Presenting the BSDs

Ready to cross the Arno river to talk about the BSDs!

Of course, let's remember why I'm here

https://osday.dev

Happy #WorldSparrowDay! By the NetBSD community. Just like these resilient little birds, #NetBSD is adaptable and thrives in diverse environments. Let's appreciate the small but mighty! #OpenSource #Linux #MacOS #RunBSD

Registration for #BSDCan2025 is now open!

The 21st BSDCan will include tutorials on PF, running your own email, TLS, BGP, and NSH, as well as two days of talks on everything from systems administration, networking, and programming. This year's conference will have tutorials on awk, IPv6, labs, PF, automation, and much more!

Register here: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
#FreeBSD #RunBSD #opensource #softwaredevelopment

Now that it's official, I can announce it - although I may have dropped a few hints earlier!

My talk "Why (and how) we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs" has been accepted, and I’ll be honored to present it in June at BSDCan in Ottawa.

The joy of meeting BSD friends in person again (and those I haven’t had the chance to meet live yet) will be immense, and the honor of sharing my story in Canada is truly beyond measure, especially considering the level of other talks and all the people attending.

Of course, I’ll be bringing various BSD Cafe gadgets with me!

For more information, here’s @mwl 's post with further details: https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/

Mastodon will no longer support Redis Namespaces. The reasons are fully valid. Redis (or, more specifically, Valkey or KeyDB) is lightweight software that is easy to install/manage, so separation is always a good thing.
However, I read that many admins will face problems because they use Redis "in the cloud" and, therefore, have a single instance. Unfortunately, this is also a side effect of the "cloud," meaning the loss of control over your own software.

On FreeBSD, a thin jail with "Redis" takes up very little space and resources.

#OwnYourData – in the long run – always pays off.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/34198

Going light. ​ ​
#OpenBSD #RunBSD BSD #MATE #ShowYourDesktop #ShareYourDesktop

Report of the day, 19:30:

I’ve finished preparing the talk for Friday. Unfortunately, it’s not as I would have liked: the 25+5-minute limit is extremely restrictive, and talking about the BSDs in such a short time means having to skip over some fundamental points. Specifically, I will need to reduce the emphasis on the initial part, the less technical and more “motivational” section. I would have needed at least 40 minutes. 25 is really too little for a talk worthy of the name.

On the plus side, in the next few days, I will have to set up a new, quite interesting setup based on the BSDs. I’m considering using both FreeBSD and OpenBSD – the power of jails, the security of OpenBSD as an endpoint – unfortunately, I can’t provide many details as I’ve been asked to keep it confidential. Still, it will be very interesting for me to implement.

I’ve also modified several reverse proxies, switching from nginx to haproxy – I’ve integrated Prometheus and Grafana as well, and the ability to impose granular limits has improved the management of traffic spikes for FediMeteo. I’m really satisfied with the results.

DevOps Engineer (8 month contract) | FreeBSD Foundation
https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/devops-engineer-8-month-contract/

Sitting at my desk after a busy morning and afternoon, updating #FreeBSD packages and sitting in the Oggcast Planet IRC channel as I contemplate some ivory tickling in the meantime. #RunBSD #BSD

Anyone knows why bsdstats is down? it's been a good week already.

#runbsd #freebsd #netbsd etc ...

WOHWOOOOO....it's Weekend and I #RUNBSD §8-)

I'm finalizing my draft for next week's talk at OSDay in Firenze. One of the key points of the introduction:

"Embracing open source used to mean finding and creating alternative solutions. The whole world was pushing towards Windows; we were pushing towards open-source operating systems. Not because it was easy or free (as a free beer), but to break free from imposed constraints.

Where has that desire for freedom gone?

Yes, using Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes is undoubtedly better than relying on closed solutions. But the moment everyone uses those tools, freedom will die—because we’ll have to use them, simply because everyone else does.

If we had always followed the mainstream, we wouldn’t have Linux or the BSDs today. We would have a thousand editions of Windows and overpriced commercial Unix systems. We would be slaves to licenses, forced to depend on those who grant them just to do our jobs.

That’s why I say: be free and always consider alternatives"

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I will never stay in the allocated 25 minutes slot

Apparently in the US today is #PiDay, but in the rest of the world it's 14.3, which means it's #FreeBSD release day! right?

(Don't @ me, I know 14.3 is planned for June, just let me enjoy this.)

Ouch! I think it may have been Firefox. At least all the corrupted files found during the subsequent manual fsck was under .mozilla #OpenBSD #KernelPanic #Crash #RUNBSD