Purely out of interest:
How was the #phpshell situation handled in #NetBSD? Were there updated binary packages available in a timely manner or did you have to build them yourself?

(This instance: Wii/PPC; image: Sun Ultra 10/Sparc64 - see alt text)

#NetBSD #Wii #PowerPC #Sparc64 #Sun

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NetBSD running ctwm and showing three terminal windows: one with bpytop, one with a file listing and one compiling git from source. In the corner another CPU monitor in the form of a (now) naked anime-style lady, drawn by the "hot-babe" program.

re-reading the uvm source code, maybe I've missed something

#netbsd

My fresh install of #NetBSD idles at <400MB RAM usage with #MATE desktop, and around 270MB running headless.

One of my winter projects is to recap a Socket A motherboard, for which I have a 512MB stick of DDR. So I will try the i386 port first.

Finally upgraded my #rock64 to #NetBSD 11.0, but as always I find edge cases. First I tried to upgrade to 10.2, but turns out that for pkgin there are no mirrors. Then I followed the upgrade manual and upgraded to 11.0, but after upgrade I still was on 10.2. The sysupgrade does not cache by version, so fetching data for the new 11.0 it instead used files from previous upgrade.

Someone on the #NetBSD #pkgsrc security team woke up to 2000 new tickets over night in the queue this week.

Do you split your #netbsd installation into several partions (/, /usr, /home) or do you prefer a monolithic approach? What are your reasons for each approach? Is there any real disadvantage in using the monolithic approach for a single user system (except of the need for a backup before a complete fresh installation) that I might have overlooked? I partitioned my Linux and FreeBSD machines into /, /usr, /home and swap back in the 90s and 2000s, but moved to a monolithic approach later without missing dedicated partitions.

So NetBSD gang, i convert my beautiful WIP raster font Tencon to NetBSD format and added instructions to use it, as a NetBSD console font, to Tencon's repo page: https://codeberg.org/drj/font-tencon#netbsd-console-wscons

The instructions are reasonably comprehensive because i've been researching to add similar font-related sections to the NetBSD Guide (if they'll have me).
#NetBSD #bitmapFont #tencon

@The_Universality @lime360 @jaypeach53 @Tutanota

There's compat_linux for running Linux programs on #FreeBSD or #NetBSD (and most derivatives, but not #OpenBSD), but I couldn't get it working for #KerbalSpaceProgram (the native Linux binary, not #proton or #WINE), so I'm not sure if it can be used for games.

We need more #FOSSGaming ;)

I put #NetBSD 11.0 on a 5 Y.O. laptop, with help. I'm experienced with BSD, back to the floppy-based 386BSD/Dr. Dobbs.

Some things are great, some grate. Notes:

https://jspath55.blogspot.com/2026/10/crash-more-machines-no-fewer-newold.html?m=1

1. Wifi doesn't work natively.
2. Closing the lid doesn't suspend.
3. Battery life is weak, but i think that's their age, not OS suckage.
4. Video is a little choppy sometimes video streams fine.

If you're a n00b from the Windows world, this might be a setback. If you're from the Linux family, less shocking.

It’s the fashion these days — in November 2026 anyway. I’m kicking the tires on NetBSD 11.

Episódio 179 – Não só Janelas: TOS

https://retropolis.com.br/2026/10/21/episodio-179-nao-so-janelas-tos-2/

#Podcast #AlphasmartDana #Amiga #atari #AtariCorp #AtariSt #AtariSystemV #AtariTt #BASIC #C #Commodore #cygwin #Debian #DESKTOP #elite #Emu #EmuTOS #EricRSmith #Escom #FreeMiNT #Freescale #GCC #GEM #hatari #Java #LinusTorvalds #Linux #LISP #LOGO #lua #MagiC #Minix #MiNT #multitarefa #MultiTOS #NetBSD #Pascal #PeraPutnik #Perl #podcast #POSIX #ProjetoGNU #RainbowTOS #Retrocomputao #ret

I'm thinking about using BSD again, but not on a PC, I'm happy with my highly tweaked Debian+KDE despite the discrepancies in AI policies. I have several #SBC, and all running Linux; because of the #eMudhra incident, I have to do a lot of patches so why not. The worst part is all the Dockers. E. g. my HA server is made up of 10, each with its own CA certs. If that’s annoying on a personal level, imagine on a global scale. I think my first RPi (still in use) is a good place to start with #NetBSD

One of the excellent consequences of deliberately building and maintaining a system that prioritizes conceptual and concrete simplicity is that you can make true, verifiable, useful statements without paragraphs of disclaimers and qualifiers.

E.g. here are the complete instructions for mitigating the eMudhra SSL/TLS debacle under #NetBSD 10 & 11: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/emudhra_tls_ssl_ca_compromise

This site is now served by #NetBSD https://bsd.passthejoe.net/blog/netbsd-vps-md/

#Zola #AI

Wow. The updates to the #php packages in #pkgsrc were updated to 8.5.12, 8.4.27 and 8.3.36, respectively, by 1358Z. Building and in-place update went smoothly. My #nextcloud is patched and back in operation.
I'm impressed. Thank you!
#NetBSD #homeserver #selfhosting.

My #Zola blog is now live on my #NetBSD 11 VPS:

https://bsd.passthejoe.net/about/

Also, NetBSD should have a furry mascot. Linux has Xenia, a canonically transfem foxgirl. The KDE project has its whole entire species of KDE dragons. Firefox has Kit. NetBSD should have one too. :)

#NetBSD #LowPriority #LowestPriority

and i think it would be neat to use my big endian raspberrypi with #NetBSD for this

@Tevis

This is the sort of thing that devpubd(8) hooks are for. And you'll find that there's already a sysutils/devpub-mount in #pkgsrc.

#NetBSD #devpubd

MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record running on NetBSD 11 😎 .🩺 ❤️
#GNUHealth #OpenScience #MyGNUHealth #NetBSD #health #Kivy

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Login greeter for the MyGNUHealth Personal Health Record on an XFCE session. Artwork of a young woman sitting crosslegged in a yoga pose. Circling around her some pictograms about nutritions, cardio, genetics, well-being and health care.

Qubit waits, but there's no cycling on the tele, and consequently no me to sleep on.

She doesn't know I am playing with Go tui on #netbsd. If she did, she would walk on the keyboard.

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Ceci n'est pas une chat

Now that Linux has boarded the slop train and its leader has announced full stream ahead, the least I can do is to add support for NetBSD to the compiler discussed in my upcoming book.
http://t3x.org/reload64/
http://t3x.org/subc/subc-2026.zip
The book will still discuss the Linux version, but 99% of the code is identical on NetBSD, and the compiler should run and self-compile on all x86_64 NetBSD systems.
#NetBSD #NoAI #NoSlop #compilers #books

Oh my phoenician gods, firefox en #netbsd no consume memoria. La máquina virtual que he montado tiene 4Gb de Ram, y 2 procesadores, para ser lo más parecido a un #t400, que es el hierro donde voy a hacer la instalación de verdad.

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manejador de ventanas ctwm en netbsd con dos terminales, una con termmatrix y la otra con btop mostrando un uso mínimo de memoria ram, por debajo firefox.

Here goes...

#NetBSD

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Installation screen for NetBSD: NetBSD/amd64 11.0 This menu-driven tool is designed to help you install NetBSD to a hard disk, or upgrade an existing NetBSD system, with a minimum of work. In the following menus type the reference letter (a, b, c, ...) to select an item, or type CTRL+N/CTRL+P to select the next previous item. The arrow keys and Page-up/Page-down may also work. Activate the current selection from the menu by typing the enter key. fa: Installation messages in English b: Installation auf Deutsch c: Mensajes de instalacion en castellano a: Messages d” installation en francais e: Komunikaty instalacyjne uw jezyku polskim or £3 Right Ctrl

No me acordaba de lo bueno que era tener un sistema operativo sin las tontás de sysmtend, colorinchis estúpidos y esquinas redondeadas.

Mi máquina virtual #netbsd progresa adecuadamente. Estoy deseando que llegue el #t400.

#ruido_blanco

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Un manejador de ventanas, ctwm, en netbsd. Una terminal con la tontá de termatrix, un fondo de escritorio 8bits, una ciudad con rascacielos por la noche.

Well, back on Linux. Unfortunately.
I'm not even gonna 'at least its...' because I FUCKING detest how much I don't want to use something enshittified by GenAI.

So what can I do?

Help #netbsd.

I DO legit enjoy #netbsd but it's not quite ready for my use.
But it could be if I helped somehow!

but I don't know how to help work on the amdgpu driver....yet? I might be too ambitious here!

Actually on reflection I won't be using #OpenBSD. Guess I'll take a look at #NetBSD.

First hurdle switching to #NetBSD from Linux: device files don't appear/disappear in /dev when I plug in a USB drive; I have to check dmesg and then use 'disklabel' to figure out what label to use for mounting. TIL.

Here's a write-up of my successful NetBSD installation on my old laptop, including the problems I encountered along the way, how I solved them, and how I set up the system to be something I might actually use daily.

https://fulvous.top/~cal/?u=/2026/10/21/a-slightly-techy-slightly-nerdy-person-installs-netbsd-and-xfce/

#NetBSD #CalBlog

Success!

#NetBSD #Xfce

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A laptop screen running the Xfce desktop. A large terminal window is open showing fastfetch. A large NetBSD logo is rendered in ASCII art alongside various specifications of my 2017 laptop.

OK, second try, now I know to go through the configuration menu after installation is finished, and I have a much more workable system.

Dare I push my luck and try to install KDE?

#NetBSD #KDE

#NetBSD-crew... I need some help (mention-only). Idk why, but my netbsd installer can't go forward after "boot devices: <unknown> \n root devices: <type something>".

Unfortunately, i can't enter anything.

Oh? NetBSD doesn't have an /etc/os-release file? Is that normal? :dragn_confuse:
Too bad as I use it in some personnal scripts to check the OS and it version.

Well, just quickly made a little script to generate one at boot time.

#NetBSD

...well, that was fucking easy, it just worked.

I think I'm gonna go through the installer again though, it sure could stand its rough edges sanding off a bit. For one, it's not entirely clear that what you end up with by default is a very basic system without a GUI, package management, or even networking.

I can see why advanced users would desire such a minimal installation, but as a default that it isn't clear you can override, it's probably the wrong call.

#NetBSD

Today will be attempt 2 at getting #NetBSD to run on my laptop.

The most likely problem was that I did something wrong while writing the installer image to USB, because the questions I was asked during first boot on the laptop were completely absent when I installed it on a virtual machine.

I'm using a script called EasyDD to hopefully eliminate that error today. :)

Someone over on #XMPP told me: why don't you just use #NetBSD but hardened? Well, it's 2026 by now and NetBSD have promised nothing about bringing pledge and unveil, and I would assume it's not trivial to patch Firefox with them. If I had all the free time in the world, then surely I could try, but as it stands I'm still making baby steps away from being just a FOSS freeloader...

@sinza have no experience with #netbsd or #haikuos but wouldn’t something akin to #tailscale work? i know there are open source alternatives too.

Is there any way on #HaikuOS to use a VPN that isn't based on OpenVPN or is random nonsense that someone paid Anthropic to throw up and then put on GitHub.

I'd like to make a personal VPN more so that my modern computers can connect to each other wherever I go. Setting up an OpenVPN server sounds like a major pain in the ass (as the documentation is really lacking for reasons I suspect are greed-related), but it's the only option I've been able to find.

I'd be very willing to use WireGuard or IKEv2, as there does seem to be good documentation on how to set up servers. Unfortunately, the only WireGuard client for Haiku appears to be vibecoded.

It will run BSD. #OpenBSD if I can use my preferred protocols, #NetBSD if I truly am forced into OpenVPN.

#NoAI #DuckDuckFedi #LazyWeb #FediHelp #FediTechHelp

Any X11 on NetBSD wizards out there willing to help me troubleshoot something? Running X with `startx` is perfectly fine, but when I try to start X from a display manager (xdm), tab/arrow keys/etc don't work in my terminal and $PS1 is only \$. xdm.log says that xkbcomp reports "Error: Couldn't lookup keysym" which doesnt happen with startx, but I'm not really sure where to go from here. #NetBSD #x11

so if you are using something like a compactflash disk as your 486's disk, you can try installing to that from qemu on a more powerful machine, dropping the LEGACY kernel onto the root partition as /netbsd (after copying the old one to /onetbsd), and then putting that in your old machine.

this is actually the path i usually take - the install runs very slowly on a real 486 anyway, and won't complete if you have less than 32MiB of RAM.

24 hours later, the little #netbsd learning/experimentation VM has finished building all the tools and libraries needed, and is finally starting on firefox

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A screenshot of NetBSD running CTWM. Multiple xterms show firefox starting to build, top, and systat, keeping tabs on things.

i can help!

the long and short of it is that you need a boot image built with the LEGACY kernel instead of the GENERIC config. which i can point you to on demand

i can help!

the long and short of it is that you need a boot image built with the LEGACY kernel instead of the GENERIC config. which i can point you to on demand

@js

Hey, it's the year of #NetBSD on the desktop finally.

#WolfNippleChips is the name of the new #openbsd rewrite in #rust, with strict #noslop policy. We’re posting here every day until someone writes it for us!

Don’t confuse us with the unnamable #netbsd rewrite in #zig, <spit>, splitters. Bourgeois scum, how many real working class doomscrollers have non-x86 hardware anyways!

my #netbsd box is broken, my pkg is broken but the system running well right now.

I will trying to fix it next weekend