My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin#IT#BSDCafe #illumosCafe#Community#OpenSource#OSS #illumos#SmartOS#OpenIndiana#ZFS #bhyve #kvm#Fediverse#Mastodon #snac#ITNotes

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin#IT#BSDCafe #illumosCafe#Community#OpenSource#OSS #illumos#SmartOS#OpenIndiana#ZFS #bhyve #kvm#Fediverse#Mastodon #snac#ITNotes

My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

#SysAdmin#IT#BSDCafe #illumosCafe#Community#OpenSource#OSS #illumos#SmartOS#OpenIndiana#ZFS #bhyve #kvm#Fediverse#Mastodon #snac#ITNotes

The Tenth #bhyvecon will take place September 26th during @EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, Croatia!

Registration is open and free of charge, but we invite you to make a donation to help cover costs.

https://bhyvecon.org

#bhyve#FreeBSD #illumos

The Tenth #bhyvecon will take place September 26th during @EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, Croatia!

Registration is open and free of charge, but we invite you to make a donation to help cover costs.

https://bhyvecon.org

#bhyve#FreeBSD #illumos

The Tenth #bhyvecon will take place September 26th during @EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, Croatia!

Registration is open and free of charge, but we invite you to make a donation to help cover costs.

https://bhyvecon.org

#bhyve#FreeBSD #illumos

The Tenth #bhyvecon will take place September 26th during @EuroBSDcon in Zagreb, Croatia!

Registration is open and free of charge, but we invite you to make a donation to help cover costs.

https://bhyvecon.org

#bhyve#FreeBSD #illumos

The recording of the August 14th, 2025 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/icXQgq4cE9w

We discussed replacing Proxmox with bhyve, a bhyve on ARM64 update, Debian 13 under bhyve, a detailed Sylve update, feature ideas, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

The recording of the August 14th, 2025 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/icXQgq4cE9w

We discussed replacing Proxmox with bhyve, a bhyve on ARM64 update, Debian 13 under bhyve, a detailed Sylve update, feature ideas, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

The recording of the August 7th, 2025 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/VlE4msjvyDA

We discussed bhyve-cli, Alpine on Linux, MAJOR Sylve updates, features, and its roadmap, #Proxmox 9, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

The recording of the August 7th, 2025 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/VlE4msjvyDA

We discussed bhyve-cli, Alpine on Linux, MAJOR Sylve updates, features, and its roadmap, #Proxmox 9, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

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

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

Bhyve friends,

Did a Linux install on it could access to the host usb ports ?

#bhyve
#jail
#usb
#freebsd

Bhyve friends,

Did a Linux install on it could access to the host usb ports ?

#bhyve
#jail
#usb
#freebsd

The recording of the July 31st, 2025 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/B7DsDvx95dY

We discussed recent Production User Calls and upcoming events, Eurobhyvecon, Major CPU ID progress and reviews, paravirtualized clocks, #OpenZFS replication with Zelta, devd events in #FreeBSD and their equivalents in #illumos, VM metadata collection, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."