nethack on netbsd is the ONLY game that counts #nethack #netbsd NO other game and NO other OS because the word "net" fixes all. Remember: all games are car manuals and all computers are cars. Cars are equivalent to fishing nets.

Good debugging thread from @kusalananda. Restic over Tailscale on NetBSD kept failing with "address family not supported". Dropping the tun MTU from Tailscale's 1280 to 1200 seems to avoid it, and it may have turned up a 22-year-old bug in NetBSD's if_tun.c. NetBSD folks picked it up, and a Tailscale engineer offered help.

https://fosstodon.org/@kusalananda/117459955856928626
#NetBSD #Tailscale

@bt TierHive announced on Oct. 15 that they added #NetBSD 11 to their range of available OS images. I knew from @bt that they already had #OpenBSD, and I hoped that NetBSD was available. It's nice when things work out.

I now have a #NetBSD 11 VPS on TierHive that only costs $5 a year. Thanks @bt for the tip.

I'm looking forward to learning.

https://btxx.org/posts/cheap-openbsd-vps/

https://tierhive.com/

Got NetBSD installed, using an external keyboard, since the built-in one somehow only worked at the very beginning, before starting the installation wizard. It still doesn't work, and the WiFi card isn't recognised either

Looks like I'll have plenty more stuff to figure out tomorrow

#NetBSD

Following up to yesterday's shitpost: I did actually slap #NetBSD onto a random old laptop. Been thinking for a while "I should play around with a BSD or something, to understand Unix portability better". And then recently everyone got excited about NetBSD for Reasons™, so why not try that one? 🧵

My timeline is full of #NetBSD recently and I love it.

Presumably on modern #FreeBSD the local fix is also a relatively simple exercise in using certctl(8), as it is on #NetBSD.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=certctl&sektion=8

#eMudhra

Installed #NetBSD/amd64 11.0 on a 2012 Mac Mini. Now I'm waiting for packages to build.

@Taffer and #NetBSD is always gonns run.

Microslop Winslop
GNU/Linuxslop
Androidslop
And *BSDslop (Except for #netBSD).

Whoah, I actually got #NetBSD installed and running #MATE! Cool!

Yes, one has to rtfm but honestly that was pretty smooth.

A few things to troubleshoot, but I got much further than my last time with a BSD 🙂

I quickly tried compiling zmenu on NetBSD.
After modifying the makefile with the correct Xlib path, it seems to be working correctly.

X11INC = /usr/X11R7/include
X11LIB = /usr/X11R7/lib

I also changed PREFIX to install it in the .bin folder in my home directory.

So far, it seems to be working correctly.

#netbsd #zmenu #clang #c-programming #guufxmmp #guufita #bsdITA #unixITA

https://codeberg.org/norwd/zmenu

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zmenu running on NetBSD

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zmenu makefile on Emacs (Spacemacs)

Older laptop (XPG Xenia 15, IIRC) wasn't able to boot Haiku OS (kernel debugger land, which is better than a panic) or Redox OS (some sort of Rust panic/backtrace loop that very slowly writes PCI IDs on the screen).

So I guess *BSD is basically my only slop-free (or lower-slop) option unless I buy a desktop or something. 🤷

#HaikuOS #RedoxOS #NetBSD #OpenBSD

i guess it is time to order some new #NetBSD mugs from https://www.cafepress.com/profile/1821586, the proceeds from which i am told will in turn go to NetBSD

i guess it is time to order some new #NetBSD mugs from https://www.cafepress.com/profile/1821586, the proceeds from which will in turn go to NetBSD

To try it:

```
make clean && make DBG='-DNDEBUG -DCOLOUR'

Press ```Ctrl+]``` to toggle the colours.
Feedback is welcome:  useful, harmless, or distracting? I’ll collect the responses and add them to issue #44: 
https://codeberg.org/SirWumpus/eh/issues/44
Please reply here with your experience if you try it.
#eh #slackware #netbsd #editor

mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117473734072004396

Hello, please immediately run the following commands on your NetBSD installations:

certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_Root_CA_-_C1.pem

certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_C3.pem

Context: groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/…/0XofdebrAAAJ

Hm. I wanted to install NetBSD on a laptop from a USB drive, but it refused to boot. I've tried a different drive, I've tried an older version, I've tried both the USB image and the DVD iso, and nothing worked. Installing Fedora worked without a problem, so it's probably not an issue with the laptop

#netBSD

@rhempel
It's looking like network printing would be easier if I were running CP/M than #NetBSD.

Looks like it's a slightly different process for getting it all set up, but #NetBSD has documentation for getting Linux programs to run https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-linux.html

Great blog from @dwarmstrong with a lot of #NetBSD content https://www.dwarmstrong.org/

An HTTPS certificate authority has been compromised. If you want to ensure #NetBSD is not vulnerable, you can run the following commands as root:
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/Comodo_AAA_Services_root.pem
# certctl untrust /usr/share/certs/mozilla/all/emSign_ECC_Root_CA_-_G3.pem

You can review the untrusted ones with:

# certctl untrusted

Read more: https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/

You can test whether your system is vulnerable by loading the linked pages there.

(Updates coming.)

#Tech #Mastodon I have a question, does #NetBSD have binary forward compatibility (or whatever that would be called)?

Like, if I build something using a shared libc and generally using dlopen() or other careful methods for external libraries, will that binary typicall continue to work on future releases of NetBSD as-is?

I've heard FreeBSD tends to have that, OpenBSD apparently less so...

Asking since I'm tempted to try #NetBSD due to the general #Linux #ensloppification situation stop the #slop etc. by putting my money where my mouth is, at least if this turns out to be feasible...

@unixsmurf

One very simple thing that would make #TianoCore work better with #NetBSD is something that I discovered back in 2025.

NetBSD, like everyone else, expects BS to be non-graphic and non-destructive, and uses it for spinners in its boot loader.

TianoCore makes BS destructive, breaking this.

Ironically, it would make the handling of BS in GraphicsConsoleConOutOutputString() simpler and non-recursive, for a code path that is called a lot by loaders.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePkg/Universal/Console/GraphicsConsoleDxe/GraphicsConsole.c#L903

#FreeBSD

Okay, you switch to #netbsd … but what about Python, Rust, Ruby, Godot, VS Codium, most other software one uses???

I quite like the "micro" terminal-based editor. as the name suggests it's like nano (rather than vim or anything) but 1000x better. syntax highlighting doesn't work in the #netbsd pkgsrc release though for some reason - but the binary on github works fine.

To be fair, I'm very impressed with the final result. A second run after a 400GiB sync from cloud storage to local #ZFS on #NetBSD took less than 2 minutes.

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Two runs of a program called rclone. The first copied nearly 400GiB in 4 hours and 25 minutes. The second took less than two minutes as everything had already been copied. 1% rclone sync --ignore-checksum -P sharefile: ShareFile Transferred: 393.167 GiB / 393.167 GiB, 100%, 2.048 KiB/s, ETA 0s Checks: 31505 / 31505, 100%, Listed 88431 Deleted: 254 (files), 11 (dirs), 4.719 GiB (freed) Transferred: 17333 / 17333, 100% Elapsed time: 4h25m23.6s 2% rclone sync --ignore-checksum -P sharefile: ShareFile Transferred: 0 B / 0 B, -, 0 B/s, ETA - Checks: 24282 / 24282, 100%, Listed 53438 Elapsed time: 1m41.2s

Think I’ll take #NetBSD for a spin today…

@drew i wonder, has anybody ever asked #NetBSD to reconsider the "core can approve slop" clause, or to publish some info on whether core has approved #slop so far?

sounds quite cool though! I'm still hoping somebody might fork an older #Linux #kernel - might be hard to keep that going but it would send a sign.

#LLM #NoSlop #ensloppification #AI #NoAI #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource

Compilando librewolf con pkgsrc-wip en la máquina virtual con #netbsd 😎

#ruido_blanco

Anyway, the #FUTO #NetBSD kerfuffle has a very simple solution: the list of sponsors at the bottom of the page is split into two parts: non fascists sponsors on the left, and fascist sponsors on the far right, explicitly marked as such (and I mean: “Fascist sponsors: ....”).

Today I discovered:
/usr/pkg/share/examples/pkgin/preferred.conf.example
that goes in:
/usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/preferred.conf

non-bloated functionality is always better.

#NetBSD #FransNetBSDJourney #unix

I heard #NetBSD was trending, so decided to check whether we needed to fix anything to build edk2 under it

Not much.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/pull/13332

La instalación de #netbsd en una máquina virtual, previa a la instalación en un #t400 ha sido mucho más sencilla de lo que esperaba.

Veremos con el hierro.

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una pantalla de una máquina virtual corriendo la última versión de netbsd con sistema gráfico, en el escritorio se ve un menú, una terminal con ufetch, firefox y por debajo está thunderbird.

Not as straightforward as on FreeBSD, but you can make your own read only NetBSD device quite easily. I've been doing it for years, and it works perfectly.

Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/10/make-your-own-readonly-device-with-netbsd/

#NetBSD #RunBSD

@peachfiend Yes, unfortunately, it is not like people are suddenly looking for alternatives to Linux, and #NetBSD was ready to catch them. Netbsd had little funding for years, and modern hardware support is not that good. In case you wanna have it improved in a couple of years, support netbsd now.

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@dianea/117471549323589711

I made a new account to focus on my new major project, installing #NetBSD ...well, installing was easy, but now I can get my life back and take control with the UNIX Philosophy. There's even a wikipedia page on it, and you should read it and make it part of your daily life! It is the very opposite of AI Slop:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

#netbsd boosted

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@dianea@mastodon.bsd.cafe

This is what I have been missing until this last week when I installed #NetBSD

Daily mail reports from the system on my own mailserver. This is what they took from us. Now I am getting it back. This network is mine once again. #RUNBSD #security

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Screen capture of X11 terminal window with the Alpine (Pine) mail client viewing mail from the local mail spool, showing security risks to be considered.

This is what I have been missing until this last week when I installed #NetBSD

Daily mail reports from the system on my own mailserver. This is what they took from us. Now I am getting it back. This network is mine once again. #RUNBSD #security

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Screen capture of X11 terminal window with the Alpine (Pine) mail client viewing mail from the local mail spool, showing security risks to be considered.

Got https://braincoded.software, now I need to find a good hosting akin to @OpenBSDAms but with #NetBSD *_*

@scott

It's the same with #DragonFlyBSD's DPorts and also the #FreeBSD ports tree. They all integrate building from source directly using the ports tree with installing binary packages.

https://dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/DPortsUsage/

#NetBSD

it's been heartwarming hearing people are installing #NetBSD. i just put it on my main desktop too! #NoAI #humanemacs

Exploring #NetBSD pkgsrc tonight in more detail on the VM, in prep for the bare metal install. It's really neat. I like how the package tools can be used on from-binary or from-source package installs interchangeably.

I also like how the NetBSD installer grabs the latest quarterly pkgsrc release when you install it from the install CD.

My package builds for #Fooyin and #ChiPass on #NetBSD's PKGSRC repository have gone into the main repo! :)

This doesn't mean there's binary packages yet, but you can build them by cloning the main PKGSRC repo and building them there as opposed to the less trusted wip repo.

got my distraction-free netbsd laptop set up nicely. posting this from the terminal using toot #netbsd

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screenshot of netbsd running on my laptop, spectrwm window manager

I just watched a 4-year-old talk on porting Wayland to Net-/OpenBSD.

All the cool stuff on your computer is in C but I learned Java and PHP.

#OperatingSystems #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Dell Wyse 7040 acquired. I'm thinking I might throw #NetBSD on there.

Installed #NetBSD on my ancient 686 netbook. Surprisingly easy compared to my OpenBSD (in fairness that was on a Raspberry Pi 3).

Curious to see how much of a headache package management will be, coming from Slackware. If things go well, I'll migrate my other machines over from Slackware.

if you missed configuring something during installation, and liked the little TUI interface for doing things, you can use it at any time afterwards in your installed system by just running sysinst as root. the 'Config menu' option likely has most of the things of interest.

you can also launch directly into the TUI partitioner with sysinst -p.

also! if the display messes up at any point while you are using sysinst, you can press CTRL+L to redraw everything. this sometimes happens if kernel messages print while you are doing something. (this keyboard shortcut works in other TUI programs as well)

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NetBSD/amd64 11.0's menu-driven install tool, showing its main menu. it is being run from a fully installed NetBSD system, not the installer image. out of the listed options, the "config menu" option, second to last, is chosen.

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the aforementioned config menu, including options to configure the network, timezone, root shell, root password, install binary packages, install pkgsrc (source-based packages), enable or disable some common daemons, add a user, drop to a shell, or exit.

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the aforementioned partition manager, showing a list of my system's connected disks and their partitions, as well as options to create a cryptographic volume (cgd), virtual disk image (vnd), volume group (lvm vg), or software RAID, update the device list, save any made changes, and finish partitioning.