Ok, I got back to this, and I got the eMMC working by adding a build config to limit it to 52Mhz (and now the note at the end of the README for the quartz64_uefi makes more sense, I must have been bumping up against that :-).

This did allow me to try installing #NetBSD to the eMMC, and that worked! But broke booting ubuntu... welp.

Ethernet is still not working.

@resuna @GrantMeStrength Pity that was lost! What language did you use?

Apologies for the ESR references in this link, but it includes many stories of Trek code bases:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek/sst-doc.html

And there's still a #Trek in the #NetBSD source tree, under /usr/src/games/trek .

The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa

Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)

Is the bug collection of #NetBSD at https://gnats.netbsd.org/ available in some other form where there would be working links to each response?

(Am reading currently https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=56944 )

@rqm TIL!

```
vsis$ which tetris
/usr/games/tetris
```

wow #NetBSD *rules*!

@rqm tetris(6) is also part of rescue(8) so you may be able to use it even in a machine that is not so OK! :)

There is also this PR that is probably one of the nicest ones: PR misc/31370 https://gnats.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=31370

#netbsd

#FreeBSD has been using #mtree https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mtree&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.3-RELEASE&arch=default&format=html from #NetBSD AFAICR.

Above reminder brought to you due to https://goto.marcodaleo.com/@mdaleo404/statuses/01KD2XXCRJ8THXNBXJ3K06A429 that points to "chguard".

#sysAdmin

Ooooh, cross-platform-actions on #Github now supports #NetBSD, #IllumOS (I asked for this a long time ago) and #Haiku! So that's three more things added to my to-do list for 2026.

I already use it for auto-testing my terrible code on #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD.

https://github.com/cross-platform-actions

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/12/22) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/valuable-news-2025-12-22/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟮𝟮 (Valuable News - 2025/12/22) available.

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

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

@johndoe99077

Aficionados will remember /vmunix for #Unix with demand paged virtual memory.

To this day, the #OpenBSD and #NetBSD kernels likewise live in single files in the root directory.

https://man.netbsd.org/boot.8#FILES

@me_ @flexion

@subnetspider The #NetBSD equivalent is the rather verbose atactl <dev> identify

Alt...

# atactl wd0 identify Model: ST16000NM002H-3KW133, Rev: RE03, Serial #: ZYD078A8 World Wide Name: 5000C500E81DDD6D Device type: ATA, fixed Capacity 16 Tbytes, 31251759104 sectors, 512 bytes/sector Cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sec/track: 63 Physical sector size: 4096 bytes First physically aligned sector: 8

All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if #NetBSD permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.

I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.

#RunBSD #EndOfRant

The BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS devroom schedule at Fosdem 2026 is online !

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/bsd-illumos-bhyve-openzfs/

#Fosdem #zfs #bsd #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos

Right before christmas, the R1OS Forum is ready and registrations are open. The forum is for all people that need some support or want to discuss about free and open source software, especially Linux and BSD operating systems.

Please note that the forum is not affiliated with any projects and cannot help with official problems related to these. Please use the official channels if you need specific help with a project.

#r1os #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

RE: https://mastodon.social/@andrewrk/115748470183155000

#NetBSD

The scariest boot loader code https://lobste.rs/s/s5zoaj #hardware #netbsd #openbsd
http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/boot_hppa.html

The #NetBSD 🚩community is amazing! 🔥
Let's come together to reach the foundation's $50,000 year-end goal. Your contribution directly drives the project's future and innovation. Every donation helps!
https://netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #OpenSource #FOSS #Donate
#outreach

Eight hours into my #NetBSD adventure and I have just had to read the kernel source code. Yay! The bit I looked at was distressingly clean and even had *comments*. Eeuuww!

Also, it is still building all the software I need. That's not the OS's fault, I didn't expect an emulated #Pentium to be speedy.

I have it running on #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Linux, #MacOS, #IllumOS, #iOS, and have a user on the legacy #Android OS. That's basically everything that matters.

Is there any platform where #tailscale doesn't work? 32-bit #NetBSD? No problem!

I mean, yes, "of course it runs NetBSD", but I really wasn't expecting "of course it runs *on* NetBSD".

Hurrah!

I've been using my Toshiba netbook for two days and I love/hate it.

The keyboard is very unergonomic. Maybe that's the reason netbooks are not popular anymore.

To find software that supports i686 machines is harder than expected. What's the purpouse of high level languages if not abstract the machine? Also I have found *zero* modern web browsers available for i686. Dillo works great for non-js websites, which are not a lot, sadly. Anything based on webkit crashes and I should try to find out why.

TUI/CLI stuff works OK, of course (Now I'm tooting with toot-cli), which kinda makes this thing ideal for hanging out in tilde servers.

But in general, it feels very cool to not need more than 32bits addr space and 2 GiB of RAM to do stuff. Of course I don't need a supercomputer to read some toots and to read some email!

#NetBSD #netbook #toshibaNB105 #toshibaNB100

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@shodansafari/115737625174007924

#NetBSD

"What if" Wednesday

What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?

How long would your laptop last?

How long would your operating system last?

How long would the internet last?

#ShowerThoughts #WhatIfWednesday #FreeBSD #Linux #Computing #NetBSD #OpenBSD #OpenSource

New #blog post!

I install #FreeBSD 15.-0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. You can too!

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20251216.html

#openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #arm #arm64 #aarch64

My go-to is #WindowMaker though. Or, on super low end devices (486), ctwm (default in #NetBSD and #OpenBSD I think.

#NetBSD 10.1 was released on December 16 2024 - exactly one year ago.

Not a bad anniversary. Post your favorite stories and/or functionalities of NetBSD in the replies, I am curious to see who is using it and for what...

I investigated some #NetBSD/i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76815, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! 🤩

Have you used tiling Window managers? I'd really like to do more with NetBSD and the i3 window manager but I haven't set aside much time for that yet.

#netBSD #i3wm

Linux Mint Debian Edition will work fine.

Looks like you are a BSD guy, so I really like what I see in NetBSD and that likely would work fine on the T410, too.

#thinkPad #NetBSD

@thomholwerda @hp @CursedSilicon Even if ssh for HP is old, one can still use a modern system as a jumphost using ssh -J.

A Raspberry Pi or something similarly small / low power can run a modern OS (like #NetBSD), and you can offer key-based ssh to it, and allow ssh access from it to your HP. That’s one hopefully simple possibility.

Here's my setup: https://schmonz.com/2025/11/12/small-macs/

(Writing... muscles... loosening.)

#macos #linux #netbsd

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

A new #blog post appears!

I built a native GCC 14.2.0 for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger PowerPC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250329.html

#macos #macosx #tiger #powerpc #power #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #solaris #illumos #gcc #llvm #clang #compiler #compilers #assembler #linker #toolchain #freesoftware #opensource #gnu

All right, pkgsrc 2025Q1 has just been announced on the mailing lists.

It's not even on pkgsrc.org yet! 😉

#pkgsrc #NetBSD