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Calling all #mac #macos #osx #windows #linux #FreeBSD #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #desktop & #laptop users!

On your personal computer, what is your go to when you leave your machine unattended for long periods of time:

My old friend, a Raspberry Pi A+, has been running my home heating system for months, just like it did back in 2014.

It has not missed a single moment.
It has sailed through every so called cloud outage.
It kept working flawlessly even when the Internet connection was down, because it simply does not need it.

This is the kind of technology I love.
Of course, it runs NetBSD!

rpicaldaia# uptime
6:23PM up 78 days, 20:16, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.17, 0.13
rpicaldaia# uname -a
NetBSD rpicaldaia 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (RPI) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

@wfk @gmc @freedosproject

IIRC, current #Linux, #FreeBSD and I think #OpenBSD no longer supports 486 systems. But I did see an article that #NetBSD can still be put on a 486. But I lost the link

With that said, if I had that system, I would probably put some form of DOS on it. Maybe some day I will find one :)

@amilatled And I even put the docs online, how to build a #NetBSD #Apache #PostgreSQL #Perl #Mason webserver

In case you want to set up a NetBSD 2.0 Webserver (and speak German), the doc is at

https://codeberg.org/0xKaishakunin/Publikationen/src/branch/main/Grau/NetBSDApachePostgreSQLPerl.pdf

I'm slowly getting myself back to having a personal website.

First blog post is up. Trying to write an intro post felt weird, so I just wrote a technical article. It's about how I set up the chroot that caddy and anubis run in on the server (running #NetBSD 10.1):

https://overeducated-redneck.net/blurgh/netbsd-chroot-isolation.html

If you are in tech or interested and have not yet been to a regional #BSD conference, I would recommend you consider going to one.

A short description of the three major ones can be found in my recent piece "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (G-tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html). Fun fact: I'll be at all three this year

#openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon @bsdcan @EuroBSDCon

OpenBSD wasn't able to run snac stable on this machine, it crashed after a few requests with "illegal instruction".

#snac #snac2 #fediverse #activitypub #NetBSD #OpenBSD #retrocomputing #retroserver #retrohardware #pentiumii #pentium2 #oldhardware

Alt...

Open 19" 90's rack Case with a green motherboard in it and old grey ribbon cables connected to a dvd drive and a ssd. there are two addon cards in the pci slots and two slot 1 pentium ii cpus with fans installed. The 4:3 screen shows a fastfetch output giving stats of the machine , an htop screen with two cpu usage graphs and snac log

Alt...

green motherboard with two pentium ii slot 1 cpus

Now: Martin Husemann explaining about the #NetBSD Wi-Fi driver renewal #EuroBSDCon

Mainboard: Micronics Spitfire
CPU: Pentium II 233 MHz
Graphics card: S3 Trio64
Network card: RTL8139

#86box #retrohardware #retrocomputing #oldhardware #emulation #snac #snac2 #netbsd #openbsd

Alt...

86Box window showing the mainboard select screen, micronics spitfire and pentium ii 233 mhz is selected

Alt...

86Box screen / graphics settings window, S3 Trio 64 is selected as graphics card

Alt...

86box network settings window, rtl8139 is selected

@philpem See if you can get #NetBSD/acorn26 running on it (an old release as port has been removed). My A5000 seems to be dead and I lost my A540 with 16MB.

@kaveman

Please use the link in this toot to directly access the source repository

https://ioc.exchange/@Radio_Azureus/116103250251003244

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

@kaveman
That's an odd error message to have.
Usually we get that with YouTube
Which continent are you in?

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

@osnews

Well, learn something new every day :)

I just tried this on #NetBSD and it worked as described. Since #slackware now has nvi, it will be interesting for people there too.

#unix

Wonderful BSD news

Netbase shall bring netBSD userland utilities to Linux.

Version v0.1 is released by introducing a new endeavor to port netBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes

Quote

The first release already includes a substantial set of core utilities, including

cat, echo, ln, mv, pwd, rm, rmdir, sleep, chmod, sync, date, mkdir, test, chown, basename, env, dirname, id, tee, yes, head, printf, wc, false, true, whoami, uniq, nice, tty, grep, domainname, hostname, ksh

The potential benefits are practical Developers working across BSD and Linux may prefer consistent tool behavior in both environments Security researchers and systems engineers may want to test or standardize on BSD utilities without switching operating systems.

It may also appeal to users who prefer BSD-style implementations over GNU ones for philosophical or technical reasons.

Z

Read more about this subject in the provided link

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#BSD #netBSD #Linux #openBSD #freeBSD #ghostBSD #OpenSource #userland #uitilities #programming #technology #reading

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

｢ The goal is very interesting: to bring original NetBSD userland utilities, such as ls, cp, ps, and others, to Linux with minimal changes to the upstream source code ｣

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#netbsd #bsd #netbase

@mikrotik @fdroidorg morning. #alpinelinux #openbsd and #netbsd. It works as expected on #voidlinux glibc version. Will try again on musl when I get home on Saturday.

As for native version, phone app or Flatpak... ideally the first, will use the second and Flatpak only if there is no other choice.

5/5 I'm considering #NetBSD as a base for an i386/x86 collection of #FOSS that can run in #Qemu. If you're a NetBSD user, do you think it makes a solid platform for sharing a tailored FOSS collection? #AskFedi