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#FreeBSD #OpenSource

If you run your own local DNS servers at home, do you: (select all that apply)

Comment with your preferred DNS stack and privacy friendly DNS providers.

#FreeBSD #Linux #selfHosting #DNS

Interestingly, #FreeBSD comes with #nvi2 in base, while #OpenBSD and #NetBSD seem to be running #nvi 1:

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
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Version 2.2.2 (2025-10-08) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

OpenBSD 7.3
(7.9 is still running the same version)
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Version 1.79 (10/23/96) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

NetBSD 10.1
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Version (1.81.6-2013-11-20nb4) The CSRG, University of California, Berkeley.

They all seem to have nvi2 available as packages, though, which #Debian, oddly, does not.

rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -sr
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p12
rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search nvi |grep '^nvi2'
nvi2-2.2.2                     Updated implementation of the ex/vi text editor
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

#(searching openbsd online)
rld@Intrepid:~$ searchall -o nvi |grep ^nvi
nvi-2.2.2                (list)   with wide         and files limited by
nvi-2.2.2-iconv          (list)   with wide         and files limited by

rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ uname -sr
NetBSD 10.1
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ pkgin search nvi |grep ^nvi |grep -v nvidia
nvi-1.81.6nb13       Berkeley nvi with additional features
nvi-m17n-1.79.20040608nb11  Clone of vi/ex, with multilingual patch
nvi2-2.2.0           Multibyte fork of the nvi editor for BSD
rldane@rosa.tilde.pink$ 

~ $ head -1 /etc/os-release 
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie)"
~ $ apt-cache search nvi |grep -E '^nvi2? '
nvi - 4.4BSD re-implementation of vi
~ $ 

Some red devil and yellow fish are now secretly talking to each through a #WireGuard tunnel on the Internet. Glad it is not that complicated to setup and works OOTB.

My notes are there: https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/connect-freebsd-to-openbsd-using-wireguard/

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Ready to explore Sylve!

The plan is to learn and play on the laptop, end then transfer to server.

#freebsd #sylve #homelab

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Screenshot of Sylve web interface, showing stats about the computer (a laptop, in this case). Fresh installation, so no jails or virtual machines yet.

Some moments from yesterday’s installation.
The clients are Debian Linux, and the server is FreeBSD.

#IT #Debian #Linux #FreeBSD

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Four Lenovo ThinkCentre boxes stacked on the floor in a small office room, with a desk, laptop, backpack, shelves, and blue chairs in the background.

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Two Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop computers set up on long white desks with monitors, keyboards, mice, and visible cables in a small office room.

I am assisting an educational podcast project doing the sysadmin for them. Happy that I was able to advocate for #BSD. We went with httpd(8) #OpenBSD for this, because in the end it is just the feed.xml and some MP3/M4A-files. However, #Apple refuses the feed saying httpd does not support byte-ranges. Looking at the change logs, it should be supported since 5.8 (https://www.openbsd.org/plus58.html). And testing all this with curl does return a 206 and provides me with a working chunk of data. What am I missing here? #NetBSD #FreeBSD #smallweb #podcast

Wow, can't believe that FreeBSD 15.1-R is going to be dropping next Tuesday!

Going to be getting ready for the magnet generation!

#FreeBSD

Run your own decentralized social platform on shared hosting or a tiny VPS WITHOUT Redis, PostgreSQL, or complex infrastructure.

What it makes so special to me? It looks awesome, comes with a great admin web interface and does not require a VPS instance where it can also be operated on a cheap shared hosting systems. By the given requirements, it also easily runs on a #RaspberryPI and all kind of systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Illumos and more!

This all makes it perfect to everyone and even beginners to run their own instance. With relay support (e.g., fedi-relay.gyptazy.com) it even can consume and post content over non-directly connected instances in the #fediworld!

Kudos to the author of Starling: @df@s.dfaria.eu

More information:
GitHub project: https://github.com/dfaria-eu/Starling
My blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/starling-simple-fediverse-server/

#fedi #fediwall #opensource #decentralized #social #socialmedia #alternatives #mastodon

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Starling as a Fediverse/ActivityPub Server

It's a bit of a shame that this fella went to all of that trouble digging through Illumos.

https://youtube.com/v/tUqHsv6JarY?lc=UgwAiVOVkz-sP_j-H7J4AaABAg

#Illumos is one of the few platforms that does not have the <sys/ttydefaults.h> header from 4BSD. It was ironically quite the wrong place to look. The GNU and musl C libraries have the header, as do all of #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, and #NetBSD.

The problem is that although <sys/ttydefaults.h> has been around since 1983 (1993 in its current form), almost no-one, apart from people like me who write terminal emulators and whatnot and cannot just use cfmakesane(), knows that it is there. It isn't in any manual.

Which leads to things like stty in GNU coreutils going all around the houses to do something simple, too.

#ttydefaults #termios #stty

#FreeBSD #uptimekuma

```
dch@wintermute /> doas pkg install -r pkg uptime-kuma
Updating pkg repository catalogue...
Fetching meta.conf: 100% 179 B 0.2 kB/s 00:01
Fetching data: 100% 323 KiB 330.5 kB/s 00:01
Processing entries: 100%
pkg repository update completed. 927 packages processed.
pkg is up to date.
The following 1 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
uptime-kuma: 2.3.2 [pkg]

Number of packages to be installed: 1

The process will require 429 MiB more space.
56 MiB to be downloaded.

Proceed with this action? [y/N]: Y
```

https://kuma.skunkwerks.at/

Looking good so far, I could do with some people ready to tire-kick this new port

@stefano your https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/22/install-uptime-kuma-freebsd-jail/ was super helpful!

I need to spend another hour or so testing and polishing then I'm ready to ship it.

Sylve is now in the FreeBSD ports tree!

You can install it with `pkg install sylve`, or build it from ports: `cd /usr/ports/sysutils/sylve && make install clean`

Really happy to see this land; thanks to @dch for all his help porting this! 🙌

https://sylve.io
https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve

#FreeBSD #Sylve #RunBSD

QEMU accelerated with bhyve vmm (Virtual Machine Monitor) on FreeBSD - Ongoing Work by Mario Zio #FreeBSD #Virtualization https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/booted-debian-and-freebsd-15-using-qemu-accelerated-with-bhyve-vmm-for-the-first-time-this-is-an-epic-milestone-for-the-community.102735/

Is http://bxr.su dead?

#OpenBSD #BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD

Why has nobody told me about this before? It is easier to manage jails and VMs in multiple FreeBSD servers with this web app.

#freebsd #server #sylve

Copying Remote Command Output to Your macOS Clipboard

A small trick to copy command output from a remote ssh session directly into the local macOS clipboard, using OSC 52 and a tiny shell script.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/05/26/copying-remote-command-output-to-your-macos-clipboard/

#ITNotes #macOS #Mac #Apple #shell #ssh #Linux #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Terminal #Clipboard

Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

Once I figured out which files to write to the SD card for the NanoPi R2S plus and in what order for #netbsd, installing #openbsd was a breeze.

The second 1G network card is working—the very one that #FreeBSD doesn't recognize ;)

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Installing OpenBSD on the NanoPi R2S plus

#FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptop-Driver

272902 – Security: allow passphrases for WPA-EAP to be saved without using clear text

<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272902>

#FreeBSD #security #eduroam #WiFi #wireless

Successfully updated my ThinkPad T480 to FreeBSD 15.1-RC1

First impression: Solid release!

- WiFi (Intel AX210) stable on 5 GHz (802.11AC) with expected WAN speed.
- Graphics, Audio, USB-C Dock all working fine.
- Factorio Space-Age running perfectly smooth.

All running super well and without unexpected issues :-) Yay!

#freebsd #thinkpad #runbsd #wifi #freebsd15 #t480

I have seen Omarchy Linux ... but for some reason I missed Omfreebdy FreeBSD based alternative.

I personally use X11 and prefer it over Wayland - but I now know that Omfreebdy comes with X11 version as well.

Great to see such option available.

https://omfreebdy.dba.wtf/

#freebsd #x11 #i3 #omarchy #omfreebdy

Impressive!

#RunBSD

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP-250 G3
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p8
Operating System: GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p8 amd64
Desktop: LXQT 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.10.2
Graphics Platform: X11/xorg 7.7

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526

#runbsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot

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Screenshot of GhostBSD running LXQT. Styling: custom Qogir-Berry gtk2/3, QT theming via qt6gtk2 XFWM 4: Qogir Round LXQT Panel: Graphite Icons: custom Qogir-Berry Wallpaper: "Corbeau" by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a qterminal running bsdebfetch style system stats. At the bottom is a floating panel with two desktop switcher buttons. On the right side there are some cancer realted icons/badges and a mandatory "RunBSD/LXQt Desktop" Sticker.

FreeBSD 15.1 Release Candidate is now live!

The release candidate version of FreeBSD 15.1, RC1, is now live and available for download to the public for those who like testing pre-release operating systems. This version of FreeBSD brings many improvements to come.

The ISO images can now be downloaded using the below button. It will take you to the file list that lets you select what kind of image you want to download, in terms of architecture, install source, and image type.

Download FreeBSD 15.1 RC1

Announcement

The release schedule for FreeBSD 14.4, which describes the expected deadlines to meet for every release stage, such as the final release which will be released next week, can be located here.

Release schedule

FreeBSD 15.1 brings security fixes and other fixes to essential and other system components to ensure that both stability and security are guaranteed.

The below release notes can be found here, though it’s work in progress.

Release notes #BSD #FreeBSD #FreeBSD144 #news #Tech #Technology #update

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is still open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see the CFP text.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

Progress!! I managed to get the #PinePhonePro screen working on #FreeBSD 🎉 Long way to go yet, but this is a massive step forward for making FreeBSD usable on the device.

https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1736141510-0.jpg

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟮𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/05/25) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/25/valuable-news-2026-05-25/

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

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

My database backups are all dumped locally, then copied, via a pull operation, to a centralized host (known as dbclone, a jail on a #FreeBSD host). From there, they are backed up to disk.

In addition, there is a script which runs through each of the backups and loads them into a database server.

Backups are grouped by host. For each host, the existing databases are cleared and started fresh with an entirely empty set of database files.

Here's the disk-io graph (the backups are still running). I was reviewing logs after some recent changes and noticed some problems. The spikes between 03:00 and 10:00 UTC are the cronjob.

At about 11:13, I restarted the cronjob after making some corrections. It takes about 8 hours to do all the databases.

This host has HDD. I'm tempted to migrate this jail from the existing host (r730-03) to another (r730-01) which is all sold-state drives.

see https://dan.langille.org/2024/07/16/wheres-my-backup/ for a bit more information on dbclone

This post shows more about the host: https://dan.langille.org/2025/06/30/r730-03-6/

Weird. On FreeBSD 15.0, my new Jabra headset works perfectly with the wireless USB dongle. Plug it in, it's picked up as an audio sink and source, and everything Just Works. On Linux Mint (which I still use for gaming and DRM media), the headset reports that it's connected ... then immediately disconnects again :/ No idea why and haven't had the time to debug it.

This further confirms my general impression of FreeBSD and Linux ... Linux distros have much broader software and hardware support, but tend to be a bit jankier. Whereas FreeBSD has a smaller set of software and hardware support, but when it works, it's stable and remains so.

#freebsd #linux #audio #headsets

Well, spending some time, today, trying to fix my FreeBSD install that I totally hosed a few days ago. It's been a few years since I last used FreeBSD and the past month has been a huge learning curve. But to be honest, I absolutely love the learning curve. It's what I love most about tech.

Now, if I could just get a damn desktop installed properly. 😂

#freebsd #bsd

@justine @jeanmimi
I have no experiences for OpenBSD, but does OpenBSD has loadable kernel modules like FreeBSD?
If so, and if you're doing something like loading via /boot/loader.conf on FreeBSD?

In this case, it can cause random breakage.
On FreeBSD, memory area (staging area) that loader allocates for loading kernel, kernel modules and scratch memories are limited (not dynamically allocating by searching and calcurating the size needed before allocating), thus, if there are any too large kernel modules to be loaded by loader exists, it (or anything loaded later) could be truncated, causes undefined behavior.
So, on FreeBSD, loading kernel modules that are NOT essential to boot to single user mode via /boot/loader.conf is strongly discouraged.
Loading kernel modules via kld_list variable in /etc/rc.conf, mean that loaded AFTER loader hands over to kernel, is encouraged whenever possible.

This almost promissingly happen when booted from ZFS and NVIDIA GPU kernel modules and/or DRM/KMS kernel modules for Intel and AMD are specified to be loaded via /boot/loader.conf.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD

Happy #BrothersDay from the sibling who runs on absolutely everything (yes, even the family toaster)! 🚩🍞

Taking a moment to send some love to my Unix-like family today:

To FreeBSD 😈: Thanks for always bringing the heavy-lifting and server muscle. Nobody I’d rather share a kernel subsystem or network stack with! 💪

To OpenBSD 🐡: My brilliantly paranoid sibling. Don't worry, I double-checked the locks, audited the code, and closed the blinds before posting this. Stay secure! 🔒

And a special shoutout to our loud, monolithic cousin, Linux 🐧! You might be everywhere these days, but we still love having you at the FOSS family barbecue. Just leave some market share for the rest of us, okay? 🍔

Here’s to the entire open-source community. No matter what kernel you're running, we're all pushing the ecosystem forward together! 🧡

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #Unix #BrothersDay #RunBSD

Good morning ☀️

#freebsd #coffee #coffemug

SBUG meetup has been opened #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

Hello 15.1-RC1 🙂

Everything super stable so far!

#freebsd #runbsd #rc1 #unix

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 - 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱 to 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗞𝗚𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗨𝗽𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/freebsd-pkgbase-minor-upgrades#UPDATE2

#verblog #freebsd #pkgbase #pkg #upgrade #update #minor #official

As #FreeBSD #ports graphics/drm-612-kmod is added and graphics/drm-latest-kmod is bumped to 6.12,
filed Bug 295519
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295519

and opened corresponding review D57206
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D57206

for #NVIDIA counterpart.

Even though confirmed builds / packages fine on stable/15, not installed / ran yet (as cannot take time waiting for unrelated ports to finish builds).
If anyone tried and having issues with them, please reply on above-mentioned PR or review. If both are impossible (having no accounts), replying to this toot is OK, too.

AI-powered Reddit search (Answers) improving from one day to the next. Today:

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjgr0x/comment/onelt9p/?context=2>

From yesterday's comment:

"… this underscores the value of not trusting the first thing that we read …"

Not exciting, just food for thought.

Certainly not conclusive. I experiment with the feature very rarely … maybe ten times a year.

#AI #FreeBSD #Reddit #bhyve #Proxmox #jails #Docker #Linux #macOS #Windows

The requirements are pretty low:

• NO IPv4
• min. IPv6 /48 subnet routed
• Network (ARIN/RIPE/…) should be personalized (netname, abuse,..)
• Optionally: BYOIP
• ARPA delegation for the net to my nameservers
• min. 2x 500G disk space (SATA SSD or better)
• min. 48G memory per node
• bandwidth doesn’t really matter (100Mbit is fine)
• Remote MGMT to systems

#bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #openindiana #education #learning #opensource

The new #FreeBSD website has a really practical sidenav containing upcoming releases on https://www.freebsd.org/releases/ .
But this sidenav is hidden in mobile layout.
Who can I contact to talk about this?

The Subcarpathian BSD User Group is meeting later today.
Join us on Saturday, May 23 at 18:00 at Brodmir BBQ Bar, ul. Hermanowa 567.
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

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SBUG logl

Jabra Evolve2 65 Flex work fantastically well with FreeBSD on both my desktop and laptop. Will write a detailed review on my Gemlog but short term impression is very positive, and has dealt with my last remaining FreeBSD daily driver issue (video call audio quality).

#freebsd #audio #headphones