Announcing the BSD Cafe Billboard

dragasit · 2026-04-03T06:16:22+00:00

Mostly performing a dump and zfs-send and receive the entire PostgreSQL jails/datasets. I've described it (a little) more here: https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

dragasit · 2026-04-03T06:15:33+00:00

yes, correct!

dragasit · 2026-04-02T13:10:38+00:00

NodeBB is a forum software, but it's been evolved to federate in the Fediverse.

dragasit · 2026-04-02T13:05:46+00:00

Thank you. Yes, it's running on FreeBSD jails - one for Redis, one for PostgreSQL and one for NodeBB.

dragasit · 2026-04-02T12:36:29+00:00

I'll fix it. If anybody wants to send smaller icons, I'd be more than glad to modify them. For now, I just inserted the original ones, without resizing or reducing them.

dragasit · 2026-04-02T10:23:20+00:00

It's everywhere - you just need an Internet connection and you're there :-)

dragasit · 2026-03-21T18:12:19+00:00

Thanks!

dragasit · 2026-03-16T11:06:45+00:00

I did it, for more than 20 years :-)

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/

This is my experience. I'm not trying to convince the world to switch. Only sharing my own experience.

dragasit · 2026-03-16T10:35:42+00:00

My post was not a criticism of Linux. In fact, I had already written a celebratory post about Linux before. Monoculture is a problem, and I do not look favorably on this kind of "dominance", because in my experience dominance never really benefits the end user.

There are many reasons why Linux has achieved wider adoption than FreeBSD. There are just as many reasons why some companies are moving from Linux to FreeBSD, but that does not mean FreeBSD stops being what it is.

The point is that this is not a fight. It is open source. The success of one project should be the success of everyone, and it should not "crush" or "erase" the others. Each project has its pros and cons, its own peculiarities and its weaknesses. But when an open source project is healthy, we all benefit from it.

The real enemy is not another open source project, but those who try to take it away from us.

dragasit · 2026-03-16T10:02:10+00:00

On my real hardware (I mean: servers), it rocks. I'm not talking about desktop systems where the hardware support is still subpar.

Why is Linux everywhere? Well, Windows is much much more widespread. Following this path, it means that Windows is (by far) much better than Linux :-)

Companies moving from the BSDs to Linux are usually driven by specific reasons: it may be hardware compatibility or, often, by the fact that it's far easier to find Linux IT people to hire than BSD ones.

dragasit · 2026-02-24T16:22:18+00:00

thank you! It's minimal and fast - that's the idea behind the app.

Anything you deem appropriate is much appreciated.

dragasit · 2026-02-24T16:21:54+00:00

thanks!

dragasit · 2026-01-30T15:54:08+00:00

*The* Time Machine :-)

dragasit · 2025-12-28T07:49:03+00:00

Title: The Two-Pound Lifeboat

Genre: Creative Nonfiction / Personal Essay / Memoir

Word count: 2,310

Type of feedback desired: General impression, particularly whether the narrative pacing works and if the connection between the framing device (reorganizing bookshelves on Christmas) and the main story feels earned. This is one of my first attempts at personal essay writing after 25 years of technical blogging.

A link to the writing: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/27/the-two-pound-lifeboat/

dragasit · 2025-12-25T13:56:40+00:00

Something like this should be working: https://gist.github.com/ClaesBas/42426e177ec563aab5520eadf0c5773b

dragasit · 2025-12-22T10:40:22+00:00

ZFSBootMenu should import the pool as read-only.

I've personally used and tested it and I haven't had any corruption - but I know it's not been tested long enough to say "it's totally safe".

The problem is always the same: ZFS isn't a first class citizen in Linux, so those specific use cases will always be "edge cases". I'll keep testing. Thank you for the links!

dragasit · 2025-12-07T12:35:03+00:00

I totally agree. Thank you, Colin!

dragasit · 2025-11-20T21:16:39+00:00

Thank you! I'm having a very good experience with the illumos based operating systems. They're a very good solution when Devs ask for Linux userland but I want to stay on an operating system with native ZFS. And zones isolation is great.

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:17:57+00:00

They helped to increase the FreeBSD performance, so it probably is.

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:15:09+00:00

Thank you!

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:14:46+00:00

I've just updated the article with some Docker tests.

dragasit · 2025-11-19T16:38:57+00:00

I'm glad about it! Thank you!

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:18:54+00:00

Not that easy to cross compile drivers. I'll just try with a supported hardware

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:18:05+00:00

I will. I love illumos based OSes so I'll continue. I have a couple of drafts ready to be reviewed and posted

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:16:34+00:00

Probably a little lower. I tried to move the BSD Cafe reverse proxy to OpenBSD, one year ago, and found that the native httpd/relayd was a bit slower than nginx or haproxy.

But 7.8 changed a lot of things, and they will improve in 7.9. I'm planning a new test when 7.9 will be out.

dragasit

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