Agenda
Agenda:2026/06/30
⇒ EuroBSDCon 2026 Travel Grant Open
The Travel Grant Application for EuroBSDCon 2026 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend EuroBSDCon through our travel grant program. Travel grants are available to FreeBSD developers and advocates who need assistance with travel expenses for attending conferences related to FreeBSD development. Applications are due July 7, 2026. Find out more and apply today.
AI
AI:2026/06/30
⇒ AI Agents Could Get Verified Identities, Courtesy of DNS
The open standard would tie every agent’s identity to certificates and a public transparency log nobody can edit.
Hardware
Hardware:2026/06/29
⇒ Open Printer: Progress Update & Details About Our Nomination for a French Design Award!
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
Hardware:2026/07/03
⇒ Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
While Valve will not be making and providing their own e-ink display for the Steam Machine, they have opened it up so anyone can now do it. Valve originally teased it with the first lot of reviewers that got their hands on it. All of it is available on their GitLab under the MIT license, which goes over everything you need to make your own and stick it on the front of your fancy new Steam Machine.
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/
- https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/SteamHardware/SteamMachine/inkterface
IT
IT:2026/06/29
⇒ Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0
At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase”).
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-0/
#FreeBSD #pkgbase
⇒ Eclipse Open VSX graduates to mature phase, marking a major milestone for open developer tooling
Eclipse Open VSX graduates to mature phase, marking a major milestone for open developer tooling Lemmy Nwadishi. Eclipse Open VSX has reached an important milestone in its evolution as open source infrastructure for developer tooling. The project now serves millions of developers worldwide through AI-native IDEs, cloud development environments, and VS Code-compatible platforms, delivering more than 600 million extension downloads every month.
- https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/eclipse-open-vsx-graduates-mature-phase-marking-major-milestone-open-developer
#Eclipse #OpenVSX
⇒ Valve adjusts SteamOS resolution options ready for Steam Machine
With the Steam Machine just about to release with the first purchasing wave beginning today - Valve released a fresh Beta to adjust screen resolutions.
- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valve-adjusts-steamos-resolution-options-ready-for-steam-machine/
#Valve #SteamOS
⇒ relayd(8) and httpd(8) TLS settings update.
Both relayd(8) and httpd(8) now have the “secure” list of allowed crypto methods for HTTPS, which include TLSv1.3 and the TLSv1.2 AEAD cipher suites. The previous list was “HIGH:!aNULL” which contain non-perfect-forward-security methods and this change may cause old clients to not be able to connect.
- https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260629165750
#OpenBSD #relayd #httpd
⇒ Mageia 10 keeps the 32-bit Linux flame alive
Mageia 10 marks 15 years since the distribution’s first release in June 2011. The project began the previous year as a fork of Mandriva, itself formerly known as Mandrake Linux. We last looked at Mageia alongside the other Mandrake descendants in 2022.
- https://www.theregister.com/a/5263856
#Mageia #32bits
IT:2026/06/30
⇒ Did VictoriaLogs miss any logs during the reboot?
Yesterday, I modified r730-01 by Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 – as a consequence, my log collecting jail was offline. Did it miss any logs?
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/30/did-victorialogs-miss-any-logs-during-the-reboot/
#FreeBSD #logs
⇒ Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 jail
- https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/30/running-pkgbasify-on-a-freebsd-15-0-jail/
#FreeBSD #pkgbase #jail
IT:2026/07/01
⇒ Knod Box 0.3
How do these offline puzzles work?
⇒ 2026.7: Automations that speak your language
Home Assistant 2026.7! 🎉 This is one of those releases I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. My favorite by far is what we’ve done with automations. Purpose-specific triggers and conditions graduate from Labs and become the new default for everyone. 🎉
- https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2026/07/01/release-20267/
#domotic #Home-Assistant
⇒ Running Garage in a FreeBSD Jail
My work at $DAYJOB that involves a lot of work with data pipeline these days. Particularly the design of new and better ones, which help us serve users with better data (more advanced processing, better cartographic decisions, etc.).
- https://ianwwagner.com//running-garage-in-a-freebsd-jail.html
#FreeBSD #Garage #jail
⇒ Uniform boolean definitions in DB schemas are good!
I worked briefly in process control when I was younger, and saw Things.™ One of those Things™ was a wall of LEDs to indicate statuses of various valves and sensors across the entire plant. It was old school, but it worked. It also made you feel like you were on a 1960s-era sci-fi set.
IT:2026/07/02
⇒ BSD Now—670: Failure is not an Option
How NASA built Artemis II’s fault tolerent Computer, Jails vs LXC, Respsectfully getting a personal copy of a website, Opensense 26.1.9 and more…
IT:2026/07/03
⇒ A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD Operating System
The paper presents a longitudinal measurement study on the adoption of the pledge and unveil system calls in OpenBSD. These system calls are used to sandbox programs and libraries. Given a dataset covering 19 releases, many programs and libraries were modified to use the system calls already before their introductions in official releases.
IT:2026/07/04
⇒ Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks
Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.
⇒ How to fix Homebox 0.26.2 not starting on FreeBSD
After upgrading my Homebox jail yesterday from 0.25.2 to 0.26.2, the homebox service would not start anymore. Taking a look into /var/log/homebox.log, I got presented with the following error message:
- https://www.subnetspider.com/2026/07/04/fix-homebox-0-26-2-not-starting-on-freebsd.html
#FreeBSD #Homebox
Release
Release:2026/06/29
⇒ Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements
Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements.
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.12-Released
#Wine #Wayland
Release:2026/07/01
⇒ OpenWrt 25.12.5 - Service Release
The OpenWrt community is proud to announce the fifth service release of the OpenWrt 25.12 stable series.
Society
Society:2026/06/30
⇒ The Eclipse Foundation and the ORC Working Group launch ORC Learning Hub to help open source developers, maintainers, and software teams prepare for the Cyber Resilience Act
BRUSSELS – 30 JUNE 2026 – The Eclipse Foundation, one of the world’s largest open source software foundations, in collaboration with the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group, today announced the launch of the ORC Learning Hub, a free global education initiative designed to help the people responsible for building, maintaining, securing, and governing open source software prepare for the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The program provides practical, role-specific training for open source developers, maintainers, contributors, project stewards, product teams, security and compliance professionals, OSPO leaders, and legal teams.