FreeBSD Ports Any% Speedrun 180min https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KHHBZE/
Tutorial Half Day by Mateusz Piotrowski
2026-09-11 14:30:00
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A wild #blog post appears!

I discuss a new #research publication: an empirical evaluation of the #OpenBSD -fret-clean flag. We examine the history of the mitigation, measure its costs, and deliberate whether or not it is worth keeping.

Worth the read if you like security and/or compilers.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #linux #unix #solaris #illumos #compiler #compilers #llvm #gcc #rop #cybersecurity #cybersec #cyber #security #infosec #informationsecurity

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KAEQA8/
Talk by Stefano Marinelli
2026-09-12 11:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Looney Tunes: FreeBSD, rsync, and ZFS https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JURFDY/
Talk by Mateusz Piotrowski
2026-09-13 17:15:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
The current state of "Green AI" https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JP73CG/
Talk by Anne Currie
2026-09-13 09:30:00
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Introduction to the Game of Trees version control system https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JJLZXQ/
Tutorial Half Day by Stefan Sperling and Omar Polo
2026-09-10 10:30:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Running BSD workloads in Linux environments as OCI containers https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JHXWDC/
Talk by Charalampos Mainas
2026-09-12 17:00:00
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At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Confidential VMs on FreeBSD: A Complete AMD SEV Host Stack for bhyve, with Attestation https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/HSMCFS/
Talk by Zhen-Rong Wu
2026-09-13 10:30:00
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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
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NetBSD brings its Englightenment port

Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop to pkgsrc and commit upstream portability fixes when necessary to ease future versions updates for NetBSD.
↫ Dimitris Go

https://www.osnews.com/story/145725/netbsd-brings-its-englightenment-port/

#NetBSD

At EuroBSDcon 2026:
Advances in OpenBSD's pkg_add https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/HFYB3N/
Talk by Marc Espie
2026-09-13 14:15:00
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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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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/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/EnlightenmentDesktop/s/mIqPUuGU3p

An unofficial community for Enlightenment, a lightweight and customizable window manager and desktop environment for Unix-like systems. Share tips, configurations, and discuss development.

@E

#NetBSD #RunBSD #EnlightmentDE #E #mokshadesktop

NetBSD 11.0 kernel compilation succeeded.
Server booted.

(I tried around 10 times counting failed builds and failed boots)

#netBSD #homelab #n00b

#Linux-Subsystem verbietet #LLM-Patches & #NetBSD 11 mit #RISC-V – #LinuxNews

#LinuxNationDE

https://youtube.com/live/-Tjv2uTHTWE?is=8gTFT_RVpVAJ6g2s

#GSOC2026: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD

｢ Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop to pkgsrc and commit upstream portability fixes when necessary to ease future versions updates for NetBSD ｣

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment

#netbsd #bsd #enlightenmentde #opensource

Trying out the newest #Qgis build on #NetBSD 11.0. Minor hiccup with the authentication part yet to be addressed.

https://jspath55.blogspot.com/2026/08/qgis-40-to-420-to-421-in-july-heat-with.html

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/08/10) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/valuable-news-2026-08-10/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/08/10) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/valuable-news-2026-08-10/

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

EuroBSDCon 2026 is one month from now! (2026-09-09 - 2026-09-13)

Full program here: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

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Just a little reminder on littleFedi's efficiency

The instance https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it - with my user @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it - has been running for over a month on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD.
Under normal operation, it uses 58 MB of RAM, including caches. And it shows no signs of slowness!

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

Alt...

My Raspberry PI Zero W, powering the rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it instance. It's powered by the USB cable coming out from the switch.

On #resumeFromDisk, how does the handling of open files (for example in plain text editor, graphics software (drawing, photo editing)) work? Am looking of surface, not-in-the-weeds, explanation.
#ELI5 #explainLikeIAm5

Am most interested in handling on #Linux distributions (mainly #Debian, #CentOS) & #FreeBSD, #NetBSD.

#putering #suspendResume

Do mini PCIe hardware security modules or standalone cryptographically strong pRNGs exist? If they do, where can I get one? NetBSD is complaining about low entropy (laptop from 2011) & suggests I keysmash, use an entropy file, or get a USB pRNG. I would prefer to have all of my USB ports free.

I have no idea where to find such a thing & I can't even find USB HSMs besides the one that YubiCo sells. The closest thing I have found is a bunch of TPM2 chips with SPI headers on them & I don't think I have any free SPI connectors in the laptop. For now I'll use an entropy file but I would rather do something better like using a proper RNG device.

I think people watching these tags might know more than I can find with a search engine. Thank you.

#Security #BSD #NetBSD #Linux #Cryptography

I don't really want to switch this off, but it's no longer in use and is just sitting taking power. It ran our phone system for many years.

voip: {1} uname -v
NetBSD 3.1_STABLE (GENERIC) #1: Fri Oct 31 18:28:54 GMT 2008
voip: {2} uptime
10:03AM up 2128 days, 23:44

#uptime #NetBSD

It used a zaptel driver I blindly ported to #NetBSD from #FreeBSD which worked first time when plugged into 4x PSTN lines:

wcfxs0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0: Wildcard TDM400P REV I
wcfxs0: operating mode: UK

@jaypatelani #NetBSD uptime https://justfollow.me.uk/@sborrill/113786547159388162

#NetBSD uptime

#Linux #runbsd

はてなブログに投稿しました
NetBSD/amd64,i386 11.0 ておくれLive Image 20260809版 - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場
https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/teokure20260809

#はてなブログ #NetBSD #pkgsrc #mikutter

Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD https://lobste.rs/s/xkdbhe #netbsd
https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment

GSoC Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to #NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment