Im Juli sorgten zwei #SSH CVEs für Aufsehen. #SUSE Manager 5.0 und Leap Micro 6.0 sind erschienen und #CentOS 7 wurde eingestellt. Weitere Backup-Provider wollen #Proxmox unterstützen. #Firefox 128 verärgert mit PPA, das openSUSE-Projekt diskutiert lebhaft ein Rebranding. Canonical will Docker-Container zukünftig bis zu 12 Jahre unterstützen, während #FreeBSD den Supportzyklus verkürzt.
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The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - 'Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.'
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
#ITNotes #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #EuroBSDCon #EBC24 #EuroBSDCon24 #EuroBSDCon2024 #NoteHUB
Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/
I found an old Acer laptop running #windows98 It has an external CD-ROM unit which doesn't work until drivers are loaded. Same for USB, so I can't boot it with anything except Windows.
I would like to give it a new life installing #freeBSD ... Can you suggest a way to install it from within Windows 98?
Thanks to the #FreeBSD Handbook on Ports and the following page, I finally got around to building the drm-kmod port and dependencies so that amdgpu runs properly on 14.2. 
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-14-2-graphics-fix.96365/
Edited 172d ago
I think I got it working now after remaking it lol
https://snac.9front.club/thedaemon
#snac2 #snac #FreeBSD
https://snac.9front.club/thedaemon
#snac2 #snac #FreeBSD
Confirming a fix in FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/
GrafX2 is a hidden #graphics gem. It is specialized in 256-color drawing and one of its main supported platforms is not #Linux, its #FreeBSD . How lovely.
http://grafx2.chez.com/index.php?static3/downloads
https://www.freshports.org/graphics/grafx2/
Edited 84d ago
FreeBSD: Leakage of information into vt consoles, from a desktop environment at ttyv8
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k92yo8/leakage_of_information_into_vt_consoles_from_a/
– in other words, input in a desktop environment may be mistreated as input at a terminal e.g. ttyv0 or ttyv1.
Please help to identify relevant source code. Thank you.
Edited 84d ago
FreeBSD: new package repositories for kernel modules
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html
For FreeBSD 14.3-BETA4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/
FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.
In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon:
― https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)
― https://i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png – Geany
…
Breakage was first observed following an upgrade on 28th April. Broken again with the most recent round of updates, a few hours ago.
I can reactivate a boot environment that has recent base packages alongside increasingly outdated port packages, however this is far from ideal.
Can anyone explain the breakage?
Thanks
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/
Postscript: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752
Edited 62d ago
FreeBSD pkg version 2.2.0 seems to simplify things for users of FreeBSD-kmods repositories.
Big thanks to @_bapt_
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1leqsbt/comment/myuzra2/
Edited 36d ago
Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
This idea has been in my mind since the very beginning of this adventure, almost two years ago. Over time, several people have suggested it. But until recently, I felt the timing just wasn’t right - for many reasons. Today, I believe it finally is.
So I’m happy to announce a new service:
The BSD Cafe Journal - https://journal.bsd.cafe
At first, I thought I’d use BSSG for it (I even added multi-author support with this in mind), but in the end, it didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
The idea is to create a multi-author space, with content published on a fairly regular basis. A reference point for news, updates, tutorials, technical articles - a place to inform and connect.
Just like people in Italy used to stop by cafes to read the newspaper and chat about the day’s news, the BSD Cafe Journal aims to be a space for reading, sharing, and staying informed - all in the spirit of the BSD Cafe.
What it’s not:
It’s not here to replace personal blogs, or excellent newsletters like @vermaden 's. And it’s not an aggregator.
What it is:
A place where authors can write original content, share links to posts on their own blogs or elsewhere, publish guides, offer insights, or dive into technical explanations.
The guiding principles are the same as always: positivity, constructive discussion, promoting BSDs and open source in general. No hype (sharing a cool new service is fine, posting non-stop about the latest trend is not), no drama, no politics. The goal is to bring people together, not divide them. To inform, not inflame.
Respect, tolerance, and inclusivity are key. Everyone should feel welcome reading the BSD Cafe Journal - never judged, offended, or excluded.
The platform I’ve chosen is WordPress, for several reasons: it’s portable (runs well on all BSDs), has great built-in role management (contributors, authors, etc.), and - last but not least - supports ActivityPub.
This means every author will have their own identity in the Fediverse (like: @stefano ) and can be followed directly, and it’ll also be possible to follow the whole Journal.
Original and educational content is encouraged, but it’s also perfectly fine to link to existing articles elsewhere. Personally, I’ll link my technical posts from ITNotes whenever I publish them there.
The goal is simple: a news-oriented site, rich in content, ad-free, respectful of privacy - all under the BSD Cafe umbrella.
Content coordination will happen in a dedicated Matrix room for authors. There’ll also be a public room for discussing ideas, giving feedback, and sharing suggestions.
Of course, I can’t do this alone. A journal with no content is just an empty shell.
So here’s my call for action:
Who’s ready to lend a hand? If you enjoy writing, explaining, sharing your knowledge - the Journal is waiting for you.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #Linux #OSS #OpenSource #BCJournal #BSDCafeJournal
Edited 13d ago
FreeBSD: preferring ee (avoiding vi) for csh/tcsh and sh
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/be1bc6ac40bfef0693b0ab5cef050f3e
ee(1)
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ee&sektion=1&manpath=freebsd-release
Wrote a blogpost about simple (I mean with a shell and a text editor) #X11 configuration.
Covered topics:
1) #Trackball configuration for left hand. Also remapping of some buttons to have scrolling and middle button (not exists out of the box).
2) Theming: #GTK2 #GTK3 #QT , installing cursor(s), fonts and icons.
3) #Xrandr for multimonitor configuration
4) #Xserver settings for #HighDPI
5) #XDG utils and #Emacs as a system file manager
6) #XDM login window
https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html
FreeBSD 15.0 aims to introduce a KDE desktop installation option, allowing users to boot directly into a graphical login with minimal setup required.
https://linuxiac.com/kde-desktop-environment-comes-to-freebsd-15-0-installer/
Hello Fedi friends!
My child and I arrived in Italy yesterday to spend all of July at my parents' 🇮🇹
What's the first thing I did this morning? Following @milano to have weather forecasts here in my feed.
Special thanks to @stefano for creating this incredible project.
For those of you not familiar with #FediMeteo, it covers 2893 cities in 38 countries. All powered by a 4€/month VPS with #snac and #freeBSD:
Grazie Stefano! 🙏✨🏆