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NetBSD is an open-source Unix-like operating system, especially known for its portability

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NetBSD, OpenBSD, *BSD and FreeBSD compared

I recall reading a comparison of NetBSD and FreeBSD a few years back, and in 2000 (okay many) it looked like NetBSD forked processes better, while FreeBSD threaded better, and so, for Apache 1 NetBSD seemed a little better. Since then It seems that…
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Most Windows-like text editor that can be used through PuTTY in NetBSD?

Please help me find an editor that behaves more like the modern Windows editors do, that I could use on a NetBSD box through PuTTY. This includes the absense of the distinction between view/insert/append modes, basic shortcuts such as…
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Reliable HFS+ Journaled mount in any OS for ARMv6

I need an operating system for ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi) that can reliably mount HFS+ Journaled as read/write, with volume sizes up to 16TB. I've not been able to find details on how stable HFS+ Journaled is in the latest versions of the Linux…
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NetBSD/FreeBSD and TP-Link TL-WN727N: Second encounter

First part at NetBSD and TP-Link TL-WN727N (Atheros AR9271 or Ralink RT5370) So, I've installed NetBSD 7 and device shown again as ugen(ugein, lol). ugen0 at uhub4 port 8 ugen0: Mediatek 802.11 n WLAN, rev 2.01/00, addr 2 Then I'm installed…
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How to bootstrap a MIPS NetBSD iso in qemu?

I'm trying to bootstrap a NetBSD 4.0 iso in qemu, but am not having much luck. My host computer is running OS X, and I successfully installed qemu with homebrew, but have been unable to bootstrap the NetBSD 4.0 iso from here =>…
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NetBSD and TP-Link TL-WN727N (Atheros AR9271 or Ralink RT5370)

Where can I find and install an AR9271 driver for the latest NetBSD? The target machine does not have Internet access and I need to setup the WiFi dongle first. I only found this: https://www.daemon-systems.org/man/athn.4.html UPDATE: wpa_supplicant…
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NetBSD - no pkg

After full installation of latest NetBSD I'm tried to launch pkgin, but received pkgin not found, also I've got same for pkgsrc. Then I've found, that there's no /usr/pkg location. That's normal or I've did something wrong?
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Wait for process to start on linux/(net)bsd

I'm attempting to make a script which tracks how many times you execute a specific process. I want to detect when the process starts and then log it. The psuedo-code would be something like this: while (true) if (process started) then…
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What device does NetBSD use for a USB modem?

I'm testing some software on NetBSD 8.1 x86_64. The software opens a USB modem and issues AT commands. The software tested OK on Debian, Fedora, OS X, and OpenBSD. The software is having trouble on NetBSD. NetBSD's dmesg shows: umodem0 at uhub1 port…
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How to run a Windowed JAR file over SSH without installing JRE and without root access on NetBsd?

First, I can use Java, but for what I want to achieve (building a database where othe only application supporting the format is in Java), I need 100Gb of RAM during 20 hours. I have access to a server with the required RAM, but not as root and no…
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Install Linux on Old AirPort Extreme?

I have a very old AirPort Extreme, the A1408. Is it possible to install Linux on it, using the AirPort functionally as a hard disk, and then boot from that? I have also heard that AirPorts run NetBSD. Can you boot into that and run commands?
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What is the default File System in NetBSD? What are it's benefits and shortcommings?

I spent some time looking through the documentation, but honestly, I have not found any good answer. I understand NetBSD supports many FS types as USER SPACE, but I would like to know what is the default FS created by the installer, and the one…
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Trying to install NetBSD 7.1 on QEMU/KVM

I am using OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 on a Dell Inspiron 1545.  An error occurs when I try to load NetBSD into QEMU/KVM: "module 'cd9660' pushed by bootloader already exists." I installed Lubuntu 16.04 LTS in QEMU/KVM previously.
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is not in sudoers file for NetBSD 7.0

I installed sudo on NetBSD 7.0 using pkg. I copied /usr/pkg/etc/sudoers to /etc/sudoers because the docs say /etc/sudoers and possibly /etc/sudoers.local is used. I uncommented the line wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL. I then added myself to the wheel group. I…
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Configure error with pkgsrc trying to build xf86-video-intel

I am trying to build xf86-video-intel driver on NetBSD 64bit, and I have this problem: checking whether to build Xorg PCI functions... checking for PCIACCESS... no configure: error: Package requirements (pciaccess >= 0.12.901) were not…
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