The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Decided to upgrade my #FreeBSD installation on the desktop PC this weekend, especially after pkg was having issues pulling from the latest tree last weekend. Aside from upgrading base to 15.0-RELEASE-p8, I was finally able to upgrade all of my packages with pkg since then. ​​

#BSD #RunBSD

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My TV that I'm using as a monitor which is connected to my desktop PC. The PC is booted to FreeBSD and on the screen is a Tmux session with pkg finally installing all of the package updates that were pending since I experienced issues with the mirror a week ago.

Have any other #FreeBSD users recently started having trouble with #Chromium opening a window but then just hanging?

X thinks it has a window since other things continue painting just fine around its target rectangle, but any windows moved over it just leave un-cleared artifacts and the window doesn't respond to interactions AFAICT.

Looking at the stderr there's a lot of "can't connect to dbus" (though `service` shows it's running) and several instances of:

[49959:66588103999496:0502/114932.516666:ERROR:chrome/browser/ui/webui/ntp/new_tab_ui.cc:53] Requested load of chrome://newtab/ for incorrect profile type.

Has anyone tried #Sway on 7.9/-current? Is it good?

It's a little buggy in #FreeBSD. I don't really care about sway vs. #i3wm all that much (nor am I ideologically invested in the Wayland vs. X11 grudge match 😄), but I reallly like foot as a terminal, and fuzzel as a launcher/menu, and they're Wayland-only. 😂

On #OpenBSD, the update process every six months is:

# sysupgrade
# sysmerge

And as needed:

# syspatch
# pkg_add -u

What are these processes for #FreeBSD?

We’re proud to share that Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will be speaking at Open-Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

📍 Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 11:00am – 11:40am CDT | Room 101H

View the full schedule here:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/program/schedule/

Deb's talk: https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsf/what-running-freebsd-on-a-modern-laptop-taught-me-deb-goodkin-the-freebsd-foundation?iframe=yes&w=&sidebar=yes&bg=no

We look forward to seeing you there.

#FreeBSD #OpenSourceSummit #LinuxFoundation #OpenSource

Mine...Mine...Mine...

Now THAT will be a nerdy weekend §8-)

Buy here:
https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

#freebsd #book #bsd #nerd #linux #unix #openbsd #netbsd #ghostbsd #learn

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FreeBSD Book - Integrated by design. https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design

Yes, it's the same with @xcpng as #XenServer. XenCenter and XCP-ng Center don't offer the SR-IOV network as an option for VMs. Luckily, #XenOrchestra gets that right.

While there I tested various #BSD OSes with SR-IOV and Intel i350 NICs:

#NetBSD - NIC is described (as defined in pcidevs), but no driver
#OpenBSD - NIC entirely unknown as not in pcidevs
#FreeBSD - virtual function works straight off as igb0

The #NetBSD and slightly-newer #OpenBSD iavf(8) drivers only support much newer NICs.

I created a support page (in lieu of a blog) about SR-IOV on XenServer and XCP-ng with various Intel NICs and different operating systems including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD

I think the #NetBSD ixv(4) driver needs resyncing to #FreeBSD from whence it came (or get hints from #OpenBSD). I couldn't get it to work on #NetBSD
https://www.precedence.co.uk/wiki/Support-KB-Citrix/XenServer-SRIOV

Now I set Feh to handle wallpapers. And this is how it looks together. Not bad, ha.

#freebsd #feh #wm

I just found out about `certctl` on #FreeBSD -- https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?certctl(8)

That's a pleasant surprise that makes some basic things easier.

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

I just installed the previous version of py311-bcrypt version 4.3.0 and I was able to restart radicale again.

Oh great just updated my #FreeBSD Bastille jails and my radicale now fails to start with the following errors.

[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Logging of backtrace is disabled in this loglevel
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded default config
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Loaded config file '/usr/local/etc/radicale/config'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Skipped missing/unreadable config file '/root/.config/radicale/config'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Starting Radicale (python=3.11.15 radicale=3.6.1 vobject=0.9.6.1 passlib=1.7.4 defusedxml=0.7.1 bcrypt=5.0.0 argon2-cffi=25.1.0 pika=1.3.2 ldap=n/a ldap3=2.9.1 pam=n/a) as user=root(0) groups=wheel(0),wheel(0),operator(5) on FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-64bit-ELF
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth type is 'radicale.auth.htpasswd'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.strip_domain: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.lc_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.uc_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.urldecode_username: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.delay: 1.000000 seconds
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth.cache_logins: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd file: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd file encoding: 'utf-8'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd cache: False
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] auth htpasswd encryption is 'radicale.auth.htpasswd_encryption.bcrypt'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Read content of htpasswd file start: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users'
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [INFO] Read content of htpasswd file done: '/usr/local/etc/radicale/users' (entries: 1, duplicates: 0, errors: 0)
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [WARNING] bcrypt module version '5.0.0' >= '5.0.0' and passlib(libpass) module version '1.7.4' < '1.9.3' found => incompatible, downgrade bcrypt or upgrade passlib(libpass)
[2026-04-30 18:52:44 +0100] [12116] [CRITICAL] An exception occurred during server startup: The htpasswd encryption method 'bcrypt' requires the bcrypt module but not usuable

I'm running on the latest 15.0-RELEASE-p7
Anyone ??

#FreeBSD #runBSD 🤷‍♂️

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Meme of a giant toad dressed in a vest and jacket, sitting with its hands on its knees with a serious expression: "Gentleman, it is with great pleasure that I inform you, that I solved a problem today by reading the documentation"

Next Sylve release is shaping up to be a solid one!

We're utilizing the base WireGuard kernel module and PF to bring a richer networking experience, with support for traffic rules and NAT (SNAT, DNAT, BINAT).

#WireGuard #FreeBSD #Sylve #RunBSD

@a @celesteh expect FreeBSD Installer for 15.1 to offer KDE Plasma and applications, and X.Org.

<https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/>

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #desktop

Is FreeBSD a way to escape slop kernels?

Does SuperCollider run on freeBSD?

How hard is it to put BSD on an old think pad?

How hard a switch is this for somebody used to gnome + Ubuntu?

What's the difference between freeBSD and BSD?

#SuoerCollider #freeBSD #BSD

⚠️ The Schedule is live! ⚠️

BSD-NL Conference - Early 2026 🐡😈⛳

https://bsdnl.nl/program.html

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

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White Rabbit "I'm late!" meme with the text: Better late than never! The BSD-NL program is out! and late again...

@projectanchorage I would look at multiple options.
- If you're strictly stuck with i386 (not even i486) that means #NetBSD is propably the only choice.
- Depending on your goals, you may want to consider #OpenBSD or #386BSD (today's #FreeBSD).
- Not shure if #OpenSolaris / #illumos supported anything beyond #SPARC(v9 / SPARC64) & #amd64.

The question to me is whether or not old #BSD versions emcan even be built with midern toolchains and if choosing them isn't going to bite one in the ass down the line.
- The reason I choose #Linux for @OS1337 is because it's mature toolchain, drivers and hardware support.
- Tho you may rightfully argue that #OS1337 is just taking the #toybox / #musl + linux "distro" #mkroot and basically tries to make something out of it.

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open through June 20th!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

The main #PeerTube dev, Chocobozzz, is the GOAT. Always quick to respond, get stuff fixed fast. The last issues we've had on Exquisite.tube directly resulted into documentation improvements:

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/commit/bbb8e6ac4eaadf88bcd9c6b65f727571655dad8d

(we are actually running #HardenedBSD - but this applies to #FreeBSD too)

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

That would be crazy if someone imported tmux, doas, tmux, and openrsync into #FreeBSD base. Like , crazy.

This morning I decided to update my Raspberry Pi 4 to the latest patch of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. It's a UFS setup, running in read-only mode, as I mentioned in a previous post: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/05/31/freebsd-tips-and-tricks-native-ro-rootfs/

I remounted it in rw, rebooted, and started the process... halfway through, a power surge hit and everything shut down.

TIL: UFS is quite resilient to these situations, even on an SD card, and even during a freebsd-update.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

#MATE on #FreeBSD: #macOS-Like Setup Guide: Font Rendering, UI Tweaks, and Settings

https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/mate-on-freebsd-macos-like-setup-guide-font-rendering-ui-tweaks-and-settings/

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

As much as I like to hate #FreeBSD on the laptop, I must admit it runs great on the N150 Aoostar clone.

It’s not impossible I end up replacing the cohosted OmniOS server with FreeBSD. Having everything jailed by default is nice but I get the impression Illumos is more about running Linux Jail/VM and it seems Bhyve BSD VM are not that performant. Maybe it’s just me.

I write things so that I don’t have to remember them when I need ‘em so times later…

#FreeBSD #ThinkPad #RunBSD

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A ThinkPad T480s with an Xfce terminal running tmux. On the left, w3m displays a FreeBSD article. On the right, the output of fastfetch.

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Should we rewrite BSDs in Ada/SPARK!?
#runbsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@darth My main laptop, where I doing almost all computing now, running #FreeBSD for (checks notes) 6 years.

For homelab server(s) I'm using #NetBSD because it runs everywhere

For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.

You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Scavenged a aged HP Powerbook, which has now decided to roll over and die within an hour or so of rebooting #FreeBSD (similar symptoms with NetBSD, which I've overwritten). Maybe heat issues? No crash logs or other traces evident.
Chart of temperature via #Zabbix

$ /sbin/sysctl hw.acpi.thermal.tz3.temperature
hw.acpi.thermal.tz3.temperature: 55.1C

#Hmmm

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Betriebstemperatur chart. Several upticks followed by no values.

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, as described in the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Now that the #arm64 boards are installed, it was time to use them as redundant #DHCP server and #DNS resolvers; using #dhcpd and #Unbound on both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/

The BSDCan 2026 schedule has been posted. 30 regular talks, one set of lightning talks, and one Audio BoF: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

Both FreeBSD and NetBSD will be holding two day Dev Summits across the hall from each other in DMS.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606
https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/events.html#bsdcan2026

Just like last year, the reception on Saturday night is free if you register early. This year you must register before May 1, 2026: https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html
#bsdcan @bsdcan #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #conference #ottawa

OK So I have discovered that I do not need seatd started at all. @vlkrs@bsd.network and this post helped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1hp0pcd/wayland_works_as_root_but_no_keyboard_response_as/

Basically I just needed to add "/dev/wsmouse1" and "/dev/wskbd1" to /etc/fbtab.

OK #OpenBSD friends, Why when I install Sway or Mango ( #Wayland ) can I not get any keyboard control ? I can run them fine on #FreeBSD but on OpenBSD they both start but the keyboard does nothing on the mouse seems to work on waybar. I'm using known working configs for both.
I do see errors like permission denied for /dev/wskb* . I'm at a loss as I'm sure I had sway running last year ??
Even copied the startsway.sh and modified for mango but still no keyboard ???

Please boost for a larger reach. ❤️

@vlkrs@bsd.network Are you able to assist at all ? TIA

This weekend is the perfect time to get your #eurobsdcon submissions done!

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see towards the end of the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles #development #sysadmin #hacking #networking

First of probably many posts about my wacky and wonderful new homelab setup. This is a high level overview of the setup. I’ll cover more specifics later. Maybe interesting if you’re curious about other ways of hosting besides the usual Linux and Docker setup.

https://blog.ianwwagner.com/overview-of-my-new-homelab-setup.html

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #HomeLab

We’ve published the second monthly report (March 2026) for the Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our ongoing 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s cybersecurity regulation.

Read the March report: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #CyberResilienceAct #CRA #Community

#FreeBSD Servo ported to FreeBSD! Very grateful. I hope this will become the Trusted Browser some distant day in the future.
https://floss.social/@servo/116379723533175240

The latest #FreeBSD Journal just escaped! My Letters column contains some of the best advice I have ever offered system administrators. "Snuggle the pain" is only the beginning.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/

Maybe I've already posted it, but this was my desktop in early 2000.

This was running #Linux, at the time of the photo.
Since 2002, both #Linux and #FreeBSD in dual boot.

#ThrowbackThursday #RetroComputing #VintageComputer

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A vintage desktop computer setup from 1st March 2000, featuring a beige CRT monitor, a matching tower case with floppy and CD drives, a wired keyboard and mouse, and various cables and accessories on a cluttered desk. The IOMega Zip drive is over the scanner, too. Under the tower, the external USRobotics 56K serial modem.

Anyone knows about "good" reasons to not turn #FreeBSD local-unbound into a full #unbound resolver for the LAN?

I mean, the handbook says

Unbound is provided in the FreeBSD base system. By default, it will provide DNS resolution to the local machine only. While the base system package can be configured to provide resolution services beyond the local machine, it is recommended that such requirements be addressed by installing Unbound from the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

But both local-unbound and dns/unbound seem to be the same version. And the local one doesn't seem to be a binary-modified trimmed-down version of the port one. So, to me, badly configuring either ones would have the same impact.

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I wonder why they didn't check #NetBSD ! 🤔
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd

This seems like an almost complete copy of the MacOS user interface.

It's using #GNUStep but not #WindowMaker

Interesting to see that it's being targeted as a #FreeBSD desktop environment, although of course it also runs on #Linux

Article: https://itsfoss.com/news/ghostbsd-launches-gershwin/

Files: https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop

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A screenshot of the Gershwin desktop environment. It looks similar to MacOS

The 4 minutes notes about running #FreeBSD on the #Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Honestly not my primary / expected choice but it seems to be doing the job. So I'm gonna go further on this path.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/freebsd-14.4-on-raspberry-pi-zero-2w/

#RunBSD

Which has the best source code?

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Best is whatever you care about code quality. For some it might be design coherence, for others it might be resistance to security exploits, for others it might be architecture portability.

#netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #opensource

An overview on running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD on the #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 #arm64 board, bare and with PCIe extension cards, in the context of building a NAS system.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/

The #FreeBSD is installed and running on the #Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. And it hasn’t froze yet. Of course, I have an Ethernet Hat because WiFi is not supported (yet). Also, it is running on PoE, now that a switch port has been freed for it. Next step will be to set up my secondary DNS and failback DHCP server on this.

Both implies a post on TuM’Fatig, of course. It’s not because anybody can do it that I won’t brag about have done it myself 😬

EDIT: in the meantime, dmesg is there https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8895

My tinkering for today will end with this "bhyve: tpm_crb_mem_handler: invalid write @ fed40464 [size = 4]
Failed to emulate instruction sequence [ 8908f0091c244883c2044883c00441 ] at 0xfffff80020b91892". I got swtpm + windows 11 working on #FreeBSD atleast. Sadly it keep crashing and giving me this.

And now, the #dmesg for this bare #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 board have been uploaded to NYC*BUG dmesgd:

• #FreeBSD 14.4
• #NetBSD 10.1
• #OpenBSD 7.8

*using a curl call inspired by https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0

#RunBSD

Is Vultr basically the only non-big-tech host with #FreeBSD images? I'm trying to word this carefully, because I expect that a modern host in 2026 shouldn't require me to spend an hour figuring how their flavor of Linux-based rescue environment + custom image delivery works and do a manual install myself.

I'm aware that AWS and probably GCP have FreeBSD images, but I'd prefer to not use them for a lot of reasons.

The Asian Bistro near my hotel serves meals compatible with most unix-like operating systems.

#POSIX #linux #FreeBSD

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Photo of a big green sign with white letters. In English it says “POSX ASIAN BISTRO” it also says 喜宴酒楼

@mrmasterkeyboard <https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/230> your description of FreeBSD as slopware is offensive.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1sbzf3q/comment/oe7qeye/>

#FreeBSD