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

Running #NetBSD 11.0 (from this year) on my 1997 Pentium MMX 233 MHz system out of curiosity, and it's facinating how the OS can boot relatively fast, text mode applications still usually launch snappily, but it takes five minutes for fontconfig to update the cache.

It also fails the "can this play Doom" test amusingly with Chocolate Doom: Chocolate Doom's setup program is too much for it to handle under Xorg between the S3 Virge GPU, 128 MB of RAM, and CPU.

Still really cool it works as well as it does on a system this old and supports all the hardware in it, though. And it can even touch the internet without me being worried of it being killed by long-lasting internet background malware radiation from the 90's!

#retrocomputing

Viewing a 1920x1080 [screenshot] taken from #NetBSD on a 1920x1080 laptop running #sway (#wayland) with 1.5x scaling set in sway:

nsxiv (X11) -- horrible blurry mess
imv (Wayland native) -- far clearer, but still blurry (can tell by looking at the parts that use bitmapped fonts)
swayimg (Wayland, maybe wlroots-native??) -- completely crisp

#FractionalScaling still sucks too much, y'all. 🫣 🙄

Last minute upgrade to #NetBSD 11 from RC6 before travelling

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HP Compaq netbook running NetBSD sysupgrade

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

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.

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

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".

Wait... #NetBSD has journaling in FFS? HOW?!? XD
#OpenBSD even jettisoned softdeps! Journaling would be amazing to have!!

(I think I understand their rationale, though)

📢 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.