Today was a OSes update day . First, I updated the laptop of one of my relatives, which I gave him at near 2021. The OS on the laptop (some kind of Dell Inspiron) wasn't updated since these times, so it was a Linux Mint version 18.2 (and now it is ver. 22.3). But, suddenly for me, minor update from 18.2 to 18.3 and the major update from 18.3 to 19 went well, with the help of this instruction: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade.html

From my previous experience with Oracle Linux and it's repositories, I thought, that Linux Mint update will fail, because all repositories shut down and update files were removed, because the installation from 2021 is too old. But, all necessary infrastructure is still up and I managed to perform updates

The second update, the update of my main server with NetBSD. It just works: I installed sysupgrade, update the system, merge some configuration in /etc/, update binary packages, update to packages from pkgsrc and that's all. It just works, without any surprises and problems

#NetBSD #LinuxMint

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

@AFresh1 on #NetBSD :

#sysupgrade auto https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-X/latest/amd64

For packages :

#pkgin update
#pkgin full-upgrade

Edit:

For packages only #pkgin upgrade
as pointed by @jperkin Thanks :)

@cienmilojos

I don't know of any OS that has an iron-clad #NoAI policy.

#NetBSD comes the closest, but they even have a provision for AI being included "with permission," IIRC.

#OpenBSD already has slop in base, via tmux. :/

The system was previously softhacked through other means but I managed to get Wiibrand working in the end, the Homebrew Channel installed and NetBSD started up.

Unfortunately the "UGREEN USB 2.0 Ethernet Adapter" doesn't work in the Wii Menu, despite having the right chipset, and also not in #NetBSD - the axen driver repeatedly prints messages about a wrong buffer. I've ordered a Realtek-based dongle instead.

Mine...Mine...Mine...

Now THAT will be a nerdy weekend §8-)

Buy here:
https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

#freebsd #book #bsd #nerd #linux #unix #openbsd #netbsd #ghostbsd #learn

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FreeBSD Book - Integrated by design. https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

Yes, it's the same with @xcpng as #XenServer. XenCenter and XCP-ng Center don't offer the SR-IOV network as an option for VMs. Luckily, #XenOrchestra gets that right.

While there I tested various #BSD OSes with SR-IOV and Intel i350 NICs:

#NetBSD - NIC is described (as defined in pcidevs), but no driver
#OpenBSD - NIC entirely unknown as not in pcidevs
#FreeBSD - virtual function works straight off as igb0

The #NetBSD and slightly-newer #OpenBSD iavf(8) drivers only support much newer NICs.

I created a support page (in lieu of a blog) about SR-IOV on XenServer and XCP-ng with various Intel NICs and different operating systems including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD

I think the #NetBSD ixv(4) driver needs resyncing to #FreeBSD from whence it came (or get hints from #OpenBSD). I couldn't get it to work on #NetBSD
https://www.precedence.co.uk/wiki/Support-KB-Citrix/XenServer-SRIOV

@mike_k All of this is why I am slowly exploring NetBSD - it's looking more and more like my "canned rations" operating system for when I flee to the woods. I don't need a lot of software to be happy, to be honest, and once I have a working roster of apps, I might not even need to keep pace with much of their updates ever again (with obvious exceptions like a browser)

I also feel like it's small enough maybe I can contribute in some way.

#NetBSD

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Has anyone tried #NetBSD/aarch64 11 RC3 on the #RaspberryPi Zero 2W?

#netbsd

https://www.osnews.com/story/144845/apple-wants-to-kill-your-time-capsule-but-they-run-netbsd-so-they-cant/

@drj Not really. I used and consulted on UNIX in the 80's when I worked with Siemens, we called it SINIX. In 2001 after starting teaching, I started with Linux and used vim from early on for sysadm work and gui editors for extensive editing. I converted from Linux to #OpenBSD and #NetBSD two years ago to observe KISS including using only vi for all editing. On those two vi is actually nvi. I never really needed the book more than what's in the first 7 chapters. The clone chapters treats every clone systematically alike. But back in 1998, the clones were not really that different.
This book, UNIX POWER TOOLS, and UNIX in a Nutshell, have been with me for about 25 years or more.

I think #NetBSD #pkgsrc foundation can take this initiative : @netbsd

https://www.sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-standards-network

⚠️ The Schedule is live! ⚠️

BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 🐡😈⛳

https://bsdnl.nl/program.html

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

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White Rabbit "I'm late!" meme with the text: Better late than never! The BSD-NL program is out! and late again...

@projectanchorage I would look at multiple options.
- If you're strictly stuck with i386 (not even i486) that means #NetBSD is propably the only choice.
- Depending on your goals, you may want to consider #OpenBSD or #386BSD (today's #FreeBSD).
- Not shure if #OpenSolaris / #illumos supported anything beyond #SPARC(v9 / SPARC64) & #amd64.

The question to me is whether or not old #BSD versions emcan even be built with midern toolchains and if choosing them isn't going to bite one in the ass down the line.
- The reason I choose #Linux for @OS1337 is because it's mature toolchain, drivers and hardware support.
- Tho you may rightfully argue that #OS1337 is just taking the #toybox / #musl + linux "distro" #mkroot and basically tries to make something out of it.

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open through June 20th!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

took the week off, celebrate me and my wife's wedding day.

Soon my brave #parisc #hppa machine celebrate 40days uptime.
31 year old machine running 33 year old #NetBSD

And my new homeserver! #NetBSD

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Picture of a Nintendo Wii

@ObsidianUrbex #netbsd candidate 🤔

BSDCan https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/ Talk Saturday 2026-06-20: 11:00 - 11:50 DMS 1130
NetManager - Building products with NetBSD round 2
Stephen Borrill
https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-NetManager---Building.html
To register https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #netbsd #netmanager

It has been suggested it is time to detail a bit about the configuration of this beast. Let's start with the basics: This is a straight-up #NetBSD 11rc2 installation on a stock #Nintendo #Wii. Many people have detailed how to install it, but one useful source of information is Alex Haydock's blog[2], and of course the NetBSD release documentation. The kernel config[3] is modified slightly from the default WII in an attempt to save a bit of memory.

Building #snac2 was straight forward; no difference from building on i486 or i686. Simply make and make install, with the -f Makefile.NetBSD (the NetBSD-specific makefile is included with the snac sources).

Since snac won't do TLS for inbound connections, a TLS proxy is needed. My go-to nginx isn't in the 11rc2 PPC package repository at the time of writing, so I built it from pkgsrc myself. This only took a couple of hours.. But alas, it's a bit too memory hungry for my taste, even with a minimal configuration.

Next up, I found ttp[4]. It is a very small and simple proxy server, which works fine but cannot serve static files, nor does it support TLS 1.3. It is also incapable of dropping privileges, and since I want to run it as nobody I had to find a different way to pass port 443 traffic to it.

Luckily, NetBSD has npf, a built-in firewall that can do NAT and which is fairly easy to configure (at least with the usual good documentation and examples included). Picking up port 443 and NATing it to a high port for ttp to handle worked fine - and allows me to easily move traffic from one TLS proxy to another while I experiment.

TTP wasn't without problems - but they turned out to not be entirely its fault. I kept getting connection failures and snac kept exiting for no obvious reason.

After some fiddling around, the snac author suggested[5] that I was running out of file handles, which is indeed the case. Adding ulimit -n 1024 to /etc/rc.d/snac solved that issue as well.

Then my thoughts landed on an old acquaintance of mine - pound[6]. This is a reverse proxy with good TLS support, and recent versions can even serve static files in a fairly simple way. After a couple of bug reports, lots of help by the current maintainer, and some more fiddling, I got the most recent versions to build. Once the next release drops (4.21), I'll have a go at doing my first pkgsrc port update :)

The pound configuration[7] now seems to be fairly complete, even keeping out most random scanning attacks (yes, they have already started).

[1] https://wii.cafe/ltning/p/1773014130.033156
[2] https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
[3] https://anduin.net/~ltning/WII_TINY
[4] https://github.com/Theldus/ttp
[5] https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2/issues/576
[6] https://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pound/manual/index.html
[7] https://anduin.net/~ltning/pound/wiicafe_pound.tgz

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Screenshot of htop running on the Wii. pound and snac processes both hovering between 1 and 2 MB resident memory.

@TomAoki @tfb understood. And I’m not insensitive to the real deps here. As one who’s been “forced” to consider more minimal libs/deps (by virtue of choosing #OpenBSD on #PowerPC), I have appreciated adjusting my expectations. I expect that as more perfectly good tech / frameworks are deprecated, we’ll see people rethink these things — for the positive. (Like, will the #Linux #486 deprecation bring people to #NetBSD? ;) )

@kingocounty @mirabilos

"usable" of course is a very malleable word, but I know #NetBSD has taken a strong stand against it.

Finally found the #Pkgsrc news about Q1 2026:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2026/03/27/msg000392.html
As the pkgsrc.org site has no announcements since 2025 I guess there's a gap in the doc process, after role shuffling. Continued activity as shown by charts: https://pkgsrc.se/statistics.php
#NetBSD

@jmcneill

Also: it seems the #NetBSD Wii is actually on the Fediverse, because yes of course it is... Its owner can be found at @ltning

(I hope I am not starting a DDoS on that poor Wii by posting this...) ☹️

And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. 😂

Thanks for everything @jmcneill !!

(Now, where the heck did I put my Nintendo Wii...?)

@chesheer Ohhh , thats why I bet on #NetBSD for daily computing — any "newbie with AI" touching CVS — will be shot with heavy low-orbital ion cannon (I hope)

Something I discovered recently:

https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/

This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool!

Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/

And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925

@flibble @philpem The £575 included monitor, keyboard and mouse per client and a #NetBSD server doing email, intranet, firewalling, routing and fileserving. Also included educational resources and a full productivity suite. Also included installation, training and support with on-site visits

ha, nice. #NetBSD on my M4 Air using UTM.

...

what do i do now?

#BSD #UNIX #Tech #Technology

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NetBSD terminal, logged into root. I typed "Hiya, NetBSD!" into the prompt.

@jaypatelani Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself.

Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan this June #BSDCan

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A boot message ending in "bye bye from RISC OS!"

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A black monitor with small white writing on next to a grey computer with its lid removed and various cables loose in the top

@mrgtwentythree @slava @eschaton #NetBSD is way underrated @netbsd :)

@jaypatelani Nice! This is mine box there the #NetBSD is running. Basically, this is just a main part of the cashier (without the display). CPU: Intel Atom N2800, 4 Gb of RAM.

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Photo of the Intel Atom based, fanless machine, working as a server. There are a server, hub (made from an old router), fire extuinguisher and a turka with coffee. Each element has a cyan text with a name of an item.

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drag0n-server$ uname -a NetBSD drag0n-server.lair.internal 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64 drag0n-server$ uptime 11:59PM up 5 days, 1:40, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.28, 0.45

lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things:

find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time.

no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big?

anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Ok #netbsd fans. I have an x1 carbon from 2023. It’s running Arch and that’s all good. But I’m very very motivated to swim in the waters of a bsd system.

My interests and uses normally involve games and graphics explorations. I just want to be able to use the intel gpu with sdl3 basically. And sadly this is a hidpi system so I’m always worried whether getting a usable display for my aging eyesight is achievable.

Does anyone have words of caution here for me? Is it known to not work in some capacity? I’ve seen the wiki/docs and it sure seems doable but maybe someone has personal experience they can share?

cc: @netbsd @d6

#MirBSD #NetBSD

https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#operating-systems

So looks like #NetBSD uses the font Univers 67 Bold Condensed for its logo? heh, 67 kekw

No #Netbsd
No #plan9
No #Haiku

#OpenBSD crashes after awhile

#Deuvan and #Windows2000 works

But i am looking for a viable #32bit system
Since Debian dropped 32bit

damn you 🤣

#compac #oldcomputers

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my picky Compaq that doesn't like all OSes

Seriously how do i turn off #ipv6 on #NetBSD

#oldschoolnetwork for 1990s computing

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Should we rewrite BSDs in Ada/SPARK!?
#runbsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

So, #NetBSD ships with #ZFS support but not the encryption feature. Because... you're supposed to do disk encryption with cdg whatever filesystem you are using?

@Enalys I just wanted to have a NAS at home and some small programs (like search engine/frontend 4get: https://git.lolcat.ca/lolcat/4get), which were made with selfhosting in mind and don't require high-end i9 DDR5 64 Gb computer to work.
Then, I installed #NetBSD to a small Intel Atom based computer, setup Bind9 to have a nice hostname and a local zone for my home networks, setup DHCPD, etc — aaand, looks like I'm a selfhoster, lol

@vlkrs

Mmmm, miggy.

I bet #NetBSD would run on an #Amiga today! 😄

@latelesley @justine

I highly recommend throwing it on an old thinkpad (almost doesn't matter HOW old).
Also, you can get used thinkcenters for pretty cheap, like 50EUR or less. Just add a cheap SSD and you're golden.

I never graduated to daily driving OpenBSD (yet!), but it's great to have on my old Thinkpad X200t.

Hopefully #NetBSD will be able to profit from the wayland prgoress in #OpenBSD?

Looks like not only backups but also my obsession^Wpassion to write detailed entries to my "selfhosting journal" pays back. Any change, I made in my main home server, has a date and a detailed description of changes made. Also, the process of #NetBSD installation and service installation is documented too, alongside with documented list of running services, opened ports, cronjobs, etc.

At one bad day, my main server started to hangup at near 18:00 and at nea 08:00. There weren't any cron (or any another) jobs at this time. In the logs and monitoring the problems with mosquitto (MQTT server) were visible — somehow it eats at near 100% of CPU, then monit restart it, then things become working, then (after some time) the server hangs completely. Stopped it to see if the problem disappear. But the same problem happens with Prosody. At the end, the root cause of processes slowdown was my PostgreSQL. Investigation showed that write to my second ZFS disk (where the PostgreSQL DB lives) were extremely slowed, so ZFS panicked, crashed and crashes the kernel

[ 204836.661198] wd0d: device timeout writing fsbn 123148477 of 123148477-123148478 (wd0 bn 123148477; cn 122171 tn 1 sn 46), xfer 38, retry 1
[ 204863.837664] wd0: soft error (corrected) xfer 38
[ 206810.672323] wd0: autoconfiguration error: wd_flushcache: status=0x5128<TIMEOU>
[ 212327.420695] SLOW IO: zio timestamp 211326864412007ns, delta 1000556283358ns, last io 211280726737075ns
[ 212327.420695] panic: I/O to pool 'zfs' appears to be hung on vdev guid 1299234741086050345 at '/dev/wd0'.
[ 212327.420695] cpu0: Begin traceback...
[ 212327.420695] vpanic() at netbsd:vpanic+0x183
[ 212327.420695] panic() at netbsd:panic+0x3c
[ 212327.420695] vdev_deadman() at zfs:vdev_deadman+0x15e
[ 212327.420695] vdev_deadman() at zfs:vdev_deadman+0x31
[ 212327.420695] spa_deadman_wq() at zfs:spa_deadman_wq+0xe0
[ 212327.430704] workqueue_worker() at netbsd:workqueue_worker+0xef
[ 212327.430704] cpu0: End traceback...

At the same time, I hear a strange metal noises from server at near 08:00 too, so the destiny of second drive was specified.

The server restoration will take some time, but since anything were written in the log file, I'm able just to replay some actions and get all systems up as soon as possible

#selfhosting #HomeServer

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Emacs buffer with journal entries (in OrgMode) related to the administrative actions in the server.

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Emacs buffer with description of NetBSD installation process on the main server and with lists of TODO items, services, opened ports, etc.

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EGA colored photo of a 2.5 inches HDD

@matthew How is #netBSD going to deal with https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186 do you think?

@darth My main laptop, where I doing almost all computing now, running #FreeBSD for (checks notes) 6 years.

For homelab server(s) I'm using #NetBSD because it runs everywhere

For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.

You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Anyone here has experience doing a "Wi-Fi box" in NetBSD? I wonder how big is the overhead. Both in user effort and computer resources.

When I was younger I used to run a *very slow* virtual machine with Windows XP while daily-driving Linux. So I could interact with government webpages, banks, University software, etc. Anything that I couldn't do in Linux was done in this winXP VM.

Now I'm getting close to do something similar. A light VM with linux to do anything that I can't in NetBSD.

I still don't truly daily-drive NetBSD: I'm writing this tooth from my Linux Mint laptop, for example. To use the Wi-Fi from this machine, I still need a Linux driver, but I'm starting to pet the idea of a small VM + PCI passthrough to setup Wi-Fi, and use that VM as a router.

Something tells me that battery life will be even shorter than it is now. But it would be better to hear that from people who have actually done something like that.

#wifi #wifibox #NetBSD #runbsd

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, as described in the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

The BSDCan 2026 schedule has been posted. 30 regular talks, one set of lightning talks, and one Audio BoF: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD will be holding two day Dev Summits across the hall from each other in DMS.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606
https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/events.html#bsdcan2026

Just like last year, the reception on Saturday night is free if you register early. This year you must register before May 1, 2026: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html
#bsdcan @bsdcan #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference #ottawa

In anticipation of the upcoming release of NetBSD 11.0, I've installed 11.0_RC3 on my Thinkpad T480s. Onward to the Guide!

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/

#NetBSD #RunBSD #Thinkpad

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Output of the 'pfetch' command displaying system information.

Updated post!

For my NetBSD install I wanted to include disk encryption to protect personal data in case the device is lost or stolen. Its not really enough to simply encrypt home directories. Passphrases and sensitive data can linger and be extracted from locations such as system logs and swap memory. There is a trade-off to be made between how much to encrypt, the convenience of operating the system, and the ability for the system to boot.

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/

#NetBSD #RunBSD

Third system with #NetBSD 11.0 RC3, a little pi slice.

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neofetch NetBSD 11.0 RC3 output; NetBSD burgee in dark on light blue. text: OS: NetBSD 11.0_RC3 evbarm Uptime: 8 hours, 12 mins Packages: 23 (pkg_info) Shell: sh Terminal: /dev/pts/0 CPU: raspberrypi,3-model-a-plus (4) Memory: 319MiB / 430MiB

@astraleureka @atax1a If Linux is not a hard requirement, #NetBSD has support to this day:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/

This weekend is the perfect time to get your #eurobsdcon submissions done!

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see towards the end of the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles #development #sysadmin #hacking #networking

There is no such thing as #StupidSaturday. Also me: #NetBSD #ZFS

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A fastfetch output display NetBSD running on a ThinkPad X280 where home, usr and var partition use ZFS.

First system upgraded to #NetBSD 11.0 RC3. Not the last.

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$ time neofetch jim@ ---- OS: NetBSD 11.0_RC3 amd64 Uptime: 5 mins Packages: 453 (pkg_info) Shell: sh Terminal: /dev/pts/2 CPU: Intel 686-class (2) Memory: 723MiB / 3987MiB real 0m0.497s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.145s

Well, well, well... it's Friday, so let's have a little bit of fun, shall we?

#NetBSD 11, take two!

$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 ~/Documents/VM/netbsd11.img 20G

$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -accel kvm -m 2G -cpu host -smp 2 -boot d -hda /home/gil/Documents/VM/netbsd11.img -name NetBSD11 -cdrom Downloads/ISO/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC3-amd64-dvd.iso -display curses -net user,hostfwd=tcp::22222-:22 -net nic

I've just applied this recipe to boot #NetBSD using FDE on my T480s.
And it worked. Thanks @dwarmstrong

EDIT: maybe it was not a good idea to test it with the 11-beta release… wireless card not recognized, apmd not there, packages missing… got to redo this with a secured 10 release :p
https://fosstodon.org/@dwarmstrong/115011008168450086

Can anyone recommend a decent 2 port PCI network card?

Not PCIe or PCI-X!!!!

Bonus if its compatible with #NetBSD and has 1Gb ports

#Networking #oldcomputing

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I wonder why they didn't check #NetBSD ! 🤔
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd

Which has the best source code?

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Best is whatever you care about code quality. For some it might be design coherence, for others it might be resistance to security exploits, for others it might be architecture portability.

#netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #opensource

An overview on running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD on the #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 #arm64 board, bare and with PCIe extension cards, in the context of building a NAS system.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/

@claudiom

#NetBSD to the rescue!!

And now, the #dmesg for this bare #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 board have been uploaded to NYC*BUG dmesgd:

• #FreeBSD 14.4
• #NetBSD 10.1
• #OpenBSD 7.8

*using a curl call inspired by https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0

#RunBSD