theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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Michael Dexter
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The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
If you tried to sign up as a new indico user and did not get the confirmation mail in time, please try again. The problem has been fixed.
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein) @bsdcan
The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
If you tried to sign up as a new indico user and did not get the confirmation mail in time, please try again. The problem has been fixed.
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein) @bsdcan
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/
Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/
Michael Dexter
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The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)
Also: indico mail problem has been fixed
The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)
Also: indico mail problem has been fixed
Stefano Marinelli
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The mighty world of BSD
Playing with again smolBSD, a fantastic metaOS system that I talked about a few weeks ago.
I'm a newbie, a greenhorn, when it comes to meta-operating systems built on top of NetBSD.
I am very eager to learn by doing, making mistakes in the process, correcting and feel the warmth of the BSD community, who is happy to correct, esp when I show that I read the docs after making the mistakes
The journey is fantastic, the learning process is fun. microVM's are amazing. I've registered 11ms boot times on this small machine with a few CPU cores (and 40GB RAM). The fun is endless
#programming #technology #BSD #netBSD #metaOS #microVM #networking #qemu #host #bmake #curl #sshd #Linux
pkg installations smolBSD
smolBSD installation lines
![The image depicts a terminal window running a command line interface (CLI) environment. The background is a dark, blurred image of a tree with red and orange foliage. The terminal window is titled "smolBSD" in the top left corner, and the prompt displays "nbuser[@]nbakery" followed by the current directory and a bash prompt. Three separate windows are visible, each with a slightly different title and content.](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/115/658/826/605/655/604/original/ce805e9c86d210b4.png)
The image depicts a terminal window running a command line interface (CLI) environment. The background is a dark, blurred image of a tree with red and orange foliage. The terminal window is titled "smolBSD" in the top left corner, and the prompt displays "nbuser[@]nbakery" followed by the current directory and a bash prompt. Three separate windows are visible, each with a slightly different title and content.
Stefano Marinelli
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😎
Stefano Marinelli
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"What if" Wednesday
What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?
How long would your laptop last?
How long would your operating system last?
How long would the internet last?
#ShowerThoughts #WhatIfWednesday #FreeBSD #Linux #Computing #NetBSD #OpenBSD #OpenSource
"What if" Wednesday
What if we could continue using the computers we have but no new computers could be built, what would that look one year, five years or even ten years later?
How long would your laptop last?
How long would your operating system last?
How long would the internet last?
#ShowerThoughts #WhatIfWednesday #FreeBSD #Linux #Computing #NetBSD #OpenBSD #OpenSource
Stefano Marinelli
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Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/valuable-news-2025-12-15/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
I investigated some #NetBSD/i386 bulk build failures for Go packages. They all failed with the same error, which is sus. Reported it as https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76815, and it turned out to be an actual linker bug that was fixed today! 🤩
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟮/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2025/12/15) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/valuable-news-2025-12-15/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Michael Dexter
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#TIL that there are no knobs in #NetBSD to configure #ZFS ARC memory consumption.
I started to use ZFS for my disk with backups and digital archives near a month ago, because I didn't want to think about changing sizes of LVM partitions. And my homelab server has only 2 Gb of RAM and some swap 
Whoops. Not a good surprise 
Stefano Marinelli
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@SrRochardBunson @ajroach42 @stefano
The BSDs are *awesome* operating systems. #FreeBSD is a high performance general purpose OS. It is modern #Unix. #NetBSD is for portability, it supports nearly every CPU architecture under the sun. #OpenBSD is security-focused. #GhostBSD is a FreeBSD fork focused on the desktop.
Most of my experience is with FreeBSD, which I will enthusiastically share. It is unquestionably a solid server OS. As a desktop OS, it works quite well. It definitely does not feel like "Linux from 2004." The major desktop environments like #KDE #GNOME #XFCE are all supported and #nvidia releases drivers for the OS too. Modern hardware is supported. For *cutting edge hardware*, #Linux may be the better bet here. It's a little slower to adopt cutting edge gear because it is focused on stability and elegant solutions, not trend-chasing.
FreeBSD is an excellent OS to learn. It runs beautifully and it's more coherent and better designed. Documentation is *solid*.
Edit: Corrected errors. GhostBSD, not DragonflyBSD. Thanks @aru
Stefano Marinelli
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What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out! https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html
Also, the @bsdcan call for papers is on until January 17th 2026 https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html #bsd #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #development #conference #freesoftware #libresoftware
#TIL that there are no knobs in #NetBSD to configure #ZFS ARC memory consumption.
I started to use ZFS for my disk with backups and digital archives near a month ago, because I didn't want to think about changing sizes of LVM partitions. And my homelab server has only 2 Gb of RAM and some swap
Whoops. Not a good surprise