if there's anything to say about #NetBSD or even #OpenBSD users (to an extent) its:

"if there's a will, there's a way"

or perhaps more accurately:

"if there's a way, someone will, even if impractical"

@hanshuebner das ist doch was für die #NetBSD Bubble :-)

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist https://lobste.rs/s/ularz6 #netbsd
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/

#netbsd

Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").

As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.

BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.

To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!

https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/

#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

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

#ITNotes #NoteHUB #blogging #data #horrorstories #netbsd #ownyourdata #server

@LaF0rge "LibreSSL was ported to other operating systems in the form of the libressl-portable project. Unfortunately, it is rarely packaged in Linux distributions, and is typically used in BSD environments." <- zumindest @netbsd benutzt im Base System OpenSSL, nicht LibreSSL

#NetBSD #OpenSSL

Question for all the #BSD admins out there: have you ever deployed #DragonflyBSD in production?

Personally I deployed my fair share of #OpenBSD and #pfsense firewalls in production. I've also encountered a few #FreeBSD servers and I know that SDF runs on #NetBSD but I've yet to see a DragonflyBSD machine in prod.

@darkuncle

But only on #NetBSD - provided you recompile the kernel with the correct options.

Takes a couple of days, but works flawlessly after that.

Here is one for @imil: viogpu(4) for #NetBSD, added into the MICROVM kernel!

I just booted NetBSD/riscv for the first time on qemu, running on a Raspberry Pi 400. #NetBSD #RiscV #RaspberryPi

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/05/12) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/valuable-news-2025-05-12/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/05/12) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/valuable-news-2025-05-12/

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

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

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025

Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, register before May 19 to get the reception free!

Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, also https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/

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

EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 -

The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals for EuroBSDCon 2025 is open.

Submit yours at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.

See you in Zagreb!

#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon

NetBSD 10.x Kernel Math_emulation

https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/

#netbsd

NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION https://lobste.rs/s/47eqcj #netbsd
https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/

NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION
#NetBSD #linux #RunBSD #pkgsrc

https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/

Finally ... A fully working NetBSD install and matching colors in the Fish shell

#netbsd

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A screenshot of a NetBSD TTY console with a Fastfetch output showing system informations and a orange-themed Fish shell

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025

Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, register before May 19 to get the reception free!

Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, also https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/

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

be wary of blaming the tool when the real tool may have just been yourself

#sysadmin #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #linux

Today is orange flag day! I will experiment with NetBSD as I want to see how it compares to FreeBSD and OpenBSD and possibly use it as a new host operating system for my virtual machines

@stefano has made the best advertisement for NetBSD with the 10 year old server that's possibly still running as of today 😉

#netbsd

@MekahimeAkari

No idea, unless it's just another case of parallel evolution.

Gnu's manpage doesn't make mention of #POSIX. The info page might, but who's got time to faff with that? XD

#FreeBSD's manpage says,

STANDARDS
       The date utility is expected to be  compatible  with  IEEE  Std  1003.2
       ("POSIX.2").   With the exception of the -u option, all options are ex-
       tensions to the standard.

#OpenBSD's says,

STANDARDS

The date utility is compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”)
specification.

The flags [-afjrz], as well as the conversion specifiers ‘%F’, ‘%G’, ‘%g’, ‘%k’,
‘%l’, ‘%R’, ‘%s’, ‘%v’, and ‘%+’, are extensions to that specification.

This implementation requires the traditional BSD date format, [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]
HH]MM[.SS], which differs from the X/Open System Interfaces option of the IEEE
Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

#NetBSD:

STANDARDS

     The date utility is expected to be compatible with IEEE Std 1003.2
     (``POSIX.2'').  However, achieving true compatability requires running
     date with the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT set, in order to parse
     the time string in the archaic format POSIX demands, rather than the more
     rational version described above.

Just dropped oksh-7.7, get it from the usual place: https://github.com/ibara/oksh

#unix #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #shell #ksh #kornshell #opensource #freesoftware

Welcome to Google Summer of Code 2025 contributors https://lobste.rs/s/cvabc7 #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors

Congratulations to the @Google #SummerOfCode students who will work on Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation, Asynchronous I/O Framework and Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing for @netbsd this summer.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/the-netbsd-foundation

#NetBSD #Google #SummerOfCode #gsoc

@netbsd Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced!:

- Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD - Dennis O.I
- Asynchronous I/O Framework - Ethan Miller
- Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD - Vasyl Lanko

To learn more please give a look to the blog post https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors

Welcome Dennis, Ethan and Vasyl!

#netbsd

What's the general opinion on doing scheduled zfs scrubs? Likely to be more useful on the older #zfs that #NetBSD uses?

Snapshots are taken daily and periodically cleaned up. On a system used for backing up files, does it perform a useful integrity test?

My NetBSD repo in SourceForge updated!
https://sourceforge.net/projects/netbsd/

#NetBSD #SourceForge

The latest version of Pale Moon on a 550MHz NetBSD/sparc64 machine. The last portable web browser capable of opening YouTube - slowly, but stable.

#NetBSD #sparc

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A screenshot of a 550MHz NetBSD/sparc64 desktop running ctwm running Pale Moon (here titled New Moon) open to the NetBSD page on English Wikipedia. It is using 516M/2048 memory.

One thing that has come from the reading done so far is that the slogan is wrong.

#NetBSD does not work on the Raspberry Pi 5; only up to the Raspberry Pi 4.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/

But a cheap second-hand #RaspberryPi 4 might be an option. No RTC. But running sntpclock I hope would not be a problem any more than it is on my other machines.

Of course, one of the unknowns here is what of the tools that I have, that build and run on FreeBSD, will build and run on NetBSD. This is one of the reasons for wanting a NetBSD machine. I don't even know whether I can build and run publicfile.

@wolf480pl So yeah, I think that everything has compromises to some extent.

• I'm shure #OpenBSD could even up their #security if they were willing to break #POSIX and #compatibility in general for their distro, but that'll only introduce more headaches and pain along the way.

I chose #Linux as basis for @OS1337 because it solves the #driver problem for me and I know it. I'm just complete shit with #NetBSD which may arguably be the better option targeting low-end systems, but that'll again result in more pain and frustration getting other #apps ported over when I can't just say: "Target linux-#i486 and statically compile in all your dependencies" to any 3rd party as starting point.

@NostalgicKitsune damn...

And I guess there is no #NetBSD #LiveDVD / #BootCD you can plop in on a #BlueBomb'd #WiiMini?

• Or am I too optimistic?

Sorry, I'm too used to #Linux on #Xbox360…