🫰🏻 Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends

｢ Right now, The NetBSD foundation have raised $10,738 of $50,000 goal for the year. The foundation need one final push to help it cross the finish line and fully fund their work for the coming year.
If you donate today, your contribution will directly support critical, tangible projects that keep NetBSD modern, secure, and available to everyone ｣

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/10/26/msg033327.html

#netbsd #bsd #opensource #funding

@stefano when I saw this message I immediately thought of you. You can possibly make this happen #NetBSD

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@schalken Thanks for the toot #NetBSD 🚩

NetBSD puts out a nice operating system that runs on _all kinds_ of strange hardware. They deserve to be able to keep doing that.

Consider donating -- they're a ways away from their 2025 fundraising goal!

Even if you don't run #NetBSD (I don't), consider donating! They're making an OS that can run on all kinds of of weird old hardware, from #Dreamcast to #PDAs to #ClassicMac, and much more.

Support #NetBSD and keep old hardware out of the dump!

#Linux #BSD #NetBSD

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2025/10/26/msg033327.html

Linux verabschiedet sich von 32-Bit, FreeBSD zickt bei der Installation mit dem FrameBuffer herum (unterste zwo Zeilen fehlen) und nach der Installation findet der Bootloader keinen Kernel.

Nun denn, #NetBSD scheint prächtig zu tun auf meinem Winter-Laptopf (Pentium 4 Northwood) mit 2 GB RAM. Also... naja, es compiliert halt momentan Zeugs aus pkgsrc.

Want to reduce e-waste? The NetBSD🚩 Project keeps old hardware alive, turning it into firewalls or retro-gaming machines.
To keep this work going (and fund new RISC-V & WiFi renewal!), the @netbsd needs our help to hit its 2025 goal before the year ends.
Please donate today: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#WhyIRunNetBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #RISCV #Sustainability #Ewaste #RetroGaming #Linux

Tinkering with #NetBSD on this ex-Sophos box has been way more fun than I expected. No more bad web UIs, no proprietary crap, just a basic npf.conf file I can access over SSH or a serial console. Done!

I can't wait for our access point to arrive, then I can finally retire our ancient home network kit.

We at @BoxyBSD are happy to announce our new and modern website!

While the missions keeps the same by providing a free place for beginners to learn, educate themselves and test things in the wild on BSD-based systems (such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD (or even #smolbsd) and many more ones) with public accessible IP addresses, the old nerdy design only hit a niche of users.

We want to make BoxyBSD more accessible & enjoyable to everyone and this is one of the first steps. We know, a laggy SSH connection doesn't make fun and therefore, we're also setting up new locations to provide you a better latency independent of your location.

During this time, signups for new users are currently deactivated until the new locations are up and running and the first real-user tests within the new interface have been successfully performed.

Web: https://boxybsd.com

Thanks to @gyptazy for this :)

#BoxyBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Runbsd #vps #freevps #vpshosting #community #education

Alt...

New BoxyBSD website

I have more #NetBSD than #FreeBSD installs by @rubenerd

https://rubenerd.com/i-have-more-netbsd-than-freebsd-installs/

Because I like torturing my Pentium Pro, I'm mentioning this one here. Just in case it should be of interest to anyone. Beware of the slightly nsfw second post in the thread. It's late, my boss is visiting, I had a few beers. It seemed like a good idea at the time. ;)

#RetroComputing #NetBSD #Fediverse #Snac #Snac2

Gonna install #NetBSD 11 beta on my #PineBookPro, wish me luck

Upgraded* my workhorse to #NetBSD/amd64 10.1.

Finally everything is working and the installer is running and downloading the base sets for the installation.

I had some issues with my harddisk setup (which is actually an SD card) with regards to the block sizes for the NetBSD partitions. This resulted in miniroot.fs not being fully written to disk, causing the installer to crash. I fixed it and it by setting block size to 512 and it works now.

For connecting to the network I use a cheap travel router as AP which in turn is connected to that old FiberLine 10Mbit ethernet adapter on the A1200.

This time I'm trying to install NetBSD 10.1 ...

#Amiga
#A1200
#NetBSD

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia was great!

At NetBSD devsummit I have presented «Running Docker (and more) in NetBSD via Lima». Lima (<https://lima-vm.io/>) permits to run Linux virtual machines (as guests) - with port forwarding and volumes sharing - and I have showed how NetBSD is supported and works as host!

Slides available at <https://www.NetBSD.org/gallery/presentations/leot/eurobsdcon2025-devsummit-lima/lima.pdf>.

I have now also imported Lima in pkgsrc as sysutils/lima.

#EBC25 #netbsd #pkgsrc

Okay so I did it again: booting the NetBSD installer on my Amiga 1200 (expanded model with Phase 5 Blizzard 1230 IV, 68030@40Mhz, 64MB RAM) ... 🥳

#Amiga1200
#NetBSD
#Blizzard1230IV

@Wintermute_BBS Curious - Does #NetBSD 10.1/Amiga not run on it?

What’s the current standard for process isolation in #NetBSD now? I see gaol & mult didn’t go anywhere, sysjail went away for decent reasons. Do we just chroot like in #OpenBSD?

If that’s the case, anyone playing around with chrooted servers on a #ZFS dataset? I can’t tell if I’m missing something obvious.

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Finally got my NetBSD.org mail sorted! The main issue is that I didn't realize that the file named "Mailbox" in my home directory is the inbox :/

Anyway, I will try to use my #NetBSD address as much as possible for any BSD stuff. My first non-Gmail email address in years -- exciting!

Aw yeah, my #NetBSD installation instructions now appeared in the Slidgram documentation:

https://slidge.im/docs/slidgram/main/admin/install.html#netbsd-specific-instructions

#NetBSD is Discipline. 🚩

smolBSD — build your own minimal BSD system

｢ smolBSD is a meta-operating system built on top of NetBSD. It lets you compose your own UNIX environment — from a single-purpose microservice system to a fully-custom OS image — in just a few minutes ｣

https://smolbsd.org/

#smolBSD #netbsd #bsd

@ricardo Oh, YES — it is very frustrating . I met this problem while installing some services to my home #NetBSD server.

Usually, the project page states that there is a good software for multiple platforms. Then I open documentation assuming that there are list of dependencies, installation instructions and configuration examples.

But nowadays, "multiplatform applications" usually looks like:

— Linux: Docker

— Windows: Install Docker with WSL

— MacOS: Install Docker with Homebrew

Alt...

Meme with a cat looking suspiciously to the camera and with a text above cat: "Sir, it is a good self-hosted software. Looks inside. Docker"

This is how my 1 Euro per month #NetBSD VM is reacting to the sudden popularity of my last blog post, on HN:

load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00; up 72+04:35:09 15:17:29
33 processes: 32 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states: 3.7% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.7% interrupt, 94.3% idle
Memory: 737M Act, 43M Inact, 17M Wired, 25M Exec, 701M File, 16M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free / Pools: 138M Used / Network: 171K In, 4522K Out

#RunBSD

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If you're paying attention, you may have noticed my recent #NetBSD bug updates often have a single "." on its own line at the end. That's because gnats works differently from Sendmail and ends the message with Ctrl+D 😡