Research carried out using NetBSD

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bch•about 2 hours ago

Microsoft brought up an new processor[0][1][2] with NetBSD...

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=524...

[1] https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/emips/

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/an-onli...

tosti•31 minutes ago

There's the Installing Linux on a dead badger HOWTO, but NetBSD actually runs everywhere for realsies. It's also lovely to work with and has the nicest man pages imho.

3eb7988a1663•about 1 hour ago

How usable are the BSDs as a GUI daily driver? Like 99% of Linux applications work out of the box or more like 50%?

With new CVEs being discovered in ancient bedrock code on the daily, it seems prudent to switch to a NetBSD/OpenBSD/Qubes system for the next few years until some vulnerabilities might get smoothed over.

__patchbit__•about 1 hour ago

NetBSD 11 with Firefox 151 from pkgsrc on a custom CTWM is a usable daily driver for Emacs daemon mode GUI/TUI and console tmux simultaneous use. Remote in from a Windows or macOS desktop.

Bluestein•27 minutes ago

CTWM Claude's Tab Window Manager

- https://www.ctwm.org/index.html

izabera•13 minutes ago

that's one confusing title in $currentyear...

Research carried out using NetBSD

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