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[?]Jeff »
@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social

Whew. I got 10.1 to boot all the way up on an Odroid M1S tonight. I added the M1S to the tiano core UEFI firmware originally written for the Pine64 Quartz64. It booted all the way with the first build! (Which was an unreal feeling.) The ethernet and eMMC aren't working, so I have a bit more work to do before I publish. (Stay tuned. Also, because I went the UEFI firmware route, this should get OpenBSD and FreeBSD support for the board.)

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

    that there are no knobs in to configure ARC memory consumption.

    I started to use ZFS for my disk with backups and digital archives near a month ago, because I didn't want to think about changing sizes of LVM partitions. And my homelab server has only 2 Gb of RAM and some swap :drgn_cry:

    Whoops. Not a good surprise :drgn_blush:

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      [?]R.L. Dane (snac) »
      @rl_dane@snac.bsd.cafe

      @gumnos@bsd.cafe @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk With apologies to Pokémon, I think the slogan with the BSDs should be,
      "Gotta try 'em all!" XD

      I've spent some quality time in #OpenBSD and now #FreeBSD, I'd like to try #NetBSD and #DragonflyBSD next.

      (This is regarding https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/gumnos/statuses/115695846629134863. Not sure why the context got lost XD)

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        [?]Morgan »
        @kaidenshi@exquisite.social

        Well, fuck. As the apes at the end of the Spaceballs movie would say, there goes the planet. :flan_eyeroll:

        aaif.io/press/linux-foundation

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          [?]txt.file »
          @txt_file@chaos.social

          Apperantly Linuxâ„¢ introduced a bug many moons ago. Maybe in the hpwmi part. I know one of my notebooks was working couple years ago. Now it kind fo freezes when I activate WiFi via hardware toggle. Also openchrome driver seems broken.

          Using the graphics with openchrome driver and WiFi with athn WiFi chip are working. Thanks @netbsd 🤗

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

            @rperezrosario

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              [?]~/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.

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

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

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                    [?]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.

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                      [?]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.

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

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

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                          [?]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.

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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

                              Jay 🚩 :runbsd: boosted

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

                              Taking for a little test drive...

                              netbsd.btxx.org/

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                                [?]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.

                                  [?]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: »
                                    @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                    @netbsd :flan_cool:

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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.

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                                        [?]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

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                                            [?]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]

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