Still far away but not to far away from now in a country close, close by....

The European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

Registration is open!! 🔖

🎟️ https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

Sign up early and sign up lots!

While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 🔥
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

We are still and always looking for first-time *BSD speakers.
Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters!

The schedule will be published on 🗓️ 2026-07-15

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 #CFP #Conference #Register

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An image of Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani, sticking his head around the door, wide eyed. It has the text: Did someone say ticket?

@JohnMashey @maxleibman
I love that so much! Does it run #NetBSD?

@thezerobit

From what I’ve briefly looked into, it might even be possible to set up a root filesystem with ZFS on #netbsd. I’m not sure what the comments about memory usage are referring to—I have several VPS instances, as well as some home machines running on #OrangePi with 512MB of RAM, and they all run perfectly fine with ZFS on FreeBSD.

I think I’ll try to see how NetBSD ZFS performs in real-world conditions with 512MB🤣

https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs

Toot from #pkgsrc/www/firefox-151.0b10 under #NetBSD/amd64-current. It is better than 150.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/05/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/valuable-news-2026-05-18/

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

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CyReVolt/116593026437664450

Huh, looks like I'm started to learn #NetBSD just in time 🤌

@veer66 #pkgsrc works on a number of different operating systems, including Linux and MacOS. You don't have to run #NetBSD to use pkgsrc 🤘

I'll be speaking at NYC*BUG on June 3. So... show up? You can show up online, no expensive flight to Manhattan needed.

https://www.nycbug.org/

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #Solaris #Illumos

@sotolf @clouderst @amiablechief

I've used apt, dnf, pkcon, zypper, #NetBSD pkgin, #FreeBSD pkg, #OpenBSD pkg, flatpak, snap, rpm, yum, and homebrew.

pacman has the most obtuse syntax. I have a couple options memorized, 3-4 more in my crib notes, and the rest is hunting through the manpage. :P

@matthew I go with #WMonly, the leaner, the better. I use #ctwm on both #netbsd and #openbsd

@OpenComputeDesign

I honestly really like the look of the stock #NetBSD WM. ;)

Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel Grants

Deadline: Friday the 19th!

To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.

Full details:

https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@bentsukun Is there something wrong with Postfix in RC4? #NetBSD

NetBSD 11 RC4 is here! Huge thanks to all the devs getting this ready for the final release.

Quick reminder since we are almost halfway through the year: The NetBSD Foundation needs our help to keep things running. If you appreciate clean code, software freedom, and an OS that literally runs on anything, OS which rejects A.I. slop, please consider making a donation. Let's help them hit their 2026 goals!
Grab the RC: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available
Support the foundation: https://www.netbsd.org/donations/
#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #antiaislop #Linux

📍 NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate

｢ Following NetBSD 11.0-RC3 from early April, NetBSD developers hope NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is the last release candidate needed before officially releasing NetBSD 11.0. With it being a year and a half since the NetBSD 10.1 milestone and a year since NetBSD 11 was branched, this new BSD operating system update is ready to meet the world ｣

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC4

#netbsd #bsd #unix

@jpmens

In the spirit of there always being 1 more #vi clone than one thinks, notice that @lpar 's list is lacking Ali Gholami Rudi's #neatvi which is packaged in #pkgsrc and about a decade old now.

https://pkgsrc.se/editors/neatvi

And even then the rule still applies. There's 1 more clone: Sterling Huxley's and Brent Roman's #viless, a quarter of a century old and what #BusyBox supplies.

https://github.com/brentr/viless

#NetBSD #OmniOS

@jpmens

I recently wrote http://jdebp.info/FGA/original-vi.html and was thinking of doing something like this, to augment it; because Sven Guckes's list (https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html) is definitely dated and incomplete, nowadays.

It does not have #NeoVIM (for obvious reasons). Most lists of clones miss that there are several forks of Bostic #nvi, not least the two forks that are in #FreeBSD and #NetBSD base. Similarly, #DragonFlyBSD has forked nvi2.

@lpar

#vi #VIM #elvis #STEVIE

#NetBSD 11.0 RC4 just dropped!

"We found a few more issues to fix in RC4, and also updated a lot
of bundled third party code due to security issues, including
OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Postfix, bind, xz and more.

"We would love to release this state as 11.0 soonish and hope no big
fallout will be found in this RC."

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC4/

🤔 je me suis lancé dans l'écriture d'un petit programme en c qui pourrait être un simple script shell mais c'est histoire de refaire un peu de code après un certain temps d'abandon, un truc que je n'ai pas vu venir c'est que sous #openBSD le programme terminait avec un code de retour 133 et un magnifique message Trace/BTP trap (core dumped), j'ai essayé le programme sur #freeBSD #netBSD #debianLinux et #voidLinux aucun de ces OS ne m'ont retourné d'erreur. Je viens de résoudre mon problème sur openBSD simplement en passant les arguments classiques int argc, char *argv[ ] à la fonction main ce que je ne faisais pas avant et qui passe crème sur les autres OS🤷

NetBSD デバイスドライバの DMAポーリング処理での bus_dma(9) API 呼び出し - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場
https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/netbsd-dma-driver

いさきさん向けにメモ

#はてなブログ #NetBSD

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

(Edit 2026-07-17: removed stray "DeadLikeMe" hashtag that had been left over from the previous post. Oops! ;)

#Linux users who haven't tried #NetBSD yet will be haunted by these tonight:

@ironbeagle Looks like #NetBSD there is: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362

@MsDropbear42

And we get a new #Slackware kernel today (5.15.206) to correct the very last CVE from #DirtyFrag - nothing published on the web site yet, but I suspect that's the one.

Also: one more Linux kernel update or zero day and I will seriously consider moving to #OpenBSD or #NetBSD for good...