#NetBSD #runbsd
Installing *BSD in 2025 part 3 – A critical look at NetBSD’s installer

https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-3-a-critical-look-at-netbsds-installer/

@42 happy to see everything worked out for you :)

#RUNBSD & enjoy :)

Yay! #IPv6 working out of the box - finally! #FreeBSD #FreeBSD-15-CURRENT #RunBSD

One of the downsides of the kind of work/life schedule I have is the difficulty of committing to fixed or pre-scheduled times. For example, I still haven’t managed to join any of @dexter ’s fantastic calls - shame on me!
I occasionally get to watch the recordings, and they’re always full of interesting insights.

It’s the same reason why I often couldn’t make it to the BSDPub meetups organized by @gyptazy - anche they were great, relaxing and inspiring.

If you can, I strongly encourage you to take part!

#CallForTesting #bhyve #openzfs #zfs #RunBSD BSDPub

Something i found really cool Japanese tongue twister
#NetBSD #RunBSD
https://youtu.be/J76S5q_ETfo

Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.

1/X

#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS

Alt...

Group photo of the OSDay staff and speakers

Alt...

My laptop, with the BSD Cafe sticker, is projecting the BSD Cafe logo

Alt...

Me, giving my opinion about the Evolution of Open Source

Alt...

Me, explaining why I think we lost the value of stability

Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.

2/X

#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS

Alt...

Me, standing up and presenting myself

Alt...

Me and my wife, smiling while listening to an interesting presentation

Alt...

One of the staff members asking me something about AI

Alt...

The trophy - I won :-)

Good evening, #BSDCafe!
Good evening, #Fediverse!

Today I was finally able to spend the whole day working on FreeBSD and OpenBSD servers, after a few days full of other activities.
I must confess - it’s been incredibly relaxing and refreshing.

I upgraded an OpenBSD server with a colleague (inside a bhyve VM - we were both connected to the same tmux session).
He was amazed by how simple the process was, and actually said “WOW” when the server sent the entire upgrade output via email.

Tomorrow, he’s planning to install a new OpenBSD server and “play around” with it.
Mission accomplished. 🙂

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #bhyve

⚠️ Resources got restocked:

- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany

@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :)

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD

Today was an extremely long day - it started at 3:50.
Unfortunately, there was a problem this morning. Nothing critical, but it did cause a bit of chaos. It wasn’t directly my fault, but I probably could’ve prevented it.

This time, I didn’t exactly solve a problem. Or rather, I averted a disaster, but didn’t avoid a mess. Shit happens.
On its own, it wouldn’t be a big deal - but I tend to be forgiving with others and harsh on myself.

On the bright side? As often happens when I feel disappointed, I concentrated on urgent things and personal projects. So I merged a ton of scattered code into the (dev) BSSG repo - things I had lying around but hadn’t integrated yet. The next release will be a big one.

And tomorrow, a shiny "new" server is arriving. I’ll need to set it up at a client’s place before BSDCan - even though a few details are still unclear. The only certainties: it’ll run FreeBSD and ZFS.

#BSD #FreeBSD #ZFS #SysAdmin #LongDays #RunBSD

I'm just at the reading and thinking stage just now. Yes I know another rabbit hole my brain thinks would be a good idea to jump into. 🙄
#RunBSD

Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").

As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.

BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.

To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!

https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/

#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION
#NetBSD #linux #RunBSD #pkgsrc

https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/

Overheard at Lefty’s Bar: -What’s the commercial alternative to FreeBSD? -FeeBSD! Har har har….!!! #RunBSD #FunBSD #dadjoke #freebsd

Yesterday, I told you about incus - today I tell you how you can easily run #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD & #NetBSD with #incus!

#RUNBSD! #opensource #homelab #virtualization #proxmox

https://gyptazy.com/run-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-vms-in-incus/

Better the *daemon* you know than the *devil* you don't

#runbsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd

Let me introduce you to aceBSD! Yesterday, while I was out grocery shopping, I saw a special offer on a final unit, and I had already been thinking for a while about getting a mid-range laptop to take with me to conferences, on trips, etc. Something small, practical, with an HDMI port, and capable of running at least one of the BSDs decently. After some careful thought, I decided to go for it today.

It's an Acer Swift Go 14 - with an Intel i5, 16 GB of RAM, and a 512 GB NVMe SSD. What I really like is that it’s compact and has a high-definition OLED screen, a good keyboard, and for the rest... we’ll see. I just used Clonezilla to make a backup of the preinstalled Windows (I didn’t even boot into it...) and I’m now installing OpenBSD. I had to disable VMD (from a hidden BIOS menu) because otherwise the installer wouldn’t detect the NVMe. It also seems to detect the Wi-Fi, but I’m proceeding with a USB-C Ethernet adapter just to be safe.

I got it at a good price, so this could be the ideal solution. Fingers crossed, and… we’ll see!

I'll keep posting about this adventure, with the hashtag #aceBSD

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #aceBSD #NewLaptop

Alt...

A smiling man in a light blue shirt stands indoors holding a cardboard box with the Acer logo, indicating it contains a new laptop from the Acer Swift Series. He is posing happily in front of a wooden door with decorative glass panels.

Congratulations to #DragonFlyBSD from #NetBSD community for 6.4.1 release!🎉 #RunBSD
https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/

#TIL; #Solaris has a very sophisticated defence mechanism which forced my hand to install #OpenBSD on the installation media USB, rather than the hard drive. #UNIX #RUNBSD #PosixMindTricks

Please boost for a larger each and thank you. xoxo
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD

I'm going to compile the NetBSD kernel directly on the Raspberry Pi Zero W, which is running NetBSD.

Let's wait and see 🙂

#NetBSD #RunBSD

Make Your Own Internet Presence with NetBSD and a 1 euro VPS – Part 1: Your Blog

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #BSSG #SSG #SelfHosting

Anyway, I've reduced my ambitions ever so slightly, and am now in the process of installing NetBSD (-CURRENT) on what is essentially a 386SX-class machine: 16-bit bus, 24-bit addressing, 16MB RAM, and nearly as unpleasantly slow as the 286 I had planned to use. It is however equipped with an IBM-branded 486SLC, which is from the Blue Lightning series. This one definitely has a full 486 instruction set. More hardware details will follow when I've completed the build (and installation).

Meanwhile, the obligatory screenshot from the installer. Note the ETA for simply unpacking base.tgz ..
#RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Slowcomputing

Alt...

Screenshot from installer. Shows base.txz being extracted, at a speed of 110 KB/s. ETA given is about 30 minutes, which turned out to be relatively accurate.

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.

#RunBSD #EndOfRant

Until #snac starts doing work of course. Then I just sit back and wait.
#RunBSD #Patience

https://github.com/ltning/sshbench

#unix #ssh #benchmark #shellscript #bourne #runbsd

#unix #runbsd #retrocomputing #486

Alt...

Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.