it's pretty weird that nouveau (the reverse-engineered nvidia driver) is the best 3D graphics driver on #netbsd right now

NetBSD really is everywhere:

"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

(Apologies for linking SubStack again. Public service announcement - please don't use SubStack! They monetize actual Nazis.)

#netbsd #bsd

All BSDs should also focus on the Desktop side of experience #DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD
#GhostBSD trying but I think we need more united effort to promote.

Nine more days to go until the European *BSD event of the year kicks off! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: NetBSD
https://www.netbsd.org/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Setting up a NetBSD 11.0_BETA VM for some testing, and nice to see I no longer have to disable xhci to get it to boot.

#netbsd #smartos #bhyve

Shamelessly stolen from Reddit /r/NetBSD

"If you want to rationalize your computer hoarding #NetBSD is best."

OK... this was the most horrible BSD-experience of all. #NetBSD is modern and fast compared to #OpenBSD

The installation process feels like in the 1990s.
And afterwards it's slow. So slow that NetBSD on a RaspberryPi 1b feels like a rocket.
SSH to the machine (via bce0, not wifi!) had so much latency, that I will now stop playing with it.

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Some additional hints to set up your NetBSD environment for this class:

https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/vm-setup.html

With all sources extracted, familiarize yourself with ctags(1) et al to make browsing code a breeze:

https://youtu.be/TWog5NklSws

#apue #programming #unix #netbsd

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Week 2: File Sharing

In this final video lecture segment for our week 2 materials, we take a look at what it means when multiple processes access the same files and what the implications of that are on the syscalls we know. We conclude with a look at /dev/fd on different operating systems, including #NetBSD, #macOS, and #Linux

https://youtu.be/CAbUtc86ULw

#apue #unix #programming

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/09/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/valuable-news-2025-09-15/

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

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

Ten more days to go till the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: Genua
https://www.genua.de/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Oh, looks like there is one problem with using cash register as a server

The Intel Atom N2800 doesn't support VT-x, so I can't use nvmm NetBSD hypervisor. Looks like the only one option to sandbox some services, which should be exposed outside, is to use chroot and sandboxctl: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/sandboxctl/

#NetBSD #homelab #chroot

Suppose you have a machine like a Sun Fire T1000 with an UltraSPARC T1 CPU. Could you run something on one that you'd still use today? Maybe like a back-end (HTTP + database) for an application that has a reverse proxy on a different/more recent platform?

How would you go about running it? Would you use a native OS from the T1000's own era and run old code on that?

Or maybe something illumos-based that was released before the announcement of dropping SPARC-support in that OS? Like OmniOS r151038 for example.

NetBSD and OpenBSD also come to mind and my uninformed guess is these give the best chance for running recent code.

All this is assuming an unknown amount of pain due to missing SPARC support in packages, not only the OS.

#illumos #solaris #opensolaris #sunfire #t1000 #openbsd #netbsd #omnios

NetBSD-powered CDN: caching, TLS and performance on a shoestring.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/03/make-your-own-cdn-netbsd/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

I still have a #RaspberryPi 400 laying around here from that time, they were much, much cheaper than a normal Pi4.

Which #BSD is fun on it?

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

Counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Getting closer by the day! 🥁

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: Prodottoinrete
https://prodottoinrete.it/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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TIL: NetBSD has the file NetBSD.el in /usr/share/misc/ for setting its C programming style in EMACS

#netbsd #emacs #til #cprogramming #c

@solene You write about "#OpenBSD extreme privacy setup" on your website. Are you by any chance aware of anyone doing something similar about #NetBSD?

Cleared the bench to attempt open brain surgery on a very relic VA Technologies Pentium II Linux box, er, suitcase. Huzzah, #NetBSD 10 CD boots (thanks for making the installation image fit in 700 MB).
Needs an old drive, even has a SCSI card.

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Intel Pentium 2 based motherboard. Cards and wires.

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NetBSD 10.1 install menu. Utility item highlighted.

Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
This calls for a celebration!

EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #RunBSD

@phix Do you, by any chance, have a hint to where I might find some reading material on #privacy and #anonymity when using #netbsd as a daily driver?

Starting the day with style. #NetBSD

@shmok I use #openbsd on one, #netbsd on another, and #alpinelinux on a third - with or without #freetube ;) so where do I put my vote :)

If you run NetBSD in a qemu VM, you can share a directory via VirtFS.

qemu-system-aarch64 -virtfs local,path=/wherever,security_model=mapped-xattr [...]

You need vio9p(4) in your kernel, and then mount it via

mount_9p -cu /dev/vio9p0 /mnt

What tickles me about this is that this uses 9p, the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol. :-)

Quick write-up for my students:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/vm-shared-dir.html

#NetBSD #qemu #plan9

@kzimmermann I would like a #RaspberryPi 4B or 5B but I have doubts about #NetBSD on them.

I just updated #odinlang in #pkgsrc wip. Im looking for people that would like to test on #NetBSD

Telescope is now available on pkgsrc (below you can see it running on SPARC). With a few patches [1], it builds and runs fine on Solaris too.

Thanks @op@bsd.network, @thomasadam@bsd.network, and others for contributing to this project.

[0] https://telescope-browser.org/
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/tree/trunk/net/telescope/patches

#gemini #smolweb #pkgsrc #solaris #netbsd #sparc

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4:3 screenshot of emwm desktop on NetBSD/sparc64, showing a telescope gemini browser window (connected gemi.dev capsule's homepage), alongside a xnedit window showing the pkgsrc package Makefile, and a fastfetch output on a separate window.

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/valuable-news-2025-09-08/

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

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

The last BSDCan 2025 video has been posted!
Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca

https://youtu.be/oo_8gnWQ4xo

I'm typing this in my Xuake Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD.

I started this journey on the NetBSD 9.99.x branch and ended up having to dig into the guts of wscons, mesa, libdrm, the kernel drm subsystem, the AMDGPU driver and more. I have a couple of very small, but hard fought patches in the NetBSD kernel. It's not over yet, either. I still have a few bugs around the compositor shutdown process and a lot of integration work to be able to hope to have other people try this out.

Topics to cover in the talk include (but are not limited to):

History of Wayland and other background info

How your graphics stack and driver is organized and actually works

The actual porting journey on both NetBSD and OpenBSD

A Demo! I should be able to show it running

Current status, future work

For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Adventures-in-porting.html

#wayland #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX History

We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.

https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw

Scroll along through it all here: https://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

#apue #unix #linux #netbsd #freebsd

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Our reference platform for this class is NetBSD. Some ways to get set up are:

Use an AWS image:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/615/netbsd-amis.html

Create your own AWS image:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/creating-netbsd-ec2-amis.html
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-amd64-ami.html

Install NetBSD on a Linode:
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/netbsd-on-linode.html

Use UTM / qemu:
https://stevens.netmeister.org/631/utm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCqfmuG5Acc

#NetBSD #apue #AWS #Linode

Get ready for the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We are counting down!

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Big thank you to our platinum sponsor for supporting EuroBSDCon: Modirum by Entersekt

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #Conference #Register

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Has anyone tried #NetBSD/amd64 on an Intel N95 or N100 box? #bsd

@AnachronistJohn I missed out on AM1 when that was available. Had good luck with Atom 330 and #NetBSD/amd64. I wonder whether Intel UHD on the J4125 might work better than the new thing (Intel Xe?). #Xorg

An embedded dev kit for EndBASIC with #NetBSD by Julio Merino @jmmv

https://youtu.be/WZFYTInWAqc

@vermaden It’s hard for me to know how to vote. I’m for #1, but with better protections.

#NetBSD’s pkg_delete won’t delete certain packages, like pkg_install, even when forced (-f). To delete those special packages, you need to force force it via -ff.

Lumping in base packages with others without protections is a bit… shortsighted. It’d be one thing if there wasn’t a way to delete all packages, but since that was there first, that should stay.

22 days to go!
Why BSDs in 2025?

My perspective and why we moved many services from Linux to the BSDs.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Today is Monday, 1st September. And September means one thing: EuroBSDCon!

23 days to go until EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!

I’m doing a little “advent calendar” for BSD fans: each day until the conference I’ll share one article from it-notes.dragas.net about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, ZFS, PF and more. The dedicated hashtag will be #EuroBSDConAdvent

Let’s start right away with "I Solve Problems" - my EuroBSDCon 2024 (and #BSDCan 2025) talk about migrating from Linux to BSDs:

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/

If you’re coming to Zagreb, reply to this post - it would be nice to meet up with fellow BSD users!

#EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD #EuroBSDConAdvent

Google summer of code 2025 for #NetBSD asynchronous I/O framework:

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_asynchronous_i_o_framework?utm_source=discoverbsd