#Unix #BSD #RunBSD #FOSS

📢 The Call for Papers is open for BSD-NL Conference – Spring 2026 📢

We are looking for talks on any *BSD 🐡😈⛳ topic!

Whether you’re a seasoned speaker or just starting out, we’d love to hear from you.

Share your ideas and join us in Utrecht!
🔗 https://events.bsdnl.nl/early2026/

📆 2026-05-09 / May 9th 2025
🕐 10:00-23:00 CET
📍 Brouwerij Maximus (Utrecht)
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl

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

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Tom Hanks as Joe Fox in the movie "You've Got Mail" acting like the godfather. It has the text: Submit!

🚨 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

Why I love FreeBSD

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #ITNotes #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #OS #OpenSource

#OpenBSD 7.9 is almost here! Latest snapshots are tagged as 7.9-beta! ​​​

#BSD #RunBSD

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Screenshot of MATE desktop with MATE Terminal center-screen showing sysupgrade -s running to upgrade to the latest snapshot, and the base sets are tagged with "79" at the end of their respective filenames.

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Screenshot of MATE desktop with MATE Terminal center-screen showing the message of the day (motd) where it says the following: OpenBSD 7.9-beta (GENERIC.MP) #313: Sat Mar 14 16:30:15 MDT 2026 Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system. Please use the sendbug(1) utility to report bugs in the system. Before reporting a bug, please try to reproduce it with the latest version of the code. With bug reports, please try to ensure that enough information to reproduce the problem is enclosed, and if a known fix for it exists, include that as well.

Sunday noons... Sitting with an old and battered Dell Inspiron 1525 from 2009 running a LXQT Desktop on a rockstable *BSD in 2026.

A slice of pizza and a mug of a fine, delicious Darjeeling next to me I'm happily browsing, reading the Fediverse and getting some of my work done, while listening to some of my favourite music files hosted on my NAS.

Life can be good. Simple but good, or rather good because of simple needs...

Have a nice weekend folks, be excellent to each other...

#RunBSD

The #future of #Microsoft #Windows is downright terrifying. If their previous OS releases haven't motivated you to switch to #Linux or some kind of #BSD, then after watching this video I think you will be.

#opensource #RunBSD #OwnYourData #selfhost #NoAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7a89ZYcTo8

Dear friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire community,

Unfortunately, sometimes things in life do not go as planned. Becoming an adult also means learning to accept this and to set priorities. Over the past few months I have had some family matters that required my attention. I waited as long as possible before making a final decision, but the moment has now come.

I have informed the BSDCan team that, sadly, I will have to withdraw from the event and will not be able to present my talk.

BSD conferences have become some of the most important events of the year for me. They bring joy, positivity, and motivation. When one ends, I already start looking forward to the next with enthusiasm. In Zagreb I said goodbye to everyone with "see you in Ottawa". This year, unfortunately, that will not happen.

The only consolation is that the situation fortunately seems to be moving toward a resolution, although more slowly than expected. Because of this, I cannot in good conscience keep things uncertain and hope that everything will work out in time. I need to take a step back for now, already feeling the enthusiasm for the next EuroBSDCon.

#BSDCan #EuroBSDCon #BSD #RunBSD

Believe it or not, we were able to convince Michael W. Lucas @mwl to give the April 1st talk for NYC*BUG. His talk is entitled :
"What's Changed Since The Last Time I Came this Way: a talk that was supposed to be about OpenZFS."

Details to follow.

#runbsd

Maybe resist... just a little bit.

#BSD #runBSD #MidnightBSD

RT: https://floss.social/users/ostechnix/statuses/116222213993633257

AodeRelay boosted

OSTechNix » 🌐 2026-03-13
@ostechnix@floss.social

MidnightBSD developers are building system tools like aged and agectl to comply with age-verification laws including Digital Age Assurance Act.

More details here: https://ostechnix.com/midnightbsd-age-verification-tools/

#MidnightBSD #aged #agectl #daemon #commandline #DigitalAgeAssuranceAct #AgeVerificationLaw #Legal #Compliance #BSD #Unix

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

#Fediverse #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #NoteHUB #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Web

To install the Plasma desktop with a basic set of KDE Applications, execute: pkg install kde
Additional KDE Applications are tagged with the kde-applications category. 
To install a minimal Plasma desktop, execute: pkg install plasma6-plasma.
This installation is really minimal. The Konsole terminal emulator must be installed separately executing: pkg install konsole.

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD

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

uname -sr
sysctl hw.version
time (x11perf \
-dot \
-create \
-destroy \
-map \
-rect500 \
-aa24text \
-copywinwin100 \
-f8text \
-fitext \
-gc \
-getimage500 \
-pcircle100 \
-polytext \
-putimage500 \
-rect500 \
-resize \
-scroll100 \
-tileftext \
-tr10text \
-triangle100 \
-repeat 2 \
-time 1 > /dev/null)

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE Announcement

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/14 branch.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

$dayjob is forcing me to touch systemd. I am so glad I have avoided to this point. Next step, move this system off systemd.
#RUNBSD