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NetBSD 9.3
- galleywest200 4y ago> support for wsfb-based X11 servers on the Commodore Amiga I love when projects add fun things such as this.
- jmclnx 4y agoMore comments in this post, which was flagged as a dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32368771
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- mccornish 4y agoI wanted to run NetBSD as a daily driver but the Intel 3945ABG wifi performance was horrible, it disconnected after a few minutes with a fatal firmware error, there was no clean way to get it working again. I will try these versions. I went through FreeBSD and I liked it. I don't give up.
- mccornish 4y agoOuch! Same result with 9.3, I couldn't install Xfce, wifi broken after a few seconds.
- School-Cotton 4y agoHave you reported the bug to NetBSD ?
- mccornish 4y agohttps://man.netbsd.org/wpi.4 https://man.netbsd.org/wpi.4 >wpi%d: fatal firmware error For some reason, the firmware crashed. The driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen. They know.
- pyinstallwoes 4y agoI am thinking of using a *BSD for a remote NAS VPS. I'm comfortable with linux. I was having trouble finding guides on how to harden a BSD at the basic level. SSH lockdown? Is there perhaps a better way to connect like over a VPN or something for this type of use case?
- throwaway09223 4y agoJust disable any services you aren't using, and look at the system specific information for any services that remain. The services and protocols are essentially the same - for example if you're using webdav you can use the same httpd you're familiar with on linux. ssh works exactly the same as on linux as well.
- nix23 4y agoAnd for hardening ssh: https://github.com/bsdlabs/ssh-hardening https://github.com/bsdlabs/ssh-hardening Then lock-down with PF (firewall). Overall hardened FreeBSD: https://hardenedbsd.org/ https://hardenedbsd.org/ Or take parts of this Gist: https://gist.github.com/jahil/4565d8dfa06254f0c11d https://gist.github.com/jahil/4565d8dfa06254f0c11d
- UpstandingUser 4y agoI'm a big fan of NetBSD. Great docs, clean design, it's just about ideal for "set it and forget it" projects. I hadn't used a BSD in over a decade but got it up and running in no time for an odd project a few years back that had some unusual display requirements. I imagine it would have taken a lot longer to do with Linux because it's always changing how it does things and I just don't have the time or inclination to keep up with it anymore and the docs are often less than ideal. Bonus points for their build system. It's about the only time I've ever felt like building from source was a pleasant experience.
- mekster 4y agoSounds like at this point NetBSD is for educational purposes and maybe for someone who wants a starting point OS for an embedded device. It doesn't have the community like FreeBSD nor innovations like OpenBSD.
- jks 4y agoI'm going to say that the rump kernel is an innovation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_kernel But admittedly it doesn't seem to have quite the following of those two other BSDs.
- xianwen 4y agoDoes someone run NetBSD in production? What do you use NetBSD for?
- kwk1 4y agoNetBSD is used for sdf.org, the SDF Public Access UNIX System.
- efortis 4y agoFastly At least in 2017: https://twitter.com/fastly/status/934495679849881601?s=21&t=3oeBRPVIbK3TlFzjRv2G2A https://twitter.com/fastly/status/934495679849881601?s=21&t=...
- hestefisk 4y agoA few in-space satellites I believe.
- hestefisk 4y agoAlso, Apple’s AirPort wifi devices ran NetBSD.
- amerine 4y agoI know of a few small ISPs that run NetBSD on SOKRIS(sp?) machines to do routing at edge pops.
- marttt 4y agoAre the current releases of NetBSD still fast enough for decade-old x86 machines, e.g. Intel Atoms? Or is this distro also slowly adding complexity with every release? Usercase would be either console-only or console with framebuffer graphics. I'm a long-time Tiny Core Linux user (loving it!), but I often think about trying out NetBSD more seriously. The documentation seems superb; apparently, it is not hard to reconfigure some bits of the kernel even as more of a "lean systems hobbyist". From what I have read, it is quite convenient to set up as a RAM-booted system, just like Tiny Core. NetBSD (probably 7.0 or 6.1) was a pleasant experience for me on a Thinkpad T42 some 6-7 years ago.
- washbear 4y agoThis is exactly the type of hardware where NetBSD shines - it's often best to install it on something from a few years ago where driver support has matured to a fine vintage. Very good OS for preventing old hardware from being binned.
- marttt 4y agoNice to hear this, thanks. I wonder what the framebuffer experience is like with current NetBSD. I researched this (framebuffer on Linux vs OpenBSD vs NetBSD) a while ago, since I would need a framebuffer PDF reader. It feels like at this point, Linux has the most choice out of the box, when it comes to software for displaying images/pdfs on the framebuffer? I use fbpdf on Linux, which is not available on NetBSD. Then again, it is based on libmupdf, which is available, so maybe I should get my (shaking) hands dirty. :) I like it very much how NetBSD encourages user-side modifications of the kernel, e.g. for changing the console font or underclocking the cpu. Every time I read the NetBSD documentation, I feel tempted to install it, because the docs are so well structured and written. Very welcoming, even for (curious) non-CS users like me. For that reason, using NetBSD may possibly be more educational than using Linux, in the long run? Due to heavy reliance on the official documentation, you'll have a more structured understanding of how stuff works -- as compared to trawling web forums of various Linux distros and sometimes blindly copy-pasting solutions or hacks provided by others. In that sense, a good base documentation encourages more acknowledged use and going to the details from early on. (Obviously, there are Linux distros witch excellent documentation, too, like the Arch wiki.) That said, I am rather pleased with Tiny Core Linux. Their current release is something like 12.x, and I've been in their boat since version 6.x. It is a really simple, well thought out distro, excellent for older hardware; somewhat similar in that sense to the BSDs. But, yeah, sans that documentation. :)