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Automatic conversion of the NetBSD src CVS module, use with care. Please submit bugs/changes via https://gnats.NetBSD.org. NOTE: Links to commits here WILL ROT. Use https://nxr.NetBSD.org or https://cvsweb.NetBSD.org links instead.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 3 stories, 20 comments · first 2017-09-13 · latest 2026-10-29

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  1. The source code and README are here: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/usr.bin/atto You are welcome!
    comment by markusQi · 2026-10-29 · in NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto
  2. …would be hard to connect to a modern network? NetBSD still supports it when running on a q-bus VAX: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/dev/qbus/if_qe.... It has some pretty broken behavior regarding multicast/broadcast traffic…
    comment by spijdar · 2026-09-21 · in A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix
  3. …to LLM ? I do not know since I avoid AI as much as I can. But the person also posted this link too: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f764ddf4062e855f73fe2e3...
    comment by jmclnx · 2026-05-30 · in Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team
  4. …are usually "softforked"). It's quite visible in the sources, it's a lot more than just a kernel: https://github.com/NetBSD/src Additional packages you could get from pkg_in/pkgsrc (NetBSD), pkg-ng/ports (FreeBSD) or pkg_add (OpenBSD) are…
    comment by kakwa_ · 2026-05-10 · in Debian must ship reproducible packages
  5. …so testing has been a slog. :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(operating_system) [1] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/arch/sparc/spar...
    comment by spijdar · 2026-03-02 · in AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
  6. …I can blow people's minds. [1] https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/17290de/share/mk/bsd.lib... [2] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/7d8184e/share/mk/bsd.lib....
    comment by wahern · 2025-10-27 · in An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)
  7. …sparc-- which was created by Theo de Raadt. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=161435521906992&w=2 https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/6ce3f21 https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/1a68594 He also came to the same conclusion compat layers…
    comment by brynet · 2025-09-07 · in Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows disabling all AI features
  8. …> By default only one tty is enabled Ah, but the rest is getting enabled by the installer, see https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-10/usr.sbin/sysins... > NetBSD might have some "bloatware" but _the user must enable it_ first >…
    comment by luke8086 · 2024-12-18 · in Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
  9. I like NetBSD sh's nextopt < https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/23fcbd850aae17ef0843523f3... >. Since getopt's internal state can't be reset portably, most shells roll their own option parser.
    comment by oguz-ismail · 2024-11-07 · in getopt() but smaller
  10. ▲ 2
    NetBSD: Shall We Play a Game?
    story by InitEnabler · 2024-05-14 · 0 comments
  11. …people decided perl was bad and moved on from that. [1] Random excerpt from NetBSD's source code https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/dev/eisa/devlis...
    comment by snovymgodym · 2024-02-10 · in Aho – a Git implementation in Awk
  12. ▲ 32
    NetBSD Turns 30
    story by liveoneggs · 2023-03-21 · 3 comments
  13. If anyone wants to review the NetBSD implementation, see: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/net/if_wg.c
    comment by joveian · 2022-10-29 · in WireGuard in FreeBSD
  14. …make (also used by FreeBSD, and packaged as bmake in some distros) has the same optimization: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/netbsd-9/usr.bin/make/com...
    comment by jwilk · 2022-08-21 · in An opinionated approach to GNU Make
  15. or, do! https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/lib/libedit also: isn't the entire GNU project itself someone 'being a prick and writing their own unix because the terms of the AT&T one were not to their liking'? (pay no attention to the…
    comment by cat199 · 2019-08-23 · in Things to Know About GNU Readline
  16. libedit was written for just this purpose https://github.com/NetBSD/src/tree/trunk/lib/libedit (cvsweb appears down) https://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
    comment by cat199 · 2019-08-23 · in Things to Know About GNU Readline
  17. And here's the mitigation in NetBSD: https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/afab82aeafd0c51afc036a8... Essentially: Intel released a microcode update which makes the `verw` instruction now magically flush MDS-affected buffers. On vulerable…
    comment by waddlesplash · 2019-05-14 · in ZombieLoad: Cross Privilege-Boundary Data Leakage on Intel CPUs
  18. …quickly find all references to it without having to switch to cscope -- that's not nothing. Also, https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/common/lib/libc/mis... is just not that big... only 1639 lines, 1310 sloc. Compare to, let's say,…
    comment by cryptonector · 2018-08-08 · in µUBSan: clean-room reimplementation of the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime
  19. …table in the parent comment lacks versions. If I am not mistaken, NetBSD uses ChaCha20 since 2015. https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/lib/libc/gen/arc4ra...
    comment by textmode · 2018-06-23 · in HardenedBSD: Feature comparison vs other BSD distros
  20. ▲ 92
    NetBSD: a new version of the CDDL dtrace and ZFS code
    story by algorithm314 · 2018-05-29 · 5 comments
  21. …and applaud the ongoing work there! [1] https://twitter.com/alangrow/status/966081208487575552 [2] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/54af00c6ee446afe395f319...
    comment by sigil · 2018-03-20 · in The history of documented Unix facilities
  22. If you look at the NetBSD kernel source https://github.com/NetBSD/src.git , it doesn't look like there are any real and substantial Lua kernel modules. $ find sys -name '*.lua' sys/modules/examples/luahello/luahello.lua…
    comment by sigjuice · 2017-11-30 · in Writing a Simple Linux Kernel Module
  23. …One can even trace its spread from, say, 386BSD through NetBSD to OpenBSD. * https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/516da8a02fc8bc10555ed9acd... * https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/df930be708d50e9715f173ca... Manual pages are not standar
    comment by JdeBP · 2017-09-13 · in Systemd-resolved does not keep the order of the DNS servers