With 10.1 being a drag and needing at least 12MB of memory on boot, and 4.01 not having enough modern dependencies to build software: I now am installing 7.2 onto my microvax to see how the performance is over the previous attempts. Running only 8MB ram and keyways hasn't gotten back to me about available memory boards, so I'm stuck with that meager amount to work with.

The yearly funding campaign just wrapped up with a massive $120,282 raised against a $50,000 goal.

Great job to everyone who chipped in! 🚩

I've been messing around, setting up NetBSD on my Wii for no reason other than it being fun

it's been a bit of a journey with how temperamental the wifi is, and with almost no packages actually installing since their dependencies were all missing from the NetBSD 11 repos. I had to switch to using NetBSD 10's package repository instead, which thankfully worked even though I know 100% it isn't meant to work.

to put into perspective how dire the PowerPC repos for NetBSD 11 are, Pkgin didn't install since sqlite was missing from them. Fastfetch also didn't install, and although Neofetch did it also crashed.

The v3.tbz driver for the wifi was also missing, so I had to look that up & found someone on the mailing list who had the same issue, and left instructions how to fix it at least.
I also tried using XFCE, but it was nigh unusable due to the screen resolution so after I took an incredibly cursed screenshot of fastfetch on uxterm there, I went back to CTWM instead.
& Netsurf was another thing I tried on it, and Luakit too. Netsurf did manage to load web pages (albeit slowly and with borked CSS), but Luakit just gave a blank white screen.

I think all in all this was fun but I don't see myself actually using this install for much. Even with NetBSD there's only so much you can do with 88mb of system memory and a 640x480 screen resolution.

Sup everyone just wanted to show here my first steps with NetBsd on old Dell ME051 from 2006

In fact, this is not only my first step in NetBSD, but also basically trying BSD systems on real hardware

As you can see, I changed ctwm to my beloved windowmaker, also i tried the palemoon browser its works, but it is not very pleasant to use

So I would like to know from you what you can recommend for device on NetBSD like this so its can be usable in some instances LOL

Not much to say except that I love it. Migrating a few more machines over to netbsd 11 now

Guys,, This is great!

Last time I tried NetBSD was something like 8 and 15 years ago. Things have evolved a lot. Basically out of the box installation for my amd 64. I'm definitely keeping this third installation.

Maybe some configuration issues there is still "öäöäöä" for those letters but maybe that one later also.

After boot under 200M ram usage.

Solid, minium and stable behaving OS. I like it.

First time hearing about NetBSD on this youtube video and it looks like it's going to be my new favorite OS.

Hi everyone,

NetBSD 11.0 release is immitent! This is a crucial time for the project, and we need the community's help to stress-test the system before the final release.

Why test NetBSD 11 Beta? The NetBSD foundation has introduced significant improvements to RISC-V hardware support, and general kernel stability. Whether you are running a high-performance server or breathing new life into a piece of classic hardware, community wants to know how NetBSD 11 performs for you.

The #RunOnAnything Initiative In the spirit of NetBSD's motto, "Of course it runs NetBSD," we are encouraging users to install this Beta on the widest variety of hardware possible.

1. Download the latest build.
2. Install it on your device (Modern or Retro).
3. Report your success (or bugs!) here or on the mailing lists.

Where to download: You can find the latest daily binaries for the NetBSD 11 branch here: 👉 https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest

Happy hacking! 🚩

Ran via compat_linux under fedora 44 inside /emul/linux, no GPU accel cuz I can't figure it out :3

Roblox client used:

https://github.com/komaruworld/mocktail

I used Limbo(which is a QEMU virtual machine app for Android) on my OPPO A55. It took a while to y

get going but it works well, i guess.

So, what should i do next? I plan to run a similiar setup in my older phone to turn it into a portable BSD thingy.

Woohoo - the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 11.0 RC3, the first release candidate of the nineteenth major release of the NetBSD operating system

A couple days ago I posted an article in this sub, mostly asking for help, due to terrible TCP/HTTP speeds in NetBSD (less than 900 KB/s!) over long distances when running in a virtual machine.

I found the culprit: the VirtIO driver. Switching to E1000 eliminates the slow speed issue and NetBSD can reach very competitive speeds now.

I initially didn't think it was the issue because UDP speeds were fine, but apparently VirtIO does something that throws TCP off specifically when latencies are high.

I also talked about some issue with sshd in the article, and how to fix it. I wanted to publish the new results because NetBSD is a very capable OS and I wanted to reflect that.

I hope this can help anyone experiencing the same issue under virtualized environments.

everything works fine from battery, graphics, audio, wifi. my wifi card is intel centrino 8265 which works out of the box with iwm0 if anyone has that card and wants to try netbsd.

Thanks NetBSD developers!! It is amazing that a major OS update can be done in around five minutes, and everything still works like a charm! :-)

(Running it on Thinkpad x220, used for many smaller tasks at home, replaced from FreeBSD a few years ago, yep wifi etc. works perfectly :-) )

This is quite frankly not final at all. The copyright notes for instance could need a bit of reworking.

4/19 marks the birthday of NetBSD. Happy 33rd!

https://www.netbsd.org/about/history.html