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Shawn Webb<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Toxic_Flange" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Toxic_Flange</span></a></span> now THAT'S how I'm supposed to maintain my <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> toasters!!! ;-P</p>
Profoundly Nerdy<p>What makes NetBSD more portable than its counterparts?</p><p><a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/portability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>portability</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a></p>
vermaden<p>Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/08/25) available.</p><p> <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/valuable-news-2025-08-25/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08</span><span class="invisible">/25/valuable-news-2025-08-25/</span></a></p><p>Past releases: <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vermaden.wordpress.com/news/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/verblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verblog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vernews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vernews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/opnsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opnsense</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ghostbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghostbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vermadenday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermadenday</span></a></p>
LFA<p>A new gopher hole and gopher server are born!! 🎉 </p><p>Finally the first private beta of Goophy is up and running on the Raspberry Pi with NetBSD. You can check it out with your favorite gopher client at:<br><a href="gopher://lucio.albenga.es" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible"></span><span class="">gopher://lucio.albenga.es</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I promise I'll put more content in the following days, but right now I'm excited to have it online 😅 Let me know if you find any bugs.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Goophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goophy</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/GopherProtocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GopherProtocol</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/cprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>c</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/devlog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>devlog</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/gopherhole" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gopherhole</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a></p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@chongliss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chongliss</span></a></span> hi there! Sorry, I didn't see your reply until now for some reason (I didn't get a notification, possibly because the "@" got clobbered?)</p><p>I once owned a netbook with similar specs (albeit, more than 10 years ago). The sad truth that I can't sugarcoat is this: FOSS OSes do not speed up hardware. So while I'm cheering loudly for my D620 from 2006 that's running on NetBSD, I didn't mention that for some things, it's actually pretty darn slow. Namely: browsing with Firefox (Of course, we could say that this is more of a problem of Firefox rather than NetBSD, but the end result is the same). However, you can still browse rather OK with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dillo</span></a>. </p><p>The point I'm trying to make is this: <a href="https://c.im/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> won't "speed" a computer up. It's not performance-oriented like FreeBSD, and it may actually look like it's less responsible in terms of resource usage than Linux (it seems that it pools memory for future use instead of allocating it on demand). But you're going to gain in other aspects, like the simplicity of the OS structure, stability, the community and other stuff.</p><p>If you value more performance over the rest, from my experience Linux is a tad faster. A super slim system like <a href="https://c.im/tags/AlpineLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlpineLinux</span></a> is probably a great match, also with more drivers if your WiFi isn't well-supported in BSD. But it also won't speed up a sluggish application like a modern browser.</p><p>Anyway, hope this helps, and happy hacking! :)</p>
mccd<p>It'd be interesting to test the availability, response times and how many RPS a few <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> nodes using the built-in httpd, statically-compiled CGI binaries, a load balancer and cloudflare.</p>
Valentin<p>„Der Zweck eines Hobbys ist nicht nützlich zu sein. Der Zweck eines Hobbys ist Spaß daran zu haben.“</p><p>Im Beitrag „NetBSD – nicht nur für Toaster“, von <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@bentsukun" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bentsukun</span></a></span>, auf der <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bonn.social/@FrOSCon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FrOSCon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3270-netbsd_-_nicht_nur_fur_toaster" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-327</span><span class="invisible">0-netbsd_-_nicht_nur_fur_toaster</span></a></p><p>Durch den Fokus auf Portierbarkeit & einen sauberen Aufbau ist <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> gut geeignet, um mehr über <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> zu lernen. Es ist auch ein grundsolides <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/OS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS</span></a> für einen <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Server" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Server</span></a> oder eine <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Workstation</span></a>. Die Community ist kleiner als bei Linux & freundlich.</p><p><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/froscon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>froscon</span></a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/Betriebssystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Betriebssystem</span></a></p>
LFA<p>Well, it seems that I'm going to use an experimental feature in NetBSD, the wg interface for wireguard. Yesss why starting gently? I'm going all in!! 🚀😅 </p><p>Currently setting up the cross compile environment in my Devuan box.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Wireguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wireguard</span></a></p>
ltning<span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@xinqu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>xinqu</span></a></span> can someone help me compile an i486-compatible <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/netbsd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetBSD</a> binary for me, and tell me how it's done so I only have to embarrass myself like this once? :)
LFA<p>Yesterday it was a lot of fun. I installed NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi 2 you see below. This machine is going to be the server for the beta testing of the project. There is a small thread on this here: <br><a href="https://hostux.social/@lfa/115072908838339673" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hostux.social/@lfa/11507290883</span><span class="invisible">8339673</span></a></p><p>I recompiled Goophy directly on the Pi and I also installed Lagrange on my desktop to test everything with a second client. Devuan has no package for Lagrange so I built it from sources. </p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Goophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Goophy</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/gopher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gopher</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/GopherProtocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GopherProtocol</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Lagrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lagrange</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Devuan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Devuan</span></a></p>
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:<p>Okay, I left the working server for the night, while it was checking the newly connected HDD with Windows integrated utililty (don't know does it do something meaningful :drgn_lol_nervous: )</p><p>The device worked the whole night without the problems. At the end it was hot not warm, but I think this is because of some Windows processes which are doing some unknown shi^Wthings on the background :drgn_sigh: </p><p>Now, with attached 250 Gb HDD from the shelf, it is ready for <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> , I hope :drgn_stare_nervous:</p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>Man, <a href="https://c.im/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> continues to be super smooth!</p><p>Today I picked up my old Dell D620 and remembered that I had it installed from a few weeks before I tried seriously the Old Computer Challenge. And to no surprise from me, NetBSD continues to be amazing - even in this almost 20-year-old hardware.</p><p>And it wasn't even me who bought this computer. My parents bought it for me to finish my High School studies with Windows XP, and when I went to college, it was the computer that brought me to Linux. And I thought a Linux-based OS would be the last one that this computer would support until it finally gave out - until this year. And now I see that in a world slowly giving x86 the boot, NetBSD might as well be the only reasonable alternative in the future (well, until 2038, at least).</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/OldComputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldComputers</span></a></p>
LFA<p>In the end the program is small and the installation of <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> on the Raspberry Pi already has the compiler available. I din't have to install any extra packages so I recompiled it directly on the Pi and it works like a charm 😀</p>
benz<p>Looking through the file system of this <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> box and there is a file /init.core in the root directory 😳 Sounds like a bad time.</p>
LFA<p>It seems I finally managed to make <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/npf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>npf</span></a> work for my basic needs. Not bad for the first time using it and not being a nework wizard 😅</p><p>Now I'm wondering if recompiling my program directly on the Raspberry Pi or going down the rabbit hole of cross compilation 🤔 </p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/RaspberriPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberriPi</span></a></p>
Eugene :freebsd: :emacslogo:<p>My future NetBSD server finally arrived :drgn_happy_blep: MWA-HA-HA :drgn_scream: !</p><p>Basically, it is just a part of POS terminal, so I can say that I run my services on the cash register.</p><p>But inside of it there is a fanless PC with a little motherboard and the top board with a 6 RS232 connectors, two USB connectors and a SATA for 2.5' hard drive.</p><p>4 Gb memory, Intel Atom N2800, 64 Gb SSD and free space for (another SSD?) WiFi card, integrated TWO (!) 1 Gbit Ethernet and much more USB, RS232 and VGA + HDMI connectors.</p><p>It works completely quiet, and just a slightly warming up when Window 7 is working.</p><p>After I change the CR2032 battery and find a M3x17 brass stand for PCB (one is missing :drgn_flat_sob: ) — I'll install <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> on it and will enjoy <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a> , finally :drgn_aww:</p>
LFA<p>Let me grab a cup of coffee to read the <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> npf doc. Never used it so I'm starting from 0.</p>
LFA<p>Today I'm wearing the sysop hat. I'm currently setting up NetBSD after installing it on my Raspberry Pi 2. It was really easy to install and the doc is good so I'm not facing any insurmountable troubles.</p><p><a href="https://hostux.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaspberryPi</span></a> <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a></p>
JdeBP<p>Just so that anyone coming across this <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> idea has any questions about the <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/nosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nosh</span></a> user-space virtual terminals:</p><p>In nosh uservts, USB HIDs are opt-in; whereas with most kernel VTs & X11, USB HIDs are opt-out.</p><p>The administrator has to explicitly choose (in the ways laid out in user-vt-realizer-configuration(5) which allow various combinations of address, class, and ID matching) to have a <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/YubiKey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YubiKey</span></a> realized as a keyboard HID on the <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/uservt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uservt</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250822064253" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">undeadly.org/cgi?action=articl</span><span class="invisible">e;sid=20250822064253</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tty0.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://tty0.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
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