NetBSD Foundation 🚩

We gain on average 800 new followers per year, but in the last year (since before Linus made the GenAI-code-in-Linux posts) we gained around 1200. It's great to see the wave of new interest. We're a community that's had 30 years to develop its culture, and things here might work a little bit differently than you expect. But don't let that discourage you from getting involved. This mastodon-account-manager first became a developer in 2018, and it's easily one of the best things she ever did.

NetBSD 10.2 released. https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_2_released

@analog_feelings@tech.lgbt we have three (!) journaling filesystems: ffs+wapbl, lfs, and zfs

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe @analog_feelings@tech.lgbt Nobody is currently working on it, open for volunteers

@gnomon@mastodon.social @mwl@io.mwl.io @bsdtv@bsd.network @suetanvil@freeradical.zone @bsdcan@bsd.network @dexter@bsd.network @riastradh@mastodon.sdf.org Riastradh is a good lad

@gourd@indieverse.social It's nice when it's the simplest solution. :-)

@82mhz@mastodon.bsd.cafe Complete the installation without doing this step. After the installation is finished, follow the instructions here: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-virt.html#chap-virt-guest-ipv6 then run sysinst from the installed system. Select "config menu" and it will give you the option to "Enable installation of binary packages".

@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk @phlash@mastodon.me.uk @jaypatelani@bsd.network Yeah ideally you want both because some ports need disklabels to boot, and if you're formatting a FAT-32 USB drive for example you probably don't want GPT.

@gourd@indieverse.social What sound applications have you been trying? 99% shouldn't need PulseAudio to work. Have you set the default device to the non-HDMI one?

@txt_file@chaos.social @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @dthompson@toot.cat There has been absolutely no change to our LLM policy. Please do not spread misinformation.

@bpl @carapace@mastodon.social Seconding creds_msdos or breakfast (serial) console.

@sherbang@chaos.social @eloy@hsnl.social Fuzzing was a real game changer. More CVEs overall, but also fewer with practical exploits

@bpl images/

@MrDOS@hachyderm.io @techokami@woof.tech @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca Yes, that's correct, you should never mount a NetBSD FFS partition as anything other than read-only under Linux. Safe ways to share files offline across OS installs in base include ext2 and fat32. Various FUSE file systems are also available, like NTFS, but I haven't personally tried them.

@gourd@indieverse.social The best search tool for NetBSD is https://marc.info to be honest.

@renardboy@mastodon.social some of those strange Debian people are very into this concept.

@jaypatelani@bsd.network i2c keyboard?

@renardboy@mastodon.social @acb@mastodon.social @cstross@wandering.shop as a sega fan I approve this message.

@ND3JR@social.coop Raspberry Pi (when used without UEFI) needs a kernel in a custom format for its special firmware, this kernel is stored as /boot/netbsd.img from what I remember. Since it's in a different location from usual, it's possible it didn't get updated. You can pull the SD card out and update it by hand. http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/evbarm-aarch64/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC64.img.gz

@joel@gts.tumfatig.net Incorrect.

@farooqkz@mastodon.bsd.cafe If you offer it on the mailing list, you'd be able to see if anyone wants one. It's more efficient than sending it to us and then us having to find a developer who wants one.

@sherbang@chaos.social @eloy@hsnl.social The release of AFL was the big one. Technically it was late 2013, but took a while to take off. We started getting a barrage of fixes in 2015.

@joelp@mastodon.sdf.org Sylpheed has a Windows version so probably that.

@lopta@mastodon.social Mood.

@xilatsad@yiff.life core has never granted approval.

@dch@bsd.network truuu

@megatog615@mastodon.social https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/i386/installation/floppy/

@sackofbones@kolektiva.social Not by default, but if we're shipping some software in base and it's important to us to see it funded I don't see why not.

... and, yeah, we received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!

@techokami@woof.tech Yes, in the case that your resolution is predetermined by the firmware, you follow these steps. https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/x11/how_to_use_wsfb_uefi_bios_framebuffer/

@techokami@woof.tech @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca it's controlled by the ClickToFocus/SloppyFocus settings in ctwmrc, but the answer is that mouse focus is traditional for unix. We ship xedit too for a simple text editor in base.

@ellyqw@tech.lgbt if you do, PLEASE send pictures.

Apparently, we get notifications when people add us to collections now. Apparently, someone added us to a collection called "Linux Distros & Desktop Environments", which is of course Deeply Unacceptable.

@p @kunev @gemelen@mammut.moe To be this good takes Ages.

@thomholwerda@exquisite.social @osnews@mstdn.social 50MB, eh? How much is that in hot takes?

@cinebox@masto.hackers.town @jackemled@furry.engineer do demon girls count as furry

@bkrawczyk@fosstodon.org I get your point but I disagree. It just requires a little bit of prior research. cpu0: AMD Ryzen 3 3300X urtwn0: Realtek (0x0bda) 802.11n NIC (0x8179)

@jaypatelani@bsd.network @E@floss.social As far as I know we ship ctwm 🤔

@xilatsad@yiff.life I also understand it as accounting for things that can't possibly fall under any reasonable person's understanding of copyright; stuff like whitespace-only changes.

@bkrawczyk@fosstodon.org May I recommend a Nvidia GT 710? Always consult dmesgd to see what other people are using

@techokami@woof.tech "apparently you are locked to 1024x768 until you install an extra package that SHOULD BE something included in core??" Huh? I've never heard of this. Can't even imagine what the package would be

@river@lingo.lol @yojimbo@masto.hackers.town @chadmccullough@mastodon.bsd.cafe @elementary@mastodon.social The BSD license requires attribution to the copyright holder. It's possible some changes wouldn't fall under any reasonable person's understanding of copyright (transformative changes to whitespace, for example).

@meluzzy@woof.tech A bit like how I have a C in IT because I don't know how to use Microsoft Excel.

@techokami@woof.tech It's hard to tell what's really happening without more information, which image you're using, which boot method, etc.

@gemelen@mammut.moe @kunev It is clearly also because we are fun at parties.

@jaypatelani@bsd.network Yeah I'd expect the bootloader to just be getting key presses from the firmware.

@elly@donotsta.re How'd that happen?