So, I found this netbook and decided to fix it.

First step was easy: I tested NetBSD on it. (because it's a netbook, you see? 😜)

But the unit is in a sorry state. A USB port is so rusty that it doesn't work. I left the battery in a recycling point of my city because it was not safe to handle. Lots of keys from the keyboard doesn't work at all, etc, etc.

Let's see if I can find good parts for it. If you know where I can purchase parts for a Toshiba NB105 (NB100 series) in Spain or the EU, please let me know.

#NetBSD #netbook #toshiba #ToshibaNB100 #ToshibaNB105

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A screenshot of a computer, with a terminal emulator window. A fetch program was ran displaying NetBSD.

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A close-up photo of a USB port. The USB port seems to be very rusty.

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A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

As you can see the build process is smooth, the execution is blazingly fast. What more could I ask for?

https://smolbsd.org/

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

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nearing the end of the pkg installations. installing bat neovim

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ready, prompt!

The mighty world of BSD

Playing with again smolBSD, a fantastic metaOS system that I talked about a few weeks ago.
I'm a newbie, a greenhorn, when it comes to meta-operating systems built on top of NetBSD.

I am very eager to learn by doing, making mistakes in the process, correcting and feel the warmth of the BSD community, who is happy to correct, esp when I show that I read the docs after making the mistakes

The journey is fantastic, the learning process is fun. microVM's are amazing. I've registered 11ms boot times on this small machine with a few CPU cores (and 40GB RAM). The fun is endless

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

https://smolbsd.org/

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smolBSD installation lines

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pkg installations smolBSD

Today I learned #netbsd has openpam and I don't quite know what to do with it...

https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.x-BRANCH/openpam.3

The Call for Papers for #bsdcan is open, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends) #bsdcan #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #sysadmin #devops #conference

@netbsd #NetBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟬𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/12/01) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/valuable-news-2025-12-01/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

#netbsd soon to be

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#netbsd

#netbsd #beta #11

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#netbsd #beta #11

#NetBSD #BSD #RUNBSD #UNIX #FOSS

Getting the sources for NetBSD #netbsd

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

I just tried to install #ReactOS on a couple of random old laptops I had lying around and failed. Now I'm on to #NetBSD just so I can have a success.

NetBSD 10.1 works quite well on the ThinkPad T460p. I did a quick test drive and almost everything works out of the box, yes even the WiFi and some Fn Keys. The only thing I'm missing is the battery widget of the xfce panel, right now it only shows if the laptop is charging or working on batteries. I have to say the results are impressive.

I'm not going to keep it on the laptop because it doesn't have full disk encryption but for a desktop I think it could be nice.

#NetBSD #ThinkPad #T460p

NetBSD archeology - where would one archive these CD(image)s other than in my dusty basement?

#netbsd #archeology #archive

@cienmilojos

I know that the #Thinkpad X260 runs #NetBSD well, and is pretty cheap.
It was the model recommended to me by the official NetBSD account on #fedi.

@cienmilojos

I'm not saying I'd stick with it, because I like i3wm/sway too much, but I gotta say that the stock #NetBSD GUI/X11 setup is the coolest/cleanest/slickest of the #BSD OSes I've tried so far. :D

#OpenBSD's is fine, but a little too colorful. #FreeBSD of course, doesn't have a stock/default GUI... yet!

Haven't tried #DragonflyBSD yet.

Forget the chaotic Black Friday sales! 🤯 NetBSD 🚩 offers the BEST deal: it's 100% FREE! Always has been, always will be. Perfect for self-hosters and anyone seeking pure, open-source goodness without spending a dime. No catches, just solid OS. #NetBSD #BlackFriday #FreeSoftware #SelfHost #RetroComputing #OpenSource #Linux #RunBSD

I run FreeBSD but I don't tend to build it. I consume binaries. So sometimes I make assumptions based on its similarities to NetBSD, which was the first free Unix I ran.

Today I read that FreeBSD finally does unprivileged builds, to which I thought, "What? It didn't before?"

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

Meanwhile, NetBSD has been incredibly sleek in this department for many years now:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html

I should get back into NetBSD. I was initially enthralled by VNET jails but lately I find myself using simpler configs. I might find that I'm okay going back to running things in chroots. And it's not like I'd stop running FreeBSD.

#netbsd #freebsd

Duh. No need to do troff -mandoc for #NetBSD man page source viewing. Just man file.#
#TIL
https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=groff

@golemwire

> Nice. (Two batteries? What kind of computer is it?)

It's a #thinkpad X260. They went from external-only batteries, to hybrid internal/external, to now internal-only batteries. I have one of each: x200, x260, x390, respecively. XD

> Cool to hear. I always heard that #Wayland was architected in a Linux-specific way (though I don't know how that could be, for a window protocol).

It was, sadly. #FreeBSD is the most linux-ish of the three major BSDs, so it got wayland support first. I think it's experimental on #OpenBSD, and not yet working on #NetBSD, last I heard.

Folks who say stuff like, "Hey, why doesn't NetBSD have Wayland working yet???" really frustrate the crap out of me. It's a teensy project with an annual budget of like $50k. It's not your mega kernel that's funded by the pocket money of trillion dollar gigacorps, shut up.

> I'd imagine most graphical BSD software is designed for X11. Did you have to compile e.g. foot from source? ;)

No, foot's a package. Just install and go. ;)
(At least on FreeBSD. I haven't tried Wayland on OpenBSD yet)

@stsp @nlnet #NetBSD should also apply for funds. :)

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115566280074527897

"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.

#RunBSD #illumos #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD