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NetBSD is a freely available open source version of Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD); due to convenient license and portability, NetBSD is often used in embedded systems.

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pkg_admin audit said.. Package sqlite3-3.49.2 has a memory-corruption vulnerability, see https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6965 Package libxml2-2.14.4 has a use-after-free vulnerability, see ...
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On Linux, this command fstrim -av I will remove all unused blocks (particularly interesting on VM disks and necessary on SSD to preserve/get a longer duration). NetBSD has a similar command called ...
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I can't understand what "-f" option to find command on NetBSD mean. Manual: https://man.netbsd.org/find.1 says -f Specifies a file hierarchy for find to traverse. File hierarchies may ...
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I am trying to install, for the first time, NetBSD-10.0-amd64 on HP EliteBook 8570w. After choosing "Install BSD" option installer goes to the booting mode and gets interrupted with an error:...
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After several sessions with intense Google searching and trying several angles with ChatGPT, I seem to be at a dead-end, my problem arises when I try to build OpenSSL from source, it seems that the ...
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I am trying to use OpenVPN as a client under NetBSD using this command: openvpn --client --config /etc/openvpn/config.ovpn I am getting the following output and errors: localhost# openvpn --client --...
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I'm debugging the NetBSD kernel with gdb, but I would like to be able to display information about the memory region an address is in. I'm mainly interested in finding out the permissions of a page of ...
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I have create a disk image on netbsd newfs -F -s 10G 1.img How to mount it? I have tried "nodev" but give error and try to mount /mnt/p2 mount -v -o nodev /home/user/1.img /mnt/p2
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Simple question: On Fedora, i want to search mplayer.. dnf provides *bin/mplayer on Debian apt -y install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search mplayer|grep bin on Freebsd pkg install -y pkg-...
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Simple question, today making iostat on netbsd machine I see.. iostat 2 3 tty ld0 ld1 dk0 dk1 dk2 dk3 ...
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I'm experimenting with podman under NetBSD and want to mount a host directory into the container. According to this answer I did: podman machine init -v ~/podman/volumes/:/mnt/podman tpvm podman ...
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I've done a "Minimal" installation of NetBSD 9.3 from the ISO image, just to examine the behavior of one particular command (mktemp) as it differs from Linux. I'm not seeing man pages for… ...
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On a headless Ubuntu 22.04 machine, I'd like to start a headless installation of NetBSD 9.2 in VirtualBox. I have a prepared virtual machine with a set of blank disk images attached, as well as with ...
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macOS has its "osascript" with "display notification", Linux has its "notify-send". Both are the most native way to generate DE notifications. What is the most native way ...
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I have access to just *nix systems. Either NetBSD and/or bare Linux-based OS. So my question comes from the fact that ADB is not widely available on all platforms, if so is very hard to install or ...
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