Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-149.0b10 in my local pkgsrc tree on #NetBSD/amd64-current...

Happy International Day of Forests. 🌲

While the tech industry burns megawatts and boils millions of gallons of water just to run the latest AI hype-machine, NetBSD🚩 is about extreme efficiency. Writing tight code that keeps the hardware you already own running for decades means less e-waste in the ground and less power pulled from the grid.

You don't need to drain a lake to run a server. Keep your old machines alive. Protect the forests. 💧🌳

#NetBSD #InternationalForestDay #FOSS #GreenTech #Sustainability #NoAI #RightToRepair #Ewaste

Photo By: Andrea Villarreal Rodríguez
“The legacy of the forest”
Country: United States of America

#NetBSD #Linux #windows7 #macos

@mpeterma have fun! 😁 #NetBSD

#NetBSD jingle pop style created with A.I. 😂

Happy International Pi Day! Celebrating the infinite possibilities of clean code and extreme portability.

What a better day to remind everyone: Of course it runs NetBSD! 🚩

#NetBSD #PiDay #PiDay2026 #OpenSource #RetroComputing #RunBSD #linux

#NetBSD #PiDay2026

@mhoye https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html #NetBSD

I pushed a second blog post. This time just some notes on what I had to do to get #NetBSD on my VPS setup for remote administration with ansible:

https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-ansible-notes.html

pwning #NetBSD -aarch64 (ARM)
#RunBSD #Linux #unix

https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/nb_20260308_1932.html

Here’re some pictures from #NetBSD at SCALE

There’s a lot of interest in NetBSD :)

First is a Raspberry Pi 400 with ctwm running as a stratum 2 NTP server. Our neighbors just happen to be the Network Time Foundation.

@socallinuxexpo

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This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi 400 running NetBSD with ctwm showing several terminal windows running various things. It's running as a public NTP stratrum 2 time server as "timescale.zia.io" (the expo is called SCALE - ha ha)

#Retrocomputing #UNIX #SlowComputing

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Neofetch output showing the config: NetBSD 11.0 RC2, AMD 486-class CPU, 128MB RAM

#Retrocomputing #UNIX #NotAToaster

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Screenfetch output showing an Xterm window with the specifications of the machine: NetBSD 11, Intel 686-class CPU, R200-class GPU, 492MiB RAM (?)

troubleshooting BSD TCP network performance
#NetBSD #runbsd
https://omaera.org/wlog/tech/bsd_network

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

#FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd #linux

@sylvie wow, this looks great! Guess I'm not the only one who thinks this is a good idea :)

#ALpineLinux and #NetBSD are the only OSes that keep my very old machines (turning 20 years old this year!) still running.

Enjoy!

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is 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

The #eurobsdcon call for papers is on!

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

We offer pre-submission mentoring, see within!

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

#NetBSD #jails https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

For anybody wondering why I prefer #NetBSD over #Linux, compare the code for a small tool like whois(1):

NetBSD:
https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/whois/whois.c?annotate=HEAD

372 lines, easy to read

Linux:
https://github.com/rfc1036/whois/blob/next/whois.c

1617 lines in the main program; unchecked malloc(3), misc buffer overflow opportunities, magic numbers, "/* This function has multiple memory leaks.*/", mixed spaces and tabs, another 2K of glue code, ...

KISS, man, KISS.