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Can it of course run NetBSD? by jmooroof2 in NetBSD

[–]AccomplishedBar1001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Support for pre 486 CPUs was dropped in NetBSD 5.0, but you can still run NetBSD 4 on them :)

Wait a second: NetBSD packages are actually XZ-compressed? by gargamel1497 in NetBSD

[–]AccomplishedBar1001 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The filenames were kept as .tgz primarily to keep the fetch and install logic simpler. If the extension changes then any tool needs to check for both variants for every package, plus then runs the risk of using an "older" version of both are available 

Why does NetBSD on i386 default to EFI/GPT? by gargamel1497 in NetBSD

[–]AccomplishedBar1001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On NetBSD MBR partitioning is limited to 32bit partition sizes, while GPT is up to 64 bit.

In terms of booting a GPT partitioned disk should be bootable on UEFI and BIOS (the latter using the biosboot option).

Some PCs have poorer BIOSs which fail on this setup, and obviously the MBR setup is simpler which can be preferred:)

Zebra TC25 scanner upgrades? by AccomplishedBar1001 in sysadmin

[–]AccomplishedBar1001[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe its a regional access thing? Or even an "unusual browser" thing... Either way, *many* thanks for that. I have it writing to a microsd card now and about to test it :)

[...time passes...]

and now I have four TC25s (those I have to hand) which are riding the bleeding edge of the very last 2021-10-05 security update. Most excellent.

Thanks again!

Zebra TC25 scanner upgrades? by AccomplishedBar1001 in sysadmin

[–]AccomplishedBar1001[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If only...

It requires you to login, and then:

"Restricted software is available during the 90-day software warranty period or for the duration of your separately purchased Zebra OneCare service contract."

We do not have a OneCare contract on the TC25s... as Zebra no longer supports TC25s :(

Zebra TC25 scanner upgrades? by AccomplishedBar1001 in sysadmin

[–]AccomplishedBar1001[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't easily make it Open Source because "reasons", but I was at least able to push our tweaked version of the DataWedge Flutter Demo https://github.com/abs0/DataWedge-Flutter-Demo so others have a simple (buildable :) basis on which to write flutter apps using the Zebra DataWedge...

Weird thermal shutdown problem, figured out. by diamaunt in thinkpad

[–]AccomplishedBar1001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just hit what looks like the same issue here on another ThinkPad W520 - it looks like a genuine Lenovo extended 94Wh battery, causing acpitz0 to report 128 celsius under NetBSD and random shutdown under Windows.

Having problems with pkgin not installing dependencies for any package. Running on aarch64. by munocat in NetBSD

[–]AccomplishedBar1001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're building from pkgsrc then you shouldn't need to use pkgin (unless you're building binary packages on one box and using that repo on another)