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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 ;)

#freebsd #thinkpad

#freebsd #zfs

FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

Weโ€™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/freโ€ฆ

#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)
#opensource #security #freebsd #reproduciblebuilds

Does anyone know when the #Tor package for #FreeBSD will be upgraded from 0.4.8.20 to 0.4.8.21?

It's been almost a week since 0.4.8.21 was released due to a critical security fix, but nothing's happening... :(

#Tor #freebsd

Ok, whoa.

S3 suspend and resume on #FreeBSD on this #Thinkpad X260 is only five seconds (each)!!!!

That's better than some of my linux boxen!! XD

#freebsd #thinkpad

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 ๐Ÿ˜ฑ. 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
#linux #foss #bsd #OpenBSD #freebsd #unix #netbsd #runbsd #UseBSD #dkctl #disklabel #fdisk #gdisk #gpart

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.

#FreeBSD #Bluetooth

#freebsd #bluetooth

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 โค๏ธ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg install deltachat-desktop

thanks @feld and others!

#cloudflare #freebsd #deltachat #chatmail @feld

#FreeBSD users behind a proxy who also use #Poudriere: what are your tips for configuring an HTTP/HTTPS (non-SOCKS as far as I can tell) proxy for package builds?
#freebsd #poudriere

Why does Linux partition a #ZFS drive?

On #FreeBSD, we can give it the the whole drive, no partitions at all.

That said, I usually partition my ZFS drives on FreeBSD.

#freebsd #zfs

#freebsd @BSD Now Podcast @feld

#freebsd #containers #oci

#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #illumos #zfs #fosdem2026 #bhyve

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?

#FreeBSD #ZFS

#freebsd #zfs

#freebsd #oci

#linux #freebsd #netbsd #Parallels @Jack-Frostodon

#freebsd #deltachat @vermaden @feld

...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
#signal #freebsd #deltachat

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.

#freebsd #powerpc

#freebsd #powerpc

finished landing the fix for this FreeBSD bug: bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/showโ€ฆ

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.

#freebsd #ipv6

289198 โ€“ inet_net_pton is broken with AF_INET6

bugs.freebsd.org
#freebsd #ipv6

TIL #FreeBSD has a dummy filesystem named deadfs. How fitting to learn that this month.

I wonder what a zombiefs would look like.

#freebsd

It was fun patching DTS, compiling FreeBSD from source and making it run on Nanopi R2S Plus. However, unfortunately, progress is not always smooth. There was a bug that affected one of my ports. This bug has not been resolved.

But it was fun! Thank you for the great experience.

#freebsd #arm64

#freebsd #arm64

Please test #FreeBSD powerpc64le ISO boots!

You know who you are!

โค๏ธ

#freebsd

#linux #comic #OpenBSD #freebsd #Plan9 #unix #9front #netbsd #dragonflybsd #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #glenda #cirno #Grendel

#freebsd #kqueue @Michael Dexter

#foss #emacs #opensource #bsd #Minetest #freebsd #commonlisp #sticker #deltachat #stickers #alpine #Webxdc #luanti #slime #openvoiceos

#freebsd #kqueue @David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @feld

#freebsd #kqueue @JdeBP

Hey #freebsd #sysadmins friends, has anyone tried Go-Anubis as an anti-bot? Or what solution do you use with a proxy ?
reskeet appreciated :)
#freebsd #sysadmins

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.

#FreeBSD

#freebsd

#opensource #crypto #freebsd #unix #faq #stocks #trading #nasdaq #investing #bear #wallstreet #thepowertoinvest #etfs #bonds #commodities #derivatives #forex #sp500 #dowjones #bull #techfinance

#opensource #bsd #freebsd #tech #unix #xfce #freebsd16 #desktopunix #freebsdcommunity #freebsdlaptop

Running 14.3-STABLE right now. Intel iwlwifi driver with an Intel AX210 card giving me full 250/40 Mbps (the maximum of my DSL line) via WiFi :)

Random connection issues, that I had with -RELEASE are solved in the current -STABLE ๐Ÿ™‚

5Ghz, 802.11ac with 80Mhz wide channel...

We're making fast progress with FreeBSD on the modern desktop ๐Ÿ™‚

#freebsd #iwlwifi #wifi #networking

#freebsd #networking #wifi #iwlwifi

Anybody looking for #FreeBSD #ZFS job in Europe or Armenia? Take a look at lists.freebsd.org/archives/freโ€ฆ. 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! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ I still chat with my old team members, and with some of them on a regular basis. In any case, good luck!

Looking for a storage engineer in the EU or Armenia

lists.freebsd.org
#freebsd #zfs

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.

#EBC25 #RunBSD #FreeBSD #EuroBSDcon #EuroBSDCon2025 #OpenBSD #NetBSD

#OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #runbsd #eurobsdcon #EBC25 #EuroBSDCon2025

Anyone know how to determine wear on an NVMe drive on #FreeBSD?

Suggestin smartctl is not helpful here. It just doesn't do it.

I looked at nvmecontrol and could not find help there either.

#freebsd

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?
#freebsd

I found this screenshot again and I still think it's brilliant. The best OS overview I've ever read.
#Linux #FreeBSD
Screenshot of a Reddit comment saying this: Time for my OS opinion that's guaranteed to be unpopular with someone... Sun Solaris used to be the OS that required overpriced proprietary hardware and still couldn't compete with Linux. That OS is now MacOS. MacOS used to be the colorful and friendly walled garden OS that your non-techie parents would enjoy but was completely useless to you as a power user. That OS is now Windows. Windows used to be the OS that could run a lot of apps, but was a headache to setup and maintain correctly and would sometimes blow up for no reason. That OS is now Linux. Linux used to be the techie and developer oriented command-line OS that was lacking in desktop apps and might not support your hardware, but once you got it going, was rock solid and had no limits. That OS is now FreeBSD.
#linux #freebsd

Anyone running #FreeBSD on one of Oracle's free tier?

I tried once, gave up. I don't recall the block.

#freebsd

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