I had Zabbix 6.4 running on a #FreeBSD old laptop but fouled up the 15.x upgrade. Missing a dot so file. So i wiped the drive and did a fresh install from DVD.
Trickiest part was again forcing #Zabbix to use PostgreSQL instead of MariaDB because that needs port not pkg, which takes longer on an older machine. Restored templates and a couple hosts and now running Zabbix 7.4, pgsql 16.

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Zabbix console. Dials and charts and maps oh my.

Okay, my next post on IT Notes is going to be about an unconventional but potentially very useful setup! 🙂

#ITNotes #RunBSD #FreeBSD

So... the #Numphy keyboard media keys are recognized by default in #FreeBSD 15, without any particular hacks. But the wireless Intel AX210 doesn't work anymore - when it did on 14.x...

I guess $LIFE is all about choices!

BSDCan 2026 is in #ottawa June 17 - 20, 2026.

The submissions deadline is January 17, 2027. See the Call for Papers page https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html for instructions on how to submit.

Want to know more about BSD and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html @bsdcan #bsdcan #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #freesoftware #libresoftware #conferences

Running #XLibre #FreeBSD #runBSD

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#XLibre #FreeBSD #runBSD

@King_of_Ooo I tried Ghostty just out of curiosity. It became available in the #FreeBSD ports tree relatively recently. I wanted to see whether it worked on #HardenedBSD (it does!)

The biggest thing I"m missing is easy copy of URLs. I want to right-click a URL and select "copy URL to clipboard".

Ghostty, lacking that feature, makes me highlight/select the text manually, which is really cumbersome for me.

Terminator has that feature. Though I far prefer the terminal over GUI, my terminal needs are pretty basic. I spend most of my time in tmux, zsh, and vim.

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 - 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗮 (𝗻𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗮) 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱 - 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 [UPDATE 2 – Disable NopeVidia (nVidia) Card – More Battery Time] to 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟰.𝟯 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗣𝗮𝗱 𝗧𝟮𝟱 [FreeBSD 14.3 on FrankenPad T25] article.

https://vermaden.wordpres s.com/2025/06/26/freebsd-14-3-on-frankenpad-t25/

#verblog #freebsd #nopevidia #nvidia

@Tionisla @BoydStephenSmithJr Tionisla is on point. if you want something similar to a #Linux calamares installer, you can get your feet wet with #GhostBSD as it's based on #FreeBSD. if you're comfortable installing #ArchLinux manually then #FreeBSD 15.0 is fantastic, i just set this up on a chromebook and Wi-Fi doesn't keep disconnecting and having problems it had with 14.3, touchpad is also working in 15.0. #OpenBSD is simple to learn and super easy to install and my favorite #BSD to use, you pretty much press enter like 10 times to install it. #NetBSD is easy to install and configure if it plays nice with your hardware, it's really slow when installed on this laptop so i haven't used it much. like Tionisla said have fun and #RunBSD! reach out if you run into any issues.

export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu"

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for X86 compatible, DEC Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures.

Что такое FreeBSD?

FreeBSD - это мощная операционная система для компьютеров архитектур, совместимых с x86, AMD64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 и UltraSPARC®. Она основана на BSD, версии UNIX®, созданной в Калифорнийском Университете в Беркли. Она разрабатывается и поддерживается большой командой разработчиков. Поддержка других платформ находится на разных стадиях разработки.

Выдающиеся возможности

Исключительный набор сетевых возможностей, высокая производительность, средства обеспечения безопасности и совместимости с другими ОС - вот те современные возможности FreeBSD, которые зачастую всё ещё отсутствуют в других, даже лучших коммерческих, операционных системах.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q9c11r/comment/nyuc2zv/>

#FreeBSD #retro #Russian

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An image of a Russian flyer for FreeBSD from around 2005.

my biggest mental/actual roadblock for switching to #FreeBSD is the availability of working bluetooth audio for headset & microphone. i want to buy a thinkcentre with probably an intel ax201/203/211 wi-fi & bt 5 chip and searching the internet for bluetooth audio support with that chipset doesn’t fill me with a lot of hope, but maybe i’m not searching right or maybe i should look at other hardware? i don’t use my pc for much, but video conferencing and music/youtube playback are must-haves.

New 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 [Add Port to FreeBSD Ports] on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/

#verblog #freebsd #packages #ports #pkg #submit #add

#FreeBSD #Podman installation dialogs based on bsdinstall:

https://gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-installer-dialogs

Inspired by the the alfix/kde-installer-dialogs repository.

I hope you will enjoy #OCI #containers on #FreeBSD.

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FreeBSD installer dialog box

Right in the process of changing my Desktop Environment from KDE/Plasma to LXQT on my main laptop "Tionisla".

OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p1
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE amd64
Desktop: LXQT
WM: XFWM4

Styling:
gtk2/3/QT/XFWM: Greybird
LXQT: Sombre-et-Rond
Icons: Qogir
wallpaper: "Sonnenuntergang_im_Schilf" (Sunset in the reeds) by a @orbite lamba

#lxqt #xfwm4 #freebsd #runBSD #screenshot #unix

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Screenshot of a LXQT Desktop running on FreeBSD. On the lefte there's a panel for starting and managing various programs and a system tray and a clock/date applet. In the upper right corner is a terminal showing the output of the bsdebfetch command. In the lower right corner there's a FreeBSD logo icon. the wallpaper show's a fractalised picture of a sunset in the reeds.

After many years, I've just started testing #MooseFS again.
I used it in the past and it was great. It supports #FreeBSD and the performance was quite decent.

I can definitely see some use cases for it as MooseFS is fully POSIX-compliant

#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM

@dexter try <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291461>,

291461 – 15.0 doesn't boot in UEFI on HPE MicroServer/iLO

#FreeBSD

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

I’ve added the last missing piece to the pack CLI upstream 🎉

https://github.com/buildpacks/pack/pull/2510

With this in place, the next official release should be usable for creating a FreeBSD port without patches (fingers crossed).

In the meantime I’m still working on end-to-end testing on FreeBSD 15 with Podman.

Slow progress since the last update, but progress nonetheless.

#CloudNativeBuildpacks #FreeBSD #Podman

Note to future self:

When installing #HardenedBSD / #FreeBSD on a Dell R6515 (or comparable machine) it isn't enough to put the disks in non-RAID, the controller (H330 in this case) needs to be put into HBA mode as well.

Also: disable x2APIC because it is a complete clusterfuck.

@dgoodkin thanks!

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q82jiq/goal_framework_laptop_12_with_freebsd_as_a_daily/> subtly encourages people to follow you in the Fediverse (Mastodon) for updates.

#FreeBSD

So yeah. Not a coincidence at this point: #FreeBSD 15 is not booting in UEFI mode on relatively-recent HPE Intel and EPYC systems. 14.x was fine and is literally on-disk. Anyone seen this? My last search for a PR didn’t come up with anything.

Cool #Swift Lang FreeBSDkit that provides Swift Overlay for FreeBSD system APIs.

https://github.com/SwiftBSD/FreeBSDKit
#FreeBSD

Anyone aware of any weird networking regressions in FreeBSD lately? Something where networking suddenly stops when using static routes like when installing with depenguin.me? Fresh 15 install, network dies when adding more alias addresses, but only after a while and doesn't come back after reboot. Weird. I know. Have seen this on a customer box recently updated to the latest 14.3 as well. #freebsd

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrate They Likely Do Not Understand Mail At All https://nxdomain.no/~peter/they_do_not_understand_mail_at_all.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-major-mail-provider-demonstrate-they.html)

#greytrapping #spam, #antispam #greylisting #blocklist, #openbsd #freebsd #smtp #email #SMTP, #contentfiltering #SPF #DMARC #security #networking

Is there a way to keep my#PlayStation4 running beyond its end of life? Maybe with #Linux, #freebsd, or #openbsd ? Even more importantly, is there any chance I can keep my games? Some of them I only own as DLCs.

#FreeBSD #bhyve vnc server now supports using a unix socket:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=cbc6f7e941e42639a0314cd121b06493cce8e0e6

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP 250 G3
Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p7 amd64
Operating System: GhostBSD 25.02
LXQT Version: 2.3.0 (XFWM)
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Graphics Platform: X11

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

Wallpaper "Oiseau d'hiver" by @orbite

#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #LXQT #X11 #QT #screenshot #desktop #unix

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Screenshot of GhostBSD running LXQT. Styling: Greybirdfor gtk2/3/xfwm, QT theming via qt6gtk2 LXQT Panel: Sombre-et-rond Icons: Qogir Wallpaper: "Oiseau d'hiver" by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a qterminal running bsdebfetch with some system stats. AT the bottom is a floating panel with two desktop switcher buttons.

Upgraded my secondary notebook "Tianve" to GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p7.

Removed Plasma 6.5.4 and switched to LXQT instead. All is well.

#RunBSD #GhostBSD #FreeBSD

FreeBSD crowd, what’s the lowest power device (in terms of Watts) made in the last few years that you’ve got FreeBSD successfully running on and with essential functionality like networking? #FreeBSD

Before this poll: were you aware of the search page?

#FreeBSD

Screenshot to follow.

Do you need to dynamically generate variables within Bastille templates? Check out this example, available in our upcoming release.

Bastillefile:
ARG PASSWORD=$(openssl rand -base64 15)
CMD echo ${PASSWORD}

> bastille template test test/test
[test]: Applying template: test/test...
[test]: NBRklaMV06dbqYLypurm
Template applied: test/test

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #automation

Slightly updated my blogpost about X11 (again):
1) Add subsection about xlock to the "Screensaver" section with sample configuration involving xlock and xautolock usage.
2) Add subsection about how to properly start xdm — according to the documentation in the FreeBSD — the /etc/ttys should be changed, not the /etc/rc.conf.
3) In the "GTK3" subsection wrote about hack from ArchWiki to force GTK3 not to conform X server settings (I starting to think that this is impossible), but to display fonts and UI elements at least the same size like other toolkits — when the HighDPI display is in use.

https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html#fonts-size-tweak

#Xserver #FreeBSD

Did upgrade all the remaining service jails on our burningborad.net Mastodon instance to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE today, after the host was already upgraded one and a half week ago.

Everything running smoothly :) Only nodejs in the mastodonweb jail needed some additional "convincing" and a deletion of the node_modules folder plus a fresh "yarn install --frozen-lockfile"

Now everything is up to date again 🙂

#freebsd #bastillebsd #jails #sysadmin #mastoadmin #upgrade #mastodon

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Screenshot of "bastille list", showing that all Jails (database, factorio, mastodonsidekiq, mastodonweb and nginx) run on 15.0-RELEASE (the latest FreeBSD release)

manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.

Changelog v1.6:

• Pagination support added
• Sitemap support added
• SEO optimized
• LD+JSON support added

The project source is available on GitHub at:
https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com

#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog

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manpageblog - a UNIX man page themed static blog engine

It's 2026 and people still pass untrusted input to system(). #FreeBSD folks to the update mobile! https://www.security.land/freebsd-ipv6-flaw-enables-remote-code-execution-attacks/ #security

So I tried out #LinuxMint with the default Cinnamon Desktop for the last few days. It was quite nice. I would recommend it for those new to Linux. The desktop is sweet perfection, like #XFCE.

But sound did not work on my new laptop. Updating the kernel and found what seems like every possible bug with Linux Mint. Now I have no wireless AND no sound. For some reason, I can't get into the Grub boot menu to revert changes. Gone are the days when I can simply edit a text file for boot order and init.d startup. Searching forums and two days of debugging and reinstalling, trying to work with the #systemd and #initrd layers made me give it up. Seems like modularity between systems got tangled up like cold spaghetti in the fridge overnight.

#FreeBSD it is. #UNIX my old friend, you have always been loyal and true. At least I can fix what I break. Downloading now.

Moved a #FreeBSD jail between hosts for the first time today, and for bonus difficulty the hosts were different architectures (Intel > ARM) and it worked fine! Just needed to `pkg bootstrap -fy` and `pkg upgrade -fy` in it once on the new host in order to reinstall the right flavour packages (and re-create a Python venv which had a binary package in too)

And as always, we value your input, see "For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_tutorial_upcoming_questions_welcome.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/for-upcoming-pf-tutorials-we-welcome.html) #pf #firewall #tutorial #openbsd #freebsd #networking #security #ipv6 #ipv4 @stucchimax

Sometimes we try to juggle too much and the little things slip. Best we can do is reevaluate, reprioritize and retry.

Some regressions slipped into Rocinante recently and broke some template functions. These have been fixed now in GitHub.

Thank you for your patience. Even the best intentions sometimes have unexpected consequences.

These changes will make it into ports/pkg in the next update.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #opensource #Rocinante

There will be a "Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset" at AsiaBSDCon in Taipei Thursday, March 19 2026.

Yours truly and Max Stucchi teaching networking goodness.

Details soon to emerge at https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/ #asiabsdcon #freebsd #openbsd #networking #conference #tutorial #pf #packetfilter #security #firewall #freesofware #libresoftware @stucchimax

Fresh from the BSDCan program committee - submissions are coming in, but we can still take more!

If you have not made your submission, you have until Saturday, January 17th to get yours in!

Go to https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html to orient yourself, then submit via the submission link.

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 17-18, 2026, talks June 19-20, 2026

#bsdcan #conference #bsd #unix #development #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #sysadmin #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @bsdcan

Because various little annoying things got stacking, I decided to replace my $HOME #OmniOS instance running on the Aoostar R1 N150 by a #FreeBSD one. As I wanted to keep as much of the ZFS storage/data and I was not sure how FreeBSD would react to illumos storage, I did the FreeBSD on an USB stick. And...

• Running FreeBSD from the USB stick is no issue.
• FreeBSD 15.0 is not Production-ready IMHO. After a clean install, pkg update throws SQlite errors all over the place and I couldn't install a single package. FreeBSD 14.3 is the version I went for.
• During installation, discarding the warning about existing zroot seem to cause no harm. The storage is overwritten and the OS installed ok.
• Forcing the ZFS import sets data available to FreeBSD without issues. At least, I haven't noticed any yet. Special yeehaas for the ability to mount what were ipkg and pkgsrc zones with only a couple of set mountpoint calls onto a FreeBSD system - because I noticed my backups were lacking a couple of small config files...
• Having already done "Web browsers" jails, deploying my VOD and Backup jails using FreeBSD packages (rather than illumos + pkgsrc) was pretty easy. The Infuse and rsnapshot tests are a win.
• Not tested yet, the Linux jails. In some previous testings, I was not satisfied with what I understood from the Handbook so I'll probably have a look at BastilleBSD.
• Not tested yet either, running bhyve machine. But this has already been done elsewhere so I don't fear this much.

Time for a sleep/break. Cheers!

pkg and planetary alignments, Tuesday 6th January 2025

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q5v7l8/pkg_and_planetary_alignments_tuesday_6th_january/>

@trashheap the bug bit me, coincidentally, at such an unfortunate moment, I felt impelled to pin a humorous FAQ in Reddit.

I'm quite certain that impelled is the wrong word, but not nearly as wrong as my twisted sense of humour.

#FreeBSD #FAQ

@NebulaTide I use OpenZFS-native encrypted ZFS for one of the file systems in a pool on a mobile hard disk drive on USB.

No GELI.

#FreeBSD #Linux #OpenZFS #ZFS #encryption