Anybody looking for #FreeBSD #ZFS job in Europe or Armenia? Take a look at lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…. As I worked on that position until this August, I can only recommend it. The only reason I left is because of a full time open source position. Whoever fills in the position, I can promise you, you'll see wonders and make wonderful friends for life! 😃 I still chat with my old team members, and with some of them on a regular basis. In any case, good luck!
Been following the BSD conferences for a while and have not yet had the chance to attend one. But what i have noticed from all the videos and photo's published on social media is that it seems to be a male ( I'm going to include NB folk here too ) dominated event ? Maybe I'm wrong and it's just how the media published distorts the reality ? Apologies if I have offended anyone it certainly isn't my intention.
I want to try #FreeBSD 15.0-Alpha2 but I'm on 14.3-Release. Is there a way to easily upgrade but be able to roll back if I need to? I could take a snapshot of the ZFS root then run the installer off a usb stick?
We discussed Eurobhyvecon, Jail Descriptors, Capsicum vs. Pledge, the WITHOUT_JAIL build option, the Yggdrasil overlay network IPv6 routing scheme, podman, PkgBase, Netgraph vs. bridge vs. aliased networking performance, rctl and cpu set, the Nitro init system and process supervisor, and much more!
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The September 9th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User CallWe discussed Eurobhyvecon, Jail Descriptors, Capsicum vs. Pledge, the WITHOUT_JAIL build option, the Y...
No apache2 /php, nagios or clones thereof please. I don’t have these in my stack today, and my expertise in managing them is about 20 years out of date. I prefer to avoid JVM stuff but I’m not violently against it.
Doesn’t have to be in ports yet ( like sensu.io/ server) if it’s in a friendly language.
A little background Direct from its website: Galene (or Galène) is a videoconference server (an “SFU”) that is easy to deploy and that requires very moderate server resources.
new FreeBSD bridge(4) review: “bridge: add defvlanfilter and defuntagged options" reviews.freebsd.org/D51176
this lets you do:
$ ifconfig bridge0 defvlanfilter defuntagged 1
... which causes all newly-added member interfaces to have VLAN filtering enabled and be in VLAN 1 (only).
then your VM/jail management tools (vm-bhyve, …) can continue using 'ifconfig addm' to add bridge members and don't need to know about VLAN configuration.
fun fact: this is how most people expect bridge(4) to work already, but it is not how bridge works already! in reality, all bridge members have access to all VLANs by default, and before VLAN filtering there was no way to restrict this at all.
i wonder how many systems accidentally allow jails/VMs to access their host management VLAN because of this?
for that reason (among others) i'd like to make this the default configuration of bridge(4) in a future version... 15.0 may be too early, though. but we should document this better.
You can add a remote disk to a #ZFS mirror using ggatec(8) on #freebsd and the the ZFS pool happily resilvers to the remote disk connected via #geomgate.
Linux is 2nd class citizen in ZFS world. No ZFS Boot Environments - no GRUB for modern ZFS pools - no distro with installer support for ZFS on root and BE setup.
Why then #FreeBSD would downgrade to Linux level on ANY level?
Linux sets relatime on mount by default for any file system,
but relatime=off in ZFS disables it explicitly.
Let's be consistent with other file systems on Linux.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behl...
32 years ago today, #FreeBSD was announced for the first time. I haven't tried this OS yet but I can assure you that I will because I want Quark, my OpenSource reverse proxy, to be supported on other Unix systems than Linux.
For this special occasion, I drew this little picture on #Krita 🙂
#FreeBSD provides the Ports Collection, a convenient way to install applications. Some ports allow users to configure options before building and installing. By default, this configuration is done through an interactive menu in the terminal.
To improve readability and #Accessibility especially for users with low vision or color blindness, it's important to offer simple and customizable color options. These features have recently been implemented and documented in the preview version of the FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook: freebsd-accessibility-9d667f.g…
The next step is to extend these features to all terminal-based graphical components.
I'd love to hear from you: Do you use any accessibility features in the terminal? Which color-related assistive technologies make the biggest difference in your daily workflow?
Pilot compiling with #poudriere for #FreeBSD #ports went well! It did seem a bit complicated to configure at first but sing ports made easy with #poudriere and #jail. It was so simple and straightforward to actually run #poudriere that I secretly thought it took out all the fun of seeing scrolling screens of compling! #BSD #Unix #UseBSD #RunBSD #FOSS
Configured auto-mounting of USB storage devices on FreeBSD courtesy of `sysutils/automount` and instructions by @vermaden ... tested with my Kobo ereader and it works good!
In this article in the FreeBSD Desktop series I will introduce various methods to automatically (or not) mount external/removable devices such as USB or eSATA disks/pendrives or SD/microSD flash ca…
FreeBSD does not include a graphical user interface in its base system. This is how I install and set up the X Window System (X11) before installing my preferred window manager or desktop environment:
I was really disappointed when I got to know that the FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE storage appliance – owned and developed by iXsystems – will be moved into the ‘maintenance’ …
I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm
Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.
I was so impressed AND I got to avoid abandonware security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!
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, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – 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: 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 brings real-time weather updates to the Fediverse, covering cities across multiple countries. Explore country-specific weather forecasts and RSS feeds.
As 2024 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I haven’t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, we’ve outperformed many “big-name” cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?
For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - they’re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether it’s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.
BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isn’t endless growth (we’re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with “bsd.cafe” in the domain brings joy and pride. That’s the spirit I’ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether you’re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.
Promoting self-hosting and #OwnYourData has, as a side effect, inspired some users to “go solo” with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.
Here’s a look at what we’ve achieved together this year:
- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users Active in the past month: 207 Active in the past six months: 286 - snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users Active in the past month: 7 - blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users - matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users - brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories - freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users - miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users - press.bsd.cafe: 9 users - myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users - wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage. - tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.
For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe
The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, we’ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.
Here’s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.
Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU! Stefano
If you are on #OpenBSD or #FreeBSD and you're still seeing issues with extravagant memory use on this release candidate, please let us know :) Initial reports seem to indicate that the issue is resolved but we'd like to know for real before we call it fixed and move on to cutting 0.17.0 proper. Thanks!
CheriBSD: a Capability enabled, Unix-like Operating System that extends #FreeBSD to take advantage of Capability Hardware on Arm’s Morello and CHERI-RISC-V platforms. It implements memory protection and software compartmentalization features. cheribsd.org/
Interesting 🤔 how #CVE are leveraged as resume items, putting #programmers #developers & project leads under pressure by #bogus CVE reports or unnecessary high CVE ratings.
