No #Netbsd
No #plan9
No #Haiku

#OpenBSD crashes after awhile

Yes #Deuvan
Yes #Windows2000
Yes #9front

But i am looking for a viable #32bit system
Since Debian dropped 32bit

damn you 🤣

#compac #oldcomputers

(edited with progress)

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my picky Compaq that doesn't like all OSes

Ah, screw all the AI slop in Linux distros (I'm looking at you Ubuntu), I'm going back to a non AI OS like #NetBSD 😁

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Atari

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It's a readme for NetBSD 1.2.1 for atari m68k. text is to long to post here

I must admit, I like the Green on Black #NetBSD console better than the White on Blue #OpenBSD one.

70 days uptime on my #HP #parisc 715/100XC Webbserver running #NetBSD

Haha.. I think i will retire it from online duty
And let my #raspberrypi mini take over

Good experiment
Only thing i did was to tune nowait down from 600 to 100 in inted.conf on my httpd

As usual, YMMV. If you do not use archaic setups and do not care about 3D graphic acceleration, you will be content with NetBSD.

Still far away but not to far away from now in a country close, close by....

The European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

Registration is open!! 🔖

🎟️ https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

Sign up early and sign up lots!

While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 🔥
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

We are still and always looking for first-time *BSD speakers.
Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters!

The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2026-07-15

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #CFP #Conference #Register

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An image of Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, sticking his head around the door, wide eyed. It has the text: Did someone say ticket?

Thought-provoking words on #NetBSD posted by someone from Reddit who seems to know their stuff (https://old.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1tki5xp/how_long_have_you_all_been_using_openbsd/oo2fa39/):

"NetBSD is a fine project. It just isn't on-par with OpenBSD's support for things it claims to support. Linux's kernel+GNU userspace would still work fine for many systems that NetBSD/OpenBSD supports if they wouldn't have started going all-in on adopting things like Rust."

"...while [NetBSD] claims to support a lot of old hardware and it does to some extent they are not doing as much testing as the OpenBSD project does. I can always be sure if OpenBSD claims to support a piece of hardware that it'll at least boot on it. This isn't true of NetBSD. There are a lot of older architectures NetBSD claims to support but if you attempt to install NetBSD on them you'll quickly run into various types of errors (if it boots at all). They just don't seem to have enough man power to keep support going for a lot of things they used to support or they aren't testing current versions of their OS on them. Most likely, whomever initially ported NetBSD over years ago just hasn't checked in awhile. But the release notes and man pages rarely seem to get updated.

This isn't 100% their fault. It's hard to keep a lot of things building on older architectures and machines now. Since a lot of projects have left everything but x86 and ARM behind and don't care if they break support for things outside of those two architectures. Hell even within x86 and ARM they don't care if they break 32-bit support and now expect you to run 64-bit."

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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~
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
~
~
~
Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

I am assisting an educational podcast project doing the sysadmin for them. Happy that I was able to advocate for #BSD. We went with httpd(8) #OpenBSD for this, because in the end it is just the feed.xml and some MP3/M4A-files. However, #Apple refuses the feed saying httpd does not support byte-ranges. Looking at the change logs, it should be supported since 5.8 (https://www.openbsd.org/plus58.html). And testing all this with curl does return a 206 and provides me with a working chunk of data. What am I missing here? #NetBSD #FreeBSD #smallweb #podcast

It's a bit of a shame that this fella went to all of that trouble digging through Illumos.

https://youtube.com/v/tUqHsv6JarY?lc=UgwAiVOVkz-sP_j-H7J4AaABAg

#Illumos is one of the few platforms that does not have the <sys/ttydefaults.h> header from 4BSD. It was ironically quite the wrong place to look. The GNU and musl C libraries have the header, as do all of #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD.

The problem is that although <sys/ttydefaults.h> has been around since 1983 (1993 in its current form), almost no-one, apart from people like me who write terminal emulators and whatnot and cannot just use cfmakesane(), knows that it is there. It isn't in any manual.

Which leads to things like stty in GNU coreutils going all around the houses to do something simple, too.

#ttydefaults #termios #stty

Is http://bxr.su dead?

#OpenBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

My Sunday challenge: installing #Devuan in place of #OpenBSD on my laptop so I can install #postmarketOS on an old tablet, because for some reason I only have a blue USB port on that laptop (my SFF PC has a whole bunch of USB ports, but none are blue). Let's see how well restoring the backup will work once I reinstall OpenBSD.

I wonder how many years worth of work would it take to create a #NetBSD / #smolBSD based mobile distro after #postmarketOS has done more progress...

Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26/copying-remote-command-output-to-your-macos-clipboard/

#ITNotes #macOS #Mac #Apple #shell #ssh #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Terminal #Clipboard

Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

Once I figured out which files to write to the SD card for the NanoPi R2S plus and in what order for #netbsd, installing #openbsd was a breeze.

The second 1G network card is working—the very one that #FreeBSD doesn't recognize ;)

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Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Pardon the French, but fuck I love #NetBSD.

Had a long train ride home, so SSH’d into my Shonen Jump box at home, then into my old Solaris box, then my Pentium 1. It all still works, and it’s wonderful. Wanted to try something, built a little chroot, done. It’s all so predictable and consistent and wonderful.

And… increasingly rare.

Nah hear me out, there is no way cats are real.
#NetBSD

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Photograph of an old Acer Aspire One netbook displaying the Wikipedia article about cats. It's running NetBSD on ctwm. The xeyes applet is open, and there is a window in the third workspace that just says "GAY SEX"

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/valuable-news-2026-05-25/

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

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

NetBSD on Raspberry Pi 3 (edited)

Raspberry Pi 3 is the best device which I can find. WiFi and GPU work.

#netbsd

Tomorrow I am going to install 10.1 again and follow above guide again. If it will not work, then...I do not know.

BTW OpenBSD advantage is that AMD GPU works out of box, disadvantage is "mediocre" support of non-FFS file systems.

Happy #BrothersDay from the sibling who runs on absolutely everything (yes, even the family toaster)! 🚩🍞

Taking a moment to send some love to my Unix-like family today:

To FreeBSD 😈: Thanks for always bringing the heavy-lifting and server muscle. Nobody I’d rather share a kernel subsystem or network stack with! 💪

To OpenBSD 🐡: My brilliantly paranoid sibling. Don't worry, I double-checked the locks, audited the code, and closed the blinds before posting this. Stay secure! 🔒

And a special shoutout to our loud, monolithic cousin, Linux 🐧! You might be everywhere these days, but we still love having you at the FOSS family barbecue. Just leave some market share for the rest of us, okay? 🍔

Here’s to the entire open-source community. No matter what kernel you're running, we're all pushing the ecosystem forward together! 🧡

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Unix #BrothersDay #RunBSD