#Tag · bonfire.cafe

I wish there was a bounty or something I could contribute to getting #FreeBSD up and running w/ hardware support on some of the SOCs used by #MNT. I don't have the skills to contribute to such an effort myself, but desperately want to see it happen. #BSD #MNTReform #MNTPocketReform

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 3 hours ago

💡 Jails for NetBSD - Container-like Isolation & Native Resource Control

｢ It does not aim to become a container platform. It does not aim to provide virtualization.
Instead, it focuses on explicit boundaries, predictable behavior, and a clear operational model that integrates naturally into NetBSD ｣

#netbsd #bsd

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vermaden

@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 4 days ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟮/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/02/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/valuable-news-2026-02-23/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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Valuable News – 2026/02/23

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…

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The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX or BSD systems. Whenever I stumble upon so…

vermaden

@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 4 days ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟮/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/02/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/23/valuable-news-2026-02-23/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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Valuable News – 2026/02/23

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jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 5 days ago

Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 // Roman Zaiev

https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1

#freebsd #bsd #unix

Stefano Marinelli boosted

Graham Perrin

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 5 days ago

The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.

What would you like?

The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.

The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.

Three screenshots:

1. an overview of <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=day> before removal of the TrueNAS button

2. the entire sidebar as represented at <https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/>

3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.

Thanks.

#FreeBSD #BSD #Unix #Linux

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Screenshot: the r/freebsd subreddit before removal of the button for TrueNAS legacy (CORE).

Screenshot: a representation of the entire sidebar (about r/freebsd).

Screenshot: the part of the sidebar that includes the other sub shortlist and the vaguely-named other shortlist.

Graham Perrin

@grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe · 5 days ago

The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.

What would you like?

The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.

The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.

Three screenshots:

1. an overview of <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=day> before removal of the TrueNAS button

2. the entire sidebar as represented at <https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/>

3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.

Thanks.

#FreeBSD #BSD #Unix #Linux

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jbz and 1 other boosted

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · last week

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

｢ The goal is very interesting: to bring original NetBSD userland utilities, such as ls, cp, ps, and others, to Linux with minimal changes to the upstream source code ｣

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#netbsd #bsd #netbase

Linuxiac

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

Netbase debuts with version 0.1, introducing a new effort to port NetBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes.

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · last week

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

｢ The goal is very interesting: to bring original NetBSD userland utilities, such as ls, cp, ps, and others, to Linux with minimal changes to the upstream source code ｣

https://linuxiac.com/netbase-brings-netbsd-userland-utilities-to-linux/

#netbsd #bsd #netbase

Linuxiac

Netbase Brings NetBSD Userland Utilities to Linux

Netbase debuts with version 0.1, introducing a new effort to port NetBSD userland utilities to Linux with minimal source changes.

Charlie Stross

@cstross@wandering.shop · last week

@oldcoder Slackware was my first linux distro too. (Back when I was still working at SCO. Back when SCO was a UNIX VAR, not a brain-eating litigation zombie.) I do not, however, have as much history with UNIX as you evidently do!

OldCoder

@OldCoder@dansu.org · last week

I remember the litigation. I wasn't involved, but it was widely discussed.

I'm quite literal for a reason that I might have mentioned or that might be clear. [The rhymes that I post come from a different side of me.]

So, I was puzzled by the SCO case. There was talk about stolen code but somehow it was never pointed to. I wasn't clear on why nobody ever said "Show us the code or the case is over". I understand that that is a simplistic view.

I see that a judge did eventually issue an order that was similar. But the case continued for years after that.

The punchline was that Novell as opposed to SCO turned out to own the copyrights to UNIX System V. So, I gather that SCO didn't have the standing needed to litigate to begin with.

2. It's nice to meet an unexpected former Slackware person.

Slackware was great because it delivered on the promise of a free UNIX [more or less] for PCs. One much like the SunOS and Solaris that we were accustomed to.

I kept my company on Slackware until I'd developed so many patches that it proved to be less effort to maintain a new distro instead of merging my work repeatedly.

3. To explain my UNIX experience:

I used UNIX for about 5 years at Berkeley ending in 1981. This was on DEC hardware. For about 10 years after that, UNIX was just one of the families of OSes that my firm worked in.

There was no such thing as Windows initially. PCs and MS-DOS existed but they weren't seen as significant. Instead, they were like the little mammals waiting for the dinosaurs to pass away so that they could take over the world.

In the end, most non-UNIX OSes [such as Data General AOS] did die. UNIX continued to be a robust market into the 1990s, though. SunOS and Solaris became the standard for UNIX developers. If you needed to sell a product to AIX or HP-UX users, you took your code to a porting center.

Our CEO didn't like to spend money, so it was difficult to get new Sun boxes approved. In the 1990s, a junior dev who was irritated by this asked me, "Bob, couldn't we use this Linux thing instead of Suns?"

I tried it, we could, we did, and I personally never looked back.

I've done Windows work in Windows houses and cloud work in Azure roles, but Linux [starting with Slackware] has been the only real OS for me for over 30 years.

I mean the type of Linux that is similar to the UNIX which you remember. I use GUIs but, really, CLI is the one true development environment. In my distro, the Terminal button is right next to the Start button where it belongs.

4. About BSD:

During the SunOS and Solaris era, we all knew that a free #UNIX for PCs was coming. It was supposed to be one of the three BSDs. There was a race to the finish line, three horses, and we expected the winner to take all.

In the early 1990s, I phoned CSRG at Berkeley to see if my company could work out some sort of BSD deal with them. They said that everything was on hold because they were concerned about litigation by AT&T.

During this period, Linus Torvalds entered a dark horse in the race and won decisively. It could have been Minix or #BSD instead. But Linux was in the right place at the right time.