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submitted 1 week ago by m33@lemmy.zip to c/unixporn@lemmy.ml

publication croisée depuis : https://lemmy.zip/post/54095598

Hi,

If you are looking for a VPS hosting service compatible with NetBSD amd64, dedirock.com makes it pretty easy :

  • full virtio devices
  • qemu vCPU (KVM
  • custom iso file uploading
  • boot from cdrom that actually works
  • VNC remote access during installation phase

What can I say, it has been a long time since I hadn't toyed with NetBSD on a VPS. That was surprisingly easy.

No need to boot in rescue mode, overwrite the default Linux OS with a NetBSD bootstrap and tweaks dozen things. Nope, just boot, install, done.

                                  __,gnnnOCCCCCOObaau,_      root@localhost
   _._                    __,gnnCCCCCCCCOPF"''               OS: NetBSD 
  (N\\XCbngg,._____.,gnnndCCCCCCCCCCCCF"___,,,,___           Kernel: amd64 NetBSD 10.1
   \N\\XCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOOPYvv.      Uptime: 34m
    \N\\XCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCPF"''                Packages: 69
     \N\\XCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOF"'                      Shell: sh 
      \N\\XCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCOF"'                          Disk: 1.8G / 14G (13%)
       \N\\XCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCPF"'                              CPU: QEMU Virtual version 2.5+ @ 2.6GHz
        \N\\"PCOCCCOCCFP""                                   RAM: 606MiB / 1958MiB
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              \NNA.                                         
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                \NNN,                                       
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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Curious about yhe use case for this. I used Free-BSD ages ago.

[-] m33@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Maintaining actual skills, unix basics. Not just learning more systemd wizard macros, or jugling with half baked dockerized applications and kubernetes dashboard.

Nothing wrong with systemd or docker, I do many sketchy things like that at work. It breaks and spontaneously generate work, I'm more than OK with that.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I wish I was better at regex stuff for sure. I just wish I had a job that paid where I could do that stuff. Everything that pays my salary is either devOps or requires a top secret clearance. Makes me miss being young.

this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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