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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social)

@pitrh.bsky.social
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Puffyist, daemon charmer, penguin wrangler. Wrote The Book of PF, rants on security and sanity in IT (lack of)@ bsdly.blogspot.com. #OpenBSD #unix #cloud #security, Bergen, Norway. See also nuug.no eurobsdcon.org, bsdcan.org

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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 9h
OpenBSD 8.0 is due out soon, and -current snapshots identify as 8.0 already. So it's time to reprise "You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks." nxdomain.no/~peter/openb... which should help answer some common questions. #openbsd #newrelease #maintenance #sysadmin #security #dailytasks
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You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OpenBSD -current has moved to version 8.0 www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #current #newversion #pleasetest #development #networking #security #freesoftware #libresoftware
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OpenBSD -current has moved to version 8.0
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8) www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #rtrd #rpki #bgpd #routing #networking #security
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OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)
OpenBSD Journal
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #hypervisor #virtualmachines #development #freesoftware #libresoftware
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vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... (or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what...) has been updated with dates and locations for 2027. #eurobsdcon #bsdcan #asiabsdcon #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #unix #unixlike #freesoftware #libresoftware
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What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
GEFS, the "Good Enough File System" on the horizon for OpenBSD www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #gefs #goodenoughfilesystem #filesystem #development #freesoftware #libresoftware
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GEFS, the "Good Enough File System" on the horizon for OpenBSD
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #opensmtpd #openbsd #smtp #email #mail #freesoftware #libresoftware
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OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EuroBSDCon 2026 talks online undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #eurobsdcon #conference #development #security
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EuroBSDCon 2026 talks online
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
At EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels: Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD Featuring Tom Smyth and Peter Hansteen, 2026-09-11, 10:30, full day See events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RK... #eurobsdcon #bsd #openbsd #freebsd #networking #firewall #security
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bli med i Bergen (BSD and) Linux User Group (BLUG): blug.linux.no/bli-med/ #blug #bergenlug #blug #bsd #linux #bergen #friprogramvare #freesoftware #libresoftware #norge #norway
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Bli med | Bergen Linux User Group
BLUG - Bergen Linux (and BSD) User Group
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
rpki-client 9.9 released www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #openbgpd #rpkiclient #bgp #routing #rpki #security #cryptography #networking #freesoftware #libresoftware
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rpki-client 9.9 released
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A spam presented the neologism of the day here. Somebot claimed to be "a wideo from Nigeria". Wideo, n, botspeak variant spelling of (likely) "widow". Flaggable as spam.
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
OpenSSH 10.5 released undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #openssh #ssh #security #remotelogin #tunneling #networking #development #freesoftware #libresoftware
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OpenSSH 10.5 released
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
EuroBSDCon 2026 is in one month! (2026-09-09 - 2026-09-13) Program: events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/ Info: 2026.eurobsdcon.org Register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... Also nxdomain.no/~peter/what_... @eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesofware #libresoftware
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https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
EuroBSDCon 2026 Get different formats: curl https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/\?format=table (default) curl https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/\?format=list 2...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
OpenBGPD 9.2 released www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #openbgpd #bgp #routing #networking #development #infrastructure #devops #libresoftware #freesoftware
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OpenBGPD 9.2 released
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #relayd #httpd #development #webserver #loadbalancing #security #cryptography #modernsoftware #freesoftware #libresoftware
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Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #vmm #vmd #virtualization #virtualmachines #testing #newcode #development #security #freesoftware #libresoftware
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Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Eighteen years of greytrapping (nxdomain.no/~peter/eight... or tracked bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eigh... has numbers and graphs refreshed as of end of July (now actually 19 years). #spam #antispam #spamd #openbsd #greylisting #greytrapping #security #cybercrime #cybersecurity #smtp #email
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Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Those who read my stuff at bsdly.blogspot.com (ie the tracked site) will hopefully be pleased with the new look which I think offers better readability. New stuff and most of the useful older things will still be available without trackers at nxdomain.no/~peter/blogp..., of course.
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64 www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=a... #openbsd #llvm #clang #sparc64 #development #compilers #libresoftware #freesoftware
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LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: From Report to Patch, the OpenBSD Errata Process events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/ZG... Talk by Alexander Bluhm 2026-09-13 10:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #brussels #bruxelles
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Input devices on OpenBSD for console, X11 and Wayland events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YM... Talk by Matthieu Herrb 2026-09-12 13:00:00 Tickets tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #brussels #bruxelles
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Using modern *BSD to get a 4.2BSD system from 1983 running events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/YG... Talk by Walter Belgers 2026-09-13 15:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Linux emulation on NetBSD: How broken is it? events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WX... Talk by Stephen Borrill 2026-09-12 13:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Porting STUNMESH-go to FreeBSD and macOS: Building Peer-to-Peer WireGuard Networks events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/WH... Talk by Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang 2026-09-12 15:00:00 Tickets tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Keeping up with language-based packaging systems in Ports (especially Python) events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/VD... Talk by Charlie Li 2026-09-13 16:15:00 Tickets tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Supporting hibernate (S4) on FreeBSD events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TX... Talk by Olivier Certner 2026-09-13 11:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #brussels #bruxelles
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Reducing the headache of VPNs with routing domains events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TU... Talk by Martin Vahlensieck 2026-09-12 14:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: BSD as a Foundational Platform for Nationwide Semiconductor Education in Japan events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/TD... Talk by Hiroki Sato 2026-09-12 16:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: A Noob Goes OpenBSD events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/T3... Talk by Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen 2026-09-12 15:00:00 To register tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #openbsd #brussels #bruxelles #freesoftware #libresoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: FreeBSD on ARM64: A User's Perspective events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/SK... Talk by Michael Dexter 2026-09-12 16:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #conference #brussels #bruxelles
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Managing FreeBSD jails with Sylve and Ansible events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/S3... Tutorial Half Day by Patrick M. Hausen 2026-09-11 10:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: An Introduction to the Filesystems and Networking in the FreeBSD Open-Source Operating System events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RN... Tutorial Full Day by Kirk McKusick 2026-09-10 10:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... #eurobsdcon #freebsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RK... Tutorial Full Day by Peter N. M. Hansteen, Massimiliano Stucchi and Tom Smyth 2026-09-11 10:30:00 Tickets: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... #freebsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: The night before CRAmas - why EU regulations are a gift to open source events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RE... Tutorial Full Day by Alice Sowerby, Peter N. M. Hansteen and Pierre Pronchery 2026-09-10 10:30:00 Tickets tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Hotplugging adventures in the bhyve hypervisor events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QV... Talk by Bojan Novković 2026-09-13 11:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: rcd(8): modern service manager the FreeBSD way events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/QT... Talk by bapt 2026-09-12 16:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Incident Response done the FreeBSD way events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/PB... Talk by Maciej Jan Broniarz 2026-09-12 14:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future. events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/NV... Talk by Ori Bernstein 2026-09-13 11:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #brussels #bruxelles
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Introduction to TUI Programming with bsddialog events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MG... Tutorial Half Day by Benedict Reuschling 2026-09-11 14:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Unix Manpages, Then and Now events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MD... Talk by Kristaps Dzonsons 2026-09-12 17:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Base system packages in Production: A Practical Overview events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MB... Talk by Lukas Engelhardt 2026-09-12 15:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: OpenNTPD - 20 years and a few milliseconds later events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/MA... Talk by Henning Brauer 2026-09-13 16:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: nuageinit(7): make FreeBSD cloud native events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/LZ... Talk by bapt 2026-09-12 17:00:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: How Fast Can We Patch? events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/LS... Talk by Dave Cottlehuber (dch) 2026-09-13 14:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware
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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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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: FreeBSD Ports Any% Speedrun 180min events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KH... Tutorial Half Day by Mateusz Piotrowski 2026-09-11 14:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference
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FreeBSD Ports Any% Speedrun 180min EuroBSDCon 2026
The FreeBSD Ports Collection is one of the largest third-party software repositories in the open-source world. According to Repology, it ranks in the top four in terms of the number of packages, maint...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically. events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KA... Talk by Stefano Marinelli 2026-09-12 11:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically. EuroBSDCon 2026
It was the night of 10 March 2021, and I had only just fallen asleep. A notification woke me. Then another, then another. Different servers, different workloads, but all with one thing in common: the ...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Looney Tunes: FreeBSD, rsync, and ZFS events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JU... Talk by Mateusz Piotrowski 2026-09-13 17:15:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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Looney Tunes: FreeBSD, rsync, and ZFS EuroBSDCon 2026
Earlier this year I conducted a performance investigation and tuning of a slow backup job. Essentially, a single rsync syncing a deeply nested directory tree with thousands of files over the network o...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: The current state of "Green AI" events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JP... Talk by Anne Currie 2026-09-13 09:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... About EuroBSDcon 2026: 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #conference #greensoftware #greenai
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The current state of "Green AI" EuroBSDCon 2026
Who's going to save the world from AI's insatiable energy use? You are. Take a whirlwind tour of AI's energy and resource use with Anne Currie, author of Building Green Software, the Green Software M...
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Peter N. M. Hansteen (@pitrh@mastodon.social) @pitrh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
At EuroBSDcon 2026: Introduction to the Game of Trees version control system events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/JJ... Tutorial Half Day by Stefan Sperling and Omar Polo 2026-09-10 10:30:00 To register: tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/b... 2026.eurobsdcon.org #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd
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Introduction to the Game of Trees version control system EuroBSDCon 2026
This half-day workshop provides an introduction to the Game of Trees version control system. Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibil...
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