Do you know that NetBSD has a simple web server pre-installed called Bozotic? It is very simple, so simple that it can be configured with just a single command line, and quite useful to serve file lists or static web pages. Like this blog. Supposing that you has a valid domain certificate, be using let’s encrypt of something else, who creating and validating is beyond the scope of this tutorial, all that needs to be done is: ...

One of the most irrational things on Linux, when they don’t have to deal with Windows, it why use SAMBA/CIFS. It’s cumbersome to configure, and don’t feel at home on Linux at all. And there’s NFS, that unfortunately ins’t much better at the simplicity aspect (if you use authentication), and actually, can be even worse if you use some exotic distribution without the required kernel modules. But there’s something that all slightly more advanced users has on his file server that usually is shipped by default: SSH. ...

Without further ado, NetBSD 9.2 can’t use the onboard OrangePi Zero wifi adapter. This doesn’t mean much of a deal, given that Linux in practice can’t as well, at least without a quite poor out-of-tree driver. Thus, everything below although done on an OrangePi Zero, it’s valid to say that it is valid to any device running NetBSD 9.2 with a recognized wifi adapter. It will be used the DLink N300 Nano / DWA-131 adapter, one of the cheapest that is possible to get. This adapter is plug and play on NetBSD 9.2, not requiring manual loading of modules. It will show on “ifconfig” only as urtwn0: ...

So, you acquired a OrangePi? Time to make it work with something that is not Linux for… reasons. Not my concern. I know my reasons, it was simple will to use something different from the OS that I use to work for years. And that should be compiled from sources, since going to http://www.armbsd.org/arm/ is too easy. You must learn how its done, maybe it will be useful someday. Without further ado, let’s go. ...