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I could build #Ghostty on #NetBSD.
There are still some adjustments to be made though...

Alt...

Ghostty running on NetBSD.

Mid February #NetBSD #pkgsrc package counts for 2025Q4:

10.0: earmv4 12805 (didn’t have it listed before) 10.0: m68k 9622 (+1394) 10.0: powerpc 20711 (+2833) 10.0: sparc64 16866 (+1635) 10.0: vax 7495 (+748)

11.0: aarch64eb 24042 (+4001) 11.0: earmv4 4362 (+612) 11.0: m68k 8132 (+1271) 11.0: mips64eb 3852 (+363) 11.0: mipsel 440 (+449 - needs a new power supply) 11.0: powerpc 4552 (unchanged - needs space and power) 11.0: riscv64 18616 (+3233) 11.0: sh3el 7809 (+2239) 11.0: vax 5245 (+1879)

@EF Hmm... where exactly? If it's on nanopi r2s (the one in the picture), then #FreeBSD works there, but if it's on OrangePi Zero, then #netbsd runs there, but it can't communicate with the network card, which basically kills the whole idea😉

My old friend, a Raspberry Pi A+, has been running my home heating system for months, just like it did back in 2014.

It has not missed a single moment.
It has sailed through every so called cloud outage.
It kept working flawlessly even when the Internet connection was down, because it simply does not need it.

This is the kind of technology I love.
Of course, it runs NetBSD!

rpicaldaia# uptime
6:23PM up 78 days, 20:16, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.17, 0.13
rpicaldaia# uname -a
NetBSD rpicaldaia 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (RPI) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

Hey Mastodon!

🖥️ 💻

Calling all #mac #macos #osx #windows #linux #FreeBSD #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #desktop & #laptop users!

On your personal computer, what is your go to when you leave your machine unattended for long periods of time:

D-Bus is a message bus system that provides an easy way for inter-process communication.

> easy
> EASY

That is a lie and we know it by now.

#linux #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #programming

I am still looking for the best way to represent such complexity in diagrams without creating too much mental load and death by Powerpoint.

I started working through risk ontologies to get #Archimate patterns and I started to model the #NetBSD #releng process including GnuPG Signatures. My goal is to get a complete model of a SLSA4 compliant reproducible builds architecture with Zero Trust architecture and secure from insider threats

@wfk @gmc @freedosproject

IIRC, current #Linux, #FreeBSD and I think #OpenBSD no longer supports 486 systems. But I did see an article that #NetBSD can still be put on a 486. But I lost the link

With that said, if I had that system, I would put some form of DOS on it. Maybe sone day I will find one :)

Installing: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/ #netbsd

Happy to see NetBSD is in Google‘s Summer of Code again for 2o26:

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations/the-netbsd-foundation

#netbsd #google #summerofcode #gsoc

@amilatled And I even put the docs online, how to build a #NetBSD #Apache #PostgreSQL #Perl #Mason webserver

In case you want to set up a NetBSD 2.0 Webserver (and speak German), the doc is at

https://codeberg.org/0xKaishakunin/Publikationen/src/branch/main/Grau/NetBSDApachePostgreSQLPerl.pdf

This week I set up a development server with #NetBSD on #VMware, and it's working way better than #Linux.

If you are in tech or interested and have not yet been to a regional #BSD conference, I would recommend you consider going to one.

A short description of the three major ones can be found in my recent piece "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (G-tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html). Fun fact: I'll be at all three this year

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon @bsdcan @EuroBSDCon

Now: Martin Husemann explaining about the #NetBSD Wi-Fi driver renewal #EuroBSDCon

كبديل ل
G-Drive
والا
Dropbox
ثمّة
#Nextcloud #Hub
إلّي جاتو تحسينات كبيرة مع ال
#Version 26
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-winter/
و ثمّة مشروع جديد إسمو
#NetBase
يجيب أدوات
#NetBSD
https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/
كي العادة، كان ثمّة تعليق والا ملاحظة حطّوها كتعليق و ما تنساوش تعملولنا
Follow
على
#Mastodon
باش تجي مساعدة
Live
LinuxTUN@Mastodon.tn
#Linux #OpenSource #News #theLinuxEXP #BanisraeliContributors #tech

Process Isolation on NetBSD with chroot https://lobste.rs/s/bfzbim #netbsd #security
https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-chroot-isolation.html

I'm slowly getting myself back to having a personal website.

First blog post is up. Trying to write an intro post felt weird, so I just wrote a technical article. It's about how I set up the chroot that caddy and anubis run in on the server (running #NetBSD 10.1):

https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-chroot-isolation.html

@philpem See if you can get #NetBSD/acorn26 running on it (an old release as port has been removed). My A5000 seems to be dead and I lost my A540 with 16MB.

While writing my article, it became clear to me how much responsibility — and especially experience — is required to touch areas like UVM or NPF inside NetBSD.

I’ve learned a lot over the past weeks. But I’m also honest enough to say: I don’t yet have the depth of experience needed to modify those subsystems responsibly.

So I made a conscious decision.

I’ve created a new experimental branch for secmodel_jail / jailctl / jailmgr that is strictly additive:

- No changes to existing kernel code paths

- No UVM hooks

- No NPF integration

- No hidden coupling between subsystems

It adds new code only.

The reason is simple: even without deep UVM or NPF integration, the security model already delivers significant practical value for me. And in this reduced, explicit form, the attack surface is clear and the audit scope sharply defined.

This feels like the right first alpha candidate: understandable, bounded, and reversible.

https://github.com/MatthiasPetermann/netbsd-src/tree/feature/jails-v1-ga

#netbsd

Just added another sensor to #sysinspect — "procnotify".

In this very short demo: as long as a new process is "bash" (use "zsh", LOL), #sysinspect SIGKILLs it.

Key points:
1. procnotify detects a new process
2. a model is getting triggered (in this case just a process killer)

Currently:
Native: #linux, #netbsd
Others: external fallback path.

@pheonix A |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| DNARD prototype running #NetBSD/shark, C-news and (mgetty+sendfax with a 28.800bps Telefone modem).

Maybe the modem is slightly older.

If we leave computing: a LCD weather station with an additional 433 Mhz coupled outside temperature/humidity sensor might beat it; SWMBO inherited it from her father who had it several years before. His bedroom lamp, ca. 1970s, is in ours now. An #POTS phone from 7/1990 on my desk (connected via an #VOIP adapter to my #Asterisk)

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

Alt...

Open 19" 90's rack Case with a green motherboard in it and old grey ribbon cables connected to a dvd drive and a ssd. there are two addon cards in the pci slots and two slot 1 pentium ii cpus with fans installed. The 4:3 screen shows a fastfetch output giving stats of the machine , an htop screen with two cpu usage graphs and snac log

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green motherboard with two pentium ii slot 1 cpus

@kaveman
That's an odd error message to have.
Usually we get that with YouTube
Which continent are you in?

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

@kaveman

Please use the link in this toot to directly access the source repository

https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/116103250251003244

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

@kaveman Thank you so much for mentioning my little experiment with bringing Jails to NetBSD here - I really appreciate it.

In the meantime I’ve brought it to a somewhat usable state (at least in its core) and experimented with some interesting - though highly experimental - integration paths with UVM and NPF.

I’m currently thinking about what the best next step would be. One idea is a stripped-down version that complements the kernel code - essentially just secmodel_jail+kauth+jailctl+jailmgr, but without UVM and without NPF integration - possibly as a pkgsrc package?

The current experimental state is described here:
https://www.petermann-digital.de/blog/netbsd-secmodel_jail-update/

(Sorry - at the moment it’s available in German only.)

#netbsd

Alt...

A visualization of a atom with the core (secmodel_jail) and orbits of jailctl and jailmgr.

Wonderful BSD news

Netbase shall bring netBSD userland utilities to Linux.

Version v0.1 is released by introducing a new endeavor to port netBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes

Quote

The first release already includes a substantial set of core utilities, including
cat, echo, ln, mv, pwd, rm, rmdir, sleep, chmod, sync, date, mkdir, test, chown, basename, env, dirname, id, tee, yes, head, printf, wc, false, true, whoami, uniq, nice, tty, grep, domainname, hostname, and the ksh shell

Z

Read more about this subject in the provided link

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

｢ The goal is very interesting: to bring original NetBSD userland utilities, such as ls, cp, ps, and others, to Linux with minimal changes to the upstream source code ｣

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#netbsd #bsd #netbase

Netbase a port of the netbsd utilities for linux https://lobste.rs/s/ailcbn #linux #netbsd
https://github.com/littlefly365/Netbase

www.netbsd.org/releases/…/NetBSD-11.0.html

NetBSD RC1 was is available. I upgraded from 10.1 to 11.0 RC1 on Feb 16. No issues so far, in fact, I find RC1 works better than 10.1

One noticeable improvement is Playing Audio from local files or from streams. On 10.1 once in a while the audio would slow down and get garbled. On 11.0 RC1, no issues at all, I have been streaming for hours for the last few days on end to see if I could get that to happen on RC1. But playing/streaming audio no issues. :)

Looks like a solid release!

Netbase debuts with version 0.1, introducing a new effort to port NetBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes.
https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#netbsd #linux #opensource

Alt...

Netbase debuts with version 0.1, introducing a new effort to port NetBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes.

@osnews

Well, learn something new every day :)

I just tried this on #NetBSD and it worked as described. Since #slackware now has nvi, it will be interesting for people there too.

#unix

@mikrotik @fdroidorg morning. #alpinelinux #openbsd and #netbsd. It works as expected on #voidlinux glibc version. Will try again on musl when I get home on Saturday.

As for native version, phone app or Flatpak... ideally the first, will use the second and Flatpak only if there is no other choice.

5/5 I'm considering #NetBSD as a base for an i386/x86 collection of #FOSS that can run in #Qemu. If you're a NetBSD user, do you think it makes a solid platform for sharing a tailored FOSS collection? #AskFedi

@lcheylus running #NetBSD ? 🤠

#Introduction ― I'm a 6th year #medicine student, aspiring #neurology
resident. Some topics I'm interested into:

#neuroscience #cognitivescience #neuroimaging #pathology #virology
#bioinformatics #socialism #pacifism #minimalism #collectivism
#cooperatives #environmentalism #climatechange #sustainability
#permaculture #vegan #existentialism #posthumanism #postmodernism #scifi
#cyberpunk #foss #unix #netbsd #sdf #gopher #privacy #bbs
#decentralization #selfhosting #lisp #retrocomputing

@EF While true, I am most familiar with #FreeBSD hence the recommendation for that one specifically. I've barely touched #NetBSD once and have only used #OpenBSD a couple times, both over a decade ago. The FreeBSD team has also made considerable effort improving laptop support.

@jzb

I just wrapped up an interesting call that was originally scheduled for last week but rescheduled for today. The client is looking for a unique setup, and thanks to having an early re-read of the fantastic The Book of PF - 4th Edition, I was able to propose some configurations that had completely slipped my mind. The client is extremely curious, and this will likely lead to a new OpenBSD deployment in an interesting environment.

At the same time, I received an email from a professor at an Italian university whom I had encouraged to extend his lectures to include BSDs. I piqued his curiosity as well and proposed a session specifically on firewalls, focusing on OpenBSD and pf. He will be reading The Book of PF soon and will likely add it to his students' recommended reading list. I'll probably present them, too.

In short - one book, a thousand new possibilities. Infinite thanks to @pitrh for the massive and wonderful work behind it.

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #PF #Firewalling #IT #SysAdmin

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System Administration: Week 4: Package Management

In this video, we continue our discussion of the difference and relationship between the operating system and so-called "add-on software". We conclude that in order to install and maintain all such software, we want to use a package manager, and illustrate common features by example of the 'dpkg', 'rpm', and #NetBSD's #pkgsrc tools.

https://youtu.be/dU66_sPjnXg

#sysadmin #devops #sre

Alt...

A diagram illustrating the relationship between OS, Package Management, and the different components: Add-on software, System Software, Applications/Utitlities/ Kernel/Firmware / Hardware

Hello *BSD users.

I am curious. On your workstation or notebook running *BSD , do you use ports or packages ?

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBsd

World #RISC-V Days - Gujarat India

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

https://community.riscv.org/events/details/risc-v-international-risc-v-synergy-forums-technical-talks-and-webinars-presents-world-risc-v-days-gujarat-india/

Happy #ilovefs day, everyone!

A huge thank you to all the amazing free software community members who build and distribute the software we use everyday.

A special thank you (because I like and use these projects) to the Xfce team, the GrapheneOS developers, the Fedora and openSUSE community, the LibreOffice community, and the wonderful people behind the BSDs.

On another year of awesome free and open source software.

#opensource #freesoftware #linux #bsd #fedora #opensuse #archlinux #gentoo #voidlinux #debian #ubuntu #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #almalinux #rockylinux #libreoffice #grapheneos #xfce #gnome #kdeplasma #lxqt

Obligatory Dmesg: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8833
#NetBSD #RunBSD

Tracked down the #NetBSD 11 WiFi problems I was having on i386! IT WAS EERO'S FAULT.

Eero has some wonky behaviour when it runs in WPA3/WPA2 mixed mode, sometimes it seems to return NULL packets during auth.

NetBSD11 has wpa_supplicant upgraded to 2.11, which blocks this kind of behaviour.

The fix turned out to be really simple: force wpa_supplicant to only use WPA2 and also specify "ieee80211w=0" in the network config.

I've got a working install; AND #Lagrange also built perfectly this time. I am really quite happy.

I will be even happier when I finally replace these stupid AP's, I have grown to detest them.