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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.

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2024-07-08 10:15:11

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@npub1lcf…7c9d Every operating system counts things like "RAM usage" differently, so it's all nonsense really.

2024-07-05 11:28:02

latest news from CURRENT:
* jmcneill added support for Ampere Altra/Altra Max platforms (big aarch64 servers), with some nice awareness of NUMA aarch64 systems as a side benefit
* most ports have been switched to using GCC 12 as their host toolchain.
* work on exfat support is starting in a branch, follow https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/branch/perseant-exfatfs for details

2024-07-03 00:13:46

Security advisory for sshd. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2024-002.txt.asc

2024-06-28 18:42:47

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@npub15p6…5apz I thought you were talking about Log File System at first.

2024-06-23 10:36:46

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@npub1mmr…ql8w We don't use pf. 😉

2024-06-22 22:50:45

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@npub100r…hp6q Wow, you are managing to find some cursed adapters.

2024-06-22 09:30:03

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@npub100r…hp6q It is really any chipset that markets itself as "11n" - most will be Realtek or Ralink, the Realtek ones are a bit better.

2024-06-03 23:22:27

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@npub1jvv…7j4a Fixed, thanks!

2024-05-31 22:44:40

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@npub1l3g…vu48 x260 with an urtwn

2024-05-27 19:39:09

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@npub1a5q…j5rm EDGE: the DE stands for Deutschland.

2024-05-27 10:16:39

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@npub17nx…u2jx 💜

2024-05-25 10:04:11

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@npub1ja3…hsjn Does it still count if I wrote the defaults?

2024-05-21 19:11:56

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@npub1nrp…8733 The major version only started increasing with NetBSD 2, which was more than 10 years after the first release.

2024-05-21 10:20:56

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@npub183n…tahh The contract developers have historically signed uses the "tainted code" wording.

2024-05-19 01:18:44

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@npub1tlq…hmsx Also way too many people confusing "tainted" for "poor quality".

2024-05-19 00:28:30

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@npub1v7w…9lms Arcticfox is notable for being one of the few "heavy" browser engines that officially supports NetBSD upstream.

2024-05-17 17:14:30

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@npub13uu…pvgs It is enforced by legal contract that every committer is required to sign.
BSD projects have historically had very strict rules on the copyright of submissions for very good reasons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc.

2024-05-17 05:41:40

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@npub1eau…ld2d You should get a urtwn or use ethernet or urndis regardless of which version.

2024-05-17 05:41:27

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@npub1eau…ld2d You should get a urtwn regardless of which version.

2024-05-16 12:35:21

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@npub1xyt…vv6k This is a hiring policy - it's part of the developer contract that all new members of the Foundation are required to sign. Foundation membership is required for commit access.

2024-05-16 05:41:22

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@npub16zw…afrx That would require review and approval by core@.

2024-05-16 05:35:23

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@npub10p4…jn3m Us not being the boss of them is kind of "the point"

2024-05-15 20:53:58

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

2024-05-15 20:53:30

New development policy: code generated with by a large language model or similar technology 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

2024-05-13 09:56:34

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

2024-05-08 00:21:07

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.

2024-05-04 19:12:20

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@npub13w3…9k68 I don't know how to edit the site, or I would have. 😜

2024-05-04 17:46:01

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@npub1ps5…2lft sweaty and tired

2024-05-04 14:23:31

X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the

2024-05-04 01:51:54

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@npub1eax…tdnj My favorite computer.

2024-05-03 21:58:37

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@npub136j…phe8 just alan coopersmith, who works on x.org for oracle solaris, and has been prompt in merging BSD patches

2024-05-03 12:15:14

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...)

2024-04-24 12:28:32

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.

2024-04-24 07:56:55

Our primary file server is down while admins rescue it. In the meantime, please enjoy use of our many mirror sites:
UK: https://mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.netbsd.org/pub/
France: http://ftp.fr.NetBSD.org/pub/
Japan: https://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/
For users of daily builds, https://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/ remains online.

2024-04-23 08:33:10

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

2024-04-14 18:25:35

I've made a package for the "Frodo" Commodore 64 emulator for NetBSD, but I'm kinda clueless and can't figure out how to load a .d64 disk image. Anyone got any ideas?

2024-04-02 07:45:12

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

2024-03-30 23:07:38

!!! netbsd 10 released !!!
✨ 🔥
https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html

2024-03-29 21:23:15

The version of xz shipped in all stable (and unstable) versions of NetBSD predates any code changes by the author of the backdoor and is thus unaffected by the recent discoveries.
The version of xz shipped in pkgsrc, however, is affected - if you use xz from pkgsrc you need to take precautions. This is a non-default setting on NetBSD, and requires explicit opt-in.

2024-03-29 19:19:59

Regarding the XZ backdoor:
NetBSD 8 -> xz 5.2.1, apparently unaffected
NetBSD 9, 10, current -> xz 5.2.4, apparently unaffected
stable pkgsrc -> xz 5.4.5, apparently unaffected
current pkgsrc -> affected.
Most NetBSD systems do _not_ use xz from pkgsrc. Update pkgsrc and replace the package if you have a custom configuration with --prefer-pkgsrc yes

2023-08-24 19:12:57

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!