My relay at https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com has currently 139 instances connected, mostly tech related sharing the same mindset and interests like #Linux, #BSD, #Ansible, #Proxmox, #Coding, and many more! You can easily join from your instance when using #Pleroma, #snac (#snac2), #Mastodon and its forks 🙂

#fedi #fediworld #fedicommunity #community #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #homelab #Python #Debian #RockyLinux #Feditips

Update for #nvidia #GPU #driver #ports on #FreeBSD to 580.95.05 landed as commit 7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=7b1c88f42c7f4129bc96f405549f9e6b07bd6e3d

We were pending it as kmod pkg repo still didn't have nvidia things and bapt was looking into it, but as of this information
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5703
the commit was done without waiting for the reply from bapt.

#FreeBSD is not entitled there, but as #FreeBSD native #drivers are known to shares most source codes with corresponding Linux versions, FreeBSD can be affected, too. So users of non-legacy versions of driver ports are strongly encouraged to upgrade.

With this reason, the commit is already merged into 2025Q4, as security fix is one of the branket approval by portmgr and secteam.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2025Q4&id=067be176997589baacd63c5e5db1981d3949cdb1

Note that oldest branch listed is 535.

I have checksum mismatches for a file from a UK mirror, <http://ftp.uk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/>.

Mismatches for the same file when downloaded from <https://download.freebsd.org/>.

#FreeBSD

For 10 years now, people from the Linux side, tell me systemd is so much easier and "Unit-Files" are so much cleaner and better than init-scripts ...

Well, I still don't get it. A well implemented init-system like that of FreeBSD is:

- Clean
- Flexible
- Way more lightweight
- Works with just shell code

I have written a rc.d init-script for zigbee2mqtt today and honestly? It's not going to be shorter than that. Would chose that instead of systemd! ANY TIME! K.I.S.S.

10 years in and I still don't see a real advantage of monolithic-binary init-systems with static configuration files.

#freebsd #init #systemd #kiss #simplicity #scripting #linux

conference of the spikes

#dragonflybsd #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #hardenedbsd #bsd #unix_surrealism #comic

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Daemons, horned beasts and fish meet to confer. A daemon speaks: "I want you to think of reasons that would help promote our cause." Everyone shouts ideas over one another. "pf is the best!" "well duh!" "Matt Dillon?" "HardenedBSD?" "bhyve?" "zfs?" "mirabilos!" Fish: "That time Theo fought the squid king and won?" "Goddamnit, fish."

#FreeBSD #jails:
Creating a #Unix system with ssh-access in a millisecond.

Is there any #BSD people on #nostr to follow and talk on Nostr? #RUNBSD #freebsd #OpenBSD

Running FreeBSD using Windows Subsystem for Linux

What if you are forced to use Windows, but want to use a real operating system instead? You could use WSL2 to use Linux inside Windows, but what if FreeBSD is more your thing? It turns out someone is working on making FreeBSD usable using WSL2.

This repository hosts work-in-progress efforts to run FreeBSD inside Windows Subsystem for

https://www.osnews.com/story/143517/running-freebsd-using-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

#FreeBSD

Ah morning. Can't wait to see how that build of electron37 went.

(It's still compiling)

Shit. Guess I see why the #FreeBSD team cant just ship binary pkgs of all the random electron versions out there in ports.

Previously: https://tech.lgbt/@trashheap/115347447305187693

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to FreeBSD 14.3, of course, running inside a Jail (and with IPv6!) 🙂

All running perfectly fine and as stable as you'd expect from FreeBSD

Plus the rc.d script is so minimalistic and simple, that I don''t get it, why anyone would prefer intransparent systemd to that !

Another part of my home-infrastructure migrated over!

#freebsd #jais #zigbee #mqtt #smarthome #unix #homelab

@stefano also <https://web.archive.org/web/20251010054901/https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289097>

― an example of Anubis + Bugzilla versus the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

<http://archive.today/2025.10.10-061103/https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289097> is OK.

#FreeBSD #Bugzilla #Mozilla

My neovim configs for *BSD are finally here!
- Plugins managed by Lazy.nvim
- Tested under Freebsd and Openbsd
- LSP support is sketchy, but possible with patience and some manual compiling.

https://github.com/beammeout/nvim-bsd-lazy

The repo still needs work, but I decided to give up on perfectionism and finally make it public .

#neovim #bsd #freebsd #openbsd

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

Huge thanks to @lw who has introduced pkg-base sets to the upcoming #FreeBSD 15.0.

This is an incredibly useful piece of work done in a very short timeframe, while everything changed around it.

These changes made the OCI container images significantly simpler, and will be great for users too!

Day two of #freebsd

The resolution of the wifi issue was as simple as pressing the enable radio button on the keyboard. Good thing I read the messages on startup this time.

After quite a bit of struggle I've gotten wayfire going (with an old nvidia card no less).

The other challenge I faced is while Sway or Wayfire would launch, I couldn't run anything. No foot, alacritty, no dmenu, wayfire's bar would crash, the swaybar had boxes for icons. This took me much longer than I would like to admit to solve.

Somehow it's possible on Freebsd to install all of this and not install a font. in one sense I appreciate the modularity. Sometimes on Linux I've felt like one little tool brings with it an entire desktop environment and a GB of software. This might be on the extreme other end.

Added doas, rofi, firefox and started tweaking the interface. I haven't figured out the startup splash screen yet, or how to launch sddm or something like it on startup. But that's coming.

Back years ago I never had a computer that could run Compiz. So I get to relive some of those aspirations with Wayfire. The effects are neat without being terribly annoying.

The laptop I'm using was made in 2008 or 2009. And quite remarkably it does not feel slow at all. The genie effect is fast than any Mac when the Dock had that option. The cube rotates smoothly.

And most surprising, launching Firefox seems almost instant. I had a dozen tabs open and not a glitch, even watching a YouTube video and swapping screens with the cube effect.

I think I've managed to get this working without introducing many Linux-isms or the Linux ABI. I use it a lot, but I wanted something a bit more purely BSD for this machine.

Keep your FreeBSD system cool with built-in temperature monitoring!

No ports needed, just sysctl and a simple shell script. Perfect for FreeBSD 14.x users who want lightweight, dependency-free thermal monitoring.

Quick, practical, and very Unix.

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251009-FreeBSD_Temp-Monitoring.md

#FreeBSD #BSD #SysAdmin #Unix

We’re excited to announce that NetActuate has generously sponsored a bare-metal server to serve as a Cirrus CI runner for the FreeBSD Project. This new resource will boost build capacity, improve test coverage, and speed up feedback for contributors’ GitHub workflows and pull requests.

This is another example of how collaboration drives real progress for FreeBSD and the broader open-source community.

🔗 Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netactuate-sponsors-bare-metal-server-to-strengthen-freebsd-projects-ci-infrastructure/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #CI #Infrastructure

I am planning to build a #NAS using #FREEBSD as the operating system to replace my current #TRUENAS Core and looking for power-efficient hardware compatible with it. Would anyone have any recommendations? A main board with multiple SATA connections is preferred due to their flexibility. Thanks in advance for the suggestions. #bsdcafe

Even today, you can run the following command in a modern #Linux or #FreeBSD terminal:

$ echo -e "\033[2J\033[HHello"

This command is literally speaking the VT100 language.

For more info about VT100, see:
https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/vt100.html

Via @unix_byte

Recovering and reminiscing on an incredible #EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia! 🇭🇷 ​

What a week! Over 220 attendees, 48 brilliant speakers, and 16 amazing sponsors came together to celebrate all things #BSD. The energy was #BSD, deep dives into tech, inspiring talks, and those hallway conversations that spark new ideas and collaborations.

Huge shoutout to the video crew who made sure every moment was captured, and to everyone who traveled near and far to be part of this vibrant community. Whether it was hacking, learning, or just geeking out over #BSD, the connections made here are what make this event so special.

Zagreb, and the incredible Organizing Committee, you were the perfect host! Already counting down to the next one in Brussels! 🇧🇪

Did you attend? What was your highlight? 👇

We are collecting as much as possible on: https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/wrapup.html

Like and subscribe! ​

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon2025 #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Image of a Panda resting it's head on a log of wood. it's has the text: Miss you already <3

Goodbye to Pop!OS and cosmic desktop, at least for now.

Tonight I installed #Freebsd 14.3 on my first generation core-i series Dell laptop. The Intel Centrino wireless is supported, which is great news. Hopefully I'll figure out what steps I'm missing to get it to connect.
Modules are loaded, rc.conf edited, the interface is up / shows up with ifconfig, but it doesn't scan. It looks like the regulatory domain was set automatically during setup. So I'm not sure what I'm missing.

I don't think I've every used a BSD with wifi, so it's a new challenge. Everything is a bit different than I'm used to. At least my old habit of typing ifconfig actually works, unlike on Linux these days.

@TomAoki pkgbase as two things:

― base system packages
― tools and conventions

… and an elevator pitch: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ns5onx/comment/nhg71u3/>

#FreeBSD #pkgbase #packages #pkg

@tilde please, is this the SQL-related issue?

<https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2522>

― pkg: sqlite error while executing BEGIN IMMEDIATE TRANSACTION in file pkgdb.c:1206: cannot start a transaction within a transaction · Issue #2522 · freebsd/pkg

From <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2522#issuecomment-3367812524> I should assume that the issue is not specific to pkgbase.

#FreeBSD #pkg

The moment your OS tells you it's time to call it a night #FreeBSD #bectl

>> Unknown command: destory <<

5 days to go!
Secure e-mail stack with OpenSMTPD, Rspamd, Dovecot – on FreeBSD.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/

#EuroBSDConAdvent #EuroBSDCon #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #ZFS #PF #RunBSD

@nuintari I'd like to dovetail on this thought, since networking in Docker throws out any motion of organized sanity from the OS, and replaces it with a truly myopic network situation which I'm sure has irreparably misinformed a generation of engineers and users.

As an aside, I had a chance to redeploy a VM for work and I figured I'd go with #FreeBSD. What a breath of fresh air but also nostalgia: ifconfig is back, plus boot-up logs that are actually meant to be read.

told Colin (again) that i don't think we're ready for pkgbase to be the default install option in FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, and i'm not the only one who feels this way.

we'll see what happens, but i'm pretty sure if we release with pkgbase now, the user response will be overwhelmingly negative and that will reflect badly on pkgbase as a whole.

pkgbase is awesome, and it solves a *lot* of problems that FreeBSD users run into, but right now there are just too many edge cases to make it the default -- which anyone can see by looking at how many pkgbase changes we're still landing even after delaying BETA1 by a week.

#freebsd

Advanced Programming the UNIX Environment

Week 1: UNIX History

We cover the early days at Bell Labs, USL vs BSDi, the birth of the BSDs and Linux, and how we got from Ken Thompson playing "Space Travel" on a PDP-7 to Unix running on your phone, fridge, and TV.

https://youtu.be/3H7SQWTR6Dw

Scroll along through it all here: https://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf

#apue #unix #linux #netbsd #freebsd

@stefano, I just watched the recording of Patrick Hausen's @EuroBSDCon distributed storage session and at the end of the session somebody said you might have compared #SeaweedFS with #Garage and that you found SeaweedFS more suitable.

I know that you blogged about running SeaweedFS but I wasn't aware you compared different #S3 platforms, if you indeed did, would you mind sharing your experiences?

#FreeBSD

Welcome #FreeBSD 16.0 on my laptop! Smooth, fast, and running perfectly with Xfce.

FreeBSD #Unix #OpenSource #BSD #FreeBSD16 #Xfce #DesktopUnix #Tech #FreeBSDCommunity #FreeBSDLaptop

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Screenshot of a FreeBSD desktop running Xfce 4.20. On the right, a terminal window displays neofetch showing system information: FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT amd64, uptime 2 hours 43 minutes, 1044 installed packages, shell tcsh, CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3450U with Radeon Vega Mobile, and 14 GB of memory. The desktop environment uses the Greybird theme and elementary Xfce HiDPI icons. In the background, a Firefox window is open on the official FreeBSD website showing the “Download FreeBSD” button and latest news. The panel at the top shows open applications and the current time and date: Sunday, October 5, 15:41.

Want to contribute?

BastilleBSD is open-source.

Docs, testing, templates, feedback—all welcome.

Your expertise can help shape our next release!

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #opensource

Possible regression in FreeBSD Installer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhym5mw/

#FreeBSD #alpha #pkg #KDE #Plasma

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟭𝟬/𝟬𝟲 (Valuable News - 2025/10/06) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/valuable-news-2025-10-06/

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

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

FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 Now Available

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-October/003330.html

For freebsd-update:

― "THE STEP OF UPDATING YOUR EXISTING SYSTEM FIRST IS NECESSARY …"

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nyu2ky/comment/nhx8x53/

Screenshots below are of a multi-desktop environment system that used pkg for the update from ALPHA4 to ALPHA5.

#alpha #Cinnamon #MATE #KDE #Plasma #SDDM #Firefox #FreeBSD #Foundation

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Screenshot: KDE Plasma and applications on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5. Using pkg to quietly install four more desktop environments: Cinnamon, GNOME, MATE, Xfce …

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Screenshot: SDDM menu, aiming for Cinnamon.

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Screenshot: Firefox in Cinnamon.

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Screenshot: MATE on FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA5 in Oracle VirtualBox on Kubuntu 25.04

Personally I would have gone with #Mailcow. Much easier to setup and administer. As much as I love #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD I sure as hell wouldn't recommend it for an SME.

Unless your goal is lock-in. Vendor lock-in. And in this case that vendor is you. Because let's face it, even in IT, OpenBSD is quite niche and FreeBSD is already niche enough.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD
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RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/users/stefano/statuses/115311534156397213