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[?]o Artur Manuel »

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!

    [?]o Stephen Borrill »

    I wonder how many other devs got this spam?

    Hello Stephen,

    Many companies are using AI to reduce routine work and accelerate decision-making.

    Is NetBSD planning to implement AI initiatives this year? We support teams in starting with small pilot projects that demonstrate their value before scaling.

    Open to a quick chat?

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      [?]o vermaden »

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        [?]o Stefano Marinelli »

        RE: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx/1155998

        All of them!

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          [?]o Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »

          @uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install to the **headless** server running , just to run some other OSes in the console mode, the dependencies bring to me:

          - SDL2 and SDL2_image
          - flac, giflib, lame, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libopus, libvorbis, libwebp, mpg123, tiff — like I'm want to operate with images and audio files, not to launch some virtual machines
          - spice-server, while I'm not planning to use it.
          - wayland and wayland-protocols -- no comments :drgn_sigh:

          As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the world: "many of opensource audio and/or multimedia apps are developed on any of Linux distros, not on *BSD, thus, to minimize mandated works of porters / maintainers / commiters, depending on what upstream depends by default is the only feasible way not to cause toooo long delay from upstream".

          I lost link to his toot on the old account, but I has a screenshot: vhttps://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/tomaoki.png

          One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

          drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

          Alt...drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

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            [?]o jbz »

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

            it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19

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              [?]o Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »

              @gelatin @wyatt Uhm, are you sure about that? Because I have php on my server and it eats 0.0% of CPU and ≈90 MB memory in use when the corresponding service are not in use

              drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

              Alt...drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' 0.0 1772 php-fpm84: master proces 0.0 8804 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10940 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1508 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10816 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11180 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 1512 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11156 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 11168 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10640 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid 0.0 10760 php-fpm84: pool rss-brid drag0n-server$ ps -axo %cpu,rss,command | grep '[0-9. ]php' | awk '{ s += $2 } END { print "sum: ", s, " kb" }' sum: 90256 kb

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                [?]o Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo: »

                @dmark Nice! A proxy for old browsers, which could be used with e.g. :drgn_aww:

                I'll definitely try to spin it up on my box :drgn_3c_evil:

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                  [?]o jhx »

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

                  ...and don't forget:
                  :openbsd: :freebsd: :netbsd:

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                    [?]o KaiXin »

                    And oh boy all terms seem so foreign to me as a long time user. The same disk is called ada0 with a partition like ada0p2 in , will be called something like sd0 with wlsd0h in , ld0 and dk2 in . Then to experiment, all the , and commands are like blue and red wires on a dynamite you have to get rid of 😱. Linux distros nowadays seem to be going to the way which feels very much like in FreeBSD.

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                      [?]o KaiXin »

                      Another thing is, in and also , using to change boot entries is quite handy. But it is not available for and . However seems NetBSD has got something cooking already in -current and it is called efi.

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                        [?]o KaiXin »

                        Having toyed around for a while in boxes with , and as well. I found that in FreeBSD is intuitive and easy to use for disk partition manipulation, followed by gpt in NetBSD. For me, powerful and flexible as fdisk is, it has always been mysteriously difficult and fighting.

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                          [?]o BoxyBSD »

                          We just provide like and several other ones, but also with . So, we’re also pretty niche and that’s totally fine ;)

                          @d4gli @Paul @gyptazy

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                            [?]o Jay 🚩 :runbsd: »

                            📢 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: . Install the Beta on your most interesting hardware and show us the results!

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

                              Tom boosted

                              [?]o Stefano Marinelli »

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

                              Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.

                              it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19

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                                [?]o IT Notes »

                                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/


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                                  [?]o Stefano Marinelli »

                                  Where Have You Been for the Last 20 Years?

                                  Walking away from the BSDCan final reception at Lowertown Brewery, Ottawa. The perfect end to a life-changing experience.

                                  my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17

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