At EuroBSDcon 2026:
make buildworld && make install-future: Why FreeBSD's Adoption Story Runs Through Continuous Integration https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/EA98CK/
Talk by Moin Rahman
2026-09-13 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Highly Available DNS via BGP
Talk by Beni Keller
2026-09-12 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
PFWall: building firewall images to run at scale https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/DZ9GE3/
Talk by Pierre Emeriaud
2026-09-13 17:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Run Time Reoptimization for Modern Heterogenous Systems https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/CPAE7W/
Talk by George Neville-Neil
2026-09-12 13:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
FreeBSD in Bioinformatics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/CEZMMY/
Talk by Varinka Ohanyan
2026-09-13 15:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Bringing memory safety to BSD with CHERI https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/AU3F7S/
Talk by Brooks Davis
2026-09-13 14:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/9NVQAD/
Talk by Peter N. M. Hansteen
2026-09-12 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Hands On experience Chaos Education: Challenge your FreeBSD sysadmin skills by solving real world scenarios https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/7KWLK9/
Tutorial Half Day by Andreas Kirchner 2026-09-11 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Running stock FreeBSD on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/39G3BV/
Talk by Balaje Sankar 2026-09-12 11:15:00
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#HammerTime
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2026/08/06/msg043257.html
#NetBSD pkgsrc note on scrapers.

Updated post to mark the release of NetBSD 11.0!

For my install I wanted to include disk encryption to protect personal data in case the device is lost or stolen. Its not enough to simply encrypt home directories. Passphrases and sensitive data can linger and be extracted from locations such as system logs and swap memory. There is a trade-off to be made between how much to encrypt, the convenience of operating the system, and the ability to boot.

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/

#NetBSD #RunBSD

⚡️ Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

#netbsd #bozohttpd #bsd

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://lobste.rs/s/titphm #netbsd #web
https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

Regardless, I need an #ubuntu live image to recover some stuff from #netbsd before I wipe that shit clean. Might as well grab the current LTS.

So I rebooted. That failed. A hard reset was necessary.

And now the file system is corrupted beyond repair somehow. fsck_ffs can't proceed past phase 1. smartctl reports that the drive is fine. I'm getting "EXCESSIVE BAD BLKS" on multiple inodes.

That ends my #netbsd adventure, I guess.

BSD sur PC – Parce qu’il n’y a pas que Linux

#bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #ghostbsd #linux

https://beeftech.fr/2026/08/06/bsd-sur-pc-parce-quil-ny-a-pas-que-linux/

#NetBSD 11.0 was released couple days ago. Didn't see that until today.
some release highlights:
* New port to the RISC-V processor architecture
* New MICROVM kernel for x86 designed for extremely fast (about 10 ms on 2020-era x86 CPUs) virtual machine boot
* improved support for Nintendo Wii
* Enable fan control for PowerMac7,2 (mid 2003)
* New driver for QEMU virtual GPUs (viogpu)

NetBSD 11 is starting to show up on the NYC*BUG dmesgd service:
https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=index&fts=NetBSD

Launched in 2004, dmesgd aims to provide a user-submitted repository of searchable *BSD dmesgs. The dmesg(8) command displays the system message buffer's content, and during boot a copy is saved to /var/run/dmesg.boot. This buffer contains the operating system release, name and version, a list of devices identified, plus a whole host of other useful information. We hope others find this resource useful and further contribute to its growth. Contact us at [ admin at lists dot nycbug dot org ]. Note that this site is not a substitute for sending the dmesg directly to the respective project.

Submit your dmesg here:

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=submit

And if a handy script is what you are looking for, this Perl script from AFresh1 has long been the go-to for many submitters:

https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0

#runbsd #netbsd

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Macos

@lilpoes@littlefedi.social

Bought a copy of #NetBSD on sale, only $49! That's a pretty good deal for a complete operating system, don't you think?

I had to make two permission changes: DVD drives need write permissions for my user so that they can rip and read CDs, and the tap network devices need to allow wheel group members to read and write.

I had thought that nvmm permissions were jacked up after upgrades, but I guess they're fine.

📰 Look out, world! #NetBSD 11.0 has arrived with all the fanfare of a wet noodle, charming us with its legendary "ISO images" and making sure to remind us how exciting mailing lists can be. 😂 But fear not, dear reader, for your bug reports shall have a loving home on the never-ending CVS repository! 🐌💾
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released #NetBSD11 #ISOImages #BugReports #CVSRepository #MailingLists #HackerNews #ngated

On a Raspberry Pi 0W. Not even the 02W. 1 core. 512 MB. Outstanding work, can't wait to check it out and maybe run my own.
#NetBSD
https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano

In case you wonder if MeLE Quieter 4C can #RunBSD, you can have a look at #NetBSD and #FreeBSD. And old #OpenBSD is also available.

You’re welcome!

PS: if someone has such info for the AOOSTAR WTR Pro (AMD R7 5825U), I may be interested ;-)

rpi-b3+ now, live:
sysupgrade fetch https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/evbarm-aarch64

stay tuned.

#netbSD #raspberrypi

My fascination with #smartnics continues. I ordered a #octeon based NIC from 2012 or so. Apparently these have a 32-core #mips cpu and up to 8GB of RAM.

I've found various projects online including a way to boot #openwrt on a similar card, and possibly #netbsd and #freebsd

There doesn't appear to be much flash except for uboot. Not enough to store the OS. Instead the boot image is provided over the PCIe bus, similar to how the Xeon Phi works. At least I think so. These aren't well-documented.

I upgraded from 10.1 to 11.0 a #NetBSD virtual machine I have to discover this OS, just for fun and knowledge, this was so easy with sysupgrade ( and pkgin after the kernel upgrade ), and holly shit it fixed an issue with the display I had with lynx 🤩.
That upgrade process works very well and quickly.

Alt...

Screenshot showing the fastfetch program running on a netbsd virtual machine host by an openbsd physical machine

Since I already had the https://httpd.rocks domain (focusing on #OpenBSD) I figured it made sense to take advantage of the subdomain:

https://bozo.httpd.rocks

(Still placeholder until the guide is complete 😉 )

#bozohttpd #NetBSD

@snufkin_vc

Heya!!

At this moment, #OpenBSD is the easiest to get a fully-working system. FreeBSD has decent hardware compatibility, but both wifi and the GUI are a somewhat manual (although fairly trivial) affair, at least until they complete their desktop installer.

#NetBSD also gives you a usable (and actually pretty attractive) X11 system in "base," but the hardware support isn't quite as good, and it lacks #FullDiskEncryption, if that's important to you.

NetBSD 11.0 released.
Info 👉 https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗖-𝗩 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. #NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V platforms, including a range of StarFive JH71XX-based devices such as the VisionFive 2, #PINE64 #STAR64, as well as QEMU.
𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 #𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗫.𝟭-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗖𝟮𝟯 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀.
Enhanced support for Linux system calls in compat_linux(8), including epoll (implemented around kqueue), POSIX message queues, statx, readahead, close_range, waitid, renameat2, clone3, sync_file_range, syncfs, and inotify.
Initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite platform.
𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗻𝗽𝗳(𝟳) 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿/𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 #𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗠 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘅𝟴𝟲, 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝟯𝟴𝟲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗺𝗱𝟲𝟰, 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟭.𝟬 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗠 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁, 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗩𝗛 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁, 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗜𝗢 𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗢, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝟭𝟬 𝗺𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬-𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘅𝟴𝟲 𝗖𝗣𝗨𝘀.
New virt68k port, for running the #Motorola #68000 port in #QEMU using paravirtualized devices.

Download 🔽 https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/
#unix

Alt...

NetBSD logo. Unix

NetBSD 11.0 released 👉 https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗖-𝗩 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. #NetBSD 11.0 is the first stable release to include support for 64-bit RISC-V.
𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 #𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗫.𝟭-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 #𝗖𝟮𝟯 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀.
𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 #𝗻𝗽𝗳(𝟳) 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝟮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿/𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴.
𝗡𝗲𝘄 #𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗩𝗠 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘅𝟴𝟲, 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝟯𝟴𝟲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗺𝗱𝟲𝟰
New virt68k port, for running the #Motorola #68000 port in #QEMU using paravirtualized devices.
#unix

Successfully installed NetBSD 11 on my RockPro64 4gb device. I restored from a NetBSD 10 backup and everything is running great.

I grabbed the rockpro64 image from https://armbsd.org and flashed to an eMMC.

I have a PCIe card attached with a 500gb SSD with ZFS. This makes the restore a lot easier from a ZFS dataset backup.

Next is upgrading a couple RPis.

#netbsd #rockpro64 #zfs

Unfortunately, for of my university mail, account I have to use Microsoft Outlook

(I know, I know! Luckily, I’ve set up a redirect, so I hardly ever have to use it).

Tonight I tried using Firefox on NetBSD, but “Something went wrong.”

When I changed the user agent and set it to "Firefox on Linux", everything works fine, no problems, nothing "was wrong"!

In short, I think “Microsoft loves open source" but not NetBSD 😆

One more reason to keep using it 😈

(Forgive the corny joke, I know MS doesn’t actually love open source at all 😆)

#bsd #netbsd #bsdunix #unix #unixITA #unixitalia #guuf #guufxmpp #guufITA #linux #linuxITA #linuxitalia

"Unix is not in a museum. Unix is in the room."

See Vivian Voss' "Where Unix Runs Today":
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today

#unix #macos #osx #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

Where is this INSTALL document?

#NetBSD

Alt...

Screenshot of a post-install message in a Qemu emulator window, white text on blue background: The installation of NetBSD-11.0 is now complete. The system should reboot from hard disk. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL document about final configuration of your system. We also recommend reading the afterboot(8) manpage; it contains a list of things to be checked after the first complete boot. At a minimum, you should edit /etc/rc.conf to match your needs. See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the default values. >Hit enter to continue

I have a computer with damaged com0 interface. This computer has two serial interfaces, so I wanted a install media for #NetBSD for com1. It was a little bit tricky, but finally I got it:
https://sirius-a.neocities.org/#com1

Nach etwas Umstrukturierung der AsciiDoc-Quellen geht das ganz gut.

@bpl How about UDF? It has been supported in #NetBSD since 4.0 and in #OpenBSD since 3.8 (different implementation via #FreeBSD)

Edit: OpenBSD man page says its implementation is read-only, so will work for NetBSD to OpenBSD only. As you say, FFS is fine the other way round

FFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - v1+2, no journaling, no softdeps, OpenBSD does not recognized NetBSD's FFS
NetBSD - v1+2+2ea, has journaling and softdep, recognizes OpenBSD's FFS (but can mount only in ro mode)

Ext2/3/4 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - can create and mount ext2 in rw mode, ext3/4 mounted in ro mode (ext4 has to be 32bit)
NetBSD - same as above

FAT32 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - works flawlessly, file size limit: 4GB - 1B
NetBSD - ditto

ZFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - no
NetBSD - yes, allows for root on ZFS if boot partition is FFS

NTFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - mounts in ro mode, works well
NetBSD - theoretically allows for ro mounting, but I was not able to achieve that :(
See ntfs-3g for rw mounting

Honorable mention - exFA(r)T (as FUSE) - can be recognized as NTFS, use mount.exfat, slow

Wanna transfer data from OpenBSD to NetBSD? Mount FFS in ro mode and siphon data off.
Wanna transfer data from NetBSD to OpenBSD? newfs_msdos is the answer or use exFAT/NTFS+ntfs-3g if you are patient.

Minor tip for those using FAT32 - command split(1) allows to cut tar archives into smaller parts which can be placed onto FAT partition. To merge them, use cat(1).

You probably know all that stuff.

NetBSD 11.0
#NetBSD #BSD
https://alt-f4.cz/netbsd-11-0

Things the OS authors don't want you to know:

* The #FreeBSD logo is Beastie, because it reminds you to dare, hack, and stop praying.
* The #Linux logo is Tux, because even penguins know what it is like to freeze with amdgpu.
* The #Windows logo is a window, because that is where you throw the PC goes after the third BSOD.
* The #OpenBSD logo is Puffy, because it’s the only fish that takes security more seriously than being edible.
* The #NetBSD logo is a flag, because if it boots on your hardware, they claim it as territory.
* The #DragonFlyBSD logo is a dragonfly, because every time you explain HAMMER2, people suddenly find somewhere else to be.
* The #macOS logo is an Apple, because one bite costs 999$, no 1999$, no 4999$. They soldered the RAM to keep the worms out.
* The #ChromeOS logo is #chrome because the operating system is just the browser admitting it won.

This GoToSocial + Readeck instance is now powered by the latest NetBSD 11.0 release 🙂

OS upgrade from 10.1 and packages ✅

#gotosocial #readeck #netbsd

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/08/03) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/valuable-news-2026-08-03/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/08/03) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/valuable-news-2026-08-03/

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

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

@khm

My educated guess is that the wakeup code resets the current active KVT to the first one, and this is done in order to effect an explicit KVT switch that gets everything refreshed.

If someone actually looks at the innards of #NetBSD and finds out the real reason, it will be interesting to know how close my guess came. (-:

#VirtualTerminals

Na dann versuche ich mich mal an #FreeBSD ... Ein Bereich, den ich gelegentlich schon mal mit #NetBSD, #DragonFlyBSD und #OpenBSD angegangen war, aber nie wirklich die Geduld hatte, es länger zu verfolgen.

NetBSD, a Unix-based operating system, is now available in version 11.0. The nineteenth major release of NetBSD is also available as a native port for PowerPC Amigas (experimental) and 68k Amigas.

Regarding the Motorola 680x0 architecture, in addition to improved floating-point emulation, there is a new port called virt68k for running the Motorola 68000 port using the QEMU emulator with paravirtualized devices.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-08-00010-EN.html

#NetBSD #Amiga