Recovering and reminiscing on an incredible #EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia! 🇭🇷 ​

What a week! Over 220 attendees, 48 brilliant speakers, and 16 amazing sponsors came together to celebrate all things #BSD. The energy was #BSD, deep dives into tech, inspiring talks, and those hallway conversations that spark new ideas and collaborations.

Huge shoutout to the video crew who made sure every moment was captured, and to everyone who traveled near and far to be part of this vibrant community. Whether it was hacking, learning, or just geeking out over #BSD, the connections made here are what make this event so special.

Zagreb, and the incredible Organizing Committee, you were the perfect host! Already counting down to the next one in Brussels! 🇧🇪

Did you attend? What was your highlight? 👇

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

In Zagreb, I realized my 2021 MacBook Pro M1 is starting to show its age. The battery life is shorter and the system seems slower than it was at the beginning, perhaps also due to the latest OS version. Yesterday, I used the "new" Acer with openSUSE Tumbleweed, running KDE Plasma. It's small, I paid about 500 euros for it, and it has a good monitor, but the battery life is poor, and that's the main reason I still primarily use the Mac. And yet, it gave me a greater sense of speed than the Mac. When one of the BSDs works well enough on this laptop (mainly suspend/resume), it will probably become my daily driver on the go. I need to try OpenBSD 7.8 as soon as it will be out.
it might have some surprises in store for me.

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #KDE #Plasma

Recovering and reminiscing on an incredible #EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia! 🇭🇷 ​

What a week! Over 220 attendees, 48 brilliant speakers, and 16 amazing sponsors came together to celebrate all things #BSD. The energy was #BSD, deep dives into tech, inspiring talks, and those hallway conversations that spark new ideas and collaborations.

Huge shoutout to the video crew who made sure every moment was captured, and to everyone who traveled near and far to be part of this vibrant community. Whether it was hacking, learning, or just geeking out over #BSD, the connections made here are what make this event so special.

Zagreb, and the incredible Organizing Committee, you were the perfect host! Already counting down to the next one in Brussels! 🇧🇪

Did you attend? What was your highlight? 👇

Like and subscribe! ​

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

Feeling so so comfy daily driving OpenBSD of late that I've still not touched my FreeBSD ThinkPad. The only FreeBSD interaction I've had is with my servers in my homelab which I'm tempted to add some OpenBSD stuff in their too. It's been amazing as everything just works and yes I'm running current too with no Wayland. But that doesn't matter as I'm really liking HerbstluftWM.
Yes before you ask I have been tempted to deploy puffy on the ThinkPad but have so far resisted as the Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower on a i5-10505 is plenty quick enough.
#RunBSD

Feeling so so comfy daily driving OpenBSD of late that I've still not touched my FreeBSD ThinkPad. The only FreeBSD interaction I've had is with my servers in my homelab which I'm tempted to add some OpenBSD stuff in their too. It's been amazing as everything just works and yes I'm running current too with no Wayland. But that doesn't matter as I'm really liking HerbstluftWM.
Yes before you ask I have been tempted to deploy puffy on the ThinkPad but have so far resisted as the Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower on a i5-10505 is plenty quick enough.
#RunBSD

This is how my 1 Euro per month #NetBSD VM is reacting to the sudden popularity of my last blog post, on HN:

load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00; up 72+04:35:09 15:17:29
33 processes: 32 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states: 3.7% user, 0.0% nice, 1.2% system, 0.7% interrupt, 94.3% idle
Memory: 737M Act, 43M Inact, 17M Wired, 25M Exec, 701M File, 16M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free / Pools: 138M Used / Network: 171K In, 4522K Out

#RunBSD

My daughter left home because University is located towns-away from here. This means she now has to connect her iPad to $HOME in order to watch the movies that are hosted in our local VOD system.

Yet another #OpenBSD and #Wireguard user that don’t even know about it. She only knows that she uses a #VPN and that it’s not NordVPN.

#RunBSD

Personally I would have gone with #Mailcow. Much easier to setup and administer. As much as I love #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD I sure as hell wouldn't recommend it for an SME.

Unless your goal is lock-in. Vendor lock-in. And in this case that vendor is you. Because let's face it, even in IT, OpenBSD is quite niche and FreeBSD is already niche enough.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD

@stefano #RunBSD !!

Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.

I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.

Because people need explanations, not brochures.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.

I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.

Because people need explanations, not brochures.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD

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

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

@EuroBSDCon was a blast as always. The amount of work put in by the organisers is incredible, and both the local crew (Karlo and friends, you've been a great help and I owe you an audio cable!) and the video gang (@mischa@exquisite.social, your camera saved the day .. reluctantly; @dexter and the rest of the @bsdtv gang y'all gonna need better dongles 😉 bent over backwards to accommodate my somewhat eccentric needs.

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