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This is the way, a remote OpenBSD:
https://openbsd.amsterdam/
or
https://boxybsd.com/
#bsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd #openbsd.amsterdam
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#bsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd #openbsd.amsterdam
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18 days to go!
From heavy VMs to lightweight BastilleBSD jails - saving resources and simplifying ops.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/11/27/migrating-from-vm-to-hierarchical-jails-freebsd/
#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD
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Get ready for the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡
We are counting down!
If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/
Big thank you to our platinum sponsor for supporting EuroBSDCon: Modirum by Entersekt
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷
September 25-28, 2025
#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2025 #BSD #Conference #Register
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19 days to go!
How to install FreeBSD on providers that don’t support it, using mfsBSD.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02/install_freebsd_providers_mfsbsd/
#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD
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A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Effective Bug Reports, Code Change Requests, and Conference Proposals by Michael Dexter @dexter
Open Source is participatory and BSD Unix is no exception, with its own unique development workflows and events. Bug reporting, code proposing, and event participation are fundamental elements of the BSD Unix community and despite appearances, are open to anyone to participate.
This talk will take a pragmatic tour of effective engagement on these topics with real-world examples and tips for:
Bug reports that are actionable and inspire attention
Code change requests and reviews that are more likely to review and acceptance
Conference proposals that stand out, accurately set expectations, and are more likely to be accepted
The secret is that all of that all of these are fundamentally indistinguishable: You are tasked with marketing your idea to others and must show your work, justify your points, demonstrate sincerity, and ultimately convince others of your initiative, regardless of its size.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
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https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Effective-Bug-Reports,.html
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#sylve #freebsd #jail #jails #bhyve #vm #virtualization #manager #ipv6 #zfs #opensource #runbsd #blog #devops #go #golang #cluster #freebsdcluster #bhyvecluster
https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/
20 days to go!
Guide: Move an entire FreeBSD installation to a new host or VM with ZFS send/recv.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/16/moving-freebsd-installation-new-host-vm/
#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD
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21 days to go!
How we ditched Kubernetes and regained sanity with FreeBSD.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/04/from-cloud-chaos-to-freebsd-efficiency/
#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD
A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Enhancing Unix Education through Chaos Engineering and Gamification using FreeBSD by Andreas Kirchner, Benedict Reuschling
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
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https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Enhancing-Unix-Education.html
A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Why (and how) we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs by Stefano Marinelli @stefano
A few years ago, we decided to migrate many of our servers (and many of those of our clients) from Linux to the BSDs - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD - depending on the specific services. In this presentation, I will discuss the reasons behind our decision, the technical and organizational challenges we faced, the tangible benefits we have experienced, and why we believe this migration is successful. I will provide specific examples and real-life case studies. In an increasingly complex world, relying on simple, stable, and secure solutions is becoming more and more important, and the BSDs can make a significant contribution in this direction.
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
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https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Why-and-how.html
22 days to go!
Why BSDs in 2025?
My perspective and why we moved many services from Linux to the BSDs.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/
#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD
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My Debian #Peertube instance was migrated to #FreeBSD before the holidays. And it went well since then.
Here’s what I did. Maybe you can too ;-)
https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/migrate-a-peertube-instance-from-debian-to-freebsd/
A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Running a root DNS server on FreeBSD -- from Alpha to Now by Daniel Mahoney
ISC has been proudly using FreeBSD in production for a long time, including to serve critical internet infrastructure with a global user base (including you!), from the DEC Alpha days up till now, mostly on bare-metal.
In this talk I'll go over some of how we (and I) got here, how we've managed far-away installs and upgrades without remote hands during a global pandemic, and how we believe that in a Linux-centric world, BSD gives us an advantage, not only in diversity, but from the community, and touch on how a single FreeBSD box has replaced an install that used to consist of separate routers and switches.
We'll cover some of our MacGyver moments, share some head-scratchers, and even cover some of the things we'd love to see in the future, both from the community as well as where we're hoping to go.
If the conference leaders think it wise, this talk could also include a light touch on how BGP and Anycast work, both in general, as well as how the global routing table is affected by the less-and-more specific routes to F that we announce to keep local traffic local, and how ISC works with its CDN partner. (These are not BSD-specific topics, but the maturity of reasonable routing daemons in ports have meant that we can now do this without needing an upstream router).
For more information, please visit:
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
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https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Running-a-root.html
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[2019] Game of Tree - Stefan Sperling
Stefan Sperling works as a freelance open source developer and consultant and is based in Berlin. Stefan has been involved in the OpenBSD project for a decade, and he is also one of the main contributors to the Apache Subversion version control system.
[2019] FreeBSD and the absurdities of security compliance - Eirik Øverby
The world of security compliance is defined by a few key players: The ones writing the requirements, the ones covering their asses, and the ones who’ll be blamed in the end. Since about 2008 we’ve been firmly placed in the latter category, and despite the obvious downsides it is, really, where we prefer to be.
Security requirements pertaining to the payment industry include the various PCI standards, card system specific requirements, national and regional laws, regulations and directives, and whatever else comes to the minds of the various players. While there is sanity to be found in some of them, there is also plenty of absurdity. It is this, above all, that leads us to use the term “The Blame Game” about it all.
We do pretty much everything with FreeBSD. From routers (bsdrp) and firewalls (pfSense) to application- and database servers, we’re running FreeBSD everywhere. The only closed-source software we employ are our own applications (boo!). Our basic principle has always been to identify the root cause of a security requirement and then comply in a way that goes beyond “ticking the box”; whatever we do has to be useful and practical – and not something we’re ashamed to talk about.
What we want to show:
Compliance is much harder than security
but not because the tools can’t do it
Open Source, and FreeBSD, CAN be used to achieve compliance in the payment industry
If you implement sane security measures, compliance is nearly free
The hardest part is explaining what you’ve done and why
Eirik Øverby
Slackware-gone-BSD in the early 00s, escaped the dying world of OS/2 to be doomed to death by Netcraft for another decade. Now managing jailed (but not dead!) systems for a living and as a hobby.
Today is Monday, 1st September. And September means one thing: EuroBSDCon!
23 days to go until EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!
I’m doing a little “advent calendar” for BSD fans: each day until the conference I’ll share one article from it-notes.dragas.net about FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, ZFS, PF and more. The dedicated hashtag will be #EuroBSDConAdvent
Let’s start right away with "I Solve Problems" - my EuroBSDCon 2024 (and #BSDCan 2025) talk about migrating from Linux to BSDs:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
If you’re coming to Zagreb, reply to this post - it would be nice to meet up with fellow BSD users!
#EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD #EuroBSDConAdvent
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We will see you at #EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb!!
20 new VMs were added and 63 VMs were renewed.
We donated €1145 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €56215 since we started.
Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!
Stay safe, healthy & sane!
#RUNBSD in 2025
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Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, wearing a white tank top and a light-colored hat, stands on a shrimp boat. He smiles at the camera with a fishing net in the background and the ocean behind him. With the text 'SEE YOU SOON!
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Paypal receipt for €1145 to the OpenBSD Foundation
The home server is back to native FreeBSD - the operation required less than 10 minutes - most of them have been used to unplug, take it to the upper floor, replug - unplug it again, take it back to the lower floor, and plug it back in.
Everything's fine.
Everything's working.
I'll document this setup on a blog post, in the coming days.
The power and simplicity of #FreeBSD always win.
Now, time to go out for a nice Sunday out!
Tomorrow morning I'm going to switch my home server back to native FreeBSD. The SmartOS experience was positive, but I noticed a high I/O wait when passing the disks through to the FreeBSD VM, so I think I'll just go fully native again.
It was a good experiment, and it worked out, but for this kind of task, FreeBSD is still the better choice.
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UPDATE: I haven't seen Recall in action there. I was just asking the doctor how they'll deal with it.
This morning, I went to the doctor for a scheduled appointment. While she was looking at the results of blood tests from two years ago on the screen (and suggested repeating them for a follow-up), I realized she was using Windows 11. A detail came to mind. The doctor is extremely polite and friendly, so I asked her, "How do you handle the feature called Recall?" The doctor was taken aback and had no idea what I was talking about. I was about to drop the conversation, but she, being a serious professional, immediately called the technicians who manage their PCs to ask for clarification. They downplayed it, saying it's not an issue and that it's a feature "on all PCs, so we can't do anything about it." She started to express that she didn’t like it and wanted it deactivated. No luck: they won’t proceed because, according to them, even deactivating it is "a hack that could compromise future updates." She’s furious and will talk to her colleagues and the decision-makers. She wants secure systems because "there’s patient data involved."
In reality, patient data is stored on servers (which I haven't investigated), but everything that appears on the screen is, in my opinion, at risk.
I’ve offered to help them find a solution—because, if I'm right, all they need is LibreOffice and a browser. In that case, I’ll suggest one of the *BSD or Linux systems and do it for free.
I don’t want to make money off my doctor. I just want patient data to be (sufficiently) secure.
#IT #Recall #Windows #OwnYourData #Security #Privacy #RunBSD #Linux