At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Getting Extended Error Messages from the FreeBSD Kernel https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/HA8JTA/
Talk by Kirk McKusick
2026-09-13 16:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
I/O and theorems and barriers, oh my https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/FQJSPU/
Talk by Taylor R Campbell
2026-09-12 14:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Low friction temporary VMs on FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/FMAKRV/
Talk by Martin Vahlensieck
2026-09-13 17:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
An Introduction to the Kernel Services and I/O System of the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/EYQSJR/
Tutorial Full Day by Kirk McKusick
2026-09-11 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
ELKE - Encrypted & Lovely Kage Environment, using FreeBSD https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/EXHKSR/
Talk by Vinícius Z.
2026-09-13 15:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
make buildworld && make install-future: Why FreeBSD's Adoption Story Runs Through Continuous Integration https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/EA98CK/
Talk by Moin Rahman
2026-09-13 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Highly Available DNS via BGP
Talk by Beni Keller
2026-09-12 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
PFWall: building firewall images to run at scale https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/DZ9GE3/
Talk by Pierre Emeriaud
2026-09-13 17:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Run Time Reoptimization for Modern Heterogenous Systems https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/CPAE7W/
Talk by George Neville-Neil
2026-09-12 13:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
FreeBSD in Bioinformatics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/CEZMMY/
Talk by Varinka Ohanyan
2026-09-13 15:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Bringing memory safety to BSD with CHERI https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/AU3F7S/
Talk by Brooks Davis
2026-09-13 14:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you? https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/9NVQAD/
Talk by Peter N. M. Hansteen
2026-09-12 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Hands On experience Chaos Education: Challenge your FreeBSD sysadmin skills by solving real world scenarios https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/7KWLK9/
Tutorial Half Day by Andreas Kirchner 2026-09-11 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Running stock FreeBSD on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/39G3BV/
Talk by Balaje Sankar 2026-09-12 11:15:00
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#HammerTime
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2026/08/06/msg043257.html
#NetBSD pkgsrc note on scrapers.

Updated post to mark the release of NetBSD 11.0!

For my install I wanted to include disk encryption to protect personal data in case the device is lost or stolen. Its not enough to simply encrypt home directories. Passphrases and sensitive data can linger and be extracted from locations such as system logs and swap memory. There is a trade-off to be made between how much to encrypt, the convenience of operating the system, and the ability to boot.

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/

#NetBSD #RunBSD

⚡️ Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

#netbsd #bozohttpd #bsd

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD https://lobste.rs/s/titphm #netbsd #web
https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

NetBSD 11 is starting to show up on the NYC*BUG dmesgd service:
https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=index&fts=NetBSD

Launched in 2004, dmesgd aims to provide a user-submitted repository of searchable *BSD dmesgs. The dmesg(8) command displays the system message buffer's content, and during boot a copy is saved to /var/run/dmesg.boot. This buffer contains the operating system release, name and version, a list of devices identified, plus a whole host of other useful information. We hope others find this resource useful and further contribute to its growth. Contact us at [ admin at lists dot nycbug dot org ]. Note that this site is not a substitute for sending the dmesg directly to the respective project.

Submit your dmesg here:

https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=submit

And if a handy script is what you are looking for, this Perl script from AFresh1 has long been the go-to for many submitters:

https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0

#runbsd #netbsd

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Macos

@lilpoes@littlefedi.social

Bought a copy of #NetBSD on sale, only $49! That's a pretty good deal for a complete operating system, don't you think?

On a Raspberry Pi 0W. Not even the 02W. 1 core. 512 MB. Outstanding work, can't wait to check it out and maybe run my own.
#NetBSD
https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano

rpi-b3+ now, live:
sysupgrade fetch https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0/evbarm-aarch64

stay tuned.

#netbSD #raspberrypi

Since I already had the https://httpd.rocks domain (focusing on #OpenBSD) I figured it made sense to take advantage of the subdomain:

https://bozo.httpd.rocks

(Still placeholder until the guide is complete 😉 )

#bozohttpd #NetBSD

@snufkin_vc

Heya!!

At this moment, #OpenBSD is the easiest to get a fully-working system. FreeBSD has decent hardware compatibility, but both wifi and the GUI are a somewhat manual (although fairly trivial) affair, at least until they complete their desktop installer.

#NetBSD also gives you a usable (and actually pretty attractive) X11 system in "base," but the hardware support isn't quite as good, and it lacks #FullDiskEncryption, if that's important to you.

Successfully installed NetBSD 11 on my RockPro64 4gb device. I restored from a NetBSD 10 backup and everything is running great.

I grabbed the rockpro64 image from https://armbsd.org and flashed to an eMMC.

I have a PCIe card attached with a 500gb SSD with ZFS. This makes the restore a lot easier from a ZFS dataset backup.

Next is upgrading a couple RPis.

#netbsd #rockpro64 #zfs

Unfortunately, for of my university mail, account I have to use Microsoft Outlook

(I know, I know! Luckily, I’ve set up a redirect, so I hardly ever have to use it).

Tonight I tried using Firefox on NetBSD, but “Something went wrong.”

When I changed the user agent and set it to "Firefox on Linux", everything works fine, no problems, nothing "was wrong"!

In short, I think “Microsoft loves open source" but not NetBSD 😆

One more reason to keep using it 😈

(Forgive the corny joke, I know MS doesn’t actually love open source at all 😆)

#bsd #netbsd #bsdunix #unix #unixITA #unixitalia #guuf #guufxmpp #guufITA #linux #linuxITA #linuxitalia

"Unix is not in a museum. Unix is in the room."

See Vivian Voss' "Where Unix Runs Today":
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today

#unix #macos #osx #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

Where is this INSTALL document?

#NetBSD

Alt...

Screenshot of a post-install message in a Qemu emulator window, white text on blue background: The installation of NetBSD-11.0 is now complete. The system should reboot from hard disk. Follow the instructions in the INSTALL document about final configuration of your system. We also recommend reading the afterboot(8) manpage; it contains a list of things to be checked after the first complete boot. At a minimum, you should edit /etc/rc.conf to match your needs. See /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the default values. >Hit enter to continue

@bpl How about UDF? It has been supported in #NetBSD since 4.0 and in #OpenBSD since 3.8 (different implementation via #FreeBSD)

Edit: OpenBSD man page says its implementation is read-only, so will work for NetBSD to OpenBSD only. As you say, FFS is fine the other way round

FFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - v1+2, no journaling, no softdeps, OpenBSD does not recognized NetBSD's FFS
NetBSD - v1+2+2ea, has journaling and softdep, recognizes OpenBSD's FFS (but can mount only in ro mode)

Ext2/3/4 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - can create and mount ext2 in rw mode, ext3/4 mounted in ro mode (ext4 has to be 32bit)
NetBSD - same as above

FAT32 (in kernel)
OpenBSD - works flawlessly, file size limit: 4GB - 1B
NetBSD - ditto

ZFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - no
NetBSD - yes, allows for root on ZFS if boot partition is FFS

NTFS (in kernel)
OpenBSD - mounts in ro mode, works well
NetBSD - theoretically allows for ro mounting, but I was not able to achieve that :(
See ntfs-3g for rw mounting

Honorable mention - exFA(r)T (as FUSE) - can be recognized as NTFS, use mount.exfat, slow

Wanna transfer data from OpenBSD to NetBSD? Mount FFS in ro mode and siphon data off.
Wanna transfer data from NetBSD to OpenBSD? newfs_msdos is the answer or use exFAT/NTFS+ntfs-3g if you are patient.

Minor tip for those using FAT32 - command split(1) allows to cut tar archives into smaller parts which can be placed onto FAT partition. To merge them, use cat(1).

You probably know all that stuff.

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