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  • News, updates, and important notices from the BSD Cafe staff. Pull up a chair and stay informed.

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    stefanoS
    @etrigan63 Yes, I have replied

  • The main counter - pair your favorite BSD with good conversation.
    Pick your flavor below.

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    CiotBSDC
    26/07/26 ⇒ All my FreeBSD boxes are now on 15.1 Jason asked me on a recent BSD Now if I’d made the switch to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. I said that I had, and that the upgrade was entirely uneventful! Which is my favourite kind of upgrade. https://www.rubenerd.au/all-my-freebsd-boxes-are-now-on-15-1/

  • Where the sun never sets.
    Discussion on illumos-based operating systems and their ecosystems.

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    ptribbleP
    NIS+ got removed from Solaris back at the end of 2009. So it got removed from OpenSolaris and thus illumos, as that was before the fork. This was announced long before. As a heavy NIS+ user at the time, we were somewhat dismayed to read the announcement. Sun said it would be no problem, LDAP was a superior replacement. We actually tried LDAP, and to call it an unmitigated disaster would be far too generous. Apart from the excessive hardware requirements, endless bugs, woeful performance, and lack of basic functionality, there was an almost total lack of administrative tooling. My understanding is that NIS itself is also slated for the chop in Solaris 11 at some point. In theory, you could reinstate NIS+ in illumos - we have the whole commit history so reverting 6874309 wouldn't be so bad. Whether you could get it to work properly is another matter.

  • Where the community meets face to face. Talks, travel tips, and hallway conversations - before, during, and after.

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    grahamperrinG
    https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606 Reddit posts for five recently published videos LLM-driven kernel vulnerability research – Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security AI has entered the chat FreeBSD Foundation Technology Team Update – Joe Mingrone AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery – Ed Maste The Cloud Exists – Colin Percival and Gordon Tetlow Originals https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBSDMeetings

  • Grab a drink, take a seat.
    Off-topic chat, introductions, and anything that doesn't fit elsewhere.

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    grahamperrinG
    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/04/22/high-quality-chaos/ via https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116448188069484288 (2026-04-22) – not recent, but it's news to me. From today's post about last month's Ottawa FreeBSD Developer Summit: Michael Winser – Alpha Omega – The Changing Landscape of Open Source Software Security AI has entered the chat A frame from Winser's presentation: [image: 1785197784883-9a762f41-ee1e-471a-9e56-b4100b9d01a5-image.jpeg] Daniel Stenberg on AI in security ― sentiment over time From Stenberg's blog post: … Everything is AI now Almost every security report now uses AI to various degrees. You can tell by the way they are worded, how the report is phrased and also by the fact that they now easily get very detailed duplicates in ways that can’t be done had they been written by humans. The difference now compared to before however, is that they are mostly very high quality. The reporters rarely mention exactly which AI tool or model they used (and really, we don’t care), but the evidence is strong that they used such help. We are not unique I did a quick unscientific poll on Mastodon to see if other Open Source projects see the same trends and man, do they! Friends from the following projects confirmed that they too see this trend. … Additional tag: AI ― #ai is currently not possible in (NodeBB) BSD Cafe Billboard.

  • We are inclusive. Linux discussion is welcome at the Cafe too.

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    CiotBSDC
    26/07/20 ⇒ Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-panther-lake

  • Dust off the old hardware. Vintage systems, retrocomputing, and the machines that started it all.

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    CiotBSDC
    Retro Connoisseur is building the Amiga 4000 into a LEGO block case, and the project already feels like the kind of wonderfully unlikely machine that could https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/05/17/lego-amiga-4000-build-commodore-classic-reimagined-as-the-amiga-cd3200/

  • Break things here, not in production. Testing, experiments, and sandbox shenanigans.

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    grahamperrinG
    I sought advice in Matrix, then ran a command: ubuntu-bug qutebrowser End result: Bug #2158488 “qutebrowser crashes when starting” : Bugs : qutebrowser package : Ubuntu

  • Got a question? Ask away!

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    grahamperrinG
    Here's the title: [image: 1785202914963-dad79b73-5dbc-4b83-ac05-c3326b52f602-image.jpeg] above the editing toolbar. The position is unexpected.

  • Blog posts from individual members

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    CiotBSDC
    (06/22) ⇒ (Linux) Elite Dangerous: complementary tools Installation and configuration of additional tools to play Elite Dangerous (Steam) on Linux http://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/post/linux-elite-dangerous/