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[?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
@jaypatelani@bsd.network

@rperezrosario

    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

    [?]~/rqm »
    @rqm@exquisite.social

    I understand the strain on maintainers, but it's still sad to see culling so many 32bit packages. suffers from the same problem. It seems will remain the platform where you can still e.g. get a working web browser for a legacy system (). Same applies to the Linux world.

      [?]bsandro »
      @bsandro@bsd.network

      So far the most CPU-heavy task of the current was d2p2; on my ryzen3900 it takes 0.12s to complete. What's amusing though is that 25 years old Celeron on crunches it in 3.4 seconds; and 1.33Ghz G4 made in 2004 can only do 5.1 seconds.

      I push as much optimizations as I can on these platforms, initial G4 time was more than twice as bad actually. GCC 14 helped a lot.

      VisionFive2 board with 4-core risc-v CPU @1.5ghz is the slowest of all with 14.3 seconds.

        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

        [?]Ryo ONODERA »
        @ryoon@mastodon.sdf.org

        Toot from pkgsrc/www/firefox-146.0b9 in my local pkgsrc tree under NetBSD/amd64-current...

          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

          [?]Jared McNeill »
          @jmcwhatever@mastodon.sdf.org

          Hard to show with a screenshot, but the GameCube controller does work with games that use SDL2 for joystick access on Wii.

            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

            [?]Jared McNeill »
            @jmcwhatever@mastodon.sdf.org

            Added support for GameCube controllers on Wii. A new driver exposes the four GameCube controller sockets as HID devices that work with SDL / SDL2 as joystick devices.

              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

              [?]Andrew Ball »
              @ball@mastodon.bsd.cafe

              Trying /amd64 on an old, cheap Dell Inspiron laptop.

                Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                [?]BSDCan »
                @bsdcan@bsd.network

                BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.

                Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                  [?]Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »
                  @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  @pfr As you wish :drgn_blep:

                  Output of crontab -l on the two machines (first FreeBSD, second: NetBSD): drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ crontab -l 0 3 * * * /home/drag0n/.bin/get_exchange_rate.sh */10 * * * * /home/drag0n/.config/conky/get_weather.sh drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ ssh drag0n@drag0n-server.lair.internal Enter passphrase for key '/home/drag0n/.ssh/id_ed25519': Last login: Fri Dec 5 13:14:37 2025 from 192.168.1.3 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 NetBSD 10.1/amd64 (202412171413Z) Welcome to NetBSD! drag0n-server$ crontab -l 0-59/1 * * * * /home/drag0n/bin/smarthome.sh

                  Alt...Output of crontab -l on the two machines (first FreeBSD, second: NetBSD): drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ crontab -l 0 3 * * * /home/drag0n/.bin/get_exchange_rate.sh */10 * * * * /home/drag0n/.config/conky/get_weather.sh drag0n@drag0n-laptop:~ $ ssh drag0n@drag0n-server.lair.internal Enter passphrase for key '/home/drag0n/.ssh/id_ed25519': Last login: Fri Dec 5 13:14:37 2025 from 192.168.1.3 NetBSD 10.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 NetBSD 10.1/amd64 (202412171413Z) Welcome to NetBSD! drag0n-server$ crontab -l 0-59/1 * * * * /home/drag0n/bin/smarthome.sh

                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                    [?]Bradley Taunt »
                    @bt@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                    Taking for a little test drive...

                    netbsd.btxx.org/

                      Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                      [?]release_candidate »
                      @release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      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.

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

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

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

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

                      A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

                      Alt...A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                        [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                        @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                        smolbsd.org/

                        nearing the end of the pkg installations. installing bat neovim

                        Alt...nearing the end of the pkg installations. installing bat neovim

                        ready, prompt!

                        Alt...ready, prompt!

                          Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                          [?]Dendrobatus Azureus »
                          @Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                          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

                          smolbsd.org/

                          The image depicts a terminal window running a command line interface (CLI) environment. The background is a dark, blurred image of a tree with red and orange foliage. The terminal window is titled "smolBSD" in the top left corner, and the prompt displays "nbuser[@]nbakery" followed by the current directory and a bash prompt. Three separate windows are visible, each with a slightly different title and content.

                          Alt...The image depicts a terminal window running a command line interface (CLI) environment. The background is a dark, blurred image of a tree with red and orange foliage. The terminal window is titled "smolBSD" in the top left corner, and the prompt displays "nbuser[@]nbakery" followed by the current directory and a bash prompt. Three separate windows are visible, each with a slightly different title and content.

                          smolBSD installation lines

                          Alt...smolBSD installation lines

                          pkg installations smolBSD

                          Alt...pkg installations smolBSD

                            [?]Parade du Grotesque 💀 »
                            @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

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

                            man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.x-BRA

                              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                              [?]Peter N. M. Hansteen »
                              @pitrh@mastodon.social

                              The Call for Papers for is open, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends)

                                [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                                @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                @netbsd :flan_cool:

                                  Parade du Grotesque 💀 boosted

                                  [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                                  @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                  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.

                                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                    [?]Mason Loring Bliss »
                                    @mason@partychickens.net

                                    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?"

                                    freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre

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

                                    netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-

                                    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.

                                      [?]Jim Spath »
                                      @jspath55@chaos.social

                                      Duh. No need to do troff -mandoc for man page source viewing. Just man file.#

                                      feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cg

                                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                        [?]Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »
                                        @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                        Finally! I'm exhausted all RAM on my homelab server, trying to install some python 3.13 things via pip, which involved compilation of some C++ things from sources :drgn_hyper:

                                        At least, I'm checked that kernel successfully kills some random processes, when it got OOM. Was very surprised, when I received some notifications on my phone about dead PostgreSQL, sshd and main nginx, lol

                                        Still has no money to install the maximal amount of memory to my home server — 4 Gb (max for Intel Atom N2800 1866 MHz) :drgn_sigh:

                                        Part of dmesg from my NetBSD box with some messages about OOM-killed programs: Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 8485.8485 (sshd), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 18496.18496 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap UVM: pid 17960.17960 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 2137.2137 (nginx), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 8777.8777 (ccl), uid 1001 killed: out of swap

                                        Alt...Part of dmesg from my NetBSD box with some messages about OOM-killed programs: Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 8485.8485 (sshd), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 18496.18496 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap UVM: pid 17960.17960 (cclplus), uid 1001 killed: out of swap Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] Veriexec: Mismatch. [/home/dragdn/bin/smarthome.sh] UVM: pid 2137.2137 (nginx), uid © killed: out of swap UVM: pid 8777.8777 (ccl), uid 1001 killed: out of swap

                                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                          [?]Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »
                                          @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                          @uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install to the **headless** server running , just to run some other OSes in the console mode, the dependencies bring to me:

                                          - SDL2 and SDL2_image
                                          - flac, giflib, lame, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libopus, libvorbis, libwebp, mpg123, tiff — like I'm want to operate with images and audio files, not to launch some virtual machines
                                          - spice-server, while I'm not planning to use it.
                                          - wayland and wayland-protocols -- no comments :drgn_sigh:

                                          As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the world: "many of opensource audio and/or multimedia apps are developed on any of Linux distros, not on *BSD, thus, to minimize mandated works of porters / maintainers / commiters, depending on what upstream depends by default is the only feasible way not to cause toooo long delay from upstream".

                                          I lost link to his toot on the old account, but I have a screenshot: eugene-andrienko.com/assets/st

                                          One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

                                          drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

                                          Alt...drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

                                            [?]Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »
                                            @jaypatelani@bsd.network

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

                                              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                              [?]Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »
                                              @evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                              @gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

                                              drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

                                              Alt...drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

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