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I boot up #NetBSD from the install image, and it has sshd, Postfix, and inetd running before I even get to set the superuser password. Fortunately, by default it's only listening on the SSH port, on both TCP/IP v4 and v6.
But given the amount of SSH attempts per second one has to fend off nowadays, and given that whether sshd is running is a configurable option in sysinst, it's a bit off that sshd is on until the installer turns it off, or one manually turns it off.
It's not even as if it's arguably useful at that point. The only non-service account in the account database at the time is root, and root login over SSH is disabled.
The same goes for inetd and Postfix. Those seem like something that should be off at first until the installer/administrator turns them on, too.
This is an operating system bootstrapped from an installation DASD, which hasn't done any installing at all yet. It has no business delivering mail or being ready for TELNET or finger.
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Some photos of Nagoya *BSD Users' Group and Japan NetBSD Users' Group booth at Open Source Conference 2025 Nagoya (Japan) held on May 31.
We demonstrated some retro machines such as #NetBSD/macppc on Mac mini, NetBSD/evbarm on Raspberry Pi 3, NetBSD/i386 on Fujitsu laptop with old good Pentium CPU, NetBSD/evbppc on Nintendo Wii and #OpenBSD/luna88k and #FUZIX on LUNA-88K2 at the booth.
I also had a small talk about OpenBSD/luna88k and FUZIX. #oscnagoya
I had set up my old old laptop as terminal for 9front by drawterm.
Lenovo S21e, NetBSD
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Vampire4 StandAlone !!, this is new(^_^)
#9front
#drawterm
#netbsd
#vampire4standalone
In a little more than a week, people like me will be heading to #Ottawa for #bsdcan.
You can still register for the conference at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, and browse https://www.bsdcan.org/ for info.
#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #unix #development #networking #devops #sysadmin #experience #conference
I have a spare RPi 2 (model B v1.1) and 3 (B v1.2)... think I'll try #OpenBSD and #NetBSD on them to tinker with. Last time I tried OpenBSD was on my Ultra 5 back in, um, probably ~2008 (I should boot it and see what version is on it, if I can find suitable cables).
It looks like NetBSD runs on the Pi2 and OpenBSD needs >= Pi3 so I'll do them that way round I guess.
Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.
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#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS
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Me, standing up and presenting myself.
"I solve problems"
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Me and my wife, smiling while listening to an interesting presentation
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One of the staff members asking me something about AI
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The trophy - I won :-)
Some random photos from OSDay 2025. I gave a talk about the BSD family and why to use them in 2025.
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#OSDay #OSDay25 #OSDay2025 #Conference #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #OSS
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Group photo of the OSDay staff and speakers
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My laptop, with the BSD Cafe sticker, is projecting the BSD Cafe logo
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Me, giving my opinion about the Evolution of Open Source
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Me, explaining why I think we lost the value of stability
*sigh* so yes, I admit it - my daily driver still is @VoidLinux for various reasons that make me sound like a #1990s #windows user reluctant to switch to #linux. It involves cheap USB grabbers among other things.
Yet I have a weak spot for #NetBSD 🧡 and while #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD get some fair coverage here on the #fediverse, I am getting the impresson that NetBSD is a bit under-presented here.
So, do you also 🧡 NetBSD?!
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@Wintermute_BBS @VoidLinux Since Voids package manager was initially written by an (ex-) #NetBSD maintainer and I was also a package maintainer for void (and sponsored a build server back around 2013-ish), I do appreciate the code and structure. I'm a happy #OpenBSD user and since its roots are in #NetBSD I got a lot of love for NetBSD. The rump kernel is a _very_ interesting concept and I wish it would see wider adoption.
If you have missed The NetBSD Foundation 2025 Annual General Meeting you can read more and find logs here!:
⚠️ Resources got restocked:
- Two new nodes in Netherlands
- One new node in Ukraine
- Extended resources on nodes in Germany
@gyptazy is now improving the self-service portal and then we can go straight to the 1k free boxes :) We're currently hosting ~ 600 free VPS instances.
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MidnightBSD #DragonflyBSD #VPS #FreeVPS #IPv6 #hosting #ISP
The idea that one can just restart X servers and whatnot without rebooting has, apart from the re-executing process 1 thing which is one of the few new things in this area in recent years, been around longer than Linux itself has.
On old minicomputers and Big Iron multiuser systems not rebooting was *normal*, and that's the sort of mindset that Unix inherited.
It used to be a thing a couple of decades ago back when the BBC and others were running their WWW sites on commercial Unices to go to a particular WWW site that figured out the system uptimes and graphed them. The WWW sites running #Solaris et al. had uptimes measured in years. A stark contrast at the time to the likes of Microsoft IIS.
A small procrastination project with NetBSD Arm. Feel free to visit the web. The counter tracker is saved locally and will increase with every refresh.
https://netbsd.bsd-devlabs.one/
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🎉 "Choose your tools wisely!" screams the author, while secretly clutching their NetBSD-powered antique in a dimly-lit basement. 😂 Remember folks, your tech choices aren't about productivity, they're about emotional fulfillment and a desperate cry for attention. 🛠️✨
https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy #ChooseYourToolsWisely #NetBSD #TechChoices #EmotionalFulfillment #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
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I've installed NetBSD on my TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro yesterday to see how it works on current hardware and it worked very good except for the ethernet card.
But I have to say that I don't like some things about NetBSD. One is the bootstrapping of pkgsrc and the other is that some parts of the system feel very old including the installer which didn't worked at all (it jumped always back to the first step after the partitioning step) so I installed it manually with the shell
But it's overall a very good operating system with some special features.
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Suite de la saga #NetBSD et #virtualisation avec #NVMM! À très vite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu
EuroBSDcon 2025 CFP is still open (until 2025-06-21)
Are you mulling a submission? Get yours in at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
Main conferfence site: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
See you in Zagreb!
#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon
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I'd like to hear your thoughts on a planned #homeserver upgrade. Current set up is a Dual Xeon E5-2470 v2, running a NAS and multiple VMs under #NetBSD 10.
A 2U rackmount case is available.
Two M.2 slots and ECC RAM are hard requirements, AMD is preferred.
My currently favoured options:
- Asrock Rack X570D4U + Ryzen 9 5950X
- Asrock Rack B650D4U + Ryzen 9 9950X or 9900X
- Asrock Rack B650D4U + EPYC 4564P or 4584PX
The 9950X and the 4564P seem to be almost identical performance-wise, so I'm not quite sure what the advantage of the EPYC is.
Cooling 170 W TDP (4564P and 9950X) in 2U may not be trivial. The 4584PX has more cache, but lower single-thread performance, and also lower TDP, but is slightly more expensive, though all are within my budget.
Single-core-Performance is nice for some of my applications, but multiple cores are useful for running up to 6 parallel VMs.
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a bug report about the "polish" keyboard option being broken in sysinst led me down a rabbit hole.
1. poland has a few layouts, naturally completely incompatible, but the most common is an extended US ANSI called "polish programmers keyboard"
2. ofc, our OS only had support for one of the more obscure ones ... on Commodore Amiga
3. on modern systems it'd fail to init the PL keymap every time, and fall back to US, which has all the basic keys in the same place (so, few ppl noticed)
One thing about having a fever and being a bit “out of it”… it silences that inner critic that says something is silly or won’t work.
Last night I was tinkering with my Sun and wishing I had a wireless bridge (the study doesn’t have Ethernet yet). I rummaged and found an old RPi with a dongle. Threw #NetBSD 10 on it, set up wi-fi, set up a bridge… worked!
Won’t win speed awards accessing… my gopher and FTP jails. But, is a word with three letters.
Can you help somebody skill up on a #BSD related topic?
Submit a tutorial at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
See https://2025.eurobsdcon.org for information about the conference.
See you in Zagreb!
#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware #skillup #upskill
People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk
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#Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #IT #SysAdmin
| One Monitor: | 209 |
| Two Monitors: | 228 |
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Do you have an interesting project on a BSD and want to present?
EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 - Call for Talk and Presentation proposals is open
Feel free to submit at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.
See you in Zagreb!
#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon
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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.
