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We make a fast and secure open source Unix-like operating system for all of your computing devices, whether they be Raspberry Pis, EdgeRouters, ThinkPads, servers, or SPARCstations. Check the about page: https://www.NetBSD.org/about/

We pioneered cross-platform package management with #pkgsrc, anykernels, and TCP/IP in space.

Not cross-posted from the bird website ;)

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netbsd, to random
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New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

netbsd, to random
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Malte Dehling has contributed a ZFS verification method for cgdconfig(8).

This allows CGD encrypted ZFS partitions to be validated without putting a redundant GPT table inside them.

https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/l8DqFN0POdK6MJ9F

netbsd, to random
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As a final goodbyte to the netbsd-8 branch, the release engineering team have put out one final release containing all the changes ever made to the branch. https://www.NetBSD.org/releases/formal-8/NetBSD-8.3.html

NetBSD 8.0 is a few months shy of being 6 years old.

netbsd, to random
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X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the

netbsd,
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@mmu_man I don't know how to edit the site, or I would have. 😜

tech4eva, to random
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How is everyone on doing today?

netbsd,
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@tech4eva sweaty and tired

joelp, to retrocomputing
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Got my hands on an old Mac Mini G4 PPC and immediately installed NetBSD 10 . Good docs of course, including specific to the G4. Once you get the hang of partioning for Open Firmware 3, pretty straight forward. My first Apple product 😂

netbsd,
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@joelp My favorite computer.

netbsd, to random
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It turns out we have been secretly maintaining X.Org over the years and nobody noticed.

(The number of not-yet-upstreamed patches in our xsrc tree is fairly huge, working on fixing that...)

netbsd,
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@phf just alan coopersmith, who works on x.org for oracle solaris, and has been prompt in merging BSD patches

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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So, uh... In the Linux ecosystem, systemd is now getting the equivalent of sudo, called 'run0' if I got everything correctly.

Somewhere out there 'Jia Tan' is rubbing his hands, because he now has his next target.

Seriously, though, systemd programmers: have you learned NOTHING?

netbsd,
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@ParadeGrotesque If you're really oldschool NetBSD... https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/security/priv/index.html

jcamos, to random Portuguese
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Friends, what internet browser are you using and why?

I want to try something new.

I know this is a bit vague, but I want to know what good (preferably with low need of resources) alternatives are out there.

Thanks! 😎

netbsd,
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@jcamos Arcticfox

jspath55, to animals
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Forgot to extinguish the flash and made the cat look like a zombie rising from the egg.

netbsd,
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@jspath55 Cat is on standby mode.

netbsd, to random
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I wonder, what is the cheapest hardware we can run on that isn't x86 or ARM-based?

I can find a nintendo wii on eBay for 20 euros, and ERLite-3s for 30 euros.

dentangle, to random
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The other day I had a bug in my code that only affected NetBSD.

In the interests of balance, today I'm trying to track down a bug that affects Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but not NetBSD.

Seriously, I've run this test 6654 times and counting, and NetBSD is still happy. I guess I'll call that a pass?

Now Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD - explain yourselves. Why can't you behave like NetBSD here?

netbsd,
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@dentangle dang, what it is?

netbsd, to random
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NetBSD 9.4 (our equivalent of "oldstable") is out. https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.4.html

jspath55, to random
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TIL about the NetBSD burgee-waving prairie dog...

> Please rank your choices in order of preference.
> Mostly, they are inspired by this image of a prairie dog which some of us have taken up as an "unofficial NetBSD mascot":

https://netbsd.org/~nia/prairiedog.jpg

netbsd,
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@jspath55 🍂 🐿️

lproven, to random
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NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/30yo_netbsd_releases_v10/

Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types

<- by me on @theregister

netbsd,
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@lproven @theregister It's not Nightly Firefox, it's just that Firefox calls itself Nightly when you disable the (non-free) Mozilla branding.

nergahak, to random
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is cool!

netbsd,
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@nergahak I endorse this statement

comrad, to VintageOSes German
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Retro-Server-Party!

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netbsd,
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@comrad 👀

flywheel, to FreeBSD
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How big a difference between and is there actually, when talking daily use ?

netbsd,
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@anubhav @flywheel It is considered stable in 9, not experimental.

jspath55, (edited ) to random
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Choose your destiny:

netbsd,
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@jspath55 Interesting xterm colour scheme

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Wait, I probably need to update all my VMs to 10.0 now that it has been officially released... 🤔 :netbsd:

netbsd,
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@ParadeGrotesque

echo "ip6addrctl=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf

echo 'ip6addrctl_policy="ipv4_prefer"' >> /etc/rc.conf

service ip6addrctl start

netbsd,
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@ParadeGrotesque This is documented in the guide - "running netbsd as a guest" section. It's a bug in common hypervisors, most physical hardware doesn't present a false default root.

netbsd, to random
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christos just committed a notable libc performance improvement that should help a lot of programs using stdio, apparently nabbed from Apple's version of the BSD libc https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/KumAZRn09ajlI64F

netbsd, to random
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!!! netbsd 10 released !!!
✨ 🔥

https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

netbsd,
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@f69ked is this a "fuck that's hot" kinda response

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