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I'll be speaking at NYC*BUG on June 3. So... show up? You can show up online, no expensive flight to Manhattan needed.https://www.nycbug.org/#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Unix #Linux #Solaris #Illumos

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116584334811849567Post-mortem from today’s FreeBSD/arm64 outage of my prod web-server:After reboot, the box appeared to hang around ZFS root/init. Pools imported fine from live media, /sbin/init was valid, old kernel/BE made no difference. There was also a stale GPT signature on a whole-disk ZFS vdev, which made the trail extra noisy.Actual RCA: a stray " in /etc/rc.conf in my static_routes line. rc.conf is shell, so that broke early boot badly enough that networking never came up and it looked like kernel/ZFS/init trouble.Fixed syntax, restored ZFS canmount values, jails back online.Lesson: always run sh -n /etc/rc.conf before rebooting. 🫠#freebsd #outage #runbsd #oopsie

My upgrade process for several full jails on a host:for jail in $(jls name); do echo "=== Updating jail: $jail ===" jexec $jail freebsd-update fetch install jexec $jail pkg upgrade -ydoneservice jail restartWorks, gets the job done and is "good enough".#freebsd #jails #automation #shell

So I seem to be backing up my system before switching back to #FreeBSD after a few months away. What Desktop Environment though? KDE? or XFCE? or something else?

Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/seven_years_of_running_freebsd_on_thinkpads/>＂I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.＂Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough —call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.＂If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload: …＂The image here is for <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/comment/om1t5mg/> because we can all agree that em dashes make scintillating conversation.#goated #X11 #Wales #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #ZFS #OpenZFS #Beastie #daemon #MyLittlePony #unicorn #dolphin #rainbow #IBM #Lenovo #BastilleBSD #WireGuard #AI #purple

Motivated by @vermaden , @stefano and @alex_deplov I am trying to set up #FreeBSD with #KDE on a laptop (currently a X13Yoga). I’ve not yet decided if it is more fun to do so or to finally succeed — ‘cause I’m not there yet. I’m learning a lot. The process as such reminds me of Michel Dudok de Wit’s “The Monk and the Fish”. https://youtu.be/LCqA9X8c6Fc

@ricardo Monaco?

@stefano the faster way on Linux is a simple keyboard shortcut: Alt+Sysrq+bedit: Sysrq key is Print Screen for those who didn't knowedit2: hardly anyone has a keyboard with a Print Screen button anymore though

@mwl Just get an extra long ethernet cable and tie it off to the server rack before you go down the rabbit hole. If you need help, tug it three times.

Announcing #BSDCan 2026 Travel GrantsDeadline: Friday the 19th!To encourage and enable more first-time and returning attendees at BSDCan 2026, this year’s travel grant is a free room for up to five nights in a shared-bathroom private suite at the 90U residences.Full details:https://blog.bsdcan.org/2026/05/14/announcing-bsdcan-2026-travel-grants#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@duncan_bayne Jabra’s Evolve series is good. I have them for the noise cancelling mic. I could use them in a Disco.

Achievement Unlocked!With the help of the graciously-loaned Ampere system, I have completed a #FreeBSD 15.1-BETA2 Build Option Survey BEFORE the next pre-release landed! It CAN be done!https://callfortesting.org/15.1-BETA2/#LikeABOS** Sorry, I don’t have many B.O.S. jokes or puns but maybe @gumnos can loan some cycles.

🥲 smart(8) made it to #FreeBSd Base!Thank you @ctuffli !https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/contrib/smart?id=68e5b71517e947b4e3f349c970af362b47b45f27️️️

Anne Dickison, Deputy Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, will join Katie Steen-James (Open-Source Initiative) and Margaret Tucker (GitHub) for a GitHub Maintainer Month panel on what age assurance proposals mean for open-source maintainers.The discussion will examine developments in the U.S., Brazil, and Europe, and what developers need to understand as policy conversations evolve.LinkedIn Live on May 22, 2026Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/3Ra8QOY #FreeBSD #OpenSource

Working on a BastilleBSD website refresh this week. The website has been in it's (mostly) current form for probably six years. A lot has changed since then!I'll announce here when the new site is ready to view!#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

@jhx it definitely is!

New post: FreeBSD resource monitoring and accounting.A practical tour of the base-system toolkit for figuring out *what is actually using my server*: top, vmstat, systat, gstat, netstat/sockstat, procstat, pfctl, and per-jail attribution with kern.racct and rctl.No ports, no agents. Just FreeBSD.https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-resource-monitoring-accounting-and-troubleshooting/#FreeBSD #BSD #Jails #pf #SysAdmin #DevOps #Unix #BSD #Blog

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟭𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/05/11) available. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/11/valuable-news-2026-05-11/Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Seems appropiate.#freebsd #xfce #koss #thinkpad

@pertho it usually does and yes, double writes are bad there.