@bytebro

It's very unlikely that anything of the sort will occur. There is simply a complete disconnect between Microsoft/Google/Apple user accounts anything that firmware can record in persistent storage before an operating system has even started up.

I predicted, as you probably saw, the form that the compliance measures would take for #Unix and Unix-like operating systems on 2026-03-01, and both 11 hours and about 4 days later they took that form from two different people. One with pull requests on GitHub, one in the very FediVerse thread that I began.

It is operating systems that will see (and indeed have seen) the updates bringing this. Not firmwares.

#AgeVerification #systemd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD

Just discovered a NetBSD kernel bug causing boot failures on the Thinkpad X240 that is seemingly tied to *whether or not the laptop is charging*???

Probably the weirdest bug condition I have ever encountered.

https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=60140

#OpenSource #BSD #NetBSD

#NetBSD and #PA-Risc friends

after installing the #hppa version on 10.1

I am trying to get a ssh tunnel going across the Atlantic
Works fantastic if i DON'T use -N flag
Tunnel goes down after 30sec

so
ssh -C -R port:blabla:port user@server
work flawless

any ideas why?

maybe i am betting too much on my HP715 beast 🤣

#TIL that you can install #NetBSD over serial port

Big kudos to the person testing #NetBSD 11.0 RC2 on an i386, loading the system from floppy disks. Gracias!

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2026/03/26/msg004230.html

A successful boot is often just beyond the moment you feel like giving up on that obscure piece of hardware. Keep hacking—the moment you can finally say, 'Of course it runs NetBSD,' is closer than you think.
#NetBSD 🚩 #RunBSD #Unix #Linux

The European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon 2026 will be in Brussels, 9-13 September 2026.

You can send your talk, tutorial, BOF or other session submission to our program committee before June 2oth, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

For more about the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #programming #devops #bsd #conference

#NetBSD folks, ive been poking at pkgsrc, after many years away. Being someone who doesn't like vanilla firefox, or chromium what do you all suggest in terms of browsers? If anything ? Thinking about putting together a NetBSD+XFCE machine.

WELP I can no longer say that #FreeBSD's draft policy on LLM code contributions was leaning towards #NetBSD's way of thinking of banning the slop code entirely. I was going off what was said at last year's BSDCan.

Apparently it's shifted since then. https://reviews.freebsd.org/differential/changeset/?ref=1487182

Hopefully it shifts back, before it's finalized. I feel a bit crushed. I've been talking about that prior draft policy as a positive indicator for months. Im realizing I had pinned a lot of hope on it.

I've been trying REALLY hard to stay away from software with LLM generated code. (sigh). Ive dived back into FreeBSD hard after many years away, and have even been trying to contribute some stuff to ports.

I guess if this goes south, ill be re-evaluating things. Maybe NetBSD? Though I know it's missing some things from pkgsrc that will hurt to do without. #bsd

@nuintari I think your mirror idea would work, but keep in mind that if you reach the maximum depth of your write cache, the physical disk will hold up writes to the RAM disk until things get caught up.

Something I don’t get: how can it take 40 to 45 minutes to back up, say, 128 gigs? That’s only slightly faster than free-128-gig-USB-stick-from-Microcenter speeds. With a decent NVMe SSD, that should take, say, 128 seconds or so.

RAM disks are great for certain uses. I’ve booted machines with no disks, create a RAM disk, installed #NetBSD on to it, chrooted to it, then run entirely in the RAM disk for months. It’s a great solution to certain problems.

(edit: RAM disk <-> physical disk hold up)

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/valuable-news-2026-03-23/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/valuable-news-2026-03-23/

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

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

New #blog post alert!

I muse about research some of my grad students and I did around independently evaluating some #OpenBSD anti-ROP mitigations, and I bid farewell to being an OpenBSD developer.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260322.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #unix #linux #compiler #compilers #rop #research

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-149.0b10 in my local pkgsrc tree on #NetBSD/amd64-current...

BSD Conference in NL

On Saturday, 9th of May, there is the Spring edition of BSD-NL Our lovely BSD conference, held in the Netherlands. Or more specifically, in Utecht - which is the centre of our little country.

Do you use the BSDs in any way - whether personally, professionally? Everyone with even the slightest interest into the BSDs is welcome, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned maintainer/contributor There will be a couple of talks/presentations, plenty of room and time to hack - and to socialize if that is your thing

So: grab a ticket, join the awesomeness: BSDNL.nl

#BSDNL #BSD #RUNBSD #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #GhostBSD #EvenMyMotherRunsBSD

My #NetBSD web server is up for now
#hppa arch
HP 715/100XC anno 1995

i remind you i am not a web developer 🤣

paj.realnovum.com

@jlw_the_jobber #NetBSD for sure ;)

Happy International Day of Forests. 🌲

While the tech industry burns megawatts and boils millions of gallons of water just to run the latest AI hype-machine, NetBSD🚩 is about extreme efficiency. Writing tight code that keeps the hardware you already own running for decades means less e-waste in the ground and less power pulled from the grid.

You don't need to drain a lake to run a server. Keep your old machines alive. Protect the forests. 💧🌳

#NetBSD #InternationalForestDay #FOSS #GreenTech #Sustainability #NoAI #RightToRepair #Ewaste

Photo By: Andrea Villarreal Rodríguez
“The legacy of the forest”
Country: United States of America

BSDCan 2026 is June 19-20, with tutorials 17-18. If you register before May 1, the closing reception is free!

Register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops

Talks day 1 of #asiabsdcon is about to start #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #unixlike #freesoftware #libresoftware #opensource

@DrInterpreter @AnachronistJohn @jns

@AnachronistJohn @jns @rl_dane I'm looking for an AI-free, secure OS that will let me pretend to be on Windows when I need to and still run ad blocking Chromium browsers, Zoom and solid free video editing.

I think all three major BSDs can run Chromium. I know for certain #OpenBSD can, pretty sure #FreeBSD can as well. My experience with #NetBSD is very limited, though, but probably.

As far as zoom, I'm afraid that's currently out of the picture on the BSDs, to the best of my knowledge. They used to have a web app, but I think that's gone, as well.

Among the Linux distros, Gentoo seems to have a pretty strongly anti-AI stance.

@Zenie @justine @prahou I find #NetBSD/evbarm works on the 32-bit boards. People tell me it (partially) works on some 64-bit boards but not mine. In fairness I think there's a lack of documentation for the SoCs.

@nuintari @mwl

A lot of the sysop infrastructure on the BSDs seems to still have the old reporting model of undergraduates running the occasional password cracker who need to be discovered first thing in the morning and told off by lunchtime, rather than an entire planet of malefactors attacking everything that they can reach all of the time, that one lone sysop cannot do anything to halt.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Some 2026 issues are fun.
Trying to host a simple webpage on my #HP #pa-risc
It crashes when i hit reload a few times on Firefox

What variables can i tune to make it a bit more stable?
#NetBSD #vintagecomputers

BSD was carrying you in the sand this whole time.
(well maybe not FreeBSD :P)

The developers of tmux and ssh don't use LLM.
And honestly tmux and ssh are the best things about "linux".

\o/ one of us , one of us ...

#openbsd #netbsd

Researching my NYCBUG talk on 1 April reminded me of FretBSD.

In 2003, @dvl and I put up a fake web site about the UN forcing #FreeBSD and #NetBSD to merge. The site is gone, but the text is archived at

https://www.freebsddiary.org/fretbsd.php

A ComputerWorld reporter contacted Dan requesting more details for a story, so: we won!

The fifth paragraph, or #OpenBSD? My career peaked early. That last sentence is the finest thing I will ever write.

Game Dev On IBook G4 With NetBSD
https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/game-dev-on-ibook-g4-with-netbsd/

#powerpc #netbsd #bsd #gamedev

smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds

https://www.phoronix.com/news/smolBSD

#smolbsd #bsd #netbsd

Fantastic, my setup on #Netbsd netboot needed a few tweaks to get my #Ultra1 going also.

If you are thinking of getting your #SunMicrosystem going on NetBSD
i put the netbsd-install.gz in my NFS share
The manual is a tad off there.