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Main: "Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p2 amd64
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2
Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Graphics Platform: X11

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559

#runbsd #freebsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot

Told y'all before: FreeBSD has the most exciting and full-fledged stack of Wayland compositors and applications.
Most exciting part of Mangowc: switching between tiling and scrolling with one keybind. And a ton more, to be discovered by yours truly. Enjoying it a lot so far.
#freebsd #mangowc #maomao

Comparing devices at the office this afternoon.

#IT #SysAdmin #Networking #MikroTik #FreeBSD

So #FreeBSD friends does the opendoas port support the persist option under FreeBSD like on OpenBSD or am I reading this wrong ? I know the doas port does not support persist.

https://www.freshports.org/security/opendoas/

Kubuntu major upgrade complete.

One issue, worked around:

― GTK-NoCSD, Zotero, Visual Studio Code, LD_PRELOAD, Kubuntu 26.04

<https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1tdmbnv/gtknocsd_zotero_visual_studio_code_ld_preload/>

#Kubuntu #VirtualBox #FreeBSD #Zotero #VSCode #Windows #Ubuntu #Linux

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116127306722990113

Imagine: a FreeBSD developer breaking all six ground rules of the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct and imagining that their abuse will have no consequences.

Imagine: the same person later imagining that they're qualified to provide an uninvited lecture about conduct.

Normally, I'm discreet about such things.

Unfortunately, some people don't know when to be quiet. Imagine that person.

sh | shh

#FreeBSD #abuse #misconduct

I noticed that #XLibre got built in #FreeBSD #ports so I thought why not try it in a VM. Turns out it is just list you would do install xorg, a few stantard #pkg commands and it just runs !

#RunBSD #BSD #FOSS #Unix

#ksh folks, I'm wondering as a currently #oksh user would I be better off running #ksh-devel aka ksh 93u+m ? If so what advantages would I get or possibly lose ? I see it's available on both #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD

20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job https://lobste.rs/s/lynvme #freebsd
https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html

Ever heard of Gemini? It's a lightweight internet protocol between Gopher and the Web - no JavaScript, no cookies, no tracking, just text and links over TLS.

Think of it as the web before it got complicated. Pages are written in "gemtext", a minimal markup format. The entire protocol spec fits on a few pages.

To explore Geminispace you need a client:

- Lagrange (GUI, cross-platform): https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
- Amfora (terminal): https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora

Start exploring at gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ - an aggregator of active capsules (what we call Gemini sites).

I write about FreeBSD and self-hosting at gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/

#gemini #geminiprotocol #smallweb #indieweb #freebsd

New design for the FreeBSD website https://lobste.rs/s/03djyt #design #freebsd
https://www.freebsd.org/

Upgraded my secondary notebook "Tianve" to GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p7.

Removed KDE Plasma 6.5.4 and switched to LXQT instead. All is well.

#RunBSD #GhostBSD #FreeBSD

FreeBSD: vt no longer visible when switching away from desktop environments at ttyv8

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1urf879/freebsdrelease_in_virtualbox_vt_no_longer_visible/

Bugged environments include KDE Plasma and Cinnamon.

#FreeBSD #desktop #bug

Could anyone suggest a #laptop series|models with 2 GPUs (I am thinking of the type with integrated & discreet kinds) that are in current, or in perhaps future, production? I may buy in 6-12 months in USA.

Purpose is to pass the extra #GPU device to a #virtualMachine for GUI. I am inclined towards HP EliteBook, Dell Pro (& may be Lenovo ThinkPad if its fucking shop would work) series.

OS would likely be #FreeBSD (failing that, some Linux(?)).

#multiGPULaptop #dualGPULaptop

Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo.

I took a VM, installed FreeBSD, and set up the first jail to support Italy. The goal was to create a tool for my own use, support a few countries, and announce it.

Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.

FediMeteo now supports 38 countries and 2,937 cities, with more than 7,700 followers in the Fediverse alone, not counting the many people who follow via RSS feeds or visit the web pages.

If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

Today is also Tuesday, a #ThankYouTuesday, so I want to say thanks to:

* OpenMeteo - @openmeteo - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful

* @grunfink - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM

* FreeBSD, which thanks to the efficiency of the OS and its jail implementation made it possible to run this service in a stable and efficient way with minimal effort

* FediFollows - @FediFollows - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project

*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project

And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.

Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉

#FediMeteo #HappyBirthday #Meteo #Weather #FreeBSD #snac #snac2 #OpenMeteo #Fediverse

#FreeBSD #Podman installation dialogs based on bsdinstall:

https://gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-installer-dialogs

Inspired by the the alfix/kde-installer-dialogs repository.

I hope you will enjoy #OCI #containers on #FreeBSD.

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma #upgrade #bug

I am running #FreeBSD RELEASE 15.0 with #pkg for package management, no #ports at all. It appeared to me that the Joe's Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without #SVG image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under #JWM . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up #poudriere and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?


#AskFedi #BSD #RunBSD #unix #WM

Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.

RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.

39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.

All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.

If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.

#FediMeteo #FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

So I have #FreeBSD 15.0 running on my #ThinkPad again and running #MangoWC but for some reason #Qutebrowser fails to run unless I have the following in my .kshrc

export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-gpu"

But I have noticed that the old config which previously ran on 14.3 now doesn't load my GoMono fonts using exactly the same config. Those fonts are working in foot so I know they are installed. Strange ???

I see a similar bug report here too.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287599

New 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 [Add Port to FreeBSD Ports] on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/

#verblog #freebsd #packages #ports #pkg #submit #add

Strange! I have exactly the sane configs on both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD #Qutebrowser yet FreeBSD displays the pages differently to OpenBSD. The zeros on webpages on OpenBSD have no internal marks yet FreeBSD zeros have a dot inside them. Fonts are different between the two. Also on FreeBSD I have to run qutebrowser with the nogpu option so it'll run under #Wayland. I never noticed differences like this before on 14.3 but on 15.0 I'm not quite sure what's different yet ?

Well that's me back up and running #FreeBSD on my #ThinkPad P14s AMD with #MangoWC and all seems good. Also suspend to ram aka zzz works a treat and wakes in less than a few seconds. oh yeah I also have full color emoji working in foot and rofi-wayland. 😁

Ooh ! Both #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD have Vim 9.2 in ports. Now to wait until pkgs are built. 😀
#RunBSD

I really love to see #Sylve in #FreeBSD allowing us to define CPU pinning with #bhyve! That's a missing piece in other "major" solutions... Well done!

#virtualization #proxmox #opensource #alternatives