📢 EuroBSDCon2026: The Schedule is Here! 😈⛳️🐡

The schedule is now published!!
You can find it at: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

Grab your tickets 🎟️ at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/brussels/

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 #Conference #Register

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.

In light of all the #Linux drama lately, I thought I'd glance at what are the #FreeBSD equivalents to the various software I use.

Well, the network configuration story is very not good. You know how Linux has NetworkManager? On FreeBSD, if you want to configure network interfaces by GUI, you…run a GUI app as root via sudo.

https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/src/networkmgr.desktop

Which then shells out to sysrc to apply configuration settings:

https://github.com/ghostbsd/networkmgr/blob/324b90ce3775928692032f1f6cef9ed5ee097962/NetworkMgr/configuration.py#L611

You've got to be kidding me. That all's insecure as hell.

A couple of days ago, few hours before leaving home for a four days trip I decide to upgrade one of my home servers to FreeBSD 15.1. Nothing difficult.

After upgrade the machine start rebooting in a loop. I pick up my serial cable and see the boot process crash when mounting ZFS

panic: zfs(panic): zfs: rt={spa=zroot vdev_guid=546977716602668702 ms_id=9 ms_freed}: adding segment (offset=2431c0000 size=1000) overlapping with existing one (offset=2431c0000 size=1000)

😬 that's terrible.
I relay on this machine to access my nextcloud where all my trip tickets are stored.

Hopefully ZFS saves my day!

I was able to boot back to the previous snapshot, and smoothly restore the service, but I probably need to start thinking in a replacement for this machine....

#FreeBSD #ZFS

I've used pkgbasify for the first time, and then immediately thereafter, I upgraded a FreeBSD 15 box to 15.1 with pkg. This is really dramatically faster than freebsd-update. I think I'm hooked on pkgbase now.

#freebsd

📰 Where Unix Runs Today — Vivian Voss

｢ The PS4's Orbis OS is derived from FreeBSD 9 (2013 vintage). The PS5's Orbis 2.0 is derived from FreeBSD 11.0 (__FreeBSD_version 1100122, for the curious). Sony publishes the modified FreeBSD kernel source on its open-source page, as the BSD licence permits and good citizenship encourages.

Over 200 million PlayStation units have shipped since the PS3 (which already carried BSD lineage in a different form) ｣

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/where-unix-runs-today

#unix #bsd #freebsd

CC: @amiablechief@mastodon.social

Link to bug report

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296211

WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 16.0.

#FreeBSD

UPDATE It seems to be psm(4) PS/2 mice which obviously doesn't exist on my system so nothing to worry about then.

#FreeBSD #pkgbase wish list:

make freebsd-update its own package, so it can be easily removed.

So plugging in USB3 memory sticks worked OK but then I started with my sandisk usb2 devices and one by one they all started to work again!!?? Now I'm confused.

Strange issue writing to my USB memory sticks which used to work but since going over to pkgbase I cannot dd to any of them. I get dd: /dev/da0: Operation not supported yet I'm running as root using doas dd if=bios.img of=/dev/da0 bs=1M and I've done this before on this laptop as it's how I update my ThinkPad's BIOS. HELP!??

dmesg shows the same errors onall of my 20 odd memory sticks.

(da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): READ CAPACITY(10). CDB: 25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
(da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): SCSI sense: Error code 0x66 at block no. 1905976116 (decimal)
(da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
(da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Bad cache page 0x47
(da0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Mode page 8 missing, disabling SYNCHRONIZE CACHE
ugen2.12: <SanDisk Cruzer Blade> at usbus2 (disconnected)
umass1: at uhub4, port 3, addr 11 (disconnected)

#FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64

Accepts and otherwise for EuroBSDcon 2026 sent.

If you submitted, check your mail.

I hope to see you in Brussels in September!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #conference #bsd #openbsd #freebsd #netbsdd #networking #security #informationtechnology #it #brussels #bruxelles

https://www.freshports.org/www/qutebrowser/

# Terminal vt(4) Gruvbox colors 
kern.vt.color.0.rgb="#000000"
kern.vt.color.1.rgb="#cc241d"
kern.vt.color.2.rgb="#98971a"
kern.vt.color.3.rgb="#d79921"
kern.vt.color.4.rgb="#458588"
kern.vt.color.5.rgb="#b16286"
kern.vt.color.6.rgb="#689d6a"
kern.vt.color.7.rgb="#a89984"
kern.vt.color.8.rgb="#928374"
kern.vt.color.9.rgb="#fb4934"
kern.vt.color.10.rgb="#b8bb26"
kern.vt.color.11.rgb="#fabd2f"
kern.vt.color.12.rgb="#83a598"
kern.vt.color.13.rgb="#d3869b"
kern.vt.color.14.rgb="#8ec07c"
kern.vt.color.15.rgb="#ebdbb2"

🚨 Good news everybody! 🚨

Our amazing Organizing Committee managed to have the hotel extend the block booking!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/accomodation.html

Now you can book even longer!

https://www.warwickhotels.com/hotel-barsey-by-warwick/book/dates-of-stay?domain=2026.eurobsdcon.org&groupID=4846572

Hotel Barsey by Warwick
Louizalaan 381-383, 1050 Brussel

Located near the Flagey area, know for its restaurants and bars.

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD

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Cutout of the EuroBSDCon 2026 banner. Comic like drawing. First panel has a butler serving a nice Belgium beer. There are two speech bubbles. 1. ...we find this? 2. Etterbeek, Sir. The second panel has Manneken Pis doing his thing.

The #FreeBSD Journal has a new editor-in-chief?

Uh... did anybody warn him about my column?

The CfP is closed for the European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

Thank you all for your submissions!!

The schedule will be published on (around) 🗓️ 2026-07-15

For more information take a 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

We are about to close the CfP for
the European *BSD event of 2026! 😈⛳🐡

Planning to submit a talk? Now is the time!

Especially first time speakers and talk submissions for #NetBSD and #OpenBSD!

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/

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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Iconic Minion alarm is the internet's favorite way to signal chaos, urgency, or a major announcement. It has the text: Bee-doh! Bee-doh! Bee-doh!

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