If you're paying attention, you may have noticed my recent #NetBSD bug updates often have a single "." on its own line at the end. That's because gnats works differently from Sendmail and ends the message with Ctrl+D 😡

Dear #NetBSD friends, it is possible using #dropbear on NetBSD as it #Linux, to unlock an #encrypted disk at boot even if remotely?

Thanks... 🙏

#NetBSD just rollin’ in this VM. If I knew where my old MacBook was, I’d go ahead and slap OpenBSD on there (I think that’s the one that runs best on those) and just sail for a while. Meantime once I get it all set up I’ll post my first toot from it.

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

Week 3: Union Mounts and Whiteout Files

One of the file types we've encountered are those of type S_IFWHT, so called "whiteout" files. But what the hell is that?? Let's illustrate! We describe the concept of union mounts and see what happens when a file in the upper layer is removed while the same file still exists in the lower layer: a whiteout file is created to cover up the lower file.

https://youtu.be/MkFExG9jhEE

#apue #unix #programming #netbsd

One advantage to insomnia is that you can sometimes grab the time and focus to finally get #NetBSD running in a virtual machine 🎊

#BSD

If anyone is interested in what I had to say (and hand out) during my talk, the QR code at the end leads to http://anduin.net/l.htm - go grab your copy in any of three formats: Bootable floppy, zipped TheDraw files, or PDF (boo!).

I met too many awesome people to count, much less remember the names of everyone, but I truly hope those of you who want to reach out will do so. My DMs are open ;)

The social overload from this weekend will quickly turn into the pain of missing the company of this extended family. Can't wait to see you again in Brussels - or at any time before that if you visit Oslo!

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #BSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/09/29) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/valuable-news-2025-09-29/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟵 (Valuable News - 2025/09/29) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/09/29/valuable-news-2025-09-29/

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

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

I can barely resist the urge to ask,

"What's UNIX?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nsuw2t/comment/ngou32d/

The important thing is, I'll find it funny.

@lproven go on. Dare me to ask the question. You can refrain from answering, then eat popcorn whilst things unravel.

#Linux #UNIX #FreeBSD #popcorn #BSD #NetBSD #Torvalds

2025 - NetBSD - nicht nur für Toaster

50 Jahre BSD 👏

Ein schöner Vortrag von Benny Siegert zu #NetBSD

#Free and #opensource Software Conferece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wg0OpRHiZI

NetBaSeD #NetBSD

Somebody at #ebc25 wanted to talk to me about rust stuff but I did not see them today. Which community had something to solve? #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd

The European *BSD event of the year 2025 has come to an end! For real now... ​​ 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who attended, spoke, helped organize and made this event awesome!

Vidimo se sljedeće godine u Brussels!

Tot volgend jaar in Brussel!

See you next year in Brussels!

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 10-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Belgian flag with the word: Waffles?

Devinez quoi ? J'ai fait des devoirs cette semaine xD #virtualisation avec #NetBSD et #NVMM, tout de suite sur https://twitch.tv/ahp_nils ! #sysadmin #devops #twitchfr #twitchstreamer #TwitchStreamers #BSD #qemu

The last day of talks at the European *BSD event of the year has come to an end! 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who made this event awesome! Hvala!!

A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻
- Bojan Novković
- Karlo Miličević
- Marko Vlaić
- prof. dr. sc. Marin Golub
- Philipp Buehler

And let's not forget the fantastic talks and tutorials by:

- Albert Dengg
- Alexander Bluhm
- Alfonso Sabato Siciliano
- Andreas Kirchner
- Benedict Reuschling
- Beni Keller
- Bjoern Zeeb
- Charlie Li
- Chris Moerz
- Christoph Badura
- Christos Margiolis
- Daniel Stenberg
- Dave Cottlehuber
- Denis Salopek
- Eirik Øverby
- Florian Obser
- Hans-Jörg Höxer
- Harald Eilertsen
- Harold Gutch
- Hiroki Sato
- Jake Freeland
- Jan Bramkamp
- Jeroen
- John Baldwin
- Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
- Kirk McKusick
- Lukas Engelhardt
- Marc Espie
- Mario Spuler
- Martin Husemann
- Michael Dexter
- Michael Lucas
- Moin Rahman
- Nils Imhoff
- Olivier Certner
- Patrick M. Hausen
- Peter N. M. Hansteen
- Rob Keizer
- Roller Angel
- Souma Sakaguchi
- Stefan Sperling
- Stefano Marinelli
- Stephen Borrill
- Terence Eden
- Tom Smyth

🤘 You all rocked the stage! 🤘

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Image with the word Hvala, which means thanks in Croatian. White letters on a light green background.

Distributed file system on OpenBSD using FUSE and Elixir by @robertkeizer #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #Elixir #Erlang #FUSE

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Man showing his slides on stage

Now: Christoph Badura on reproducible #NetBSD dev environments #EuroBSDCon

For the Sunday after the social @ 09:30 this is pretty impressive for the *BSDs 😈⛳🐡. ​

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EarlyStart

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Picture of the room D2 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) in Zagreb, Croatia. Shot from the back to the stage with lots of people in seats.

🚨 Room change for the *BSD event of the year 😈⛳🐡

The Keynote will be moved from D1 to D2.

To catch the stream go to: https://www.youtube.com/live/wEM-E-IJ6sY

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #LastMinuteChange

Posljednji dan European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Nadam se da ste svi imali odličan društveni događaj!

Hope you all had a great social event! The last day of the event starts today!

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:00

The second keynote starts at 09:30 in D1, AI slop attacks on the curl project by Daniel Stenberg.

After the break at 10:30, there will be three tracks, also streaming via Youtube (different for day 2) and Peertube:

- D1
https://youtube.com/live/FgtTVzYFEF0
https://exquisite.tube/w/ihyyuEHX75AjdC9heZL4Rr

- D2
https://youtube.com/live/wEM-E-IJ6sY
https://exquisite.tube/w/abJfJUz6wWst2hF5s1QnWy

- Gray Hall
https://youtube.com/live/Ub9DTESfsh0
https://exquisite.tube/w/jqVwYsirSTxr8B5ScG72hk

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 ☕
Lunch will be served at 12:15, during lunch we will also take a family picture.

At 18:15 the closing session of EuroBSDCon will be in D1.

You can find the full program and streams at: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/program.html

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Talks

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Mashup / combination meme with "The Hangover" and "The Office (movie)" The Hangover image has the text: Thet Feeling The Day After The Office has the text: Yeah if someone could tell me what I did last night, that'd be great.

Martin Husemann is presenting NetBSD net80211 Renewal - ETA and why we are not there yet

#EuroBSDCon #ebc25 #ebc2025 #NetBSD

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Martin presenting and showing the slides

Now: Martin Husemann explaining about the #NetBSD Wi-Fi driver renewal #EuroBSDCon

@kzimmermann Upgrade #NetBSD. I start each version with a fresh installation. I've tried to update a few times and it has never worked for me. A fresh installation is fast but it takes a while to build packages afterwards.

Heh, I hadn't used my #NetBSD machine in a while, and turns out that a whopping 295 packages were in the waiting list. Time to roll them out!

I wonder if it's time to run a full sysupgrade or something? I remember back in FreeBSD I would do a freebsd-update every two weeks or so, but looking at the docs seems to hint that this should be done only after a release change (or at least that's what I understood?)

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html

#RunBSD

@justine

@DianeBruce could also speak to this. I know I've seen her at just about every bsd conference that I've been to.

#EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenBSD #NetBSD

@rubenerd I had #NetBSD on my X240. Used ctwm ;) Moved it to an X270 though. The X240 now has #alpinelinux with a #kali container for teaching security and ethical hacking. The X240 incidentally has touch screen ;) Both machines are second hand, refurb. At the moment I use cwm on all my machines. There is also a Thinkcentre with OpenBSD.

How commit messages may trigger conspiracy nutters! The UK #Covid19 tracking app. #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenSource #NHS

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«When the signal is received, terminate all non-responsive children. Do not log any data about this, and spawn a new daemon”

#EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenBSD #NetBSD

I evo nas opet 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 D1, Lessons learned Open Sourcing the UK's Covid Tracing App by Terence Eden.

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

- D1
https://youtube.com/live/qdEMmM5g27M
https://exquisite.tube/w/ihyyuEHX75AjdC9heZL4Rr

- D2
https://youtube.com/live/ZGmuZz5ETHs
https://exquisite.tube/w/abJfJUz6wWst2hF5s1QnWy

- Gray Hall
https://youtube.com/live/Mn8Obw0oMz4
https://exquisite.tube/w/jqVwYsirSTxr8B5ScG72hk

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 18:30 the social event starts, it's a 20 minute walk from campus to the restaurant

You can find the full program and streams at: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/program.html

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Talks

Yes! “New” ThinkPad X230 I bought as a writing machine is booting #NetBSD :’)

Even the chicklet/island keyboard is still so wonderful to type on.

Next steps: Wi-Fi, and either my tmux “terminal GUI” or maybe I should try ctwm!

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ThinkPad X230 booting NetBSD!

NOW: Harold Gutch on #NetBSD for the Nintendo #Wii
#EuroBSDCon

Made it to #EuroBSDCon in time for lunch! :D

And I did not miss the _whole_ #NetBSD devsummit. Now listening to riastradh@ demo Mercurial and disrupting the demo by adding conflicting commits 😜

You should know #pkgsrc 2025Q3 was released yesterday:

https://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2025/09/25/msg042016.html

#netbsd

I još jedan European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Already on our third day!
Another full day of summits and tutorials, even another con within a con!

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:30.

- Eurobhyvecon (check the program for the program)
by Michael Dexter

- An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System
by Kirk McKusick

- Automating Infrastructure with Terraform, Ansible, and Salt on FreeBSD
by Roller Angel

- An Introduction to awk: from awk-ward to awesome
by Benedict Reuschling

- Using Ansible and SSH to manage FreeBSD systems at scale and reproducible
by Albert Dengg

You can find the full program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Summit #Tutorials

NetBSD is the currently working BSD on Nanopi R2S Plus. But I need to manually hook the boot device. Automating the hook process with boot.cmd is possible. I tried to flash Debian uboot and trust images, but ended with kernel panic after loader part.

#netbsd #arm64

@thomholwerda #NetBSD/i386?

Este es el camino a seguir. Las distribuciones #Linux y #BSD que no puedan implementar #GNOME debido a #systemd lo que tienen que hacer es precisamente esto: dejar de soportar GNOME y no estar gritando en Twitter y otras redes sociales para exigir unos derechos que NO existen.

Dejen ya de luchar por un Linux que dejó de existir hace una década. https://ostechnix.com/artix-linux-drops-gnome-desktop-environment/

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

I idemo dalje European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We are on our way with the second day!
Another full day of summits and now also tutorials.

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:30.

- FreeBSD Devsummit

- NetBSD cross development with a standardized dev env
by Christoph Badura

- An Introduction to the Kernel Services and I/O System of the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System
by Kirk McKusick

- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset
by Peter N. M. Hansteen & Tom Smyth

- Modern TLS
by Michael Lucas

- Run Your Own Mail Server
by Michael Lucas

- Ansible for Unix Administrators
by Nils Imhoff

You can find the full program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Summit #Tutorials

part of the reason that people say the things that they do about the bests in my headcannon:
#freebsd is more popular and has more packages? surely its a desktop!
#openbsd is secure and rock solid KISS? oooh no. all the technology i've ever used for security have made my computer completely greek to me!. only for servers or uber nerd hackers, clearly
#netbsd is highly portable yet is the smallest of the three? its small so eh. ymmv. maybe run it on your weird 1990s pda?

#EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck

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Marshall Kirk McKusick, Eric Allman, a couple of (much) younger BSD developers and myself hovering over an old open-frame PC build which is busy booting NetBSD. Sponsor pull-up poster for Entersekt/Modirum (my employer) in the background.

#eurobsdcoon 2025 is getting started in #zagreb:
#openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware

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I idemo European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

🚨 Five days of everything *BSD starts today! 🚨

The first three days are all about summits and tutorials.

Today it's a whole day of FreeBSD Devsummit in D1.

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:30.

You can find the full program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Summit

Off to #Zagreb and #EuroBSDCon! Hope the connections at #AMS goes relativly well! Can't miss the #PF tutorial! #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD

@devwithzachary Look forward to watching it a bit later :) For your next PPC Mac video it would be great if you included #NetBSD or #OpenBSD too, there are not a huge number of PowerPC Mac #BSD videos on YouTube so more are always appreciated :)

EuroBSDCon starts tomorrow!

Packing done, slides ready - see you in Zagreb!

https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

🕐 T-24 hours for the European *BSD event of the year to kick with the FreeBSD Devsummit! 😈⛳🐡

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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