Aaaaand of course there's no #Signal messenger for #FreeBSD (that I can find in the repos, anyway).

JuSt wRiTe iT In eLeCtRoN! iT'Ll wOrK EvErYwHeRe!!! HeRp-a-dErP

Before you tell me I can just compile it: Just don't. I'm not compiling Electron. I have better things to do with my thermals. XD

@helix2301

I never really got into Cinnamon, but Fedora's nice. That and Kubuntu have become my go-to n00b friendly distros, and I think Fedora has the edge now.

Right now, I'm running (in various places):

• #RaspberryPiOS (for a server)
• #Solus Linux
• #Fedora #KDE (vanilla, not immutable)
• #Debian 13
• #OpenBSD
• #FreeBSD

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

@mirabilos

As it is, I'm unable to troubleshoot the weird networking issues I'm having with #Debian 13. On all my Debian 13 boxes, reverse name lookups are b0rken (even after installing the silly systemd-named, although it did improve a little), and this is across 2-3 different debian machines and on 2 different WLANs.

On this machine (which I'm planning to switch to #FreeBSD), I get very odd and random timeouts. Some websites load fine, many just hang. I'm scratching my head and not sure where to even start with that.

I just need to sit down with a proper Linux networking book and learn things from the ground up.

But of course, since the integral structure of Linux userspace is hardwired to Lennart Poettering's right butt cheek, no book is worth anything after about two weeks.

This is a very frustrating, silly, and utterly avoidable situation.

Foxtrot-foxtrot-sierra.

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

#LossyPNG

Alt...

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

The Call for Papers period for both #AsiaBSDCon and #BSDCan are open, until end of November for AsiaBSDCon, until Jan 17 for BSDCan.

If you can, submit!

Or read "What is BSD? Come to a conference to find out!" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html if you want some background information #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonflyBSD

@SamuraiSakura @inlovewithpda

Honestly, #OpenBSD is a way better starter-#BSD than people realize.

#FreeBSD has a friendlier installer (TUI vs. prompts), but OpenBSD currently gives you a more usable system, post-install: (X11/"xenocara") is in the base install, unlike #FreeBSD.

the list

#unix_surrealism #comic #poster #openbsd #freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #9front #plan9 #glenda #cirno #girl #daemon #puffy #rabbit #mata #openblade

Alt...

MATACORP'S MOST WANTED HACKERS Fish Daemon Cirno OpenBlade Rabbit Frederick "the Hammer" Glenda II Sphence Purple "Penguin" Pentium-M Man Girl

Good reads. #FreeBSD Cheat Sheet for #Linux Admins

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-cheat-sheet-for-linux-admins/

It is worth bookmark.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pitrh/115509098143295810

The BSD conferences are magical. The atmosphere is friendly. It's a family - a good one - with different views but a common goal: making great things, making smart choices in a positive environment.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #EuroBSDCon #BSDCan #AsiaBSDCon

It's kinda buried in this announcement, but the option to add a KDE desktop is coming to the FreeBSD installer.

Reading the whole monthly update, there's a lot going on with desktop for FreeBSD overall.

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2025-09.md

#BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #KDE

#POLL: Do you use Full-Disk Encryption, such as LUKS on #Linux or GELI on #FreeBSD?

#FullDiskEncryption #FDE #LUKS #GELI

The MS Office Open XML standard has been around for about 18 years. Open / LibreOffice has been around with an XML standard that's even older than that. Why do I still get emails with file attachments in .DOC format?

Am I alone in still getting old style MS Office files from organizations in my inbox? Unfortunately antiword is long unmaintained, so terminal viewing is a challenge.

#libreoffice #openoffice #syadmin #linux #freebsd #windows #msoffice #antiword

Is anyone here using ZFS as their daily driver file system of choice on Gentoo? I like FreeBSD's ZFS integration and want to replicate some of that. It seems more polished than BTRFS.

Unfortunately, it looks like the Gentoo wiki is a bit out of date when it comes to ZFS knowledge.

#Gentoo #FreeBSD #ZFS #BTRFS #Linux #sysadmin

FreeBSD Graphics Stack Developer Position | FreeBSD Foundation

｢ The FreeBSD Foundation is seeking a Graphics Stack Developer to contribute to our Laptop Support and Usability Project — a major initiative focused on enhancing the “out of the box” experience for FreeBSD users worldwide ｣

https://freebsdfoundation.org/open-positions/freebsd-graphics-stack-developer-position/

#fedihire #freebsd #bsd

progress vps storage ane:

🟢 Install #FreeBSD minimal,
🟢 Install #BastilleBSD jails,
🟢 Install #garage object storage di dalam salah satu jail,
⚪ Install #postgresql di jails,
⚪ Install #Ente di jails,
⚪ Install #Gotosocial di jails,
⚪ Install #snac2 di jails,
⚪ Pasang pl-fe

masih jauh sekali perjalanan ini, dengan 1vCPU dan 2GB RAM semoga mampu ha ha ha ha

karena storage utama (OS) di VPS yang 20GB itu tidak cukup untuk menghandle jails, maka ane hapus semua dan reinstall sistem.

di VPS ane ada 2 disk, yaitu vtbd0 (20GB) sebagai disk primary dan vtbd1 (500GB) sebagai logical. Agar jails tidak habisin disk di vtbd0 maka ane set supaya folder jail pakai space storage di vtbd1.

proses reinstall cepet tapi ini pakai template dari VPS, problemnya swap yang dialokasikan cuma 512MB, menurut ane masih kurang maka ane tambah swap di vtbd1 sebesar 1GB sehingga total swap 1,5GB.

di vtbd1 ane bikin 4 partisi, seperti di gambar. Sekarang disk utama lebih lega dan ga khawatir out of space lagi.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #GreenCloudVPS

🟢 Install #FreeBSD minimal,
🟢 Install #BastilleBSD jails,
🟢 Install #Caddy
🟢 Install #Garage object storage di dalam salah satu jail,
🟢 Install #Postgresql di jails,
🟡 Install #Ente di jails,
- 😊👍🏽 Build backed
- 🥲 Build frontend
⚪ Install #Gotosocial di jails,
⚪ Install #snac2 di jails,
⚪ Pasang pl-fe

✅ Install #FreeBSD minimal,
✅ Install #BastilleBSD jails,
✅ Install #Caddy
✅ Install #Garage object storage di dalam salah satu jail,
✅ Install #Postgresql di jails,
✅ Install #Ente di jails,
✅ Install #Gotosocial di jails,
✅ Install #snac2 di jails numpang jails Gotosocial
✅ Pasang pl-fe
🚫 Install #VaultWarden

GreenCloudVPS not bad at all

Are you tired of sluggish, resource eating Linux & FreeBSD terminals? Say hello to `foot`! It’s the fast, lightweight, and minimalistic terminal emulator built for the modern Wayland display server. Wayland compositor users who value speed, simplicity, and low resource usage, foot is a must try.

Repo https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

#linux #freebsd #opensource

Finds FreeBSD's geom shsec ( https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gshsec&sektion=8&n=1 ), a provider that requires all providers to be present to read the data.

Kinda makes me want to expand it to support Shamir's secret sharing ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing ). I already implemented a version in Python: https://funkthat.com/gitea/jmg/shamirss

That way you can do n of m shares present to get the secret.

You'd still need all m shares present when you update the share, obviously.

#FreeBSD #Security

@paul @amin @spaceraser @alatartheblue

The BSD license used to require a blurb that said something like "Copyright $YEAR The Regents of The University of California," but that's long gone, I think.

I believe Linux used to print that out at some point circa 2000, because of some networking code.

All of the Apple-developed OSes (to my knowledge) are based on #FreeBSD, with contributions from #OpenBSD for pf (I believe), and of course, #OpenSSH.

TIL that makefs on FreeBSD supports creating a zfs pool with a file system!

I'm quite floored, but I shouldn't be surprised as zfs had a userland interface for a while, and being able to build system images without root is always a nice thing, but wow.

#FreeBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS

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

Where do you think the BSDs will be in 10 years? Technology improvements, cross pollination between projects, shifts userbase, etc?

#freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #ghostbsd #sysadmin

@BastilleBSD the problem is the Pi 5 UEFI project became abandonware early this year and is no longer maintained. The 8GB model works. Nobody has picked up the slack to revive the project.

https://github.com/worproject/rpi5-uefi

Maybe someone in the #FreeBSD or #raspberrypi communities will pick the project up and run with it.

@profoundlynerdy

By reading a lot of source code and being careful.

#FreeBSD #Linux #programming #C

How does one go form K&R C to hacking in the #FreeBSD or #Linux kernel? #programming #C

@justine

@DianeBruce could also speak to this. I know I've seen her at just about every bsd conference that I've been to.

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

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

Can anyone explain what this actually means when I use freebsd-update?

It tells me I don't need any updates to go to p5, but then it says I should upgrade from p1?

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.2-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
No updates needed to update system to 14.2-RELEASE-p5.
WARNING: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
release within the next 3 days.
# freebsd-update install
No updates are available to install.
Run 'freebsd-update [options] fetch' first.

#freebsd

I definitely need to figure out a better workflow for my FreeBSD commits.

I do my development on another box, but as my laptop is kinda my hub, I have to pull the branches through that before pushing to the machine that can do commits.

Though now that I've done a few recently, it's a little bit easier, but it's annoying to have to checkout a tree to do a rebase. I'm sure there's a way to do a checkout-less rebase, but I really don't want to read the rebase man page well enough to understand it since the first statement says you can't (that it does a git switch).

#git #FreeBSD