if there's anything to say about #NetBSD or even #OpenBSD users (to an extent) its:

"if there's a will, there's a way"

or perhaps more accurately:

"if there's a way, someone will, even if impractical"

addendum: I've found something more or less useful to do with the aforementioned setup. I'm still trying to iron out a few things, but it's amazing what a little overclocking can do.

I'm quite impressed at how responsive #NetBSD on the #RapberryPi Model 1 B (without the "plus" but with 512MB RAM - it's a rather early board manufactured in 12/2011) is.

So I decided to run #MagickaBBS on it, simply because it was the only #BBS software that I was able to compile on NetBSD - most other #bulletinboardsystem #software will not compile on #NetBSD (evbarm platform) for one or another reason - what a shame.

Anyway: about five years ago, I've had quite a creative burst and designed several #ANSI screens (example: see below) that I've never put into use. But this seems to be the right time to finally change that.

Stay tuned or follow: #netbsdonoldpi (NetBSD on old Pi) - I'll try to provide further updates in case you are interested ...

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ASNI art of a wooden signpost representing the main menu of a classic bulletin board system. icicles hang from the top af the screen above the signpost.

#netbsd

I have a bunch of old #RaspberryPi Model 1 B+ gathering dust, so out of a mood I decided to install #NetBSD 10.1 on one of them and do a little overclocking. See, I'm quite fond of NetBSD, it's my favourite of the BSDs.

So now I just need to find a proper use for it ... 🤔

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NetBSD shell, green text on black background showing the CPU frequency as reported by the command: sysctl -a | grep 'freq' which is currently 1GHz but will drop to 700MHz when idle.

@LaF0rge "LibreSSL was ported to other operating systems in the form of the libressl-portable project. Unfortunately, it is rarely packaged in Linux distributions, and is typically used in BSD environments." <- zumindest @netbsd benutzt im Base System OpenSSL, nicht LibreSSL

#NetBSD #OpenSSL

Question for all the #BSD admins out there: have you ever deployed #DragonflyBSD in production?

Personally I deployed my fair share of #OpenBSD and #pfsense firewalls in production. I've also encountered a few #FreeBSD servers and I know that SDF runs on #NetBSD but I've yet to see a DragonflyBSD machine in prod.

Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").

As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.

BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.

To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!

https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/

#BSDCan2025 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

@darkuncle

But only on #NetBSD - provided you recompile the kernel with the correct options.

Takes a couple of days, but works flawlessly after that.

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

Finally ... A fully working NetBSD install and matching colors in the Fish shell

#netbsd

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A screenshot of a NetBSD TTY console with a Fastfetch output showing system informations and a orange-themed Fish shell

NetBSD 10.x kernel MATH_EMULATION
#NetBSD #linux #RunBSD #pkgsrc

https://mezzantrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/netbsd-10-x-kernel-math_emulation/

Today is orange flag day! I will experiment with NetBSD as I want to see how it compares to FreeBSD and OpenBSD and possibly use it as a new host operating system for my virtual machines

@stefano has made the best advertisement for NetBSD with the 10 year old server that's possibly still running as of today 😉

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/

#netbsd

@netbsd Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced!:

- Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD - Dennis O.I
- Asynchronous I/O Framework - Ethan Miller
- Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD - Vasyl Lanko

To learn more please give a look to the blog post https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors

Welcome Dennis, Ethan and Vasyl!

#netbsd

Congratulations to the @Google #SummerOfCode students who will work on Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation, Asynchronous I/O Framework and Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing for @netbsd this summer.

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/the-netbsd-foundation

#NetBSD #Google #SummerOfCode #gsoc

I'm not disappointed by the result, it still could be used as a semi dumb terminal for ssh(1). The memory usage is low because I deactivated all services but cron(8); it may be lower with a tailored kernel, but I don't mind 🙂

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A screenshot showing the system infos as displayed by fastfetch(1) in a tmux(1) session itself in a uxterm(1) window

Yesterday, I told you about incus - today I tell you how you can easily run #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD & #NetBSD with #incus!

#RUNBSD! #opensource #homelab #virtualization #proxmox

https://gyptazy.com/run-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-vms-in-incus/

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

Great article from @gyptazy :

Run FreeBSD, OpenBSD & NetBSD VMs in Incus

https://gyptazy.com/run-freebsd-openbsd-netbsd-vms-in-incus/?utm_source=discoverbsd

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Incus #VM #Virtualization

I've been reading an interesting article by Liguo Yu et. al., "Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD" (DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2005.08.014). Keep in mind, the article is from 2005 (published in 2006), so it would be interesting to know how things have changed since then. We are talking here about #Linux 2,4,20, #FreeBSD 5.1, #NetBSD 1.6 and #OpenBSD 3.3.
The article basically explores maintainability of said OSes judging mainly by usage of global variables.
Here's some interesting takeouts.
"Unsafe definition" is in their terms a usage of global variables between kernel modules and non-kernel modules.

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Two graphs showing number of global variables and unsafe definitions in Linux and three BSDs. Linux has significantly more of both.

Better the *daemon* you know than the *devil* you don't

#runbsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd

#FreeBSD - I had to use 15-CURRENT as the video card isn't supported. Even in 15-CURRENT, trackpad doesn't seem to be working and the video performance is poor. I'll have to investigate.

#OpenBSD - better video performance, the wifi card is recognised but it seems to have some performance issues (packets lost, etc). Trackpad is not working

#NetBSD - video card is not supported, trackpad isn't working

I'll test the whole system with a Fedora, just to be sure that the hardware is ok (but a small test, yesterday, was successful).

#aceBSD

Please boost for a larger each and thank you. xoxo
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD