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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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joshbressers, to random

A lot of folks are going to have a bad time with this

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45853

It’s a critical #CVE in zlib

Except it’s not critical

And doesn’t affect zlib

The whole CVE system is too broken to fix

netbsd,
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@joshbressers I've seen a lot of CVEs that aren't even "bug in a semi-obscure extra component shipped with a well-known library", they're...

  1. a bug in the way another piece of software is using a library, which gets reported as a bug in the library
  2. "critical denial of service"... for the 2 people in the world that actually have that software hooked directly up to a web service.
  3. trivial to disable

There's a severe lack of nuance.

selea, to random

Find it funny that not even #NetBSD have an ia64 port

netbsd,
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@selea A good compiler never came!

netbsd, to random
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In case you missed it, NetBSD 10 has reached Release Candidate stage.

bkrawczyk, to random

Hey #netbsd users! Which graphics card would you recommend to get for a PC to have a reasonably well supported driver working in X11?

netbsd,
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@bkrawczyk Radeon HD 5450 is what a lot of developers use. Something like Radeon HD 7450 is a tad newer and will also work fine.

netbsd, to random
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More amazing performance improvements! Thanks ad@! https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/733zLMIX1MkiWuIE

deadbeefmonster, to random

Wanting to contribute to #NetBSD using the bug tracker and wiki is a frustrating experience. It's like viewing into a time machine, where wiki pages are many years old and you have no idea if they're even relevant and bug tracker bugs can go back 10+ years.

I've been down this road before a few times, ultimately getting on IRC and mailing lists and asking for guidance, which is usually a developer saying "look here at this" instead of even using the bug tracker or wiki.

I wish they'd just wipe out the wiki TODOs/Projects and bug tracker and start fresh.

Sure, I know this is annoying because I’ve contributed absolutely nothing to NetBSD but a little money in the past, but hey, I also got suggestions for improvements that aren't worth a dime, too ;)

They also need to rebrand to focus on the features, stability, tinker openness, nvmm+qemu, rumpkernel, and pkgsrc awesomeness. The portable OS days are history and no one cares anymore.

netbsd,
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@deadbeefmonster >They also need to rebrand to focus on the features, stability, tinker openness, nvmm+qemu, rumpkernel, and pkgsrc awesomeness. The portable OS days are history and no one cares anymore.

Way ahead of you https://netbsd.org/about/

thelastpsion, to retrocomputing
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This is a #Psion hill that I will die on.

The OS was never called SIBO.

SIBO was the name of the hardware platform. The OS was called EPOC (or Epoc/Os, or similar). I've seen internal docs going back to 1988; they stick with this basically from the start.

The distinction is worth remembering, because there is one SIBO machine that didn't run EPOC16. The MC600 ran DOS.

I use the EPOC16 retronym because it makes it distinct from EPOC32, which is really a totally different OS.

#retrocomputing

netbsd,
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@thelastpsion So our psion port should be called sibo32?

stefano, to sysadmin
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That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/

#NetBSD #Xen #Virtualization #SysAdmin #Containers #BSD #BSDs #IT

netbsd,
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@stefano Cheers to the release engineering team for NetBSD 5, the amount of core kernel changes in the release notes is massive, so the uptime is extra impressive

netbsd, to random
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Work by Theodore Preduta to improve compat_linux(8) has been merged, bringing support for epoll & inotify (implemented using kqueue), waitid, statx, readahead, close_range.

As a result of this, it's become possible to run many more complex Linux binaries and proprietary applications.

Blog post coming soon!

netbsd, to random
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NetBSD 10.0 timeline and branch status - martin@

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2023/08/20/msg044300.html

Thanks to everyone testing the beta

netbsd, to random
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Me every time I add a dependency on speex to something in pkgsrc https://thisisanexampleofspeex.uk/

netbsd, to random
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some news!

  • NetBSD 10 is waiting for OpenSSL 3. This will likely be the last breaking change we make to the BETA, and it's necessary so we can support 10 in the long term.

  • For accessibility reasons, a couple of programs in base gained support for the informal no-color.org standard.

  • NetBSD make (known as "bmake" elsewhere, or just "make" on FreeBSD) performance improvements! People who spend too much time compiling operating systems ( us 🤔 ) will be pleased.

netbsd, to random
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Did you know that xedit (the standard X11 text editor, included with NetBSD by default) includes syntax highlighting and automatic formatting for many file formats?

mjdxp, to random

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.

netbsd,
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@rml @mjdxp Mood.

alecui, to random

For #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd people:

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?

https://github.com/shlomif/what-i-learned-from-porting-to-freebsd

This isn’t of much use for me.

(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))

netbsd,
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@alecui Making things easy for packagers is a good start. Honoring the environment (such as CC, CFLAGS, LDFLAGS), using pkg-config to locate dependencies rather than hardcoding anything, and in general making the build system follow conventions and somewhat configurable.

netbsd, to random
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Ok, I talked a little bit about RISC-V, now for a very different kind of cutting edge stuff...

Alain Runa just submitted a driver to NetBSD/amiga for the MNT ZZ9000 Zorro board -- a new graphics card you can buy for your 30 year old Amiga computer (which is, presumably, running the latest version of NetBSD) https://mntre.com/media/ZZ9000_info_md/2019-08-09-ZZ9000-resources.html

netbsd, to random
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Nick Hudson has just committed emulated RISC-V support. https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/W1X4g8g57obtV1oE

XOrgFoundation, to random
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Hello, world!

Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!

netbsd,
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@XOrgFoundation 👋

ptribble, to random

"Zero is a port of OpenJDK that uses no assembler and therefore can trivially be built on any system."

https://openjdk.org/projects/zero/

I suspect "trivially" is doing a bit of heavy lifting there.

And "any system" is, in fact, limited to operating systems that are already supported by OpenJDK. Think more of Zero as a way to bring up an existing OS port on a new processor architecture. (But, eg, Solaris/SPARC.)

netbsd,
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@ptribble Would be really nice to have a JVM that actually is portable, and not "support for this platform goes against our commercialization model".

netbsd, to random
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Ever make an "interim release of 386BSD", and then keep developing it for 30 years, as a prank? No, just us? 😅

19 Apr 1993!

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/release/NetBSD/NetBSD-0.8

netbsd, to random
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Fun fact: the 2009 model of Sidekick smartphone came with NetBSD as standard.

you don't have to wear eyeliner while using one, but it helps ✨

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