If bhyve was able to generate I/O statistics per virtual machine, how should they get retrieved? iostats? snmp? some custom bhyve interface? Ouija board?

#FreeBSD #bhyve

Installing #FreeBSD…

Does anyone manage to use the #keyboard media controls in #FreeBSD #Xorg? I have a DasKeyboard with a volume jog that works out of the box on #OpenBSD.

The events seems to be working using xev tester. It regognizes the RaiseVolume and LowerVolume events.

Not sure where to actually start looking for a solution.

#RunBSD

A fun little journey on where the "You have mail" message comes from when logging into a #BSD
system. 😎

Hope people enjoy the article - it is a little heavy on the programming side of things.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD #UNIX

https://jhx7.de/blog/you-have-mail/

I've been posting a lot of #FreeBSD experimentation stuff on my main account:

In chronological order (☺️):
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KABZK9AZ5F6WE5MD6NXE2MJN
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAEBXEMBWFCFJ4EBC1H08KHX
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAF77ZMNN873WWJQG7V8NZSA
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAF7RC5AFK4AGT0HJCFQB0M8
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAFCBN72WZMC6N7R0AKFN25K
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHVYSCD3KKK3W3RTJ1GMHT5
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHX0AS08DS4DPP6VQ4MQTZB
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHZM3VY4SHAC9K21TPA5F0H
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAHZXQS2FWA7BR1GJH7FJWQJ
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAJVBPH3V5E96R6DV2THQVYC
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAJWWQYHBFE00B7PHX58ZXWA
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAK1DJ57BENGDP2RRZVECZ2G
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAKYWBB019VZE00QPD3H1669
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KAM90ENYCKHN988PRGXXRQ82
https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01KANHDACYRJ0FAKYTGT9Y71V0

@vermaden

This post is an example of why no one listens to #FreeBSD advocates. They start by not understanding a Linux thing, and then claim a totally unrelated FreeBSD thing was there first and is better.

The soft reboot thing in RedHat is about providing an immutable base image (FreeBSD does not do this) and then a lightweight way of restarting userspace to use it.

The thing you link to is the reroot feature of FreeBSD, which was a copy of a Linux feature. Linux has had pivot root for a long time, the thing that is added is an administration layer that uses this functionality for a quick update path, integrated with the normal update flow. This does not exist on FreeBSD.

Similarly, FreeBSD has had jails for ages. Linux has also had shared-kernel virtualisation for almost as long. OpenVZ shipped five years after Jails (and before Jails had things like isolation for SysV IPC and so were actually useful for isolating workloads like Postgres). The value of Docker / OCI containers is not that you can create an isolated environment, it’s that it has a distribution model built on immutable layers and an orchestration model that lets you cleanly separate persistent data (volumes) from the software that runs on them so you can upgrade by simply rebuilding the image and then destroying and recreating the container. And FreeBSD now, finally, has an alternative to OCI containers on Linux: OCI containers on FreeBSD.

If you spent half the effort understanding why people like and use some of these features on Linux as you do telling people that barely related features on FreeBSD are better, then you might actually do some useful advocacy. As it is, you just reinforce all of the negative stereotypes the Linux users have about FreeBSD.

@seshpenguin 👍

#runBSD #FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma

This week-end, if I find myself to be very lucky, I could bring all my personal fleet to #FreeBSD...

I am still unsure about the battle-laptop, he has revealed several times to be very unfriendly with FreeBSD, and it might be savvy having a Linux machine as fallback; as a matter of fact, so far, upgrading Desktop FreeBSD has been for me a problematic situation, but my excitement to move on the BSD is still alive and stronger than ever! 💪

After spending the last few days playing around with Linux distros from 1997-98 and comparing them to #FreeBSD 2.2.8, I'm left wondering why exactly it was Linux that ended up winning that round of the OS wars when it seems like FreeBSD was so much better? Nearly all the Linux distros I tried were at least partially broken out-of-the-box.

Best guess: lingering legal concerns vis-a-vis AT&T? 🤔

#RetroComputing #BSD

FreeBSD Desktop Installer Tech Preview

We’ve dropped a video preview of ongoing work to make desktop installation on FreeBSD simpler.

We show a walkthrough of installing FreeBSD 15.0-BETA and then running the new desktop setup script being developed by Alfonso Siciliano.

The preview covers basic installation, running the desktop script and booting into a working graphical environment in under 10 minutes.

Watch the preview: https://youtu.be/vbWOLzGDa4I?si=aPbMwszewvkHf0iQ

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #DesktopInstaller

@jn not a feature of FreeBSD Installer for 15.0, I guess that the CFT for the script will be made in November or December. Please see:

― <https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/3?visibleFields=%5B%22Title%22%2C%22Labels%22%2C%22Status%22%5D&pane=issue&itemId=84821241&issue=FreeBSDFoundation%7Cproj-laptop%7C25> three days ago ("… Added support for NVIDIA and NVIDIA OPTIMUS. Since I do not have this hardware, a call for testing is necessary. …")

― <https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/status-updates/blob/main/Alfonso_S_Siciliano/2025-11.md#project-kde-installer-dialogs> (dialog script might mean the desktop script).

There's a more traditional port, desktop-installer. See Jason Bacon's comment at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oq6s5r/comment/npptlx4/?context=1>

#FreeBSD #desktop

@kp @nluug
Thank you for keeping #bsd on the radar with your talk.
#FreeBSD

This is one of the flagship examples of HOW BAD the #FreeBSD marketing is.

FreeBSD has best features often DECADES before Linux prises them as 2nd coming of Christ ... same for FreeBSD Jails from 2000 while Docker started at 2013.

Looking at FreeBSD for my upcoming laptop, I found robonuggie. I currently use DWM windowmanager so I'm looking into how it integrates with FreeBSD too.
Why am I doing this after 30 years of Linux? Because of systemd, wayland, and the general trend of windowfying-enshittyfication.

https://www.youtube.com/@RoboNuggie

#freebsd #dwm #enshitification

Have a great Friday everyone in the #BSD community! 😎 (The weekend is almost upon us!)

...and don't forget:
#RUNBSD

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

@freezr also the truth:

― for me, Kubuntu is not only UNIX-like, it's also far better than FreeBSD for testing FreeBSD.

@rl_dane

#FreeBSD #Linux #Kubuntu

I need a Chromium binary for ArchiveBox on my NAS. For some reason, which is likely to do with build issues, the Chromium package is not available in the FreeBSD binary package repos at this time.

I cloned the ports tree for 2025Q4 and am building the latest version of Chromium from source. Lol.

I haven't built an entire web browser from source since I used Gentoo over a decade ago, and on much less powerful hardware. Maybe it won't take quite so long now on my current hardware.

#FreeBSD #NAS #FOSS #archive

@hyperreal the most recent 143amd64-quarterly build failure for chromium-142.0.7444.175 was logged here:

<https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy20/build.html?mastername=143amd64-quarterly&build=94f3b5779f53#failed>

#FreeBSD #pkg #Chromium

@comp_ed82 @rl_dane

FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, KDE Plasma

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/a65f5d819a6a8c54aff6079f63db33f6

＂A concise comparison of operating systems. Some focus on root-on-ZFS, and on Plasma. Not intended to be comprehensive.＂

Today's comment notes that the FreeBSD Installer for 15.0-RC2 is broken for installation of non-base packages. Only one more release candidate is expected, so I doubt that this regression will be fixed.

I should probably add something about the installer for Ubuntu providing OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.

#FreeBSD #GhostBSD #NomadBSD #Ubuntu #Kubuntu #KDE #Plasma #ZFS #OpenZFS