#freebsd Timeline

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Well, now when I wake up from sleep I still have to do the same thing, ctrl+alt+F1, ctrl+alt+F9. Then X11 works. But after waking from sleep, I have a blinking cursor and my mouse cursor. So weird. #freebsd #dpms

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109d

Remember when automation meant Bash scripts duct-taped to crontab?

Now we’ve got declarative config, jails, and Rocinante.

Times change. Tools evolve.

#FreeBSD #Rocinante #DevTools #ThrowbackThursday

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FreeBSD: Leakage of information into vt consoles, from a desktop environment at ttyv8

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k92yo8/leakage_of_information_into_vt_consoles_from_a/

– in other words, input in a desktop environment may be mistreated as input at a terminal e.g. ttyv0 or ttyv1.

Please help to identify relevant source code. Thank you.

#FreeBSD #security

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292d

KDE PLASMA 5 REMOVED

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma

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292d

Thanks to the #FreeBSD Handbook on Ports and the following page, I finally got around to building the drm-kmod port and dependencies so that amdgpu runs properly on 14.2.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-14-2-graphics-fix.96365/

#RunBSD #BSD

My Dell monitor showing my FreeBSD session with Tmux running in 2 panes, one over the other. Top pane is running Lynx browser and showing the Ports page on the FreeBSD Handbook. Bottom pane is showing the deinstallation of the drm-kmod binary package.

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The #snac version running on #FreeBSD #Amsterdam (social.freebsd.amsterdam) has been upgraded to 2.83 on sept. 30th

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208d

For the 31 days of May,
I will explore
FreeBSD "Beastie" a bit every day.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

ASCII rendering of "Beastie", the FreeBSD mascot.

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204d

Better the *daemon* you know than the *devil* you don't

#runbsd #netbsd #freebsd #openbsd

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On second thought, maybe I'll just bite the bullet and go full #FreeBSD 😓

#LossyPNG

ls output showing that all four system bin directories in the Chimera Linux live environment are symlinked to one

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FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-officially-supported-in-oci-runtime-specification-v1-3/

#FreeBSD #OCI #Containers #Docker

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Having toyed around for a while in #QEMU #VM boxes with #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD and #NetBSD as well. I found that #gpart in FreeBSD is intuitive and easy to use for disk partition manipulation, followed by gpt in NetBSD. For me, powerful and flexible as fdisk is, it has always been mysteriously difficult and fighting.
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX

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And oh boy all terms seem so foreign to me as a long time #Linux user. The same disk is called ada0 with a partition like ada0p2 in #FreeBSD, will be called something like sd0 with sd0h in #OpenBSD, ld0 and dk2 in #NetBSD . Then to experiment, all the #dkctl, #disklabel and #fdisk commands are like blue and red wires on a dynamite you have to get rid of 😱. Linux distros nowadays seem to be going to the #gdisk way which feels very much like #gpart in FreeBSD.
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX #Linux

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Does anyone have a complete guide to how vnodes and vnode paging works on FreeBSD?

D&I doesn't tie things together very nicely, and the man pages are lacking a lot of the interplay between the vnops and what various functions do.

I'm getting closer to understanding things, but it seems like there's a lot of interplay between _read, _bmap, _read_pgcacche, _getpages, and _strategy, and helper functions like bread/cluster_read that isn't well described (or split between all the different man pages in ways that aren't obvious to me).

#FreeBSD

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5d

Static Web Hosting on the Intel N150: FreeBSD, SmartOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux Compared

Update: This post has been updated to include Docker benchmarks and a comparison of container overhead versus FreeBSD Jails and illumos Zones.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/19/static-web-hosting-intel-n150-freebsd-smartos-netbsd-openbsd-linux/

#ITNotes #freebsd #illumos #jail #linux #netbsd #openbsd #ownyourdata #server #smartos #sysadmin #zoneshosting

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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Do not mention Reddit. Do not press that button. Do not receive your honorary degree.

#FreeBSD #Doctor #Thinkology #Wizard #Oz

Screenshot: the Reddit button, which encourages readers of The FreeBSD Forums to share valuable information in Reddit. To the right: the effect of clicking on the button.

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Photograph of a big red button with the words "PRESS HARD" impressed within the pressable part.

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A frame from The Wizard of Oz. The Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) receives an honorary degree – Doctor of Thinkology – from The Wizard.

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FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 Now Available

<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20251119010332.2562F1B16C>

<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-November/003585.html>

The second release candidate build of the 15.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. …

"… The only changes between 15.0-RC1 and 15.0-RC2 relate to the process used to create "cloud" images, aka. for Amazon EC2, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle. Users of non-cloud installations will not see any difference between 15.0-RC1 and 15.0-RC2 aside from the version number. …"

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p1pxn1/freebsd_150rc2_now_available/>

#FreeBSD #RC2

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Another thing is, in #FreeBSD and also #Linux, using #efibootmgr to change #UEFI boot entries is quite handy. But it is not available for #OpenBSD and #NetBSD . However seems NetBSD has got something cooking already in -current and it is called efi.
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX

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After spending the last few days playing around with Linux distros from 1997-98 and comparing them to #FreeBSD 2.2.8, I'm left wondering why exactly it was Linux that ended up winning that round of the OS wars when it seems like FreeBSD was so much better? Nearly all the Linux distros I tried were at least partially broken out-of-the-box.

Best guess: lingering legal concerns vis-a-vis AT&T? 🤔

#RetroComputing #BSD

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Does anyone manage to use the #keyboard media controls in #FreeBSD #Xorg? I have a DasKeyboard with a volume jog that works out of the box on #OpenBSD.

The events seems to be working using xev tester. It regognizes the RaiseVolume and LowerVolume events.

Not sure where to actually start looking for a solution.

#RunBSD

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190d

Confirming a fix in FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/

#FreeBSD #Firefox #MATE #simple #elegant

Screenshot: first boot of FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3, with the new 'Welcome to Firefox' dialogue.

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The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - 'Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.'

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/

#ITNotes #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #EuroBSDCon #EBC24 #EuroBSDCon24 #EuroBSDCon2024 #NoteHUB

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326d

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!

UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

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CHERI Alliance officially launches, adds major partners including Google, to tackle cybersecurity threats at the hardware level

From the November 2024 press release, <https://semiiphub.com/news/cheri-alliance>:

"… Previously announced founding members of the CHERI Alliance include Capabilities Limited, Codasip, CyNam, the FreeBSD Foundation, lowRISC, OpenHW Group, SCI Semiconductor, Swansea University, and the University of Cambridge. Following its initial formation in June 2024, the CHERI Alliance’s new additions reinforce the collaborative effort to protect against memory-related vulnerabilities, a critical security challenge that constitutes approximately 70% of the vulnerabilities exploited in cyberattacks. …"

– via <https://semiiphub.com/industryexpertblogs/cheri-alliance-1> and <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ho911c/cheri_alliance_officially_launches_adds_major/>

@FreeBSDFoundation @david_chisnall @asb

#security #CHERI #FreeBSD #Google