Hello, BSD and Linux friends!

Don't miss @jana 's great presentation later today: "How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?"

The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal

The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/ZSNZ89/

#Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Linux #OpenSOurce

📢 Looking for first-time *BSD speakers! 😈⛳️🐡

The EuroBSDCon 2026 Call for Papers is open, and we’d love to hear from you, yes you! Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters.

Have you:
- Discovered something cool about *BSD?
- Solved a tricky problem or learned a useful thing?
- Want to share how *BSD can make a first-time user experience better?

This is your chance to share your story, learn from others, and grow as a speaker in a supportive community.

🔗 Submit your idea here: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/cfp
📅 Deadline: June 20, 2026

We are here to help, mentorship and guidance available!

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #CFP #FirstTimeSpeaker

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EuroBSDCon 2026 Travel Grant Applications Now Open!

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that travel grant applications are now open for EuroBSDCon 2026, taking place September 9–13, 2026, in Brussels, Belgium.

📅 Application deadline: July 7, 2026

Learn more about eligibility, guidelines, and how to apply:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/grants/travel-grants/

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon2026 #OpenSource #FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #badjoke

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

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Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

Happening today!

Anne Dickison, Deputy Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, joins Katie Steen-James (Open Source Initiative ) and Margaret Tucker (GitHub) for a GitHub Maintainer Month panel on age assurance laws and what they mean for open-source maintainers.

The FreeBSD Foundation is participating to ensure open-source realities are represented and that maintainers are not navigating regulatory shifts alone.

📍 LinkedIn Live
Join here: https://bit.ly/3Ra8QOY

#FreeBSD

The new freebsd.org is live.

The updated FreeBSD website delivers a cleaner design, improved navigation, and a stronger foundation for the Project’s future.

The new site makes it easier to:
• Get started with FreeBSD
• Access documentation and downloads
• Explore core technologies like ZFS, bhyve, and Jails
• Connect with the FreeBSD community

Congratulations to everyone who contributed to making this happen.

Explore the new site:
https://bit.ly/4eY0ofG

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD

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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@mwl

Hmm, looks like loader.efi(8) doesn't contain much help.

I think you have to set an efi var because FreeBSD puts its loader in a non-standard location. I'll dry to dig up more info since I remember having to deal with this a few years ago.

#FreeBSD

Fried my boot loader trying to update it.

#FreeBSD has decades of archives on boot loader updating, which means that searches are full of noise. "gpart bootcode" is not a thing today. Possibly complicated further because this was installed as 14.0 and upgraded to 15.0.

Reboot and got "missing boot loader"

Start over by hand:

gpart add -t efi -s 100M nda0

newfs_msdosfs -F 32 -c 1 /dev/nda0p1
attach to /mnt

mkdir -p /mnt/EFI/BOOT
cp /boot/gptboot.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi

Reboot and again: "missing boot loader"

Anyone know the current incantation?

One of the few #sysadmin things that worries me any more is updating boot code after a zpool upgrade. #FreeBSD

I'm sure it'll be fine, but if I disappear forever you know what happened.

"Call for testing: introducing the Laptop Integration Testing project" by the FreeBSD foundation: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/call-for-testing-introducing-the-laptop-integration-testing-project/

This is really cool, I like that they're crowd sourcing this, AND that they're paying attention to more than just the technical data. I'll be sure to submit my report on my laptop.

#FreeBSD

The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI

It's such a small gesture but it speaks volumes about the community and the love the developers put into it.

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Terminal output produced by the fortune(6) programme upon login to the FreeBSD operating system. The text says: "You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways. The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@%d To delete d and all later snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@d% To delete all dataset snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@% Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you intended. -- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>," followed by the system prompt "`u@frost ~ %`." Huge thank you to Benedict for submitting these <3