Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t – OSnews

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#apple #timecapsule #netbsd #opensource

@rl_dane @anselmschueler

Lemme rephrase that:

I miss the days when distros used the 2.6.x kernel. Maybe someone around here will just call me a cranky old curmudgeon, but things did seem simpler back then.

The opaque undocumented userland sprawl is a problem, with the operative word being "undocumented."

RE: Arch Wiki

Yes, as good as it is it's still not proper HOWTO or understandable, (vetted) documentation. The *one* thing that has me gravitating towards #FreeBSD is documentation is a first class feature. It makes the OS a lot more transparent and understandable. I'm sure that's also the case for #NetBSD and #OpenBSD but I don't use them.

This laptop runs #Ubuntu. While it is a #Debian derivative, it's opaque. While there is more documentation available on Ubuntu's website, it's nowhere near as thorough and empathetic as it needs to be. I shouldn't have to visit another distro's wiki just to research info about a different distro on an OEM laptop. That, to me, is unacceptable.

TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/mgne1y #mac #netbsd #osdev
https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t https://lobste.rs/s/lpozc6 #mac #netbsd
https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-they-cant/

#netbsd

https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-they-cant/

Has anyone tried #NetBSD/aarch64 11 RC3 on the #RaspberryPi Zero 2W?

@drj Not really. I used and consulted on UNIX in the 80's when I worked with Siemens, we called it SINIX. In 2001 after starting teaching, I started with Linux and used vim from early on for sysadm work and gui editors for extensive editing. I converted from Linux to #OpenBSD and #NetBSD to observe KISS including using only vi for all editing. On those two vi is actually nvi. I never really needed the book more than what's in the first 7 chapters. The clone chapters treats every clone systematically alike. But back in 1998, the clones were not really that different.
This book, UNIX POWER TOOLS, and UNIX in a Nutshell, have been with me for about 25 years or more.

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@tfb @jrsharp
#FreeBSD had proceeded some parts of "abstraction" in this several decades.
For example, separation of buses (like ISA, PCI, USB, ...) and devices connected to any of the buses called "newbus" when it was introduced, GEOM for disks, NETGRAPH for networks. But the appoaches would be different with #NetBSD.
Putting newbus (current implementation) aside, others were for "flexibilities" over "abstraction for compatibilities".

My understanding in difference between aproaches of FreeBSD and of NetBSD would be...
FreeBSD: Make it work and stable, fast for running platform in production first. Then, consider making it portable.

NetBSD: Make it elegant and portable by separating machine independent (MI) parts and machine dependent (MD) parts. Then, making it stable would be easier to achieve. So the next would be performance tunings.

Link to document about newbus (already not "new" bus but "current" bus, though):
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/arch-handbook/newbus/

@TomAoki @tfb understood. And I’m not insensitive to the real deps here. As one who’s been “forced” to consider more minimal libs/deps (by virtue of choosing #OpenBSD on #PowerPC), I have appreciated adjusting my expectations. I expect that as more perfectly good tech / frameworks are deprecated, we’ll see people rethink these things — for the positive. (Like, will the #Linux #486 deprecation bring people to #NetBSD? ;) )

@kingocounty @mirabilos

IIRC, FreeBSD predictably floppy on the subject. :/

I haven't messed with #NetBSD much, either, because it doesn't have a built-in option for full-disk-encryption, but there's a [guide] for doing it manually. I've been dabbling in 9front (I don't know what their LLM policy is), so I will probably do a NetBSD install before too long, as 9front has definitely been stretching me. XD

As far as your reqs, I don't know about NextCloud or Synapse, but an IRC server and modern browser are both quite doable.

@kingocounty @mirabilos

"usable" of course is a very malleable word, but I know #NetBSD has taken a strong stand against it.

Finally found the #Pkgsrc news about Q1 2026:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2026/03/27/msg000392.html
As the pkgsrc.org site has no announcements since 2025 I guess there's a gap in the doc process, after role shuffling. Continued activity as shown by charts: https://pkgsrc.se/statistics.php
#NetBSD

@jmcneill

Also: it seems the #NetBSD Wii is actually on the Fediverse, because yes of course it is... Its owner can be found at @ltning

(I hope I am not starting a DDoS on that poor Wii by posting this...) ☹️

And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. 😂

Thanks for everything @jmcneill !!

(Now, where the heck did I put my Nintendo Wii...?)

@chesheer Ohhh , thats why I bet on #NetBSD for daily computing — any "newbie with AI" touching CVS — will be shot with heavy orbital ion cannon (I hope)

Something I discovered recently:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool!

Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/

And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925

@rl_dane @EF

Yes. The #OpenBSD version does not work as-is anywhere else. Basically: either one modifies the code to conditionally-compile out the OpenBSDisms and loses functionality, or one takes the OpenBSDisms out completely and replaces them with sudoisms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37317970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36353756

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, and #Arch Linux have both Smith's and Overbruck's versions; #Debian Linux only the latter; #SmartOS only the former.

@ianthetechie @tubsta @dexter
#doas #sudo