Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)

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Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification

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Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

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That grumpy BSD guy

Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on Stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.

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LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64

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From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process EuroBSDCon 2026

Embargoes create myth about security fixing. In OpenBSD we have an errata process to provide source and binary patches for stable releases. This requires a mixture of secrecy and fast acting. What ...

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Input devices on OpenBSD for console, X11 and Wayland EuroBSDCon 2026

This talk will present the current state of the input device "stack" on OpenBSD, and discuss some ideas for upcoming changes in order to get the console, X.Org and Wayland applications the best possib...

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Using modern *BSD to get a 4.2BSD system from 1983 running EuroBSDCon 2026

Being an avid collector of Sun Microsystems servers, the speaker has a few Sun2 machines from around 1983. The 2/50 can only netboot but it doesn't use NFS as that had not been invented yet. But surel...

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Linux emulation on NetBSD: How broken is it? EuroBSDCon 2026

NetBSD has had a good test suite for its native syscalls for a long time. Linux also has a test suite for its native syscalls. NetBSD is capable of running Linux binaries by providing syscall emulatio...

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Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks EuroBSDCon 2026

STUNMESH-go is an open-source tool that enables direct peer-to-peer WireGuard connections between devices behind NAT or CGNAT. It multiplexes STUN and WireGuard traffic on the same UDP port by interac...

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Keeping up with language-based packaging systems in Ports (especially Python) EuroBSDCon 2026

Compared to C-lineage languages and associated build systems and mechanisms, many later languages starting with Perl have incorporated packaging systems for their own ecosystems. Language-based packag...

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Supporting hibernate (S4) on FreeBSD EuroBSDCon 2026

In this talk, we describe our current work in progress on supporting hibernate on FreeBSD. First, we outline the different high-level steps that are necessary. Then, we delve into how we actually impl...

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Reducing the headache of VPNs with routing domains EuroBSDCon 2026

A challenge when setting up VPNs is the proper modification of the routing table. This is needed, so that all traffic goes through the VPN interface and is encrypted, except the encrypted traffic gen...

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BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan EuroBSDCon 2026

This talk shares our experience in designing and deploying a FreeBSD-based platform that provides a runtime environment for EDA (electronic design automation) software. This project is supported by ME...

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A Noob Goes OpenBSD EuroBSDCon 2026

IT infrastructure is becoming ever more complex. To serve a simple modern web application we need orchestrators, containers, server side renderers and a bunch of 3. party tools and services. And this ...

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FreeBSD on ARM64: A User's Perspective EuroBSDCon 2026

The ARM platform is revolutionary in its flexibility and overall quality of NOT having to be compatible with a 1980 PC. Modern ARM64 systems stand out for offering high-performance, high core counts, ...

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Managing FreeBSD jails with Sylve and Ansible EuroBSDCon 2026

Sylve is the new FreeBSD Foundation sponsored VM and jail manager for FreeBSD. In this tutorial I will cover - Prerequisites - Installation and set up - Creating and managing jails - Creating and us...

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An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System EuroBSDCon 2026

### An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking ### in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick Author and Consultant **Who Should Take this Course** This course p...

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Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD EuroBSDCon 2026

The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) is at the core of the network management toolset available to professionals working with the BSD family of operating systems. Understanding the networking toolset is es...

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The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source EuroBSDCon 2026

Learn what the EU Cyber Resilience Act is and what it means for you. Then, deep dive into SBOMs and discover how to choose the right tools for dependency management. The European Union Cyber Resilie...

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Hotplugging adventures in the bhyve hypervisor EuroBSDCon 2026

The bhyve hypervisor recently gained the ability to add or remove emulated PCI devices to a running virtual machine [1]. This talk will showcase the key design and implementation details that went int...

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rcd(8): modern service manager the FreeBSD way EuroBSDCon 2026

rcd(8) is a new service manager that has been carefully designed for FreeBSD, bringing modern features such as service monitoring, parallelization, socket activation and more while being fully backwar...

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Incident Response done the FreeBSD way EuroBSDCon 2026

Working as an incident response engineer i often encounter the "worst case scenario" where no part of the breached infrastructure can be trusted. The incident response has to be swift and yet, the rec...

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GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future. EuroBSDCon 2026

GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, corruption-detecting, simple, and reasonably fast file system. It's built on a write-optimized data structure known as a Bε tree. Originally developed for Plan 9, ...

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Introduction to TUI Programming with bsddialog EuroBSDCon 2026

Shell scripts have a bad reputation when it comes to usability and eye candy. Modern users find a blinking cursor on a a black screen leaves a lot to be desired when having to interact with a shell sc...

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Unix Manpages, Then and Now EuroBSDCon 2026

In 1972, Ken Thompson added a script to Version 2 AT&T UNIX: "locate and run off a particular section of this manual". This tool, "man", closed the loop for computer system documentation, allowing it ...

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Base system packages in Production: A Practical Overview EuroBSDCon 2026

Base system packages, or pkgbase for short is the FreeBSD initiative to move the operating system binaries from large binary archives to individual packages using the FreeBSD package manager, pkg(8). ...

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OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later EuroBSDCon 2026

OpenNTPD hit the tree in 2004, so we're celebrating its 20th birthday (a few milliseconds late). - motivation - state of time sync back then - initial design & implementation - reception: a misunderst...

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nuageinit(7): make FreeBSD cloud native EuroBSDCon 2026

Cloud-init is the de facto standard for initial instance configuration across many cloud environments. However, its implementation is heavily Linux-centric and does not map cleanly to native FreeBSD V...

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How Fast Can We Patch? EuroBSDCon 2026

Today's security landscape is terrifyingly different from what we enjoyed a year ago. How does FreeBSD help keep us secure in this new and uncertain time? What's the pipeline from patch -> patched wi...

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