Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>Ok, so it looks like this toot blew up. </p><p>And what can I say? If you liked it, I by all means encourage you to try <a href="https://c.im/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> out for yourself! If you've had enough experience in a Unix command-line, and isn't afraid to do some reading on the documentation, it's a very rewarding experience.</p><p>You can see how I ran NetBSD on the first Raspberry Pi (2012 Model B) in this post for the Old Computer Challenge. If *that* was usable, anything else is going to be great!</p><p><a href="https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old</span><span class="invisible">_computer_challenge_2025.html</span></a></p><p>Happy hacking!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
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Daniel Wayne Armstrong<p>Updated post!</p><p>I like to customize the NetBSD login with a different "last login" notification and a "Daily Dose of Wisdom" delivered courtesy of `fortune` piped to `cowsay`...</p><p><a href="https://www.dwarmstrong.org/customize-login-netbsd/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dwarmstrong.org/customize-logi</span><span class="invisible">n-netbsd/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
Justine SmithiesSeems someone has tried <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenBSD</a> on a <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=thinkpad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThinkPad</a> P14s Gen 1 AMD and it just works. <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RunBSD</a><br><br><i>"No head I will not wipe FreeBSD from my laptop in favor of OpenBSD!"</i> 🙄<br><br><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=8e3bae7f65" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=8e3bae7f65</a><br>
EuroBSDCon<p>We could not pass the opportunity to inform you that in 42 days the European *BSD 😈⛳🐡 event of 2025 will start!</p><p>Grab your tickets 🎟️ at <a href="https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tickets.eurobsdcon.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>You can find the schedule 📆 on: <a href="https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/sch</span><span class="invisible">edule/</span></a></p><p>For everything else, peek at 🌐 <a href="https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">2025.eurobsdcon.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>More information is added all the time.</p><p>EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷<br>September 25-28, 2025</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/EuroBSDCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroBSDCon</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/EuroBSDCon2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroBSDCon2025</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conference</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Register" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Register</span></a></p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Serving a simple website from a Jail with Bastille</p><p>A great article by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jhx</span></a></span> for the BSD Cafe Journal!</p><p><a href="https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/08/13/serving-a-simple-website-from-a-jail-with-bastille/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journal.bsd.cafe/2025/08/13/se</span><span class="invisible">rving-a-simple-website-from-a-jail-with-bastille/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BastilleBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BastilleBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Bastille" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bastille</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSDCafeJournal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDCafeJournal</span></a></p>
BoxyBSD<p>Hello to our friends in Singapore 🇸🇬!</p><p>We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 🥳</p><p>Thanks to Route64 and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/@gyptazy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gyptazy</span></a></span> !</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSDHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDHosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/VM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/VPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/IPv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPv6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BGP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BGP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Singapore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BoxyBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoxyBSD</span></a></p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>I have no option but to once again going to praise the <a href="https://c.im/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> on an amazing operating system.</p><p>Since I installed it on the Pi 4, the experience has been so smooth that I don't even realize I'm using a supposedly "cheap and underpowered computer" as it was the case with previous OSes. Nope, not anymore.</p><p>Instead, there are packages for everything, my architecture is treated as first-class, the performance is always high, and the more I learn about how to use it, the better my experience becomes. No other Linux or BSD met all of these points.</p><p>And to top it off? Booting up takes no more than 15-20 seconds. It's less than in my mom's Macbook Pro running Linux Mint!</p><p>Again, I can't praise the NetBSD team enough for such achievements. Thank you so much for your hard work that clearly shows that you dogfood your development!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a></p>
Jay 🚩 :runbsd:<p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/dragonflybsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dragonflybsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p>
Shmok<p>I ordered this a few minutes ago as my new <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> firewall router from AliExpress with N150 DDR5 Intel 2.5Gb <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a></p>
Jazzynupe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@curtosis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>curtosis</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mazhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mazhe</span></a></span> Thanks for the suggestion everyone. Upgraded & now running <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/ZVault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZVault</span></a> just fine. If updates don't happen, I can always move to <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Xigmanas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xigmanas</span></a> later since there is a preview of 14.1 available. <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BSDSuggestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDSuggestions</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BSDHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDHelp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BSDAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDAdvice</span></a></p>
chesheer<p>Some time ago I tried to build my own blog using amazing <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSSG</span></a> It was surprisingly easy.<br>I did it mostly for educational purposes. I never blogged in English or wrote any lengthy texts. And I never used BSSG, so I wanted to test that out too.<br>But I had some thoughts about our current state of affairs, so I wrote my musings called "Digital Doomsday is coming and we should prepare for it".<br>It's just some thoughts about the world where there is no more Internet (or worse).<br>Let me know what do you think about it.<br><a href="https://iyer.ru/2025/08/09/digital-doomsday-is-coming-and-we-should-prepare-for-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iyer.ru/2025/08/09/digital-doo</span><span class="invisible">msday-is-coming-and-we-should-prepare-for-it/</span></a></p><p>P.S. My blog is still under construction, I'm still figuring out some things.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DigitalDoomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalDoomsday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DigitalPrepping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalPrepping</span></a></p>
Klaus Zimmermann :unverified:<p>ARM'd and dangerous: kzimmermann takes on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/OldComputerChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OldComputerChallenge</span></a> 2025 with nothing but a Raspberry Pi Model B.</p><p><a href="https://kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old_computer_challenge_2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kzimmermann.0x.no/articles/old</span><span class="invisible">_computer_challenge_2025.html</span></a></p><p>Yes, it's late - but it's done. Sorry for the delay, I was having too much fun learning <a href="https://c.im/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a>, I guess :D</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/oldcomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldcomputers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/occ25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>occ25</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/oldcomputerchallenge2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldcomputerchallenge2025</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/100DaysToOffload" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>100DaysToOffload</span></a></p>
10; DROP TABLE records --<p><code>bwfm</code> patches in <a href="https://exquisite.social/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> 7.7-current will bring better WiFi handling on M1/M2 <a href="https://exquisite.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> Silicon (and likely older intel Macs, too): <a href="https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=175438802707232&w=2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=17</span><span class="invisible">5438802707232&w=2</span></a><br><a href="https://exquisite.social/tags/broadcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broadcom</span></a> <a href="https://exquisite.social/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a></p>
BoxyBSD<p>Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users! 🥳</p><p>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.</p><p>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 (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>stefano</span></a></span>) could be an approach.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freevps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freevps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ipv6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ipv6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bhyve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bhyve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/proxmox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proxmox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/boxybsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boxybsd</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gyptazy.com/@gyptazy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gyptazy</span></a></span></p>
Jazzynupe<p>I am torn between the easy interface of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/TrueNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueNAS</span></a> & the stability of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> with the slightly better integration of <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/ZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ZFS</span></a>. I want to upgrade to latest BSD but TrueNAS switched to Linux under the covers. Anyone else come to a similar dilemma? <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BSDHelp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDHelp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/BSDAdvice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDAdvice</span></a></p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Thanks to SeaweedFS, I've set up two replicas of the BSD Cafe's media. One is on a backup server (for disaster recovery purposes only, also containing the hourly zfs-autobackup backups), and the other is on a Raspberry Pi 4 running FreeBSD, which is one of my home backup servers - just one meter away from my desk. <br>I've also configured Nginx in a jail, so when I'm at home, the BSD Cafe's media is served directly from the local replica. <br>The performance is lightning fast.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSDCafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSDCafe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SeaweedFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaweedFS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/S3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>S3</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SelfHosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Homelab</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RunBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RunBSD</span></a></p>
BSDTV<p>A new BSDCan video has posted:</p><p>Improvements to FreeBSD KASAN By Zhuo Ying Jiang Li</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/pwwSdQi0NUI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/pwwSdQi0NUI</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>KASAN is a kernel sanitizer commonly combined with fuzzing techniques to detect memory corruption bugs, some of which could lead to security compromise. Currently, FreeBSD's KASAN can only detect a subset of temporal safety vulnerabilities due to the lack of a delayed freeing mechanism of freed items. Furthermore, the effectiveness of detecting spatial safety vulnerabilities is also limited because FreeBSD's KASAN does not add redzone padding around UMA allocations.</p><p>In this talk, I will present my current work on improving the effectiveness of KASAN by extending it with a quarantining mechanism and injecting redzones around UMA allocations. The development was done on CheriBSD, a fork of FreeBSD with CHERI support, to explore the synergy between CHERI and KASAN. I plan to upstream the relevant improvements to FreeBSD.</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bsdcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsdcan</span></a></p>
BSDTV<p>A new BSDCan video has been posted:</p><p>Sleep on FreeBSD: A bedtime story about S0ix By Aymeric Wibo</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/RCjPc4X2Edc" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/RCjPc4X2Edc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>One of the main things still missing in FreeBSD for it to be usable on modern laptops is the ability to go to sleep. In the past, this was done using ACPI S3, but newer laptops have removed this in favour of S0ix, leaving FreeBSD without support for suspend on those machines.</p><p>This talk aims to get the casual user familiar enough with the terms and concepts behind power management, such that they can understand what's going on, what's already possible, what can be done, and be able to narrow down power management issues they might encounter.<br>Full description</p><p>This talk will cover:</p><p> The background and history of power management on FreeBSD, from APM, to ACPI S3, and finally to s2idle/S0ix, and how to know whether or not a given laptop supports S3 or S0ix or both.</p><p> What the full suspend process looks like with modern standby, going into details like ACPI D-states & power resources, SPMC DSMs (acpi_spmc), the AMD SMU (system management unit, amdsmu), etc. and some of the challenges encountered.</p><p> Specifics about sleep on AMD, such as USB4 power management in the HCM (host connection manager) and GPIO controller interrupt servicing.</p><p> Cover debugging with residency counters, with the SMU on AMD, _LPI objects, and LPIT on Intel.</p><p> Niceties and potential future work, such as idleness determination, a powertop equivalent, a built in amd_s2idle.py equivalent (for debugging sleep issues), etc.</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bsdcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsdcan</span></a></p>
BSDTV<p>A new BSDCan Video has been posted:</p><p>porch(1): it's not what you expect(1) By Kyle Evans</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/Drbk4rEH1sk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/Drbk4rEH1sk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>In a world ruled by expect(1) and TCL, we discuss an alternative that was developed based on scripting with lua instead. porch(1) was developed with a language already available and used in FreeBSD base in mind, with the aim of TTY testing via pts(4).</p><p>The overall aim of this project is to provide a simple subset of expect(1) functionality specifically aimed at developer and sysadmin automation in another popular language with many niceties for scripted interaction.</p><p>In this talk, we'll specifically discuss:</p><p> The motivation for writing porch</p><p> The underlying design/philosophy (with diagrams to describe the model)</p><p> Bundled-in functionality beyond script execution</p><p> Practical samples used in FreeBSD today</p><p>--</p><p>The author has been a FreeBSD src committer since 2017, working on many parts of the tree and gradually introducing lua into the base system. His most recent exploits include improving base system boot environment management with bectl(8) and excursions into the tty layer.</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>runbsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/bsdcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bsdcan</span></a></p>
EuroBSDCon<p>Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025! 😈⛳🐡</p><p>54 days to go!</p><p>BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.</p><p>Grab your tickets 🎟️ at <a href="https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tickets.eurobsdcon.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>The schedule 📅 is at <a href="https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/sch</span><span class="invisible">edule/</span></a></p><p>For everything else, peek at <a href="https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">2025.eurobsdcon.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>More information is added all the time.</p><p>EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 🇭🇷<br>September 25-28, 2025</p><p><a href="https://bsd.network/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/EuroBSDCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroBSDCon</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/EuroBSDCon2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuroBSDCon2025</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conference</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Register" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Register</span></a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/Tickets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tickets</span></a></p>
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