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#Mastodon tip: There is a way to use only part of a word as a hashtag!

For example, you might want to say the word “toots”, but use the hashtag “toot”.

To do this, place a U+2060 WORD JOINER before the “s” in “toots”. Example: #toot⁠s.

If you're using #X11 or #Wayland (i.e. #Linux or #BSD desktop), you can add the following line to ~/.XCompose to give yourself a keyboard shortcut:

<Multi_key> <w> <j> : "⁠" U2060 # WORD JOINER

Then just type Compose, then W, then J.

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Ok, it’s been… a *while* since I used a BSD at any kind of depth, and probably 20 years since I attempted a desktop. So BSD-using friends:

- what #BSD flavor would you recommend for a “comfortable with *nix, but doesn’t want to spend all their time on admin” user with a preference for KDE+Plasma?

- I’m gonna try it as a VM guest first. Any special considerations?

- What’s a good resource for checking hardware compatibility for laptops for that flavor of BSD?

Boost for vis is OK.

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173d

Alright team, I am going to give #BSD another try. What is the best version of BSD that I can install on an Alder Lake #N100 Intel CPU?

I have a mini pc that is collecting dust at the moment and I gots the BSD itch.

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162d

OK so a forum that are federated where you can follow threads and reply from your own fedi account is really cool. You can also create a local account if you wish to keep it away from your fedi account.

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/

#RunBSD #Forums #BSD #BSDCafe

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161d

Today, we're introducing three things. The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes. The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks. The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you […]

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83d

Polymaths federation is down again.

How are you fine #BSD folks doin'? ;)

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149d

For *BSD fans, I wish to understand something that truly bothers me.

You are a fan of one or more BSD os. Is that BSD (doesn't matter which one) your daily driver, your primary OS on your main computer?

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

Options: (choose one)

17% Actually, my main is Mac OS
37% Actually, my main is Linux
5% Actually, my main is Windows
41% Indeed it is! My primary OS is BSD (reply below)

Sign in to vote

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129d

Happy to share that #BoxyBSD remains up!

Recently I got asked about my @BoxyBSD project, which offers free VPS instances of vary #BSD based systems for learning and educational purposes and I'm happy to share that this projects remains available. Several things could finally be clarified to continue this service to make sure people can learn and practice on real #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD systems to #RUNBSD. Also, BoxyBSD starts moving over to #Sylve on #bhyve.

But not only that! We could also get some more new resources and locations to scale and this also brings up another new project for #free Linux #VPS instances at https://boxedtux.com (Fedi: @BoxedTux) where people will be able to learn and practice on different #Linux based distributions (e.g., #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Rocky,...). BoxedTux utilizes #Proxmox clusters as a foundation.

Hope you like this small update... Over & out!

#freeVPS #VPS #VM #Hosting #education #learning #learningplatform #service #opensource #BoxedTux

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119d

Besides tiling window managers (bspwm and i3wm), I have mostly used the Cinnamon desktop environment for the past five years.

I am exploring MATE and XFCE more now. I used to use Ubuntu MATE, but haven't really "daily driven" XFCE.

If you had to choose between the two, what would you prefer for a Linux or BSD desktop environment:

#Linux #BSD #MATE #XFCE

Reply to share more of your thoughts on this.

Options: (choose one)

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121d

New #blog #post: Package Manager Tier List

https://rldane.space/package-manager-tier-list.html

1521 words

Note: this is a very off-the-cuff tier list, using speed as the main qualifier, but the article explains exceptions to that as it goes on.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#rlDaneWriting #blost #DeadLikeMe #Linux #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Debian #Arch #pacman #AUR #Fedora #homebrew #flatpak #snap #OpenSuSE #RPM

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110d

As I lost sponsoring (due to a whole location shutdown) for my @BoxyBSD & @BoxedTux in North America, I’m looking for sponsors in US and Canada.

The requirements are pretty low:

NO IPv4
min. IPv6 /48 subnet routed
Network (ARIN/RIPE/…) should be personalized (netname, abuse,..)
Optionally: BYOIP
ARPA delegation for the net to my nameservers
min. 2x 500G disk space (SATA SSD or better)
min. 48G memory per node
bandwidth doesn’t really matter (100Mbit is fine)
Remote MGMT to systems

Sponsors are being listed on #BoxyBSD and #BoxedTux on the sponsoring page and announced on LinkedIn, Fediverse and X as new sponsors.

#bsd #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #openindiana #education #learning #opensource

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109d

#GetFediHired: #Linux & #BSD admin, 20-40h, remote oder #Salzburg <-> #Rosenheim 📍 #Traunstein

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98d

I’ve been getting motion sickness on my smaller monitors.

I have to be using at least 1080p monitors for some reason, I think. My laptop is nice, but it’s only 1600x900, and I plan on upgrading it someday. Ugh. I’m not playing games on them either, just regular computer use. Though FPS-style games like Fallout: New Vegas or whatever, I have to take frequent breaks from regardless of the screen size.

What can I do to deal with this? This sucks!

There’s another possibility of what it could be:

I turned off screen tearing on devices with GPUs that support it, but it’s not possible on my GhostBSD drive on my laptop, which uses X.org (as I refuse to use software made by people who think I shouldn’t exist, and I’m not looking to debate or argue this). My OpenBSD disk in my 1600x900 laptop has screen tearing disabled by default on modesetting, and I don’t have this issue. Maybe it’s a screen tearing problem.

I really like X.org and Xenocara; it supports what I need very well, but X.org hasn’t released a version with the tearfree option enabled by default for modesetting, but Xenocara backported that, which may explain my issue.

Any idea what I can do, #BSD and #OpenBSD friends?

(I don’t want to use Xlibre or Wayland; please don’t suggest those.)

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76d

I managed to install FreeBSD on my main pc, with a caveat. I picked the 16-Current because it supports the Lan chip of my motherboard, that lacks in the 15-1 STABLE.
It is not ideal, but picking the Stable would had mean doing some moves between partitions for the drivers, and Freebsd is here for tests and isn't really an issue.
So here what is all about.
🧵

#bsd #freebsd #linux #pcgaming #retrogaming #FOSS

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75d

Anyone running #FreeBSD desktop in a #QEMU VM? I remembered I simply had to install xf86-video-qxl and use a #Xorg conf file like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "qxl"
EndSection

it should work. But today when I was firing up a FreeBSD 15.1 VM the Xorg session instantly crashed with a segment fault and returned back to tty, changing the qxl driver to scfb worked flawlessly though. Am I missing something? 1/n

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

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This qxl video driver issue with #FreeBSD #QEMU VM appeared more interesting than I thought: in another boot environment #BE where I installed #Xlibre instead of #Xorg, using #qxl driver and startx in a #TTY brought up a bare X session with a #Xterm. Quitting the xterm instance successfully terminated X session and brought back TTY session, while on #Xorg quitting the session resulted in a full black screen, no tty. Switching ttys from with QEMU's sendkey failed to get any tty bacl either. If a window manager like #CWM was launched by startx, however, both Xlibre and Xorg failed with a #SegmentFault error. 2/n

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

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95d

Where does the #sysrc utility come from in a #FreeBSD 15-RELEASE system? I was playing around with an experimental #FreeBSD system which was installed with #pkg from the freebsd-base repository. The FreeBSD-set-minimal, FreeBSD-set-kernel plus a few other firmware packages were installed. The system boots and all works good as usual. But I found #sysrc is no where to find, pkg search sysrc gives py311-ansible-sysrc which does not seem right, freshports reports it is not in 15 but I have it in another system installed using the traditional method. Is it coming from FreeBSD-set-base itself? The the new #pkgbase world, how do I suppose to search where does each utility comes from?

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

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95d

Development of my personal FreeBSD installer keeps moving forward!

Lots of new ideas and features are currently in the works: the out-of-the-box GUI experience, completion of the Simple and Expert installation modes, automatic hardware detection and configuration (now also GPU support as well).

I'll be publishing a new blog post soon with more details. Stay tuned! 😄

#FreeBSD #BSD #OpenSource #FOSS #UNIX #Coding #Programming #SysAdmin #DevOps #DesktopBSD #Tech #OSS #Lua

Screenshot of my new FreeBSD installer. The first setup screen lets users choose between Auto, Simple, and Expert installation modes through a keyboard-friendly text interface. Simple mode is currently selected.

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218d

Every now and then when I come back to use my daily driver running #Debian #Linux, I got surprised why #apt still does not provided short-formed commands like #pkg in #FreeBSD and #pkgin in #NetBSD do such as:

# FreeBSD
pkg ins vim # same as pkg install vim
pkg sea vim # same as pkg search vim

# NetBSD
pkgin in vim # same as pkgin install vim
pkgin se vim # same as pkgin search vim

# while in Debian
apt search vim # no apt se/sea
apt install vim # no apt in/ins

#Unix #BSD #FOSS

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92d

Stumped upon same situation as two days ago where I found it extremely hard to to find where a #FreeBSD base utility comes from using a #pkgbase system. It was the sysrc utiity last weekend, and today mixer. They are there in the manual pages, in source code, but no easy way to find out where they end up in FreeBSD-xxx packages. Luckily when I used enough keywords Google Gemini actually was capable to point me to the FreeBSD-sound package.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix

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90d

This looks like new fun. No mention of #BSD systems though.

#YSERVER: Modern #X11 Server Written In #Rust With The Help Of Claude Code - #Phoronix

https://share.google/d7VGQnfQozqS3tX45

#Xorg #Unix #FOSS

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58d

New to FreeBSD? Choosing the right installation image is a great place to start.

A member of the FreeBSD community recently shared a helpful walkthrough explaining the different FreeBSD installation images and when to use each one, including:
• DVD images
• Boot-only (network install)
• USB memory stick images

Watch the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EFG3BO6oVY

Which installation method do you prefer when getting started with FreeBSD?
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD #Unix #TechTips

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57d

If I can't trust that the #Linux kernel won't be slop-free, looks like it's time to consider #BSD for the first time in three decades or so.
Therefore, I'm going to need some input.
Advice on which BSD for desktop use.
Will I be screwed in terms of gaming (my laptop has a 5070) via Steam/wine/Proton?

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #UNIX #LazyWeb #LazyFedi

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51d

@BoxyBSD Returns to #FreeBSD: Migrating from #Proxmox to #Sylve (#bhyve)

Some journeys don't end where you expect them to. Sometimes they bring you right back to where everything began, only with a lot more experience and a much better ecosystem waiting for you.

That's exactly what is happening with BoxyBSD!

In my (longer) blog post I cover my circuit, where I moved from bhyve to Proxmox, developed many tools for Proxmox and now moved back to FreeBSD with bhyve and Sylve.

More details in my blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/boxybsd-moving-from-proxmox-to-bhyve-with-sylve/

#RUNBSD #bsd #freebsd #boxybsd #openbsd #netbsd #sylve #bhyve #opensource #vps #vpshosting #opensource #community #bsdcafe #boxybsd

BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD and bhyve with Sylve

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