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[?]Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: ยป
@jaypatelani@bsd.network

The ๐Ÿšฉcommunity is amazing! ๐Ÿ”ฅ
Let's come together to reach the foundation's $50,000 year-end goal. Your contribution directly drives the project's future and innovation. Every donation helps!
netbsd.org/donations/

    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

    [?]Bitslingers-R-Us ยป
    @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

    @mcc #NetBSD welcomes Linux to the club!

    https://social.mikutter.hachune.net/@tsutsuii/115628842301787423

      [?]ltning ยป
      @ltning@pleroma.anduin.net

      @trashheap @claudiom @thedaemon @ParadeGrotesque it has some odd dependencies and needs some weird system configuration to work right, but it was recently updated so not entirely dead. It runs nicely on my rPI400. As does nsCDE but that's really just fvwm2/3 with massive theming.

      My go-to is #WindowMaker though. Or, on super low end devices (486), ctwm (default in #NetBSD and #OpenBSD I think.

        Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

        [?]Bitslingers-R-Us ยป
        @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

        @thomholwerda @hp @CursedSilicon Even if ssh for HP is old, one can still use a modern system as a jumphost using ssh -J.

        A Raspberry Pi or something similarly small / low power can run a modern OS (like #NetBSD), and you can offer key-based ssh to it, and allow ssh access from it to your HP. Thatโ€™s one hopefully simple possibility.

          Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

          [?]Bitslingers-R-Us ยป
          @AnachronistJohn@zia.io

          @catsalad #NetBSD could be a squirrel. We've got all the nuts :)

          And we're nuts enough, in a good way, that we're still going to be running on architectures decades from now that Debian and the other Linux distros have already decided aren't commercial / popular enough.

          This is a picture of a squirrel holding up a branch with a brown leaf at the end of it that loosely resembles the old NetBSD logo, which was of a bunch of people hoisting a flag much like the famous Iwo Jima flag scene. Since we really don't want to associate NetBSD with war, we've tended away from that logo. This picture could be considered an evolution of that logo to something a little more culturally sensitive.

          Alt...This is a picture of a squirrel holding up a branch with a brown leaf at the end of it that loosely resembles the old NetBSD logo, which was of a bunch of people hoisting a flag much like the famous Iwo Jima flag scene. Since we really don't want to associate NetBSD with war, we've tended away from that logo. This picture could be considered an evolution of that logo to something a little more culturally sensitive.

            Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

            [?]benz ยป
            @bentsukun@mastodon.sdf.org

            I investigated some /i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as github.com/golang/go/issues/76, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! ๐Ÿคฉ

              Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

              [?]Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ ยป
              @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

              10.1 was released on December 16 2024 - exactly one year ago.

              Not a bad anniversary. Post your favorite stories and/or functionalities of NetBSD in the replies, I am curious to see who is using it and for what... :netbsd:

                Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                [?]arosano ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ยป
                @arosano@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                @librewolf Many of us are waiting/hoping for a and an version of .

                  Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                  [?]vermaden ยป
                  @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                  Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฑ (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.

                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                    Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                    [?]bsandro ยป
                    @bsandro@bsd.network

                    Dug out my beaten, but unyielded eeepc; 4gb storage there feels cramped by modern standards and it looks like old openbsd installation withered and died for some reason. From my recent experience nothing saves old hardware better than (or ), so I've installed former here.

                    Fonts are crispy clear (1:1 bitmap ftw, screw hidpi), atheros wifi worked out of the box and I have plenty of room to goof around with that machine. I wonder how much charge (if any) the battery holds, though.

                      Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                      [?]jhx ยป
                      @jhx@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                      I wish all my people a happy weekend! :freebsd: ๐Ÿ˜Ž

                        [?]Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: ยป
                        @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                        @rperezrosario

                          Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                          [?]~/rqm ยป
                          @rqm@exquisite.social

                          I understand the strain on maintainers, but it's still sad to see culling so many 32bit packages. suffers from the same problem. It seems will remain the platform where you can still e.g. get a working web browser for a legacy system (). Same applies to the Linux world.

                            [?]bsandro ยป
                            @bsandro@bsd.network

                            So far the most CPU-heavy task of the current was d2p2; on my ryzen3900 it takes 0.12s to complete. What's amusing though is that 25 years old Celeron on crunches it in 3.4 seconds; and 1.33Ghz G4 made in 2004 can only do 5.1 seconds.

                            I push as much optimizations as I can on these platforms, initial G4 time was more than twice as bad actually. GCC 14 helped a lot.

                            VisionFive2 board with 4-core risc-v CPU @1.5ghz is the slowest of all with 14.3 seconds.

                              Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                              [?]Jared McNeill ยป
                              @jmcwhatever@mastodon.sdf.org

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

                                Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                                [?]Jared McNeill ยป
                                @jmcwhatever@mastodon.sdf.org

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

                                  Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: boosted

                                  [?]Andrew Ball ยป
                                  @ball@mastodon.bsd.cafe

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

                                    Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                                    [?]release_candidate ยป
                                    @release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                    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? ๐Ÿ˜œ)

                                    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.

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

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

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

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

                                    A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

                                    Alt...A small netbook with a keyboard and a mouse attached.

                                      [?]Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ ยป
                                      @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org

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

                                      man.netbsd.org/NetBSD-10.x-BRA

                                        [?]Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: ยป
                                        @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                        @netbsd :flan_cool:

                                          Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                                          [?]vermaden ยป
                                          @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                          Latest ๐—ฉ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ก๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ - ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ (Valuable News - 2025/12/01) available.

                                          vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12

                                          Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                            Parade du Grotesque ๐Ÿ’€ boosted

                                            [?]Jay ๐Ÿšฉ :runbsd: ยป
                                            @jaypatelani@bsd.network

                                            Forget the chaotic Black Friday sales! ๐Ÿคฏ NetBSD ๐Ÿšฉ 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.

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