@JohnMashey @maxleibman
I love that so much! Does it run #NetBSD?

@thezerobit

From what I’ve briefly looked into, it might even be possible to set up a root filesystem with ZFS on #netbsd. I’m not sure what the comments about memory usage are referring to—I have several VPS instances, as well as some home machines running on #OrangePi with 512MB of RAM, and they all run perfectly fine with ZFS on FreeBSD.

I think I’ll try to see how NetBSD ZFS performs in real-world conditions with 512MB🤣

https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-151.0b10 under #NetBSD/amd64-current. It is better than 150.

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers: Submit by June 20th!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/05/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/valuable-news-2026-05-18/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/05/18) available.

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/116593026437664450

Huh, looks like I'm started to learn #NetBSD just in time 🤌

I've made more progress with getting #NetBSD running and mostly usable on my Thinkpad T580. I started a document with my notes on how to set up a usable desktop. Some of this information is missing from the NetBSD Guide, Wiki, and FAQ & HOWTOs pages. Some of it was buried deep in man pages, or found by extensively searching pkgsrc repository. https://codeberg.org/thezerobit/public_notes/src/branch/main/netbsd_notes.md

I have yet to figure out how to automatically disable the touchpad while typing.

@veer66 #pkgsrc works on a number of different operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. You don't have to run #NetBSD to use pkgsrc 🤘

Works for me on OpenBSD. You can also use KDE Connect.
#OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD

I'll be speaking at NYC*BUG on June 3. So... show up? You can show up online, no expensive flight to Manhattan needed.

https://www.nycbug.org/

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #Solaris #Illumos

Yesterday I updated my laptop to #NetBSD 11 RC4. Went smooth. After I upgraded #pkgsrc to 2026Q1 using pkg_chk. It was the first time I managed to upgrade pkgsrc packages using this tool without problems! 🥳

@sotolf @clouderst @amiablechief

I've used apt, dnf, pkcon, zypper, #NetBSD pkgin, #FreeBSD pkg, #OpenBSD pkg, flatpak, snap, rpm, yum, and homebrew.

pacman has the most obtuse syntax. I have a couple options memorized, 3-4 more in my crib notes, and the rest is hunting through the manpage. :P

@matthew I go with #WMonly, the leaner, the better. I use #ctwm on both #netbsd and #openbsd

I don't give up yet.

#NetBSD

Alt...

Downloading NetBSD 11rc4

Should I replace #Linux on all my computers with #NetBSD?
#BSD

@OpenComputeDesign

I honestly really like the look of the stock #NetBSD WM. ;)

I'm upgrading #NetBSD on my laptop to the latest RC (11.0 RC4) in this coffee shop, soaking up all the Wi-Fi bandwidth downloading source sets which I didn't realize are not on the install image but need to be downloaded on the fly.

Casually reading The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike. I've been Linuxing for nearly 30 years, so it's not like I'm a stranger to this environment, but it's nice to peruse one of its sacred texts.
#UNIX #BSD

Back on my bullshit again (a #NetBSD VM)

Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel Grants

Deadline: Friday the 19th!

To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.

Full details:

https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@bentsukun Is there something wrong with Postfix in RC4? #NetBSD

NetBSD 11 RC4 is here! Huge thanks to all the devs getting this ready for the final release.

Quick reminder since we are almost halfway through the year: The NetBSD Foundation needs our help to keep things running. If you appreciate clean code, software freedom, and an OS that literally runs on anything, OS which rejects A.I. slop, please consider making a donation. Let's help them hit their 2026 goals!
Grab the RC: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available
Support the foundation: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #antiaislop #Linux

@jpmens

In the spirit of there always being 1 more #vi clone than one thinks, notice that @lpar 's list is lacking Ali Gholami Rudi's #neatvi which is packaged in #pkgsrc and about a decade old now.

https://pkgsrc.se/editors/neatvi

And even then the rule still applies. There's 1 more clone: Sterling Huxley's and Brent Roman's #viless, a quarter of a century old and what #BusyBox supplies.

https://github.com/brentr/viless

#NetBSD #OmniOS

@jpmens

I recently wrote http://jdebp.info/FGA/original-vi.html and was thinking of doing something like this, to augment it; because Sven Guckes's list (https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html) is definitely dated and incomplete, nowadays.

It does not have #NeoVIM (for obvious reasons). Most lists of clones miss that there are several forks of Bostic #nvi, not least the two forks that are in #FreeBSD and #NetBSD base. Similarly, #DragonFlyBSD has forked nvi2.

@lpar

#vi #VIM #elvis #STEVIE

#NetBSD 11.0 RC4 just dropped!

"We found a few more issues to fix in RC4, and also updated a lot
of bundled third party code due to security issues, including
OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Postfix, bind, xz and more.

"We would love to release this state as 11.0 soonish and hope no big
fallout will be found in this RC."

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC4/

NetBSD デバイスドライバの DMAポーリング処理での bus_dma(9) API 呼び出し - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場
https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/netbsd-dma-driver

いさきさん向けにメモ

#はてなブログ #NetBSD

Open Source Conference Japan in #Nagoya coming up on 23rd of May!

https://event.ospn.jp/osc2026-nagoya/

Mostly Linux, but also a #NetBSD booth set up as well!

#OSPN #OpenSourceConference #Japan #OpenSource

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeadLikeMe #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

#Linux users who haven't tried #NetBSD yet will be haunted by these tonight:

@ironbeagle Looks like #NetBSD there is: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362

@MsDropbear42

And we get a new #Slackware kernel today (5.15.206) to correct the very last CVE from #DirtyFrag - nothing published on the web site yet, but I suspect that's the one.

Also: one more Linux kernel update or zero day and I will seriously consider moving to #OpenBSD or #NetBSD for good...

Continuing adventures in #NetBSD on my Thinkpad...
I managed to get #XFCE up and running using the NetBSD Guide (disabling XDM helped). Tip: `pkgin install xfce4-extras` to get some useful panel widgets. Also, I managed to configure an additional Wi-fi network successfully (the coffee shop I am at right now). I installed Firefox 128. They have newer versions in the repository, but I wanted a slightly old version with less bullshit.