Reposting this because I got #RunBSD stickers at #EuroBSDcon2026 and can now illustrate the post with a proper image :D Also updated the temperatures screenshot.

So that's basically how much watts are #NetBSD and #OpenBSD using by default on this AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS machine and how to have #FreeBSD use less watts as possible while still operating Jail and #bhyve services.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

#selfhost #homelab

s'il y a une audience, je peux vous raconter en peu plus sur sa nouvelle maison (un vieux laptop recyclé) et pourquoi NetBSD c'est tellement bien que vous devriez au moins savoir que ça existe et que c'est vraiment bien.

#NetBSD

Ich beginne um 19 Uhr, also direkt nach dem Sandmännchen. Und ich habe auch einen schicken Bart, wie das Sandmännchen 😉

Meine Unterlagen landen dann hier: https://cryptomancer.de/posts/20260926-datenspuren2026/

Im Fahrplan hier: https://talks.datenspuren.de/ds26/talk/B9VSYR/

@bytebro

I've always thought you to be understanding, Keith.

If I told you that when I saw someone asking a #UnixShell question yesterday 'What does the following do?' my immediate answer was 'print "bash: sha256sum: command not found"', you would understand, ne?

https://man.netbsd.org/sha256.1

(-:

#NetBSD

Well, I was trying to give #NetBSD a more permanent home on a repurposed Chromebook and no luck. Too many hardware issues. But, on the upside, I now have a bootable USB drive I can test hardware with. Easiest live boot environment I've ever created, just dd, change the GUIDs, and update fstab to match. Voila.

Well, after being down for a few days while I bumbled through a migration, I'm happy to say my website's up and running* and no longer on Digital Ocean.

Now I just have to get around to updating the content...

* And happily hosted on a server running #NetBSD

https://nausicaa.codes/

Day 15

NetBSD + Openbox = ❤️

* WM: Openbox
* Theme: Nordic-Openbox
* Terminal: uxterm
* Browser: firefox
* Screenshots: scrot
* Image viewer: viewnior
* Wallpaper: feh
* Dynamic menu: rofi
* Compositor: picom
* Notifications: dunst

TODO: More tweaks to the WM, configure lock/suspend/resume, install more applications.

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

Alt...

Screenshot of my openbox session. An image of the NetBSD logo is displayed in the foreground by the viewnior image viewer. Background is a drawing of the solar system and the Voyager spacecraft.

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ParadeGrotesque/117226122230983789

I'm one of those folks that's looking into NetBSD "for reasons" and I'm finding new joy in computing. I don't have it running on my laptop or desktop yet, not for lack of trying, but I have been learning a lot and having a lot fun in this journey. I am going to donate because not only is the project deserving of our support, but learning more about NetBSD, and BSDs in general, has sparked new excitement in computing for me. I've been a Linux user for more than 30 years and AI has pretty much ruined most of what made me fall in love with Linux and many Open Source projects.

#netbsd #bsd

R.L. Dane 🍵 boosted

Parade du Grotesque 💀 » 🌐 2026-09-06
@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

If all of you all (you know who you are) currently exploring #NetBSD (for, uh, reasons*) would donate a little bit of money to the NetBSD Foundation, I am sure that sad little gauge under the logo would look a lot better.

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate

Because right now, it stands at about 12K out of a goal of 50K and it makes me sad. 😔

Donate! 💶 💵 💷

(* good reasons, I might add)

@paculino @eickot @nina_kali_nina I have been concerned for some time about the dependencies that systemd has brought with it.

LIke ivy entwining itself round and through the LInux distros I am familiar with.

It does make me wish to persevere with #NetBSD.

Persevere in a way that does not involve me recreating the #XFCE desktop environment that I have been using for years under LInux.

Rather just work with the OOB experience that vanilla NetBSD offers without using more modern desktops.

A question for you kind folk: What would be the best filesystem to use on a partition to be shared by NetBSD and Gentoo?

I'm planning to set up a dual boot system to sort of A/B test them to see which works best for me for different things, and I'd like a data partition that they can both use.

My guess is that I will end up with at least one computer running each of these (where I am currently running Debian on everything).

#NetBSD #gentoo #noAI #unix

Gibt es die BSD User Group in Berlin noch irgendwo? Oder müsste man die neu beleben? Hätte da wer Interesse dran? #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Day 14

I took another look at CTWM today. Tomorrow it will be Openbox's turn... An old favourite window manager.

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

So, yeah. Another #EuroBSDCon is behind us, and we're sad to leave. It has been incredible meeting all the old farts and new hopefuls - more of the latter than ever, I think! Great talks in all tracks - including the hallway one. Even some conspiracies for good, which is always fun.

There were too many highlights to mention, so I'll just shout a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to making this a fantastic experience - again.

On a personal note I ask/hope those of you who said hi at the conf can reach out and remind me who you are, so I can connect faces to handles on here. I suck at remembering so you'll have to forgive me for some of the bewildered looks I'm sure I gave some of you.

(After that last pic I was afraid someone would arrest us - drinking that beer from paper cups must be an affront to the locals..)

#EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #Retrocomputing

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The Entersekt team posing for the camera (in front of an old computer with the EuroBSDCon website displayed), and the pull-up marketing banner to the right.

Alt...

Same team, this time outside enjoying the two bottles of "very special and unique" beer that bofh@ got for speaking and another colleague and I got for paying an obscene amount of money at the auction. Drunking from paper cups, obviously.

Alt...

All our gear packed up: An empty 5l beer can on a table, along with some clothes. A large carrying bag with two LCD screens, the Toshiba luggable computer, and a plastic shopping basket with the rest of the parts and gear.

It's funny, because the one that has been stuck at 97.2% all the time with no movement at all is what I would have considered the most popular Linux ISO by far of those 2.

In comparison the 2 #NetBSD ISO's i just downloaded just took a minute or 2. Clearly NetBSD is the better OS.

@kyonshi

Both nettle and and mbedtls3 are packaged in #pkgsrc. So it looks like the only things missing are pihole-FTL, which is probably fairly straightforward to package, and a version of that vast install shell script that doesn't have all of the wacky creating secret packages nonsense in it and just does the configuration parts. (pkgsrc itself can handle creating and depending from a pihole-meta package.)

#NetBSD

The day after the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We would like to thank all the attendees who made time to visit the event in Brussels 🇧🇪.
Great to read so many great comments here... much 🫶🏻🫶🏻.

One more time a A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻
- Kristof Provost (@kp)
- Cristina Boca
- Aymeric Wibo
- Philipp Buehler (@double_p)

If you missed a talk or couldn't attend at all, all the videos are online!
https://exquisite.tube/c/ebc2026/videos

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@david_chisnall

The #NetBSD C library did the same about 6 years later.

https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/sys/cdefs.h#rev1.142

#OpenBSD hasn't caught on, yet. (-:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/annotate/src/sys/sys/cdefs.h/?rev=1.45

OpenBSD doesn't make much use of this stuff, and where it does it seems to favour doing the full dance.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/diff/src/lib/libz/deflate.c?rev=1.20&prev=1.19

@mirabilos @uecker @rl_dane @kabel42
#CLanguage #CPlusPlus

Podría usar en mi ordenador personal NetBSD si no fuese por los drivers de la gráfica. El sistema va como un tiro pero sin drivers medio decentes para la gráfica me costaría trabajar aquí. #netbsd

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mastodon en firefox sobre netbsd

If you have a big list of ips in #netbsd that you in npf.conf want to block.
Change this:
table <blocklist> type ipset file "/etc/npf_blocklist"

to this:
table <blocklist> type const file "/etc/npf_blocklist"
1st fails, 2nd works within a secound!!!
cant see mention this big difference in:
man npf.conf for ipset vs const

Strategic mistake: I assumed pihole had a bsd-compatible package. It doesn't. Now I have a working netbsd system on my ad blocking system, but no actual ad blocker.

Right now trying to see if I can get containers to work on netbsd

Or I just switch to some other software.
Although pihole is at least convenient.
#netbsd #unix

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/09/14) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/valuable-news-2026-09-14/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/09/14) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/valuable-news-2026-09-14/

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

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

Closing session from the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

The stream of the closing session had some challenges, see here it is in all it's glory!

https://exquisite.tube/w/xkUjYkVYdcKWwq8Jnr1aMz

Thank you all for coming, safe travels and we will miss you!

Videos from the first day are published as well, the second will follow very soon!

EuroBSDCon 2027 in Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰
September xx-xx, 2027

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@rl_dane

<sarcasm>
Oh, that's just peachy.
</sarcasm>

Presumably you won't be reading this book. Maybe this is a good time to get sound working on #NetBSD? 🤔

@reillypascal @oluOnline

I would surmise that writing an OS from scratch is considerably more difficult today than in the 90s because the hardware is so much more complex and bespoke.

But just FYI, #NetBSD is a Unix-like OS with a hard anti-LLM stance, and it's not the only one, although it probably is the most complete, when comparing it to Linux.

cc: @dalias

The European *BSD event of the year 2026 has come to an end! For real now... ​​ 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who attended, spoke, helped organize and made this event awesome!

Tot volgend jaar in Bratislava!

Vidíme sa budúci rok v Bratislave!

See you next year in Bratislava!

EuroBSDCon 2027 in Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰
September xx-xx, 2027

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Day 13

Audio "just worked". Run `audiocfg test 0` and I have sound through the laptop speakers. Plug in headphones and it properly mutes speakers; upon removal system un-mutes.

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-audio.html

#40DaysOfNetBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

My iBook was my favorite computer for a *long* time, came with me everywhere. I should do this. https://www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/1ny7nlv/its_alive/ #NetBSD

Enjoying my #NetBSD side quest, but did not spot a slicer in #pkgsrc. Any suggestions?

@joel @netbsd If you want to know more about Lima on #NetBSD, ask @iamleot

The cat(1) is out of the bag.

@bsdcan 2027 will take place in Vancouver, BC, July 7th through 10th.

See you there!

#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Patrick and I in front of a slide announcing BSDCan 2027

Hey @sborrill, I missed the opportunity to ask that one question: I see that sysutils/podman is available in pkgsrc. Can one actually run Linux containers using emulation?

#NetBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDcon2026

The last day of talks at the European *BSD event of the year has come to an end! 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who made this event awesome! Bedankt!!

A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻
- Kristof Provost
- Cristina Boca
- Aymeric Wibo
- Philipp Buehler

And let's not forget the fantastic talks and tutorials by:
- Alexander Bluhm
- Alice Sowerby
- Allan Jude
- Andreas Kirchner
- Anne Currie
- Balaje Sankar
- Baptiste Daroussin
- Benedict Reuschling
- Beni Keller
- Bojan Novković
- Brooks Davis
- Charalampos Mainas
- Charlie Li
- Dave Cottlehuber
- George Neville-Neil
- Harold Gutch
- Henning Brauer
- Hiroki Sato
- Johannes Thyssen Tishman
- Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
- Kirk McKusick
- Kristaps Dzonsons
- Lukas Engelhardt
- Maciej Jan Broniarz
- Marc Espie
- Martin Vahlensieck
- Mateusz Piotrowski
- Matthieu Herrb
- Michael Dexter
- Moin Rahman
- Olivier Certner
- Organizers
- Ori Bernstein
- Patrick M. Hausen
- Peter N. M. Hansteen
- Pierre Emeriaud
- Pierre Pronchery
- Stefan Sperling
- Stefano Marinelli
- Stephen Borrill
- Taylor R Campbell
- Thomas Pasqualini
- Varinka Ohanyan
- Vinícius Z.
- Walter Belgers
- Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang
- Zhen-Rong Wu

🤘 You all rocked the stage! 🤘

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@raster Way back when, I installed #NetBSD from floppy disks. If that's an option (painful as it seems), see:

https://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/htdocs/i386/faq.html#boot-floppy-too-big

https://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/htdocs/i386/faq.html#onefloppy

Note that page seems to be dated around 2008 / NetBSD 1.5, and the kernel is bigger now than then.

Scratch that, it was actually #NetBSD 11, released earlier this year, on a 45 year old Sun2 machine. The sun2 is still officially supported. Amazing.

Now: #NetBSD 1.5.2 on a 45-old Sun2 system, with Walter Belgers

#eurobsdcon

@movq wsconsctl -dw font=Boldface and then exit #NetBSD

DaemonForums is offline as its owner/administrator j65nko is terminally ill and in the hospital. DaemonForums was a *BSD forum and community for nearly 20 years, a replacement when BSDForums was taken over by spambots around 2008. There was a lot of good information and discussion there over the years. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/daemonforums.103642/ #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #daemonforums

(more Linux and FOSS news in previous posts of thread)

Godot 4.8 Dev Snapshot 5 Lands Mip-Level Texture Streaming Before Feature Freeze:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/godot-48-dev-snapshot-5-lands-miplevel-texture-streaming-before-feature-freeze/

Zed Editor 1.19.2 Adds Call Hierarchy, Git Multi-Select, and Enables Search-on-Type by Default:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zed-editor-1192-adds-call-hierarchy-git-multiselect-and-enables-searchontype-by-default/

VSCodium 1.135.06055 Ships With VS Code 1.135 AI Features, Restores ARM32, and Adds 164 New Assets:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/vscodium-113506055-ships-with-vs-code-1135-ai-features-restores-arm32-and-adds-164-new-assets/

Penpot 2.18 brings Enterprise and stroke-to-path tools:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/penpot-2-18-brings-enterprise-and-stroke-to-path-tools/

Node.js Releases v26.8.2 and v24.21.0 LTS with OpenSSL 3.5.8 and Crypto Upgrades:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/nodejs-releases-v2682-and-v24210-lts-with-openssl-358-and-crypto-upgrades/

OpenSSL 4.1 Promises Support for DTLS 1.3, IKEV2 KDF, and GREASE, Alpha Out Now:
https://9to5linux.com/openssl-4-1-promises-support-for-dtls-1-3-ikev2-kdf-and-grease-alpha-out-now

PHP 8.6.0 Beta 3 Ships with Automatic Closure Optimizations and Oniguruma EOL:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/php-860-beta-3-ships-with-automatic-closure-optimizations-and-oniguruma-eol/

Kotlin 2.4.20 brings Swift export and Gradle 9.7 support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/kotlin-2-4-20-brings-swift-export-and-gradle-9-7-support/

Julia 1.13 released with major speed gains in precompilation, startup & garbage collection:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/julia-1-13-released-with-major-speed-gains-in-precompilation-startup-and-garbage-collection/

GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Automake-1.19

GrapheneOS plans to overhaul the bundled AOSP apps, including messaging with RCS support:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/grapheneos-plans-to-overhaul-the-bundled-aosp-apps-including-messaging-with-rcs-support/

FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RELEASE

NetBSD 9.5 has been released as the final version of this aging stable branch:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/netbsd-9-5-has-been-released-as-the-final-version-of-this-aging-stable-branch/

BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2026

ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-FEX-ARM64-Stacking

DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-DirectX-Backend-Official

Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-One-Mono-Saved

(more FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Godot #Zed #VSCodium #Penpot #NodeJS #OpenSSL #PHP #Kotlin #Automake #GrapheneOS #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #ReactOS #Dev #FosseryTech

Addicted to seedy bars, shady lounges, gambling? Call 555-6969 for an instant fix! #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #NetBSD #sierra #SierraOnLine #Larry

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A NetBSD man with Leisure Suit Larry 1 slot machine on a screen

OK, yesterday night I let it run for an hour,  still no progress. Still the same printed statements from my previous post.

Maybe NetBSD11 is not compatible with my ThinkPad

Today I will test why my install screen doesn't look like every other NetBSD install screen of the five videos I found online. Mine doesn't show the NetBSD flag and I have only the option to hit "[1] install NetBSD". This is with the amd64 USB image.

I don't have CD/DVD drive, and I can't get the CD and DVD iso to work properly on the USB stick with dd.

I kinda hopped that installing NetBSD would be easy on hardware like my old ThinkPad 🙁... this is definitely a downer

#NetBSD #NetBSD11

I'm tempted to look at #guix, because of the diversity of the community and #guile but I'm a bit worried about so much llm slop coming in through dependencies. Also on the shortlist: #netbsd which seems pretty European. The core maintainers seem to be mainly white men, which isn't necessarily bad, but I'd prefer more diversity. The anti-llm policy seems really good.

Ok nerdfriends, I have a #netbsd question:

I've been interested in the os since it took a strong anti-ai position.

I got it installed after some faffing about, and noticed that tmux is installed in base.

Now tmux is wonderful, but there has also been some controversy about it having some ai-generated commits.

How are both of these things true? Is it an older version? Have the offending commits been patched out? A secret third thing?

Looking to learn here, not pick a fight.

moving from caddy to lighttpd on my #netbsd nat-vps instance, the main reason is because my nat vps only have 512MB of RAM.

Anyone happens to know how to configure the screen resolution in the #NetBSD installer (NetBSD-11.0-amd64-install.img)?

I want to install it on my netbook (Intel GMA 3150, 1024x600) and early boot is fine, but at some point during boot, the screen resolution changes to a too large font. And then the installer can’t continue.

I’ll do a proper debugging session eventually, but just in case someone knows of a quick fix for this … let me know. ✌️

Alt...

First screen of the installer. It’s still running, but the selection box at the bottom of the screen is already overlapping the text above it.

Alt...

After hitting Enter on the first screen, the installer aborts and says: Window too short (m->h 2, m->numopts 33, exithadd 0, y 12, max_lines 18, hadd 4) for menu "Keyboard type"

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds Physically https://lobste.rs/s/pbmvov #netbsd
https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1

Laatste dag van de European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

The last day of the event starts today!

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:00

The second keynote starts at 09:30 in D.0.02, The current state of "Green AI" by Anne Currie.

After the break at 10:30, there will be three tracks, also streaming via Peertube and Youtube:

- D.0.02
https://exquisite.tube/w/dFceGLUNjX8niTHc96TVEv
https://youtube.com/live/HvRMsLWcBdI?feature=share

- D.0.03
https://exquisite.tube/w/2WFqRYvcpmYAEPRUZsdyo3
https://youtube.com/live/93Fede4hPZI?feature=share

- D.0.07
https://exquisite.tube/w/bPdoz2UUAxACHQooyUpXiw
https://youtube.com/live/t_1x70mciQw?feature=share

There is a 15 minute break between each talk to give you plenty of time to move from one room to another and grab some ☕
Lunch will be served after the family picture at 12:30. :)

At 18:15 the closing session of EuroBSDCon will be in D.0.02

You can find the full program and streams at: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/program.html

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Talks