I don't really consider myself a distro hopper, but I guess I kinda inadvertently became one for a bit in the past few years. I ran Debian stable+backports for a long time (several Debian releases) pre-2017. AND then did a couple year long runs with #NetBSD then #FreeBSD, and have been bouncing around ever since. Im pleased if #openSUSE truly is the home OS of choice now.

@chesheer yeah, for #i386 there's basically only #NetBSD remaining.

Time to dust off the #NetBSD 9 VM for trying to make an LLVM crash go away.

Oopsie...

Fell down a rabbit hole after reading the following blog post regarding X Windows not immediately, having X terminals, which led me to a Wikipedia post linked from there on X terminals, which then led me to the Wikipedia page on Blit, which then led me to the Wikipedia page on SDF, finally leading me to the result of typing "linux" on the command shell on SDF...

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTerminalsNotImmediate

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#unix #x11 #XWindowSystem #NetBSD #BSD

@royterdw @adhdeanasl @Kierkegaanks Makes me wonder what the overall total blatant Sasquatch discrimination is - you know, the #NetBSD.

@pitrh @winlundn

It does. I recently had a similar experience with #OpenBSD trying and failing to get it to just install onto a partition on the same disc that the installer was bootstrapped from.

#NetBSD's installer won.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/114607784909156050

Apparently the first "Beastie" (never named as such by Kirk) was drawn by the artist for https://www.girlgeniusonline.com Phil Foglio

I learned this at the BSDCan 2025 talk Kirk gave!

#Bsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragoinFlyBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #BSDCan2025

Can you recommend USB WiFi adapters supported by #NetBSD?

@amin @tripplehelix @sotolf

Fair, fair.

Also, I forgot that I could just do sort -R |head -1.

Although I don't think that's cross platform...

Hmm, looks like #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD have -R, but not #NetBSD.

Still going...

pkgsrc-nb0# ps -o etime= -p 9270
2-02:48:30

50 hours and counting...

#pkgsrc #netbsd

Another issue is that the only way to stop dtrace is to kill -9 it, which takes the watched process with it in the fall..

Halp? :)

Primarily a C Developer ( but not just that, I haz skillz ) looking for full time job or long contract; know #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, even #OpenBSD, some #Linux when I have to.

Indeed & Monster job sites have been a huge failure over 18 months.

Can anyone help?

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

https://codeberg.org/izder456/exfetch

I'd love if people would package this!

I am working on packaging for openbsd atm, more linux distros or *BSD variants would be nice

#opensource #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

@cleverboi @FandaSin @BrodieOnLinux @neal @rasteri

Granted #Linux could rather drop support for other, more nieche architectures, but that doesn't make it better.

• Obviously #NetBSD takes over the "runs on everything" role, but that's becaise they didn't axe #i386...

Bulk builds on #NetBSD now even slower thanks to www/chromium.

Currently been building for 27 hours with no end in sight.

Nothing else comes even remotely close, second longest being libreoffice at a mere 11 hours.

#pkgsrc #bloat

Taking a Semi-Truck to Buy Salad: My Manifesto for Simple Computing

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/23/taking-a-semi-truck-to-buy-salad-my-manifesto-for-simple-computing/

#Computing #IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData #KISS #NetBSD

#Introduction

Hello, my name is Christoff.

I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.

the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.

#Technology

I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).

My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.

Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.

Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.

I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.

I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.

I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).

I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.

Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.

#Creative

For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).

For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.

For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.

For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).

#Personal

I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!

We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.

Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.

I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.

I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.

Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/06/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/valuable-news-2025-06-23/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/06/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/valuable-news-2025-06-23/

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

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

I just booted one of my #NetBSD boxes.

It is also one of my #PowerPC boxes.

from the boot log: `Dell Force10 Release 8.3.5.6
NetBSD 1.6.1 (S55) #0: Mon Nov 3 00:36:37 PST 2014`

Épisode 5 de la saga #NetBSD et #virtualisation avec #NVMM, avec un petit bout de #EdgeBSD de @khorben ! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

Please tell me that you already know that the BSD now podcast exists. Also tell me that you have listened to at least a part, of one of the beautiful BSD podcasts

When I was not a part of the FediVerse, at least not the active part, because I've had my accounts for a long time, I knew about BSD podcasts but I never seeked one actively.

However you have no excuse, because you not only run one of the flavors of BSD, you are also part of the FediVerse so you have no excuses not to go and listen to the BSD podcasts.

There are so many diverse subjects, that all you have to do, is pick one that you like, download it in a client that's not encumbered by a massive company, preferably one that's also free Open Source, listen enjoy and learn

And there are many different diverse podcasts

I'll talk about those later

#freeBSD #openBSD #netBSD #ghostBSD #podcast #BSD #now #BSDnow

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The image shows Antenna Pod, a FOSS podcast client, interface with a dark background. At the top, there are various icons and status indicators, including a time stamp of "01:12," a battery icon showing 71%, and a temperature of 23 degrees. The main visual element is a logo featuring a yellow disco ball with spikes, a red microphone stand, and the text "BSD NOW" in bold black letters. Below the logo, the text "BSD Now • 12 Jun" is displayed, followed by "615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked." A "Shownotes" button is present, and the playback controls are visible, including a progress bar showing 24 seconds out of 43 minutes and 38 seconds, with play, pause, and skip buttons. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.198 Wh

@stefano I wonder if there's a market for FTP accounts on a 386 serving static websites from DOS or OS/2. If a #NetBSD VPS costs $1/month, I should be able to charge, what, $1/year? :D

The IT-Notes blog is now served by the 1 euro/month #NetBSD VPS, too.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/

#ITNotes

@passthejoe @strlcat @dvandal @david_chisnall @davidgerard

On the contrary, they've all done one switch already, about a decade before systemd came along in the Linux-based world.

#NetBSD pioneered a major switch in rc at the turn of the century, with Mewburn rc, which #FreeBSD followed two years later. #OpenBSD has a similar, but incompatible, system that it switched to.

In further contrast, OpenBSD has run with #Xenocara.

#rc

📢 CfP is closed! 📢
Thank you all who submitted their abstract and willing to share their wisdom and wits at the *BSD 😈⛳🐡 conference of Europe!

Time to start cracking, selecting ✅, notifying 🔔and programming 📅.

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

📢 Less than two hours!! 📢
For you to share your wisdom and wits at the *BSD 😈⛳🐡 conference of Europe!

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp

Deadline: T-2 hours 🕒

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

📢 Only a couple of more hours!! 📢
For you to share your wisdom and wits at the *BSD 😈⛳🐡 conference of Europe!

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Deadline: T-4 hours 🕒

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

I've just found out that the network vendor whose products I used at work for years relies on #NetBSD software for its routers. 🤔

They don't specify what it's used for, as their firmware is closed source, but since they mostly use the Power (RISC) CPU architecture and have added IPv6 support all the way back in 2012, it would only make sense to use a OS with portability, stability and networking as a base. 😁

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Snipped from the Copyright notice: "Products from LANCOM Systems include software developed by the NetBSD Foundation, Inc. and its contributors".

Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-140.0b9 under NetBSD/amd64-current ... #NetBSD #pkgsrc

Reposting to generate some load on the VPS 🙂

Why I'm Expanding My Blogging Presence

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/17/why-i-m-expanding-my-blogging-presence/

#Blogging #MyNotes #NetBSD #RunBSD

The My-Notes blog is now totally served by the 1 Euro/month #NetBSD VM I've described in a previous blog post - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

https://my-notes.dragas.net

#RunBSD #MyNotes

Randomly remembered the Powered by NetBSD logo I made back in university, and submitted to the project for their gallery—it's still there.

https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/other-logos.html#:~:text=hclsmith%40glinx.com%3E-,From%20Wesley%20Moore,-%3Cwmoore%40cs.rmit.edu.au

#NetBSD

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A badge that says: Powered by NetBSD www.netbsd.org

📢 Only a couple of more hours!! 📢
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https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp

Deadline: T-10 hours 🕒

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

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Image of an bedside clock. It has the text: Tick Tock Tick Tock

For your Friday procrastination,

"Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?" (2022) https://nxdomain.no/~peter/opensource_enterprise_notes.html

may still be worth reading (and I am considering a refresh or rewrite) #freesoftware #libresoftware #enterprise #security #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #opensource

I've said somewhere I want to run NetBSD on a #286. Now obviously that's not actually possible, but I should be able to do the next best thing - run it on a 286 upgraded to a 486SLC!

But wait, most 286es only support 4MB RAM, although the ol' chum of a chip supports a whopping 16MB. So I have to find a motherboard that can do this.

Thing is, I already have one. See picture. But it's currently occupied doing very important Enterprisy stuff - it runs IBM OS/2 1.3 Extended Edition..but at least I know what I need!

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otherboard with a soldered 20MHz 286 CPU and a Citygate chipset.

I'll take Wayland when it comes my way without me having to lift a finger, but until then I'm glad the X Window System is still around. Keeps this old hardware useful.

@jcm

The -S option to install is one possibility. It still has a window of failed transactions for any server programs that are spun up on connection, because it explicitly rmdirs and unlinks before the rename, but it's a lot smaller one.

#NetBSD has an -r flag.

#Illumos, AIX's installbsd, and Linux-derived operating systems with GNU coreutils do not have this feature at all.

#FreeBSD derivatives, such as #DragonFlyBSD, have -S, too.

As has #OpenBSD where it's always on.

#install

Mulling #eurobsdcon 2025 submissions.

You too?

Submit! https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/ by 2025-06-21

General info https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html
See you in Zagreb!

#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

Some insights how my BoxyBSD project for the BSD Community boosted the Proxmox ecosystem and let me create several tools that were simply missing.

#Proxmox #OpenSource #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Ansible #ProxLB #Community #BSDCan #Hosting #VPS

https://gyptazy.com/how-my-boxybsd-project-boosted-the-proxmox-ecosystem/

📢 Time is running out!! 📢
For you to share your wisdom and wits at the *BSD 😈⛳🐡 conference of Europe!

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/cfp

Deadline: June 21, 2025 🕒

See you in Zagreb! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #CFP #Conference

From the #eurobsdcon 2025 program committee:

We have a number of high quality submissions in, but we welcome more!

Submission deadline 2025-06-21 via https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
General info https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Sponsoring: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/sponsorship.html
See you in Zagreb!

#conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware

"Where have you been for the last 20 years?" - The question that changed everything. This isn't a BSDCan report, but a personal reflection on how impostor syndrome stole decades from me, and why it's never too late to find your community and live life fully.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MyNotes #Life #LifeReflections #LiveLife #Community #OpenSource #OSS #EuroBSDCon

Thanks to all our customers who run their own #selfhosting #NetBSD VMs with us for helping with this migration. Our #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD VMs were already running HVM. Yes, we #RunBSD and provide hosting in our UK datacentres (also #Windows and #Linux as required)

Busy week upgrading all VMs to #NetBSD 10.1 to allow switching to HVM from PV (as #XenServer and @xcpng have dropped support for PV and unfortunately do not support PVH either) which means moving to uEFI booting rather than pygrub loading the kernel. Just waiting for the next #pkgsrc quarterly release to move the remainder over with nice fresh packages.

#dmidecode needs testing on non linux https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/dmidecode-devel/2025-06/msg00020.html if you have time and ressources, give them a hand #freebsd #bsd #netbsd #openbsd #dragonfly #illumos

@cR0w

It's called "wheel", damn it!

One has to love the push to using zero initialization so that programs always give you privileged group membership instead of membership of whatever random group ID number happened to be on the stack.

Security by uninitialized variable.

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#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD