Sometimes I should stop trying to use Linux and just use #NetBSD.

Tried multiple Linux distributions to get a running xorg on a first generation Raspberry Pi. Failed. 👎
On NetBSD it was done in 1 minute. 👍

My little login.conf(5) shim is working nicely on Debian Linux.

login.conf(5) is one of the things that #FreeBSD (and to a lesser extent #NetBSD) does better than Debian.

I'm testing the stuff on #Debian as I mentioned a few days ago. It is going fairly well so far. I'm now at the point of setting up some #djbwares services.

#nosh #redo

When I complain that some software (or its dependencies) doesn't work on *BSD but requires Linux, I'm not criticizing Linux. For me, it's not an OS battle, but a matter of freedom and avoiding a dangerous and rampant computing monoculture. And when people reply to me with "well, just use it on Linux" - while they're giving me sensible advice - they're missing the crucial point: if it ONLY runs on Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but we are, precisely, creating a dangerous monoculture.

#Linux #SysAdmin #OSS #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos

In my warmup for #OldComputerChallenge 25, I dusted off ol' pal #RaspberryPi model B and burned #NetBSD 10 on an SD card to set it up.

It all went well (slow, but hey) but one thing that I still can't get around (that I didn't experience so much last time I tried it) is the console. Control chars get printed instead of arrow and home/end keys, no colors, etc. Hate to say it, but all in all, it feels backwards compared to a modern, full-fledged console environment of #FreeBSD or Linux. And it's starting to wear me out.

But I have a feeling that this is somehow my fault for not configuring the console properly or using the right output or something. I never had to deal with this before, so anybody knows how I can configure this so I can have a modern env in NetBSD?

#unix #askunix

My latest My-Notes blog post hit Hacker News - more than 300 visits per minute.
The 1 euro per month NetBSD VPS load:
load averages: 0.05, 0.04, 0.03; up 73+14:12:57

#RunBSD #NetBSD

Here’s a little writeup about fun times at BSDCan 2025

https://blog.zia.io/2025/07/02/a-first-look-at-bsdcan-2025/

Yes, I’m using Stefano’s BSSG :)

#NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #BSDCan

Kinda cool to learn how resilient #netbsd seemed to chroot exploits

https://deepsec.net/docs/Slides/2015/Chw00t_How_To_Break%20Out_from_Various_Chroot_Solutions_-_Bucsay_Balazs.pdf

YOU!

The @bsdtv BSD A/V Team in conjunction with @bsdcan and @EuroBSDCon could use YOUR HELP with:

1. Locating official project slide templates
2. Validating them for readability on a projector and for the visually limited (I hear there are fonts that are dyslexia-friendy)
3. Integrating best practices into semi-official event slides for those presenters who simply want "insert content here"
No, I did not say required.

Thank you!

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #EuroBSDcon