Fresh from the BSDCan program committee - submissions are coming in, but we can still take more!

If you have not made your submission, you have until Saturday, January 17th to get yours in!

Go to https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html to orient yourself, then submit via the submission link.

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 17-18, 2026, talks June 19-20, 2026

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @bsdcan

RE: https://chaos.social/@polpo/115843719812012442

I wonder how well this would work on the Jornada 690 with NetBSD/sh3 #NetBSD
At the moment I have ancient wi(4) WiFi or SCSI, but not both

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/01/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/valuable-news-2026-01-05/

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

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

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟭/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/01/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/valuable-news-2026-01-05/

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

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

@AnachronistJohn

Running #NetBSD ...? 😉

BSDCan 2026 is in Ottawa, June 17-20.

You can submit your proposal until januar 17, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

For more about BSD and the conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html @bsdcan #bsdcan #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesofware #libresoftware #conference

Finally:

===> Installing binary package of qgis-3.44.5

#NetBSD
#PkgSrc

Because $REASONS, the #apu is gonna run OpenBSD. But before doing real things with it, I took a couple of minutes to upgrade to coreboot v4.19.0.1 (01/31/2023) and install some BSDs there; and upload the #dmesg.

• #NetBSD 10.1 is there
• #FreeBSD 15.0 is there
• #OpenBSD 7.8 is there

#RunBSD

#introduction ― I decided to create an alt account here to allow me
to connect more easily with SDF community.

My primary focus will be on tech-related things I like:
#pkgsrc on #netbsd #illumos and #slackware
#unix #sdf #gopher #smolnet #usenet #dos #c #lisp
#selfhosting #homeserver #permacomputing #lowtech
#hamradio #progrock #progmetal #ambient #postrock
#90s #scifi #cyberpunk #novels #seinen #manga

Today, I fixed a #NetBSD bug report from 2005. Better late than never, I guess.

https://gnats.netbsd.org/30837

AI models don’t really 'get' the BSDs. As a result, they often provide incomplete, imprecise, or flat-out wrong answers by defaulting to Linux paradigms. When it comes to illumos-based systems, they just completely lose the plot.

This is becoming a serious issue for the BSDs and illumos ecosystems. We are seeing entire websites flooded with AI-generated tutorials and guides that are totally incorrect. Most people don't realize this; they follow the instructions, fail, and then assume that the BSDs doesn't work well or are 'unstable' because they have supposedly changed since the guide was written.

Luckily, some people eventually find my blog, reach out, and finally understand what's actually going on. Others, unfortunately, end up on major social sites or comments, claiming that these systems are broken.

In 2026, one of our greatest challenges will be teaching people how to vet their sources and filter information.
And I see this as a very, very uphill battle.

#IT #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #News #UnderstandingText #Disinformation

The FreeBSD stand at #Fosdem2026 will be in building H.
The table will be shared with our friends #FreeBSD Foundation, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD and #illumos.

はてなブログに投稿しました
セキュアブート有効のWindows 11プリインストールPCで NetBSDを起動する手順まとめ - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/netbsd-secureboot
#はてなブログ #NetBSD

BSDCan 2026 is now accepting submissions for the June 2026 conference, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and links therein for instructions.

Submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, the conference runs tutorials June 17-18, talks June 19-20.

#bsdcan #conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #bsd #development #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware

RT @smj@sdf.org: #stickers to celebrate SDF 30 #netbsd #hacking #anime #macross #マクロス

¡Hola desde Praga! 🌍
Una vez más le doy una oportunidad a Mastodon en 2026. Me llamo Peter, soy eslovaco, tengo más de 40 años y trabajo en helpdesk / soporte técnico.

Me apasionan los ordenadores, Linux, BSD, viajar, España e Italia, y el café preparado en la moka. Me encantan los trenes, aunque por falta de tiempo y el precio del billete no los uso tanto como quisiera. ¡Casi lo olvido! Soy también un gran aficionado a las plumas fuente.

#introduccion #presentación #Linux #NetBSD #Viajes #España #Italia #CaféMoka #Trenes #PlumasFuente

New year, same love for clean code. 🧡

I saw @netbsd 🚩was short $327 on their 2025 funding goal, so I sent a donation to start 2026 on a high note.

Wishing the team a great 2026.

Wishing all BSD users Happy New Year ahead!

#NetBSD #Unix #OpenSource #linux #sysadmin #runbsd

@lobsters

For what it's worth:

The hyperlinked article is purely about Linux and its two major C libraries (GNU and #musl), and does not cover #Unix, historical or otherwise, at all.

There are systems still around where grantpt and unlockpt are important. On #NetBSD with certain options set they are not actually no-ops. They are definitely not no-ops on #Illumos-based operating systems, where (for starters) STREAMS stuff happens on pseudo-terminal front-end devices.

@adacosta

There's a bit of a quibble with 'extinct' and not the usual one that #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, and #OpenBSD are very much still here.

#Illumos is still here, and available in the forms of #OpenIndiana, #OmniOS, and #Tribblix .

@ptribble 's latest Tribblix update was last November, for example. As was the most recent update to OmniOS.

You can simply use relay instances to be interconnected with other instances to exchange posts and it works seamless with #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #snac / #snac2 and many other ones! If you're in tech, you might want to use:

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

You can simply add it to get a bigger reach but also to get more interesting content into your own timeline which becomes even more important on single user- & smaller instances.

#activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #opensource #bsd #runbsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #debian #proxmox #xcpng #talos #coding #programming #fediwall #relay #fedirelay #acitivitypubrelay #selfhost #homelab #community

Alt...

Activity Pub / Fediverse Relay

はてなブログに投稿しました
NetBSD/amd64,i386 10.1 ておくれLive Image 20260101版 - tsutsuiの作業記録置き場 https://tsutsui.hatenablog.com/entry/teokure20260101
#はてなブログ #NetBSD #mikutter #pkgsrc

Having been a loyal #GPG user for years and having seen the recent gpg.fail vulnerabilities, i decided to finally do something about it: I wrote a #rustlang implementation of #OpenBSD signify with strict rules: no unsafe code, no arithmetic side effects, no proc macros. Builds on #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #Linux, and #Windows. My contribution is the #keyring feature which allows you to specify a key-id on #Linux rather than inputting the password manually: https://crates.io/crates/signify-rs #exherbo #security

Share the goals you have for 2026.

Dream big.

One of my goals is to complete my master's degree in cybersecurity before summer.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

Progress. X and ctwm is running with VESA (not mach64 unfortunately) but has some distortion that needs fixing. Not exactly "snappy" either, but at least it's a GUI.

#netbsd #bsd #ctwm #xorg #x11 #retrocomputing

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ctwm on NetBSD running on a 486

I have distinct memories in the early aughts of configuring XF86Config and then xorg.conf to get X Windows working on my Linux desktop. Hours spend updating it, running startx and 🤞I would see that glorius cross-hatch pattern.

Thanks to advances in Linux on the Desktop - those days were long gone, until today...

#netbsd #ati #retrocomputing

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Screenshot of Xorg.0.log howing a No Screens Found message

@kaixin

I'm using this standalone speed test: https://github.com/openspeedtest/Speed-Test with Nginx on the NetBSD, on the server which is connected to the my main router via the Ethernet cable (CAT5). It needs only web-server to operate, no additional software.

And after I set the next two sysctls in /etc/systctl.conf (for my NetBSD server) from default values:
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max = 262144
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max = 262144

To these values:
net.inet.tcp.recvbuf_max=16777216
net.inet.tcp.sendbuf_max=16777216

The WiFi speed of my FreeBSD laptop, reported by the OpenSpeedTest, significantly increased. Looks like the bottleneck was not in the WiFi drivers in my laptop, but in the network connection of my server, where I serve the OpenSpeedTest service.

The nginx config for OpenSpeedTest, I was using, should be the same as from documentation for this service, if I remember things right:

```
server {
server_name drag0n-server.lair.internal;
listen 3000 reuseport;
listen [::]:3000 reuseport;
root /var/www/openspeedtest/;
index index.html;
client_max_body_size 35m;
error_page 405 =200 $uri;
access_log off;
gzip off;
log_not_found off;
server_tokens off;
error_log /dev/null;
tcp_nodelay on;
tcp_nopush on;
sendfile on;
open_file_cache max=200000 inactive=20s;
open_file_cache_valid 30s;
open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
open_file_cache_errors off;

location / {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' "*" always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-
oken,X-Requested-With' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS' always;
#Very Very Important! You SHOULD send no-store from server for Google Chrome.
add_header Cache-Control 'no-store, no-cache, max-age=0, no-transform';
add_header Last-Modified $date_gmt;
if_modified_since off;
expires off;
etag off;

if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' "true";

ReqToken,X-Requested-With' always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' "$http_origin" always;
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' "GET, POST, OPTIONS" always;
return 200;
}
}

location ~* ^.+\.(?:css|cur|js|jpe?g|gif|htc|ico|png|html|xml|otf|ttf|eot|woff|woff2|svg)$ {
access_log off;
expires 365d;
add_header Cache-Control public;
add_header Vary Accept-Encoding;
tcp_nodelay off;
open_file_cache max=3000 inactive=120s;
open_file_cache_valid 45s;
open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
open_file_cache_errors off;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/j
cript image/svg+xml;
}
}
```

@pertho @lme

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #Nginx #WiFi

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

The bans on LLM generated code...

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026

Pizzas, tiramisu, stickers, and plenty of coffee. But above all, people.

My 2025 has been a journey from Canada to Croatia, reconnecting with old friends and launching new projects. In a difficult year for the world, I chose to focus on the light emitted by positive figures, who are often the quiet ones.

I’ve written a farewell post for this incredible year on my personal blog. See you in 2026, with the same Smile(TM).

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-2025-looking-forward-to-2026/

#MyNotes #PersonalBlog #2025Highlights #BSD #Community #Gratitude #Fediverse #Blogging #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #OSDay

Pizzas, tiramisu, stickers, and plenty of coffee. But above all, people.

My 2025 has been a journey from Canada to Croatia, reconnecting with old friends and launching new projects. In a difficult year for the world, I chose to focus on the light emitted by positive figures, who are often the quiet ones.

I’ve written a farewell post for this incredible year on my personal blog. See you in 2026, with the same Smile(TM).

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-2025-looking-forward-to-2026/

#MyNotes #PersonalBlog #2025Highlights #BSD #Community #Gratitude #Fediverse #Blogging #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #BSDCafe #illumosCafe #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #OSDay

My #NetBSD troubles on i386 seem partially resolved on 11-BETA. If I compile things for myself that is. But things now work.

Except that the athn0 driver is now acting up and WiFi ends up in an infinite dissociation loop. Gonna report it but likely I'll just swap the card... Again... as I found an urtwn compatible one in the drawer.

Final results of my quest to run NetBSD 10.1 on my 486 system with obligatory fastfetch screen shot.

After getting NetBSD to install from floppies, the biggest challenge was getting it to use memory effectively, otherwise it would spend all its time on swap. Trick was building a custom kernel, turning off many of the daemons (syslogd, cron, ntpd, etc) and sysctl tuning.

Still a few more things I can do to lower the memory footprint, like using dropbear for ssh instead of openssh. Right now though it's relatively usable over ssh, few pauses here and there be generally responsive. Going to try X11 next, which will be interesting.

As for specs, the system is heavily Gateway 2000 486DX2-66Mhz "Family PC" slimline desktop circa 1994. Very similar to my first PC (mine was a 50Mhz version with no PCI slots).

- Anigma LP4IP1 motherboard, 3x ISA and 2x PCI on a riser card
- AMD X5-133Mhz AWD CPU @ 100Mhz (upgraded from the 66Mhz) with a 40mm Noctua fan
- 48Mb of memory
- 4Gb Industrial Compact Flash card in IDE adapter
- ATI Mach64 PCI video card
- Intel Pro 10/100 PCI network card
- ATX4VC with an 80 watt PicoPSU
- Gotek floppy emulator
- GW-12887-1 Dallas DS12887 RTC Replacement clock
- 80mm Noctua case fan

#netbsd #bsd #retrocomputing #486 #fastfetch

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Screenshot of fastfetch running NetBSD 10.1 i386 on a PC from 1994.

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Photo of Gateway 2000 slimline desktop and modern LCD panel displaying boot messages and a login prompt for NetBSD/i386. A period correct Gateway 2000 keyboard is also visible.

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Closeup of SD card, Mach64 videocard, ATX4VC/PicoPSU and 80mm Noctua case fan with a purple 3d printed grill.

Alt...

close up of AMD X5-133Mhz ADW CPU with a Noctua 40mm fan on it, RAM SIMMs are visible with an Intel Pro 10/100 network card in a PCI slot in a riser.

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev tools contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

The bans on LLM generated code...

While many linux distros are agnostic on LLM generated code; unsure they ought to be dictating the dev code contributors use; or even developing policies on how to incorporate it into their projects responsibly.

Gentoo and ElementaryOS have banned LLM code from their project code entirely. (Though they can do nothing about upstream projects they consume.)

NetBSD has instituted a policy barring any LLM generated code from the entirety of its base system.

AND FreeBSD's draft policy appears to be similar.

#linux #bsd #netbsd #freebsd #gentoo #elementaryOS #floss #stochasticparrots #llm #ai #eliza

What it looks like booting #NetBSD on the Wii U for the first time https://youtu.be/pfNySZMSvLQ

FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
#ycombinator #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #System_Administration #Technology

@midtsveen #AlpineLinux with #WM #openbox. No #DE. But 95% of the time I'm on #NetBSD with #ctwm

Wii U SMP dmesg #NetBSD https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=8766

#NetBSD 10.1 toimi #RaspberryPi2B:ssä kuin täi tervassa. Pelkästään asetustiedoston muokkaamiseen meinasivat mennä hermot, kun kohdistin laahaa sekuntikaupalla näppäinpainallusten perässä. Seuraavaksi kokeiluun #AlpineLinux 3.23.2. #floss #bsd #linux #atkjuttuja

Suuri kokeilupäivä! Kaksi #RaspberryPi'ta, 2B+ (#armv7) ja 4 (#aarch64). Kolme kokeiltavaa järjestelmää, #AlpineLinux 3.23, #FreeBSD 15.0 ja #NetBSD 10.0 (vain uudempaan RasPiin). Tästä tulee hauskaa. #floss #linux #bsd #atkjuttuja

It's alive! SMP kernel up and running on #NetBSD Wii U.

Let it build
Let it build
Let it buiiiiiiild
#NetBSD

This evening in "cli snippets for things I learned":
To more easily upgrade to #NetBSD -current, you can

1) build and install sysupgrade:

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade
# make && make install

2) Then point it to the daily snapshots at:

# sysupgrade fetch https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/$(sysctl kern.machine_arch)

3) Follow the rest of the sysupgrade steps found at
https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-upgrading.html

Be warned that sysupgrade etcupdate is long, boring, but important.

#RunBSD

#NetBSD 11 getting closer: "Timeout for showstoppers (before they will be downgraded) december 28, trying to move on to RC1 before the end of december."
https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-11/

Dit you spot it? @vermaden has released a LVN. It could be the last one of 2025, so go read learn

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/valuable-news-2025-12-29/

#Technology #news #BSD #freeBSD #OpenBSD #netBSD #linux #unix #ZFS #opnSense #ghostBSD #solaris #vermadenday