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All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if #NetBSD permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.
I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.
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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.
A new Valuable News weekly from @vermaden is out - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/valuable-news-2025-01-20/ - always a useful resource #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsdnews #valuablenews
Testing #NetBSD on a #RaspberryPi Zero. NetBSD/evbarm 9.4 seems to work better than 10.1, at least on my board.
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NetBSD on MacBook Pro
ctwm (window manager), urxvt (terminal emulator), mrxvt (tabbed terminal emulator), pload (network monitor) and, in the spirit of the 90s, hot-babe (CPU monitor), I have a nice and borderline usable "desktop" on this 486.Until #snac starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.
#RunBSD #Patience
The #NetBSD 10.1 install ISO is evil.
It is _just_ large enough to bust a regular 700MiB CD-R, but if you(*) look at KB or MB (not KiB or MiB) you(*) might not notice because everybody uses "random" values to compute these
(*) happened to a remote friend 😋
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sent with a busted CD-R blank in the trashcan
The #BoxyBSD project is taking a pause from provisioning completely free #vps instances / #vserver. For further questions, reach out to @gyptazy or in our Matrix chat.
After publishing the new self-service portal and making it easier to use and get a free VPS instance, we got a lot more new users who requested an instance than usual. We’re not out of resources but we want to provide a great and reliable service and have a buffer for upcoming things.
We’re already restocking the resources and adding new nodes to the project but temporary stop provisioning new instances. In the meantime, we will provide new services that will make the overall experience for users much better and easier.
We already started this with the new #NAT64 gateways and the new free #loadbalancing service that allows you to serve your website also on #IPv4, even your box is #IPv6 only.
We’re addicted to the #BSD community and hope to provide your quickly more #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD and all the other bsd based systems again. In the meantime - have fun and #RUNBSD
#free #hosting #bhyve #zfs #firewall #networking #community #opensource #fediverse #services
Stefano Martinelli's @stefano article about his EuroBSDCon 2024 experience has been published by the FreeBSD Journal and on the Foundation web site: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/conference-report-my-eurobsdcon-experience-in-dublin/ (TL;DR: he enjoyed it *a lot*) #eurobsdcon #dublin #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #libresoftware #sustainability #development #freesoftware
boostedWe just added a free #loadbalancing service to #BoxyBSD!
This new feature got added by @gyptazy in addition to the newly introduced #NAT64 gateways to make your life easier and is currently tested with a few users! This provides you the ability to make your website also reachable by #IPv4 even your box is only running on #IPv6. This feature can be managed from your self-service portal and simply requires you to add a DNS name that should be balanced and to point the DNS A record to a given IPv4.
Making the legacy internet life easier, we hope for a higher #BSD adaption where people might be more motivated to try #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD or even #opensolaris with #illumos.
#hosting #opensource #runbsd #hosting #free #service #saas #community #vps #vserver #server #vm
BSDCan 2025 in Ottawa:
Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025
Conference: June 13-14, 2025
If you or your employer want to step up as a BSDCan sponsor, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/sponsorship.html for opportunities and sponsorship level options
#bsdcan #bsd #freesoftware #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #libresoftware
The latest issue of the FreeBSD Journal has just been published and contains an article written by me: My EuroBSDCon Experience in Dublin
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/
#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD # #EuroBSDCon #EBC24
I just booted NetBSD/riscv for the first time on qemu, running on a Raspberry Pi 400. #NetBSD #RiscV #RaspberryPi
Wonder if I’m ready for new adventures. #OpenBSD 7.6 ran without any great issues. The iwx driver worked like a charm after getting its firmware, but maybe I should start looking into #NetBSD - it’s about time to get acquainted with the whole family #BSD #RUNBSD #UNIX
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Old HP workstation with 2 4 core XEON prosessors
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟭/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/01/13) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/valuable-news-2025-01-13/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
I finally read the friendly manual and pushed myself to build Pi3 #NetBSD binaries on an amd64 machine. My mk.conf settings:
USE_CROSS_COMPILE?= yes
TOOLDIR= /usr/src/obj/tooldir.NetBSD-10.1-amd64
CROSS_DESTDIR= /usr/src/obj/destdir.evbarm
CROSS_MACHINE_ARCH= aarch64
CROSS_OPSYS= NetBSD
CROSS_OS_VERSION= 10.1
CROSS_OPSYS_VERSION= 101000
CROSS_LOWER_OPSYS= netbsd
CROSS_OBJECT_FMT= ELF
1st, lynx
./lynx-pi: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64
2025 is starting great - and I took all opportunities!
Like probably all personal playgrounds, I started small with many technically working but not ideal solutions. Ignoring several RFC's, standards etc,.
This also applies to my @BoxyBSD project that provides free VPS (#BSD focussed, such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD but also #illumos / #opensolaris etc.,) boxes for the #opensource community and beginners to provide them a place for learning and education.
I decreased (yeah decreased) the amount of overall systems. Instead, we now have bigger sized systems which makes the overall management easier and also improved the whole networking stack. Also some other benefits came along with this ;) I'm really happy to see what 2025 brings up - and there're several great things to be announced soon :)
#unix #runbsd #retrocomputing #486
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Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.
Okay, okay... you guys asked a way too often for this and I want to make your life easier:
BoxyBSD now also offers NAT64 for your #FreeBSD, OpenBSD, #NetBSD, etc. VPS boxes! Next to the reverse proxies, you can now simply use the new NAT64 way :)
@BoxyBSD #homelab #hosting #opensource #community #RUNBSD
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#retrocomputing #moreram
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Kernel messages from NetBSD 10.1 on an AMD 486. Panics due to low memory after showing interesting sound cards detected. No correlation I'm sure - only including to brag.
I just signed up for the #BSDNL conference!
Happy to see you all in #Utrecht
Tickets are €15, lunch included!
tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/early25
📆 2025-04-12 / April 12th 2025
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NETBSD #dragonflybsd #midnightbsd #bsdcafe #conference #meeting
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BSDNL Conference
I don't really want to switch this off, but it's no longer in use and is just sitting taking power. It ran our phone system for many years.
voip: {1} uname -v
NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #1: Fri Oct 31 18:28:54 GMT 2008
voip: {2} uptime
10:03AM up 2128 days, 23:44
It used a zaptel driver I blindly ported to #NetBSD from #FreeBSD which worked first time when plugged into 4x PSTN lines:
wcfxs0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0: Wildcard TDM400P REV I
wcfxs0: operating mode: UK
CC: @rubenerd@bsd.network
So..TLS aside, what is the most lightweight reverse proxy I can use instead of nginx in front of this thing? You know, in case I would like to move the instance from this beefy PPro to, say, a #486 or a #Nintendo Wii running #NetBSD? :)
See also my main fediverse presence: @ltning@anduin.net
About this instance, at the time of writing:
- OS: #NetBSD 10
- Reverse proxy: nginx
- CPU: Dual Pentium Pro Overdrive, 333MHz
- RAM: 512MB EDO
- NIC: 3Com 100Mbit PCI NIC
- Storage: SATA 1.0 (CF and SSD)