Praatjes festijn op de European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

The tutorials are behind us, now the first day of two days of talks.

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:00

The opening session will be at 10:00 and at 10:30 the keynote in D.0.02, What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? by Peter Hansteen.

After the keynote at 11:15, there will be three tracks, also streaming via Peertube and Youtube

- D.0.02
https://exquisite.tube/w/dFceGLUNjX8niTHc96TVEv
https://youtube.com/live/HvRMsLWcBdI?feature=share

- D.0.03
https://exquisite.tube/w/2WFqRYvcpmYAEPRUZsdyo3
https://youtube.com/live/93Fede4hPZI?feature=share

- D.0.07
https://exquisite.tube/w/dFceGLUNjX8niTHc96TVEv
https://youtube.com/live/t_1x70mciQw?feature=share

There is a 15 minute break between each talk to give you plenty of time to move from one room to another and grab some ☕
12:00 lunch will be served and the last talk will be between 17:00-17:45.

At 19:00 the social event starts, for all the info on how to get there go to: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/social.html

You can find the full program and streams at: https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/program.html

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

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

Progress on parsing Mk/bsd.default-versions:

* the table of known *_DEFAULT value is populated, and very quickly
* staring to query each port to find out if PORTVERSION is affected by any one of those *_DEFAULT values

Imagine something like this:

make -C /jails/freshports/usr/ports/sysutils/qdirstat -V PORTVERSION -V DISTVERSION GUILE_DEFAULT=1.8

make -C /jails/freshports/usr/ports/sysutils/qdirstat -V PORTVERSION -V DISTVERSION IMAGEMAGICK_DEFAULT=999999.9999

etc, contine through all 39 *_DEFAULT values to find out if one of the affects PORTVERSION

Then repeat those 2 * 39 make calls for every active port.

This may take a while.

See https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/11/creating-and-populating-the-tables-for-defaultversions/

#FreeBSD #FreshPorts

Anybody know why immich-ml package is available on FreeBSD 14.x but not 15.x?

https://www.freshports.org/www/immich-ml/

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #Immich

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

Bookmarking 🔖
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QTAQKG/

#eurobsdcon #freebsd #rcd

This morning I did some update to a dev instance of #FreshPorts - I'll know more after the next commit to Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk how it's working.

Yes, I could rerun an old commit.

And I probably will, but for now, the code is in there and I'm working on other things for now.

#FreeBSD

Hi,
SoCBSD is a new FreeBSD fork focused on bringing FreeBSD support to embedded systems and SoCs.

The project is just getting started, and we’re working on drivers, board support, and improving FreeBSD on ARM-based platforms.

👉 https://github.com/SoCBSD

Contributions, testing, feedback, and ideas are very welcome!

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Embedded #ARM #BSD #SOCBSD, #Mediatek

@ax6761
When I tried installing #NetBSD I ran into the same issues: the boot screen would freeze. Eventually I solved that with #FreeBSD but maybe I'll try Net again.
Had no issues installing and running both #OpenBSD and #Slackware

FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE is now available!

As the sixth release of the stable/14 branch, FreeBSD 14.5 focuses primarily on maintenance, including bug fixes, driver updates, and updated versions of externally maintained software.

For new systems, users are encouraged to deploy FreeBSD 15.1.

Explore the release notes and learn more: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.5R/announce/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD

Well... it looks as though i can get #FreeBSD on a #ThinkCentre M73 (SFF). As soon as the boot screen shows up it freezes.
Any other #BSD with #ZFS support out there? Or maybe linux?

@ricardo latest 15.1, direct off freebsd.org's big download button.

Real hardware though, could be the difference. IIRC there have been other reports, dismissed as "not a problem" with a VM screenshot as well.

As mentioned, this is not a proper bug report. It's more: "I am an experienced #FreeBSD user that contributes patches whenever possible, and still this kind of thing happens. There is something here worth looking into, because we are doing something wrong."

Once I manage to setup my machine again I will certsinly take a good look at bsdinstall zfsboot, there are a couple things that seem off.

EuroBSDCon is not a traditional conference, but a family gathering. The kind of family you like, the one you choose, the one that always makes you feel at home.

As soon as we landed, we dropped our bags off at the hotel luggage room and rushed straight to the conference venue.

It was fantastic to meet old and new friends again, with that kind of welcome that only BSD conferences can give you.

I've only had the chance to talk to a fraction of the people I'll meet over the next few days, and to me, that's fantastic.

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD

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Close-up of a EuroBSDCon 2026 speaker badge on a red lanyard, lying on a white fabric surface. The badge reads "Stefano Marinelli, BSD Cafe Barista" and features the EuroBSDCon logo, "Speaker" label, QR codes, BSD-themed artwork, and "Brussels, 9th - 13th Sep. 2026".

I was wondering why my #FreeBSD dev host was sluggish this morning:

[12:06:49] dvl@pkg01:~/ports/head(main) % w
12:06PM up 6 days, 18:29, 3 users, load averages: 85.75, 83.82, 70.43
...

[12:06:50] dvl@pkg01:~/ports/head(main) % jls | wc -l
47

It's busy building via #poudriere.

Now that I'm into pkgbase on #FreeBSD, I've updated my procedure for updating FreshPorts working jails. These are jails in a jail. In short, I'm using bsdinstall for that.

https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/08/updating-a-jail-by-replacing-it-2-0-0/

Inspired by @klarainc's excellent video on FreeBSD hardening, I've put together a beginner's guide expanding on their walkthrough.

The goal is to break down the concepts and make these practices approachable for anyone looking to get started:

https://freebsd.toomany.net/hardening

Full credit and sincere thanks to Klara Systems for the solid foundation!

#FreeBSD #SysAdmin #InfoSec #Security

NetBSD. In FreeBSD’s bhyve. On a RK3566.

"Why?” you ask. Because I can.
"Why not OpenBSD?” you also ask. Because I can’t.

Was trying out virtualization on a Radxa Zero 3E. bhyve worked as expected for NetBSD, including networking. OpenBSD gets through the loader and looks like it's about to handoff to the kernel, then reboots. So close.

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #bhyve #Radxa #Rockchip

Since #FreeBSD people are already at #EuroBSDcon, here is a complain in the void (*):
It looks like the installer ignores the desire to encrypt the disk when using ZFS.
Realised this after setting up things and rebooting, and noticing "hey, it's not asking for the passphrase".
And, boy do I have some thoughts regarding bsdinstall zfsboot.

(*) haven't gotten the spoons yet for a proper bug report, but it will come once things are back to normal

After quite some time using Debian, I'm going to try something different: FreeBSD.

Not because Debian has failed me or because I'm looking to replace it. I'm simply curious about FreeBSD and want to see for myself what it's like as a daily driver. The plan is to install FreeBSD + KDE Plasma on my ThinkPad T480 and see if it can actually become my new daily driver.

I have no idea how this experiment is going to turn out, but that's exactly what makes it interesting.

#freebsd #thinkpad #bsd

22:52—Good night #Fediverse! ❤

#FreeBSD #Meme

When your jails are on a private network how do you reach them from the outside? Redirect the port from the host:

bastille rdr TARGET tcp 443 443
bastille rdr TARGET tcp 2200 22

List them with bastille rdr TARGET list, clear with ... clear.

VNET jails don't need and don't use this.

#TeachingTuesday #BastilleBSD #FreeBSD

1/2 Glad to see FreeBSD making progress on running on 2018 Intel Mac Minis. They are wonderful little build servers and now that Apple deemed all intel macs "obsolete", it can have a second life and avoid the e-waste landfill.

While FreeBSD T2 chip support lags a little bit behind Linux, I'm grateful that FreeBSD contributors are working on it.

I did have a crash where the NVME storage controller times out after heavy I/O.

#freebsd #apple #opensource

Safe travels for everybody who is making their way to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

📅 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

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4 images of Tom Hanks in in different roles. The first 3 images (probably) from Cast Away the last from (probably) The Terminal. The first image is an exited Tom Hanks and has the text: "First Day Traveling" Second image, looking more serious with the text: "Counting days left". Third image looking desperate and a little beat, "Last day". The last image looking anxiously in the camera, "Waiting at airport".

I switched from Linux to FreeBSD. Here's how that went.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk5kJ2iWYaU

#NowWatching #FreeBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟬𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/09/07) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/valuable-news-2026-09-07/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Hey #FreeBSD folks! 🐡

I recently, as of yesterday, installed FreeBSD on my ThinkPad E14 Gen 4, and will document my journey coming from Debian GNU/Linux over to something that is BSD.

I’ve had some knowledge of FreeBSD from past interactions here on Mastodon, as well as from YouTube and other social media platforms. My ThinkPad also has two ssd drives, so I decided to wipe one of them and install FreeBSD, and using it as my daily driver.

I used to be on kolektiva.social a while back. Not sure how long I’ll stick around on this one either, but I came across bsd.cafe while reading through some FreeBSD documentation and figured I’d join.

Feel free to boost me if you remember me, or not, no worries!

Also, here are some relevant and useful links to check out:

https://www.freebsd.org/
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

#BSD #OpenBSD #GhostBSD #Unix #Linux #Midtsveen

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Screenshot of the LXQt desktop environment with a fullscreen terminal window displaying the output of fastfetch, a command-line utility that shows system information such as the operating system, hardware, kernel, and desktop environment.

#FreeBSD makes me wanna understand computers again! ❤

As a new #FreeBSD user, I’ve genuinely come to love working in a TTY. There’s something incredibly satisfying about navigating, configuring, and using my OS straight from the terminal! 😍

#FreeBSD #tty #Unix #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Hi #FreeBSD, how’s development going on the MediaTek MT7921 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) driver? Is there currently any progress toward getting it supported?

#Wifi #Unix #BSD #OpenBSD #Linux #MediaTek #MT7921

Manpage Monday: bastille pkg

Manage packages inside your jails without ever consoling in.

Install nginx in myjail
> bastille pkg myjail install nginx

Use the host's pkg binary instead of the jail's
> bastille pkg -H myjail install nginx

Works with any pkg args: update, upgrade, search, audit, info, etc

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #ManpageMonday

The Linux mainline kernel itself contains AI code now. It's officially allowed as long as it's disclosed as such. Thus, you will have to avoid literally all servers running on Linux.

https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.html

https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-declares-massive-ai-fueled-code-surges-as-the-new-normal-for-linux/

NetBSD has very strict rules regarding AI-generated code. But it doesn't rule AI-generated code out out of principle because it's AI-generated; it only wants to be safe that nothing that's actually GPL-licensed is slipped in. So, if you're an 100%, ultra-hardcode anti-AI extremist, avoid what few servers run on NetBSD.

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

OpenBSD contains AI-generated code, too. And it has no official stance regarding it. So servers running on OpenBSD are taboo, too.

https://www.osnews.com/story/144935/openbsd-and-slopcode-raindrop-to-a-torrent/

FreeBSD has no stance on AI whatsoever that I could find. However, apparently, the FreeBSD community loves to integrate Claude Code into their systems for automation purposes:

https://aumont.fr/posts/claude-code-freebsd/

https://discoverbsd.com/p/8a7660c31b

But you'll also have to look at the userland, the Web server, the database driver etc.

MariaDB allows AI code. You can safely assume that all MySQL databases on Web servers out there are actually powered by MariaDB.

https://mariadb.org/governance/governance-ai-policy/

Oracle MySQL can integrate AI, so it's safe to assume it contains AI-generated code.

https://blogs.oracle.com/mysql/announcing-mysql-ai

PostgreSQL probably allows AI code, too. There are even tools for it.

https://github.com/timescale/pg-aiguide

SQLite is very popular amongst AI users while not having any rules on AI-generated code. Assume it to be tainted.

This leaves you with only one choice: Self-hosting a personal, single-user snac2 server because snac2 doesn't need any database whatsoever. In fact, snac2 is staunchly against AI. And it runs on NetBSD.

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

But then there's the Web server. Apache may allow AI-generated code if it has been reviewed and made sure that it does not contain anything that's incompatible with the Apache-2.0 license.

https://www.apache.org/legal/generative-tooling.html

nginx welcomes AI and advertises itself as ready for AI, and it takes no anti-AI-code stance. It's most likely already tainted.

https://www.f5.com/de_de/products/nginx.

This basically leaves you with no Web server guaranteed to be 100% free from AI-generated code to run snac2 on. But that doesn't matter because it's impossible to build a Web server devoid of any AI code to install snac2 on.

By the way: Mastodon itself explicitly allows AI code if it's disclosed as such, and if its contributor understands it.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

In other words, next to all Mastodon servers are running

• AI-generated Mastodon code
• on an AI-generated Web server
• with an AI-generated database driver
• on an AI-generated operating system kernel

@leah @lanodan

They rolled their own nonce argv processing. I can still viably claim to be the first to have put #getopt mechanisms into #dd. (-:

It is good to see that someone has invented a short option set for a similar tool. I can nick it.

#Unix #FreeBSD

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A terminal session in white on black. At the coloured Z shell prompt, the dd command is run with its --help option. The result is one string of old JCL-style usage directions, one string of getopt-style usage directions, and several rows of help text about individual options.

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A terminal session in white on black. At the coloured Z shell prompt, the dd command is run to copy some blocks from /dev/zero to /dev/null, using getopt-style short single-letter options.

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A terminal session in white on black. At the coloured Z shell prompt, a dd command with a following minus sign is a partly entered command, and command-completion has been triggered. The Z shell is displaying a menu of the getopt-style short and long options to the command, taken from its --help output.

@mirabilos

As an aside: I don't know what your dd(1) is based upon, but if it's the traditional BSD #dd it should be possible to adapt this patch for #FreeBSD 10.3 dd to it, and you could become only the second person in history to have a dd with getopt(3).

I'm going to write a #NetBSD dd patch too.

I have boldly predicted that the world will add getopt to dd just before Sol goes red giant, even though avant-garde 4BSD changed ps(1) to getopt in 1990. (-:

https://github.com/jdebp/trueos/commit/8f870d5510f63a48ebab4633744e0b1a662f6ae9

#MirBSD

@mirabilos

It's not GNU anything at all. It's straight out of the BSD C library.

It was added to #NetBSD in 2000, and has been included in the #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD C libraries for about 24 years. The OpenBSD import was done by @millert in 2002. The original is credited to @_wiz_ and Dieter Baron.

#getopt #BSD

@lanodan

If you go back, you'll find that this began with @aris talking about getopt-style options to #dd . dd is of course a standard utility that the SUS has to carve out a specific exception for, that has had JCL-style long options since 1974.

I still predict that dd will get getopt-style options just before Sol goes red giant, but a patch to #FreeBSD dd is now available, and I'm looking at coreutils 9.11 at the moment.

https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/117189929208500791

@_wiz_ @benjamineskola @mirabilos @kimapr

mkjail-0.2.2 is now in the #FreeBSD ports tree.

The previous release added pkgbase to `mkjail update` and `mkjail upgrade`. This release converts `mkjail create` to be pkgbase aware.

Legacy jails are still supported.

https://bsd.network/@dvl/117225363239426937

Yesterday and today I started using mkjail-0.2.1 for creating a new jail. It works well for updating and upgrading pkgbase jails.

The newly created jail wasn't pkgbase. I fixed it. There are optimizations available but a new release will come soon. Perhaps later today.

Walk first. Run later.

#FreeBSD #pkgbase

There will be a PF tutorial at EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels:

Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD
Featuring Tom Smyth and Peter Hansteen, 2026-09-11, 10:30, full day

See https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RKCHRW/
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/
#eurobsdcon #bsd #openbsd #freebsd #networking #firewall #security

Learn about software engineering for cyber resiliency at EuroBSDcon 2026 in Brussels:

The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source
Alice Sowerby, Pierre Pronchery and Peter Hansteen 2026-09-10, 10:30 full day

See https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RER8UZ/
To register: https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

#eurobsdcon #bsd #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #development #engineering #cra #cyberresilience #cybersecurity

What the last couple of days have shown me is that, with some help from rclone, FreeBSD has become a truly viable alternative for my D2D for me. A triumvirate of Slackware, Chimera Linux and FreeBSD gives me everything I need and want, both in work and in private. A big relief.
#slackware #freebsd #ChimeraLinux

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our platinum sponsor: Entersekt
https://www.entersekt.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

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Entersekt Logo

New 𝗔𝗠𝗗 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗸𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 [AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/

#verblog #desktop #freebsd #gpu #server #x11 #xlibre

So, I have a little problem with @BastilleBSD
I use it quite successfully, but I have a new notebook with wlan0 and em0, so I put a lagg0 with failover on it.
Now I try to create a jail with vnet, but I do not get any dhcp response. I tried randomizing the ether address on the interface, but to no avail.

Has anybody had the same problem and maybe a solution for me?

#Freebsd #Bastille

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.

On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.

Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.

I had 142 servers there.

The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.

This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.

And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.

📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02

#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery

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Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically." In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

https://github.com/ksh93/ksh

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Cool that people are trying NetBSD and others in the family.
NetBSD always existed, it wasn't an invisible system. The adaptation can be a bit hard, but It's a good community.
But unlike Linux, we don't have a massive crowd or "big tech money" to fix bugs, add features and stuff like that. With new users joining, I hope it brings actual help, not just because your toxic relationship with Linux is over.

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD

Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career.

On 10 March 2021, I had just fallen asleep when the alerts started arriving. One server down. Then another. And another.
Different servers, different workloads, one thing in common: the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre.

Then came the news: SBG2 was on fire.

I had 142 servers there.

The mission for the night was simple to state: bring the critical services back before 8, then recover everything else as quickly as possible.

This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.

And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it.

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically.

📅 Saturday 12 September, 11:15
📍 EuroBSDCon 2026, D.0.02

#BSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #Sysadmin #Infrastructure #RunBSD #NetBSD #OwnYourData #Linux #DisasterRecovery

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Cover slide for Stefano Marinelli’s EuroBSDCon 2026 presentation. A nighttime photo shows the OVHcloud Strasbourg data centre engulfed in flames and thick smoke. A huge orange "142" overlays the fire. Below, on a black background, the title reads: "The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically." In the top-right corner: "Stefano Marinelli · EuroBSDCon 2026 · Saturday 12 September, 11:15 · D.0.02."

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

@stefano
@crocidb

Hell yeah! 🔥

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

Beautiful post by @crocidb :

This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD

https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin