Post by @aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org

2026-07-26 19:57 UTC

So Linus showed his entire ass ( again, if you've been paying attention in the last twenty years, but for some reason this one really got noticed ), and now I keep seeing people talking about building weird #NetBSD / Debian hybrids, how Devuan was trying that, and You know you can just run NetBSD right? No need to loot it for replacement parts, it's a stable modern OS that works fine exactly as it is. Putting the GNU userland on top of it will be a lot of work to catch up with what it already is, and carries the reward of having Richard Stallman's slime on everything.

Replies (5)

@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-07-27 14:30

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org "I can't run NetBSD because it doesn't support my Ryzen 46 with Nvidia RTX 98000 and 802.11ayx WiFi" You know middle aged x86 computers are free, right?

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@leaf@tea.pepperm.int.eu.org 2026-07-27 22:12

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org this is how I setup my NetBSD boxes with a reasonable Linux-like experience https://git.disroot.org/m33/comfy I wouldn’t recommend to change the default shell for root account, but one must use an unprivileged account for daily use anyway ;) #netbsd

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@ellenor2000@mastodon.top 2026-07-26 20:04

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org People still want their apt. #lang_en

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@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org 2026-07-26 20:06

I suppose there's hack value in building such a hybrid and getting it to work, but I don't think that's a serious proposal for building the next iteration of trusted infrastructure. Signed, a weird dude using Dell branded drives in an HP SAS shelf plugged into a Sun T2000 server, all mounted on a DEC PDP/11 rack. I made it work but I wouldn't build something expecting five-nines reliability this way!

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@faraiwe@mstdn.social 2026-07-26 20:06

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org a hybrid project often carries the worst of both source and ditches the best aspects. Exceptions are scant, rare and really, really hard to even come up with.

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