#NetBSD 11 prepares for launch with 57 supported platforms

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/netbsd_11_is_near/

https://www.defert.com/musCAT.mp4

Of course, it runs NetBSD!

Credit: u/1r0n_m6n <https://www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/1msm1qs/of_course_it_runs_netbsd/> via @jaypatelani in Matrix

#NetBSD #cats #Caturday #SundayFun

I just installed a new battery on my test email server. Unlike the battery that’s close to absolute zero, the battery for my email server progressively lost capacity until it got to the point where it wouldn’t charge.

#NetBSD #mailserver

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This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi Zero in an official Raspberry Pi plastic case with a [Geekworm UPS Hat](https://wiki.geekworm.com/Raspi_UPS_HAT_Board). The new battery on it has been covered in electrical tape to hold the wires close and to secure the kapton tape holding the wires. The four LEDs are lit showing that the battery is full.

In a moment of Friday night weakness I may have bought an old X230 ThinkPad for my #NetBSD low-distraction writing machine :’).

Didn’t pay the extra for express shipping, so hopefully it comes in a week or so!

I need to update my #netbsd "wine in a 32-bit chroot" guide, a few things have changed... I didn't need to set WINEDLLPATH in the past.

Reding the docs for setting up NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 2
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/

#RaspberryPi #raspberrypi2 #NetBSD #RunBSD

You know what #NetBSD could use? A driver for virtiofs! @imil

@ayke
Little things like that are why I <3 NetBSD :)

#NetBSD #runbsd

Ok, so it looks like this toot blew up.

And what can I say? If you liked it, I by all means encourage you to try #NetBSD out for yourself! If you've had enough experience in a Unix command-line, and isn't afraid to do some reading on the documentation, it's a very rewarding experience.

You can see how I ran NetBSD on the first Raspberry Pi (2012 Model B) in this post for the Old Computer Challenge. If *that* was usable, anything else is going to be great!

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Happy hacking!

#RunBSD

Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather unique take on what is considered a bug.

#netbsd

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Bugs: This sleep command cannot handle requests for durations much longer than about 250 billion years. Any such attempt will result in an error, and immediate termination. It is suggested that when there is a need for sleeps exceeding this period, the sleep command be executed in a loop, with each individual sleep invocation limited to 200 billion years approximately.

Found a good fanless, completely quiet PC with a LAN, WiFi, 2 COM ports, LPT, VGA and SSD inside — all that for the price of two good meals

It has 1 Gb RAM and Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz (i686, 32-bit). So I have a question to #NetBSD folks — how well NetBSD supports 32-bit architectures?

I want to do some #selfhosting, so I need to install some things: sshd, rsyncd, lighweight HTTP server (nginx?), syncthing, ejabberd, some mail server, etc Any chances that these software still builded for i686 and exists in NetBSD repos?

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Backplane of a fanless PC with a: LPT port, two 3.5 jacks, two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 port, COM-port, VGA-port, two WiFi-antennas and the DC-in 12V port

@ryoon

That is odd, why would google reject Chromium patches from #NetBSD.

Another confirmation on why I avoid Google products and products associated with Google as much as I can :)

#google #chrome #firefox

I have no option but to once again going to praise the #NetBSD on an amazing operating system.

Since I installed it on the Pi 4, the experience has been so smooth that I don't even realize I'm using a supposedly "cheap and underpowered computer" as it was the case with previous OSes. Nope, not anymore.

Instead, there are packages for everything, my architecture is treated as first-class, the performance is always high, and the more I learn about how to use it, the better my experience becomes. No other Linux or BSD met all of these points.

And to top it off? Booting up takes no more than 15-20 seconds. It's less than in my mom's Macbook Pro running Linux Mint!

Again, I can't praise the NetBSD team enough for such achievements. Thank you so much for your hard work that clearly shows that you dogfood your development!

#RunBSD #BSD

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Hosting #VM #VPS #IPv6 #BGP #Singapore #BoxyBSD

#RunBSD #dragonflybsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D

#oldcomputers #occ25 #runbsd #oldcomputerchallenge2025 #100DaysToOffload

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Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

@jaypatelani Is there likely to be better support for 64-bit Raspberry Pi boards? #RaspberryPi #NetBSD

New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds #NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up

#NetBSD 11.0 release process underway

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process

Some friendships just don't crash. 😉 Happy Friendship Day from your most stable and reliable OS. 💻❤️ #RunBSD #FriendshipDay #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenedBSD & other BSDs i might have missed :)

What are you missing at @BoxyBSD?

Let me know what miss, what you need and how I can improve the service to make it easier and better for you!

#opensource #hosting #ipv6 #freevps #boxybsd #runbsd #bsd #devops #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dn42 #peering

@charadon I think WAPBL came to #NetBSD first from Wasabi around the time softdeps was retired. FreeBSD then adopted it from NetBSD

@charadon PSA #ZFS on #NetBSD is a thing too. Not appropriate for many of the older or constrained platforms, of course (sh3, acorn32, amiga, Wii)

So today I tried my hand at compiling for the first time in the Pi4. I built conky because the version in #NetBSD is very old and still uses the former syntax for which my dotfiles don't work anymore.

From this, I learned that NetBSD pkgsrc provides the development files for pretty much every package you install. That's nice: they put the source in Open Source!

Also, the process was surprisingly not scary. This hardware is not exactly fast (though probably fast for its cost), and even then the build took just over 5min. Guess I'll be trying my hand at it more, then, for the software I didn't find there.

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

That's is. I finally figured out. All these years I had been using the wrong OS on the Pi4 too.

#NetBSD showed me the true way on ARM!

@kzimmermann Lately I've been using #NetBSD on a #RaspberryPi Zero.

Heh, I'm going overtime with the #OldComputerChallenge, but #NetBSD is SO FUN to use on the Pi1!

I'm now running JWM, the dillo browser, Pidgin and PCManFM in addition to my busy multiple pane tmux session, and yet the RAM does not go over 260MB! It's amazing, this is like hooking up a motorcycle to pull a wagon of load, adding more and more weight and that motorcycle never slows down despite the load!

Props and props to the devs, this is definitely my new favorite OS for the raspberry pi!

🛰️ Why Some Satellites Use NetBSD?

｢ Its extensive use in spacecraft, including the AeroCube series, BRICSat-P, ITSAT, and NASA's SAMPEX satellite, highlights the OS's exceptional capabilities in meeting the rigorous demands of space missions ｣

https://machaddr.substack.com/p/why-some-satellites-use-netbsd

#netbsd #bsd #satellites

@jbz

I ran across this, but lite on details like what release was used and are some of these satellites still being used.

Anyway seen good news for NetBSD.

#netbsd #bsd #satellites

There are more shells than Bash and I'm curious to see the % of how many people uses wich one of the more or less classic shells. Choose your preferred one.

#UNIX #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Plan9 #GNU #Linux

Okay, I did something... time to provide BSD boxes at @BoxyBSD a bit closer to our buddies in Asia! #RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DrangonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #illumos #opensolaris

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whois output of a newly assigned IPv6 network at JPNIC for boxes in Asia