Two more #NetBSD systems going 11.0 BETA - a creaky 686 and a teeny Pi 0W. It's been months since I managed to write a bootable SD card for the little Pi; the 2026 image worked like a champ.

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Neofetch screen grab from NetBSD 11 BETA with a 2-screen 686 processor.

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Neofetch screen grab from NetBSD 11 BETA with a 1-core Raspberry Pi 0W.

#OpenBSD 5.4 on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100.
While 6.0 was the last version to support Zaurus, X breaks in 5.5. I don't have a working network card yet, but hopefully will soon.
#NetBSD still supports the Zaurus, but I wasn't able to install it.

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OpenBSD on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 PDA running spectrwm.

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OpenBSD on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 PDA running qvwm.

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OpenBSD on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3100 PDA running tmux.

Es werden für den #NetBSD Stand auf den #CLT2026 @clt_news noch Mitstreiter gesucht.

Wenn jemand Interesse hat am 28. und/oder 29. März 2026 zu unterstützen, bitte bei mir melden.

#FLOSS

Current #NetBSD on Odroid M1S status: I've got everything but the ethernet PHY working. Frustratingly, when I boot chimera with my UEFI firmware, it works. NetBSD fails to reset the ethernet hardware, and the driver fails to attach. I messaged port-arm. I'm going to set it down for a bit.

(I wish I could put a scope on the mdio pins on the phy, but it's a tiny surface mount part, and I just don't have the tools on my bench to deal with it.)

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/01/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/valuable-news-2026-01-05/

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

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

@AnachronistJohn

Running #NetBSD ...? 😉

Finally:

===> Installing binary package of qgis-3.44.5

#NetBSD
#PkgSrc

AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.

This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.

Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.

In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.

#IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #News #UnderstandingText #Disinformation

Today, I fixed a #NetBSD bug report from 2005. Better late than never, I guess.

https://gnats.netbsd.org/30837

New year, same love for clean code. 🧡

I saw @netbsd 🚩was short $327 on their 2025 funding goal, so I sent a donation to start 2026 on a high note.

Wishing the team a great 2026.

Wishing all BSD users Happy New Year ahead!

#NetBSD #Unix #OpenSource #linux #sysadmin #runbsd

@adacosta

There's a bit of a quibble with 'extinct' and not the usual one that #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, and #OpenBSD are very much still here.

#Illumos is still here, and available in the forms of #OpenIndiana, #OmniOS, and #Tribblix .

@ptribble 's latest Tribblix update was last November, for example. As was the most recent update to OmniOS.

@lobsters

For what it's worth:

The hyperlinked article is purely about Linux and its two major C libraries (GNU and #musl), and does not cover #Unix, historical or otherwise, at all.

There are systems still around where grantpt and unlockpt are important. On #NetBSD with certain options set they are not actually no-ops. They are definitely not no-ops on #Illumos-based operating systems, where (for starters) STREAMS stuff happens on pseudo-terminal front-end devices.

はてなブログに投稿しました
NetBSD/amd64,i386 10.1 ておくれLive Image 20260101版 - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/teokure20260101
#はてなブログ #NetBSD #mikutter #pkgsrc

Let it build
Let it build
Let it buiiiiiiild
#NetBSD

What it looks like booting #NetBSD on the Wii U for the first time https://youtu.be/pfNySZMSvLQ

It's alive! SMP kernel up and running on #NetBSD Wii U.

This evening in "cli snippets for things I learned":
To more easily upgrade to #NetBSD -current, you can

1) build and install sysupgrade:

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade
# make && make install

2) Then point it to the daily snapshots at:

# sysupgrade fetch https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/$(sysctl kern.machine_arch)

3) Follow the rest of the sysupgrade steps found at
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html

Be warned that sysupgrade etcupdate is long, boring, but important.

#RunBSD

#NetBSD 11 getting closer: "Timeout for showstoppers (before they will be downgraded) december 28, trying to move on to RC1 before the end of december."
https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-11/

Console works on the Wii U gamepad too, although it doesn’t quite fit with the default font size. #netbsd

Here's #NetBSD booting on a Nintendo Wii U (natively, not vWii!) https://youtu.be/ZLPe5g9j_Ss

Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight

https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

There we go. Have a modern web browser (midori) working on a 2008 netbook, with an 1.6GHz Atom processor and 1Gbyte of RAM, all thanks to the magic of BSD. First page to fire up is of course @exquisite

#RunBSD #NetBSD

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A netbook displaying the exquisite.social "About" page

The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa

Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)

Also: indico mail problem has been fixed

@resuna @GrantMeStrength Pity that was lost! What language did you use?

Apologies for the ESR references in this link, but it includes many stories of Trek code bases:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/super-star-trek/sst-doc.html

And there's still a #Trek in the #NetBSD source tree, under /usr/src/games/trek .

@rqm tetris(6) is also part of rescue(8) so you may be able to use it even in a machine that is not so OK! :)

There is also this PR that is probably one of the nicest ones: PR misc/31370 https://gnats.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=31370

#netbsd

It turns out my mysterious app crashes on #NetBSD i386 were in fact due to a bug in the i915 driver. I can disable it on boot and the programs work, but of course screen resolution is off this way. Any known workarounds?

@rqm TIL!

```
vsis$ which tetris
/usr/games/tetris
```

wow #NetBSD *rules*!

I like #NetBSD so far. Even despite my stupid mistakes with pkgsrc. And not only because THERE IS TETRIS BUNDLED

#netbsd

The #NetBSD pkgsrc system for building packages is pretty neat. Took me about 30 minutes to figure it all out and I never really used NetBSD before.

Still the official docs could be improved upon but #OpenBSD set the bar pretty high for user-friendliness.

The #NetBSD 🚩community is amazing! 🔥
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!
https://netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #OpenSource #FOSS #Donate
#outreach

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

@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. That’s one hopefully simple possibility.

I investigated some #NetBSD/i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76815, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! 🤩