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BSD Conference in NL

On Saturday, 9th of May, there is the Spring edition of BSD-NL Our lovely BSD conference, held in the Netherlands. Or more specifically, in Utecht - which is the centre of our little country.

Do you use the BSDs in any way - whether personally, professionally? Everyone with even the slightest interest into the BSDs is welcome, whether you are a beginner or a seasoned maintainer/contributor There will be a couple of talks/presentations, plenty of room and time to hack - and to socialize if that is your thing

So: grab a ticket, join the awesomeness: BSDNL.nl And follow @bsd_nl

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

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Safigo 34m ago

@purpleidea @miekg I remember FreeBSD used to be used for routers and other networking solutions due to more efficient optimizations.

But is there use cases when FreeBSD is still better than Linux?

* FreeBSD, OpenBSD, any bsd kernel-based.

#bsd #freebsd #linux #openbsd

Paul SomeoneElse 43m ago

Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:02 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
To: Renaud Allard <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [patch] ext4fs rw
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Renaud Allard <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe it should be made clear on the website that OpenBSD will only
> allow new code made by a human. Because I feel there might be more
> requests like this and there is no point in repeating the discussion.

Yes.

#openbsd

pesco 1h ago

huh, chromium (googled and ungoogled) has stopped working for me with yesterday's #openbsd snapshot. it says ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED no matter what i do. it was working fine with a previous snapshot (14 days old). i have unwind(8) running on localhost, ipv4 and ipv6, both working fine. firefox works without issue. what gives?

eren 圣人 3h ago

my diy #openbsd journal :P

EuroBSDCon 8h ago

📢 Looking for first-time *BSD speakers! 😈⛳️🐡

The EuroBSDCon 2026 Call for Papers is open, and we’d love to hear from you, yes you! Whether you are just starting out or have a unique perspective to share, your voice matters.

Have you:
- Discovered something cool about *BSD?
- Solved a tricky problem or learned a useful thing?
- Want to share how *BSD can make a first-time user experience better?

This is your chance to share your story, learn from others, and grow as a speaker in a supportive community.

🔗 Submit your idea here: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/cfp
📅 Deadline: June 20, 2026

We are here to help, mentorship and guidance available!

#RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #Conference #CFP #FirstTimeSpeaker

Glop_glop_pasGlop 9h ago

😂 chez OpenBSD c'est pas des mythos quand ils disent qu'ils sont pro actifs sur la sécurité, 25 patchs du noyau heureusement que je met à jour les paquets et le noyau toutes les semaines sinon ça risquerai d'être un peu long de mettre à jour tout ça.

#openbsd

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doboprobodyne 11h ago

@jlw_the_jobber
Speaking as a noob, I was amazed by how easy #openBSD was to install and get running with #xfce. I think my next bout of experimentation will be doing it with #KDE (the #nextcloud client for openBSD seems to offer integration with dolphin; KDE's file manager). The only thing I haven't got my head around is auto-mounting USB drives upon insertion. Perhaps antithetical to the sane security defaults for which openBSD is known, but there are lots of guides online for people wanting it :P damned if I can get them to work though!

*edited to add, if you want to run Virtual Machines on it, they have to be openBSD VMs; I only mention it because reading this quote was what made me read more about openBSD and then end up trying it... I know little about computers, but I've seen people make (indeed, I have worked with, and within) good systems and bad systems, and this sounded like someone who was really trying to make a good system... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19912394

#virtualization