I have the code for #GNU #coreutils 9.11 #dd to use #getopt, and here it is in action.

I have no idea how to show the code to the coreutils people, whoever they even are. But it exists, and has finally been done.

So that's two versions of #FreeBSD dd, and now GNU dd. I'll do #NetBSD dd next.

I still intend to set up an #Illumos system at some point, but a patch to #Tribblix/OpenIndiana/OmniOS/SmartOS dd will have to wait on that, unless an Illumos person sees these and is inspired. (-:

Alt...

A terminal session in white on black. At the coloured Z shell prompt, the dd command is first run with --version to show that it is the one from GNU coreutils 9.11. Then it is run with getopt-style long options, and finally run with getopt-style short options, to copy a few blocks from /dev/zero to /dev/null,

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

#netbsd

#NetBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

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

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

I am now using a freshly built #PaleMoon web browser on #NetBSD and I feel like this is working out better than the others I've tried, including konqueror and badwolf. Fortunately they have enough plugins available to let me have vertical tabs, which I've come to think of as almost necessary to web browsing.

Alt...

Mx. Chara Aznable's cyberpunk.lol webpage shown in a `palemoon` browser window with a vertical-tab plugin installed, running on their NetBSD `ctwm` desktop

@raster I wish Steam ran games properly on #FreeBSD. I have no idea how Wine runs on #NetBSD or even if there's Vulkan support. I have just an Intel Iris Xe.

Hey BSD-heads: Has anyone done a serious comparison of NetBSD's UVM and FreeBSD's VM? #FreeBSD #NetBSD

After like two weeks (okay not that long and I interrupted it a few times to shut the machine down or boot into Linux) the #NetBSD pkgsrc build of konqueror is finally done.

Looks like, with the great help of @AnachronistJohn , @abs0 and @jaypatelani , I switched my NetBSD system from using binary packages via pkgin to the pkgsrc and building packages from source

https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html

For now, it works and I'm able to have some packages in my system, with the necessary compile-time options. And only one version of Python interpreter installed, not two . Also removed a lot of unnecessary packages, so the disk space usage went down from 18 Gb to 17 Gb

#NetBSD #pkgsrc

@justine Until recently I ran #NetBSD on an old Mac Mini. I couldn't get sound to work through the internal speaker or HDMI out. Didn't have an amplifier set up to test line-level analogue out.

New link saved:
NetBSD 11 from scratch | MeanMicio
🔗 https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/
In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD "from scratch", as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system. This…
#netbsd

@mirabilos

It's #FreeBSD, and the C library thereof. As I said before, It's not GNU anything, and as I've also mentioned, it's not even the same behaviour as the GNU stuff, ironically lacking the very behaviour that you brought up as what you didn't like, which was a deliberate choice by the people who wrote it all of those years ago because they didn't like that either.

@lanodan @benjamineskola @kimapr
#dd #NetBSD

If all of you all (you know who you are) currently exploring #NetBSD (for, uh, reasons*) would donate a little bit of money to the NetBSD Foundation, I am sure that sad little gauge under the logo would look a lot better.

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate

Because right now, it stands at about 12K out of a goal of 50K and it makes me sad. 😔

Donate! 💶 💵 💷

(* good reasons, I might add)

[Stéphane HUC :: Revues] Promotion de la revue quotidienne à-propos de : NetBSD 9.5

> Publication de la version 9.5 de NetBSD, version finale de la branche stable 9.

- https://huc.fr.eu.org/fr/revues/2026/09/06/netbsd-9.5/

#NetBSD

@mirabilos

That's not getopt_long(), GNU or otherwise, causing that.

It's complaining about *short* options, -s and -h combined into one, after all. It is actually functionality of non-long #GNU getopt: its argument vector permutation, described in getopt(3).

@_wiz_ actually discussed this on the NetBSD mailing list back when they wrote the #NetBSD getopt.

They were against. Neither getopt() nor getopt_long() do this in the BSD C library.

https://groups.google.com/g/muc.lists.netbsd.tech.userlevel/c/R8fQDQXFbn0/m/j-rDtXttIwcJ

@benjamineskola
#BSD

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9 https://lobste.rs/s/7ymd5q #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

So, I installed NetBSD on an old Inspiron N4110 but I'm struggling to get it to connect to wifi

The adapter (Atheros AR9285; 168C:002B) seems to be detected well as athn0 but when I try to `wpa_cli scan` it shows no network, when there should be a couple around

How do I convince it to correctly scan and connect to the network I have?

#NetBSD #AskFedi

Research carried out using NetBSD

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/research.html

#netbsd

NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

#netbsd

#NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for netbsd-9

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_5_released_and

Day 6

Getting acquainted with the 'vi' editor, which on NetBSD is the 'nvi' version. I created a '~/.exrc' file with a few options for more comfortable use:

$ cat .exrc
set showmode ruler
set number
set searchincr iclower
set tabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set expandtab

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-edit.html

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

@chadmccullough

At least, with #NetBSD you get 'pkgin' and a lot of nice people who compile stuff for you so you don't have to... And you can still use pkgsrc for something exotic if needed.

Especially on some underpowered machines, where NetBSD really shines.

Ask me how I know... 😉

NetBSD 11 from scratch https://lobste.rs/s/be5lrk #netbsd
https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/

Learn about software engineering for cyber resiliency at EuroBSDcon 2026 in Brussels:

The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source
Alice Sowerby, Pierre Pronchery and Peter Hansteen 2026-09-10, 10:30 full day

See https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

#eurobsdcon #bsd #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #development #engineering #cra #cyberresilience #cybersecurity

Just published "NetBSD 11 from scratch". I had a lot of fun writing it while diving into the internals of this great operating system. Hope you enjoy it and find it useful.
Happy hacking! 👇
https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/
#NetBSD #encryption #CGD #privacy #noAI #OpenScience

@mirabilos

It's not GNU anything at all. It's straight out of the BSD C library.

It was added to #NetBSD in 2000, and has been included in the #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD C libraries for about 24 years. The OpenBSD import was done by @millert in 2002. The original is credited to @_wiz_ and Dieter Baron.

#getopt #BSD

@mason @narkode oh I meant Narkode to send an email to see if those packages can be run on #NetBSD :)