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joany 2h ago

Can anyone recommend a decent 2 port PCI network card?

Not PCIe or PCI-X!!!!

Bonus if its compatible with #NetBSD and has 1Gb ports

#Networking #oldcomputing

Jeff Armstrong 5h ago

Spent the last few hours trying to figure out why networking for qemu on my #netbsd host wasn't working for an #ubuntu guest I was moving over (because virtualbox is borked on fedora? wtf?). I was getting pretty frustrated at NetBSD, but, in the end, it was entirely Ubuntu's fault. Ubuntu Server is freakin' wacky. NetBSD, on the other hand, was performing exactly as expected.

JdeBP 13h ago

The new way of selling 'AI' seems to be to push it as a bugfinder. The latest example being waved around as of yesterday includes, as one of its non-embargoed examples, what is patched by this #OpenBSD patch.

https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.8/common/025_sack.patch.sig

The problematic thing is that this sort of bugfixing hasn't changed the commentary in the code, which stated that p points to the last linked list entry at the point of the added null check and can never be null. But it actually can be, if there was a sole linked list entry that ended up being fully encompassed and thus deleted.

So this kind of 'AI' use is going to give us a lot more comments-do-not-match-code maintenance headaches down the road.

(Both #NetBSD and #FreeBSD factor this out into a separate tcp_sack.c and do the linked list handling slightly differently without a 'previous' pointer.)

#AI

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪14h ago

So… as I understood, Cells for #NetBSD is neither official nor useable on the stable 10 branch… not really a go-go for me then :-/

Jay 🚩

14h ago

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I wonder why they didn't check #NetBSD ! 🤔
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd

Claude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com

Curated Hacker News 1d ago

Cells for NetBSD: kernel-enforced, jail-like isolation

https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de/

#netbsd

Cells for NetBSD - Kernel-enforced, jail-like Isolation with User-friendly Operations

Cells for NetBSD is a maturing NetBSD-native isolation stack with kernel-enforced boundaries, supervised service execution, and snapshot telemetry for practical host-side operations.

Cells for NetBSD - Kernel-enforced, jail-like Isolation with User-friendly Operations

TechSvet 1d ago

Vývojová verzia operačného systému #NetBSD 11.0 RC3 má byť poslednou pred vydaním stabilnej verzie. Vývojárom sa podarilo opraviť niekoľko chýb.

https://techsvet.eu/aktuality/posledna-vyvojova-verzia-netbsd-11-0-rc3/

Posledná vývojová verzia NetBSD 11.0 RC3 - TechSvet

Vývojová verzia operačného systému NetBSD 11.0 RC3 má byť poslednou pred vydaním stabilnej verzie. Vývojárom sa podarilo opraviť niekoľko chýb.

TechSvet

Lobsters 1d ago

[discussion] the BSDs in the AI Age via @lattera https://lobste.rs/s/pdhar1 #culture #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
https://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2026-April/018894.html

[discussion] the BSDs in the AI Age

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Lobsters

𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪1d ago

An overview on running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD on the #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 #arm64 board, bare and with PCIe extension cards, in the context of building a NAS system.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/

*BSD discovery on the PINE64 ROCKPro64

I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one. But being very happy with my ODROID HC4, I went hunting for a ROCKPro64 and found one. I have (a small) ZFS NAS plans for it. But before I get all the hardware, let’s take a quick look at it running various BSD systems.