@trashheap @claudiom @thedaemon @ParadeGrotesque it has some odd dependencies and needs some weird system configuration to work right, but it was recently updated so not entirely dead. It runs nicely on my rPI400. As does nsCDE but that's really just fvwm2/3 with massive theming.
My go-to is #WindowMaker though. Or, on super low end devices (486), ctwm (default in #NetBSD and #OpenBSD I think.
#netBSD
#NetBSD 10.1 was released on December 16 2024 - exactly one year ago.
Not a bad anniversary. Post your favorite stories and/or functionalities of NetBSD in the replies, I am curious to see who is using it and for what... :netbsd:
I investigated some #NetBSD/i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76815, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! ๐คฉ
@catsalad #NetBSD could be a squirrel. We've got all the nuts :)
And we're nuts enough, in a good way, that we're still going to be running on architectures decades from now that Debian and the other Linux distros have already decided aren't commercial / popular enough.
And we're nuts enough, in a good way, that we're still going to be running on architectures decades from now that Debian and the other Linux distros have already decided aren't commercial / popular enough.
@thomholwerda @hp @CursedSilicon Even if ssh for HP is old, one can still use a modern system as a jumphost using ssh -J.
A Raspberry Pi or something similarly small / low power can run a modern OS (like #NetBSD), and you can offer key-based ssh to it, and allow ssh access from it to your HP. Thatโs one hopefully simple possibility.
Replacing the CPU in the Dell T320 with the least power-hungry E5-2400 series CPU I could find, the E5-2418L v2, 6 cores, 50 Watts TDP.
You can see that the mainboard is actually the same as for the dual-socket T420, except that the second CPU socket, as well as the DIMM and PCIe slots dedicated to the second CPU, are not installed. This is one of my backup servers, using rsnapshot and serving space via netatalk to Time Machine.
#NetBSD #homelab #homeserver #BSD #unplugtrump
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@librewolf Many of us are waiting/hoping for a #netbsd and an #openbsd version of #librewolf.
RIP mon cloud public #NetBSD ? Retour sur #OSXP et test de FireBot, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu
Likely a perfect Advent exercise (read: to reduce relying on things and to fast) to be online using #MorphOS and a #NetBSD shell.
Dug out my beaten, but unyielded eeepc; 4gb storage there feels cramped by modern standards and it looks like old openbsd installation withered and died for some reason. From my recent experience nothing saves old hardware better than #NetBSD (or #9front), so I've installed former here.
Fonts are crispy clear (1:1 bitmap ftw, screw hidpi), atheros wifi worked out of the box and I have plenty of room to goof around with that machine. I wonder how much charge (if any) the battery holds, though.
@aru I don't know, I just use it as a user. But there are a document at the #NetBSD wiki: https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/
As I understand, some code was ported from #FreeBSD (second line from the end in the linked page).
@codemonkeymike Give Sandi a #netbsd for #xmas and all will be good
@evgandr Here's the patch I use on #netbsd adapted from the original by @gdt
https://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/zfs.10.patch
Whew. I got #NetBSD 10.1 to boot all the way up on an Odroid M1S tonight. I added the M1S to the tiano core UEFI firmware originally written for the Pine64 Quartz64. It booted all the way with the first build! (Which was an unreal feeling.) The ethernet and eMMC aren't working, so I have a bit more work to do before I publish. (Stay tuned. Also, because I went the UEFI firmware route, this should get OpenBSD and FreeBSD support for the board.)
That sounds like a really good plan. If the installer can use your wifi and get online, then you should be golden.
Download [the handbook] onto another device so you can have it handy when you're setting up your GUI of choice. It's quite well-written, and there's only a couple steps needed to get the GUI going: from memory, it's just a matter of installing and enabling the right video driver, and of course the GUI programs/desktop/environment you want. I'm running sway (Wayland) happily on it now, I know other folks have gotten KDE Plasma working.
Expect not-wonderful wifi speeds, but it's fine for casual browsing. Newer intel wifi chips might do better because of newer drivers. It's something they're actively working on.
If the installer isn't able to get online, you may run into problems, and might need to try a cheap USB dongle or try a different USB, or some other solution. But thinkpads are usually pretty well-supported. This x260 has been perfect.
If you get stuck, just holler. Lots of really friendly and helpful #FreeBSD folks on fedi! #OpenBSD and #NetBSD, too!
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