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https://ericbsd.com/addressing-xlibre-change-and-ghostbsd-future.html #GhostBSD #FreeBSD
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
Has anyone tried #Sway on 7.9/-current? Is it good?
It's a little buggy in #FreeBSD. I don't really care about sway vs. #i3wm all that much (nor am I ideologically invested in the Wayland vs. X11 grudge match 😄), but I reallly like foot as a terminal, and fuzzel as a launcher/menu, and they're Wayland-only. 😂
We may be in the market to hire a part-time FreeBSD and Bastille sysadmin (~20hrs week) specifically in the EMEA or APAC timezones (eventually both).
The roles require experience with FreeBSD, Bastille, nginx, and at least one useful coding language.
Timeline is mid-to-late 2026 to start.
Any of our EU / APAC friends want to come work part-time with the Bastille creator on a cybersecurity startup?
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! 🙏✨🏆
4 brand new Lenovo Desktop PCs collected
10 days to solve this problem
It will be on FreeBSD
The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.
What would you like?
The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.
The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.
Three screenshots:
1. an overview of <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=day> before removal of the TrueNAS button
2. the entire sidebar as represented at <https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/>
3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.
Thanks.
Three ways to look at the same machine - at the same time: a BIOS VGA console, a 256-color xterm, and a responsive web UI - all connected to the same cell and backup management backend.Which one would you pick?
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de
#netbsd #modernretrocomputing #freebsd #openbsd #dragonflybsd
#FOSS #Unix #Rice
Gershwin Desktop Environment sceenshot
Since I wiped my main workstation/gaming PC the other day in a bout of frustration with, well, everything, I’ve been having fun OS-hopping. I have a fallback workstation that I can use for work purposes and to get me by while I’m noodling around in my main rig. My initial intention was to run OpenBSD for a few weeks to see the state of things on the desktop (I have a few devices running OpenBSD but all headless) but I ran into a weird USB storage bug. Just to see if it’s a hardware thing or an OS thing, I tried FreeBSD 15 and it was even worse.
Y'know what? I don't think I ever swapped the hard drive on this #FreeBSD #laptop for an #ssd. I think it's still the 13 year old 5,400 RPM drive. Whoops.
Pretty sure that explains why it feels slower than molasses dripping down a freezer wall.
I mean, 16GB of RAM and a quad core i7 is still pretty good for a laptop running nothing but #openbox and #Firefox - though that has become quite the resource hog. 🤔
Push Notifications and MastoBlaster
On iOS, push notifications must go through Apple’s servers. This is not something that can be bypassed, as it is part of the operating system’s architecture.MastoBlaster, like other Fediverse apps, uses a design that maximizes user privacy.
When you log in to your instance, the app and the server exchange the necessary cryptographic keys. The app also communicates to the instance the address of the relay, which is the server responsible for forwarding notifications to Apple.
When a new notification is generated:
1. Your instance encrypts the notification.
2. It sends the encrypted payload to the relay.
3. The relay forwards it to Apple using its own authentication key.
4. Apple delivers it to your device.
The content of the notification is encrypted by your Fediverse server and can only be decrypted by your device.
The relay, which in the case of MastoBlaster is dedicated and hosted on a FreeBSD server, receives only encrypted data. It cannot read the content, does not know which account the notification belongs to, and does not store any information about the notification itself.
Apple knows which relay sent the notification and which device it must be delivered to, but it cannot access the content.
In short, only your instance and your device can read the notification.
#MastoBlaster #Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #Akkoma #iOS #Apple #PushNotifications #FreeBSD
I always forget that this Mac requires the original keyboard (I'm sure it's somewhere) or a wired USB keyboard to boot from USB. It took me a while to find one.
It booted fine and looks great.
Sound was a problem. Only the treble speakers were working. The bass speakers were silent. I saw a couple #FreeBSD and GhostBSD posts on potential fixes, but nothing definite.
I might return to FreeBSD on this system and try to figure out the sound issue, but I'm more likely to give some other Linuxes a try first.
It has run #Debian 10/11/12/13 over the years. That has been very reliable. Recently some Flatpak apps (generally Electron-based) have had some graphics issues, but going from Wayland to X11 has fixed that.
I've got a Lenovo M93p Tiny with 16GB RAM and a Haswell Xeon. It's a great little unit that I used to use as my Haiku build box.
I'm thinking about using it as a #Forgejo (and maybe eventually #Codeberg) Actions runner, with a handful of lightweight VMs (Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku), each using no more than a gig or two of memory.
Does anyone have any tips on doing this? I'm guessing #Proxmox would be a good start, but I wonder if #FreeBSD with #bhyve and #BastilleBSD might also do a good job.
Dear Fedi friends,
The normalization of "vibe coding" in certain environments is pushing me in the exact opposite direction.
I, a normie (ok maybe a semi-technical person), would like to learn some basic computer programming*.
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I need some advice about where to start because I'm a little clueless in this regard. Maybe it will help to share my goals, so that you can tailor your advice:
1) I'd like to become much more proficient using CLI... so that one day for example I could migrate a #YunoHost app to a new server without breaking anything
2) I'd like to be able to confidently run remote backups with rsync
3) Security: I need to learn how to turn my VPS or Raspi into a fortress
4) Eventually I'd like to learn #FreeBSD
Where does one even start?
I'm based in Paris, France, speak French, English and Italian, but remote learning is preferable because my child is in school only 4 days a week and has 2-week holidays every 6 weeks of school (thanks to the French educational system, don't ask me).
I'm super motivated to learn all these things, I just don't know where to start.
*Edit: maybe I'm just dreaming of becoming a proficient sysadmin
#AskFedi #MySoCalledSudoLife #NoAI
FreeBSD 15.1 overview – with KDE Plasma and applications, Ly, and SDDM
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rje9xu/freebsd_151_overview_with_kde_plasma_and/
FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/ff0172d54775e4c15019b6158bc6c7af