https://youtu.be/yPWdl38wfE4

🧙‍♂️ Going on an adventure: booting Windows from a ZFS root 💾

Windows 10 booting to a desktop with its C: drive on a ZFS pool, on OpenZFS on Windows. It's a proof of concept (very much held together with duct tape 🩹), so it's not ready for public use. This is the story of the crashes along the way and how it finally came up. Made for the OpenZFS Developer Summit 2026.

#OpenZFS #ZFS #Windows #UEFI #FreeBSD #Quibble #BootLoader #OpenSource #FileSystems

I've been hoping that FreeBSD will block LLM contributions given the substantial risk of harm they represent, and digging for information has been painful. It's unfortunate that the process is happening behind closed doors.

I found a chilling link on the forums:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/a-developers-guide-to-generative-ai-in-freebsd.102016/

The proposal linked there is deeply worrisome. See:

>> 4.1. General Rule: Copyright Ownership <<

>> As a general principle, if an AI service’s terms of service allow it, the copyright of generated code belongs to the user who prompted the model. However, each service has specific conditions that may restrict this ownership or limit how the generated code can be used. <<

This appears to be factually incorrect. For reasoning, we can lookat the United States Copyright Office paper on the topic, and specifically on the copyrightability of generated works:

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf

Specifically, check out section IV, The Arguments for Legal Change, and in that, specifically paragraph three:

"Most commenters that opined on this issue, however, agreed with the Office’s view that the Copyright Clause requires human authorship. They supported the conclusion that AI-generated material can only be protected where there is sufficient human involvement or where AI is used as a tool to enhance human expression."

And again, from the OpenJDK Interim Policy:

https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

...we read: "Whether a user of a generative AI tool has IP rights in content generated by the tool is the subject of active litigation."

On the other end of the question, it's worth remembering that AI training on copyrighted material has been ruled to not be fair use:

https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-material-not-fair-use-third-circuit/

There are ethical and moral reasons to avoid LLMs and what's currently called generative AI, and it would be encouraging if more folks cared about them. But in the absense of ethics and morals, hopefully at least the legal hurdles will outweigh the vigorous support of the subset of FreeBSD developers captured by the siren's song of free mental labour.

#freebsd #ai #llm

I've given up on #OpenBSD already. Simple install, X works with #twm and #xfce but is a bitch with #plasma . No configurations work even with the kde-plasma hints for .xinitrc and .xsession. Just a grey launch screen with a mouse pointer in middle of the screen. This is in version 7.9 and also 8.0

ulimits, kernel file handlers, locale changes made. nothing works.

Has anyone a working .xinitrc file?

#fediHelp

Works perfectly on #FreeBSD 15.1

Current status: before heading out for my wife's minor surgery, I'm applying updates to the #HardenedBSD server that serves:

1. rad-01 : our main #Radicle seed node which also performs our every-six-hour autosync with #FreeBSD .
2. rad-httpd-01: the httpd component for our Radicle seed node.
3. ngx-01: our primary dev web server

#FreeBSD I’m finding my #iwlwifi #AX210 fails to receive ipv6 RA messages so SLAAC doesn’t work. Anybody else able to try?

IPv4 works fine.

https://community.intel.com/t/intel-ax2xx-wi-fi-6e-and-ipv6-slaac and several other threads for windows and Linux suggest this may be a firmware / hardware issue.

Of the major three #BSDs I've used so far, #NetBSD's #pkgin is the nicest package manager*, reminding me a lot of apt-get.

#FreeBSD's pkg is pretty good, too.

* IIRC, it's an optional manual install, though, but easily done

So, how's BSD for people who are more in the "general demographic" end of the spectrum? Games (including Proton-like compatibility tools)? Browsing? Office tools?

Think someone who currently uses Linux Mint, Ubuntu, etc.

#Linux #BSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD

Let's settle this once and for all! 👻

Linux vs. BSD! 😈

Which side are you on? 🐧🐡

#Linux #Debian #Arch #ArchLinux #Fedora #FedoraLinux #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

#FreeBSD PSA: the move to packaged base removes dependence on distribution sets (base.txz, kernel.txz…) and they’re slated for disablement in 16.0 and removal in 17.0.

There have been discussions of a utility to generate them from packages for those who need them, but a concern from the production user calls is regarding pkg(8) overhead:

Might your embedded strategy run out of RAM or download cache space to use packages?

Are there any pkg bugs that need to be resolved before relying solely on it?

Anything else @emaste @crest … others with concerns or questions?

My 2027 UNIX wishlist.

-NetBSD gets ZFS on root, and in the installer.
-NetBSD gets FreeBSD's jails, including VNET support.

<or>

-FreeBSD fully and finally declares a no AI policy.

As much as I like OpenBSD, neither of those things have ANY chance of making it into their source.

Also, has anyone forked a slop free tmux, yet?

#UNIX #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD

Following some naughty (not) remarks from here, I went to another gallery of the #ThinkCentre rabbit hole.

Quick and dirty look at #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD power usage on the AMD powered M715q.

#RunBSD
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/

BSD Conference

Hey folks! Are you a BSD aficionado? On Saturday 7 November we will be having a one-day BSD conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands For those whom don't speak Dutch, no worries - the main language is English

It will be a day full of fun, hacking, a talk or two and if you are up for: beers afterwards, downstairs

Sounds like a good day that you want to join? Well, love to have you over!

You will need to get your ticket before November, due to the lunch orders (vegetarian and vegan options are there!).

Checkout the website, get your ticket and perhaps submit a talk. And don't forget to follow BSD-NL on Mastodon!

See you there!?

#OpenBSD #SecBSD #HardenedBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #EvenMyMotherRunsBSD

🚨 Monday PSA 🚨

We will be bringing a selection of books, booklets and stickers, which are looking for a new home.

If you are interested, and in of course the Late Autumn BSD-NL Conference Day in November, grab your tickets!

If you want to talk out the event you can drop your abstract at: https://events.bsdnl.nl/late2026/

All the other details:

📅 2026-11-07 @ 09:30-end
📍 Utrecht, NL
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl/
🎫 https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/late26/

#RUNBSD #BSDNL #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

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Selection of books by Michael W Lucas and The Book of PF by Peter Hansteen in a cardboard box.

Suuuuuure.

#GetFediHired #HateThisJob #FreeBSD

Input on *BSD? I need to start investigating more seriously.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD

Several improvements to vdcron, a cron for laptops, which make it now more resistant to laptop's shutdown or reboot. #openbsd #freebsd
Now runs perfectly on #voidlinux too

https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20261003

Hello speakers!

What's happening... I gonna need you to go ahead and submit that abstract.

So if you could do that, that would be great. Okay...

CfP: https://events.bsdnl.nl/late2026/

#RUNBSD #BSDNL #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

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Image of the "That Would Be Great" meme featuring the character Bill Lumbergh from the 1999 comedy film Office Space. It has the text: "That'd be great"

Hey folks!

I have written some travel notes from EuroBSDCon 2026, Brussels, Belgium:

https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium

The conference was amazing and I had a lot of fun and learned a bunch!
Thanks to everyone who made it possible!

#EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon #NetBSD #pkgsrc #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

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Photograph showing a diagonal light over my EuroBSDCon 2026 badge. Near the badge there are a lot of BSD-related stickers. BSD-NL, NetBSD, pkgsrc, BSDCan, BSD, BSD Cafe, Run BSD and Run BSD Stop Fascism.

I can delegate a dataset to a running #FreeBSD #jail, but I can't start a jail on a delegated dataset.

Trying to recall if this is normal? #sysadmin

(No, I don't normally delegate datasets to jails.)

In today’s episode of "You can’t pronounce the hostname but you can hopefully read the content", an overview of the two #ThinkCentre that I recently got, centered towards power consumption when running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD.

TL;DR: not bad at all!
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/what-about-thinkcentre-m710q-m720q-and-bsd/

Watching #EuroBSDCon 2026 on YouTube. I'll be commenting on a few points soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPoU4QEv_u8&list=PLH7c4r_PrD7U

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd

@joel @chadmccullough

This normie had a BSD workstation in 2006! But that was thanks to PC-BSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueOS

I've never tried a "straight" BSD.

Hoping someone comes up with a PC-BSD-style normie-friendly version of NetBSD (preferably Xfce)

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #PCBSD

@ferbv @midtsveen

KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Mate, Lumina etc all available for #BSD

Most #FreeLibre software than runs on Linux also available for BSD as they share Unix roots.

(Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong.)

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

#omarchy #wealth

I wouldn't usually get political here, but I think it's sickening how a madman has garnered millions of pounds when there's plenty of other institutional open source projects which we rely on every day who''ll never get to this level of monetary support.

I do try in my own way to support the projects I love where I can -- #freebsd, #openbsd, #gameoftrees, etc., all of which I've put some level of money behind.

Don't neglect the power of this -- and don't listen to the hype around some fascist's projects building up millions of pounds.

Your individual support means more than you could know.

I absolutely love #gameoftrees, for example, and I know my paid for VM goes a long way to supporting that project. See? You can make a difference and not even realise it. :)

There's a subtle kind of pleasure in shutting down a VM on a FreeBSD host. You suddenly see the RAM becoming available again on the host, and then, little by little, being "taken over" by the ZFS ARC cache.

I don't know, it sounds like such a trivial thing, but I find it fascinating.

#FreeBSD #ZFS

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

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Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic and says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

As many of you know, I've been getting back into running BSD after 20 or so years away from it. I'm wanting to get NetBSD running, mainly because of the no-AI policy, but I've been struggling and its frustrated me a bit. Well, to be honest, quite a lot. To get BSD running on my desktop, laptop, and small server, and so I can move away form Linux, I'm going to go ahead and get FreeBSD up and running on my hardware. I know that they have a questionable AI policy but this will get me over to BSD and then I can move from there. Plus, FreeBSD has some really, really good documentation to get me started.

#freebsd #netbsd #bsd #noAI

Anybody running lots of #FreeBSD 15.x systems who could run

netstat -nxptcp | grep -

And report back a % of machines that report any lines in addition to the header?

More details at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58484 which is in STABLE but not RELEASE

Holy moly, #GNU sed was immensely faster than #FreeBSD's #sed with the exact same command.

The BSD sed was taking minutes and not finishing at all, only writing about 64KiB of the file per second.

GNU sed finished the entire 34MiB file in a few seconds.

Weird.

rld@Intrepid:tmp$ cat access_log* |sed 's/^.*"\([^"][^"]*\)"$/\1/' >agents.txt
^C
rld@Intrepid:tmp$ cat access_log* |gsed -E 's/^.*"([^"]+)"$/\1/' >agents.txt
rld@Intrepid:tmp$ 
``

I'm completely new to BSDs and I'd like to install one on a ThinkPad x220. Which one should I choose if I want a minimalist system? FreeBSD, OpenBSD?
#bsd #unix #freebsd #openbsd

Okay… this starts to look like a decent #YearOfTheBSDesktop for the little #ThinkPad X280 running #FreeBSD 15.1 that had it WiFi card upgraded to 6E.

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A photo of a FreeBSD session using Xfce. A fastfetch output and a Thunar windows are visible. The left terminal part show an Intel AX210 wireless card achieving 200/480 Mbps transfert rates via LibreSpeed.

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.

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

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.