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This is a dual Pentium Pro running NetBSD.
Check out the floppy museum for hints on how to get in touch. Or, you know, ping me on the fediverse. :)
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[?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป
@nixCraft@mastodon.social

This is AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System
lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.h Sadly it is not updated any more (last update was in 2010).

A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

Alt...A screeshot of amiwm is an X window manager for Linux and Unix.

    [?]GaryH Tech ยป
    @garyhtech@mastodon.bsd.cafe

    NEW VIDEO - How Easy is it to set up an OpenBSD Desktop for a FreeBSD user?

    youtu.be/ATnMPOg_k6E?si=vgbEYy via @YouTube

      [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿด/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

      vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08

      Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

        [?]ICM ยป
        @icm@mastodon.sdf.org

        We're moving our PDP-7 running UNICS version 0 into our new mainframe gallery space next week. Come see the original UNICS (UNIX) operating system running on real hardware where you can compile your own HELLORD! in the B programming language.

        Like what we're doing? Please consider supporting us at icm.museum

        A DEC PDP-7 running UNICS version 0.

        Alt...A DEC PDP-7 running UNICS version 0.

          🗳

          [?]LFA ยป
          @lfa@hostux.social

          There are more shells than Bash and I'm curious to see the % of how many people uses wich one of the more or less classic shells. Choose your preferred one.

          SH:5
          CSH / TCSH:7
          KSH:11
          BASH:37

            [?]GaryH Tech ยป
            @garyhtech@mastodon.bsd.cafe

            NEW VIDEO - FreeBSD User tries NetBSD! Is it much Different?

            youtu.be/_uKJuk9Lojo?si=C3OgsS via @YouTube

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

              Happy ! :flan_cool:
              Of course it runs NetBSD... on all of them.
              ๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ ๐Ÿž ๐ŸŽฎ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ

              How would you describe your setup using only emoji? => ๐Ÿšฉ โš™๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ป

                [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿณ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฐ (Valuable News - 2025/07/14) available.

                vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07

                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                  [?]ICM ยป
                  @icm@mastodon.sdf.org

                  The Pig and her poster have been reunited. MissPiggy ran XENIX-11 at Microsoft from 1979 to 1987. These days, misspiggy runs Version 7 UNIX from which XENIX was derived and its disks are virtualized so they can run under simulation and the real hardware.

                  Please support our preservation efforts at icm.museum

                  We have a partial backup of MissPiggy and one day hope to run XENIX-11 on it once again.

                  A 1979 Muppets poster featuring MissPiggy hanging on the side of a decdatasystem-570 named MissPiggy

                  Alt...A 1979 Muppets poster featuring MissPiggy hanging on the side of a decdatasystem-570 named MissPiggy

                    [?]Klaus Zimmermann :unverified: ยป
                    @kzimmermann@c.im

                    In my warmup for 25, I dusted off ol' pal model B and burned 10 on an SD card to set it up.

                    It all went well (slow, but hey) but one thing that I still can't get around (that I didn't experience so much last time I tried it) is the console. Control chars get printed instead of arrow and home/end keys, no colors, etc. Hate to say it, but all in all, it feels backwards compared to a modern, full-fledged console environment of or Linux. And it's starting to wear me out.

                    But I have a feeling that this is somehow my fault for not configuring the console properly or using the right output or something. I never had to deal with this before, so anybody knows how I can configure this so I can have a modern env in NetBSD?

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

                      Yay! Or maybe AIEEE! Seems like I'm giving a talk at #EuroBSDCon again this year!

                      Anyone who has been following me here for a while will know I'm a hopeless #retrocomputing nerd, and I will make no attempt at hiding it during my talk:

                      Dirty Tricks: Using nginx and Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies

                      I'll (try to) show how you can protect your #BBS from drive-by portscans and your production systems from #DDoS attacks using all the wrong tools.

                      Dietary warning: may contain traces of floppies.

                      https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/review/RHDFBQWZEVC833T3WDLDEXYFQVRWJKMN #FreeBSD #BSD #Unix #DOS #RunBSD

                        [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ (Valuable News - 2025/06/30) available.

                        vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06

                        Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                          [?]ICM ยป
                          @icm@mastodon.sdf.org

                          We're hosting 26 remote vintage systems running on real hardware, hybrid/emulation hardware and simulation. All of these historic operating systems allow guest access and members can request their own accounts.

                          Like what we're doing? Please consider supporting us today!

                          icm.museum

                          A menu of 26 remote systems that are online.

                          Alt...A menu of 26 remote systems that are online.

                          vintage running hardware connected to the internet

                          Alt...vintage running hardware connected to the internet

                          A VAX, HP9000 and a DEC Alpha

                          Alt...A VAX, HP9000 and a DEC Alpha

                            [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฏ (Valuable News - 2025/06/23) available.

                            vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06

                            Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                              ltning boosted

                              [?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป
                              @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                              i'd take this UI any day over garbage spyware like win11.

                              Older HP-UX Unix desktop screenshot of CDE ( Common Desktop Environment )  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

                              Alt...Older HP-UX Unix desktop screenshot of CDE ( Common Desktop Environment ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment

                                [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿฒ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ (Valuable News - 2025/06/16) available.

                                vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06

                                Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                  [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต (Valuable News - 2025/05/19) available.

                                  vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                  Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                    [?]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Ÿฌ๐Ÿฑ/๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฑ (Valuable News - 2025/05/05) available.

                                    vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05

                                    Past releases: vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

                                      [?]Anders Gulden Olstad ยป
                                      @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                                      Sudo what thou wilt shall be the whole of the command

                                      A sudo sticker depicting a smiling sandwich

                                      Alt...A sudo sticker depicting a smiling sandwich

                                        [?]Anders Gulden Olstad ยป
                                        @andersgo@infosec.exchange

                                        ; has a very sophisticated defence mechanism which forced my hand to install on the installation media USB, rather than the hard drive.

                                          [?]nixCraft ๐Ÿง ยป
                                          @nixCraft@mastodon.social

                                          This retro-computing project restores support for x87 floating-point unit (FPU) emulation in the NetBSD kernel, targeting legacy 486SX-class processors without hardware FPUs github.com/mezantrop/i486SX_so

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                                            [?]Ltning ยป
                                            @ltning@weirdr.net

                                            I had on another 286 for a while, and there's some 16-bit "port" of Linux that is not as old as it should be. And of course the venerable OS/2 1.x, and a few actual variants as you point out. I didn't know about V6on286, that's a beautiful little nugget, thank you!

                                            All of those things are absolutely wonderful and make many of todays software developers look ... spoiled? What I want, however - and what I love doing - is making this old hardware do stuff its makers never dreamt of, things that are as far removed from their time as possible. That's why I will, if permits, run bleeding edge BSD on a 286-on-486steroids, and why I run web+ftp+irc servers (yes, multitaskign) on one 286 and multiple BBS nodes on a 386 - like one used to do, of course.

                                            I cannot state often enough how amazing it is that there's still software developed today that will work under such constraints.


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                                              [?]Ltning ยป
                                              @ltning@weirdr.net

                                              I did a thing so I don't have to wait 20+ seconds to SSH into (or out of) my running .

                                              https://github.com/ltning/sshbench


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                                                [?]Ltning ยป
                                                @ltning@weirdr.net

                                                There are only hot girls here. See proof in attachment.
                                                Note that the compiler process is running with nice so as not to make the poor lady freeze too much.


                                                Picture of NetBSD X11 desktop with htop(1) and hot-babe CPU monitor.

                                                Alt...Picture of NetBSD X11 desktop with htop(1) and hot-babe CPU monitor.

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                                                  April :verified8: boosted

                                                  [?]Ltning ยป
                                                  @ltning@weirdr.net

                                                  And here we are. is simply amazing.


                                                  Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.

                                                  Alt...Console screenshot. Plaintext 80x50 mode, with screen(1) running htop(1) and neofetch(1), split horizontally.