May 2026 be the year I get into #FreeBSD.

[elena@aseachange.com]

May 2026 be the year I get into #FreeBSD.

My last #mysocalledsudolife action of 2025 is... downloading the FreeBSD handbook.

I was about to print it at my in-laws' but I'm not sure my father-in-law would appreciate the consumption of 935 sheets of paper. I also don't want to sacrifice a tree for it. So off it goes to my iPad 🤪​

Wishing everyone a great day!

[d1re_w0lf@mstdn.social]

@elena I went FreeBSD -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Debian again -> Arch (CachyOS mainly).
For me, it’s the typical “more than the destination, enjoy the ride”. 😁

[erminiahaller@mastodon.uno]

@elena ciao! Come lo scarico? Posso chiederti il link?

[elena@aseachange.com]

@d1re_w0lf excellent ! 😆​

I also appreciate the fact that in December 2025 I understand what that means (I would not have heard of these terms or known what they meant as recently as December 2024)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@erminiahaller https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/

[jpmens@mastodon.social]

@elena May 2026 is a month, not a year.

😉

I'm sorry, Elena, I couldn't resist!

Have a good and healthy year 2026, and enjoy getting to know FreeBSD. Also, if you've an extra bit of time, OpenBSD might likewise be something you'd enjoy!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@jpmens haha thank you JP! Considering all the self-hosting I managed to achieve in a month (original goal: 4 years) maybe I can get a grasp of FreeBSD sooner than later... maybe by end of April 2026 😉​

[jpmens@mastodon.social]

@elena sounds good, then you could travel to Brussels in September for EuroBSDcon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org and give a talk on your experience learning FreeBSD.

I could well imagine such a talk being accepted, but I'm not on the comittee.

:-)

Cc: @pitrh

[ikklegemzuniverseplus@ohai.social]

@elena Happy Wednesday! I hope you have a great day. Happy New Year in advance too! 🙂🥳

[elena@aseachange.com]

@ikklegemzuniverseplus thank you, you too!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@jpmens JP!
Thank you for giving me an amazing objective and deadline. I LOOOOVE challenges. Why not? Now I'm super motivated to get started with my studying ASAP 🤗​

@pitrh

[pitrh@mastodon.social]

@jpmens @elena We certainly welcome submissions from people who have not been to our conferences before, and there is no requirement to be the "internet greybeard" type.

So while I can no guarantee acceptance (and my vote would be only one of 7 or 8 IIRC), I would definitely encourage you to submit any time while the call for papers is open (https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ has the details such as they are).

[elena@aseachange.com]

@pitrh @jpmens thank you Peter! 🙏​

[mischa@exquisite.social]

@elena @pitrh @jpmens will get my +1 :)

[elena@aseachange.com]

@mischa considering the application deadlines, that gives me 3 months to learn FreeBSD.

First thought: massive respect to actual programmers, I’m having some humble pie this morning and thinking that September 2027 is totally fine too as a goal.

And I could always study and read up and attend the 2026 edition to meet folks and hear presentations :)

@pitrh @jpmens

[h3artbl33d@exquisite.social]

@elena @mischa @pitrh @jpmens

Te first three months of experience are incredibly helpful too. Hearing about the challenges that you come across and how to best help newcomers navigate through those challenges.

The decision is all yours, just saying that you are very welcome to submit an abstract for EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@h3artbl33d @mischa @pitrh @jpmens thank you! I will definitely keep this in mind :)