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... ๐Ÿค“

 

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

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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?

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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.

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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

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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

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. 

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).

A repurposed x86 laptop getting #NetBSD 11 beta via sysupgrade:

$ sysupgrade fetch
sysupgrade: I: Downloading https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/20251028150036Z/amd64/binary/sets/base.tar.xz into /var/cache/sysupgrade