🚨 Spring is upon us! 🚨

To celebrate this we want to announce, with a little more time this time, the next edition of the BSD-NL Conference.

BSD-NL Conference - Spring 2026 🐡😈⛳

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

If you have a talk prepared already we want to hear from you! You can submit your abstract at https://events.bsdnl.nl/

Hack! You can even register for the event already... the price we charge is to cover lunch. https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/early-26/

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

🚨 Spring is upon us! 🚨

To celebrate this we want to announce, with a little more time this time, the next edition of the BSD-NL Conference.

BSD-NL Conference - Spring 2026 🐡😈⛳

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2026
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

If you have a talk prepared already we want to hear from you! You can submit your abstract at https://events.bsdnl.nl/

Hack! You can even register for the event already... the price we charge is to cover lunch. https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/early-26/

#BSDNL #RUNBSD #BSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD #SecBSD #DragonflyBSD

Just a shout out to everyone directly or loosly involved in *BSD world here on fedi and elsewhere.
Thanks for having me here. It's been a couple of years now since I migrated from Linux and really enjoying it.

be safe and keep up the excellent work,

#appreciation #bsd #kiss #unix #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonfly #runbsd #illumos

Registration for BSDCan 2026 is now open https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html and tutorials schedule is published.

#bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #libresoftware #freesoftware #conference #development #networking #sysadmin #devops

Newsflash: we have a date for BSD-NL, for the Early 2026 day-conference. Go follow @bsd_nl to get the announcement straight into your timeline

#BSDNL #BSD #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #FreeBSD #SecBSD #NetBSD #RUNBSD #MyMotherRunsBSD

"The Rest Is Trash"

We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime

I added a few more translations of the phrase "This is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "This is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

"The Rest Is Trash"

We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime

Registration for BSDCan 2026 is now open https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html and tutorials schedule is published.

#bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #libresoftware #freesoftware #conference #development #networking #sysadmin #devops

I have asked for my #FreeBSD commit bit to be taken into safekeeping. It’s been a few years since I actually committed code to the repo (I still maintain libcxxrt and dtc, which are in the base system, so my code has been committed by others in that time).

This is the second time. I reactivated it a couple of years ago and wrote a qemufwcfg driver (split NetBSD-style between a simple kernel device and a FUSE filesystem), but the review comments put me off bothering to get it into the tree (someone else is welcome to do it if they want to pull it out of phabricator). I still occasionally do code review for other folks, feel free to keep tagging me for reviews.

Still a happy FreeBSD user. If I have FreeBSD time again (any decade now…) I hope to work more on container things. The Apple folks who did their container thing have said they’re happy to take patches to support FreeBSD containers. Their one-VM-per-container model makes this much easier than Podman, which assumes a single VM so is hard to transparently support both Linux and FreeBSD guests.

The only thing I’d like to do that I’d want to put in the base system is a more modern service management and eventing system. And I doubt I’ll have time to work on that for a few years.

Newsflash: we have a date for BSD-NL, for the Early 2026 day-conference. Go follow @bsd_nl to get the announcement straight into your timeline

#BSDNL #BSD #OpenBSD #HardenedBSD #FreeBSD #SecBSD #NetBSD #RUNBSD #MyMotherRunsBSD

Just a shout out to everyone directly or loosly involved in *BSD world here on fedi and elsewhere.
Thanks for having me here. It's been a couple of years now since I migrated from Linux and really enjoying it.

be safe and keep up the excellent work,

#appreciation #bsd #kiss #unix #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonfly #runbsd #illumos

Wow, getting Chrome for Linux on #FreeBSD is a breeze now.

1. linux_enable="YES" in rc.conf
2. pkg install linux-chrome
3. Start Chrome

Bing Bang boom

Wow, getting Chrome for Linux on #FreeBSD is a breeze now.

1. linux_enable="YES" in rc.conf
2. pkg install linux-chrome
3. Start Chrome

Bing Bang boom

I'm about to give up on getting FreeBSD installed on my 9th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon. No matter what I do or try, I simply cannot get the install to boot. I've tried many different ways. The ISO, the .img file, nothing works. Pretty straightforward hardware: 11th Gen Core i5, 16 GB or RAM, Intel Iris Graphics.

Anyone have any ideas or maybe experiencing this same issue?

#FreeBSD