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

Hard to show with a screenshot, but the GameCube controller does work with games that use SDL2 for joystick access on #NetBSD Wii.

Added support for GameCube controllers on #NetBSD Wii. A new driver exposes the four GameCube controller sockets as HID devices that work with SDL / SDL2 as joystick devices.

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

BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.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.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

@pfr As you wish

#crontab #FreeBSD #NetBSD

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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

Taking #NetBSD for a little test drive...

https://netbsd.btxx.org/

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.

#NetBSD #netbook #toshiba #ToshibaNB100 #ToshibaNB105

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A screenshot of a computer, with a terminal emulator window. A fetch program was ran displaying NetBSD.

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A close-up photo of a USB port. The USB port seems to be very rusty.

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A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

As you can see the build process is smooth, the execution is blazingly fast. What more could I ask for?

https://smolbsd.org/

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

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nearing the end of the pkg installations. installing bat neovim

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ready, prompt!

The mighty world of BSD

Playing with again smolBSD, a fantastic metaOS system that I talked about a few weeks ago.
I'm a newbie, a greenhorn, when it comes to meta-operating systems built on top of NetBSD.

I am very eager to learn by doing, making mistakes in the process, correcting and feel the warmth of the BSD community, who is happy to correct, esp when I show that I read the docs after making the mistakes

The journey is fantastic, the learning process is fun. microVM's are amazing. I've registered 11ms boot times on this small machine with a few CPU cores (and 40GB RAM). The fun is endless

#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux

https://smolbsd.org/

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The image depicts a terminal window running a command line interface (CLI) environment. The background is a dark, blurred image of a tree with red and orange foliage. The terminal window is titled "smolBSD" in the top left corner, and the prompt displays "nbuser[@]nbakery" followed by the current directory and a bash prompt. Three separate windows are visible, each with a slightly different title and content.

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smolBSD installation lines

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pkg installations smolBSD

Today I learned #netbsd has openpam and I don't quite know what to do with it...

https://man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.x-BRANCH/openpam.3

The Call for Papers for #bsdcan is open, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends) #bsdcan #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #sysadmin #devops #conference

@netbsd #NetBSD

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. #NetBSD #BlackFriday #FreeSoftware #SelfHost #RetroComputing #OpenSource #Linux #RunBSD

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?"

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

Meanwhile, NetBSD has been incredibly sleek in this department for many years now:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html

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.

#netbsd #freebsd

Duh. No need to do troff -mandoc for #NetBSD man page source viewing. Just man file.#
#TIL
https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/bx/blosxom.cgi/index.front?-tags=groff

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

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)

#homelab #NetBSD #OOM

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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

@uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install #Qemu to the **headless** server running #NetBSD , 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

As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the #FreeBSD 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: https://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/tomaoki.png

One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

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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]

@stsp @nlnet #NetBSD should also apply for funds. :)

@gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

#php #netbsd

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drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb