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/
- OpenBSD Amsterdam - https://openbsd.amsterdam/
- LAYLO - https://laylo.io/
- 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

PANASONIC Toughpad 4K FZ-Y1 And most of the Toughpad serie are hardware that PANASONIC left to rot.

The computer is windows only, has a great screen. But will gaslight you to update windows, just to tell you that you can't because you have old version of the hardware.

So over the past months, i got all drivers in #FREEBSD , and the quirks.

And i #corebooted it.

Now the tablet boot in 7 seconds to userland in 4k.

The coreboot port still has some glitches that i'm trying to fix.

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

🧰 The 'column' command is a great (and often overlooked) tool.

It creates structured output of data and turns it into columns, hence the name. It makes it easier to understand the data and its values. Great for CSV and data files.

💡 You already might have the command on your system, as it usually is installed on #Linux, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and others.

What other commands would you recommend for dealing with data?

If you like the effort I'm putting into these tips, please get them far 🔁 🚀

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Output of passwd file structured with the column command on OpenBSD

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Output of passwd file structured with the column command on Linux system

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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An htop screenshot displaying two processes that match a filter.

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

Friends of #opensource and #BSD, I am presenting you a new #blog: BSD Audit!

https://bsd-audit.com/

⁉️ Covers #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD and others.
💡 The goal is to share knowledge, in-depth, with care
🤖 No AI, only human content

The first big article is about setting up a mail server with #OpenSMTPD and related components.

Got questions or feedback? Don't hold back and send that DM or ✉️. I'm Dutch, be direct with me. Let's make it valuable for others to read and learn 👌

Like the blog? 🔁

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BSD Audit, a blog about operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and others.

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

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.

Yesterday, I had to type something on the #RockPro64 console (because I forgot the addm section on the #FreeBSD bridge definition… anyway…). And, I can assure you that a USB  #Sun Type 6 keyboard do work out of the box for this purpose 😬

In case you wonder if MeLE Quieter 4C can #RunBSD, you can have a look at #NetBSD and #FreeBSD. And old #OpenBSD is also available.

You’re welcome!

PS: if someone has such info for the AOOSTAR WTR Pro (AMD R7 5825U), I may be interested ;-)

Things the OS authors don't want you to know:

* The #FreeBSD logo is Beastie, because it reminds you to dare, hack, and stop praying.
* The #Linux logo is Tux, because even penguins know what it is like to freeze with amdgpu.
* The #Windows logo is a window, because that is where you throw the PC after the third BSOD.
* The #OpenBSD logo is Puffy, because it’s the only fish that takes security more seriously than being edible.
* The #NetBSD logo is a flag, because if it boots on your hardware, they claim it as territory.
* The #DragonFlyBSD logo is a dragonfly, because every time you explain HAMMER2, people suddenly find somewhere else to be.
* The #macOS logo is an Apple, because one bite costs 999$, no 1999$, no 4999$. They soldered the RAM to keep the worms out.
* The #ChromeOS logo is #chrome because the operating system is just the browser admitting it won.

I wanted to check something with Librewolf... So I installed #FreeBSD 15.1 on the #ThinkPad T480s. TL;DR Librewolf has the same issue on FreeBSD that on OpenBSD. But there is a new #dmesg here: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9078

Happy Friendship Day!
#DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenededBSD #RunBSD

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#Wayland #fvwm #CoW #RiverWM #FreeBSD

Right, that was a surprise and completely unexpected. I wanted to try out how #relayd(8) behaved on #FreeBSD. Now it turns out that #FreeBSD does not support my Wi-Fi device. That was a short journey. Bye!

#FreeBSD #Wayland #CoW #pkgbase

Hrmm, it seems the security/globalprotect-openconnect #FreeBSD port hasn't seen any updates for over two years.

The last commit was 21 Jun 2024: https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/log/security/globalprotect-openconnect/Makefile

Ouchies.

@lattera via <https://www.freshports.org/security/globalprotect-openconnect/>:

296823 – security/globalprotect-openconnect: Mark DEPRECATED

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296823>

#FreeBSD #VPN #GlobalConnect #OpenProtect

42 days till the European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

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

🗓️ at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

For everything else, peek at https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/

Lets eat 🧇 in Brussels!

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

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

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Cut out of a comic created for EuroBSDCon in the style of Tintin. There are two panels visible. The first panel on the right has a butler presenting a Belgium Beer to a character who is out of frame. There is a speech bubble from the out of frame character which says: "we find this?" The butler replies: "Etterbeek, sir." Etterbeek is where the VUB is located and the location of EuroBSDCon 2026. The second panel has Manneken Pis. Dutch for 'Little Pissing Man' is a landmark 55.5 cm (21.9 in) bronze fountain sculpture in central Brussels, Belgium, depicting a puer mingens: a nude boy urinating into the fountain's basin. There is a speech bubble as well that says: "Not here".

https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php

#EmailClient #FreeBSD #RunBSD

https://www.claws-mail.org/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#FreeBSD #River #CoW #fvwm

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#WindowManager #Linux #OpenBSD #FreeBSD

PS: I have not yet customised the theme it's the out of the box theme.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#CoW #River #Wayland #fvwm #FreeBSD

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A screenshot of the CoW ( Compositor on Wayland ) desktop showing the Qutebrowser window and the terminal foot with a fastfetch output displaying the wm as River

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.