ioctls from Rust via @wezm https://lobste.rs/s/zzhehz #netbsd #rust
https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/ioctls-rust

Only 7 days to go!
A tale of an dangerous NetBSD server that became mission-critical - and hated.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

All BSDs should also focus on the Desktop side of experience #DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
#GhostBSD trying but I think we need more united effort to promote.

Setting up a NetBSD 11.0_BETA VM for some testing, and nice to see I no longer have to disable xhci to get it to boot.

#netbsd #smartos #bhyve

8 days to go!
A NetBSD server running since 2010 - uptime and reliability story.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Shamelessly stolen from Reddit /r/NetBSD

"If you want to rationalize your computer hoarding #NetBSD is best."

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

A little more than a week from now, #BSD people will start our trek to #Zagreb for EuroBSDcon 2025 (Sep 24-28).

You can join us there!

Program https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/
Register https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html
Main site https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

#eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware

Oh, looks like there is one problem with using cash register as a server

The Intel Atom N2800 doesn't support VT-x, so I can't use nvmm NetBSD hypervisor. Looks like the only one option to sandbox some services, which should be exposed outside, is to use chroot and sandboxctl: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/sandboxctl/

#NetBSD #homelab #chroot

@krutonium @landley @geerlingguy IDK but I also didn't knew that #32bit #ARM (i.e. #AMRv5r11 as used by the #RaspberryPi #Pi0 / #Pi0W) is out of patent protection...

• I started @OS1337 as an effort to build a "legacy-friendy" minimalist #toybox + #musl / #linux distro as a basis for #firmware (i.e. for a #minimalist #embedded system like an applianced "#SSH-#Terminal" in critical IT)…

Killing non-#64bit support in Linux would be a death sentence for many #EmbeddedSystems.

• And I don't think they can all be migrated to i.e. #NetBSD, as it already took huge efforts to get them away from #MSDOS & #WindowsEmbedded…

@imil #NetBSD 11.99.1 ???

@solene You write about "
#OpenBSD extreme privacy setup" on your website. Are you by any chance aware of anyone doing something similar about #NetBSD?

TIL: NetBSD has the file NetBSD.el in /usr/share/misc/ for setting its C programming style in EMACS

#netbsd #emacs #til #cprogramming #c

@phix Do you, by any chance, have a hint to where I might find some reading material on #privacy and #anonymity when using #netbsd as a daily driver?

Starting the day with style. #NetBSD

@ball no idea about 5B (though it seems that not a lot of OS can run well on it at this point, from a quick search online), but in the 4B #NetBSD is amazing!

The only "gotcha" is that you have to do the UEFI boot [1] on it, otherwise NetBSD won't recognize all drivers. Thus you boot the UEFI firmware off the SD card and then boot the OS from an external driver. However, once you set this up, it's amazing. You can max out all the RAM, overclock the thing and NetBSD provides the rest!

[1]: https://github.com/pftf/RPi4

Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
This calls for a celebration!

EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #RunBSD

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-143.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current... #pkgsrc #NetBSD

#BSDCan_2025 #FlippingBits: #MemoryErrors in the Machine by Taylor C,
https://toobnix.org/w/63XrJzaDmyxUf1JBvmgVRX

#computetring #NetBSD

@kzimmermann I would like a #RaspberryPi 4B or 5B but I have doubts about #NetBSD on them.

Trying to stand up #NetBSD on a #RaspberryPi Zero 2W. So far it's not working.

I just updated #odinlang in #pkgsrc wip. Im looking for people that would like to test on #NetBSD

@shmok I use #openbsd on one, #netbsd on another, and #alpinelinux on a third - with or without #freetube ;) so where do I put my vote :)