Where do you use NetBSD?

thac0, 10 months ago

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

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

idk837384, 10 months ago

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

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

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

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

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

kickmule, 11 months ago

Here on SDF :-)