Do you want to come to #ottawa and tell a bunch of #BSD geeks about what you enjoy doing?

Submit to BSDCan 2026!

Our submissions deadline is January 17, 2026, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

Tutorials: June 17-18, 2026
Conference: June 19-20, 2026

More about the BSD conferences: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #development #sysadmin

New 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 [Add Port to FreeBSD Ports] on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/

#verblog #freebsd #packages #ports #pkg #submit #add

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

Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.

RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.

39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.

All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.

If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.

#FediMeteo #FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

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Time series graph showing CPU usage percentage over roughly 24 hours. The x axis represents time from about 13:00 to 12:00 the next day, and the y axis shows CPU usage from 0 to 100 percent. CPU usage fluctuates mostly between 15 and 35 percent, with periodic rises during daytime and early morning hours. Several short spikes reach around 45 to 55 percent, and one brief peak climbs to about 60 percent. Usage drops to lower levels, around 10 to 20 percent, during late evening and early morning periods. Overall, the graph shows moderate, variable CPU load with occasional sharp peaks.

If you are keen on attending next year's conference and require financial support, please consider applying for the "Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant" for 2026.

You can do this by contacting the board before February 1st, 2026, stating who you are, what you are doing with BSD (😈⛳🐡), and why you should receive the grant.

This grant is in recognition Paul's accomplishments and in memory of his work and dedication to the BSD community, the EuroBSDCon Foundation is offering a travel grant in his name.

Paul was one of the few - if not the only one - to have attended all EuroBSDCon conferences since their inception in 2001. Besides his many contributions to BSD in general and the EuroBSDCon conferences in particular, he established the EuroBSDCon Foundation in 2010 to ensure continuity for many more conferences.

The EuroBSDCon Foundation Board will consider all valid submissions in its sole discretion and communicate its selection by March 2026. The selected person will receive travel expense reimbursement and hotel accommodation during the conference as well as free entrance to the conference and social event.

More information can be found on: https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

The 2026 edition will be held in Brussels, Belgium.

#RUNBSD also in 2026!
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Artistic drawing of Paul Schenkeveld

The BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS devroom schedule at Fosdem 2026 is online !

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/bsd-illumos-bhyve-openzfs/

#Fosdem #zfs #bsd #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos

The recording of the December 17th, 2025 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/ucedjjzQ_b0

We discussed OpenZFS terminology for new developers, Zelta 'rebase', #FreeBSD bectl(8) zpool history improvements, User-Space OpneZFS news, a change in ashift=9 and 12 behavior on FreeBSD, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The SATADOM in my FreeNAS mini XL died. If I need to replace that, I might as well investigate alternate BSD-based NAS software.

I know a few folks tried to build #FreeBSD-based successors to #freenas Did any of them get traction? #sysadmin

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