I just updated my #pkgsrc wip packaging for the #VimClassic 8.3.0 release. It's working just fine on my #NetBSD 11 dev host.

If you want to test it, see the https://pkgsrc.org/wip/ docs here. I'm going to live with for a couple days and see about getting it pulled into main.

I really love the #NetBSD project, especially the fact that they took an early stand against slop contributions. It was a little rough as a desktop OS for my laptop. I gave it a good go, but too much stuff doesn't work, yet. It's great for server stuff, though, and I intend to use it in that context, especially turning older/weirder hardware into functional servers. Like, I'm thinking about running a Wii with NetBSD as a home server.

Put #NetBSD on my Ugreen NAS, bigger than 2TB disks. Turned out that was an important thing. Adding this to raidctl(8) man page could be valuable...
https://smurfd.serveblog.net/log/messages033.html

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #badjoke

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hey #netbsd people! On 11.0_RC4 I have an issue with haproxy 3.3.5 from #pkgsrc 2025Q1. It randomly fails with:

/usr/src/crypto/external/apache2/openssl/dist/ssl/record/methods/tls_common.c:1902: OpenSSL internal error: Assertion failed: rl->nextwbuf >= rl->numwpipes || TLS_BUFFER_get_left(&rl->wbuf[rl->nextwbuf]) == 0

It had been working fine for months before I upgraded to 11.0_RC4. Any ideas how to tshoot it further?

bug report: https://gnats.netbsd.org/60292

RE: https://rollenspiel.social/@alexshendi/116454577440682970

But when #NetBSD 11?

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This machine kills ^W runs #NetBSD!

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White Asus eeePC 701 4G running NetBSD 11.0RC3. On the screen: Output from cmake and in the lower half output from make building a program.

I must admit, I like the Green on Black #NetBSD console better than the White on Blue #OpenBSD one.

70 days uptime on my #HP #parisc 715/100XC Webbserver running #NetBSD

Haha.. I think i will retire it from online duty
And let my #raspberrypi mini take over

Good experiment
Only thing i did was to tune nowait down from 600 to 100 in inted.conf on my httpd

As usual, YMMV. If you do not use archaic setups and do not care about 3D graphic acceleration, you will be content with NetBSD.

Repurposing a couple spinny disks that I was supposed to recycle, trying out raidctl with #NetBSD. I previously did a RAID install on another machine, then decided 2 disks were more important than one. #RiskyBusiness

Edit: innards

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Literal screen shot of NetBSD raid set up. Last command running is parity rewrite, almost ready to use. We'll see how oddly this behaves in a few hours since I used existing partitions instead of full drive wipe.

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2 sata off center

Ah, screw all the AI slop in Linux distros (I'm looking at you Ubuntu), I'm going back to a non AI OS like #NetBSD 😁

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Atari

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It's a readme for NetBSD 1.2.1 for atari m68k. text is to long to post here

Thought-provoking words on #NetBSD posted by someone from Reddit who seems to know their stuff (https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1tki5xp/how_long_have_you_all_been_using_openbsd/oo2fa39/):

"NetBSD is a fine project. It just isn't on-par with OpenBSD's support for things it claims to support. Linux's kernel+GNU userspace would still work fine for many systems that NetBSD/OpenBSD supports if they wouldn't have started going all-in on adopting things like Rust."

"...while [NetBSD] claims to support a lot of old hardware and it does to some extent they are not doing as much testing as the OpenBSD project does. I can always be sure if OpenBSD claims to support a piece of hardware that it'll at least boot on it. This isn't true of NetBSD. There are a lot of older architectures NetBSD claims to support but if you attempt to install NetBSD on them you'll quickly run into various types of errors (if it boots at all). They just don't seem to have enough man power to keep support going for a lot of things they used to support or they aren't testing current versions of their OS on them. Most likely, whomever initially ported NetBSD over years ago just hasn't checked in awhile. But the release notes and man pages rarely seem to get updated.

This isn't 100% their fault. It's hard to keep a lot of things building on older architectures and machines now. Since a lot of projects have left everything but x86 and ARM behind and don't care if they break support for things outside of those two architectures. Hell even within x86 and ARM they don't care if they break 32-bit support and now expect you to run 64-bit."

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
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Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

@gumnos

You can resize horizontal splits with :res[+-]size
There doesn't seem to be a way to resize vsplits. XD

Oh...😅... any resize to the vi window itself causes all of the spits to go into the background. That's fun.

Confirmed that there's no :vs in OpenBSD vi. It does have :res+n.

The #NetBSD vi does have vsplits, though, and it even draw a pretty pipe character so you can see it more clearly ;)
It also accepts the :res command.

@moribundo Es lo que pasa cuando quien manda son los ladrones corporativos de siempre. Este es un fenómeno que empezó, como siempre, muy lentamente hace años y ahora se van viendo los resultados. Por eso para todo lo que puedo uso #NetBSD y en GNU/Linux por lo menos distros sensatas que se intentan separar de estas "modernidades corporativas" como SystemD y otras hierbas.

Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26/copying-remote-command-output-to-your-macos-clipboard/

#ITNotes #macOS #Mac #Apple #shell #ssh #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Terminal #Clipboard

Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

Once I figured out which files to write to the SD card for the NanoPi R2S plus and in what order for #netbsd, installing #openbsd was a breeze.

The second 1G network card is working—the very one that #FreeBSD doesn't recognize ;)

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Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD.

Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful.

And… increasingly rare.

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* My old Sun box. Which at some point ran Solaris/SunOS. You know what I mean.

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

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

Nah hear me out, there is no way cats are real.
#NetBSD

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Photograph of an old Acer Aspire One netbook displaying the Wikipedia article about cats. It's running NetBSD on ctwm. The xeyes applet is open, and there is a window in the third workspace that just says "GAY SEX"

Tomorrow I am going to install 10.1 again and follow above guide again. If it will not work, then...I do not know.

BTW OpenBSD advantage is that AMD GPU works out of box, disadvantage is "mediocre" support of non-FFS file systems.

This took a really long time :)
The instructions at https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/rockchip/ don't work—they don't mention uboot.img and trust.bin—so I got them from FreeBSD, though they're probably available in #NetBSD somewhere too :)

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Netbsd boot on Nanopi R2S Plus

Happy #BrothersDay from the sibling who runs on absolutely everything (yes, even the family toaster)! 🚩🍞

Taking a moment to send some love to my Unix-like family today:

To FreeBSD 😈: Thanks for always bringing the heavy-lifting and server muscle. Nobody I’d rather share a kernel subsystem or network stack with! 💪

To OpenBSD 🐡: My brilliantly paranoid sibling. Don't worry, I double-checked the locks, audited the code, and closed the blinds before posting this. Stay secure! 🔒

And a special shoutout to our loud, monolithic cousin, Linux 🐧! You might be everywhere these days, but we still love having you at the FOSS family barbecue. Just leave some market share for the rest of us, okay? 🍔

Here’s to the entire open-source community. No matter what kernel you're running, we're all pushing the ecosystem forward together! 🧡

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Unix #BrothersDay #RunBSD

I heavily hacked syndaemon to work on #NetBSD. It uses an entirely different mechanism to disable the touchpad. It sets a sysctl parameter for the pms driver that sets the touchpad sensitivity so low that nothing registers, lol. In order to accomplish this, you have to run it as root. It's a terrible hack and it took me longer than I would like to admit.

https://codeberg.org/thezerobit/syndaemon-netbsd/src/branch/main/README.txt

This officially resolves my biggest gripe with NetBSD on my laptop.

@bpl you will generally see your email at https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-install/index.html if not do reach out to team on IRC #netbsd-code @netbsd

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity! 🌱

A diverse ecosystem is a strong ecosystem. In the tech world, NetBSD brings vital diversity by proving that clean, portable, and secure code can run on virtually any architecture. This adaptability keeps computing open and accessible to everyone.

Let's keep the digital ecosystem diverse. Consider supporting the NetBSD Foundation today by contributing code, writing documentation, or making a donation! 💻🚩
#NetBSD #BiodiversityDay #OpenSource #TechDiversity #FOSS #RetroComputing #Sustainability #Linux #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

My #1 issue with #NetBSD on my Thinkpad is the trackpad handling. The program `syndaemon` isn't available probably because NetBSD does trackpad / mouse handling a bit differently than other operating systems. (It's a program that disables the trackpad while typing. Without it, I'm constantly getting erroneous movements with my palms while typing.)

Anyways, I'm looking to port it to NetBSD and have it just disable the unified trackpad/mouse device while typing.

@bpl https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362

#NetBSD is clear on policy noAI will be accepted in source. That's why we need to fund the foundation

But at the end of day I am hypocrite because I need Fish Linux for y*-dlp and gov websites.
#noAI

@joel

OK, the toasters will have to wait for #netbsd 11.

And then, we dial all the toasters to 11!

Had to finish my #NetBSD 11.0 RC3 test write-up after upgrading some machines to RC4 this week, so this post has straddle marks.

https://jspath55.blogspot.com/2026/05/netbsd-11-rc3-heat-rc4-and-more.html

@joel

ESPECIALLY the toasters!!!

Wait... We are talking about #OpenBSD here, not #NetBSD!! 🤓