<p>Default vm-bhyve template for <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> has 256MB RAM.</p><p>The installer dies silently trying to fetch pkgbase packages.</p><p>2GB works.</p>
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<p>Keeping my streak: next daily source reading is up: <a href="https://blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260207-daily-source-reading-ed.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.wollwage.com/2026/20260207-daily-source-reading-ed.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.wollwage.com/2026/2026020</span><span class="invisible">7-daily-source-reading-ed.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a></p>
Edited 59d ago
<p>I'm about to give up on getting FreeBSD installed on my 9th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon. No matter what I do or try, I simply cannot get the install to boot. I've tried many different ways. The ISO, the .img file, nothing works. Pretty straightforward hardware: 11th Gen Core i5, 16 GB or RAM, Intel Iris Graphics.<br><br>Anyone have any ideas or maybe experiencing this same issue?<br><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>
<p>Confirming a fix in FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#Firefox</a> <a href="/tags/mate/" rel="tag">#MATE</a> <a href="/tags/simple/" rel="tag">#simple</a> <a href="/tags/elegant/" rel="tag">#elegant</a></p>
<p>I have asked for my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> commit bit to be taken into safekeeping. It’s been a few years since I actually committed code to the repo (I still maintain libcxxrt and dtc, which are in the base system, so my code has been committed by others in that time).</p><p>This is the second time. I reactivated it a couple of years ago and wrote a qemufwcfg driver (split NetBSD-style between a simple kernel device and a FUSE filesystem), but the review comments put me off bothering to get it into the tree (someone else is welcome to do it if they want to pull it out of phabricator). I still occasionally do code review for other folks, feel free to keep tagging me for reviews.</p><p>Still a happy FreeBSD user. If I have FreeBSD time again (any decade now…) I hope to work more on container things. The Apple folks who did their container thing have said they’re happy to take patches to support FreeBSD containers. Their one-VM-per-container model makes this much easier than Podman, which assumes a single VM so is hard to transparently support both Linux and FreeBSD guests.</p><p>The only thing I’d like to do that I’d want to put in the base system is a more modern service management and eventing system. And I doubt I’ll have time to work on that for a few years.</p>
Edited 59d ago
<a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> and Beastie the <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> server and it's <a href="/tags/bastille/" rel="tag">#Bastille</a> jails all updated to 15.0-RELEASE-p4 without issue again. <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a><br>
<p>today I started my "migration" from sudo to doas on my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> server. lets see how long it will take until I can remove sudo 🙂</p>
This <a href="/tags/libreoffice/" rel="tag">#LibreOffice</a> bug, where trying to create or open a password-protected file crashes the application, is what kept me from running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> on my laptop (before that hardware died last month). I was able to keep running <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> (where LibreOffice doesn't crash) until the laptop gave up and wouldn't run at all. <a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289266"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show</span><span class="invisible">_bug.cgi?id=289266</span></a><br>
Edited 55d ago
Well that's my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> and Server ( Bastille jails ) all updated to 15.0-RELEASE-p3 without issue. 😄<br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a><br>
Went onto a small donation spree today to thank the developers of applications I use daily or quite often.<br><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> - The base that keeps all the rest running smoothly<br><br><a href="/tags/navidrome/" rel="tag">#Navidrome</a> - My personal Spotify. I want to own my music and don't pay a subscription!<br><br><a href="/tags/comaps/" rel="tag">#CoMaps</a> - Offline maps for for all my travels. Powered by <a href="/tags/openstreetmap/" rel="tag">#OpenStreetMap</a><br><br><a href="/tags/vaultwarden/" rel="tag">#Vaultwarden</a> - The password manager accessible from everywhere.<br><br><a href="/tags/eldiario/" rel="tag">#ElDiario</a>.es - Not IT related. Independent news site in Spain.<br>
Edited 53d ago
Do any <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> folk have a link that shows the build progress of ports for say 15.0 latest ?<br>
Running a single user or small user instance in the <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a>? A relay instance can help you to find more interesting content and to broadcast to other instances!<br><br><a href="https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi-relay.gyptazy.com</a> is a tech related relay instance that connects over 100 instances, focussing on things like <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>, <a href="/tags/bgp/" rel="tag">#BGP</a>, <a href="/tags/ipv6/" rel="tag">#IPv6</a>, <a href="/tags/proxmox/" rel="tag">#Proxmox</a>, <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#Homelab</a>, <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> and many other things! You can easily add a really when using <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> / <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a>, <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#mastodon</a>, <a href="/tags/pleroma/" rel="tag">#pleroma</a> and many other ones!<br><br><a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#socialmedia</a> <a href="/tags/fedi/" rel="tag">#fedi</a> <a href="/tags/fediwall/" rel="tag">#fediwall</a> <a href="/tags/relay/" rel="tag">#relay</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/federated/" rel="tag">#federated</a> <a href="/tags/social/" rel="tag">#social</a><br>
<p>FreeBSD lacks so much in terms of usability. It's incredible obvious coming from OpenBSD. FreeBSD has all the features but is missing a lot of comfort.</p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a></p>
I slightly updated my website which is based on my nerdy <a href="/tags/manpageblog/" rel="tag">#manpageblog</a> engine.<br><br>I recently added several <a href="/tags/seo/" rel="tag">#SEO</a> improvements and made some smaller changes to the design to make it more readable but also slightly more modern. I'm not sure if this isn't already too fancy again where it should focus on simplicity and alignment with traditional manpages.<br><br>If you're interested into manpageblog, you can find it at:<br>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>github.com/gyptazy/manpageblog</a><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> Ports: <a href="https://www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.freshports.org/www/manpageblog/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.freshports.org/www/manpage</span><span class="invisible">blog/</span></a><br><br><br><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/staticblog/" rel="tag">#staticblog</a> <a href="/tags/blogengine/" rel="tag">#blogengine</a> <a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#wordpress</a> <a href="/tags/alternatives/" rel="tag">#alternatives</a> <a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#free</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/manpage/" rel="tag">#manpage</a> <a href="/tags/manpageblog/" rel="tag">#manpageblog</a> <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#python</a> <a href="/tags/webdesign/" rel="tag">#webdesign</a> <a href="/tags/simple/" rel="tag">#simple</a> <a href="/tags/kiss/" rel="tag">#kiss</a> <a href="/tags/freshports/" rel="tag">#freshports</a><br>
<p>Was compiling <a href="/tags/python/" rel="tag">#Python</a> v3.14 (on <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> v14.3) via "<a href="/tags/pyenv/" rel="tag">#pyenv</a>" with ...</p><p> PYTHON_CFLAGS='-march=native -mtune=native' \<br> PYTHON_CONFIGURE_OPTS='--enable-optimizations --with-lto' \<br> PROFILE_TASK='-m test.regrtest --pgo -j0' \<br> PYENV_ROOT="${pyenv_root_dir:?}"</p><p>... that failed as the LLVM_PROFILE_FILE was being created under "/"💩</p><p>Surprising🙄</p><p>Trying again with LLVM_PROFILE_FILE='/tmp/code-%p.profclangr' ...</p>
Edited 58d ago
<p>Ready for the conference!</p><p><a href="/tags/bsdcan/" rel="tag">#BSDCan</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/netbsd/" rel="tag">#NetBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a></p>
<p>FreeBSD: new package repositories for kernel modules</p><p><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre</span><span class="invisible">ebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html</span></a></p><p>For FreeBSD 14.3-BETA4: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>
<p>FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.</p><p>In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon: </p><p>― <a href="https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png</a> – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)</p><p>― <a href="https://i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png</a> – Geany</p><p>…</p><p>Breakage was first observed following an upgrade on 28th April. Broken again with the most recent round of updates, a few hours ago. </p><p>I can reactivate a boot environment that has recent base packages alongside increasingly outdated port packages, however this is far from ideal. </p><p>Can anyone explain the breakage? </p><p>Thanks</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comme</span><span class="invisible">nts/1k9wjv5/comment/</span></a></p><p>Postscript: <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperri</span><span class="invisible">n/114567643239283752</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>
Edited 316d ago
<p>GhostBSD is going to abandon Xorg after 15 years. Eric Turgeon explains why GhostBSD switched from Xorg to XLibre instead of Wayland.</p><p>Full details here: <a href="https://ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switches-to-xlibre-over-wayland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switches-to-xlibre-over-wayland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switche</span><span class="invisible">s-to-xlibre-over-wayland/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#Ghostbsd</a> <a href="/tags/xlibre/" rel="tag">#Xlibre</a> <a href="/tags/xorg/" rel="tag">#Xorg</a> <a href="/tags/displayserver/" rel="tag">#Displayserver</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#Freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#Bsd</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a></p>
<p>Vim v9.2 is released. There are many magnífico features I look forward to use. VIM is a Swiss Army Knife for editing Source Code & text.</p><p>The features are too many to mention, no really I don't know them all; NOBODY DOES!<br>Just like with the GiMP I know the functions I need and learn more when the requirement arizes. VIM has an extensive help system which Bram Molenaar et all developed over the decades that VIM exists.</p><p>History<br>VIM was initially coded on the Amiga computer systems of which I own an A4000T with a Cyberstorm 060 and Max Ram, with RTG card (Picasso 96), a A1200 vanilla with a stock HDD & an A500 with stock RAM (chip and fast) and 3 FDD 2x 3.5" 1x 5 1/4"</p><p>Bram wrote VIM in such a way that it runs on the A500 with just 512kB RAM! </p><p>There are people who love EMACS. To them I say<br> <br><flame bait><br>EMACS can't hold a candle to VIM<br></flame bait></p><p>Of course that is just humour. In the Open Source world choice is what makes us all work and play well on whatever hardware we have with whatever tools we love</p><p>>> Quote</p><p>New Features in Vim 9.2</p><p> Comprehensive Completion: Added support for fuzzy matching during insert-mode completion and the ability to complete words directly from registers (CTRL-X CTRL-R). New 'completeopt' flags like nosort and nearest offer finer control over how matches are displayed and ordered.<br> Modern Platform Support: Full support for the Wayland UI and clipboard has been added. On Linux and Unix-like systems, Vim now adheres to the XDG Base Directory Specification, using $HOME/.config/vim for user configuration.<br> UI Enhancements: A new vertical tabpanel provides an alternative to the horizontal tabline. The MS-Windows GUI now supports native dark mode for the menu and title bars, along with improved fullscreen support and higher-quality toolbar icons.<br> Interactive Learning: A new built-in interactive tutor plugin (started via :Tutor) provides a modernized learning experience beyond the traditional vimtutor.</p><p>^Z</p><p>>> Quote II</p><p>Vim9 Script Ecosystem & AI Integration</p><p>The maturity of Vim9 script's modern constructs is now being leveraged by advanced AI development tools. Contributor Yegappan Lakshmanan recently demonstrated the efficacy of these new features through two projects generated using GitHub Copilot:</p><p> Battleship in Vim9: A complete implementation of the classic game, showcasing classes and type aliases. [GitHub]<br> Number Puzzle: A logic game demonstrating the efficiency of modern Vim9 for interactive plugins. [GitHub]</p><p>^Z</p><p>I wonder why they have LLM support?</p><p>Note <br>The download page looks horrible on mobile so you'd be wise to view it on desktop</p><p>If this is your first time using VIM and you didn't bother to read the help file with `:h`<br>Just exit VIM type `:wq` to write & exit or type `:q!` to exit without saving the file</p><p><a href="/tags/vim/" rel="tag">#Vim</a> <a href="/tags/vimmasterrace/" rel="tag">#VimMasterRace</a> <a href="/tags/tips/" rel="tag">#tips</a> <a href="/tags/tricks/" rel="tag">#tricks</a> <a href="/tags/handy/" rel="tag">#handy</a> <a href="/tags/features/" rel="tag">#features</a> <a href="/tags/vi/" rel="tag">#Vi</a> <a href="/tags/emacs/" rel="tag">#EMACS</a> <a href="/tags/editor/" rel="tag">#editor</a> <a href="/tags/text/" rel="tag">#text</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#ghostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/posix/" rel="tag">#POSIX</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.p</span><span class="invisible">hp</span></a></p>
Edited 50d ago
<p>Okey, since I now can use <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> at work lets give <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> and Wayland a try on my old macbookpro 13.2 to see what works.</p>
So it seems <a href="/tags/vim/" rel="tag">#Vim</a> 9.2 is now available on <a href="/tags/termux/" rel="tag">#Termux</a> so I can test out the new features whilst waiting for it arriving on <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 😀<br>
<p>Maybe I should switch to GhostBSD 🤔 <br>"GhostBSD Switches to XLibre Over Wayland"<br><a href="https://ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switches-to-xlibre-over-wayland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switches-to-xlibre-over-wayland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-switche</span><span class="invisible">s-to-xlibre-over-wayland/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#GhostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/xlibre/" rel="tag">#XLibre</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>
<p>curl libcurl</p><p>Just in case you have forgotten how to curl a file from a server here's a extensive howto with screenshots </p><p>`-L` redirect<br><a href="https://everything.curl.dev/http/browserlike.html?highlight=-L#redirects" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everything.curl.dev/http/browserlike.html?highlight=-L#redirects"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everything.curl.dev/http/brows</span><span class="invisible">erlike.html?highlight=-L#redirects</span></a></p><p>`-o` filename<br><a href="https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/url-named.html#download-to-a-file-named-by-the-url" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/url-named.html#download-to-a-file-named-by-the-url"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/</span><span class="invisible">downloads/url-named.html#download-to-a-file-named-by-the-url</span></a></p><p>`-C -` resume<br><a href="https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/resume.html#resuming-and-ranges" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/downloads/resume.html#resuming-and-ranges"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/</span><span class="invisible">downloads/resume.html#resuming-and-ranges</span></a></p><p>`curl --verbose -C - -L -o lp_someband_some_name_disc1side2.flac archive.org/download/lp_someband_somename-v/disc1/lp_someband_somename_disc1side2.flac`</p><p><a href="/tags/curl/" rel="tag">#curl</a> <a href="/tags/get/" rel="tag">#get</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/fetch/" rel="tag">#fetch</a> <a href="/tags/networking/" rel="tag">#networking</a> <a href="/tags/https/" rel="tag">#https</a> <a href="/tags/http/" rel="tag">#http</a> <a href="/tags/ftp/" rel="tag">#ftp</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/posix/" rel="tag">#POSIX</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#ghostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#openBSD</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/win64/" rel="tag">#win64</a> <a href="/tags/mac/" rel="tag">#mac</a></p>
Edited 49d ago
Hey <span class="h-card"><a href="https://bsd.network/@haddock" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>haddock</span></a></span> how much different is <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> vs <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> ?<br>