Mastodawn

All, I'm migrating to imil@bsd.cafe, the migration process here fails, so follow me "by hand" I you'd like to.

LUTINOS!
Demain soir, une petite histoire de Logiciel Libre comme on les aime : comment j'ai collab avec l'autrice de nitro https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nitro pour faire de NetBSD un first citizen, et l'utiliser comme PID 1 !

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 8

So as of now smolBSD can start with:

- regular NetBSD init(8)
- runit https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/runbsd
- dinit https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/systembsd
- nitro https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/nitro

Of the non-native alternatives, the latter has my preference, cleaner and slicker IMHO.

smolBSD/service/runbsd at main · NetBSDfr/smolBSD

smolBSD is a tiny BSD UNIX (NetBSD) system creation tool, primarily aimed at building modern, lightweight, fast micro VMs - NetBSDfr/smolBSD

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iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 7

NetBSD booting on nitro!
https://imil.net/stuff/nitro.gif

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 7

LUTINOS, comme il semble que mes A/R ${TAF} à Madrid vont plutôt avoir lieu les Jeudis, je pense re-déplacer les lives les Mardis soirs pour pas avoir à rusher les mercredis avec vous.

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 7

Enjoy nitro https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nitro on NetBSD! https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/nitro
smolBSD example with nitro as pid 1: https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD/tree/main/service/nitro/postinst

GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitro

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iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 7

Nicolas Martyanoff Sep 6

Bad default setting example: on #FreeBSD, core files are written in the working directory. Many daemons use "/nonexistent", so they cannot generate core files. So if they segfault, you won't have any idea why.

Add kern.corefile=/var/coredumps/%U/%N.core to /etc/sysctl.conf.

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 7

@bentsukun with pkgsrc freeze coming, are we still allowed to add a new package? low impact, sysutils/nitro https://github.com/leahneukirchen/nitro

GitHub - leahneukirchen/nitro: tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor

tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor - leahneukirchen/nitro

GitHub

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 5

Any idea on this pkgsrc crowd? https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2025/09/05/msg031491.html

porting the nitro init system

iMil (iMil/iMil)Sep 4

LUTINOS! le live d'hier soir est en ligne.
Au programme : construction d'une image minimale, concours de bi^Wboot, et deep dive dans smolBSD, le meta-OS qui vous permet de créer votre distribution NetBSD!
https://youtu.be/YxKfsWM2Mao

/sbin/nitro

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