Wishlist for NetBSD 10.0

andreasdr

Maccraft123 Panfrost GPU driver for newer MALI devices would be nice for PineBookPro.

gigavinyl

Jay Easy encrypted root install would be a dream!

kaveman

Jay clearly, 4 is going to be the hardest 😆

zoomzoom

Snapshot functionality for LVM. I would like to use this in combination with Xen for managing/upgrading VM images.

nia no longer defaulting to TWM

Add ctwm to it 😉
The wm should be users choice.

nia ksh and csh moved to pkgsrc (this seems like it'd cause a flame war on the mailing lists)

Same as above.

nia I don't care about ZFS (probably controversial, again).

👍️

nia kernel bits needed for WINE enabled in GENERIC

I have mixed feelings for this. Would probably compile the kernel without it.

nia make binary packages default in installer more sensible, pkgin + cdn PKG_PATH...

🙂

nia

pin I'm happy running firefox, but it would be nice to have it updated in between Q-releases. I know, I can build it from pkgsrc-current, but I'd like to stick to one release.

aaa, I missed this.

There are package updates between Q releases but they come slowly due to the limited number of people doing release engineering (at the moment just two when they have time), and Firefox is a big thing to test. I tend to request pullups for the latest ESR release only because that's what I use. My pullup for 68.2.0 was applied a couple of days ago. Now 68.3.0 is out. Oops.

nia

Just submitted a pullup for 68.3.0 😆

nia That was quick 😮
I also run Voidlinux, which is a rolling release and esr is at version 68.2.0 right now.
Maybe I should move to the esr release on NetBSD 😉

Jay

nia that's awesome 😄

cleberalves

ACPI Suspend/Resume just works completely fine, my Thinkpads X250 (I have one i5 and one i7), until now doesn't.
OpenBSD did a great job with, FreeBSD almost there. But, I don't want to use them, Linux neither.

nia

cleberalves Weirdly, I bought an i5 FHD X250 yesterday and it can suspend just fine.

Have you tried sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleep.state=3 (I recommend setting a shell alias for this)? Power button to resume.

I'm running 9 RC1, btw.

cleberalves

nia , Hi, nice to learn it. But, It didn't work here, NetBSD 9.99.17 (HEAD), btw. Just boring, but I will not give up, and NetBSD remains.

nia

Waking up is weird but manageable once you get used to it. It'll put you in a different tty to the one you were using, and you need to switch back. I think it only works using the power button on this machine, not sure about other possible combinations.

rjbadger

Support for Electron apps would be very useful. I have experimented with using NetBSD as a desktop daily driver, but lacking support for applications like Atom or VSCode really limits its viability for me.

tpaul

My wishes have already been delivered!

Rust, virtualization (via NVMM), and ZFS 🙂

pfr

pin a base system clean-up would be nice, e.g. why twm and ctwm in base? I know they are small, but a wm should be a users choice and one is more than enough. A similar thought goes for the number of shells in base and few other unnecessary things. I always remove /games and ctwm and I keep away from linux-emul.

Maybe something worth adding to the installation guide. Software removal and cleanup commands? I'd love to know what can safely be removed without breaking the base system, and how best to properly clean up the install.

pfr Maybe something worth adding to the installation guide. Software removal and cleanup commands?

Could do ...although, everything will get re-installed when upgrading.
Also, preferences may vary.

pfr what can safely be removed without breaking the base system

What would you like to remove?
games can for sure be removed. Actually, you can choose not to install the set, if you do a custom install.
To remove games just,

cd /usr
doas rm -r games/

Jay

Gnome 3, KDE and Pantheon DE 😅

qik

Jay With some luck we might get GNOME 🙂

Jay 🥶 😱

Jay

qik just saw this few time ago:

https://youtu.be/VEhwzYRcP8A

https://wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=commit;h=fff62d806f45e51c4b4a5eb735235821b463d2dc

Congratulations for porting 😄

qik

Thanks Jay It's only a start, I hope I can keep it up

One thing I want for 10.0 is Pinebook Pro hardware support. I want to switch to NetBSD on mine, but I was hesitating because I read the WiFi driver is not reliable.
Jails or containers a la Docker would be nice.

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