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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

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_rc4_available https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jaypatelani@bsd.network/116570729312543808

#NetBSD 11.0 RC4 just dropped!"We found a few more issues to fix in RC4, and also updated a lotof bundled third party code due to security issues, includingOpenSSH, OpenSSL, Postfix, bind, xz and more."We would love to release this state as 11.0 soonish and hope no bigfallout will be found in this RC."https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-11.0_RC4/

Wouldn’t you believe it, this site is running off my special home server: a Nintendo Wii with a 729 MHz PowerPC CPU and a whopping 64 MB usable RAM! It runs NetBSD 10.1 and serves this site exclusively over IPv6 – clients connecting through IPv4 are proxied via another server… http://wii.sjmulder.nl/

I’d like to start here (as opposed to somewhere else?) by putting something on the record. Or the cassette tape, or whatever. Travan tape? LTO? https://www.rubenerd.au/a-hypothetical-netbsd-cyberdeck/

I've never participated in GSoC but have wanted to get involved with some NetBSD hacking. Is this open to all potential contributors or just students?

Thank you, hope we can start soon again without any required invite codes

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

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The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open through June 20th!https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

@pitrh@mastodon.social @bsdcan@mastodon.social I´m not qualified and hunting trojans on Apple hardware with *BSD doesn´t make me popular.

At work we are uing BSDs extensivly for almost all aspects, except as hardware crypto modules (HSMs). We are also using BSDs as workstations for the daily toil. This of course require a set of usage policies to formalise what is accepted and not. I'm glad we managed to get NetBSD into the official company policy with the following condition Must run on workstation/laptop hardware. Coffee brewers, toasters or other household appliances are explicitly forbidden from accessing production network. On a sader note, OpenBSD is no longer allowed access, when 7.7 goes out of official support in a few weeks time, due to the decision to remove yubikey-otp keyboard support in the kernel from 7.8. Oh well Cheers and RunBSD!

@rl_dane @darth I think one reason BSD don't get much attention is right about this mindset, and the impression that a chunk devs don't really like it very much.Surely not the people in Red Hat.There isn't much heat for desktop BSD branches as far I see, beside because rarely succeded, and in part because "desktop" became synonymous of "linux mess", things that is very far from what BSD try to stay.I cannot blame the feeling. Some decisions in the linux space makes me facepalm.

@philvuchetich , you bring up a good point and a problem we have solved at other conferences. For OpenZFS Portland 2025 myself, @dexter and additional AV volunteers put together a very smooth solution and had very happy Europeans and an Aussie fully participating to the point that it felt like they were in the room with us. We had break out sessions led by an offsite person and it was all very effective. It also takes lots of management,setup time, hardware, and effort however. While I am not at all opposed to the idea of streaming the tutorial(s), we would Need to have a full (er)AV team onsite days earlier than we have already have planned and purchased tickets for and we would certainly need additional hardware. Especially since we are supporting 2 Dev Summits @bsdcan this year: @FreeBSDFoundation and @netbsd @oxyhyxo @pitrh #runbsd #netbsd #freebsd

Very helpful! I think I accidentally bricked my G4 cube while trying to install NetBSD/macppc several years ago because I wasn't careful while partitioning the hard disk.

See: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/netbsd-encrypt-install/ src: https://fosstodon.org/@dwarmstrong/116392209156044836

Cool Dude

EuroBSDcon 2026's call for papers is open, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Here is a direct link to the submissions form https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/submit/ew426G/info/@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware