Category Archives: NetBSD

My view on the NetBSD operating system

Intel PRO/1000 PT

Posted on 8 December, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

After experiencing a lot of trouble with the onboard Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet interface of my new server I decided to get a network card that would be suitable to replace it. As Intel PRO/1000 MT PCI cards worked very … Continue reading →

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Goodbye i386 … Hello amd64!

Posted on 30 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

Last Sunday I retired my NetBSD/i386 server installation after over 12 years of service. Back in 1996 I installed NetBSD 1.1 on a PC with a Cyrix 66MHz 486 CPU, 16MB main memory, a 1GB IDE hard disk and a … Continue reading →

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NetBSD TV: The Media Server

Posted on 13 November, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

As I mentioned recently I bought a Playstation 3 (PS3) to use as a streaming video client in conjunction with the MediaTomb UPnP media server. Here is my recipe for installing and configuring the server package under NetBSD. The instructions … Continue reading →

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