It appears that pkg.freebsd.org is under a bit of strain today (or pkg0.syd is busted again).
Yeap Sydney is busted. This is why there should be more public mirrors in other Autonomous Systems.
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The first step is writing it all down.
Here's what sucks about networking on a #FreeBSD laptop if you have a dock
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/fre…
FreeBSD Networking on a Laptop is Unpleasant
FreeBSD is maturing its support for laptops with the help of some of the new Linux compatibility work (using Linux WiFi drivers, sharing DRI for video, etc) but has a long way to go.Makefile.feld
Huzzah, I'm online!
The problem was that there is a password for the coffee shop wifi, but I couldn't discover that from ifconfig until I pulled it upon my phone and saw it was asking for a password.
So, dear #FreeBSD fam, how was I supposed to know? There was no mention of WPA or WPS in the CAPS flags:
rld@Intrepid:~$ ifconfig wlan0 list scan |grep -e ^SSID -e ^The.Book
SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:e2 6 54M -53:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:c2 11 54M -54:-96 100 EPS RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:b8:f2 36 54M -59:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
The Book Shoppe 50:e4:e0:b7:7b:d2 149 54M -57:-96 100 EP RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WMEI've had a hard time finding/figuring out what all of those various CAPS flags mean. :P
What happens when you boot with multiple zroot?
Can it be fixed without booting from a live disk & without pulling the problem disks?
I wanted to test this scenario after hitting it earlier this week. Please make suggestions given above restrictions.
The Call for Papers for #bsdcan is open, see bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html and nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd… for some background (f you want to explain to less BSD-savvy friends) #bsdcan #bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #sysadmin #devops #conference
Call for papers — BSDCan
BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.www.bsdcan.org
BorgBackup 1.4.3 was just released!
This is primarily a bugfix release, the Linux and FreeBSD binaries built on Github now have working FUSE support (borg mount).
Our CI testing now includes *BSD and Haiku OS!
github.com/borgbackup/borg/rel…
#borgbackup #linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macos #haiku
Release Release 1.4.3 · borgbackup/borg
borgbackup 1.4.3 borg 1.4.x is kind of a refreshed 1.2 with mostly the same features and behavior, but a few bigger changes that could introduce issues and thus were not suitable for just releasing...GitHub
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.
I keep having to remind myself that this #FreeBSD laptop isn't running Linux.
Other than a few very minor issues, it JUST WORKS. After all of the work (it wasn't even hard, really) of setting it up and customizing a couple of my scripts to run on FreeBSD, the OS does its most important job: disappearing.
This is pretty cool. Give yourselves a pat on the back, #FreeBSD devs. Things are really getting better.
Disclaimer: Just because I haven't encountered any deal-breakers doesn't mean that you won't. Always do your due diligence and try it out on a non-critical machine, first. Also, using an old #Thinkpad (instead of a brand new whatever) is usually the best advice for stuff like this ;)
One big 16TB zpool (8 x 4TB SSDs) or 2 x 8TB zpools?
I got decisions to make now that all this stuff has come together.
FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege
We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.
Read more: freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre…
#FreeBSD #ReproducibleBuilds #OpenSource #Security
FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege | FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has completed work to build FreeBSD without requiring root privilege.Florine Kamdem (FreeBSD Foundation)
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
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX #Linux
Left the big pc running the native drive freebsd but from within Nixos since I was going to become a serial killer if I continued any longer dealing with setting up Bluetooth headphones, something that should be the simplest thing on earth in 2025 and finding no whcess and a thousand lines in multiple places none explaining what each thing does.
You need to do better regarding Bluetooth FreeBSD, A LOT better.
It's been around more than 25 years !!
Anyway moved onto accessing it via xrdp (KDE for that) so I can do other stuff on my laptop while vscode is compiled piece by piece for the next decade.
While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)
In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:
pkg install deltachat-desktop
thanks @feld and others!
holy crap, thx to @bsdnow I stumbled upon that blogpost from @feld and I now have a working thunderbolt dockingstation on the #FreeBSD Laptop 
... welp, that's way more convenience then I expected , thanks a lot sir! 
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/10/thu…
Thunderbolt on FreeBSD
TL;DR if you run into Thunderbolt devices not working under FreeBSD, go into the BIOS and find the Thunderbolt settings.Makefile.feld
FreeBSD officially supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 - Work led by Doug Rabson #FreeBSD #OCI #Containers freebsdfoundation.org/blog/fre…
FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 | FreeBSD Foundation
FreeBSD has been included as an officially supported platform in version 1.3 of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) runtime specification, released November 4, 2025.Florine Kamdem (FreeBSD Foundation)
The CfP for the BSD, illumos, OpenZFS, bhyve Devroom at FOSDEM 2026 is now available, you can start submitting your talk 🤩
people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fo…
#Fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Illumos #ZFS #bhyve
boosts appreciated
I'm sure I've done this before....
I have four devices: 2x 2TB and 2x 1TB
I could concatenate a 1TB and a 2TB together, then mirror over both.
It can survive one device dying. However, it seems like an ugly risky hack.
But it's not. It's the same risk level, is it not, as 4x 2TB drives in the same configuration. Right?
The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!
FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).
Add FreeBSD as a platform by dfr · Pull Request #1286 · opencontainers/runtime-spec
This uses FreeBSD jails to implement container isolation.GitHub
@vermaden you can make #DeltaChat desktop work on #FreeBSD
you can build it yourself support.delta.chat/t/delta-cha…
Or wait a bit, because @feld is working on making a real package for it.
...but there is one thing that #Deltachat does not provide while it works perfectly fine with #Signal ... the desktop client that works on #FreeBSD and is available in #FreeBSD pkg(8) packages.
The 'web' approach (such as web.whatsapp.com for WhatsApp) would also satisfy my needs - I can use a client in the browser - but if there is no 'native' client and no browser client option for #FreeBSD - that means total NO-GO for me.
https://web.whatsapp.com
Log in to WhatsApp Web for simple, reliable and private messaging on your desktop. Send and receive messages and files with ease, all for free.web.whatsapp.com
trying to get anyone to care about the fact that FreeBSD 15.0 is about to be released and the installer doesn't boot on powerpc64le (pSeries / PowerNV) is surprisingly difficult.
re@ is now pestering people to fix it under the threat of declaring it an unsupported platform for the release, but that doesn't seem to be having much effect.
finished landing the fix for this FreeBSD bug: bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show…
this is quite fun. in one sense, it's a fairly serious bug: inet_net_pton() is completely broken for IPv6; it simply doesn't work and returns garbage output. but this bug has been present since 2006, when this function was first imported into libc, and no one noticed until August of this year when the PR was filed.
what i conclude this from is that literally no one uses these functions, and they should probably have never been imported in the first place. but, well, we can't remove them without breaking ABI compatibility, so now they're here forever, like an obnoxious uninvited party guest.
TIL #FreeBSD has a dummy filesystem named deadfs. How fitting to learn that this month.
I wonder what a zombiefs would look like.
GRENDEL: FRIGHTENING SPECIAL pt1
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I started documenting kernel side #kqueue on #FreeBSD. At this point it is just a brain dump, so I need help improving github.com/mekanix/freebsd-src…. @dexter got any tips except contacting man page author?
GitHub - mekanix/freebsd-src at kqueue-docs
FreeBSD src tree (read-only mirror). Contribute to mekanix/freebsd-src development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hello everyone!
I want to order some stickers. Do you know a website which has high resolution pictures, or svgs?
I want pictures for #FreeBSD, #DeltaChat, #WebXDC, #OpenVoiceOS, #Alpine, #Emacs, #CommonLisp, #SLIME and #Luanti(#Minetest).
The website I want to order from already has got stickers for other things I want.
Boosts appreciated.
#FOSS #sticker #stickers #BSD #opensource
@feld @david_chisnall
More generally: #kqueue still has several ragged edges, compared to poll/select.
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457405478…
tty0.social/@JdeBP/11457514245…
Every little helps in order to fill in all of these gaps.
JdeBP (@JdeBP@tty0.social)
@meka@bsd.network It is always welcome to see more kevent(), if only because it lets other people share my pain, in the hope that that increases the push for kevent() to be fully completed and as good as select().tty0.social
I submitted my #kqueue support for sound(4) on #FreeBSD. I hope we will polish it soon enough. reviews.freebsd.org/D53029
cc @JdeBP
Looking at the *at family of functions and I just realized that I viewed them as part of the capsicum security framework and not as part of allowing a threaded program to access relative paths from each thread's own working directory.
This explains why absolute paths are allowed and ignores the directory fd.
FreeBSD's openat man page explains this.
#FAQ: “What do you do with #FreeBSD ?" "Operating in the financial markets" 😀 #ThePowerToInvest 😆
#Investing 📊 #Trading 📈 #Stocks 📉 #ETFs #Bonds #Commodities #Derivatives #Forex 💹 #Crypto 🪙 #NASDAQ #SP500 #DOWJONES #WallStreet 🗽 #Bull 🐂 #Bear 🐻 #TechFinance
