We are about to close the CfP for
the European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

Planning to submit a talk? Now is the time!

Especially first time speakers and talk submissions for #NetBSD and #OpenBSD!

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2026-07-15

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 #CFP #Conference #Register

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Iconic Minion alarm is the internet's favorite way to signal chaos, urgency, or a major announcement. It has the text: Bee-doh! Bee-doh! Bee-doh!

Wishing all our *BSD 😈⛳🐡 friends an amazing time at @bsdcan in Ottawa!

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSD #BSDCan

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Still image from the movie Monsters Inc. Mike Wazowski seen from the back looking into a wide hallway with a group of monsters walking towards him. It has the text: Me watching my friends having fun without me.

Getting closer by the day...

The European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

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

While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 🔥
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

We are still and always looking for first-time *BSD speakers.
Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters!

The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2026-07-15

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 #CFP #Conference #Register

• small screen, max 10 inch
• runs #OpenBSD or #NetBSD
• has a keyboard
• can connect to Internet
• it works
• price is reasonable

• MNT Reform Pocket (if I will be super rich one day, then I will take entire stock)
• HP Jornada (especially 720, but availability is not great)
• Zaurus machines (availability is almost zero and might not fill condition "it works")

I got the world's cutest little computer over the weekend thanks to @murble! It's a #Vortex86 of some kind, equivalent to a fast #486, and is genuinely #32bit so I shall no longer have to rely on emulation or running 32-bit kernels and libraries on 64-bit hardware for 32-bit testing! Gonna put #NetBSD on there.

But first, because it has no serial port and the only video output is VGA, I need to find a VGA monitor.

No #BananaForScale because I don't like bananas. Have an aniseed twist instead.

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A photograph of a ridiculously tiny computer sitting on a brown wooden desk. The computer measures 95 by 95 by 20mm. You can see the front, which has 2 USB ports, an SD card slot, pointless audio in/out, and a dinky little power button. The whole of the top surface is a heat sink and there are four screw holes going all the way through, presumably for mounting on the back of a monitor. There is a delicious aniseed twist on top for scale. Modern aniseed twists taste good, but are a pale imitation of the deep red that they used to be back in the good old days before all this woke nonsense about poisoning children with lead-based food colourings. It is ORANGE, which is wrong. And PALE ORANGE at that. I shall write a stern letter to my MP.

🚨 Hotel Discount Expires 🚨
The block booking for the hotel is expiring soon!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/accomodation.html

If you were planning to book your hotel early now is your chance!

https://www.warwickhotels.com/hotel-barsey-by-warwick/book/dates-of-stay?domain=2026.eurobsdcon.org&groupID=4846572

Hotel Barsey by Warwick
Louizalaan 381-383, 1050 Brussel

Located near the Flagey area, know for its restaurants and bars.

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

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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.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #badjoke

I must admit, I like the Green on Black #NetBSD console better than the White on Blue #OpenBSD one.

@rqm bare #FreeBSD is enough here. But so was #OmniOS (although I had issue with SMB anonymous access with Thunar) and #Slackware with the ZFS slackbuild. #NetBSD also looked nice although I didn’t get far because it was lacking Linux emulation on arm64.

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
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Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

#EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenBSD #NetBSD

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