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

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

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

#oldcomputers #occ25 #runbsd #oldcomputerchallenge2025 #100DaysToOffload

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Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

$ 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.

😭

#NetBSD

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

Heh, turns out @rl_dane was right; building the #tut CLI mastodon client for #NetBSD 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?

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe (@stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy

@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 #NetBSD. 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).

NetBSD New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds https://lobste.rs/s/fshwoc #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up

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

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-Released

New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds #NetBSD

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

#NetBSD 11.0 release process underway

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process

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!
#NetBSD #OpenSource #PhanMemTuDo #NetBSD11 #MãNguồnMở

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process

NetBSD 11.0 release process underway https://lobste.rs/s/cihzjk #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process

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!
#NetBSD #RISCV #Linux #opensource #netbsd11 #mãnguồnmở

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-Released

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

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/valuable-news-2025-08-04/

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

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

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

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/valuable-news-2025-08-04/

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

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

@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"
- #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #solaris #aix #illumos #gentoo #alpine #slackware #void

#virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, épisode 10, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Hi, I'm the Admin of this instance.

Registrations are not yet open, but will open soon.

#bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #hardenedbsd #bsdnow

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.

#bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #hardenedbsd #bsdnow

Some friendships just don't crash. 😉 Happy Friendship Day from your most stable and reliable OS. 💻❤️ #RunBSD #FriendshipDay #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenedBSD & other BSDs i might have missed :)

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 https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org

The schedule 📅 is at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

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

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

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #Conference #Register #Tickets

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

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!

#opensource #hosting #ipv6 #freevps #boxybsd #runbsd #bsd #devops #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dn42 #peering

#NetBSD 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.

So today I tried my hand at compiling for the first time in the Pi4. I built conky because the version in #NetBSD 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.

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

I was having problems with rxvt-unicode in #NetBSD (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 #SliTaz 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!

#oldcomputers

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

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

@schmonz @lukeshu

I think that you possibly hadn't noticed before because it wasn't NetBSD; but now I've ported all three of #redo, #djbwares, and #nosh to NetBSD (testing on a non-amd64 architecture, no less!), as you've probably seen over the past few months. So now there's a system for building #NetBSD packages alongside Debian's, FreeBSD's, and OpenBSD's.

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux

New post!

The NetBSD Guide has an extensive chapter on installing NetBSD that covers a wide range of scenarios. Its an invaluable resource maintained by volunteer contributors.

After performing a few installs, these are my personal notes of steps taken and choices made. My short and sweet version. 🙂

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

#NetBSD #RunBSD