FreeBSD package repository name changes
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FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap — Year One Update
We’ve published a Year One update on the Foundation’s ongoing work to improve laptop and desktop support in FreeBSD. The article highlights progress in hardware enablement, driver development, installer changes, and the roadmap for continued improvements in 2026.
Read the update:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #LaptopSupport #FreeBSDFoundation
pkgbase: all packages deleted without deleting FreeBSD.
pkg-unregister(8) is our friend.
pkg version 2.5.0 is something special.
A software reason to be jolly for a festive season.
Fa la la la la, la la, la, la.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pbup22/comment/nvqe3kf/
Edited 19d ago
Help, please:
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-September/008892.html
I want to use uclcmd with a file that is initially empty:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
FreeBSD: pkgbase: major upgrades
― a rough guide, for alpha testing on AMD64.
From <https://redd.it/1nlo8lp>:
❮ An obvious response to the roughness: it's more complicated than legacy freebsd-update(8) (for FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE). True; this is for alpha testing.
Please read the preamble before anything else. If you have any question, please don't hesitate to ask. ❯
Edited 114d ago
Infrastructure Modernization Commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency
We’ve published an update on the infrastructure program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation.
Read the full update:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/infrastructure-modernization-commissioned-by-the-sovereign-tech-agency/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Infrastructure
@ax6761 bonjour! Ici Graham P, rapporteur du bug 287569.
Royaume-Uni, deux points:
1/ il y a quelques mois, FreeBSD developers ont fait beaucoup topnotch invisible changes, without which it would have been presque impossible to not only make a "PR" (not to be confused with une pull request) mais aussi trouvez un travail-around
2/ the pictured error peut etre moins likely to occur if requirements de la systeme sont documented
3/ mon "BR" (bug report, not to be confused with une probleme report) pour documentation n'etait pas acceptable.
Oh la la. Deux ou trois. J'suis un poet et I don't know it.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287722>
― Website: system requirements: memory/RAM: UFS and ZFS
Edited 105d ago
Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.
I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.
Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.
FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.
If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/
Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:
* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful
* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM
* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort
* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project
*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project
And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.
Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉
#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse
Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.
RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.
39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.
All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.
If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115790975758203115
＂… the reality is that building an operating system is INCREDIBLY hard, … just the stuff that we did with the debugger and all these hoops you have to jump through, …
I mean, that's just a fraction of a thing, like, an OS is ENORMOUS, and it's decades of work layered on top, and somehow, someone has to keep it all in their head and get it working. … it's very, very difficult to understand that it's NOT easy – and if anybody thinks this stuff is easy, by the way, go build your own operating system and see how hard it is. It is unbelievably painful. …＂
― https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pwtsqc/comment/nwgvvbs/
Happy New Year from the FreeBSD Foundation.
Thank you to everyone who contributed, collaborated, and supported FreeBSD throughout 2025. Your work and generosity helped strengthen the Project and expand its reach across the community.
We look forward to another year of development, engagement, and continued progress in 2026.
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Community #HappyNewYear #HNY #2026
Could anyone suggest a #laptop series|models with 2 GPUs (I am thinking of the type with integrated & discreet kinds) that are in current, or in perhaps future, production? I may buy in 6-12 months in USA.
Purpose is to pass the extra #GPU device to a #virtualMachine for GUI. I am inclined towards HP EliteBook, Dell Pro (& may be Lenovo ThinkPad if its fucking shop would work) series.
OS would likely be #FreeBSD (failing that, some Linux(?)).
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Are you in #tech and running your own #Fediverse instance? You might want to join an Activity Pub relay instance!
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
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
🎓 2025 Google Summer of Code participant Aaron Espinoza ran a project to test FreeBSD device drivers written in Rust. Here’s a short introduction to that piece of work.
Watch Aaron’s GSoC talk: https://youtu.be/y82-t1tDLWg?si=9n6X3uDZB_Hk3mDr
💻 Explore the code: https://github.com/Acesp25/rustkld
We’re grateful to Aaron, his mentors, and the FreeBSD/GSoC community for advancing this work.
👉 What are your thoughts on using Rust for FreeBSD driver development?
manpageblog v1.6 just got released. It is a static blog engine concept that treats written content like classic Unix man pages. It puts content first without sacrificing style and delivers a clean, elegant reading experience free from JavaScript, infinite scrolling, and other distracting clutter. The result is a fast, focused, and genuinely enjoyable way to consume high-quality content which can easily be served on very low power systems and follows the pure minimalism concept.
manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.
Changelog v1.6:
The project source is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com
#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog
manpageblog is written in Python and available for many systems, including #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD or #Solaris based ones like #Illumos but also on #Linux like #Debian or #Ubuntu.
Changelog v1.6:
Pagination support added
Sitemap support added
SEO optimized
LD+JSON support added
The project source is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog
You can find a real-life demo on my website at https://gyptazy.com
#opensource #devops #minimalism #purism #web #blog #blogengine #blogging #coding #python #website #manpageblog
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/>.
Edited 92d ago
FreeBSD Graphics Stack Developer Role Now Open!
Are you an experienced systems developer with a passion for open source and improving the out-of‐the‐box experience on FreeBSD?
The FreeBSD Foundation is seeking a Graphics Stack Developer to join our Laptop Support & Usability Project. This is a fully remote, 12-month contract role open to candidates worldwide.
🔗 Learn more and apply: https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/freebsd-graphics-stack-developer-position/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #JobOpportunity #GraphicsDevelopment #hiring
Strange! I have exactly the sane configs on both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD #Qutebrowser yet FreeBSD displays the pages differently to OpenBSD. The zeros on webpages on OpenBSD have no internal marks yet FreeBSD zeros have a dot inside them. Fonts are different between the two. Also on FreeBSD I have to run qutebrowser with the nogpu option so it'll run under #Wayland. I never noticed differences like this before on 14.3 but on 15.0 I'm not quite sure what's different yet ?
OK Not that I have anything against #OpenBSD but I'm going to install #FreeBSD 15.0 onto my #ThinkPad again as I do miss ZFS and the extensive #Wayland selection of apps too. Ok I miss full color emoji in the terminal too you got me. But I do still have OpenBSD running on my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower so I can keep up with developments as I do still like what it is and what they stand for. I guess I'm just a #BSD girl and I like them all. #RunBSD 
#FreeBSD #Podman installation dialogs based on bsdinstall:
https://gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-installer-dialogs
Inspired by the the alfix/kde-installer-dialogs repository.
I hope you will enjoy #OCI #containers on #FreeBSD.
I am running #FreeBSD RELEASE 15.0 with #pkg for package management, no #ports at all. It appeared to me that the Joe's Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without #SVG image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under #JWM . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up #poudriere and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?
#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM
#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM
Upgraded my secondary notebook "Tianve" to GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p7.
Removed KDE Plasma 6.5.4 and switched to LXQT instead. All is well.
Edited 4d ago
So I have #FreeBSD 15.0 running on my #ThinkPad again and running #MangoWC but for some reason #Qutebrowser fails to run unless I have the following in my .kshrc
I see a similar bug report here too.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287599
export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu"
I see a similar bug report here too.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287599
Edited 2d ago