trong quá trình phát hành! Bản cập nhật mới hứa hẹn nhiều cải tiến và tính năng mới. Cùng chờ đón nhé!

                          blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netb

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                          [?]Lobsters » 🤖
                          @lobsters@mastodon.social

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                          [?]Jay🚩 »
                          @jaypatelani@lemmy.ml

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                          [?]HackerNews VN bot » 🤖
                          @hackernews_bot_vn@mastodon.maobui.com

                          NetBSD 11.0 sắp ra mắt! 🚀 Bản cập nhật này tập trung cải thiện khả năng tương thích Linux và hỗ trợ RISC-V. Hứa hẹn nhiều điều thú vị cho người dùng NetBSD!

                          phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-

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                          [?]vermaden »
                          @vermaden@mastodon.social

                          Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/08/04) available.

                          vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08

                          Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                            [?]vermaden »
                            @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                            Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/08/04) available.

                            vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08

                            Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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                              [?]Eva Winterschön »
                              @winterschon@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                              @mainframed767 oh look, ubunu legislating their flawed sense of morality in distro tools again, despite no one asking for their decisions. 🥱 moving on...

                              oh hey, guess who doesn't do this type of abusive "this release introduces breaking changes to core expectations"
                              -

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                                [?]Nils »
                                @Nils@mastodon.xyz

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                                [?]peter hessler @openbsd »
                                @phessler@bsd.network

                                Hi, I'm the Admin of this instance.

                                Registrations are not yet open, but will open soon.

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                                  [?]peter hessler @openbsd »
                                  @phessler@bsd.network

                                  bsd.network is now live!

                                  I have pre-reserved the names for the projects, and a few others. If you would like to take control of those, please email the admins so we can ensure the proper people have them.

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                                    [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
                                    @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

                                    Early August #NetBSD #pkgsrc bulk package counts for pkgsrc-2025Q2:

                                    9.0: earmv4 2175 (+118)
                                    9.0: m68k 3245 (+63)

                                    10.0: aarch64eb 24682 (+221)
                                    10.0: alpha 15900 (+3348)
                                    10.0: earmv4 9191 (+546)
                                    10.0: m68k 5550 (+726)
                                    10.0: sh3el 9409 (+247)
                                    10.0: sparc64 13661 (+371)
                                    10.0: vax 8111 (+403)

                                    current: riscv64 6260

                                      [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                                      @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                      Some friendships just don't crash. 😉 Happy Friendship Day from your most stable and reliable OS. 💻❤️ & other BSDs i might have missed :)

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                                        [?]Bitslingers-R-Us »
                                        @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

                                        I've been meaning to test soon-to-be #NetBSD 11 on my rescued Mac LC II with 10 megs of memory.

                                        It had been crashing quite frequently, and I intended to find out why. I suspected some power / capacitor issues, or perhaps damage from when it got so oxidized before it was given to me.

                                        Here we see a Macintosh LC II motherboard with oxidation on the ports and tantalum caps installed on a dollar store baking sheet. It has two 4 meg, 30 pin SIMMs installed, plus a single 512K VRAM SIMM, plus an LC-PDS ethernet card with two ethernet ports (it acts as a two port 10baseT hub). A 15 pin Mac video to VGA adapter is zip tied to the back of the motherboard.

It has a 2.5" UW-320 SCSI drive attached and it's powered by an OWC FireWire IDE enclosure.

                                        Alt...Here we see a Macintosh LC II motherboard with oxidation on the ports and tantalum caps installed on a dollar store baking sheet. It has two 4 meg, 30 pin SIMMs installed, plus a single 512K VRAM SIMM, plus an LC-PDS ethernet card with two ethernet ports (it acts as a two port 10baseT hub). A 15 pin Mac video to VGA adapter is zip tied to the back of the motherboard. It has a 2.5" UW-320 SCSI drive attached and it's powered by an OWC FireWire IDE enclosure.

                                          [?]EuroBSDCon »
                                          @EuroBSDCon@bsd.network

                                          Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025! 😈⛳🐡

                                          54 days to go!

                                          BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.

                                          Grab your tickets 🎟️ at tickets.eurobsdcon.org

                                          The schedule 📅 is at events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/sch

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

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

                                          Joey from Friends sticking his head around the door. It has the text:
Did someone say
tickets?

                                          Alt...Joey from Friends sticking his head around the door. It has the text: Did someone say tickets?

                                            [?]gyptazy »
                                            @gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com

                                            What are you missing at @BoxyBSD?

                                            Let me know what miss, what you need and how I can improve the service to make it easier and better for you!

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                                              [?]NetBSD Foundation 🚩 »
                                              @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

                                              11.0 has been branched, and the stabilization process now begins. Pre-release snapshots will be available for users to try soon(tm).

                                              This will be the first release with RISC-V, C23, and POSIX 2024 support.

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                                                [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
                                                @kzimmermann@c.im

                                                So today I tried my hand at compiling for the first time in the Pi4. I built conky because the version in is very old and still uses the former syntax for which my dotfiles don't work anymore.

                                                From this, I learned that NetBSD pkgsrc provides the development files for pretty much every package you install. That's nice: they put the source in Open Source!

                                                Also, the process was surprisingly not scary. This hardware is not exactly fast (though probably fast for its cost), and even then the build took just over 5min. Guess I'll be trying my hand at it more, then, for the software I didn't find there.

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                                                  [?]Stephen Borrill »
                                                  @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk

                                                  @charadon PSA on is a thing too. Not appropriate for many of the older or constrained platforms, of course (sh3, acorn32, amiga, Wii)

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                                                    [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: »
                                                    @kzimmermann@c.im

                                                    I was having problems with rxvt-unicode in (I think they don't have its terminfo definitions by default) and xterm was pretty ugly to work with.

                                                    So I instead went with another old terminal I haven't used in quite literally a decade: Sakura. It's the terminal emulator used by the project, another ultra-minimalist lightweight Linux distro project. To my surprise: everything works very well, it's still pretty lightweight and also very modern!

                                                    I guess some bad things come for good reasons!

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                                                      [?]Stephen Borrill »
                                                      @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk

                                                      @charadon I think WAPBL came to first from Wasabi around the time softdeps was retired. FreeBSD then adopted it from NetBSD

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