ha, nice. #NetBSD on my M4 Air using UTM.

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what do i do now?

#BSD #UNIX #Tech #Technology

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NetBSD terminal, logged into root. I typed "Hiya, NetBSD!" into the prompt.

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

@philpem #NetBSD/acorn32 did run on it as @bjh21 wrote the NIC driver, but 8MB was rather limiting!

@flibble @philpem The £575 included monitor, keyboard and mouse per client and a #NetBSD server doing email, intranet, firewalling, routing and fileserving. Also included educational resources and a full productivity suite. Also included installation, training and support with on-site visits

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

@jaypatelani Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself.

Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan this June #BSDCan

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A boot message ending in "bye bye from RISC OS!"

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A black monitor with small white writing on next to a grey computer with its lid removed and various cables loose in the top

@mrgtwentythree @slava @eschaton #NetBSD is way underrated @netbsd :)

@jaypatelani Nice! This is mine box there the #NetBSD is running. Basically, this is just a main part of the cashier (without the display). CPU: Intel Atom N2800, 4 Gb of RAM.

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Photo of the Intel Atom based, fanless machine, working as a server. There are a server, hub (made from an old router), fire extuinguisher and a turka with coffee. Each element has a cyan text with a name of an item.

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drag0n-server$ uname -a NetBSD drag0n-server.lair.internal 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 drag0n-server$ uptime 11:59PM up 5 days, 1:40, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.28, 0.45

@jaypatelani my VPS running NetBSD 10.1. Has WireGuard tunnels to 4 locations with full mesh BGP dynamic routing over the tunnels. BGP runs in GRE. Exposes a haproxy load balancer and reverse proxy for my internal Nextcloud, Firefly3, Frigate.

Has been rock solid apart of a strange OSPF (frr) issue where I can't establish session through GRE tunnel. There's some awkward GRE handling in NetBSD which I can't pinpoint.

All the best to NetBSD!

#netbsd #hobby #vps #networking #bsd #runbsd

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uptime, uname and list of processes running on a NetBSD vps

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

#MirBSD #NetBSD

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Should we rewrite BSDs in Ada/SPARK!?
#runbsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things:

find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time.

no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big?

anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?

@hipsterelectron ofc useful for reading/writing historic classic UNIX volumes, including XENIX, PC/IX and such.

linux removed support recently, but netbsd has a good one. also #netbsd doing lovely things about filesystems overall. they can actually build filesystems as userspace libraries, and have a tar equivalent that works filesystem images in userspace, even on linux for free. use as fuse servers.

yesterday i failed to figure out out how do i submit a patch to #netbsd
i swear i could do that previously
do you just stuff it inline to gnats??
have i gone stupid
or do they not want to be bothered with my supremely important v7fs stability improvements

@aru Affordable: Raspberry Pi Zero (ARM). Obscure might be the Mango Pi MQ Pro (RISC-V) but I'm not sure whether NetBSD works on that yet. #NetBSD #RiscV

@dendrobatus_azureus @OpenComputeDesign @moses_izumi

It's still the primary fs of #OpenBSD, and perhaps still the default for #NetBSD. #FFS

@Enalys I just wanted to have a NAS at home and some small programs (like search engine/frontend 4get: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get), which were made with selfhosting in mind and don't require high-end i9 DDR5 64 Gb computer to work.
Then, I installed #NetBSD to a small Intel Atom based computer, setup Bind9 to have a nice hostname and a local zone for my home networks, setup DHCPD, etc — aaand, looks like I'm a selfhoster, lol

@vlkrs

Mmmm, miggy.

I bet #NetBSD would run on an #Amiga today! 😄

#FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MirBSD

@latelesley @justine

I highly recommend throwing it on an old thinkpad (almost doesn't matter HOW old).
Also, you can get used thinkcenters for pretty cheap, like 50EUR or less. Just add a cheap SSD and you're golden.

I never graduated to daily driving OpenBSD (yet!), but it's great to have on my old Thinkpad X200t.

Hopefully #NetBSD will be able to profit from the wayland prgoress in #OpenBSD?

@matthew How is #netBSD going to deal with https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186 do you think?

@justine
Looks quite simple port without patch.
But reading the description, it seems to be a wrapper for specific syscall with the same name as the port.
So it would depend if the syscall exists on #OpenBSD and compatible with the one on #FreeBSD.
If #OpenBSD matched above prerequisite, and #OpenBSD ports infrastructure is enough alike with #FreeBSD #ports (IIRC, #NetBSD, the direct origin of #OpenBSD, once introduced #FreeBSD #ports framework far before when it was still quite simple and switched to their own #pkgsrc later), the conversion would be trivial.

On #FreeBSD, porters (including myself) first create a port under specific category directory such as graphics, test, hook on category Makefile, generate diff and file a PR on Bugzilla and/or open review on Phabricator.

For any #ports that are not intended to be included in official #ports, no need to hook to category Makefile and no need to file PRs / opening reviews. Ports framework allows it. Hooking on category Makefile is needed to be picked for official #pkg building. Maybe #OpenBSD #ports, too, as without the allowance, how porters attempt to make new ports?

By searching Internet, found this.
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/guide.html

And FreeBSD has a (large) document "Porter's Handbook".
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/

An example how I've added new FreeBSD port.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293719
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D55798

And its relevant commit.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=b23b14c3bfc0d930f7757226b06a88008e95909c

Maybe #OpenBSD would have its own workflow, though.

Looks like not only backups but also my obsession^Wpassion to write detailed entries to my "selfhosting journal" pays back. Any change, I made in my main home server, has a date and a detailed description of changes made. Also, the process of #NetBSD installation and service installation is documented too, alongside with documented list of running services, opened ports, cronjobs, etc.

At one bad day, my main server started to hangup at near 18:00 and at nea 08:00. There weren't any cron (or any another) jobs at this time. In the logs and monitoring the problems with mosquitto (MQTT server) were visible — somehow it eats at near 100% of CPU, then monit restart it, then things become working, then (after some time) the server hangs completely. Investigation showed that write to my second ZFS disk (where the PostgreSQL DB lives) were extremely slowed, so ZFS panicked, crashed and crashes the kernel

[ 204836.661198] wd0d: device timeout writing fsbn 123148477 of 123148477-123148478 (wd0 bn 123148477; cn 122171 tn 1 sn 46), xfer 38, retry 1
[ 204863.837664] wd0: soft error (corrected) xfer 38
[ 206810.672323] wd0: autoconfiguration error: wd_flushcache: status=0x5128<TIMEOU>
[ 212327.420695] SLOW IO: zio timestamp 211326864412007ns, delta 1000556283358ns, last io 211280726737075ns
[ 212327.420695] panic: I/O to pool 'zfs' appears to be hung on vdev guid 1299234741086050345 at '/dev/wd0'.
[ 212327.420695] cpu0: Begin traceback...
[ 212327.420695] vpanic() at netbsd:vpanic+0x183
[ 212327.420695] panic() at netbsd:panic+0x3c
[ 212327.420695] vdev_deadman() at zfs:vdev_deadman+0x15e
[ 212327.420695] vdev_deadman() at zfs:vdev_deadman+0x31
[ 212327.420695] spa_deadman_wq() at zfs:spa_deadman_wq+0xe0
[ 212327.430704] workqueue_worker() at netbsd:workqueue_worker+0xef
[ 212327.430704] cpu0: End traceback...

At the same time, I hear a strange metal noises from server at near 08:00 too, so the destiny of second drive was specified.

The server restoration will take some time, but since anything were written in the log file, I'm able just to replay some actions and get all systems up as soon as possible

#selfhosting #HomeServer

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Emacs buffer with journal entries (in OrgMode) related to the administrative actions in the server.

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Emacs buffer with description of NetBSD installation process on the main server and with lists of TODO items, services, opened ports, etc.

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EGA colored photo of a 2.5 inches HDD

@darth My main laptop, where I doing almost all computing now, running #FreeBSD for (checks notes) 6 years.

For homelab server(s) I'm using #NetBSD because it runs everywhere

The BSDCan 2026 schedule has been published, https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

You can register for the conference, which runs June 17 - 20, 2026 at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #bsdcan #ottawa #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #development #sysadmin #devops #libresoftware #freesoftware

NetBSD Installation with Disk Encryption https://lobste.rs/s/vcmggk #netbsd
https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/

Anyone here has experience doing a "Wi-Fi box" in NetBSD? I wonder how big is the overhead. Both in user effort and computer resources.

When I was younger I used to run a *very slow* virtual machine with Windows XP while daily-driving Linux. So I could interact with government webpages, banks, University software, etc. Anything that I couldn't do in Linux was done in this winXP VM.

Now I'm getting close to do something similar. A light VM with linux to do anything that I can't in NetBSD.

I still don't truly daily-drive NetBSD: I'm writing this tooth from my Linux Mint laptop, for example. To use the Wi-Fi from this machine, I still need a Linux driver, but I'm starting to pet the idea of a small VM + IOMMU to setup Wi-Fi, and use that VM as a router.

Something tells me that battery life will be even shorter that it is now. But it would be better to hear that from people who have actually done something like that.

#wifi #wifibox #NetBSD #runbsd

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, as described in the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

The BSDCan 2026 schedule has been posted. 30 regular talks, one set of lightning talks, and one Audio BoF: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD will be holding two day Dev Summits across the hall from each other in DMS.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606
https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/events.html#bsdcan2026

Just like last year, the reception on Saturday night is free if you register early. This year you must register before May 1, 2026: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html
#bsdcan @bsdcan #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference #ottawa

Third system with #NetBSD 11.0 RC3, a little pi slice.

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neofetch NetBSD 11.0 RC3 output; NetBSD burgee in dark on light blue. text: OS: NetBSD 11.0_RC3 evbarm Uptime: 8 hours, 12 mins Packages: 23 (pkg_info) Shell: sh Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: raspberrypi,3-model-a-plus (4) Memory: 319MiB / 430MiB