FreeBSD manual pages online: I figured out what's wrong with two of the examples in the first of these three screenshots.

The wrongness is easier to see when the text from the page is copied to nano (shot 2) and Fresh (shot 3). What appears to be an ordinary space is in fact:

― non-printable U+0009 (CHARACTER TABULATION) (horizontal tabulation (HT))

A tab.

So, examples are broken when copying from official documentation.

#FreeBSD #bug #src #documentation #manpages #manual

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Screenshot: an online manual page. It appears as if the following text is selected: echo -e "\x10\n\t" | vis -w -t

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Screenshot: an amber alert for a non-printing character, pasted to GNU nano 8.7.1.

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Screenshot: a tab character, visible after pasting to Fresh.

Many technologies in modern computing have been influenced by BSD.

Part 2 of this Andrew Oram series explores BSD’s contributions to email and BSD’s impact on operating systems and programmer tools through BSD Jails, Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF), and other innovations!

Explore: https://lpi.org/1v8r

@FreeBSDFoundation #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #opensource #TechHistory #freebsdfoundation #unix #freesoftware #linux #OS #Berkeley #LPI

Something I noticed about OVH's VPS with FreeBSD on ZFS.

ashift seems to be set to 0. I would've thought it would be set to 12?

Is ashift=0 normal on their VPSes?

#ovh #ovhcloud #FreeBSD #ZFS

It's alive!

#FreeBSD

The new #FreeBSD #NAS is up and running 😎
THe 9700T CPU works great and everything is in order 🙂
Now: Getting the software side done. Will take some time, but it is all fun in the end 👍

#RUNBSD

Better footage on files animation when downloaded from the server.

#freebsd

#FreeBSD just makes me look smart, I’m not - CPU

If it wasn’t clear:

#freebsd

My “FreeBSD Cloud Drive” and file commander now can show thumbnail immediately after file landed to the cloud, but downloaded on demand.

Downloading happens with scale animation when old thumbnail scales up to give room for the progress indicator.

At the moment I’m building server update to make video thumbnails to be generated by server itself so it can show it for video files instead of generic white icon.

#freebsd

Disgusted, as usual, about how #BSD just isn't *fun*. I have upgraded two #FreeBSD VMs' OSes this evening and ... it just worked. I didn't have to swear at anything, or read the source code, or knit my own boot loader from twigs. The BSDs really should learn some lessons from other more funnerer OSes.

https://nextbsd.org/
#nextbsd #bsd #freebsd

This fact is bigger than all the Docker ecosystem, #FreeBSD jails ⬇️

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

New on the blog: Hosting DokuWiki on FreeBSD with Bastille, nginx, and Caddy.

A deliberately small, database-free wiki: one application jail, central Caddy ingress, PHP-FPM over a Unix socket, and explicit nginx rules protecting DokuWiki’s private data.

The interesting part isn’t getting a page to render. It’s drawing clean security and backup boundaries.

https://blog.hofstede.it/hosting-dokuwiki-on-freebsd-with-bastille-nginx-and-caddy/

#FreeBSD #DokuWiki #BastilleBSD #SelfHosting #Caddy

I chased a memory leak in bsnmpd with #DTrace on #FreeBSD.

Care to join?

https://oshogbo.com/blog/92/

⚔️ RedBSD is a FreeBSD-based distribution loaded with a curated red team and penetration testing toolkit, an XFCE-derived desktop, and VMware-ready images — built for operators who want a fast, stable alternative to Linux-based distros.

https://www.redbsd.org/

#redbsd #freebsd #bsd #pentesting #cybersecurity

Didn't expect to find a #freebsd sticker on a lighthouse in Nova Scotia

#canada

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A door covered in stickers, but one in particular stands out

2.5 Admins 307: One Big Pool

https://2.5admins.com/2-5-admins-307/

#freebsd

#FreeBSD #BSD #RunBSD #UNIX #cgit

reboot -r

– no longer reboots the operating system. Not reproducible with FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE.

In the ALT text here (auto-detected):

Trying to mount root from zfs:maximal/ROOT/sixteen []...

FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT main-n286985-90ea8e89d9b7 GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 1600019 1600019

<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=range&q=90ea8e89d9b7&h=main>, I have not attempted to bisect.

Seeking RB_REROOT in GitHub finds two commits, the most recent (December 2025):

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/4453ec5b8716bc465ff5192986099dc75d1f2ce7>

– is that the regression, or am I way off? According to cgit, it has not been cherry-picked to releng/15.1 <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=grep&q=reboot%3A+Default+to+a+clean+shutdown&h=releng%2F15.1> or stable/15.

#FreeBSD #bug #regression #ZFS
#OpenZFS

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Screenshot of FreeBSD-CURRENT failing to reboot. Trying to mount root from zfs:maximal/ROOT/sixteen [1]...

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #mywork

The Q2 2026 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available.

This edition explores Improving Software Quality, with articles covering CHERI-based debugging, modern Java on FreeBSD, software bills of materials (SBOMs), and more.

If you're interested in software quality, security, and the technologies shaping the future of FreeBSD, this issue is well worth the read.

🔗 Read it here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/improving-software-quality/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SoftwareQuality #CHERI

#freebsd #truenas #core #fork #question

one of my Truenas Core 13.0 made some Problems (Disk/Hardware) ant this reminds me to rethink the #NAS Setup.

I saw #zVault is pretty silenced and there is no real other NAS Software found by me.

I do not want to go to Truenas Scale, would love to stay with FreeBSD #ZFS and 2 NAS Systems as they are now.

Currently Datasets are replicating, some Server-Server-Mirror-HA Setup would be cool.

Any suggestions appreciated

#bostwelcome

🏭 Running a Factorio Headless Server on FreeBSD with the Linuxulator

https://blog.hofstede.it/running-a-factorio-headless-server-on-freebsd-with-the-linuxulator/

#freebsd #Linuxulator #factorio

First it was Doom on a floppy disk. This is the next haul from Kaity's old PC stuff, as we go through everything during a house move...

#bsd #freebsd #retrocomputing

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A 4 CD ROM set of BSD 3.1, dated March 1999.

I am _this_ close to convert the remaining boxes from #FreeBSD to #OpenBSD , except for the backup running on ZFS

FreeBSD: vt no longer visible when switching away from desktop environments at ttyv8

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1urf879/freebsdrelease_in_virtualbox_vt_no_longer_visible/

Bugged environments include KDE Plasma and Cinnamon.

#FreeBSD #desktop #bug

New 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗟𝗮𝗯 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [GitLab on FreeBSD] artivle on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/09/gitlab-on-freebsd/

#verblog #freebsd #git #gitlab #server

Some of our #OpenBSD anti-ROP #research ended up on lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xclcel/final_return_for_openbsd_anti_return

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #Linux #Unix #Illumos #compiler #compilers #GCC #LLVM #Clang

@grahamperrin I don't disagree with that. I am far from a FreeBSD god so I am sure some erroneous #AI instructions would/could trip me up. The "building Ports on Debian" part, however, stuck out like a sore thumb.

Note: I am not opposed to the idea of an #AI chatbot used as interactive documentation, particularly when there is unfamiliarity with a particular topic. Actually, I think it's a valid use case for AI. But the quality of information on which it is trained needs to be correct. I was just comically surprised given the fact it's trained on almost everything.

Setting up a #FreeBSD repo is not listed in the Handbook.

Interesting on my ancient Dell Laptop the Mastodon Instance seems to trigger a bug in falkon-qt6 on GhostBSD.

Scrolling the page locks the box up and after short while screen turns black for a second or two and gets back responsible back then, so you can click on the close button to close falkon. If you don't it turns black again, rinse and repeat.

falkon-qt6 does work fine on another machine with GhostBSD and it wasn't nothing like that before, so it must have been a recent deprecation.

Tried downgrading drm-kmod but to no avail, geckobased and blinkbased works, so switching now to ungoogled-chromium now.

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/e1: FYI, tested with xlibre, same bug

/e2: turning on/off hw accell, same bug

/e3: dooble (also qtwebengine) triggers the same bug... It is a bit more verbose and utters something about "context lost via EXT_robustness. Reset status = GL_GUILTY_CONTEXT_RESET_KHR" and later "context lost during make current" in all sorts of parts of chromium.

/e4: et tu "qutebrowser" and qutebrowser-qt5: Same bug, same error msgs in qtwebengine as dooble.

/workaround: export "QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu" enviroment variable
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Wait.. I *did* disable hw accel tick box in the browser. Oh, let me guess: "it's just the browser that doesn't use hw accel now, nobody spoke of mOdErN qtwebengine, eh!?!"

Anyway, this fixed it for me.
Now, off to work... later shift.

#runbsd #browser #webengine #gpu #oldhardware #drm #freebsd #ghostbsd #qt #falkon #kde

@poes@sok.egois.org mereka sedang berusaha mengembalikan/restore posisi SSD.

resiko terburuk adalah hilangnya data di SSD dan ane harus install #FreeBSD lagi. Gak masalah asal nanti gw bisa klaim ulang jail's yang sudah ane buat. Semoga

Oh, cool. Waterfox is in FreeBSD-ports.

#RunBSD #Waterfox #FreeBSD

I had to do some inventory tasks for #work today at a remote #datacenter. I was listening to #NPR on the drive home and the discussion was on #AI, specifically on how the #tech titans like #OpenAI, #Anthropic, #Google, and #Meta have quietly stepped away from #safety mechanisms as their models improve, the #ethical implications, and #government #regulation. While the quiet distancing from safety is of obvious concern, the discussion on regulation caught my attention.

As one host put it (paraphrasing here) you'd think these companies don't want regulation but that's not necessarily the case. They are looking for regulation that favors them, whether it's getting in bed with the government or squashing out the competition. The bottom line is still about maximizing profits.

The last part was some interesting food for thought and it makes sense. If correct, it's some good indication of where they (and we) are headed.

On the flip side, #ChatGPT and these #LLMs still make mistakes that, unless you have at least *some* previously acquired knowledge on said topic, are believable.

Case in point: A few months ago, prior to one of my lab servers dying, I wanted to host both #Debian and #FreeBSD repos on the box (which was running the former). ChatGPT provided erroneous step by step instructions, including instructions to build FreeBSD Ports on Debian...using apt. 🤦

#news #technews #publicradio

Oh hey. #FreeBSD has a new #website. I have no idea when this happened but it looks great and is much easier to navigate.

Proejct New NAS can commence 😎
PC arrived, worked... now for the fun part of testing the i7 9700T CPU and getting it all back into a new case... which is my old NAS still running 😅
Fun #FreeBSD and #ZFS times ahead 🙂

New free CRA training is now available from the Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) Working Group.

If you're a FreeBSD developer, maintainer, contributor, manufacturer, or security professional, these role-specific courses can help you better understand the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and what it means for you.

Start learning:
http://orcwg.org/training/

Learn more about the Foundation's CRA Readiness Project:
https://buff.ly/bfp8xkQ

#FreeBSD #OpenSource

@pertho

If 'go to' means first choice, where possible, then of course it is #httpd from #djbwares. Simple; static; secure; low resource usage; and I know exactly how it works.

One of the reasons that I maintain it is so that I can use it myself. (-:

http://jdebp.info/Softwares/djbwares/

It is running on #NetBSD for my public WWW site. But I have an internal WWW site where it runs on #FreeBSD.

Years ago, it was my own httpd and httppd, on OS/2. (-:

Note to conference organizers: please do not wait until the last second to send out presentation acceptance/rejection letters. Some people require multiple month heads up (like me).

I HOPE (ha!) that they can be better organized next year. Otherwise, I don't think I'll ever submit to HOPE again.

#infosec #FreeBSD #HOPEConference #libhijack

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Screenshot of an email draft telling the HOPE speaker committee of my retraction of my presentation due to lack of communication on HOPE's side.

#FreeBSD ate my ram! // Bruno Croci
https://crocidb.com/post/freebsd-ate-my-ram/

Has anyone had trouble with i210 nics on a bridge on #freebsd
The bridge gets its address via DHCP, but once the record on the router's ARP cache expires, the host is inaccessible. It started when I moved the host IP address from the NIC to the bridge.

tcpdump show:

• ARP requests received (1/s)
• ARP replies are being sent out by the host.... But tcpdump on the router or switch shows no replies to the request

I can restart dhclient on the host, triggering an ARP announcement, then all works

Experimental #BSDun Kernel Module Runs #FreeBSD Binaries on #Linux

https://linuxiac.com/experimental-bsdun-kernel-module-runs-freebsd-binaries-on-linux/

Hey #FreeBSD folks! What's your "Go To" web server software?

This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD https://crocidb.com/post/this-blog-ran-on-ubuntu-16-04-for-10-years-i-migrated-it-to-freebsd/

#freebsd #bsd #hosting

Dang it, the new (used) PC will not arrive before wednesday... I need to be patient I guess 😞
Oh well, I can at least do some prep work on the existing #FreeBSD #NAS

It was a busy weekend in #FreeBSD #ports land!

- Updated lang/crystal & its dependent ports net/amqpcat net/lavinmq and devel/shards
- Updated sysutils/podman
- Added devel/py-molecule-plugins and updated devel/py-molecule as well
- Added the much-requested net-mgmt/uptime-kuma

FreeBSD 15.1 on ThinkPad T480 impression after 2 weeks on the new release:

- Stable 5 GHz WiFi with several hundreds Mbps (native iwlwifi driver)

- Hardware Video acceleration working in Chromium (via libva-intel-media-driver)

- Factorio running absolutely stable with 60FPS

Battery life after powerd optimizations: decent. Way over 6h (with dual batteries)

Noteworthy:
Sound is working perfectly via pulseaudio
Webcam works perfectly via webcamd
WiFi, Ethernet and Docking works flawless
Virtualization via BHYVE working out of the box.

This is a perfectly usable setup! I don't currently miss anything.

#freebsd #factorio #runbsd #wifi #laptop #thinkpad

💻️ FreeBSD 15.0 on the ThinkPad T480 — Efficient, Stable, and 8 Hours on Battery https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-150-on-the-thinkpad-t480-efficient-stable-and-8-hours-on-battery/

#freebsd #bsd #thinkpadt480 #t480

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