Not one, not two, not three, but SIX security alerts for #NetBSD - some which affect only the 8.x branch, but some that affect all versions up to the upcoming 10!
aaaaaaa my first palmtop/ultraportable pc! i drooled over these in my university years
this is a NEC MobilePro 790, built in 2000. it’s got a 168mhz MIPS processor, 32mb ram, pcmcia, compactflash and a built-in 56k modem 🤤
picked up locally for $40 CAD and it runs like a dream. it is destined to become my early era DOS gaming portable, and #infocom text adventure machine 🎉
#NetBSD on #framework laptops: It's usable! Most things work! I'm typing this from qutebrowser in X at native resolution.
I'm running an eBayed 7260 WiFi card. The new 9260/9265s that you can still find on amzn don't work. The stock card didn't even work with Slackware Linux 15.
Getting full resolution required adding gop 0 to the normal boot menu. This sets the framebuffer resolution to native (otherwise it detected 800x600)
I got a frame.work laptop, and I am posting from it for the first time. I bought it as a 50% work laptop, and that's been its main job for the last two weeks. That's what the Linux install is for, but the #NetBSD install is for personal use. Just getting moved in now.
So far, it's the best laptop I've ever owned. Even with a hiccup where it wouldn't power on. (Which was solveable with docs, so point in favor ultimately!)
I have a small little (old) netbook with VIA VX800 GPU.
It had been running #Debian for 14 years. The openchrome driver for this machine broke in Debian 12 (segfault). I don’t blame the the Debian team, it seems that Linux is moving away from X11 towards Wayland, which is sensible for new machines.
But I like to keep this old machine running, it does its job well at 800x480px. NetBSD 9.2 works fine out-of-the-box. And it runs #emacs fast enough.
@ted_dunning@Houl Can you explain what this means? All I know about #SPARC is that #Oracle bought #Sun and lied their asses off about future development of the platform, bailed, and promptly screwed EVERYONE with a stake in the platform. That's it. Oh, and #Gentoo can boot it. But since Gentoo is the #NetBSD of the Linux world so that's not a surprise. "Of course it runs Gentoo!"
I have run a dozen or so automated tests on #NetBSD 10 BETA over the last 2 weeks to see which of the #Heisenbergars remain intermittent and how much so. I used multiple architectures (arm and amd64), finding some tests fail between 10% and 100% (no failures get you kicked out of the club), some from 1% to 10% and even some that fail less than 1% of the time. Pesky #Bugs !
@usul Yes, some, but not all. My #Heisenbergars journey started with out-of-memory #NetBSD test case failures sometimes; tracked to small memory system with no swap.
Is your child using "GNU/Linux"? "GNU/Linux" is a computer program often used by hackers. "GNU/Linux" has publicly available source code, which is highly illegal. If you find "GNU/Linux" on your child's computer, they may be commiting cyberterrrorism against the United States of America. It is your responsibility as a parent to prevent your child from engaging in such illegal activities, as you will be held accountable for letting them happen.
@mjdxp "but my son is both smart and normal, if he called it `just Linux' I'm sure he had good reason."
ma'am, your "smart and normal son" is non-binary, uses they/them pronouns, and is currently bootstrapping the #GNU/Hurd on bare metal using the #netbsd rumpkernel and patches recently posted to the #guix mailing list, hence why they called it, as if to flex, `just Linux'"
My SO made me the lovely diamond painting attached to this Toot.
I was asked (some moons ago) to join the EuroBSDcon board - which I humbly accepted.
My talk for EuroBSDcon 2023 in Coimbra, Portugal was accepted.
I feel so incredibly honored to serve the BSD community that I fall short of words. Thank you all, really - from the bottom of my h3art (pun intended) :flan_heart:
What do I need to know when porting a Linux app to a *BSD? Not using GNU-isms or systemd stuff is obvious, that’s a no brainer, but what else is involved?
(For context, this said app will be a X11 desktop environment (because I want to make sure as many people as possible can use it and Wayland is basically a no go in BSD land… or in every other non-Linux system))