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Yay! Thanks to Bruce Simpson, my vim-classic, the non-slop fork of vim, port for #FreeBSD is now merged.

Now it needs to percolate through to the quarterly package repo, which'll take another month and a half, but at least that doesn't need any manual intervention.

https://www.freshports.org/editors/vim-classic/

#VimClassic #vim

Nice that's the first time I've upgraded my system using pkgbase and it's gone from FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue.
Oh and why yes I'm still using CoW ( Wayland and behaves like fvwm by @thomasadam ) as my Window manager and loving it's many many configurations. This could take me a wee while to get just how I'd like but definitely loving that retro vibe!

#FreeBSD #Wayland #CoW #pkgbase

That's Beastie upgraded from #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 without issue.
Although I did come a cropper on my 8 Bastille jails. I had to change the securelevel to allow it to complete the command doas bastille pkg ALL upgrade but all is good and they are running FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p2 now too.

I've been trying to explore the world outside GNU/Linux (or, as I've recently taken to calling it, "Sexual predator userspace plus egotistical botlicker kernel"). Naturally, the first stop on this road is the fragmented world of #BSD.

I won't lie, the experience is very reminiscent of running Linux in the 1990s: hardware support is dicey at best, it's very rare to find commercial software that will run on it, and the guiding philosophy seems to be that user-friendliness is an undesirable quality that will only result in The Wrong People using your software. Nevertheless, I'm committed to giving it a fair trial.

So far my favorite variant is #OpenBSD, especially for servers. I like the fact that it's secure by default, rather than being a hacker's dream out of the box that you then have to figure out how to secure. But I have questions.

- One of the #FreeBSD features I've heard touted a lot is "jails," which I gather means "like Docker but harder to use". But this doesn't seem to be a feature in OpenBSD. Is there something equivalent in the OpenBSD world, perhaps under another name?

- The only *BSD that I know for sure has banned LLM contributions is #NetBSD. What, if any, are the LLM policies of OpenBSD and FreeBSD?

- Has anybody tried audio production in BSD? What's the experience like? It took years for Linux to get to the point where you could more or less do serious audio work, and I hate to think of regressing back to "if you buy this one particular sound card they stopped making in 1998 and recompile the kernel with a dodgy patch someone posted to USENET you can maybe kind of play a .WAV file".

Thanks in advance for your help!

(I have been informed by an anonymous source that "BSD jails" are in fact what they put you in if you use the software without a valid BSD license. I am not sure this is correct.)

This is still very much a WIP #Cow ( #fvwm for #wayland ) setup and I will be changing things, But OMG! It is just so configurable and this really appeals to me. I've not even used #waybar as I decided to use what was available in the field of cow aka cowbuttons and cowpager. I think I'm regressing back to the 90's. 🤣
#FreeBSD #RunBSD

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

Still playing around with all the settings like gradients in CoW using only colors from gruvbox as I'm quite partial to those colors. There are so many configurable options in CoW that it's going to take me a while to get everything set up just the way I like.

https://codeberg.org/thomasadam/cow

#Wayland #fvwm #CoW #RiverWM #FreeBSD

CVE-2026-49413 - FreeBSD LPE via Linuxulator AT_SECURE Logic Bug https://lobste.rs/s/j1sfc2 #freebsd #security
https://ii4gsp.github.io/cve-2026-49413/

NextBSD development updates

2026-07-30

https://github.com/orgs/nextbsd-redux/discussions/404

#AI #NextBSD #FreeBSD #Linuxulator #Linux #Gershwin #Bluetooth #WiFi #CI

I wanted to check something with Librewolf... So I installed #FreeBSD 15.1 on the #ThinkPad T480s. TL;DR Librewolf has the same issue on FreeBSD that on OpenBSD. But there is a new #dmesg here: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/dmesgd?do=view&id=9078

I did not even realize but now my #FreeBSD has been running 15.1-RELEASE-p2, it simply upgrade from 15.1-RELEASE-p1 during regular pkg upg runs. I guess that it something impressive achieved by the new pkgbase tool. It feels like running a rolling-release #Linux distro now.

#BSD #Unix #RunBSD #pkg

Anyone had experience installing the shod window manager on #FreeBSD ? Saw it yesterday from a screenshot someone shared in a reddit commend and the 'grouping' feature caught my eye. Unfortunately it is not in #ports and I failed to compile myself even after installing a few dependencies I could find. The repo did not mention a lot on how to install either.

#BSD #Unix #RunBSD #AskFedi #WM #KISS

#Sylve managed by #Ansible...

As people kept asking for the modules I developed for my @BoxyBSD project, I just made them shiny and prepared them for pushing them upstream.

Making the switch easier for people coming from #Proxmox, it uses mostly the same syntax as the Proxmox modules to keep the interface similar. Next to this, they're built in an equal way with a shared authentication module util, to make sure new modules can directly use the same authentication lib.

Currently it comes:
.
├── LICENSE
├── module_utils
│   └── sylve_common.py
├── modules
│   ├── sylve_jail.py
│   └── sylve_vm.py

#RUNBSD #FREEBSD #SYLVE #BHYVE #VM #JAIL #JAILS

You have a dual-stack #FreeBSD server. You already have IPv4 working fine on it. The jails are the classic/original NAT type (not VNET, no bridges or any of that stuff)

You want to add IPv6 to the jails. Your hosting provider gives you a /64.

What kind of IPs do you use on the jails?

Having tasted the mighty #ZFS on #FreeBSD , I have always been wondering how it would work with #Linux , so I fired up #Alpine Linux with the #ZFSBootMenu on my #ThinkPad T470s. Not bad! And #systemd free experience is still nostalgic and enjoyable!

#Unix #Sreenshot #Xorg #pfetch #FunNixExperience

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

🔎 You already know which directory takes up a lot of disk space and want to clean out? With 'find' you you can search for files bigger than a specific size.

⚠️ The size option of find is different for #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, and others.

find / -size +10000000c

💡 In my Linux example I used mebibytes. Yes, that silly name thing where we sometimes use 1000 and sometimes binary 2^10 (1024).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte

#Linux #LinuxTips #commandline #files

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD

OK. Today is the day I switch from Linux being my daily driver (which it has for a few years now), to #freebsd. Wish me luck. :-)

ThinkPad and Beastie with all it's Bastille jails updated painlessly to #FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p4. #RunBSD

The Bikeshed email — PHKs Bikeshed https://lobste.rs/s/9myagn #freebsd #historical
https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/bikeshed/

:Authenticity incoming:

One thing that isn't always obvious about open source projects is how they keep going year after year.

I've worn a lot of hats in the eight years maintaining this project. In today's economy, I'm back to my roots teaching what I know best: tech.

I'll keep these posts to a minimum here, but for those interested in learning more tech regularly, you can follow my personal account here:

@chris

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #Python #InfoSec #Learning #training #cybersecurity

Feeling anti-AI? Got a Reddit account? Got something to say?

Interested in FreeBSD?

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vtgx7t/antiai_open_source_has_an_enemy_in_common_but/ @lproven

― Anti-AI open source has an enemy in common, but almost nothing else

Get in there!

Be nice.

#AI #FreeBSD #LLM #LLMs

Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD https://lobste.rs/s/sp4dnk #freebsd #hardware #linux #netbsd #openbsd
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

In case you lack of GPU acceleration on GhostBSD 25 and FreeBSD 15 using Linuxulator, it is caused by a bug in that component where it does not expose correctly the video cards to the system.
There is this workaround, but has some lines that have to be fixed, depending where you want install the script, before it can work.

Below I put a guide how fix and install the script.
Contact me if you spot errors or if the passages are not clear.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-enable-vulkan-on-compat-linux.101997/#post-749250

#foss #bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd

This AI stuff might actually be useful. Today, CoPilot explained, extensively why I couldn’t do something I wanted with FreeBSD.

And now? Now I have my text editor open. In anger.

#YouAreNotMyMother #freebsd