#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

Was about to try SecBSD but noticed that "flavors" are not available on current mirrors. I would like to get DWM one and take it for a spin.

@secbsd any advice? Could I build these from some source or get them somewhere else?

#SecBSD #RUNBSD

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

https://youtu.be/ZpCpcTu3yUk

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

#runbsd #freebsd #pf #bsdcan

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

https://youtu.be/UnVp25-6Qao

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/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Why-and-how.html

#runbsd

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

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/

#RunBSD

A new BSDCan video has been posted:
Running a root DNS server on FreeBSD -- from Alpha to Now by Daniel Mahoney

https://youtu.be/vCiCvQsxucc

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/
- and -
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/timetable/timetable-Running-a-root.html

#dns #runbsd #bgp

@stefano here you go, late but didn't wanna lose any access 😃

Since I didn't have any computers with me at the moment, I ssh'd into the coffee machine for the pic ☕

#NetBSD #RunBSD

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termux showing uname and fastfetch of a NetBSD 10.1 machine and a coffee cup next to it

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

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!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #ThePowerOfTheBSDs #BSDs

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.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

I feel the need
the need to SEED
GhostBSD

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD

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Seeding progress of the GhostBSD install image using Transmission bittorrent client.

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

This should cover coffee, Caturday, the BSDs, the BSD Cafe, FreeBSD and the mess on my desk 🙂
Should be ok for the validation 😆

#Caturday #FreeBSD #RunBSD #BSDCafe #Mess

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A high-angle close-up shot of a messy desk. A red and silver FreeBSD Foundation pen lies horizontally in the foreground. In the mid-ground, three coffee mugs are visible. Two of them, decorated with blue and orange flower patterns, are stacked on top of a yellow mug with a simple cat illustration on it. The mug to the right is also decorated with a flower pattern. All the mugs appear to be dirty. In the blurred background, a computer monitor shows a web browser - the BSD Cafe timeline - and a lot of clutter is visible on the desk.

🎉 We did it again! 🎉

Reaching silver sponsorship for the OpenBSD Foundation earlier and earlier. When you love your OS more than your sleep, you need on the support! 🐡💰☕️

Thanks for keeping the code clean, the bugs dead, while we keep the memes alive. Here’s to another year of making the internet a less chaotic place… one pledge() at a time.

Impossible to do this without you, our users, and OpenBSD developers. 🫶🏻

#OpenBSD #RUNBSD #Silver #Sponsor

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A young child with arms raised, covered in colorful confetti, celebrating joyfully. The image includes overlaid text that reads: 'I THINK THIS CALLS FOR A CELEBRATION'

A bug!!! Provost & Reuschling reaching for the swatter! #Hackathon #FreeBSD #RunBSD #Oslo 🪰🪰🪰

While most of you are already using BSD operating systems, i just wanna share a thank you note to @gyptazy for helping and giving something back to the community:
His https://boxybsd.com/ project.
The layout of the boxybsd.com site, inspired me to copycat/plagiarize, and build a similar one for fun and testing purposes. https://cybersec.runbsd.io/
Because, reminds me of lynx/links browsers and mutt/pine mail clients from the good old days.

#boxybsd #runbsd

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#boxybsd #runbsd

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#boxybsd #runbsd

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS #VPS #BSD #Box #BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6