#eurobsdcon2026

The day after the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

We would like to thank all the attendees who made time to visit the event in Brussels 🇧🇪. Great to read so many great comments here... much ​

One more time a A BIG UP to OC for taking care of us these days. ​

• Kristof Provost (@kp@bsd.network)
• Cristina Boca
• Aymeric Wibo
• Philipp Buehler (@double_p@bsd.network)

If you missed a talk or couldn't attend at all, all the videos are online! https://exquisite.tube/c/ebc2026/videos

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Hey folks! I have written some travel notes from EuroBSDCon 2026, Brussels, Belgium: https://blog.NetBSD.org/tnf/entry/eurobsdcon_2026_in_brussels_belgium The conference was amazing and I had a lot of fun and learned a bunch! Thanks to everyone who made it possible! #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon #NetBSD #pkgsrc #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

It was great to see everybody again at #EuroBSDCon2026. Sorry if we missed you, but there is always #EuroBSDCon2027! :) And... #OpenBSD 8.0 is around the corner! 25 new VMs were added and 78 VMs were renewed. 🫰 We donated €1420 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €71840 since we started. Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS! Stay safe, healthy & sane! #RUNBSD in 2026

Finally, the talk delivered a refreshingly critical take on how AI is disrupting the cybersecurity landscape. While AI tools can help seasoned security pros, they’ve also unleashed a massive wave of "AI slop" low-effort, AI-generated vulnerability reports submitted by internet users chasing CVE clout. OpenBSD maintainers are now burning days analyzing hallucinated security risks, non-exploitable compiler behaviors, and broken "reproducers" that don't even send valid network packets. Instead of actually making software safer, unvetted AI bug hunting is currently bogging down maintainers in endless administrative noise. #openbsd #bsd #eurobsdcon #EuroBSDCon2026

With host-side SEV support, multi-core virtualization, and networking now functional in bhyve, the team is working on upstreaming the code to the main FreeBSD repository.

Future milestones include upgrading to newer SEV generations like SEV-ES for encrypted CPU register states and SEV-SNP for hardware memory integrity protection as well as updating the FreeBSD kernel to run seamlessly as an encrypted guest OS using memory C-bit handling and bounce buffers.

And for you, mere mortal, what does all of this actually mean? It means true cloud privacy without having to blindly trust anyone. Whether you're hosting sensitive customer data, financial workloads, or proprietary algorithms, confidential computing ensures that not even your cloud provider or a rogue admin with full root access can peek into your running memory.

By bringing AMD SEV to FreeBSD, top-tier, silicon-enforced protection stops being an exclusive enterprise luxury and becomes part of the open-source toolkit.

Bottom line: your data is finally locked down in transit, at rest, and right down to the hardware while in use.

#freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #bsd #EuroBSDCon2026

You can now also enjoy all the #EuroBSDCon 2026 videos directly from the schedule. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/ Thank you @pretalx@chaos.social for the YT plugin, and @jmlich@fosstodon.org for the PT version! #LazySunday #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #RUNBSD

Reposting this because I got #RunBSD stickers at #EuroBSDcon2026 and can now illustrate the post with a proper image :D Also updated the temperatures screenshot. So that's basically how much watts are #NetBSD and #OpenBSD using by default on this AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS machine and how to have #FreeBSD use less watts as possible while still operating Jail and #bhyve services. https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/ #selfhost #homelab

Mateusz Piotrowski - Looney Tunes: FreeBSD, rsync, and ZFS 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 onto a ZFS dataset on a remote server. After a reboot of the remote server, the backup would be received and saved on a local filesystem in about 10 minutes. Unfortunately, as the uptime grew the rsync would run for days on end instead of minutes. During the talk I will share with you how I figured out where rsync's bottleneck was and what I did to make the syncing finish within the expected timeframe of 10 minutes. I will show you what tools I used during the investigation to discover what parts of the system are screaming for help and to verify my hypothesis of where the root cause is. We will explore tuning of caching on FreeBSD, ZFS performance metrics, and using DTrace to get a closer look at system's internals. That's all Folks!

I’m going to have a hard time trying to explain that I went to a work related computer conference. #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBeerSD

Home from #eurobsdcon2026.

#EuroBSDCon2026 #eurobsdcon Family picture! Album: https://www.notos.co/albums/GickER4RU6 #pictures #bsd #brussels

So, yeah. Another #EuroBSDCon is behind us, and we're sad to leave. It has been incredible meeting all the old farts and new hopefuls - more of the latter than ever, I think! Great talks in all tracks - including the hallway one. Even some conspiracies for good, which is always fun. There were too many highlights to mention, so I'll just shout a big THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to making this a fantastic experience - again. On a personal note I ask/hope those of you who said hi at the conf can reach out and remind me who you are, so I can connect faces to handles on here. I suck at remembering so you'll have to forgive me for some of the bewildered looks I'm sure I gave some of you. (After that last pic I was afraid someone would arrest us - drinking that beer from paper cups must be an affront to the locals..) #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #BSD #Retrocomputing

Having an absolute blast at #EuroBSDCon as always. Loads of cool people, excellent tutorial on the #CRA and its implications for open source, very interesting #bhyve developments, a fantastic "debut" by Federico Angelilli bringing kernel live patching on #FreeBSD through his #GSOC project. As always I brought some properly obsolete hardware: a 486slc2 running #NetBSD (or OS/2 on request), a Toshiba luggable 486SX2-66 with #DOS and #MonkeyIsland, #DOTT, #Larry, #SpaceQuest or whatnot, and - surprisingly - a Pentium 3-based Gericom laptop gifted to me by @outofcreativity@exquisite.social which is now upgraded from #OpenBSD to NetBSD ;-) #EuroBSDCon2026

The night 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. Physically. The video of my presentation has just been published. Thank you, video team! https://exquisite.tube/w/nQbc54t4G7YGaqiryZ7mg1 #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026

The last day of talks at the European *BSD event of the year has come to an end! 😈⛳🐡

A colossal shout-out to everyone who made this event awesome! Bedankt!!

A big up to OC for taking care of us these days. 🫶🏻

• Kristof Provost
• Cristina Boca
• Aymeric Wibo
• Philipp Buehler

And let's not forget the fantastic talks and tutorials by:

• Alexander Bluhm
• Alice Sowerby
• Allan Jude
• Andreas Kirchner
• Anne Currie
• Balaje Sankar
• Baptiste Daroussin
• Benedict Reuschling
• Beni Keller
• Bojan Novković
• Brooks Davis
• Charalampos Mainas
• Charlie Li
• Dave Cottlehuber
• George Neville-Neil
• Harold Gutch
• Henning Brauer
• Hiroki Sato
• Johannes Thyssen Tishman
• Kent Inge Fagerland Simonsen
• Kirk McKusick
• Kristaps Dzonsons
• Lukas Engelhardt
• Maciej Jan Broniarz
• Marc Espie
• Martin Vahlensieck
• Mateusz Piotrowski
• Matthieu Herrb
• Michael Dexter
• Moin Rahman
• Olivier Certner
• Organizers
• Ori Bernstein
• Patrick M. Hausen
• Peter N. M. Hansteen
• Pierre Emeriaud
• Pierre Pronchery
• Stefan Sperling
• Stefano Marinelli
• Stephen Borrill
• Taylor R Campbell
• Thomas Pasqualini
• Varinka Ohanyan
• Vinícius Z.
• Walter Belgers
• Yu-Chiang (Date) Huang
• Zhen-Rong Wu

🤘 You all rocked the stage! 🤘

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

The European *BSD event of the year 2026 has come to an end! For real now... ​​ 😈⛳🐡 A colossal shout-out to everyone who attended, spoke, helped organize and made this event awesome! Tot volgend jaar in Bratislava! Vidíme sa budúci rok v Bratislave! See you next year in Bratislava! EuroBSDCon 2027 in Bratislava, Slovakia 🇸🇰 September xx-xx, 2027 #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2027 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Because, hey! #NetBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDcon2026

Hey @sborrill@justfollow.me.uk, I missed the opportunity to ask that one question: I see that sysutils/podman is available in pkgsrc. Can one actually run Linux containers using emulation? #NetBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDcon2026

For once, #ItIsDNS 😬 #EuroBSDcon2026 #EuroBSDcon