Mastodawn

I dearly love #Slackware, don't get me wrong, but I have to say that, compared to #NetBSD it feels a bit on the heavier side, if you see what I mean...

Then again, I am doing a "slackpkg update" on a freshly installed VM, so there is that... 🤓

By the way, NetBSD is still looking for money to complete their 2025 fundraiser, so donate here: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate

Donations to The NetBSD Foundation

Steven Rosenberg 40m ago

Would you say the separation between base and added packages in BSD systems adds a whiff of immutability to their environments? Or am I barking at the wrong moon?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

vermaden 10h ago

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vermaden 10h ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟬𝟯 (Valuable News - 2025/11/03) available.

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Stefano Marinelli 13h ago

This is part of my weekend fun. Coffee stains included.
The two Raspberry Pis are powered by NetBSD, the mini PC by illumos/SmartOS, and the two APU boards by FreeBSD.

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos #SmartOS #IT #SysAdmin #HomeLab #RaspberryPI

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Jay 🚩

13h ago

@tg9541 @stuartl
https://twitter.com/oshimyja

Uses touchscreen with #NetBSD https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/screenshots/oshimaya-drawing.jpg

But I guess if hardware is not supported it will be harder to get it working.

oshimaya (@oshimyja) on X

にんげんはごらくとぐちでできている。そういうものにわたしはなりたい。せかいのちゅうしんでぷらうどりとさけんだりはしない。で政治ネタはスルー

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Thomas 15h ago

Thanks to suggestions from @stuartl I learned a bit about *BSD and PC hardware by tracing my touchpad and keyboard problem in #NetBSD:

1. I found a forum thread about touchpad issues with a hint that #OpenBSD is known to have better touchpad support than NetBSD

2. the blog of Joshua Stein who works on notebook hardware compatibility in OpenBSD

To understand how hardware support works, the following is a great source!

https://jcs.org/2019/07/28/ihidev

Touchpad, Interrupted

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Andrew Hewus Fresh 17h ago

I've finally given up on #NetBSD on the Odroid HC4 since, of course it doesn't run NetBSD. Instead, armbian linux just worked and has ZFS. That's disappointing, but not quite as disappointing as one of the two hard disks making a sad beeping noise instead of spinning up so the project still can't continue.

mccd 23h ago

Cool security feature in #netbsd: security.curtain

> NetBSD provides administrators the ability to restrict information passed from the kernel to userland so that users can only view information they ``own''. The hooks that manage this restriction are located in various parts of the system and affect programs such as ps(1), fstat(1), and netstat(1).

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