The European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 will start in a bit!

Only 36 days to go!
There are still tickets left, even for the social event.

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

If you want to know what we have planned have a look at the schedlue https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

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

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

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Croatian flag in 8bit. Full version on Youtube Croatia National Anthem | 8Bit Version | Euro 2024 | Olympic 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMPodVXZ4ZM

A #Linux alternative? #Debian /Hurd shows microkernel #Unix dream is alive

#NetBSD

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/debian_hurd_13/

Attempt at making a robot cat using #NetBSD and an ODROID C2

https://codeberg.org/20-100/musCATv1

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟴 (Valuable News - 2025/08/18) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/18/valuable-news-2025-08-18/

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

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

Two #blog posts in less than one week!

It was considered known that there is no support within GNAT (Ada) for illumos. We cross-build a complete native binutils+gcc toolchain for illumos to test out this claim.

...only to discover that illumos has full support within GNAT. Not a single test fails.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html

#Ada #illumos #GNAT #GCC #GNU #freesoftware #unix #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #linux #compiler #compilers

https://www.defert.com/musCAT.mp4

Of course, it runs NetBSD!

Credit: u/1r0n_m6n <https://www.reddit.com/r/NetBSD/comments/1msm1qs/of_course_it_runs_netbsd/> via @jaypatelani in Matrix

#NetBSD #cats #Caturday #SundayFun

The @EuroBSDCon 2021 😈⛳🐡 video's are now mirrored on Exquisite.tube.

So, if you want to:

• Learn how to setup high available WANs with OpenBSD,
• Get familiar with GhostBSD as a daily driver,
• Verify whether 'our' Dexter is a serial BSD tester and not the serial killer,
• Learn why FreeBSD Aarch64 Virtual Machines are boring,

Now you can! Errr, you already could, but now more privately, federated and without Big Tech.

The playlist for all 2021 talks can be found here.

Good weekend all and happy hacking!

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #RunBSD

I just installed a new battery on my test email server. Unlike the battery that’s close to absolute zero, the battery for my email server progressively lost capacity until it got to the point where it wouldn’t charge.

#NetBSD #mailserver

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This is a picture of a Raspberry Pi Zero in an official Raspberry Pi plastic case with a [Geekworm UPS Hat](https://wiki.geekworm.com/Raspi_UPS_HAT_Board). The new battery on it has been covered in electrical tape to hold the wires close and to secure the kapton tape holding the wires. The four LEDs are lit showing that the battery is full.

In a moment of Friday night weakness I may have bought an old X230 ThinkPad for my #NetBSD low-distraction writing machine :’).

Didn’t pay the extra for express shipping, so hopefully it comes in a week or so!

I need to update my #netbsd "wine in a 32-bit chroot" guide, a few things have changed... I didn't need to set WINEDLLPATH in the past.

Reding the docs for setting up NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 2
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/

#RaspberryPi #raspberrypi2 #NetBSD #RunBSD

@ayke
Little things like that are why I <3 NetBSD :)

#NetBSD #runbsd

Ok, so it looks like this toot blew up.

And what can I say? If you liked it, I by all means encourage you to try #NetBSD out for yourself! If you've had enough experience in a Unix command-line, and isn't afraid to do some reading on the documentation, it's a very rewarding experience.

You can see how I ran NetBSD on the first Raspberry Pi (2012 Model B) in this post for the Old Computer Challenge. If *that* was usable, anything else is going to be great!

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Happy hacking!

#RunBSD

Somehow landed on the NetBSD manpage of sleep(1) and they seem to have a rather unique take on what is considered a bug.

#netbsd

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Bugs: This sleep command cannot handle requests for durations much longer than about 250 billion years. Any such attempt will result in an error, and immediate termination. It is suggested that when there is a need for sleeps exceeding this period, the sleep command be executed in a loop, with each individual sleep invocation limited to 200 billion years approximately.

Found a good fanless, completely quiet PC with a LAN, WiFi, 2 COM ports, LPT, VGA and SSD inside — all that for the price of two good meals

It has 1 Gb RAM and Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz (i686, 32-bit). So I have a question to #NetBSD folks — how well NetBSD supports 32-bit architectures?

I want to do some #selfhosting, so I need to install some things: sshd, rsyncd, lighweight HTTP server (nginx?), syncthing, ejabberd, some mail server, etc Any chances that these software still builded for i686 and exists in NetBSD repos?

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Backplane of a fanless PC with a: LPT port, two 3.5 jacks, two USB 2.0 ports, PS/2 port, COM-port, VGA-port, two WiFi-antennas and the DC-in 12V port

We could not pass the opportunity to inform you that in 42 days the European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 will start!

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

You can find the schedule 📆 on: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

For everything else, peek at 🌐 https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

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

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

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"Daily Struggle" meme with a character attempting to push one of two red buttons labeled with contradicting statements. First button says: Life, The Universe, and everything Second button says: 42 Detailed on: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/daily-struggle-two-buttons

@ryoon

That is odd, why would google reject Chromium patches from #NetBSD.

Another confirmation on why I avoid Google products and products associated with Google as much as I can :)

#google #chrome #firefox

I have no option but to once again going to praise the #NetBSD on an amazing operating system.

Since I installed it on the Pi 4, the experience has been so smooth that I don't even realize I'm using a supposedly "cheap and underpowered computer" as it was the case with previous OSes. Nope, not anymore.

Instead, there are packages for everything, my architecture is treated as first-class, the performance is always high, and the more I learn about how to use it, the better my experience becomes. No other Linux or BSD met all of these points.

And to top it off? Booting up takes no more than 15-20 seconds. It's less than in my mom's Macbook Pro running Linux Mint!

Again, I can't praise the NetBSD team enough for such achievements. Thank you so much for your hard work that clearly shows that you dogfood your development!

#RunBSD #BSD

Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!

We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳

Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Hosting #VM #VPS #IPv6 #BGP #Singapore #BoxyBSD

No really, I’ve spent the last few days in idle time looking at second-hand ThinkPads.

I’m thinking of getting an older X series or Carbon and putting #NetBSD on it as a lower distraction writing tool.

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2025/08/11) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/valuable-news-2025-08-11/

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

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

#RunBSD #dragonflybsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the #OldComputerChallenge 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.

https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html

Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning #NetBSD, I guess :D

#oldcomputers #occ25 #runbsd #oldcomputerchallenge2025 #100DaysToOffload

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Raspberry Pi Model B with NetBSD logo overlaid.

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe (@stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy

New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds #NetBSD

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up

#NetBSD 11.0 release process underway

https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/08/04) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/valuable-news-2025-08-04/

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

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

Some friendships just don't crash. 😉 Happy Friendship Day from your most stable and reliable OS. 💻❤️ #RunBSD #FriendshipDay #SysAdmin #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #GhostBSD #DragonflyBSD #MidnightBSD #HardenedBSD & other BSDs i might have missed :)

Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025! 😈⛳🐡

54 days to go!

BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.

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

The schedule 📅 is at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.

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

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

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Joey from Friends sticking his head around the door. It has the text: Did someone say tickets?

What are you missing at @BoxyBSD?

Let me know what miss, what you need and how I can improve the service to make it easier and better for you!

#opensource #hosting #ipv6 #freevps #boxybsd #runbsd #bsd #devops #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dn42 #peering

So today I tried my hand at compiling for the first time in the Pi4. I built conky because the version in #NetBSD is very old and still uses the former syntax for which my dotfiles don't work anymore.

From this, I learned that NetBSD pkgsrc provides the development files for pretty much every package you install. That's nice: they put the source in Open Source!

Also, the process was surprisingly not scary. This hardware is not exactly fast (though probably fast for its cost), and even then the build took just over 5min. Guess I'll be trying my hand at it more, then, for the software I didn't find there.

#NetBSD 11.0 has been branched, and the stabilization process now begins. Pre-release snapshots will be available for users to try soon(tm).

This will be the first release with RISC-V, C23, and POSIX 2024 support.

#RUNBSD! But BoxyBSD now also starts to support #Linux! We're starting soon with the Linux support for already present users, offering free boxes:

* #AlmaLinux
* #Alpine
* #Debian
* #Devuan
* #CentOS
* #Fedora
* #Gentoo
* #OpenSuse
* #OpenEuler
* #RockyLinux

Just next to our core OS like #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and #DragonflyBSD (and #illumos). This should also make the step easier to compare and test different scenarios where BSD provides a different behavior compared to Linux systems.

Thanks to @gyptazy for the implementation!

#VPS #VM #VirtualMachine #OpenSource #Hosting #IPv6 #BGP #FreeHosting #Community

At EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb: "Liberating the social web using *BSD" by Jeroen - @h3artbl33d - and Stefano Marinelli, see https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/talk/PJJLFV/

Schedule at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/

To register https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/registration.html

#EuroBSDCon #EBC25 #BSDCafe #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #Networking #BSDCafe #RunBSD #Mastodon #Fediverse #OwnYourData #Security #Networking #Community