Day 26

Created an account on @Codeberg and uploaded my Openbox and X11 configs.

https://codeberg.org/dwarmstrong/dotfiles/src/branch/main/.config/openbox

#Codeberg #Openbox #X11 #40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

@EnercoConseils
"La Document Foundation a clarifié sa position sur l’IA. Si elle n’a rien contre les LLM par principe"

Ca commence et termine pas bien, ça veux donc dire que c'est juste un détail technique, une question de temps .. Bref la slopisation de l'écosystème libre (linux, debian..) me rends triste.

C'est la fin de l'ère où le logiciel libre se voulait avoir une portée humaine et sociale, une ère où parler d'éthique était normal.

*team vieux con ;)*
s'en retourne étudier l'informatique décoloniale du futur #permacomputing qui permettra dans un premier temps de travailler sur presque n'importe quelle machine déjà construite (team #netbsd #uxn :)

@protonprivacy

#NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #GhostBSD, but I have used Windows (games) for many years. However with Win11, its intrusive nature (login account, ads up the wazzoo, excessive telemetry, AI crap) will push me to replace Windows on my next laptop purchase with a sane OS.

the #netbsd irc channel is having a normal one about open-slopware #lang_en

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cnet/home-tips-%F0%9F%8F%A1-sh4g74nkz/-/a-jZvC9c3VQ4SM4EEo9orhmg%3Aa%3A24934323-%2F0

Of course it runs #NetBSD.

Improving and Stabilizing the Racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2

#netbsd

Huge news for the NetBSD community today! 🎉

The yearly funding campaign just wrapped up with a massive $120,282 raised against a $50,000 goal.

Great job to everyone who chipped in! 🚩

#NetBSD #Linux #runbsd #noai #nollm #noslop

Alhamdulillah di bulan September kemarin, setidaknya ada 120 orang yang kemudian ramai - ramai berdonasi ke @netbsd sehingga terkumpul total s/d September sekitar 120rb USD dari target 50rb USD.

Semoga dengan ini para developer bisa mempergunakan uang donasi untuk mengembangkan #NetBSD dengan lebih baik lagi.

Ingat NetBSD itu OS bukan distro apalagi cuma kumpulan dotfiles!
Ia mendukung perangkat hardware mini sampai paling canggih, tapi bekerja bukan untuk ngasih  elu tampilan yg fancy

@netbsd congratulations 🎉 #NetBSD #noai #nollm #noslop #runbsd

Well, got NetBSD booting and working on the JavaStation!

More of a pain than it should have been, probably, but got there!

#sun #javastation #retrocomputing #netbsd

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macOS terminal screenshot showing the serial output from a JavaStation-1 running NetBSD 11.0. There is kernel information, vmstat and an ASCII Sun Microsystems logo.

@iamleot Very interesting. A nice-looking square board. ~$20

No built-in Wi-Fi—well, I might as well not have it on my Banana Pi M2 Zero either.

#NetBSD? Do all the H3 cores boot up?

Decided to do that hardware probe thing and see just how bad things will be overall for #NetBSD, and https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=4e274ddb05 uhh... am I boned

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/117371609620019178

I don't know what shipment group I'm in, but I'm so excited to be getting closer to getting my hands on one and making sure NetBSD runs on it!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next/updates/shipping-news

#mnt_reform #netbsd #open_hardware

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@mntmn@mastodon.social

the 14 MNT Hyper Reform Nexts in their cactus leather sleeves, now being packed into boxes for the monday shipment!

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14 MNT Hyper Reform Next laptops in their black vegan leather sleeves on the table in front of me. Tina is looking on from the couch

I can't assume that I'll be able to get a new video card any time soon. I don't suppose there's much hope of #NetBSD getting better #Nvidia drivers? Even just a newer version of nouveau would be better than struggling along with antialiased low-res framebuffer display

Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon (keys exchange for VPN) in NetBSD - Report by Artem Belan as part of Google Summer of Code 2026 #VPN #NetBSD https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2

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Logo for NetBSD Operating System

FreeLinX is an independent Linux distribution built around the Linux kernel, a NetBSD-derived userland, the musl C library, and the LLVM toolchain.

• github.com/FreeLinX/FreeLinX

@dotpk Indeed it is. Android switched to cdc-ncm - network control mode since the Pixel 6. I'm still looking into the details but I want to get it working on #OpenBSD. #NetBSD has a driver since their newest 11 release, so thats probably a good think to relate to.

@jaypatelani

An external USB keyboard should work. Everything that I can find indicates that on Thinkpad E14s the keyboard is actually a PS/2 keyboard (sic!). So look at the part of dmesg that scrolled off your screen that deals with PS/2 device enumeration.

There's also some bizarre extra PS/2 stuff related to that Elan USB device, but that's to do with your fingerprint reader/trackpad.

@bpl
#NetBSD #PS2 #USB #ElanTech #HumanInputDevices

@jaypatelani

As @bpl said, check the kernel messages. The messages that you show in that photograph indicate that although nine root USB hubs have been found, no USB keyboard or even mouse devices have been enumerated.

You have a mass storage device on hub 3, an ELAN device on hub 3, a camera on hub 4, a BlueTooth node on hub 4, and nothing else. No keyboard/mouse HIDs at all.

The ELAN device is a fingerprint reader.

#NetBSD #USB

@bpl even in single user mode it is not working. I should try a usb external keyboard with an installer. #NetBSD

Many years later, as she faced the firing squad, Christina remembered that distant afternoon when she used her calculator to log into her laptop.

#NetBSD #HP48 #ThinkpadT21 #IrDA

@rl_dane wonderful info thx. alas, as someone who will not use anything sans-DE, either #NetBSD or #FreeBSD [those others are even less suitable for my limited capabilities] would pose significant challenges for me... writing as someone longterm in ArchLinux KDE Plasma & KDELinux who enjoys all her bells & whistles! @c64whiz @dwarmstrong

@c64whiz

I voted #NetBSD, because they're the most anti-Slop, but my official answer is "YES."

FreeBSD:
Pros:

• Most Linuxy
• insanely featureful
• zfs is a first-class fs and is the default
• Amazing handbook
• Bonus: fs encryption GELI is rock solid, and... nobody know what the "ELI" stands for. I emailed the author. He was as tight-lipped as a CIA agent stationed in Moscow in the 1960s. 😄

Cons:

• No GUI in base (yet)
• requires more manual set-up
• not the very best hardware support

OpenBSD:
Pros:

• Security focus
• Best hardware support of the BSDs
• Usable X11 setup right out of the gate, minimal manual config
• Great manpages

Cons:

• Fairly primitive filesystem options (read: minimalist, discerning). Berkeley FFS only (at least for booting), no journaling, no softdeps, no zfs. FUSE is an option
• No pretty handbook, but there are guides online to get you going, and the manpages are good
• No Bluetooth, whatsoever
• Possibly the most primitive vmm of the three, but still quite usable, from what I've heard
• Slow/basic package manager, but usable
• The devs do not suffer fools 😄

NetBSD:
Pros:

• Supports more architectures than you've heard of
• Stridently anti-slop
• Also has a very usable X11 setup right out of the gate, a little prettier than OpenBSD's default setup, IMHO
• Has FFS with journaling, zfs optional

Cons:

• Possibly the weakest hardware support of the three
• No full-disk-encryption out of the gate. There's a good HOWTO [out there] (thanks @dwarmstrong!) for setting up encrypted /home and /usr, but I haven't figured out encrypted /

Input on *BSD? I need to start investigating more seriously.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD

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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

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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

HFIW

amdgpufb0 at amdgpu0
wsdisplay0 at amdgpufb0 kbdmux 1: console (default, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0

#netbsd #radeon780m

Been thinking about what to do re: that #NetBSD installation attempt. The big thing that caught me off-guard was the apparently abysmal WiFi support. So unless someone is willing to port https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/pci/if_iwx.c from OpenBSD to NetBSD, I need to know an ***EXACT*** wireless adapter that I can use on a desktop PC to connect to my wireless network, because the landlord won't let me punch holes in the wall to run ethernet. Even an Ethernet-to-WiFi adapter would work, but it looks like the only ones available from my web searching are from one company and they are kind of shitty? Like, poor connectivity and constantly needing to reconnect bad. And I am asking here because trying to use the pci(4) man page is giving me only really old adapters that will give me shit speeds (if ANY) on my modern network, or stuff that won't work on a *desktop* PC... that are also really old.

An old Vax from my NetBSD days. I had some cool old hardware.

#netbsd #vax

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Some variety of old Vax - a small cabinet-sized floorstanding computer with one side exposed.. Didn't have disks. I don't remember where it came from or where it went.

@alephoto85 always keep #NetBSD snapshots

#runbsd

https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_use_snapshots/

Autumn has arrived, the leaves colour & fall, and still I quest to find gainful employment as a Software Programmer / Developer with adept understand of C (but not C++ that's cruel); also comfortable Erlang, NodeJS, Java, C#, Forth, shell scripting, #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #RockyLinux, and similar POSIX / SUS systems.

http://www.snert.com/resume/

#GetFediHired #JobSeeker #NoAI

Day 25

There are multiple versions of Python packaged for NetBSD. For packages with Python as a requirement, they use `py313-*` packages to satisfy it. But there is no default system `python` or `python3`, so I created those links in my `~/bin` to `/usr/pkg/bin/python3.13`. I'm not sure if that's correct procedure, but it works OK.

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

I don't know why?
after restarting my #netbsd box, I can't start my rc.d script which previously start smoothly.

the error is :
`unknown directive 'history'`

Never use ‘rm’ when you’re distracted 🤬

Mai usare "rm" mentre si è distratti 🤬

🤣

#netbsd #unix #rm #rmdamage

Researching a cool #DICOM viewer to compile in #NetBSD.
#OpenScience #DiagnosticImaging

At the airport on my way to Italy. Looking forward to the GNU Health training-the-trainers session to our colleagues physicians and nurses from Ukraine, Georgia and Latvia.
BTW, enjoying my new companion and travel partner NetBSD 11. ❤️
#OpenScience #noAI #GNUHealth #NetBSD

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XFCE desktop with a terminal emulator window and the application menu open at the accessories group. There is also an application dock bar. In the background, a NetBSD wallpaper, with the flag and daemons on top of monitors (CRTs) The taskbar has different applets (wlan, calculator, weather, disk IO, mail, cpu load and notes)

Hey there #NetBSD people,

I am thinking about installing NetBSD on a Linux-only VPS provider, which I have done a lot already with FreeBSD, thanks to the mfsBSD project, which lets you install FreeBSD from a RAM disk.

Does something like that also exist for NetBSD as well? I would love it if I could just attach a custom ISO, but a lot of cheap VPS providers only give you a list of 5-6 Linux distros instead.

My installation screen hangs at this screen. ThinkPad E14 AMD what could be the reason for this ? No keys are working at this step. #netbsd should I disable drm before install ?

@jspath55

The most likely causes were the calls to ctype functions in xft_word_wrap(), but those were changed to use unsigned char in 6.15. So if this really is 6.15 as claimed, the ctype negative character bug is no longer there to be hit, from a cursory inspection.

The sensible first step would be to get a core dump.

#xscreensaver #pkgsrc #NetBSD

Wrote a python script for #NetBSD to allow manipulating audio setups where one percieved audio output is a mess of a half-dozen mutes and volume levels behind the scenes and according to mixerctl: https://codeberg.org/gourd753/mixermetactl

Hopefully other people will find it useful. I recognize coding this in C/Rust or such and calling the OS function calls used by mixerctl directly would have been a cleaner solution, but I code a lot of C in my day job and I just wasn't feeling up to it.

Well, I used MBR partitioning scheme for /dev/vg0/lv0, which will be expanded up to 3TB in the future

Lets try gpt migrate and hope that existing data will not be lost. Instead, I will need to restore 900GB of films and TV shows from backup

#NetBSD #MBR #GPT

He #fediverse . What's your favorite FOOS organizer for ebooks? I have PDFs, EPUBs, etc. ALl locally on my machine and want them organized.

#askFedi #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #Linux

My first NetBSD install was on an old HP laptop that I use for testing. I used the whole disk for NetBSD, and that install completed without issues.

However, I had a bit of trouble installing NetBSD 11.0 to dual boot with Gentoo, which I had already installed on my Dell OptiPlex 7060. With plenty of help from folks on the netbsd-users mailing list, I finally got it set up. I'd like to record the process while it's still fresh in my mind. Hopefully it can be of help to someone else.

- I booted into the NetBSD 11.0 USB installer. After taking care of the language choices I selected "a: Install NetBSD to hard disk", and on the next screen confirmed that I wanted to continue.

- From the "Available disks" list I selected my NVME drive, which was identified as "a: ld0 (954G ... )".

- On the next screen I selected "a: Use existing GPT partitions".

- Now I was presented with a list of the partitions on the drive. My first problem had come as a result of the first, EFI, partition. The way it showed up here was with FS type MSDOS and "NO NAME" in the Filesystem column. Leaving this as is resulted in the install dying at the next stage, with the status "Command failed" when trying to mount that partition. This time, with tips from the mailing list, I selected the first partition and hit Enter to edit it. On the line with "mount point : NO NAME" I replaced "NO NAME" with "-", and said OK to save the change.

- Next I created a 16G partition for swap.

- The final thing on this screen was creating a partition with the remaining disk space for NetBSD. Type: FFSv2, install: Yes, newfs: Yes, mount: Yes, mount point: /

- This time when I selected "x: Partition sizes ok" I still got the complaint, "/dev/dk1: invalid signature in fsinfo block", but the install proceeded normally from there.

- I proceeded to make my personal choices for installation type and configured various things to my liking, and finally rebooted...

- ...into Gentoo. How to configure GRUB to give me the option to boot NetBSD? Again, I sought the excellent help of the netbsd-users list. I ended up creating two menu entries, one to boot NetBSD directly and one to chainload NetBSD's bootloader.

Added to /etc/grub.d/40_custom:

menuentry 'NetBSD 11.0' {
insmod part_gpt
set root=(hd0,gpt7)
knetbsd /netbsd -v
}

menuentry 'NetBSD chainload' {
insmod part_gpt
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3E63-ED72 # UUID of EFI partition
chainloader /EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi
}

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

On initial testing both worked. At some point, however, the first, direct boot option stopped working, saying something like "root=(hd0,gpt7) not found", so I'm now just using the chainloader entry.

One other note: I use the MATE desktop environment in both Gentoo and NetBSD. If I am logged into Gentoo and I _reboot_ into NetBSD, I find that my mouse pointer is frozen in MATE, and I have to reboot. If I _shutdown_ from Gentoo, and then boot directly into NetBSD from a powered off state, this freezing does not seem to occur. It also does not occur if I reboot from MATE on NetBSD back into NetBSD.

#NetBSD #gentoo #NoAI #GRUB

@netbsd Hey. Would ebook readers such as #Kobo and #Pocketbook which permit custom OS be good hardware donations?

#BSD #RunBSD #NetBSD #ebook_reader #ereader

WELP, I attempted to install #NetBSD today, but I ran into some serious problems. Namely, after following the instructions on the official website to write the installer image to my USB thumbdrive (which keep changing what the block size should be!), the resulting drive fails to find the kernel and won't go further than the boot prompt. I'm trying some other dd flags and am about to try again, but if this doesn't work SOMEBODY is going to need to step up. Tagging @netbsd because you're the most obvious person here to ask for help with installing NetBSD

I am looking for a #retrocomputer kit that I can start to daily drive for funsies with a #NetBSD jumpbox to do most things. I have been looking at the #RC2014 Zed Pro II and the #SC792. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Or maybe something I missed?

#retrocomputing