Here’s a little writeup about fun times at BSDCan 2025

https://blog.zia.io/2025/07/02/a-first-look-at-bsdcan-2025/

Yes, I’m using Stefano’s BSSG :)

#NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #BSDCan

Kinda cool to learn how resilient #netbsd seemed to chroot exploits

https://deepsec.net/docs/Slides/2015/Chw00t_How_To_Break%20Out_from_Various_Chroot_Solutions_-_Bucsay_Balazs.pdf

YOU!

The @bsdtv BSD A/V Team in conjunction with @bsdcan and @EuroBSDCon could use YOUR HELP with:

1. Locating official project slide templates
2. Validating them for readability on a projector and for the visually limited (I hear there are fonts that are dyslexia-friendy)
3. Integrating best practices into semi-official event slides for those presenters who simply want "insert content here"
No, I did not say required.

Thank you!

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #EuroBSDcon

For those who missed last night’s updates, I’m thrilled to announce that @h3artbl33d and I will be co-presenting a talk at #EuroBSDCon: Liberating the Social Web Using #BSD.

We’ll be sharing our experiences and technical decisions along the way.

I’ll be focusing on the BSD Cafe - its services, the story behind it, and most importantly, the human and motivational factors that make this community so special.

Always remember: #OwnYourData !

Stay tuned for more updates!

#BSDCafe #EuroBSDCon25 #EuroBSDCon2025 #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

It's been a while, so took me a bit to get pkgin working. Had to reference the netbsd docs to bootstrap pkgsrc and install pkgin, as I didn't do that step during the installation process.

#netbsd #pkgsrc

Delighted to report that my talk on Building products with @netbsd has been accepted for @EuroBSDCon #NetBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon2025

I just received an email with wonderful news, and I already have an unmistakable smile on my face.
EDIT: More about this here: https://exquisite.social/@h3artbl33d/114774022377520335

#RunBSD #BSDCafe #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Darned snobs with their fancy, modern hardware didn't pick up on this. But, like so few times before: Larry to the rescue!

.. Well actually, the NetBSD crew on IRC to the rescue. Within no time at all I had a patched kernel running. Awesome. The 486 ain't dead!

NetBSD larry.weirdr.net 10.99.14 NetBSD 10.99.14 (486BEAST) #1: Sun Jun 29 15:16:37 CEST 2025 ltning@motherfucker:/usr/home/ltning/github/NetBSD_clean/obj_i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/486BEAST i386

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/valuable-news-2025-06-30/

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

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

@alexhaydock

Comment from Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/s/qZz15YOqly

"to the author of the blog post (if they happen to see this)--you can install a homebrew program on the wii called "PriiloaderMod", to my recollection, and you hold down the reset button as you power the console on. from there you can set NetBSD homebrew to be launched automatically on console startup, even bypassing the health and safety screen.

cool project btw!! :)"
#netbsd

Oopsie...

Fell down a rabbit hole after reading the following blog post regarding X Windows not immediately, having X terminals, which led me to a Wikipedia post linked from there on X terminals, which then led me to the Wikipedia page on Blit, which then led me to the Wikipedia page on SDF, finally leading me to the result of typing "linux" on the command shell on SDF...

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTerminalsNotImmediate

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#unix #x11 #XWindowSystem #NetBSD #BSD

Time to dust off the #NetBSD 9 VM for trying to make an LLVM crash go away.

Still going...

pkgsrc-nb0# ps -o etime= -p 9270
2-02:48:30

50 hours and counting...

#pkgsrc #netbsd

Can you recommend USB WiFi adapters supported by #NetBSD?

@pitrh @winlundn

It does. I recently had a similar experience with #OpenBSD trying and failing to get it to just install onto a partition on the same disc that the installer was bootstrapped from.

#NetBSD's installer won.

https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/114607784909156050

Another issue is that the only way to stop dtrace is to kill -9 it, which takes the watched process with it in the fall..

Halp? :)

Bulk builds on #NetBSD now even slower thanks to www/chromium.

Currently been building for 27 hours with no end in sight.

Nothing else comes even remotely close, second longest being libreoffice at a mere 11 hours.

#pkgsrc #bloat

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https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/valuable-news-2025-06-23/

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

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

@stefano I wonder if there's a market for FTP accounts on a 386 serving static websites from DOS or OS/2. If a #NetBSD VPS costs $1/month, I should be able to charge, what, $1/year? :D

The IT-Notes blog is now served by the 1 euro/month #NetBSD VPS, too.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/

#ITNotes

Reposting to generate some load on the VPS 🙂

Why I'm Expanding My Blogging Presence

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/17/why-i-m-expanding-my-blogging-presence/

#Blogging #MyNotes #NetBSD #RunBSD

The My-Notes blog is now totally served by the 1 Euro/month #NetBSD VM I've described in a previous blog post - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/22/make-your-own-internet-presence-with-netbsd-and-a-1-euro-vps-part-1-your-blog/

https://my-notes.dragas.net

#RunBSD #MyNotes

I'll take Wayland when it comes my way without me having to lift a finger, but until then I'm glad the X Window System is still around. Keeps this old hardware useful.

Some insights how my BoxyBSD project for the BSD Community boosted the Proxmox ecosystem and let me create several tools that were simply missing.

#Proxmox #OpenSource #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Ansible #ProxLB #Community #BSDCan #Hosting #VPS

https://gyptazy.com/how-my-boxybsd-project-boosted-the-proxmox-ecosystem/

Busy week upgrading all VMs to #NetBSD 10.1 to allow switching to HVM from PV (as #XenServer and @xcpng have dropped support for PV and unfortunately do not support PVH either) which means moving to uEFI booting rather than pygrub loading the kernel. Just waiting for the next #pkgsrc quarterly release to move the remainder over with nice fresh packages.

Thanks to all our customers who run their own #selfhosting #NetBSD VMs with us for helping with this migration. Our #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD VMs were already running HVM. Yes, we #RunBSD and provide hosting in our UK datacentres (also #Windows and #Linux as required)

"Where have you been for the last 20 years?" - The question that changed everything. This isn't a BSDCan report, but a personal reflection on how impostor syndrome stole decades from me, and why it's never too late to find your community and live life fully.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/17/where-have-you-been-for-the-last-20-years/

#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #MyNotes #Life #LifeReflections #LiveLife #Community #OpenSource #OSS #EuroBSDCon

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟲 (Valuable News - 2025/06/16) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/06/16/valuable-news-2025-06-16/

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

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

The #bsdcan 2025 registration desk is ready for the second day of talks

#conference #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware

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Two BSDCan organizers with one laptop each, sitting at the registration desk with the table covered in neat stacks of this year's BSDCan T-shirts

The BSDCan streams can be found on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/@BsdcanOrg along with recordings from earlier conferences.

Also see https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/ for livestream info

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

Ready for the conference!

#BSDCan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

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Photo of a BSDCan 2025 speaker badge for Stefano Marinelli placed on a black tote bag. The badge includes a small cartoon BSD daemon holding a Canadian flag. The tote bag features a larger version of the same BSD mascot holding a trident with the Canadian flag attached. The mascot is red, with green sneakers and a friendly expression. The event location is Ottawa, Canada.

Next up at #bsdcan plenary room, "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" by Stefano Marinelli https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/123/ #conference #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware

@mccd #NetBSD is awesome NetBSD>>>>CentOS>>> Linux

Getting ready for #BSDCan

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

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A printed presentation slide featuring the BSD Daemon mascot holding a Canadian flag with a pitchfork. The title reads, "Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs." The presenter is Stefano Marinelli, and the event is BSDCan in Ottawa on 13 June 2025.