Sunday, August 9, 2026

QGIS 4.0 to 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 in July heat with NetBSD 11.0 hot off the digital press

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 Around the first of Jul 2026 I was building QGIS 3 or 4 on 3 NetBSD systems, 1 fast, 2 slow, in order to check that each worked with Postgr...
Monday, July 20, 2026

QGIS 3x3 on NetBSD 10/11 + PostgreSQL 14/16/18

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  Started making QGIS version 3.44.8 early June 2026 on NetBSD processors jump ahead: $ ps auxww | head -2 USER        PID %CPU %MEM      VS...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Forward with QGIS 4 and NetBSD 11 and more

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 A week ago, based on a tip from Greg T, I build QGIS 4.0 on a NetBSD 10.1 system. It worked, after arranging the work-in-progress snapshot....
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Delaminating the Onion, OGR style

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 After I learned about geospatial PDF documents with layers of GIS "goo" embedded I've tried out maps and similar graphics for...
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

NetBSD 11 RC3 heat, RC4, and more

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The last post was about NetBSD 11, Release Candidate 3. Meanwhile, RC4 was just announced, so this write-up is mainly about testing RC3, wit...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

NetBSD 11 RC3 upgrade foibles

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 I like this peaking pattern, particularly since it stopped. Looping test case, repeated twice maybe? Then, closer scrutiny shows the major ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Weather rock uncovering

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 After putting off finishing the rest of the environmental or weather readings from the nearest airport into a Zabbix suite long enough, I s...