i3 běží 🥳
WiFi běží, ještě zbývá naučit se milion věcí jinak 😄
#NetBSD #Pine64 #PinebookPro

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Pinebook Pro s běžícím i3 prostředím.

It has been so long since I ran a #BSD that I don't even remember which BSD it was. (I could probably dig up that info...)

Circa 20 years ago I used to run BSD gateway/router machines.

I think I'd like to do this again, for a variety of reasons.

But which BSD should I run for this kind of network gateway. It won't host any applications, it won't be a NAS, it'll purely be network/gateway... it'll have the telco router on one side, internal network on another, and one or two DMZ/separate type networks (one for hosting external facing things like Mastodon, the other for untrusted IoT stuff.) It'll run dhcp, dns, and probably be a VPN endpoint.

I do not want to run some specialist gateway adapted customised thing with dashboards etc, just want a plain vanilla OS. (And no bullcrap like containers, docker, etc. Just an OS running on a physical box.)

So, what OS should I run on my network gateway: #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD

#NetBSD peeps! There is a (mostly) working #Valgrind implementation for NetBSD at https://github.com/paulfloyd/valgrind-netbsd. It would be great if we could get a (binary) package for it!

This morning I was thinking about something: one of the reasons why every enthusiast should consider going to a BSDCon is simple.

I eat a lot and I still come back slimmer 😄

2024 - EuroBSDCon: ate twice as much as usual, came back from Dublin 1 kg lighter.
2025 - BSDCan: breakfasts that could cover a whole day’s calories, huge delicious meals... came back from Ottawa 0.5 kg lighter.
2025 - EuroBSDCon: double breakfast (sweet + savory), massive lunches, delicious dinners (including a huge pizza, as @outofcreativity, @angie and @mwl can confirm) and still came back 0.5 kg lighter.

Positive emotions burn calories.

So come to BSDCons: you’ll come back happy and slimmer!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #BSDCon #AsiaBSDCon #BSDCan #EuroBSDCon

PostmarketOS po upgradu ztratil kontakt s WiFi kartou...
Tak jsem se rozhodl experimentovat. Zatím se peru s #NetBSD na SD kartě 🤔

Vypadá to, že většina věcí funguje, jen podpora xserveru je taková všelijaká 😕

#PinebookPro

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Pinebook Pro bootující NetBSD 10

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NetBSD 10 na Pinebook Pro aktualizující repozitáře

System Administration, Week 1: Warming up to EC2

In this short video, we prepare for our first homework assignment and demonstrate how to launch a #NetBSD instance in AWS EC2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_pgRH0IDw

Note: the AMI in the video is outdated; I have up to date images listed here:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/netbsd-amis.html

Or you can create your own:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html

#sysadmin #devops #sre

Deadline this weekend - apply by Feb 1st, 2026!

Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?

Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!

https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

#eurobsdcon #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #travelgrant

#MAME 0.285 compiles on #HaikuOS after adding a small upstream patch (a missing #include).

If you're struggling to compile the latest version of MAME (I bet #FreeBSD and #NetBSD probably have the same issue), give this a go: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/ffde4d3920ae99d2730db83982ffa9f8fbd8abd2

Anyway, there's a PR on HaikuPorts for the update, so it should be with you lovely people in the next few days.

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MAME 0.285 launcher, running on Haiku R1B5, viewed via a VNC connection on a Linux box. In the background is a tmux session, also running on the Haiku box, viewed via SSH on the Linux box.

@pu

That's difficult to answer without a concrete idea of what a dependency is.

If it's who develops it, then #GhostBSD's major developers are in Canada, and #MirBSD's major developers are in the E.U./Switzerland.

If it's which BSDs would be unaffected if Microsoft-owned GitHub decided to pull the rug out from underneath them, then the answer is rather different.

Financial dependencies, and WWW/mail/other hosting dependencies, are different again.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonFlyBSD #NetBSD

Oh, #freebsd removed i386 support in the 15.x release. Well, hello #netbsd, how you doin ?

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/valuable-news-2026-01-26/

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

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

Testing a Chimera package update to virt-manager. Figured it was a good time to try a more modern NetBSD install. :-)

#NetBSD

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Screenshot of NetBSD with glxgears, xclock, xconsole, xeyes, xload, and xterm running.

Provoked by a toot from @jamesoff I made the experiments with the #y2k38 time boundary on #OpenBSD (bigger screendump) and #NetBSD as illustrated.
Both survived ;) of course.
NetBSD however seems to accept a date as UTC and then translates it to my local CET. OpenBSD seems to trot happily on in CET.
This means that in 12 years, when I'll be 92 years old, I won't have to worry about any time apocalypse.
I'll sleep as quietly as ever on that night. Nice to know.

James' sticker is fun anyway ;)

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Playing with y2k38 on openbsd

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Playing with y2k38 on netbsd

@thejpster I will always say #NetBSD, but that's just my personal bias. I have been running it for a while on a Netra X1, which should be similar.

Oh and here's a photo from 2001 showing a NetBSD crash. The first UNIX-like OS I ran on my own hardware was NetBSD in 2001 on a cobbled together PC with a Cyrix 6x86 CPU and some memory from who knows where. It would crash under heavy load, here extracting the pkgsrc tarball, due to bad RAM or the CPU getting too hot, I can't remember.

#NetBSD

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A photo of a rounded CRT screen showing a uvm_fault in green text. kernel: page fault trap, code=0 Stopped in tar at vn_stat+0x51: addb %cl,0x568ba045(%ebx)

As I continue to trawl through old backups please enjoy this screenshot of a NetBSD system dated Feb 2005. Not sure what I was up to, or what the system running it was.

#NetBSD #twm

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A twm desktop with several xterms, xload, and xclock.

Also amazing that this thing did not OOM-kill processes all over the place; even before I started compiling I did a pkgin upgrade on the poor box, which took .. a few hours. I'm all outta swap, real low on RAM, and yet it somehow got through this .. #NetBSD for the win, I guess.

Says top:

Memory: 56M Act, 27M Inact, 11M Wired, 15M Exec, 820K File, 2076K Free
Swap: 128M Total, 128M Used, 4K Free / Pools: 23M Used / Network: 23K In, 34K Out

Finally installed XFCE on my gaming PC running #NetBSD. (Well, it dual-boots, so it's either gaming or NetBSD.)

Damn, XFCE looks beautiful in HiDPI.

Also, surprisingly, the best browser on #NetBSD today is ... Chromium! Works really well if you can get it to build.

Do you want to come to #ottawa and tell a bunch of #BSD geeks about what you enjoy doing?

Submit to BSDCan 2026!

Our submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

Tutorials: June 17-18, 2026
Conference: June 19-20, 2026

More about the BSD conferences: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #sysadmin

5 days left to get your @bsdcan talk submitted! Join your friends in Canada to discuss the state of the *BSDs. See talks by leaders of our industry, parents of the Internet, and that person you've been seeing on mailing lists for years!:

https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html#main

#runbsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd #sysadmin

Judging by the number of #NetBSD bugreports, i386 gets 3x as many reports as eg. arm:

Category             critical  serious non-crit  TOTAL           Median TTC
port-arm                    8       36        7       51      2m 28d 20:02:56
port-i386                  34      105       52      191      7m  6d 15:28:21

I don't think this says #i386 is 3x as problematic as arm, but may have a lot to do with the size of the userbase.

FreeBSD soft-ditched i386, Debian is hard-ditching it, OpenBSD has nobody to compile ports... Yet the stats seem to indicate demand.

Not quite dead yet.

#RUNBSD #retrocomputing

BSDCan 2026 is in #ottawa June 17 - 20, 2026.

The submissions deadline is January 17, 2027. See the Call for Papers page https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html for instructions on how to submit.

Want to know more about BSD and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html @bsdcan #bsdcan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #freesoftware #libresoftware #conferences

I'm going to assume running multiple automated test frameworks on a 1-core #NetBSD Pi will eventually eat itself out or starve or something. Have not heard from the #Zabbix agent in an hour or so.

The Pi wifi worked until it started failing with loss of connection. I moved the SD card to a second 0W with a plugin RJ45. Restarting test suite. Dag.

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Pretty busy CPU chart for a day or so thrashing multiple tests.

Instructions for installing #NetBSD on the Wii U: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-powerpc/2026/01/10/msg003724.html

We should modernize the #NetBSD website.
Example:

Log Message:
Add support for the Nintendo Wii U.

#NetBSD

Two more #NetBSD systems going 11.0 BETA - a creaky 686 and a teeny Pi 0W. It's been months since I managed to write a bootable SD card for the little Pi; the 2026 image worked like a champ.

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Neofetch screen grab from NetBSD 11 BETA with a 2-screen 686 processor.

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Neofetch screen grab from NetBSD 11 BETA with a 1-core Raspberry Pi 0W.