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#NetBSD #BSD #RUNBSD #UNIX #FOSS

Getting the sources for NetBSD #netbsd

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

I just tried to install #ReactOS on a couple of random old laptops I had lying around and failed. Now I'm on to #NetBSD just so I can have a success.

NetBSD 10.1 works quite well on the ThinkPad T460p. I did a quick test drive and almost everything works out of the box, yes even the WiFi and some Fn Keys. The only thing I'm missing is the battery widget of the xfce panel, right now it only shows if the laptop is charging or working on batteries. I have to say the results are impressive.

I'm not going to keep it on the laptop because it doesn't have full disk encryption but for a desktop I think it could be nice.

#NetBSD #ThinkPad #T460p

NetBSD archeology - where would one archive these CD(image)s other than in my dusty basement?

#netbsd #archeology #archive

@cienmilojos

I know that the #Thinkpad X260 runs #NetBSD well, and is pretty cheap.
It was the model recommended to me by the official NetBSD account on #fedi.

😍 #netbsd

#netbsd now with more anime girl wallpaper

@cienmilojos

I'm not saying I'd stick with it, because I like i3wm/sway too much, but I gotta say that the stock #NetBSD GUI/X11 setup is the coolest/cleanest/slickest of the #BSD OSes I've tried so far. :D

#OpenBSD's is fine, but a little too colorful. #FreeBSD of course, doesn't have a stock/default GUI... yet!

Haven't tried #DragonflyBSD yet.

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 want this on hardware with network support and modern sleep for laptops. I know "Of course it runs NetBSD", but.....does it work well enough on a laptop?

#netbsd10 #netbsd #laptop #runbsd #unix

I looked at the current state of affairs
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/riscv/#index4h2

and what people are actually working on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHTYV4MI8Y

I don't think it will be possible to run #NetBSD on #Tangnano20k so quickly.

Problems with drivers — make the devices as simple as possible so that the driver has no work to do — write to the register, read from the register.

And you'll get a working #NetBSD! After that, you can start working on SD CARD (which, by the way, is available on Tangnano20k) and other things. Although (!) I must note that even in this state, the OS is useful. Especially since Tangnano20k is four times cheaper than VisionFive 2 JH7110 RISC-V.

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

A few weeks ago I asked a question about which architectures #netbsd doesn't support.

Now that I have a working #xeonphi setup, I think it would be interesting if NetBSD were available.

On the one hand, it was a short-lived and obscure platform, but you can say the same about some of the other supported platforms like the DEC shark or the Sun 2 and 3.

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

My favourite experience regarding Wii homebrew so far has to be NetBSD. I wanted to use my Wii as a computer for a while now, and NetBSD being available as an operating system you can install and get going on an SD card and a Wii with the HBC is definitely the highlights of my Wii homebrew experience. I don't use my Wii much at the moment, as I don't even have a monitor I can use for my Wii yet, but I have used it for a while on a TV and it was nice.

Networking is a bit hard, at least on the Wii however. I tried to get WiFi included in as a Wii image of NetBSD to burn, this was during my time on FreeBSD, and I just couldn't compile it. I was doing something weird where I would alternate between GCC and clang but that would have been a waste of time once it got to booting.

Other than that, it was nice writing a fetch program entirely written in C using vi and man pages to get by. It was a nice break from writing things without an LSP to help, although I still love using modern features many editors provide, obviously excluding AI, so I will stick with that. I also found that Lua existed on it which definitely helped whenever I didn't want to write C.

First *BSD post in a while, as I forgot to talk about the time I used NetBSD. I'll probably talk about Linux more at some point but I wanted to talk about *BSD a little again. Try NetBSD if you get the chance!

#netbsd #homebrew #wii #tech #computers #programming

@golemwire

> Nice. (Two batteries? What kind of computer is it?)

It's a #thinkpad X260. They went from external-only batteries, to hybrid internal/external, to now internal-only batteries. I have one of each: x200, x260, x390, respecively. XD

> Cool to hear. I always heard that #Wayland was architected in a Linux-specific way (though I don't know how that could be, for a window protocol).

It was, sadly. #FreeBSD is the most linux-ish of the three major BSDs, so it got wayland support first. I think it's experimental on #OpenBSD, and not yet working on #NetBSD, last I heard.

Folks who say stuff like, "Hey, why doesn't NetBSD have Wayland working yet???" really frustrate the crap out of me. It's a teensy project with an annual budget of like $50k. It's not your mega kernel that's funded by the pocket money of trillion dollar gigacorps, shut up.

> I'd imagine most graphical BSD software is designed for X11. Did you have to compile e.g. foot from source? ;)

No, foot's a package. Just install and go. ;)
(At least on FreeBSD. I haven't tried Wayland on OpenBSD yet)

Someday it will be interesting to look at the minimum requirements for the RISCV version of #NetBSD — maybe it will fit into Tangnano20k #fpga?🤪

@jaypatelani

Please tell me you've fixed it. It's been two years, #FreeBSD is about to drop 32-bit ARM, and I've got a bunch of these cute little machines!#netbsd

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2023/09/11/msg008384.html

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Orange Pi Zero. with ethernet on board

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

Have a great Friday everyone in the #BSD community! 😎 (The weekend is almost upon us!)

...and don't forget:
#RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

📢 NetBSD 11.0 release is imminent!

Release is getting a massive upgrade. Community need your help to ensure it runs smoothly on everything from modern servers to vintage workstations.

✨ What to test:
• Improved RISC-V Support
• ZFS & Kernel stability
• Your favorite pkgsrc tools

🔥 The Challenge: #RunOnAnything. Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

⬇️ Grab the latest NetBSD 11 binaries here:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource #Unix #BetaTesting #RetroComputing #RunBSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115566280074527897

"Just" 270 MB for...an idle server?
Debian is still a great distribution but let's measure the ram consumption of a freshly installed *BSD or Illumos based server. The numbers are totally different.

#RunBSD #illumos #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD

Are you working on something involving a BSD system that you would like to share with others?

The Call for Papers period is open for AsiaBSDCon until November 30th, 2025 and for BSDCan until January 17, 2026.

Check out the websites linked in the article, and get that submission in!

What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #bsd #dragonflyBSD #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference

Last week I had a chat with a colleague who is highly specialized in Microsoft solutions. Young but not too young, smart, not very up to date simply because he has little time for anything else. His specialization depends entirely on where he works, not on personal interest. Lately he seemed a bit disillusioned with some choices made by "other operating systems", and he was starting to consider moving his personal projects toward Microsoft as well, since he already had the experience. Still, he said it with boredom. With the attitude of someone who is tired of wasting time.

He had heard of the BSDs but had never tried installing them. He was convinced that there were no decent hypervisors outside the Linux world and that KVM belonged to Linux alone. I had the terrible idea of showing him the BSDs, how great bhyve is, and how nvmm on NetBSD uses qemu underneath, making it almost a replacement for KVM in many setups. He lit up with the look of someone waking up from a long sleep. I also had the terrible idea of showing him illumos and its distributions. He had no clue it existed and thought old, great Solaris had been dead for years thanks to Oracle.

He called me a little while ago. He was furious. He spent the whole weekend doing tests and now he has no idea what to use among FreeBSD with bhyve, NetBSD with nvmm, and illumos with bhyve or kvm. He is slowly starting to explore jails and illumos zones. He was annoyed (in a positive way) because now he does not know what to pick since everything feels so different from what he was used to, and he found advantages in each option.

I am obviously happy about it, but I also wonder: instead of reinventing the wheel every time, would it not sometimes be better to simply broaden our horizons?

#IT #SysAdmin #OperatingSystems #FreeBSD #Linux #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #OpenIndiana #Tribblix

Finally got around to writing a proper Wii boot loader for #NetBSD so I don't have to copy kernels to the FAT partition anymore.

The boot loader builds entirely from the NetBSD source tree using libsa + libkern and can access msdos/ffsv1/ffsv2 partitions on the SD card via MINI IPC.

TODO - find some way (without a keyboard) to be able to tell it to boot a backup kernel.

#NetBSD 🚩