@sotolf @clouderst @amiablechief

I've used apt, dnf, pkcon, zypper, #NetBSD pkgin, #FreeBSD pkg, #OpenBSD pkg, flatpak, snap, rpm, yum, and homebrew.

pacman has the most obtuse syntax. I have a couple options memorized, 3-4 more in my crib notes, and the rest is hunting through the manpage. :P

@matthew I go with #WMonly, the leaner, the better. I use #ctwm on both #netbsd and #openbsd

Should I replace #Linux on all my computers with #NetBSD?
#BSD

@OpenComputeDesign

I honestly really like the look of the stock #NetBSD WM. ;)

I'm upgrading #NetBSD on my laptop to the latest RC (11.0 RC4) in this coffee shop, soaking up all the Wi-Fi bandwidth downloading source sets which I didn't realize are not on the install image but need to be downloaded on the fly.

Casually reading The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike. I've been Linuxing for nearly 30 years, so it's not like I'm a stranger to this environment, but it's nice to peruse one of its sacred texts.
#UNIX #BSD

If you are using #NetBSD please consider to donate NetBSD Foundation to keep this project running. No big money is needed, every cents matters, https://netbsd.org/donations/ #WhyIRunNetBSD I’ve already done it, and you? 🤔

Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel Grants

Deadline: Friday the 19th!

To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.

Full details:

https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@bentsukun Is there something wrong with Postfix in RC4? #NetBSD

NetBSD 11 RC4 is here! Huge thanks to all the devs getting this ready for the final release.

Quick reminder since we are almost halfway through the year: The NetBSD Foundation needs our help to keep things running. If you appreciate clean code, software freedom, and an OS that literally runs on anything, OS which rejects A.I. slop, please consider making a donation. Let's help them hit their 2026 goals!
Grab the RC: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available
Support the foundation: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #antiaislop #Linux

📍 NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate

｢ Following NetBSD 11.0-RC3 from early April, NetBSD developers hope NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is the last release candidate needed before officially releasing NetBSD 11.0. With it being a year and a half since the NetBSD 10.1 milestone and a year since NetBSD 11 was branched, this new BSD operating system update is ready to meet the world ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC4

#netbsd #bsd #unix

Anyone installed #NetBSD on a WRT55AG or RUTX11 Router and have happened to write down some notes, please let me know :)

@jpmens

In the spirit of there always being 1 more #vi clone than one thinks, notice that @lpar 's list is lacking Ali Gholami Rudi's #neatvi which is packaged in #pkgsrc and about a decade old now.

https://pkgsrc.se/editors/neatvi

And even then the rule still applies. There's 1 more clone: Sterling Huxley's and Brent Roman's #viless, a quarter of a century old and what #BusyBox supplies.

https://github.com/brentr/viless

#NetBSD #OmniOS

@jpmens

I recently wrote http://jdebp.info/FGA/original-vi.html and was thinking of doing something like this, to augment it; because Sven Guckes's list (https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html) is definitely dated and incomplete, nowadays.

It does not have #NeoVIM (for obvious reasons). Most lists of clones miss that there are several forks of Bostic #nvi, not least the two forks that are in #FreeBSD and #NetBSD base. Similarly, #DragonFlyBSD has forked nvi2.

@lpar

#vi #VIM #elvis #STEVIE

🌗 Sijmen 的 Wii 伺服器：用 64MB 記憶體挑戰極限
➤ 64MB RAM 的極致體驗：當 Wii 化身為 NetBSD Web 伺服器
✤ http://wii.sjmulder.nl/
Sijmen J. Mulder 近期完成了一項有趣的實驗，將一臺硬體規格僅有 729 MHz CPU 與 64MB 記憶體的 Nintendo Wii 改裝為一臺運行 NetBSD 10.1 的家用伺服器。他成功繞過了 Wii 原生硬體的限制，透過設定靜態 IPv6 位址與調整網路配置，讓網頁內容能直接透過 IPv6 傳輸。對於尚未普及 IPv6 的用戶，他則利用現有的 Nginx 伺服器進行反向代理。這項計畫不僅展現了對過時硬體的極致應用，更挑戰了現代網頁開發對於記憶體與運算資源的過度依賴。
+ 這實在太瘋狂了！看到 NetBSD 在這種古董機上運作，比單純看它跑遊戲讓人興奮多了。
+ 很喜歡這種「去中心化」的嘗試，證明瞭簡單的 CRUD 網站根本不需要現代雲端那些動輒 16 核、64GB RAM 的誇張配置。
#技術開箱 #復古硬體 #NetBSD #伺服器架設

#NetBSD 11.0 RC4 just dropped!

"We found a few more issues to fix in RC4, and also updated a lot
of bundled third party code due to security issues, including
OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Postfix, bind, xz and more.

"We would love to release this state as 11.0 soonish and hope no big
fallout will be found in this RC."

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC4/

🤔 je me suis lancé dans l'écriture d'un petit programme en c qui pourrait être un simple script shell mais c'est histoire de refaire un peu de code après un certain temps d'abandon, un truc que je n'ai pas vu venir c'est que sous #openBSD le programme terminait avec un code de retour 133 et un magnifique message Trace/BTP trap (core dumped), j'ai essayé le programme sur #freeBSD #netBSD #debianLinux et #voidLinux aucun de ces OS ne m'ont retourné d'erreur. Je viens de résoudre mon problème sur openBSD simplement en passant les arguments classiques int argc, char *argv[ ] à la fonction main ce que je ne faisais pas avant et qui passe crème sur les autres OS🤷

NetBSD デバイスドライバの DMAポーリング処理での bus_dma(9) API 呼び出し - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場
https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/netbsd-dma-driver

いさきさん向けにメモ

#はてなブログ #NetBSD

Open Source Conference Japan in #Nagoya coming up on 23rd of May!

https://event.ospn.jp/osc2026-nagoya/

Mostly Linux, but also a #NetBSD booth set up as well!

#OSPN #OpenSourceConference #Japan #OpenSource

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

(Edit 2026-07-17: removed stray "DeadLikeMe" hashtag that had been left over from the previous post. Oops! ;)

#Linux users who haven't tried #NetBSD yet will be haunted by these tonight:

@ironbeagle Looks like #NetBSD there is: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362

@MsDropbear42

Beneath the Linux surface: the UNIX legacy, a lively ecology https://lobste.rs/s/ct9mlh #freebsd #illumos #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://club.unix.rocks/commentary/under-linux/

And we get a new #Slackware kernel today (5.15.206) to correct the very last CVE from #DirtyFrag - nothing published on the web site yet, but I suspect that's the one.

Also: one more Linux kernel update or zero day and I will seriously consider moving to #OpenBSD or #NetBSD for good...

Continuing adventures in #NetBSD on my Thinkpad...
I managed to get #XFCE up and running using the NetBSD Guide (disabling XDM helped). Tip: `pkgin install xfce4-extras` to get some useful panel widgets. Also, I managed to configure an additional Wi-fi network successfully (the coffee shop I am at right now). I installed Firefox 128. They have newer versions in the repository, but I wanted a slightly old version with less bullshit.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/

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

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

BSD-NL Conference Early 2026 - Eirik Øverby - On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgia https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF

#netbsd #dos #nostalgia

TIL that #NetBSD doesn’t provide Linux emulation on #arm64.

#Fedora #Suse #Linux refugees are welcome to the #NetBSD world :)

https://www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05/10/both-fedora-and-ubuntu-will-get-ai-support-soon/5237409

#NetBSD

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/09/macos-27-threatens-to-bury-time-capsule-foss-brings-a-shovel/5234824

I installed #NetBSD on my #Thinkpad T580. Amazingly, it works. If you select to install XDM (X Display Manager) during installation, then you boot to a graphical login that loads a very primitive X environment with CTWM a window manager for X that gives off distinct 1992 vibes, which happens to be the year it was created. It's an austere #UNIX environment. Perfect, honestly. There are modern desktops in the package repository. My first impressions are A+.

Lets try some #hashtag #wordsalad

Finishing internal #wiki notes on connecting across #Tailscale to boot a remote #Dell server via #iDRAC from a #proxmox iso image (on my #NetBSD laptop in a #Firefox window). Wipe, install, then install #pfSense and flip the Proxmox to be secured behind pfSense, and add a #Ruckus smartzone controller and some other VMs

All without physical access to the machine. Takes me way back to remote #Sun #Sparc installs via a #RS232 #Spiderport :-p

On DOS, floppies, NetBSD and nostalgia https://lobste.rs/s/yrjcuu #netbsd #retrocomputing
https://exquisite.tube/w/dkV6kWiT9sp2y6xVwkH1iF

@codemonkeymike
https://discoverbsd.com/p/a91b288102

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/

@stefano in on the Fediverse.

There are a few others on #FreeBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD who will be willing to help.