I’ve been thinking about something. I just tried FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 again on my mini PC (currently running openSUSE Tumbleweed) and it works well, even with Wayland.
The only thing I’m missing is suspend.
But I also have my Qotom, which currently serves as my home server, with 16 gigabytes of RAM. What if I installed FreeBSD on my mini PC and moved the Qotom’s workload into a VM, passing the disks directly through to the VM?

I’d still have 48 gigabytes of RAM for my workstation, which is more than enough, and I’d be using FreeBSD.

I’m really tempted to at least give it a try...

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #bhyve

This would not have happened if we were using #FreeBSD because there would be no Ubuntu or snaps.

Funny, that #Libreboot in the #fastfetch output displayed as "CBET4000" — the same letters used for the word "Light" (свет) in Russian. So, I read this line as "LIGHT4000"

#FreeBSD #AwesomeWM

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The AwesomeWM with Solarized Light color theme and blue accent color (for thick window borders, etc). The system icon theme and cursor are taken from Haiku OS. The main panel a vertical and placed on the left. There are, from top to bottom: icons for workspaces, list of opened windows, violet colored widgets for CPU, RAM, temperature and battery, yellow widget for network information. And a clock. There are two windows: fullscreen Emacs window on the background, with opened json file with fastfetch configuration. The small xterm window on the foreground with the fastfetch output in it.

doas apt ins^?^?^?^?^?^?^?pkg install... 😅 Dat #FreeBSD life. — #microblogging #MicroToot: 64 characters

Flu effects are diminishing, #FreeBSD release is just round the corner, now if I could get some sleep without cough it would be great!

｢ There are some nice things about FreeBSD, like root on ZFS, and broadly I feel that it's more friendly than OpenBSD. But those are secondary to its firewall network performance (and PF compatibility); if its network performance was no better than OpenBSD (or worse), we wouldn't be interested. Since it is better, it's now displacing OpenBSD for our firewalls and our latest VPN servers ｣

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove

#freebsd #openbsd #bf

One big 16TB zpool (8 x 4TB SSDs) or 2 x 8TB zpools?

I got decisions to make now that all this stuff has come together.

https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/26/creating-a-new-zpool-for-r730-01/

#FreeBSD #ZFS

Added 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲 [Problem to Solve] section to 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 [Brave New PKGBASE World] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/brave-new-pkgbase-world/

#verblog #freebsd #pkgbase #pkg #update #upgrade

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

@pythno also, because the argument has not yet arisen:

― don't call FreeBSD a bistro.

@rl_dane

#FreeBSD #bistro

Big props to the @kde Plasma team for going #Wayland only with the next major release (6.8): https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/

Together with @gnome removing X11 code from its core components in GNOME 50, it is clear that the majority of the #FreeDesktop will be moving forward with much greater sustainability when it comes to maintaining the multimedia & graphics-related middleware on #Linux and #FreeBSD.

#KDE

@linus if you haven't already seen it:

<https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/desktop-environment.md>

I test drove GNOME for a few minutes yesterday. No GNOME system sounds until after I added KDE Plasma and applications:

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p6sn6b/gnome_on_freebsd_150_a_few_notes/>

#freeBSD #KDE #Plasma #GNOME

@Jbb @kde I did. It just mentioned FreeBSD so that's a reason why I'm asking.

What about other OS and BSDs like OpenBSD whose port of plasma6 only runs by using xorg/xenocara?

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

So, I'm not quite caught up, did FreeBSD 15 end up including a KDE installation option? I remember seeing a bunch of posts about that earlier this year and then nothing.

#FreeBSD #KDE

@BastilleBSD it's no longer scheduled for 15.0.

The revised target is 15.1:

<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>

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma

It's time to de-duplicate the desktops • The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ by Liam Proven, @lproven

＂… There are an almost ridiculous number of Windows-style desktops on Linux – and mostly this applies to the BSDs, too. …＂

#UNIX #Linux #FreeBSD #BSD

@h4890 I know that support for Wi-Fi is improved in 15.0 (compared to 14.3-RELEASE).

Details, I don't know. Release documentation is not finalised.

#FreeBSD #WiFi

I've been in IT for 40+ Years

I love working with computing Systems both Server & Client Side computing.

What is **absolutely** certain, is that if I do not follow all the important languages I need, and the important POSIX system changes, I'll become a dinosaur and a fossil in less than 3 months

🖋️ #bash #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #640daysofcode #301daysofcode #730daysofcode #100DaysOfCode #1000DaysOfCode #Linux #freeBSD #openBSD #POSIX #Programming

Using deep learning frameworks on FreeBSD is currently not going to work, is it?
What Doesn't Work:
- PyTorch (no FreeBSD wheels)
- sentence-transformers (depends on PyTorch)
- TensorFlow (similar issues)
- Deep learning frameworks generally

🤔
#freebsd

Howto on how to set up a local #webdev setup on #FreeBSD via #Apache featuring #Python and #PHP

https://jhx7.de/blog/webdev-setup-on-freebsd/

#freeBSD #BSD #unix #webdev #php #python

Oh my, the modern web is so bloated/overloaded.
My Thinkpad x260 (Yoga) is dying while playing a Youtube video... let alone dropping a lot of frames.
I know, the CPU is older (i5-6200U) but come on - this is crazy.

I've set the notebook up to play around with #FreeBSD on the desktop some more. Running #Xfce currently and having some dev stuff installed.
#FreeBSD handles the notebook like a champ, everything works... sadly that is not the same for using the web with a modern browser.
720p playbook loads up the CPU at a constant 50/60%.
Well, at least surfing the web is kinda ok... but not great tbh.

Times really have changed... for the worse in some aspects.
I still remember surfing the web back than with a tiny AMD single core CPU - which was more then enough.

Enough ranting.

Check out what I totally overlooked, if anyone’s into that 😉
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/full-ada-programming-toolchain-now-on-freebsd.98576/

#freebsd #ada

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟰 - 𝗣𝗖𝗜 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘁𝗵𝗿𝘂 [UPDATE 4 - PCI Passthru] to 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [FreeBSD Bhyve Virtualization] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/08/18/freebsd-bhyve-virtualization#passthru

#verblog #freebsd #bhyve #passthru #usb #pci #virtualization

The last release candidate of #FreeBSD 15.0 was released two days ago. Release builds will start overmorrow. Release announcement is scheduled for 2. December 2025.

Is it possible to only enable the Linuxulator in #FreeBSD in a jail but not in the host? Or is it just enabling it in both but only installing the linux-* packages in the jail?

FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-November/003611.html

#FreeBSD #test #RC4

Gotta say that, having done this a gazillion times on Linux, system and application upgrades on FreeBSD are very smooth. Upgraded to Plasma 6.5.3 and RC 4 of FreeBSD 15 in one go. Running on Wayland, very nice. Close to one month now and gone through all the paces and updates.
Followed my own effing manual of course 😂
#freebsd #kde

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Screenshot of System Information of KDE Plasma, showing version 6.5.3, on Wayland, in RC4 of FreeBSD 15

Oh, I forgot to mention... Videochat on FreeBSD/Firefox ends up not being half as painful as I made it. I assumed I needed sndoid but I couldn't see microphones... Digging some more the other day, it turned out that the base OSS actually works out better.

So I simplified, and the default FreeBSD simply works. I've tested with Jitsi and Zoom. GMeet worked before l. If I can figure out how I'll test Teams. (Caveat: I haven't tested screen-sharing in either direction with any of them.)

#freebsd

These don't work at all on iOS, but thats closed platforms for you

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a black an white image from a thermal camera, a part of a mug is warm. The view in the image is upside down.

FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

#FreeBSD #ReproducibleBuilds #OpenSource #Security

#FreeBSD Users
Do you run quarterly or latest packages on your #FreeBSD workstation? Or do you build ports?

Servers excluded this time, only #desktop systems 😉

#freebsd #unix #bsd

Our latest EuroBSDCon trip report from Leah Budzicka highlights continued interest in FreeBSD among newer and younger developers. Leah discovered the Foundation’s travel grant opportunity on Mastodon, attended the conference through Foundation support, and shared their experience with the broader community.

Read Leah’s report here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-eurobsdcon-trip-report-leah-budzicka/

If you’re new to FreeBSD, we welcome you to explore the Project. What questions do you have about getting involved?

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP 250 G3
Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64
Operating System: GHostBSD 25.02
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.3
Graphics Platform: Wayland

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #KDE #Plasma #kde_plasma #wayland #screenshot #desktop #unix

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Screenshot of GhostBSD running Plasma. Styling using the Klassy theme for windows, applications, icons and panel to mimic breeze. Colours follow Plasmas twilight settings. Wallpaper: "Harmony (night /night)" by Deniska from the old Plasma 6 wallpaper context. There's a Plasma default panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a konsole running bsdebfetch with some system stats and three picture frames: bottom right with "RunBSD" Logo and center and top center stickers with slogans concerning "cancer prevention/mamma carcinomas". There's a bottom panel with a pager widget showing two virtual desktops. Both panels are set to dodge windows.. Wallpaper set to change during day and night cycle. A binary clock is set up to blend with the wallpaper

Here you can read how ROBUST the HAMMER2 filesystem is

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/

#DragonFly #DragonFlyBSD #BSD #freeBSD #OpenSource #Lightweight #HAMMER2 #FileSystem #technology #programming

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DragonFLy BSD hammer2 page with main features stated

FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/> (parts) | <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/book/> (the book)

Published today.

Thanks to @alfonsosiciliano, to @pauamma for review, and to @FreeBSDFoundation for sponsorship.

#FreeBSD #accessibility

New 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 [ZFS Boot Environments Explained] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/zfs-boot-environments-explained/

#verblog #beadm #bectl #dataset #desktop #freebsd #laptop #pool #server #zfs

Does anyone know when the #Tor package for #FreeBSD will be upgraded from 0.4.8.20 to 0.4.8.21?

It's been almost a week since 0.4.8.21 was released due to a critical security fix, but nothing's happening... :(

#FreeBSD 15-STABLE:
Newer FreeBSD version for package FreeBSD-zfs-lib32:
To ignore this error set IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes
- package: 1500502
- running userland: 1500501
Ignore the mismatch and continue? [y/N]:

Anyone know what to do here?
I'm on pkg+hxxs://pkg.Freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_latest/

pkg is V2.4.2

Just curious... Can a #deltachat chatmail relay run on the BSDs? I'm guessing it can't coexist with a mail server already on a system due to the ports being used but it could be installed, say in a #freebsd jail or perhaps on another #openbsd system?

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟭/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/11/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/valuable-news-2025-11-24/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jhx/115599891811806575

All of them!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD

@jbz BTW, I can't say that a commands' flags and arguments are a big pain in ass. If user switches from GNU utils, which uses a lot of GNU-specific things, to the BSD utils, which doesn't adopt various GNU things – then it's strange to wait for the same arguments of commandline utils, even if they named the same.

It is like the heavy user of Windows cmd.exe switched to Linux and disappointed that "commandname /?" doesn't show the help message to him.

Those days, when I first time tried FreeBSD, I had a lot of shell scripts full of Linuxisms in my dotfiles. Yes, I was need to spent some time in editor and remove all Linux-specific things from scripts — but now they able to run in both OSes

The biggest thing was to rewrite scripts to use a proper shebang – not the Linux-specific "#!/bin/bash", but the much more portable "#!/usr/bin/env bash":

https://codeberg.org/evgandr/dotfiles/commit/0da26c8efd367d50a6cf0d7df6a835121cef21eb

https://codeberg.org/evgandr/dotfiles/commit/dd34bf8a4f437a76b5da4b23c0f84aa13766d8e7

#BSD #FreeBSD #Linux #shell

How far along has tarfs gotten in #FreeBSD? I've been watching @dch 's talk on immutable FreeBSD from EuroBSDCon 2023 (1 hour wasn't enough to cover your talk!)

I've been looking into applying the principles but sadly it won't be for $day_job as they've no interest in my FreeBSD ideas but for something else.

I'm curious which sockets were used in the jails. Was /tmp replaced with tmpfs in the jail and did you use a socket to talk to syslog-ng on the host?

https://youtu.be/5oHLU9w1vVk

Factorio: Space Age working PERFECTLY under FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 with proper 60fps and really REALLY smooth performance on my Intel iGPU (UHD 620 via drm-66-kmod).

Oh my productivity will be suffer so much from that !!! 🙂

THE FACTORY MUST GROW !!!

#factorio #freebsd #runbsd #freebsd15 #bsdgaming #gaming

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XFCE Desktop on FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 with a Terminal window and "fastfetch" open and a window running Factorio: SpaceAge.

@uastronomer Possibly I disappoint you, but looks like the same situation with almost every binary package distribution. For example, if I try to install #Qemu to the **headless** server running #NetBSD , just to run some other OSes in the console mode, the dependencies bring to me:

- SDL2 and SDL2_image
- flac, giflib, lame, libjpeg-turbo, libogg, libopus, libvorbis, libwebp, mpg123, tiff — like I'm want to operate with images and audio files, not to launch some virtual machines
- spice-server, while I'm not planning to use it.
- wayland and wayland-protocols -- no comments

As @TomAoki stated one time on my ramblings about the same situation in the #FreeBSD world: "many of opensource audio and/or multimedia apps are developed on any of Linux distros, not on *BSD, thus, to minimize mandated works of porters / maintainers / commiters, depending on what upstream depends by default is the only feasible way not to cause toooo long delay from upstream".

I lost link to his toot on the old account, but I has a screenshot: vhttps://eugene-andrienko.com/assets/static/tomaoki.png

One way to get rid of unnecessary dependencies — build necessary programs by yourself, looks like…

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drag0n-server# pkgin install qemu pkg_summary.bz2 100% 3935KB 67.8KB/s 00:58 calculating dependencies...done. 36 packages to install: SDL2-2.32.10 SDL2_image-2.6.3nb6 capstone-5.0.6 dtc-1.7.2 fftw-3.3.10nb2 flac-1.5.0nb1 giflib-5.2.2nb1 gmp-6.3.0 hicolor-icon-theme-0.17nb1 jbigkit-2.1nb1 lame-3.100nb7 lerc-4.0.0 libcbor-0.13.0 libepoll-shim-0.0.20240608 libgcrypt-1.11.2 libgpg-error-1.55 libiscsi-1.19.0 libjpeg-turbo-3.1.2 libogg-1.3.6 libopus-1.5.2 libsamplerate-0.2.2nb5 libslirp-4.7.0nb2 libsndfile-1.2.2nb2 libssh-0.111nb2 libtasn1-4.20.0 libusb1-1.0.29 libvorbis-1.3.7 libwebp-1.6.0nb1 libxkbcommon-1.7.0nb6 mpg123-1.33.2 qemu-10.1.0nb1 snappy-1.2.2 spice-server-0.15.2nb1 tiff-4.7.0nb3 wayland-1.23.0nb7 wayland-protocols-1.45 0 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 36 to install 107M to download, 898M of additional disk space will be used nroceed ? [Y/n]

My experiments with poudriere are completed!

For now, I have a clean system without Pulseaudio/Pipewire/Wayland/etc. And suddenly I got rid of strange video glitches!

https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/03/30/freebsd-pkgs-wout-unwanted-deps

#FreeBSD #poudriere #PackageManagement #compilation

Looking for testers for #if_rge - [#RTL8125, #RTL8126, #RTL8127] ethernet driver, 20251123,
by Adrian C,
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-November/009481.html
-- with #FreeBSD -current

#RealtekEthernet

#FreeBSD 15.0 RC3 is now available. This is probably the last chance to test before the final release.

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Screenshot of fastfetch(1) on my Framework 13 with FreeBSD 15.0 RC3

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared // @stefano

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#BSD #FreeBSD #SmartOS #NetBSD #OpenBSD #N150