#netbsd

@rl_dane@polymaths.social · May 08, 2026

Various #FOSS OS communities' reactions to joining them: #Linux: "Hey, welcome to the fam! Here's a stack of CDs I burned, see which one boots for you." #FreeBSD: "Hey, we're glad you're here! Here's an amazing handbook to get you started, holler if you need a hand!" #NetBSD: "Of course it runs NetBSD! Welcome! :D" #OpenBSD: "Don't expect a lot of hand-holding, but we're all having fun with it, and hopefully you will enjoy the process, too." #9front: "Are... you... sure you want to do this?" 😆 (For the record, I love them all. I only regret I haven't had much of a chance to play with #Haiku, or interact with that community, yet!)

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@rl_dane@polymaths.social · May 02, 2026

@cienmilojos@infosec.exchange I don't know of any OS that has an iron-clad #NoAI policy. #NetBSD comes the closest, but they even have a provision for AI being included "with permission," IIRC. #OpenBSD already has slop in base, via tmux. :/

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · May 07, 2026

Rubenerd: A hypothetical #NetBSD #Cyberdeck https://www.rubenerd.au/a-hypothetical-netbsd-cyberdeck/

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gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.com · May 04, 2026

Happy to share that #BoxyBSD remains up! Recently I got asked about my @BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve. But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @BoxedTux@mastodon.social) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation. Hope you like this small update... Over & out! #freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

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Peter N. M. Hansteen

@pitrh@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026

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

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@pitrh@mastodon.social · May 01, 2026

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 within. 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

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Lobsters

@lobsters@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba via @lproven@social.vivaldi.net https://lobste.rs/s/mgne1y #mac #netbsd #osdev https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

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Parade du Grotesque 💀

@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 24, 2026

Something I discovered recently: https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/ This is a blog, hosted on a Nintendo Wii running #netbsd ... Pretty cool!

Hat tip to: https://caolan.uk/links/servers/ And: https://sunny.garden/@kaimac/116459990980227925

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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 25, 2026

And... When the guy^W dev^W madman^W Absolute Programming God who is responsible for the Wii port of #NetBSD actually likes your post about running a blog on a Wii with NetBSD, you have reached a level of Meta-information I did not think was possible. 😂 Thanks for everything @jmcneill@mstdn.ca !! (Now, where the heck did I put my Nintendo Wii...?)

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@sborrill@justfollow.me.uk · Apr 20, 2026

@jaypatelani@bsd.network Here's my Acorn RiscPC booting #NetBSD 8.3. The computer is from 1994 so almost the same age as NetBSD itself. Also quick plug, if you want to hear more about this history, come to my talk at @bsdcan@bsd.network this June #BSDCan

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JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 01, 2026

#CaliforniaLaw is written by people who are either very ignorant or very incompetent. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043 They have assumed that all operating systems are like Microsoft Windows 11, Android, or iOS; and have written legislation for operating systems where people download glorified WWW client 'apps', from 'stores', which use 'accounts' that they have with vendors or Microsoft/Google/Apple. But the legislation *as worded* *also* covers everything from #Debian and #Ubuntu through #Arch Linux and #MobaXTerm to #FreeBSD and #NetBSD and #OpenBSD; where users anonymously use package managers or ports systems to install applications, written by developers, on operating systems, from 'publicly available internet website' repositories. There is no age field in the GECOS data in master.passwd(5) of course, and the reality is that no BSD or Linux-based operating system has this concept of apps/stores/accounts. #MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #Unix #California #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR

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Chip Collier

@photex@icosahedron.website · Apr 18, 2026

Ok #netbsd fans. I have an x1 carbon from 2023. It’s running Arch and that’s all good. But I’m very very motivated to swim in the waters of a bsd system. My interests and uses normally involve games and graphics explorations. I just want to be able to use the intel gpu with sdl3 basically. And sadly this is a hidpi system so I’m always worried whether getting a usable display for my aging eyesight is achievable. Does anyone have words of caution here for me? Is it known to not work in some capacity? I’ve seen the wiki/docs and it sure seems doable but maybe someone has personal experience they can share? cc: @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org @d6@merveilles.town

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NEPŘÁTELSKÉ EMOCE 🇺🇦🇨🇿

@lkundrak@metalhead.club · Apr 17, 2026

lot to love about #netbsd and missing surprisingly little. real annoying things: find requires a path. "find ." instead of "find", i'm getting it wrong every time. no "sort -h". how do people sort "du -sh" output? are they content with seeing their file is 173666 blocks big? anybody knows if patches for these would've been accepted or if they'd be shunned off as gnu-isms?

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matthew - retroedge.tech

@matthew@social.retroedge.tech · Apr 15, 2026

Or older desktop PC #netBSD RT: https://mstdn.jp/users/landley/statuses/116409848816616141

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@landley@mstdn.jp · Apr 15, 2026

@matthew@social.retroedge.tech How is #netBSD going to deal with https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186 do you think?

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Lobsters

@lobsters@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

NetBSD Installation with Disk Encryption https://lobste.rs/s/vcmggk #netbsd https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/

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The Last Psion | Alex

@thelastpsion@oldbytes.space · Apr 12, 2026

One of my many sidequests is to try to get #NetBSD running on one of my #Psion Series 5mx machines. But I have a few issues/thoughts: I'm struggling to find instructions on how to do this. (Can you help, @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org ?)Because I can't find any instructions (granted, I was very tired when I tried last night), I'm a little worried that no one has tried this for quite some time.Both of my 5mx units and my working S5 are refusing to read any of my seven Compact Flash cards. Including the one that the netBook uses to boot. I have no idea how to fix that, and I don't really want to buy another 5mx as they ain't cheap.The winning 5mx will get a RAM upgrade to 32MB. (Yes, that's doable.) If I can get something working, then that will encourage others in the #PsionCommunity to try. So we might actually get people running a modern OS on Series 5 machines. Also, as there are a good number of programmers in that community, we might get more eyes on the code. Finally, if that all works out, then it might be possible to get it running on the (currently unsupported) netBook, too. #Psion5mx #retrocomputing

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release_candidate

@release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Apr 14, 2026

Anyone here has experience doing a "Wi-Fi box" in NetBSD? I wonder how big is the overhead. Both in user effort and computer resources. When I was younger I used to run a *very slow* virtual machine with Windows XP while daily-driving Linux. So I could interact with government webpages, banks, University software, etc. Anything that I couldn't do in Linux was done in this winXP VM. Now I'm getting close to do something similar. A light VM with linux to do anything that I can't in NetBSD. I still don't truly daily-drive NetBSD: I'm writing this tooth from my Linux Mint laptop, for example. To use the Wi-Fi from this machine, I still need a Linux driver, but I'm starting to pet the idea of a small VM + PCI passthrough to setup Wi-Fi, and use that VM as a router. Something tells me that battery life will be even shorter than it is now. But it would be better to hear that from people who have actually done something like that. #wifi #wifibox #NetBSD #runbsd

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Bitslingers-R-Us

@AnachronistJohn@zia.io · Mar 08, 2026

Here’re some pictures from #NetBSD at SCALE There’s a lot of interest in NetBSD :) First is a Raspberry Pi 400 with ctwm running as a stratum 2 NTP server. Our neighbors just happen to be the Network Time Foundation. @socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizza

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JdeBP

@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 09, 2026

Here are some things that one can add to the analysis of the MacOS TCP timeout clock freeze bug. The code for calculate_tcp_clock() in XNU was changed in May 2025. Older versions of this function (e.g. in xnu-11417) worked quite differently and wouldn't have stopped ticking the clock at 32-bit unsigned integer wraparound. None of #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, nor #OpenBSD share this exact way of doing TCP timeout processing with #XNU. FreeBSD does not have a tcp_now and works off the global 32-bit ticks variable. OpenBSD effectively works off the kernel's system clock, too, but with a randomized offset, and does 64-bit unsigned modular arithmetic. NetBSD uses a distinct 32-bit unsigned tcp_now counter that it simply increments by 1 at regular intervals, and does modular arithmetic subtraction. https://photon.codes/blog/we-found-a-ticking-time-bomb-in-macos-tcp-networking #TCP #MacOS

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