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[?]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

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    [?]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!

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          [?]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

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

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

                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

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                    [?]:runbsdBg: sysop :runbsdBg: »
                    @sysop@runbsd.duckdns.org

                    soon to be

                    #netbsd

                    Alt...#netbsd

                      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                      [?]:runbsdBg: sysop :runbsdBg: »
                      @sysop@runbsd.duckdns.org

                      #11

                      #netbsd #beta #11

                      Alt...#netbsd #beta #11

                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                        [?]KaiXin »
                        @kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe

                        Feels like my laptop is trying to talk to me here!


                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                          [?]:runbsdBg: sysop :runbsdBg: »
                          @sysop@runbsd.duckdns.org

                          Getting the sources for NetBSD

                          Alt...#netbsd11

                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                            [?]KaiXin »
                            @kaixin@snac.bsd.cafe

                            Finally tried 10.1 RELEASE baremetal on my . Good news is most things seem to work out of box: WiFi, touchpad, i915 drived video card. Bad news is, suspend/wakeup (S3) not working. It appears suspend worked well since after issuing sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleep.state=3 the laptop went to sleep with blinking power led, fan stops. However, at wakeup keyboard just stops responding, even swtiching tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys. WiFi usually wakes up just fine since I gain ssh session back shortly after wakeups. I will conclude a major issue for a system if suspend/wakeup won't work for a laptop. I simply cannot imagine having to poweroff a laptop every day before going to bed. It is kinda a sueprise to me since I assume ThinkPad laptops usually get along well with and systems.

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


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                              [?]Ethan Blanton »
                              @elb@social.sdf.org

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

                                Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                [?]LFA »
                                @lfa@hostux.social

                                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.

                                  Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                  [?]hubertf »
                                  @hubertf@mastodon.social

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

                                    Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                    [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                    @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                    @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.

                                      Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                      [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                      @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                      @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.

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                                        [?]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

                                              [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: :FreeBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou: »
                                              @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                              @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)

                                                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

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                                                  [?]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

                                                        Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                                        [?]Amitai Schleier »
                                                        @schmonz@schmonz.com

                                                        Macmini6,2

                                                        fastfetch output

                                                        Alt...fastfetch output

                                                          Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

                                                          [?]Stefano Marinelli »
                                                          @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                                                          it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19

                                                            Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

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

                                                            📢 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: . Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

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

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