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Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

[?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
@jaypatelani@bsd.network

The Beginning of BSD Unix

fosscomics.com/posts/13.%20BSD

    #netbsd boosted

    [?]ell1e coding things » 🌐
    @ell1e@hachyderm.io

    Oops, I did it.

    sent you this post of mine! 🎉 I switched! :ablobfoxbongo:

    Just didn't like the situation...

      #netbsd boosted

      [?]-dsr- (citations pending) » 🌐
      @dashdsrdash@tilde.zone

      Io_uring and Mutlk: Two Bad Bears.

      What's the intersection of those fandoms?

        #netbsd boosted

        [?]Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​ » 🌐
        @MsDropbear42@infosec.space

        the slopbots have defeated me 😡 😭 [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

        i feel disconsolate & shellshocked, but here it is... this is me now giving up the fight... resistance really was useless

        i loathe the scourge of gen-ai/LLMs, for the four dot-points i have repeatedly posted over recent months:

        • largest theft of private IP in human history
        • massive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies
        • authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinations
        • whole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots

        and so i have felt increasingly bereft as one by one important pillars of gnu/linux have fallen, indeed, eagerly given themselves over to slopbottery

        i've loved linux since my belated discovery of it in dec 2013, but so aghast have i been at the ingress of slopbottery that in recent months i began contemplating possible escape routes, including:

        already by now from actual VM usage &/or research i'd eliminated the first three, am badly struggling with the fourth in VMs, with the others still ahead

        tbh i was not enjoying it... i am now too old, fat, lazy, & stupid to cope with the extreme level of new learning needed, & i suspected that even if i managed it, my new UX would be full of unpleasant compromises & omissions i simply do not have in linux. yet, i deplore slopbottery, & so tried to make myself continue

        until now

        coz now, i have closely examined codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-f

        and so i despair

        even if i were able to come to terms with one of the BSDs, & get a viable desktop going [coz that is mandatory; i am a GUI user, not a server admin], then what? my desktop [though i delight in fiddling with its bells & whistles] is extant simply for me to run my preferred GUI apps... that's the whole point

        but that link, those lists of systems & apps... it is brutal, & it has crushed me. almost all my preferred apps, across a range of genres, appear in that list, as being at the very least slop-permissive, or worse. in several of the cases even my second-preference alternatives are ditto

        so, what's the point? what possible fucken benefit would i get in continuing this quixotic quest? i would [at best] end up in a new OS & desktop with multiple compromises & omissions, a huge learning curve having been needed [that i am not capable of anymore], running apps [if they even exist in the chosen BSD] that are slop-tolerant or already slopped. it took me many years to curate my present wide suite of apps, predicated on fitting me well re functionality, practicality, aesthetics... & along the way i tried & rejected very many.

        so... i would endure a large amount of pain, to emerge on the other side... still slopbotted anyway

        per that list, the fucken slopbots & their acolytes have won. i am so very pissed off. it's over now

        fuck it 😡 😭


          #netbsd boosted

          [?]guuf_italia » 🌐
          @guuf_italia@livellosegreto.it

          AlpineBSD combines NetBSD with Alpine’s apk package manager

          AlpineBSD is an operating system based on the NetBSD kernel with a userspace inspired by Alpine Linux and the objective of making it possible to use as little AI-generated software as possible. There is no LLM output included in the base system or main package repository (AlpineBSD AI policy).

          osnews.com/story/146267/alpine

            [?]Felix Urbasik » 🌐
            @fell@ma.fellr.net

            Is Gentoo declarative? I feel like it totally could be. (I have never tried Gentoo.)

              [?]Fossery Tech :fedora: » 🌐
              @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

              This week's Linux and FOSS news

              LINUX NEWS

              Fedora 45 Is GO. It Ships November 3 After a Twofold Delay:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/fedo

              Fedora 45 ships its final release candidate ahead of a Thursday go/no-go vote:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/fedo

              Fedora Linux 45 gets yet another Release Candidate as the distro races toward a November launch:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/fedo

              Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development:
              omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu

              Ubuntu Core Desktop ‘accelerating’ development ahead of 27.04:
              omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu

              Ubuntu plans firmware HWE to prevent issues on older kernels:
              omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu

              Ubuntu users can now file bugs against specific Launchpad PPAs:
              omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/launch

              Linux Mint monthly news: hibernation support, preview panel for Nemo, new apps (terminal, system monitor, archive manager):
              blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5093

              Manjaro 26.1.3 ships with Linux 7.2, Plasma 6.7.5, and GNOME 50.5:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/manj

              KDE neon 20261025 Ships Plasma 6.8.1 on 30th-Anniversary Release:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/kde-

              Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
              9to5linux.com/linux-lite-8-2-r

              AnduinOS 2.0.5 Release: AI Coding Agents, New Bootloader and Cleaner Secure Boot:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/andu

              4MLinux 52.2 STABLE Released With Linux 6.18.55 Kernel:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/4mli

              Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro Being Built Atop Barney:
              phoronix.com/news/Pavee-OS

              Kali Linux 2026.3 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and New Tools:
              9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2026-

              Tails 7.16 Updates Tor Browser to 16.0 and Fixes Thunderbird Email Encryption:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/tail

              IPFire 2.29 Core Update 205 Now Available for Testing:
              linuxcompatible.org/story/ipfi

              DietPi 10.8 delivers network overhaul with new tool to manage WireGuard servers & clients:
              alternativeto.net/news/2026/10

              Systemd Creator’s Startup Opens Signups for Private Preview of its Linux System:
              itsfoss.com/news/amutable-foun

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                [?]Fossery Tech :fedora: » 🌐
                @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes:
                9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-8-2

                KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations:
                phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6

                KDE Fixes 15-Year-Old File Copy Bug That Lied About Progress:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/kde-
                (KDE, KDE! Yes, user? Telling lies? No, user!)

                KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text:
                phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Type

                GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving:
                phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Establ

                Simple Taskbar V75 for GNOME Now Live: Dynamic and Floating Panels Added:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/simp

                Simple Taskbar V77 for GNOME Ships Windows 11-Style Taskbar, Start Menu and Fixes:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/simp

                Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module:
                9to5linux.com/enlightenment-0-

                Noctalia v5.4.0 Releases with Wave Visualizers and Modern Image Formats:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/noct

                Noctalia 5.4.1 ships lock-screen security fixes three days after v5.4.0:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/noct

                Hyprland 0.57.0 Ships With the Legacy Config File Finally Killed:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/hypr

                Mir 2.31.0 Release Candidate Tagged, Freezes Wayland API Ahead of Final Release:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/mir-

                MangoWC 0.18.4 Ships with a Monocle Option and a Bunch of Bug Fixes:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/mang

                Weston 16.0.2 Release: Fixes for DRM Overlays, RDP Security, and Lua Shell:
                linuxcompatible.org/story/west

                Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar:
                9to5linux.com/shelly-3-1-10-br

                IPFire Project Releases fireperf, a New Network Performance Measurement Tool:
                9to5linux.com/ipfire-project-r

                Kwi Is a New Ghostty-Based GPU-Accelerated Terminal Emulator for KDE Plasma:
                9to5linux.com/kwi-is-a-new-gho

                (Post 2/7)

                  [?]Fossery Tech :fedora: » 🌐
                  @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                  CachyOS Linux working on a dedicated kernel for supporting Easy Anti-Cheat v2:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/cach

                  DLSS Updater 5.2 released with AMD FSR 4.1.2 support:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/dlss

                  Bazzite Linux 44.20261026 Stable Release Brings OGC Kernel and Nvidia Driver Refresh:
                  linuxcompatible.org/story/bazz

                  Bottles 67.5 Ships Eagle Tracing and Identity Bridge in Major Update:
                  linuxcompatible.org/story/bott

                  Amethyst Mod Manager v2.6.0 Adds a Plugin System and a Headless API:
                  linuxcompatible.org/story/amet

                  Faugus Launcher 2.5.3 Released: Speed and Polish for Linux Gamers:
                  linuxcompatible.org/story/faug

                  Faugus Launcher 2.5.5 Release: Draggable Launch Arguments and Trimmed UI for Steam-Free Linux Gaming:
                  linuxcompatible.org/story/faug

                  Proton Experimental brings new fixes for Helldivers 2, BeamNG.drive and more:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/prot

                  D7VK 2.4 released along with GXVK for Vulkan-based 3Dfx Glide:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/d7vk

                  GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage:
                  phoronix.com/news/GXVK-3Dfx-Gl

                  DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers:
                  phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0

                  VKD3D-Proton 3.1 brings a new stable release, ahead of more important changes to come:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/vkd3

                  Wine 11.21 released with improved WoW64 OpenGL performance:
                  gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/wine

                  Mesa 26.2.6 Released with Fixes for RADV, ANV, Zink, RadeonSI, and Freedreno:
                  9to5linux.com/mesa-26-2-6-rele

                  Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs:
                  phoronix.com/news/Mesa-27.0-Go

                  Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs:
                  phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DKMS

                  (Post 3/7)

                    [?]Fossery Tech :fedora: » 🌐
                    @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                    TUXEDO Nano Pro Gen15 Mini Linux PC Launches with Intel CPU, Up to 128 GB RAM:
                    9to5linux.com/tuxedo-nano-pro-

                    System76 Teases Thelio Prime AMD Mini Linux PC Running Pop!_OS with COSMIC:
                    9to5linux.com/system76-teases-

                    PipeWire 1.6.11 Is Out with More Bluetooth and ALSA Plugin Improvements:
                    9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-11-

                    Linux Kernel 7.3.1 Release: KASLR Leak, Coredump Races, and io_uring Fixes:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/linu

                    Linux Kernel 7.4 is shaping up fast, led by a boot-time fix that could turn minutes into milliseconds:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/linu

                    openEuler New Releases Come With a Heavy Dose of AI and Agents:
                    itsfoss.com/news/openeuler-24-

                    F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements:
                    phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-7

                    Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5:
                    phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.5-dr

                    EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes:
                    phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EX

                    XanMod Releases 7.2.13 and 6.18.59 Kernels Same Day:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/xanm

                    XanMod Releases EDGE, MAIN and LTS Kernels for Linux 7.3.1, 7.2.14 and 6.18.60:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/xanm

                    Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-22 Released: Stable 7.2.13 Build Caps Experimental Two Weeks:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/liqu

                    KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4:
                    phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-KS

                    KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations:
                    phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.1-

                    Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code:
                    phoronix.com/news/Linux-May-Re

                    Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W & Raspberry Pi 4 Model A Surface In Linux Kernel Patches:
                    phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi

                    New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software:
                    phoronix.com/news/Wayland-ext-

                    yserver 1.8.0 Ships With VRR, Hardware Cursors, and OpenBSD Support:
                    linuxcompatible.org/story/yser
                    (Beware, OpenBSD users, AI slop is coming to you! lol)

                    In a Setback to VMWare, Tesco is Looking to Migrate to Proxmox:
                    itsfoss.com/news/tesco-vmware-

                    (Post 4/7)

                      #netbsd boosted

                      [?]Dark Blue Project » 🌐
                      @darkblue@mastodon.fediblue.de

                      Episode 41 of Dark Blue Weekly released

                      darkblueproject.com/sites/news

                        [?]skua » 🌐
                        @skua@mastodon.social

                        @mattblaze

                        Wow are you in for a good time.

                        I haven't got my Manifesto on me right now so I'll just send up a Bat Flare and manifestos and FOSS enthusiasts will soon be falling like rain.

                          [?]Nielso » 🌐
                          @nielso@digitalcourage.social

                          is advertising their vintage 60ties , which is also available for .

                          They allow activation on 4 different machines for each license, which I fiend friendly for payware.

                          I'm already using some of their products, but my issue with this one is a little different, nothing Korneff at all, more conceptual:

                          Why should I want a 60ties mixing console? Most recordings from the 60ties were bad, audio-wise. I hear your protest now, yes, and you are right. Yet what we still regularly listen to from that time are the top-notch recordings, only the best engineers, the best bands, the best techs are on these recordings.

                          But then again, why do I use an Urei 1176 clone, a dbx 160A clone, and a Teletronix LA-2A clone in my modern Allen&Heath digital mixing console even when mixing live?

                          korneffaudio.com/product/sound

                            #netbsd boosted

                            [?]argv[-1] » 🌐
                            @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org

                            Most of the highly-publicized security vulnerabilities in these days, including the recent kernel TCP RCE, are the result of races and/or memory corruption.

                            If were to catch on, all those AI bug-finding bots would be turned on the BSDs…well, it's written in C. They'll probably find plenty of vulnerabilities there too.

                            Perhaps fewer than Linux, since Linux is so jam-packed with enterprise features and weird optimizations, but still… 😬

                            Are and prepared for this?

                              [?]Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​ » 🌐
                              @MsDropbear42@infosec.space

                              RE: floss.social/@9to5linux/117536

                              today i hope i finally have some time to make another attempt at installing in a VM in my host. my first attempt a week or two ago succeeded to the stage of being able to boot into a working cli, but then my attempt to install all the pkgs for was thwarted by running out of space; silly me had made the VM vHDD too small, d'oh!

                              anyway, having just seen this article for a new "e", i got stars in my eyes & thought

                              oh, how cool it would be to get a working in . i wonder if i could?

                              :thinking: 🤷‍♀️


                                #netbsd boosted

                                [?]Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​ » 🌐
                                @MsDropbear42@infosec.space

                                final para of that article:

                                Initial NetBSD support was added as well. Check out the release notes for more details

                                first item in the release notes, enlightenment.org/news/2026-10 :

                                Added initial NetBSD support, including power commands and signal handling

                                in my incompetent contemplations & wanderings as a know-nothing neophyte wondering about being able to find a safe unslopped home away from linux, my initial research had lead me to think my reasonable choices to learn & explore might be

                                1. coz all the hard work is already done for me
                                2. coz it's apparently good on security
                                3. coz it's arguably easier than the other "traditional" BSDs for noobs

                                I'd not included as i assumed it would forever be way beyond any degree of competence to which i might aspire. however, given 👻 is now eliminated coz kind fedi-advice suggests it is slopped & has a root vulnerability in part of the desktop, & given this info about tilting its hat to Net, then maybe i need to change course?

                                🤔 🤷‍♀️


                                  [?]Camille Roux » 🌐
                                  @camilleroux@mastodon.social

                                  Hob : une alternative open source à Claude et ChatGPT, qui fait tourner des modèles open-weight comme Gemma et gpt-oss directement sur votre ordinateur.

                                  Elle choisit le meilleur modèle pour votre machine et configure tout. Gratuite (licence MIT), privée et hors ligne. ⬇️
                                  github.com/FrigadeHQ/hob

                                  📬 Ma veille dev, chaque vendredi par email → l.camilleroux.com/sig-Lg2

                                  Présentation de Hob, une alternative open-source gratuite à Claude et ChatGPT qui fonctionne localement sur votre ordinateur. L'interface montre un exemple d'utilisation avec un graphique d'analyse de données régionales, démontrant les capacités d'IA conversationnelle disponible sur Mac, Windows et Linux.

                                  Alt...Présentation de Hob, une alternative open-source gratuite à Claude et ChatGPT qui fonctionne localement sur votre ordinateur. L'interface montre un exemple d'utilisation avec un graphique d'analyse de données régionales, démontrant les capacités d'IA conversationnelle disponible sur Mac, Windows et Linux.

                                    #netbsd boosted

                                    [?]arosano 🇩🇰 🇮🇱 » 🌐
                                    @arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    @passthejoe on is . If you need multibyte characters install .
                                    I used many years on , but I have become a minimalist, so when I started with I decided to use the installation defaults, on it is , , , ...
                                    All the scripts I wrote over the years work fine in .

                                      #netbsd boosted

                                      [?]Olaf Flebbe » 🌐
                                      @0x01af@fosstodon.org

                                      My first CDROM, 30 years later. The reason to buy my first a reader. I will have to check how to read it again, lol .

                                      Linux Conference 1996 , contains linux pre 2.0.4, LST Beta preview, Caldera Internet Office Suite and (gasp) netbsd

                                      Alt...Linux Conference 1996 , contains linux pre 2.0.4, LST Beta preview, Caldera Internet Office Suite and (gasp) netbsd

                                        #netbsd boosted

                                        [?]Rofu » 🌐
                                        @rofu@literatur.social

                                        RE: mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/11734

                                        I can't help it, I love their attitude. I have been using for 25 years. If there were a real competition of operating systems, that's the kind of competitor I would enjoy to be second place to. So very much unlike the distilled evil that's Microsoft's

                                        Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                                        [?]NetBSD Foundation 🚩 » 🌐
                                        @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

                                        Apparently, we get notifications when people add us to collections now.

                                        Apparently, someone added us to a collection called "Linux Distros & Desktop Environments", which is of course Deeply Unacceptable.

                                          abs(in)the boosted

                                          [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                                          @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                          Don't summon the dark forces—just run NetBSD! Portable, clean, and reliable enough to wake the dead (or at least that 20-year-old ThinkPad in your closet). 💻🚩

                                          Happy Halloween to all the BSD daemons out there! 😈🎃

                                          What’s the weirdest hardware you’ve resurrected with NetBSD? 🧙‍♂️

                                            #netbsd boosted

                                            [?]as400 :freebsd_logo: :openbsd: » 🌐
                                            @as400@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                            @mateitudor @ricardo @rozodru

                                            I really appreciate your sense of humor guys :)

                                            Now the problems that we identified together are:

                                            1. - no - because of slop/Omarchy
                                            2. - no - because of taking money from Dept of Defense (USA)
                                            3. - no - because of slop
                                            4. - no (at least for me) - because no hardware support
                                            5. - no - because also DoD

                                            Holy crap - my options are exhausted. Now what ?
                                            Any advice ? :P

                                              Thom, a squirrel 🐿️ boosted

                                              [?]JumpyVi » 🌐
                                              @jumpyvi@mastodon.social

                                              Buildstreamed elementary OS progress update!

                                              Built from FreeDesktopSDK instead of Ubuntu

                                              Now with unique features such as:
                                              - Login in
                                              - Rendering icons
                                              - Rendering wallpapers (sometime)
                                              - More software
                                              - Repart and usr dissect (for sysupdate)

                                              Unofficial, but still really cool!

                                              ,
                                              github.com/jumpyvi/elementary-

                                              elementary OS screenshot with app menu, desktop and fastfetch

                                              Alt...elementary OS screenshot with app menu, desktop and fastfetch

                                                [?]Stefano Marinelli » 🌐
                                                @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                Although I'm the Barista at BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe, I've always enjoyed using some Linux distributions as well.

                                                Just as I did with my article and installation script for Void Linux on ZFS (which I've since updated to use a TUI, although it still needs some polishing before I publish it), I'll be sharing articles and other material about Alpine Linux over the coming weeks.

                                                And something I've been using for quite a long time already will, I believe, be particularly interesting to many of you.

                                                Stay tuned!

                                                  Like Mucas :pumpkin_ugh: boosted

                                                  [?]The Psychotic Network Ferret » 🤖 🌐
                                                  @nuintari@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  Remember everybody, if you are a recently updated user who has been losing their mind because you can no longer select text like a sane person.

                                                  This is the answer:

                                                  echo set -g mouse off >> ~/.tmux.conf

                                                  Then just restart all your sessions.

                                                  The alternative, IIRC, is to hold down shift while selecting, but who the frack would want that?

                                                    Deborah Preuss, pcc 🇨🇦 boosted

                                                    [?]LeftyLabourTechToronto » 🌐
                                                    @leftylabourtech@mstdn.social

                                                    Those of us who are already users have been saying this for years if not decades.

                                                    could develop it's own version of GNU/Linux for use by the federal, provincial/territorial and municipal public sector and break 's stranglehold once and for all.

                                                    Many governments around the world are already doing this.

                                                    theconversation.com/canada-cou

                                                      Stefano Marinelli boosted

                                                      [?]Erik L. Midtsveen » 🌐
                                                      @midtsveen@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                      RE: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@midtsveen/1

                                                      Let’s not talk about Fedora 31, which was released on this day seven years ago! 🙃

                                                      𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑️🤪 boosted

                                                      [?]Erik L. Midtsveen » 🌐
                                                      @midtsveen@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                      When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

                                                      Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic as Patrick says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

                                                      Alt...Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic as Patrick says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

                                                          [?]David Fleetwood - RG Admin [He/Him/His] » 🌐
                                                          @reflex@retrogaming.social

                                                          Why am I being so hard on the @FreeBSDFoundation and developers associated with in general? Because as someone who worked on Windows directly for a significant portion of my career, yet switched immediately to the moment Microsoft announced the OpenAI partnership only to watch Linux embrace the slop I need to know the stand of wherever I go next.

                                                          Linux just wasted four years of my time. I want to know if FreeBSD will have better standards and ethics. It's a reasonable ask

                                                            #netbsd boosted

                                                            [?]Licho [Ono/Jego] » 🌐
                                                            @licho@kolektiva.social

                                                            Mastodon UnWind Challenge:

                                                            You UnWindows a computer (install a different operating system), record owners reaction, post it to Mastodon and nominate 3 people who also have to do it too.

                                                            Can be your computer, can be someone else's.
                                                            Can be wholesome, can be rogue.
                                                            Can be on a repair coffee event, can be helping out a friend.

                                                              [?]Kris D. (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing [They/Them] » 🌐
                                                              @kris_of_pnictogen@mastodon.octofriends.garden

                                                              What ARE we gonna do with our desktop-toy project, which might be impossible with Wayland? I can't overemphasize how dispiriting the situation is. At the moment, aiming at non-Wayland targets still makes some sense if only because Wayland support is so irregular and inconsistent, to the point that it's easier simply to avoid dealing with Wayland entirely. Right now on our desktop we're running a Wayland environment but only because we can drop out of it at any time and log back in to an X11 desktop environment where graphical applications (whether pre-packaged or homemade) can be expected to work more consistently.

                                                              But you know how the culture is: when those nerdbros are determined to make something impossible, they'll do it. There's already Wayland cops out there as I've described, people who seem to exist on programming forms only to shit on people who have problems with Wayland. Bullies like that wouldn't exist unless they felt that they had inevitability of enforced obsolescence backing them up.

                                                                [?]Nick @ The Linux Experiment » 🌐
                                                                @thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social

                                                                I finally gathered my thoughts on the avalanche of vibe coded clones of proprietary software, and the potential impacts (positive and negative) that it could have on .

                                                                In short, I think this might be THE biggest opportunity we ever had to completely destroy every user lock-in measure Windows or macOS ever had, but that comes with significant costs in terms of open file formats and open source alternatives:

                                                                youtube.com/watch?v=g1htBFMQUL4

                                                                  [?]Christian Brauner 🦊🐺 » 🌐
                                                                  @brauner@mastodon.social

                                                                  We tried to take look in the light of some of the W^X work we've been doing in and back to the PHP security issues that were recently discovered.

                                                                  I'm not an exploit expert but I do think that a W^X image-based system is in a better position to deal with such attacks even if it doesn't remove all types of RCE bugs.

                                                                  amutable.com/blog/recent-php-c

                                                                    Lars Wirzenius boosted

                                                                    [?]LWN.net » 🌐
                                                                    @lwn@fedi.lwn.net

                                                                    [$] The campaign to push Northstar into Linux distributions

                                                                    There is not a broad selection of mature, open-source web-browser engines for Linux users. Most of the browsers available for Linux are based on one of just three projects: Chromiu [...]

                                                                    lwn.net/Articles/1102738/

                                                                      Cassandrich boosted

                                                                      [?]ell1e coding things » 🌐
                                                                      @ell1e@hachyderm.io

                                                                      Why is it bad that some systems, e.g. or , plan to let *some* in as long as it's well-reviewed?

                                                                      🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/C8gsyvTttfs

                                                                      Note: I don't agree 100% with what's said in there, but the basic gist seems good.

                                                                      Watch how going might also being a concern: 🐧 youtu.be/l9ARF2KcDgc - it includes a shoutout!

                                                                      ---
                                                                      Notes:

                                                                      - My apologies that some of the wording in this videos is a bit strong. But I think the core message is relevant.

                                                                      - I'm not a lawyer, I don't know if these videos are accurate. judge for yourself.

                                                                        d@nny disc@ boosted

                                                                        [?]Sashin [He/Him] » 🌐
                                                                        @sashin@veganism.social

                                                                        Is there a way to backup a system using btrfs features? I feel like snapshots aren't a real backup because they depend on the original data?

                                                                        (tags so people not interested can mute them)

                                                                          Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                                                                          [?]MoZes » 🌐
                                                                          @mozes@fosstodon.org

                                                                          Giving an old Orange Pi Plus 2E a new job as a low-power serial console server for my Slackware ARM build farm.

                                                                          Replacing a laptop that draws 20–30W around the clock with a little ARM board. Running Slackware ARM 15.0, of course!

                                                                          New video covers the project, including a little boot troubleshooting along the way.

                                                                          youtu.be/9acC_lvxU9E

                                                                            [?]Giacomo Tesio » 🌐
                                                                            @giacomo@snac.tesio.it

                                                                            @nerdnextdoor@bear-den.org

                                                                            Basically, you need a to build Plan 9.

                                                                            provides you with all development tools you need (but maybe not those you are used to).

                                                                            If you look for a unix kernel to play with, it's not.
                                                                            It's very different, even just because it has a coherent architecture that evolves as a whole, instead of being a composition of independent projects like any or

                                                                            But if you want a nice, minimal, self-contained and usable kernel (and operating system), it is.

                                                                            @bedroomvampire@mstdn.jp @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run

                                                                              Mark Stosberg boosted

                                                                              [?]9to5Linux » 🌐
                                                                              @9to5linux@floss.social

                                                                              159 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New 9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-

                                                                              A screenshot of Mozilla Firefox 159 showing the main window while browsing the 9to5linux.com website and the About Mozilla Firefox dialog.

                                                                              Alt...A screenshot of Mozilla Firefox 159 showing the main window while browsing the 9to5linux.com website and the About Mozilla Firefox dialog.

                                                                                #netbsd boosted

                                                                                [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                                                                @vermaden@mastodon.social

                                                                                Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/10/26) available.

                                                                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10

                                                                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                                                                  Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                                                                                  [?]vermaden » 🌐
                                                                                  @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                  Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟬/𝟮𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/10/26) available.

                                                                                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10

                                                                                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                                                                    d@nny disc@ boosted

                                                                                    [?]ariel » 🌐
                                                                                    @arichtman@eigenmagic.net

                                                                                    The don't call it Pawsix for nuthin'

                                                                                      Leah Neukirchen boosted

                                                                                      [?]Tomáš » 🌐
                                                                                      @prahou@merveilles.town

                                                                                      BOMBSHELL TAPE STUNS THE PRESIDENCY

                                                                                      Funhole Content Review OMARCHY 'ok, but can it suck my dick?' TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: you're not getting any money for porting it to freebsd, sucker! UNFAIR TREATMENT: I lost more friends by installing omarchy than when i killed my wife. If you dont stop, bryan is going to make a video about this. again. my friend lunic is still a little sick in the head. drawing the swastika: 7 helpful tips Interview with a victim of circumstance ONE FREE RUBY COUPON We need female models asap. dm if interested -FSF

                                                                                      Alt...Funhole Content Review OMARCHY 'ok, but can it suck my dick?' TOO LITTLE TOO LATE: you're not getting any money for porting it to freebsd, sucker! UNFAIR TREATMENT: I lost more friends by installing omarchy than when i killed my wife. If you dont stop, bryan is going to make a video about this. again. my friend lunic is still a little sick in the head. drawing the swastika: 7 helpful tips Interview with a victim of circumstance ONE FREE RUBY COUPON We need female models asap. dm if interested -FSF

                                                                                        [?]kaleidoscopic » 🌐
                                                                                        @fuzzy@beige.party

                                                                                        @stefano I thought, silently, of many things when I moved from the Cafe.

                                                                                        A single-user instance was amongst my thoughts. It's a possibility, however I can't imagine it becoming a priority.

                                                                                        I'm more interested in spending my "IT" time on stuff that's directly related, or adjacent, to FreeBSD.

                                                                                          #netbsd boosted

                                                                                          [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: » 🌐
                                                                                          @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                                                                          @argv_minus_one good thing about or BSDs in general is it is hard for big techs to control it due to side effects of it's permissive license choice. for better or worse has already been taken over by big techs. No matter how anyone tries to promote Gpl advantages it doesn't help.

                                                                                            [?]ariel » 🌐
                                                                                            @arichtman@eigenmagic.net

                                                                                            Why would the bottom address of a v6 /64 route to loopback? There's literally no entries in the routing table for interface lo.

                                                                                            # ip route get fd8c:3969:1494:: anycast fd8c:3969:1494:: from :: dev lo table local proto kernel src fd8c:3969:1494:0:fb29:9db1:ddbc:94db metric 0 pref medium # ip route get fd8c:3969:1494::1 fd8c:3969:1494::1 from :: dev eno1 proto ra src fd8c:3969:1494:0:fb29:9db1:ddbc:94db metric 1024 pref medium # ip -6 route show 2403:581e:ab78::/64 dev eno1 proto ra metric 1024 expires 86345sec pref medium fd8c:3969:1494::/64 dev eno1 proto ra metric 1024 expires 86345sec pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:48a2:b796:c065:dd46 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:1::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:df67:ffa6:45bc:8557 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:2::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:fe78:6929:cb86:5a7c dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:3::/80 via fd8c:3969:1494:0:cb78:b332:ff40:137f dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:4::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:2b8:5903:8164:7aa7 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::b180 dev cilium_host proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::/80 dev cilium_host proto kernel src fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::b180 metric 1024 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev cilium_net proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev lxc_health proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev lxcd7dc4287ae9e proto kernel metric 256 pref medium ...

                                                                                            Alt...# ip route get fd8c:3969:1494:: anycast fd8c:3969:1494:: from :: dev lo table local proto kernel src fd8c:3969:1494:0:fb29:9db1:ddbc:94db metric 0 pref medium # ip route get fd8c:3969:1494::1 fd8c:3969:1494::1 from :: dev eno1 proto ra src fd8c:3969:1494:0:fb29:9db1:ddbc:94db metric 1024 pref medium # ip -6 route show 2403:581e:ab78::/64 dev eno1 proto ra metric 1024 expires 86345sec pref medium fd8c:3969:1494::/64 dev eno1 proto ra metric 1024 expires 86345sec pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:48a2:b796:c065:dd46 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:1::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:df67:ffa6:45bc:8557 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:2::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:fe78:6929:cb86:5a7c dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:3::/80 via fd8c:3969:1494:0:cb78:b332:ff40:137f dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:4::/80 via 2403:581e:ab78:0:2b8:5903:8164:7aa7 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 1024 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::b180 dev cilium_host proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::/80 dev cilium_host proto kernel src fda6:3c52:d12b:1:5::b180 metric 1024 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eno1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev cilium_net proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev lxc_health proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev lxcd7dc4287ae9e proto kernel metric 256 pref medium ...

                                                                                              [?]Laurent Cimon » 🌐
                                                                                              @clf@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                                                              @jmcunx @argv_minus_one Even if Debian hadn't voted for AI, all of the freedesktop projects and the Linux kernel make heavy use of AI. There's no way to use Linux without using AI code.

                                                                                                #netbsd boosted

                                                                                                [?]Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​ » 🌐
                                                                                                @MsDropbear42@infosec.space

                                                                                                @clf yes, sadly, which is why i like others have been exploring possible escape routes...

                                                                                                • tested, & i love it, but it's not yet able to do what i need
                                                                                                • researched, but noooooooooooo
                                                                                                • tested, looked a great prospect with its old MATE pre-slop DE, til i learned of its dangerous security flaw viz apparently running the desktop as root
                                                                                                • currently in early test phase atm
                                                                                                • - still to test
                                                                                                • - still to test

                                                                                                🥺

                                                                                                @jmcunx @argv_minus_one


                                                                                                ?

                                                                                                  Sumana Harihareswara boosted

                                                                                                  [?]Daimar Stein :tux: :comunista: » 🌐
                                                                                                  @joojmachine@ursal.zone

                                                                                                  I know most people are aware on how Linux can save old hardware, but here's to the folks that like to complain that GNOME is "bloated" and "runs poorly":

                                                                                                  Today I salvaged this old laptop from going to the junk, added an old 4GB DDR3 RAM stick I had, popped the GNOME OS Nightly USB I had just to know what the specs were on this thing, and well... the screen is dying a slow and painful death but damn, this runs really, really well for a 13 year old chip that was already close to e-waste by the time it was produced and a just as old and slow HDD.

                                                                                                  I obviously won't keep using it as a desktop due to the screen, but I'm baffled at the optimization work that is going on these days that enables this to be actully smooth and usable on hardware this bad.

                                                                                                  GNOME OS Nightly running on a 13 year old Lenovo G405 laptop with a faulty screen.

                                                                                                  Alt...GNOME OS Nightly running on a 13 year old Lenovo G405 laptop with a faulty screen.

                                                                                                    R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: boosted

                                                                                                    [?]Aks [any, he/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @aks@social.akselmo.dev

                                                                                                    I have made a survey about showing icons on your desktop and how it should behave when screen changes. I would hope as many replies as possible! You don't need to use KDE Plasma to reply to this survey! It should take around 5 to 10 minutes.

                                                                                                    https://survey.kde.org/355778

                                                                                                    And if you want to read a bit more about the "why", here's mine and Nates blogpost:

                                                                                                    https://akselmo.dev/posts/akademy-2026-desktop-icon-bof/

                                                                                                    https://pointieststick.com/2026/10/23/help-shape-the-future-of-desktop-icons/

                                                                                                    Thanks!

                                                                                                    https://survey.kde.org/355778

                                                                                                    #KDE #Linux #KDEPlasma

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