Jay 🚩 @jaypatelani@bsd.network

RE: https://23.social/@leyrer/117325210121994261

TIL: There is Amiga Unix, and recently it's seeing a revival with new hardware getting supported. Details on https://amigaux.org/ .
If you have supported hardware, #NetBSD is also a good candidate, of course.

@bramard

People regularly ask this sort of question, and the complex answer is that the BSDs (which include #DragonFlyBSD, #MidnightBSD, #MirBSD, and #GhostBSD too) do not really divide up by any simplistic classification.

And one person's 'minimalism' is another person's 'they removed necessary feature Y outright!'.

The good news is that they are all full operating systems out of the box, they all come with ports/packages systems for third-party applications, they all are relatively well documented, and they all have the option of giving you the source code for the whole operating system under /usr/src . (-:

The rest, though, is a complex exercise in what *exactly* you want.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

This new device, #ESP32S31, if it can run an Application OS, I would run something simple and small like #NetBSD or #RedoxOS on it not #Linux.

I don't know why people want to use Linux for everything. One tool doesn't fit ALL USECASES in the world.

#ESP32 #Embedded

Can some #netbsd folks help me out? I'm trying to install it in a VM (first time I'm having a look at it). [Edit: I'm using Virtualbox]

I downloaded the current DVD iso.

I went through the installation, configured the hard disk, installed from DVD, and got to the config menu. I'm following this guide here:

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#exinst-system-configuration

I configured my network device and verified in the shell that I could ping the outside world. I set a root password, set the correct timezone, selected /bin/sh as the root shell and now I'm at step e, "enable installation of binary packages".

I left all the defaults, entered "bash tree" as additional packages as shown in figure 3.37 and selected option x, "install pkgin and update package summary".

This then brings me to the state shown in the screenshot, where I'd expect something to be downloaded and configured, but nothing ever happens, it stays like this forever.

What do I do here? I've been following the instructions up until this point, but here I'm stuck...

[Edit] Giving up for now. The problem seems to be related to virtualbox assigning an IPv6 address to the VM and the installer not being happy about this...

Peeps, ~3 months to go! Let's see if we can get close to that goal 💪
https://www.netbsd.org/donations/#how-to-donate

#runbsd #bsd #netbsd

Quedó instalada la tarjeta de red Intel Pro 1000 GT y 1GB de RAM PC133, anduvo todo bien. Luego en el correr de octubre, veremos de conseguir discos y hacer pruebas con los servicios tilde para una eventual migración #tilde #netbsd #ibm #pc300gl #pentium3 #undernet #plaintext #textoplano

@overeducatedredneck @chadmccullough @admin @netbsd It's pretty easy setting up a #NetBSD Xen dom0 with just two packages needing adding (plus the auto-installed dependencies). You can then add as many domUs as you want if you want full privilege separation. PVH is probably best. You can use a ZFS dataset per VM. It's also easy enough to add #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #Linux domUs

Quite a few of us have worked on improving the How-To
http://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/xen/howto/

@xyhhx One of the historic oddities is the source of #NetBSD's burgee, as art based on the infamous Iwo Jima photo. Representing one OS for multiple hardware platforms was always my take.
And sort of WW2 era anti-fascism kind of maybe?

I copied a NetBSD image to the SD card for my Raspberry Pi but I realized I don't have the HDMI cable, nor an Ethernet cable.

Isn't there some way to plug it into a host computer via the USB ports and have it act like a little LAN?

#NetBSD #RaspberryPi

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117322610688314148

Cool, cool, cool. Good going debian.

Anyway, #NetBSD is cool. If you struggled through Linux back in the day and remember things like ndiswrapper, you'll feel right at home!

That may sound like a dig at NetBSD, but really I feel way more in control of my computer again while I'm exploring and working towards using it as my daily driver.

Okay, tomorrow I will be back to work trying to get @netbsd installed either on my desktop or laptop. I took a break for a week but I really need to get this done. After 30 years, I think I am done with Linux. I'm struggling to move on, but I know it's the right thing to do.

For my small home server, I'm not sure what to install on it just yet. I know that I can get FreeBSD going rather quickly but there's the AI issue. Would NetBSD be a good option for the server, as well?

#netbsd #bsd #noAI

@jaypatelani I also found a later blog post from this year elaborating on this with a newer implementation but it's in Russian (which I don't know) so...

(Crosses fingers and plans to try it later tonight.)

https://blog.0x08.ru/netbsd-nvidia-optimus

I’ve lost the post, but I gather #Gnome is taking a #NoAI stance, as has #NetBSD (more so than #FreeBSD, with Linux regrettably already allowing some slop)?

[Update: Perhaps my misunderstanding, I’m told their AI policy is still under discussion.]

A shame then that https://wiki.netbsd.org/GNOME/ sounds rather rudimentary vs https://www.freebsd.free.org/gnome/index.html ? Or am I just not looking in the right places…

I was able to use wpa_gui to get WiFi working with my Intel chip.

Then:

# sysctl -w hw

led me to the brightness control:

# sysctl -w hw.acpi.acpiout15.brightness=100

And then I was able to change Firefox's language from Japanese to English

So ... display looks good (at full resolution), WiFi works. Fan control was working OOTB. Good signs for future #NetBSD use on this old HP laptop (which is my daily driver on #Debian 13 for now).

I haven't met a #BSD I didn't like ...

Ok...we're now running on a 1 Euro/month #NetBSD VPS

#littleFedi #littleOne

This #NetBSD 11 live image from Izumi Tsutsui does work. I got it to boot to a JWM window manager and started Firefox. It was slow, but it runs.

Next step is to try wpa_gui to get networking.

http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/tsutsui/netbsd/liveimage/

Yesterday, I got `ejabberd` installed… today I try to make it work.

I was going to try and set it up so it served the `vk4msl.com` domain, however, I already have a blog at that address, and while I can define `SRV` DNS records, it still ultimately wants a certificate with a `vk4msl.com` subject alternative name in it.

This mirrors a constraint I'll have with Brisbane WICEN; they already have a site at `brisbanewicen.org.au` running on shared hosting.

So I settled on setting it up on a sub-domain. Set it up so I could hand out invites (one by one) for onboarding members… tried setting myself up an account, that works… but then I try to use it.

Thunderbird refuses to connect. No error given, just fails.
Try Dino: "could not connect to chat.vk4msl.com" — no errors in `stdout` / `stderr`.
Try Gajim: "Error"

Crank the debugging on `ejabberd` up, I get this:

https://gist.github.com/sjlongland/a99ec85563d2b57b1e118a3211bf749d

My Erlang is rather limited, but it seems it hits `mod_register:stream_feature_register/2` and dies. `mod_register` would be the code module, and `stream_feature_register/2` being the function being called; the `/2` means it is a function that takes two arguments.

I'm just doing a `cvs up -dP` of my `pkgsrc` tree and trying another update in case dependencies have shifted, but things shouldn't be *this* broken.

#ejabberd #NetBSD #XMPP

NetBSD 10.2 released

https://discoverbsd.com/p/0a9e36e3fa

Trying to install #NetBSD on an old laptop with an annoyingly useless secondary NVIDIA card (the 950m was never good). Is there a way to keep NetBSD from turning the card on and draining power/generating heat at boot while it uses the Intel graphics?

Unfortunately, there is no BIOS option on this laptop to hard disable it.