A wild #blog post appears!

I revived pkgsrc on AIX.

(Yes, I already sent a PR to NetBSD.)

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250516.html

I'm really starting to despair of finding any sort of 'working' #liveusb #BSD project.

All the good ones like PC-BSD, DesktopBSD, TrueBSD, DamnSmallBSD, etc seem to either be straight up gone or seem to be falling off the map.

NomadBSD seemed promising, but just plain won't boot on 2/3rds of my machines.

Any BSD folks out there using a liveUSB/liveCD for BSD want to chime in with what you're using?

does anyone run #freebsd on their gaming pc? how much harder, if at all, is it than gaming on linux?

Decided to boot into the Windows 11 SSD of my Evoo laptop which is the one that primarily runs #OpenBSD so that I could update it. It had been a while since I'd booted into it, so much so that even Firefox was at version 129 and LibreOffice was still numbered as 7.5. After an entire morning of Windows itself updating, I updated the apps I could from work. Steam may have to wait until I get home.

I'm still waiting on some post-24H2 updates to finish, and then I can boot back into the sanity of my OpenBSD SSD. ​​ #RunBSD #BSD

oh no I'm looking at #BSD

Unix friends: what are the low level calls that can create processes?

I've got fork(2), vfork(2), rfork(2), clone(2), posix_spawn(3) (and spawn(2) on Solaris). Also fork(all|1)x?. OSF/1's nfork(2) I guess.

Am I missing anything else that should be on this list? Unix-like systems only, please (so no CreateProcess or the like). What else should be on that list?
#Unix #BSD #Solaris

Internally debating whether I should pick up a #ThinkPad T43 and using it as my main #NetBSD machine. Currently I have an X260 running #Slackware and an X1 Carbon 6th gen running #CRUX and #Debian but I don't have a machine I can dedicate solely to NetBSD. I also got my Raspberry Pi 4 running #SlackwareARM. I've always just had to run NetBSD in a VM, but I don't wish to anymore. Is it a worthwhile endeavor?

When Mozilla Thunderbird starts hammering on the CPU cores of your computer you configure it in this way.

>>Quote

... configuration editor. Type idle into the search box, and look for mail.db.idle_limit. According to that bug report, the correct value is 30000000. Check the number of zeros you have; if you only have 300000, that could be causing your CPU problems.
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↑Z

https://rainbow.chard.org/2013/02/19/thunderbird-high-cpu/

To all the #BSD friends that will attend the #BSDCan event in #Ottawa:
maybe you could add the #FediMeteo forecasts to your feed. Just follow @ottawa__ontario

After only two and a half weeks: Dragonfly BSD 6.4.2 with further fixes

It took two and a half years from Dragonfly BSD 6.4.0 to 6.4.1, but 6.4.2 comes after two and a half weeks. The reasons for this include fixes for QEMU.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-only-two-and-a-half-weeks-Dragonfly-BSD-6-4-2-with-further-fixes-10382919.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

Exactly one month from today, I'll be at #BSDCan to present my talk "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" (AKA: "I solve problems").

As the days go by, I feel increasingly honored to be a speaker at this event, more and more excited to live an experience similar to the incredible one I had last September at #EuroBSDCon in Dublin, and more confident than ever in the technical choices I’ve made over the years - which I’ll be happy to share.

BSD conferences aren’t just technical events - they’re snapshots of the BSD community as a whole: friendly, collaborative, pragmatic, and positive.

To everyone attending: see you in Ottawa!

https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/

Question for all the #BSD admins out there: have you ever deployed #DragonflyBSD in production?

Personally I deployed my fair share of #OpenBSD and #pfsense firewalls in production. I've also encountered a few #FreeBSD servers and I know that SDF runs on #NetBSD but I've yet to see a DragonflyBSD machine in prod.

Kinda frustrated with the state of #desktops in #Linux / #BSD / #Unix

You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like #i3, #sway #awesomewm #evilwm, #cwm, #bspwm, or whatever you like, BUT you will constantly be scratching your head when #Gnome and #GTK programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.

It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran #IceWM, #Enlightenment, or #WindowMaker.

P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love #KDE #Plasma. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, and extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).