https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Yesterday, I tried deploying #invidious on #FreeBSD using #podman (and podman-compose). The only thing that failed was the postgresql container… 😳 The was an error about missing fd something probably due to the Linux emulation stack… Even the classical pgsql container does not start… 🤔

Anyone is successfully running pgsql using a Linux container?

PS: no, I don’t want to run a native pgsql. because $REASONS

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.

On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.

Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.

I had 142 servers there.

The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.

This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.

And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.

📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02

#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery

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Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically." In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

@nina_kali_nina

Soon I want to do probe of me PCs on NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Consider doing a probe of your computer. It helps other users know if your laptop works fine with BSD or not. Or what works and what does not.

https://bsd-hardware.info

#BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FOSS #opensource

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our gold sponsor: Apple
https://www.apple.com

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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I still have not understood how to create an ephemeral / cronjob #FreeBSD #jail… The one that cron launches to run a (backup) script and which terminates itself with the script. They always end up in a half-broken state after the script terminates.

So right now, I have a normal jail with nothing running in it (thank you persist;) and a crontab entry with a jexec call to the script.

It seems to be working great. But I feel like this is a dirty hack.

Hey #FreeBSD #NetBSD folks,

which mailing lists should one subscribe for technical development, discussions and diffs (such as tech@, ports@ for #OpenBSD)?

After all these discussions about using BSD systems instead of Linux, I very quickly found myself reading the FreeBSD installation guide. I believe it could definitely be my new operating system to replace Windows 10. In fact, I’m already on their IRC channel, although that doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll post anything there (I’m not entirely confident about writing, and often the solution to a problem presents itself after the third or fourth sentence while I’m trying to explain it)
#freebsd #linux #windows10 #justatool

Toying with a Ryzen 7 5825U machine.

Interestingly, #OpenBSD 7.9 achieves 10 W when IDLE with just powerd enabled, but #FreeBSD 15.1 doesn't go below 13 W with a couple of extra configurations. Trying FreeBSD 16, the better I get is 12W and that's forcing dev.hwpstate_amd.0.desired_performance to the lowest possible value ; which sux in real life. NetBSD goes for 14 W using estd but that doesn't surprise me that much.

From what I see, there're things happening around sys/x86/cpufreq/hwpstate_amd.c

EDIT: after doing the FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p3 install again from scratch and tweaking a few other things, I can achieve 8W at IDLE. Now, that's nice!

EDIT2: while 2x 3.5" SATA disks pluggued in and set to standy, power consumption is kept at 10W. YeePee!

Further evidence that gardening and self-hosting are intimately connected at a deeper level: as I'm growing tomatoes, the universe is clearly telling me which operating system to use for the next server in my closet: FreeBSD!

#SelfHosting #gardening #GrowYourOwn #FreeBSD #bsd #ShotOnLibrem5

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Photo of a yellow tomato with green leaves behind it. The tomato has two spikes, like horns sticking out, making it look like the FreeBSD mascot.

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: FreeBSD Foundation
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

« Bon il est temps de regarder de plus près comment migrer de Debian à FreeBSD »

Cinq minutes plus tard :

#Debian #FreeBSD

https://git.smithies.me.uk/freebsd-thinkpad-p14s-amd-dotfiles/tree/.kshrc

To come so far with hyprland on FreeBSD (it's working!) and then that Danish fuck spoils any party 😡 Really in doubt whether I should publish at all. Which means I probably won't.
I'm all for devs being paid, even by big business, but active association with a white supremacist is a new level of 💩. Btw, neovim has been called out also. I'll be reviving my River and Mango FreeBSD repo's in the meantime.
#hyprland #freebsd

If you feel like your #FreeBSD server is way to chatting box when nothing special happened recently to the server, have a look at this Introduction to FreeBSD’s Periodic System.

After writing

daily_show_success="NO"
weekly_show_success="NO"
monthly_show_success="NO"
security_show_success="NO"

into /etc/periodic.conf, it almost feels like FishLinux!

Oh, BTW, it actually works pretty well to (un)plug #ZFS single-stripe disks from #FreeBSD 14 to #Slackware 15.0 to #FreeBSD 15.1 and still be able to access the data in the end.

yes, some zfs export and zfs import (-f) are useful

nope, you don’t want to bother why this happened.

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our partner sponsors:
- Skylime - https://www.skylime.net/
- Netzkommune - https://www.netzkommune.de/
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- The Lightbird - https://thelightbird.com/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

You have a dual-stack #FreeBSD server. You already have IPv4 working fine on it. The jails are the classic/original NAT type (not VNET, no bridges or any of that stuff)

You want to add IPv6 to the jails. Your hosting provider gives you a /64.

What kind of IPs do you use on the jails?

Woops, looks like 2 #jails were forgotten from the backups on the previous #FreeBSD test machine… Somebody now has to restore them from memory… Luckily, most of data are just configuration files and a howto was blogged. Also the rest is available on the secondary server, that became the primary when the test machine was turned off.

#SysAdminFail

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

This is my #GoToSocial (on #OpenBSD, on #bhyve, on #FreeBSD) instance, as seen from the garage. Doesn’t it look cute!?

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With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.

If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/

Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!

#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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some days I wish upgrading #FreeBSD was as mindless as upgrading my #OpenBSD machines.

On OpenBSD, it's generally `sysupgrade`, let it do its thing, rebooting itself a couple times (entering my FDE passwords as necessary), and then a `pkg_add -u` to upgrade my packages. Sometimes a `sysmerge` if it can't do it automatically. But very much two (or three) idiot-proof commands with very little demand on this idiot's brain to recall where I am in the process.

While I like the automatic ZFS boot-environment snapshotting, FreeBSD requires me to know the next version-number I want to upgrade to (can't determine it or prompt me for viable options?), transcribe it as part of the upgrade command, then manually running `freebsd-update install` multiple times, rebooting manually multiple times between each, then `pkg update` and a `pkg upgrade` to update userspace. I'm sitting at a login…is this the first, second, or third reboot? I don't know, it was taking a while and I ended up wandering off to do something else.

This post brought to you by this morning's 14.3→14.4 FreeBSD upgrade 😆

@sizeofvoid the standard response might be "wifibox", but this is not an out-of-the-box experience.

https://www.freshports.org/net/wifibox/

#FreeBSD #Qualcomm #WiFi

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The Realities of Enterprise FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/HRXAHF/
Talk by Allan Jude
2026-09-12 11:15:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/ZGDXQR/
Talk by Alexander Bluhm
2026-09-13 10:30:00
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
About EuroBSDcon 2026: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org
@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware

#FreeBSD #RiverWM

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A screenshot of my Cow ( FVWM for Wayland ) desktop that runs on the River compositor. The wallpaper shows a green meadow with flowers and a girl lying down staring at the sky. In the background are snow peaked mountains. There is a terminal window open with the Cow menus open and a qutebrowser window that is shaded.

I just checked mine and noticed that the #Bastille jails exports had stopped all because I wasn't passing the --live option. All fixed now but still that could have been a disaster for me.

#FreeBSD

📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #Register

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.