At EuroBSDcon 2026:
OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MAHMBQ/
Talk by Henning Brauer
2026-09-13 16:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Base system packages in Production: A Practical Overview https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MBEDBM/
Talk by Lukas Engelhardt
2026-09-12 15:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Unix Manpages, Then and Now https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MDEE9H/
Talk by Kristaps Dzonsons
2026-09-12 17:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/NVMSCJ/
Talk by Ori Bernstein
2026-09-13 11:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Incident Response done the FreeBSD way https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/PBHXXC/
Talk by Maciej Jan Broniarz
2026-09-12 14:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
rcd(8): modern service manager the FreeBSD way https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QTAQKG/
Talk by bapt
2026-09-12 16:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Hotplugging adventures in the bhyve hypervisor https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QVRGB9/
Talk by Bojan Novković
2026-09-13 11:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
Tutorial Full Day by Alice Sowerby, Peter N. M. Hansteen and Pierre Pronchery
2026-09-10 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RKCHRW/
Tutorial Full Day by Peter N. M. Hansteen, Massimiliano Stucchi and Tom Smyth
2026-09-11 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RNEMNV/
Tutorial Full Day by Kirk McKusick
2026-09-10 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Managing FreeBSD jails with Sylve and Ansible https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/S3ULVJ/
Tutorial Half Day by Patrick M. Hausen
2026-09-11 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
FreeBSD on ARM64: A User's Perspective https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/SKHWVL/
Talk by Michael Dexter
2026-09-12 16:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
A Noob Goes OpenBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/T3MDAC/
Talk by Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
2026-09-12 15:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TDELZJ/
Talk by Hiroki Sato
2026-09-12 16:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Reducing the headache of VPNs with routing domains https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TUT8LU/
Talk by Martin Vahlensieck
2026-09-12 14:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WHGJBN/
Talk by Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang
2026-09-12 15:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Keeping up with language-based packaging systems in Ports (especially Python) https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/VDQ3JL/
Talk by Charlie Li
2026-09-13 16:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Supporting hibernate (S4) on FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TXRZP7/
Talk by Olivier Certner
2026-09-13 11:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Using modern *BSD to get a 4.2BSD system from 1983 running https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YGCH9Y/
Talk by Walter Belgers
2026-09-13 15:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Linux emulation on NetBSD: How broken is it? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WXCFYU/
Talk by Stephen Borrill
2026-09-12 13:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Input devices on OpenBSD for console, X11 and Wayland https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YMR3ZF/
Talk by Matthieu Herrb
2026-09-12 13:00:00
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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
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https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#FreeBSD #River #CoW #fvwm

I was ill last week and discovered something uncomfortable: a huge Jellyfin library isn't entertainment, it's homework. Every time I opened it, it asked "what do you want?" and I just scrolled.

So I built a TV station instead.

ErsatzTV turns a media library into real linear channels with schedules and logos. It ships for Linux, Windows and macOS. My server runs FreeBSD.

Turns out the entire porting effort was one conditional. The code asked "is this Linux?" when it meant "is VAAPI available?" VAAPI is userspace, FreeBSD has it, and .NET has had OSPlatform.FreeBSD for years.

One || later: Intel hardware transcoding in a Bastille jail that can see exactly one GPU and one read-only dataset.

I now have a sci-fi channel. I don't know what's on tonight. That's the point.

https://blog.hofstede.it/building-my-own-tv-station-ersatztv-in-a-freebsd-jail-with-intel-hardware-transcoding/

#FreeBSD #ErsatzTV #Jellyfin #SelfHosting #Jails #dotnet

Some potential good news for #FreeBSD gamers:

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.14

One of the changes:
"New WoW64 mode supported on FreeBSD."

Hopefully we'll see wow64 on the 11.14 FreeBSD port of emulators/wine-devel soon?

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

Alt...

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 took a chance and converted a Raspberry Pi FreeBSD system with pkgbasify.

It was using a pre-built image from /ftp/snapshots/arm64/aarch64/ISO-IMAGES/15.1/

Seems like it went OK. When I run 'freebsd-update fetch', I get this:

% doas freebsd-update fetch
Password:
freebsd-update is incompatible with the use of packaged base. Please see
https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for more information.

In general, is there a foolproof way to check if a FreeBSD system is using pkgbase?

#freebsd #pkgbase

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

Hanser Fachbuch bringt im Jahr 2026 ein neues Buch (!) zu BSD (!) raus: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. Nicht, dass ich persönlich das brauchen würde, aber ich finde das sehr mutig vom Verlag und freue mich über diesen Mut: https://www.hanser-fachbuch.de/BSD-Praxis-kompakt-FreeBSD-NetBSD-OpenBSD/978-3-446-48783-3 #bsd #unix #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd

#Anubis #FreeBSD #PortsLife a new Anubis version has landed https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58431 but with lots of very exciting changes https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases/tag/v1.26.0

Please let me know if you have any issues that should be addressed in a pkg message! I expect to commit it sometime next week.

if you try building a GENERIC kernel for powerpc.powerpc64, you get an extremely unhelpful error:

--- all_subdir_accf_data ---
ld: error: accf_data.o is incompatible with elf32ppc_fbsd
*** [accf_data.kld] Error code 1

i feel like we should be able to do better here... somehow.

#freebsd

How does the FreeBSD Foundation Board fit into the broader FreeBSD ecosystem?

Following our annual meeting and Board elections at BSDCan, we’re taking a closer look at the role of the FreeBSD Foundation Board and how it differs from that of Foundation staff and FreeBSD Project leadership.

Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDFoundation #OpenSource #Leadership

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

All running FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify

Today, the Linuxulator did its job, and it did it very well.
A client is experimenting with moving from Docker to FreeBSD and jails, and they seem very happy with it so far.
The issue is that part of their build process - as so often happens - relies on Node dependencies that only compile on Linux, macOS, etc., but not on FreeBSD, due to a missing binary that isn't provided for it. Currently, they build on their local machines and push the output to the server, but sometimes they need to make quick changes on the fly.

So, I set up a Linux jail (Ubuntu) using BastilleBSD, installed the dependencies, set up a bind mount, and granted them access to the jail. The result: now they can compile right from there too, improving their overall workflow.

The Linuxulator - and even more so, illumos's lx zones - are truly remarkable pieces of technology.

#FreeBSD #Linux #RunBSD #illumos #SmartOS #OmniOS #Tribblix #Linux #IT #SysAdmin

i wonder why we build mandoc as a bootstrap tool. is this for catpages? (i don't think those exist anymore...)

#freebsd

Yet another toot regarding #FreeBSD and #tvheadend with a #Hauppauge WinTV duoHD - while it is possible for me to pass the #v4l2 driver via #webcamd to the userspace and actually get DVB devices like /dev/dvb/adapter01 etc. the programs I want to use with these devices just won't work properly.

Unfortunately, tvheadend or the commad line tool w_scan simply can't find any station over DVB-C. Using the same hardware that works without problems on Linux. Meh.

So one solution I found is to set up a #bhyve instance on your FreeBSD desktop system runing Linux/tvheadend and then pass the #usb #dvb device through to that bhyve instance.

Sounds a bit like cheating - after all I want to replace my infrastructure Linux server (serving CUPS, dnsmaq and tvheadend) with FreeBSD .

But if that's the only way for FreeBSD to handle DVB-T2 devices, then it shall be that way ... (I only hope that it will work) 🤷