@nixCraft refugees are welcome to #NetBSD https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

@argv_minus_one @radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social @geospacedman @marcusxms #NetBSD doesn't allow LLM AI tainted code

@wfk

Already asked and already answered: #NetBSD has a fairly clear 'no LLM' policy.

If you are looking to financially support a #BSD, #NetBSD has the most humble budget of the three big ones and is rather behind on its yearly goal.

I think it's a good and reputable place for your donation dollars, and yes, I have put my money where my mouth is.

Overall, that was one of the fastest and easiest installations ever.

#NetBSD really shines on these little configurations. A small computer, that could have ended in the trash, is now a happy, productive little machine!

@radicalabacus @nixCraft @loadhigh @faraiwe @Stefan_S_from_H @geospacedman @marcusxms

All of the major #BSD⁠s allow AI code. Even #OpenBSD. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#operating-systems

In light of all the horror stories of vibe coders getting hacked, this seems really really really bad for security. I don't know what OS to use now.

#Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Now THAT is what I wanted to see!

#NetBSD is so much faster on this little machine than Fedora... 😋

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A blue NetBSD installation screen showing 11.0 RC6 formatting the main internal SATA disk.

Looks like it really is time to start paying more attention to *BSD. Does any of them have a clear LLM policy?
#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #UNIX

Building #smolBSD on #Alpine is an adventure: one first needs to edit Makefile and replace --quiet with -s (Busybox's sha256sum doesn't recognize the former option), then edit mkimg.sh and remove --show from losetup options (again, a Busybox quirk). Even then, the build is only mostly successful, and my attempt of running a full live setup... makes me think I should have RTFM for #NetBSD first.

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GNU nano screen, editing Makefile of smolBSD, highlighting option --quiet of sha256sum, should be changed to -s for Alpine Linux.

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GNU nano screen, editing mkimg.sh, highlighting --show option to be removed from losetup so that making the image works on Alpine.

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bmake error, kernel is still using the old partition table, partprobe needed (termux screen)

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NetBSD/smolBSD booting errors

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-153.0 under #NetBSD/amd64-current...

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@openbsdjournal/116929371961710937

Sad to see another vintage arch getting retired by an OS, wonder if #NetBSD still works on #loongson

@tinker

On the BSDs you'll get either the (BSD rather than Debian flavour) Almquist or the Korn shells out of the box in the operating systems themselves.

The Z, Bourne Again, and Watanabe shells come as installable applications.

It's definitely worth learning the Almquist and Korn shells for scripting purposes, not least because they are what you'll get with 'sh' as the script interpreter; but also because the Almquist shell is lighter weight than the Bourne Again shell. As Debian people learned years go when they switched 'sh' to (their flavour of) the Almquist shell, it's worth the initial learning effort in order to not use the shells with many heavyweight interactive features when one is running shell scripts.

@0x09
#UnixShells #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #MirBSD

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

Finally,
$ time qgis --version
QGIS 4.2.0-Belém do Pará 'Belém do Pará' (exported)

real 0m2.083s
user 0m2.070s
sys 0m0.010s

#NetBSD

Just chipped in $15 to The NetBSD Foundation! 🧡🚩

One of the biggest advantages of NetBSD right now is their strict policy against accepting LLM-generated code commits. For a FOSS operating system, this is a massive win. It protects code provenance, avoids copyright pollution, and ensures every line is purposefully crafted and reviewed by actual humans.

If you value clean, human-driven open-source development, join me in supporting them!

🔗 https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #HumanMade #NoAI #AntiAI #RunBSD

Building QGIS 4.2.0 on #NetBSD, for a few hours now. CPU temp shows work. Betriebstemperatur chart is from the Zabbix tools.

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Green line showing CPU temperature as spiking after 9am.

Oh wait, I have this old laptop which may or may not work...

/me starts looking at #NetBSD 11RC6... 👀

New #blog post arrives!

I discovered that, unlike what the documentation says, you in fact do not need GDC to bootstrap GDC.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260713.html

#Unix #compiler #compilers #gcc #llvm #clang #gdc #d #dlang #linux #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #illumos #dmd

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/07/13) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/valuable-news-2026-07-13/

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

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

From the Leanpub Blog: Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock

https://leanpub.com/blog/leanpub-book-launch-three-essays-on-netbsd-by-chris-pinnock/

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #NetBSD #ELF #BSD #OpenBSD #operatingsystems

NEW! Leanpub Book LAUNCH 🚀 Three Essays on NetBSD by Chris Pinnock

https://youtu.be/_AtoCTme0dw

#books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #NetBSD #ELF #BSD #OpenBSD #operatingsystems

Just a friendly reminder that this instance is running on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD and littleFedi (not yet released)

#NetBSD #littleFedi #Fediverse

This is a periodic reminder that #NetBSD is cool.

#RunBSD

🚩 NetBSD 11.0 RC6 available!

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc6_available

#netbsd #bsd #opensource

@vees A bit like #netbsd 11.0RCn