u/Marwheel

I've been running into some strange issues when trying to run a BSDD on my RPi 400 as of late:

• NetBSD was the first, and it just showed a blank screen

• FreeBSD gave me a rainbow screen (It works when i have the HDMI connection on HDMI1, however it seems like trying to run X11 is going to be a utter hassle…).

• I have tried OpenBSD and it doesn't seem to progress ahead of a all-blank screen after the u-boot screen.

In both cases of NetBSD and FreeBSD- they were the most recent stable versions available. I both had tried the official RaspberryPi imaging app and balenaEtcher, but they have not worked well for me… Is there i step i missed somehow in the process?

EDIT: 9:41pm Sep27 2026- Add notes about OpenBSD & FreeBSD

The title of this post should have my question in it, but i had to ask this after finding myself knee-deep in a impromptu software archeology project that involves a very major piece of software for the Apollo/Domain computers.

If nobody can find and compare domain pascal with the current ones, i have some manuals found on bitsavers that do document this variant of pascal:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/000792-A01_Domain_Pascal_Language_Reference_Dec90.pdf

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/000792-04_DOMAIN_Pascal_Language_Reference_Jan87.pdf

It's very simple for now; future thoughts would be of trying to get GNUStep to send over it's menu data of a running app so that Wmaker can create a menu for a running app so that it somewhat wouldn't be out of place, and also making the theme's scrollbar trough match the 2x2 pixel trough of Wings as well.

Buoyed by my streak of productivity involving GNUStep app development on 64-bit raspbian, but wanting a more powerful (by comparison) system to my Pi400, i decided to try and dust off (metaphorically) my Atari VCS that i had on my desk, and while it booted up all nice and dandy… trying to install more GNUStep apps just failed, both in CLI & GUI. So i decided to see if WMaker was available as it's a nice lightish WM that's the easiest among the alternative WM's… It was not available at all, not even the supporting files for it.

Is there any way to refresh my local repo list so that i can have actual access to GNUStep and WMaker? It's been infuriating on my end and i haven't found any actual answers to my issue. I'm running Trixie by the way on a external SSD drive…

(Originally i was going to also ask if there was a way to get the GitHub Desktop client also up and running; well to answer my own question, i found out that there is a (slightly tardy) community maintained fork of the official github client.)

Hello; i found another WINGs-using app that i thought was lost to time, so i decided try and compile it on my Pi400… however the .autoconfig file for wterm seems to not be set up correctly for modern systems. If there is a way to fix it, what line numbers do need to be changed? i'm willing to go in and get my hands "dirty" to get wterm up and running.

Source of WTerm: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wterm/

Just learned of this today, backup link to the mentioned section of the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/@nyit_cgl

With the increasing burden on open-source projects regarding "security bug" reports (especially with pkgsrc's issues), i then got a possibly new thought after reading a article on heise about the NetBSD 11 release…

"Inverse bug bounty". Of what's a inverse bug bounty? Well, unlike a regular bug bounty of where the person who discovered the bug gets money for a bug they discovered; a inverse bug bounty is where the person who discovered the bug has to pay money to get the bug fixed more quickly then usual (Or to get the bug fixed if at all).

This proposal might be controversial, but i feel like it might be the only way to survive in a LLM-rampant era…

This is account reposting of a post i made in r/cybersecurity in case it got rejected.

Decided to run the most recent version of Fedora KDE on my Atari VCS, and i noted some quarks of it compared to the other OS'es i've ran on it…

• After login and somewhat on screensaver activation, the whole screen will be green.

• I can't somehow properly do a system shutdown with Fedora when on a Atari VCS (2021), it just restarts my VCS…

• Every time KDE starts, i get random crash messages from applets that have seemed to crash…

It finally happened, the rubber surrounding the perimeter of my screen just decided to not stick in like it's supposed to and look like a globemeter moth caterpillar yesterday night. Took a look around online and it seems to be a common issue with other macbooks of it's design vintage (post "butterfly" keyboard - M1 era design)…

Heard the costs to repair the gasket would come around to $500 - $900, but i'm hoping for a way to get it back in without complaint like how i did it years back for when the same symptom of the seal looking like a globemeter moth caterpillar was resolved manually by my own hands. Quite frankly i don't want to replace it, but…

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256162596?sortBy=rank

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/895548/What+to+do+about+the+rubber+gasket+between+the+bezel+and+monitor

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/752715/The+rubber+gasket+around+my+screen+is+stretched+out