OpenSSH, TCP/IP, Berkely sockets—even vi—all came from the BSD camp, and they're everywhere now!

BSD innovations have influenced nearly all of modern computing and don't often get enough credit.

Cheers to all the unsung engineers (and to Bill Joy for half of that list at least!) 🍻

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #runBSD #BSD

It was great to see everybody again at #EuroBSDCon2025.
Sorry if we missed you, but there is always #EuroBSDCon2026! :)

16 new VMs were added and 64 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1120 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €57335 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2025

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If you know, you know 😆

#RunBSD

If anyone is interested in what I had to say (and hand out) during my talk, the QR code at the end leads to http://anduin.net/l.htm - go grab your copy in any of three formats: Bootable floppy, zipped TheDraw files, or PDF (boo!).

I met too many awesome people to count, much less remember the names of everyone, but I truly hope those of you who want to reach out will do so. My DMs are open ;)

The social overload from this weekend will quickly turn into the pain of missing the company of this extended family. Can't wait to see you again in Brussels - or at any time before that if you visit Oslo!

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #EuroBSDCon2026 #RunBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #BSD

The European *BSD event of the year 2025 has come to an end! For real now... ​​ 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who attended, spoke, helped organize and made this event awesome!

Vidimo se sljedeće godine u Brussels!

Tot volgend jaar in Brussel!

See you next year in Brussels!

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 10-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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The last day of talks at the European *BSD event of the year has come to an end! 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who made this event awesome! Hvala!!

A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻
- Bojan Novković
- Karlo Miličević
- Marko Vlaić
- prof. dr. sc. Marin Golub
- Philipp Buehler

And let's not forget the fantastic talks and tutorials by:

- Albert Dengg
- Alexander Bluhm
- Alfonso Sabato Siciliano
- Andreas Kirchner
- Benedict Reuschling
- Beni Keller
- Bjoern Zeeb
- Charlie Li
- Chris Moerz
- Christoph Badura
- Christos Margiolis
- Daniel Stenberg
- Dave Cottlehuber
- Denis Salopek
- Eirik Øverby
- Florian Obser
- Hans-Jörg Höxer
- Harald Eilertsen
- Harold Gutch
- Hiroki Sato
- Jake Freeland
- Jan Bramkamp
- Jeroen
- John Baldwin
- Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
- Kirk McKusick
- Lukas Engelhardt
- Marc Espie
- Mario Spuler
- Martin Husemann
- Michael Dexter
- Michael Lucas
- Moin Rahman
- Nils Imhoff
- Olivier Certner
- Patrick M. Hausen
- Peter N. M. Hansteen
- Rob Keizer
- Roller Angel
- Souma Sakaguchi
- Stefan Sperling
- Stefano Marinelli
- Stephen Borrill
- Terence Eden
- Tom Smyth

🤘 You all rocked the stage! 🤘

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Distributed file system on OpenBSD using FUSE and Elixir by @robertkeizer #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #Elixir #Erlang #FUSE

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#eurobsdcon folks: There are still a quite few #RUNBSD stickers left in the hallway. Find me if you need larger quantities for your company/user group/whatever. #ebc25

🚨 Room change for the *BSD event of the year 😈⛳🐡

The Keynote will be moved from D1 to D2.

To catch the stream go to: https://www.youtube.com/live/wEM-E-IJ6sY

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #LastMinuteChange

If you have been enjoying the @EuroBSDCon streams, you can buy a virtual ticket if you like:

#runbsd

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Volse Computing presents OpenJDK on FreeBSD with @harald #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenSource #OpenJDK #Java

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The platinum sponsor demonstrates the 100 ways for poor Larry Laffer to die (and resurrect) #EBC25 #RunBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #DOS #OS2 #retrogaming #SierraOnline

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Sticker cuteness #Stickers #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025

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How commit messages may trigger conspiracy nutters! The UK #Covid19 tracking app. #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenSource #NHS

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«When the signal is received, terminate all non-responsive children. Do not log any data about this, and spawn a new daemon”

#EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Sticker cuteness #Stickers #EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025

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I idemo dalje European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We are on our way with the second day!
Another full day of summits and now also tutorials.

Registration and ☕☕☕ starts at 09:30.

- FreeBSD Devsummit

- NetBSD cross development with a standardized dev env
by Christoph Badura

- An Introduction to the Kernel Services and I/O System of the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System
by Kirk McKusick

- Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset
by Peter N. M. Hansteen & Tom Smyth

- Modern TLS
by Michael Lucas

- Run Your Own Mail Server
by Michael Lucas

- Ansible for Unix Administrators
by Nils Imhoff

You can find the full program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷 September 24-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Summit #Tutorials

#EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck

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EuroBSDCon starts tomorrow!

Packing done, slides ready - see you in Zagreb!

https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Off to #Zagreb and #EuroBSDCon! Hope the connections at #AMS goes relativly well! Can't miss the #PF tutorial! #RunBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD

Here is a quick look on an AOOSTAR R1 N150 clone. How good does it support Linux Debian, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD and #OmniOS from a general performance and power consumption POV.

This is a 2 SATA bays NAS with an extra single NVMe slot. Looks like a perfect silent NAS-Hypervisor combo. And, it can #RunBSD; although I choose #illumos for it.

Sunday morning. I open the issue tracker of a software project.
One of the issues: "Library Y is outdated, you should use library Z".
A dev replies: "Y is still perfectly valid, and it’s the only one that ensures compatibility with other OSes like the BSDs".
Response: "Nobody uses those OSes anymore, and there’s no reason to - we have Linux!"
The dev simply closed the issue.

Great way to start the day. 🙂

#RunBSD

I guess, I'll bring an extra amount of #antifa #runbsd stickers to #EuroBSDcon.

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I configured redundant #DNS and #DHCP services on #OpenBSD and all I got was this lousy blog post: https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/redundant-dhcp-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd/

Anyway, enjoy if that's your thing too. And #RunBSD anyway!

Nine more days to go until the European *BSD event of the year kicks off! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: NetBSD
https://www.netbsd.org/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Ten more days to go till the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: Genua
https://www.genua.de/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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🎉 Server27 just joined the party! 🎉

The OpenBSD.Amsterdam fleet just got a little bigger. It's online and ready to rock your 🐡 VM.

https://obsda.ms/servers.html

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD #SHINY #CUTE

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NetBSD-powered CDN: caching, TLS and performance on a shoestring.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/03/make-your-own-cdn-netbsd/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Getting closer by the day! 🥁

Big thank you to our silver sponsor: Prodottoinrete
https://prodottoinrete.it/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Vidimo se u Zagrebu!!

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Here we go again, #EuroBSDCon! I may have mentioned it, but it's really happening*: I'm giving a talk again, this time titled:

Dirty Tricks: Using #nginx and #Lua to thwart bots and skript kiddies

This talk is specifically for anyone who

• has tried to host a BBS on the Internet,
• is struggling with scrapers and bots,
• lives in the #RetroComputing bubble,
• wants to see an early '90s PC on stage,
• needs a telnet captcha, or
• simply has nothing better to do.

Read more about it here, take a look at the conference schedule, and buy your ticket!

See you there!

#FreeBSD #Security #BSD #RunBSD #DOS #RunDOS #TheDraw #AnsiArt

* I didn't want to post this until I was fairly certain I could even pull this off..

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Dear friends of BSD Cafe, I've just approved the 500th user for this instance.
That's right, the 500th friend has just joined the BSD Cafe's Mastodon instance.
This calls for a celebration!

EDIT: 500 users are currently registered, not counting those who moved, left, or started self-hosting.

#BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD #RunBSD

Thank you ❤️

#RunBSD

The last BSDCan 2025 video has been posted!
Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca

https://youtu.be/oo_8gnWQ4xo

I'm typing this in my Xuake Wayland Compositor on OpenBSD.

I started this journey on the NetBSD 9.99.x branch and ended up having to dig into the guts of wscons, mesa, libdrm, the kernel drm subsystem, the AMDGPU driver and more. I have a couple of very small, but hard fought patches in the NetBSD kernel. It's not over yet, either. I still have a few bugs around the compositor shutdown process and a lot of integration work to be able to hope to have other people try this out.

Topics to cover in the talk include (but are not limited to):

History of Wayland and other background info

How your graphics stack and driver is organized and actually works

The actual porting journey on both NetBSD and OpenBSD

A Demo! I should be able to show it running

Current status, future work

For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Adventures-in-porting.html

#wayland #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd

Get ready for the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We are counting down!

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

Big thank you to our platinum sponsor for supporting EuroBSDCon: Modirum by Entersekt

EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #Conference #Register

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22 days to go!
Why BSDs in 2025?

My perspective and why we moved many services from Linux to the BSDs.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

Today is Monday, 1st September. And September means one thing: EuroBSDCon!

23 days to go until EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!

I’m doing a little “advent calendar” for BSD fans: each day until the conference I’ll share one article from it-notes.dragas.net about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, ZFS, PF and more. The dedicated hashtag will be #EuroBSDConAdvent

Let’s start right away with "I Solve Problems" - my EuroBSDCon 2024 (and #BSDCan 2025) talk about migrating from Linux to BSDs:

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/

If you’re coming to Zagreb, reply to this post - it would be nice to meet up with fellow BSD users!

#EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD #EuroBSDConAdvent

We will see you at #EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!!

20 new VMs were added and 63 VMs were renewed.

We donated €1145 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €56215 since we started.

Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!

Stay safe, healthy & sane!

#RUNBSD in 2025

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🎉 We did it again! 🎉

Reaching silver sponsorship for the OpenBSD Foundation earlier and earlier. When you love your OS more than your sleep, you need the support! 🐡💰☕️

Thanks for keeping the code clean, the bugs dead, while we keep the memes alive. Here’s to another year of making the internet a less chaotic place… one pledge() at a time.

Impossible to do this without you, our users, and OpenBSD developers. 🫶🏻

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Silver #Sponsor

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A bug!!! Provost & Reuschling reaching for the swatter! #Hackathon #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Oslo 🪰🪰🪰

See referenced text below:

Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) updated the version of OpenBSD -current to "7.7-current".

Those running the latest-and-greatest [via a sufficiently new snapshot or built from source] no longer need to use "-D snap" with pkg_add(1) (and pkg_info(1)).

"No head I will not wipe FreeBSD from my laptop in favor of OpenBSD!" 🙄

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=8e3bae7f65