Berkeley Software Distribution

AsiaBSDCon:
https://2025.asiabsdcon.org/
Tokyo, Japan 20-23 March, 2025

BSDCan
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
Ottawa, Canada
Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025
Conference: June 13-14, 2025

EuroBSDCon
https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
Zagreb, Croatia; September 25-28, 2025

#runbsd

Next NYC*BUG Reminder: 2025-01-08 @ 18:45 EST (22:45 UTC) QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown This meeting will be recorded & streamed.

More Info: https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10704

Be sure and follow rsvp@ instructions on NYC*BUG website if you plan to attend in person.

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NASA's Endeavour 3, 4 using pkgsrc 🤯

We're hoping YOU will come speak at our conference at the University of Ottawa!

Tutorials: June 11-12, 2025 Conference: June 13-14, 2025

Instructions for submitting your abstract and lots more info are here: https://bsdcan.org/2025/papers.php

#BSDCan #netBSD #openBSD #freeBSD #BSD

We invite talks by and for users, sysadmins, researchers, developers, enthusiastic hobbyists, students, retirees, social scientists...if you can talk for 50 minutes about a topic directly related to the BSD derivative projects or community or can deliver a technical tutorial for BSD users, we want to hear about it!

The website has a big page of hints for your first proposal and what we're looking for in a talk, and a large archive of past topics is available. (But don't let that limit you...maybe we just haven't heard YOUR talk yet!)

We think everyone should be able to participate in community events and though we have a small budget, we hope to accommodate as much of our community as we can.

• We have a mask policy (your audience will be wearing N95s)
• We stream talks online and with live chat
• Can't attend in person? We can host your talk remotely
• We reimburse speakers for their travel and hotel fees. (If fronting these fees would be a hardship, apply anyway and we'll talk!)

Apply today!

(Interested in sponsoring? Check out our sponsorship opportunities at https://bsdcan.org/2025/sponsorship.php or contact funding@bsdcan.org!)

I am a long time Linux User, KDE user. I want to try out BSD, but I am having a hard time getting it installed.

I tried the latest version of FreeBSD but it seems to come without X or Wayland (Or any of the other graphical bits) and I can't seem to get the graphical part working.

Nothing yet has been done with the machine, so, if anyone can recommend an easy-to-install - that works out of the box in full graphics where I don't have to mess with modelines like 2001. I would love to try an OS where there are not too many cooks in the kitchen.

I will be installing it on a Lenovo Ideapad.

The initial list of 21 'low hanging fruit' videos from EuroBSDcon 2024 has been released with more to follow: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc4UnB5xEDH9Aup_oOb9Lo7G&feature=shared

This has gotta be a good thing :)

This newsletter is a great way to keep up with all things BSD :)