🚨 Hotel Discount Expires 🚨
The block booking for the hotel is expiring soon!

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

If you were planning to book your hotel early now is your chance!

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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#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

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

The man page section in question:

            USE OF THE -r OPTION IS DANGEROUS AND IS NOT RECOMMENDED.
            The -r option can be set on the command line or via the - command,
            but to avoid unintentional use, it cannot be set in a LESS
            environment variable.  If -r appears in a LESS environment
            variable, it is treated as if it were -R.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #badjoke

Shouts at past me for not investigating what was always right in front of me all along

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

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

Impressive!

#RunBSD

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116614446311174258

Migrated from Ubuntu to Caddy inside Bastille on FreeBSD.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

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.

We may be in the market to hire a part-time FreeBSD and Bastille sysadmin (~20hrs week) specifically in the EMEA or APAC timezones (eventually both).

The roles require experience with FreeBSD, Bastille, nginx, and at least one useful coding language.

Timeline is mid-to-late 2026 to start.

Any of our EU / APAC friends want to come work part-time with the Bastille creator on a cybersecurity startup?

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #Cybersecurity

Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD
Sustainable open source requires more than new features. It demands disciplined security work, clear visibility into dependencies, and long-term maintainability.

Through the Beach Cleaning Project, funded by the Alpha-Omega Project, we strengthened the FreeBSD base system by improving third-party software tracking, advancing SBOM tooling, and aligning security processes for future resilience.

Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/cleaning-up-critical-infrastructure-in-freebsd/
#FreeBSD

The BSDCan 2026 schedule has been published, https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/timetable/timetable-all.html

You can register for the conference, which runs June 17 - 20, 2026 at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html @bsdcan #bsdcan #ottawa #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #development #sysadmin #devops #libresoftware #freesoftware

Do you want to come to Brussels, mingle with BSD people, perhaps do a talk, a tutorial or a BOF session?

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, as described in the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

#FreeBSD 16 System Calls Table

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alfonso-siciliano_freebsd-happycoding-unix-share-7448055727795064832-EJ9l

OK So I have discovered that I do not need seatd started at all. @vlkrs@bsd.network and this post helped.

https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/1hp0pcd/wayland_works_as_root_but_no_keyboard_response_as/

Basically I just needed to add "/dev/wsmouse1" and "/dev/wskbd1" to /etc/fbtab.

OK #OpenBSD friends, Why when I install Sway or Mango ( #Wayland ) can I not get any keyboard control ? I can run them fine on #FreeBSD but on OpenBSD they both start but the keyboard does nothing on the mouse seems to work on waybar. I'm using known working configs for both.
I do see errors like permission denied for /dev/wskb* . I'm at a loss as I'm sure I had sway running last year ??
Even copied the startsway.sh and modified for mango but still no keyboard ???

Please boost for a larger reach. ❤️

@vlkrs@bsd.network Are you able to assist at all ? TIA

This weekend is the perfect time to get your #eurobsdcon submissions done!

The Call for papers https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ is open until June 20th, for the conference in Brussels September 9-13, 2026.

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see towards the end of the CFP document.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles #development #sysadmin #hacking #networking

The latest #FreeBSD Journal just escaped! My Letters column contains some of the best advice I have ever offered system administrators. "Snuggle the pain" is only the beginning.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/