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FreeBSD: new package repositories for kernel modules

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html

For FreeBSD 14.3-BETA4:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/

#FreeBSD

FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.

In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon:

― https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)

― https://i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png – Geany

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Breakage was first observed following an upgrade on 28th April. Broken again with the most recent round of updates, a few hours ago.

I can reactivate a boot environment that has recent base packages alongside increasingly outdated port packages, however this is far from ideal.

Can anyone explain the breakage?

Thanks

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/

Postscript: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752

#FreeBSD

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

To generate background color (for "xterm(1)"), I use the #Perl (was 5.3[68]; is 5.40) program on #FreeBSD (was 13; is 14) …

use strict; use warnings;

my @red = qw[ 05 15 20 25 30 ];
my @green = qw[ 00 05 10 15 ];
my @blue = qw[ 00 10 15 16 ];

print join( q[/],
$red[ rand @red ],
$green[ rand @green ],
$blue[ rand @blue ]
);

Rarely the FIRST time is the color other than same shade of brown. Because "@red" is longer? Some initial state?

#notVery #random

Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.

#FreeBSD #FediMeteo #snac #Fediverse #Efficiency #RunBSD

@dvl can Seriously Motivate a person.

#SixWordStories #FreeBSD

Adventures in #FreeBSD:

Install FreeBSD
GELI, I don't know who you are or what you mean, but you're lovely
How do you scroll up in the console???
Mistyped username when setting it up. Oops.
usermod. Where's usermod??? pw usermod????? Umm, OKAY!?
Changed group name, changed user name, changed home dir
Oh, it didn't actually move the home dir
No problems, cd /home; mv oldname newname
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU CAN'T MV IT
Fine, mkdir /home/newname
NO?? WHAT.
Fine, pw usermod yadda yadda make new homedir
Homedir is created, but blank.
cd /home/oldname; mv -n * ../newname
Why is this taking so long
HOLY CRAP ARE YOU ACTUALLY COPYING ALL THOSE FILES?!? WHY?!?!?
zfs, I love and respect you. I just don't understand you. X'D
Oh, I have to install drm video drivers and enable them to get a GUI, even for Wayland. Of course. Totally normal FreeBSD things.
At least the handbook kicks butt, and is mostly accurate, compared to "we wrote this for Linux to weeks ago and it's already out of date. Oh, and even when it was new, it only applied to 15% of all distros"

Having way too much fun re configuring my old #Vim setup and I haven't even got to the LSP and linting side of things yet. That'll get setup a little later probably using ALE and COC but I'm not 100% just yet ? I might even push my config to my git repo to share or allow others to show me the error of my ways.
#FreeBSD #RunBSD

I have some strange and annoying problem with my @frameworkcomputer #Framework 16 notebook: Since a few months, when the notebook is running non-stop for a few days, the touchpad and the keyboard stop responding. The keyboard is responding again after a few seconds but not the touchpad.

Only after the notebook has been shut down for a day or so, the touchpad starts responding again but not if it is powered down only for a few minutes.

Framework support has sent a replacement touchpad which shows the same behaviour and they otherwise are not helpful at all. They just keep asking the same questions, do not care to read my replies and tell me it is because I am running #FreeBSD and this is "not a supported Linux distro" (sigh...).

Does anybody have any idea what could be the problem?

I have been quite happy with the notebook but this kind of customer support experience is really frustrating...

Code - OSS

Visual Studio Code – Open Source

Paste seems to be bugged in editors/vscode 1.96.4_2 and greater on FreeBSD.

If you have 1.96.4_1: consider locking it before your next upgrade of packages.

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1igc6is/editorsvscode_1964_2_paste_not_working/mde5u33/>

<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gzcbbl/electron_and_related_ports/> Electron 34 is not yet ported.

#Electron #VSCode #FreeBSD

Noticed that @claudiom said #FreeBSD 14.2 P2 was available and I did the usual doas freebsd-update fetch install and then rebooted but it still says 14.2p1 in fastfetch or uname -a but if I do freebsd-version it shows 14.2-RELEASE-p2 ??? Any ideas ??

Is everything terrible again? Let's focus on something completely different. Do you write amazing, perfect code on Linux or the BSDs? Well stop reading and get out. For the rest of us, how do we secure our systems? I've put together a survey on Source Code Sandboxing, https://kristaps.bsd.lv/devsecflops, which surveys the practical complexity and uptake of sandbox tools like seccomp, landlock, pledge, and capsicum.

If you've ever interfaced any of the tools I've mentioned, or want to mention another, head on over to https://github.com/kristapsdz/dev_sec_flops and make a pull request.

Enjoy! #Linux #openbsd #freebsd #programming

Finally tried #NetBSD 10.1 RELEASE baremetal on my #ThinkPad #T470s. Good news is most things seem to work out of box: WiFi, touchpad, i915 drived video card. Bad news is, suspend/wakeup (S3) not working. It appears suspend worked well since after issuing sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleep.state=3 the laptop went to sleep with blinking power led, fan stops. However, at wakeup keyboard just stops responding, even swtiching tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys. WiFi usually wakes up just fine since I gain ssh session back shortly after wakeups. I will conclude a major issue for a system if suspend/wakeup won't work for a laptop. I simply cannot imagine having to poweroff a laptop every day before going to bed. It is kinda a sueprise to me since I assume ThinkPad laptops usually get along well with #BSD and #Linux systems.

FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

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

New 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟱.𝟬-𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 [Valuable FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Updates] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/valuable-freebsd-15-0-release-updates/

#verblog #freebsd #improvements #release #updates

List of hosts for #remotePuterRental collected from others' queries, with URLs on first reference where provided …

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@emilianosandri/115543215260941334
20251113, re #BSD-friendly European cloud provider (using Contabo with no issues):
— #FreeBSD: Hetzner https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ -may need to supply own custom image, etc; Netcup; OVH;
— {Free,Open}BSD: TransIP;
— #OpenBSD: OpenBSD Amsterdam https://openbsd.amsterdam/ .

…

#VirtualPrivateServer #VPSHost #VPSHosting

Just upgrade a VM of mine running #FreeBSD 14.3 to 15.0 RELEASE, all went well in probably 20 minutes. Super fast, dead simple, and not frightening at all thanks to #ZFS BE backups. It felt so easy that I am even a bit bored.

#BSD #RUNBSD #Unix #FOSS

FreeBSD 15.0 (almost)-RELEASE, using pkgbase, on my Ryzen 9 MiniPC (and compared to openSUSE Tumbleweed):

- Full disk encryption works beautifully via GELI, as usual.

- Installing KDE is easy and it works perfectly on Wayland.

- All my main apps work. Others will run via the Linuxulator or Wine (Linux browsers, WinBox for MikroTik, etc).

- The fan seems more relaxed.

- The system generally feels snappier.

- Native ZFS. I can autosnapshot every 5 minutes. If I try to do this with btrfs - snapshots of the home directory included and quotas enabled - the system hangs while handling them (which is why Tumbleweed doesn’t snapshot home by default).

- The media keys on my keyboard work, but volume control uses huge steps and 30 percent is already extremely loud. This can be fixed. The monitor brightness setting is also a bit off, but I don't care.

- amdgpu works perfectly.

- The wifi card works. I haven’t tested the speed because I immediately installed the realtek-re-kmod driver to use the 2.5 Gbit ethernet connection.

- Suspend doesn’t work. This is a big problem for me. It’s probably more psychological than technical, but I can’t leave the computer powered for hours when I’m not using it. I already have servers running 24/7 here. I even considered putting my Qotom FreeBSD server in a VM. It would probably work, but next summer it might be an issue because temperatures here aren’t low and spinning disks don’t love heat (and I don’t love their noise).

- It’s stable and reliable. I’ve done almost everything and it just works, as expected.

- Some small glitches remain, mostly due to missing configuration or packages (I didn’t tune anything. I just installed it and started using it).

A much smoother experience than a year ago, when I bought it.

Will I keep using FreeBSD on this minipc?
I’m not sure yet, since Tumbleweed works great and the lack of suspend really influences my choice. I'll contact Aymeric and try to offer some help to improve this.

For now, I’ll keep it on an external SSD and switch from time to time, especially when I know I’ll be using the minipc for hours.

#Linux #FreeBSD #Desktop #openSUSE

Shots 1 and 2: I forced a series of errors by running pkbasify (in Konsole, alongside various other applications) with insufficient free memory and insufficient swap space.

Shots 3 and 4: the second run completed without error.

Cool.

<https://github.com/ifreund/pkgbasify?tab=readme-ov-file#pkgbasify>

– convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase.

Thanks to Isaac Freund @ifreund and the FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation

#FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase #pkgbasify

I finally installed FreeBSD back on my main system. Running 14.2 with custom drm-kmod amdgpu drivers for my 6750 XT from https://github.com/wulf7/drm-kmod/tree/5.15-lts-focal , as the ones that ship do not work with my GPU. #freebsd #amdgpu #6750xt #drm-kmod #freebsd14

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #upgrade #bug

I stayed up until 4:00 am setting up my FreeBSD system. I had to rise at 6:30 am to get ready for work today. The issue I haven't figured out yet why dpms gives my X11 a heart attack. The work around I've had to come up with is to ctrl+alt+f1, ctrl+alt+f8 then kill my cwm session with custom hotkey and startx again. I'm hoping to have it solved by the end of the day. #FreeBSD #dpms #amdgpu #navi22

It was picom causing X11 not to wake up from dpms sleep. I just want my fancy round edges, can't have anything 'nice' can we? lol #picom #dpms #freebsd

Dear #FreeBSD users,

What shell(as in text shell in the Terminal) do you use?

Best Regards,
Farooq the Chickenkiller.

#BSD #Linux #FOSS #opensource #freesoftware

Hello, new #FediMeteo friends!

As the great @FediFollows posted about this service, many of you started following me and the cities. And I'm so glad about it!

If you want to know something more about FediMeteo and its story (and how all this is still working on a 4 euro/month VPS powered by #FreeBSD), you can have a look here:

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands - https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/