Notices by NetBSD Foundation ? (netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org)

Windows 11 or NetBSD 11... only one will never have ads in the default install.

Asking again if someone happens to have contacts inside Harvard University or Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory who feel responsible for open source software licensing. Please get in touch. :)

Note: Please do not copy and paste the contacts for their legal departments, etc. #harvard #ucb #berkeley

A lot of the current base for 32-bit x86 is embedded and clone CPUs, Vortex86, AMD Geode, VIA. An OS that requires i686+SSE2 does not run on that hardware. In 2025, supporting i486/i586 makes a lot more sense than supporting 32-bit x86 but requiring SSE2.

Does anyone have contacts at any of Harvard University, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Microsoft, Cisco, or Intel who would be responsible for open source software licensing?

We'd like to change source code from 4-clause to 3-clause BSD that are copyright these organizations.

The sensors framework can now output JSON. No, this is not an April Fools joke.

https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/ECGJDadTJWum8lPF

Riastradh has added additional runtime checks to the ctype functions, which are a libc feature that is commonly used incorrectly.

This includes guard page exploit mitigations.

https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/FzouP6F1eaQTSROF
https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/BCljW4bJuFO5QTOF

It's a fresh new year, which means time to update the calendars provided by calendar(1), and, traditionally, reflect on the number of obscure holidays with moving dates.

@njsg @solene @charlotte We have several of our own xorg drivers, written by macallan@.

A little public service announcement to all developers of ncurses applications, buried in a commit message: https://freshbsd.org/netbsd/src/commit/pbayYrU9yVWNwzCF

@spz bit of role reversal, mouse eats cat.

babe, would you still love me if i was a system v? 🐛

@lanodan @quad @ptribble We get occasional interest and patches for pkgsrc on HP-UX and AIX. More for HP-UX than AIX, but I suspect that's because AIX has wider support (making pkgsrc less necessary) and has a weirder toolchain (making using pkgsrc harder)

@bentsukun Ah yes, Kubernetes for an internal HTTP server serving only static files.

Spotted in a PlayStation Portable game manual... (from Reddit)

for Reasons™, I spent a day or so making an unofficial port of the Pale Moon web browser to NetBSD

I patched in all the goodies I've worked on for Firefox on NetBSD over the years, including our MPROTECT security enhancement, which at some point stopped working with mainline Firefox

Nick Hudson writes that the latest release of rpi5-uefi allows NetBSD to boot on the Raspberry Pi 5: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-arm/2024/07/24/msg008841.html

Preferring a board-neutral standardized way to detect devices allows many ARM boards to be supported with a single image.

Security advisory for sshd. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2024-002.txt.asc

@drscream Does it still count if I wrote the defaults?

@onepict i've probably said this 100+ times now - this policy is for committers (foundation members) only, who've all _already_ signed contracts with a clause about tainted code.

the policy is for base only, which has strict rules about copyright for Reasons™[0]. We are not opting out of running any third-party code that might have used an auto-completion tool. Since the BSD license requires strict attribution, our code in base can't be used to train LLMs either.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories%2C_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design%2C_Inc.

@onepict Also way too many people confusing "tainted" for "poor quality".