netbsd

XTL, 14 days ago in A quick look at the rewrite of coreutils with Rust and the history of NetBSD

That actually sounds interesting. To bad it’s a video.

jmcunx, 6 months ago in That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010

I saw this a while ago, very nice. What was the end result, was it upgraded to a newer NetBSD ?

stefano, 6 months ago

At the moment, I don’t think so. I think it’s still in production without any update - but I haven’t heard from them, recently. I will investigate :-)

thac0, 9 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

On SDF, mostly. Locally, in a VM since a lot of my machine’s bells and whistles are only enabled in Linux (and the commercial OSes).

M33, 10 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

On SDF for ages, and a few raspberry pi since model 1

idk837384, 10 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

I personally use it as a server OS for hosting websites and discord bots, etc. Soon I will be using it as my daily driver too!

adamcrussell, 10 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

Mainly at home. I have several old Apple G4s i run NetBSD/macppc on. A few years back I wrote short guide on installing NetBSD on these machines. www.rabbitfarm.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/netbsd

vins, 10 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

It’s my OS of choice, and the with the passing of time I eventually installed it on most of my hardware:

• Thinkpad T460 (amd64), my current daily driver. HW probe
• Thinkpad R51 (i386), for retrogaming: dual-booted with FreeDOS
• Mac Mini G4 (macppc), for fun stuff and as DLNA.
• Workstation (custom build, triple-booted with Windows and Slachware; HW probe) . Mainly used for development and building packages
• Raspberry Pi4 (evbarm64), my main server (web, ftp, nntp, mail, matrix, git)
• Raspberry Pi3 (evbarm64), secondary server (firewall + DNS)
• SDF and tildeverse (tilde.pink)

I always wanted a SPARC machine but never got one.

jmcunx, 10 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

Right now, 10.0 BETA on my spare T420 Laptop. I have 7.02 on an old AMD333 system and trying to get 9.3 on it. It is hard going because there what I believe a motherboard issue with the CDROM Drive. And SDF :)

I hope to use it on my main system, a W541 Thinkpad. It works, but the Nvidia GPU (it as duel GPU) heats up a lot. I am not sure how to even diagnose this, but as the BETA persists I will keep checking to see if the issue stops. The W541 does not allow one to disable Nvidia :(

vins, 10 months ago

AFAIK there’s no support for Optimus graphics on *BSD unless either of the 2 can be kicked out through the BIOS. I’d give an attempt to disabling nouveau/nouveaufb on boot.

jmcunx, 10 months ago

Disabling nouveau did not fix the issue, but was a good idea, thanks.

Maybe time for another thread but I am still researching a bit, but the W541 has this for Video:

• Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
• Device-2: NVIDIA GK107GLM [Quadro K1100M],

I think per: man.netbsd.org/nouveau.4that should be supported. If I cannot find any more info I may create a PR for 10-BETA.

jmcunx, 10 months ago

Well, the AMD333 (PII) now has NetBSD 9.3. It is working very well and works rather will and zippy considering its age.

I discovered the CDROM Drive was causing issues. I replaced it with one from a junk IBM PC a relative was tossing out. All good :)

jbowen, 11 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

On personal devices because I like the OS, pkgsrc, portable software, and the community.

kickmule, 11 months ago in Where do you use NetBSD?

Here on SDF :-)