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<p>Upgraded my secondary notebook &quot;Tianve&quot; to GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p7.</p><p>Removed KDE Plasma 6.5.4 and switched to LXQT instead. All is well.</p><p><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/ghostbsd/" rel="tag">#GhostBSD</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a></p>

<p>Could anyone suggest a <a href="/tags/laptop/" rel="tag">#laptop</a> series|models with 2 GPUs (I am thinking of the type with integrated &amp; discreet kinds) that are in current, or in perhaps future, production? I may buy in 6-12 months in USA.</p><p>Purpose is to pass the extra <a href="/tags/gpu/" rel="tag">#GPU</a> device to a <a href="/tags/virtualmachine/" rel="tag">#virtualMachine</a> for GUI. I am inclined towards HP EliteBook, Dell Pro (&amp; may be Lenovo ThinkPad if its fucking shop would work) series.</p><p>OS would likely be <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> (failing that, some Linux(?)).</p><p><a href="/tags/multigpulaptop/" rel="tag">#multiGPULaptop</a> <a href="/tags/dualgpulaptop/" rel="tag">#dualGPULaptop</a></p>

<p>Exactly one year ago, on 30th December 2024, I laid the foundation of FediMeteo. </p><p>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.</p><p>Unexpectedly, the enthusiasm was incredible. That pushed me to keep going, support more countries and cities, and turn it into what it is today.</p><p>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.</p><p>If you are curious to read the story and some technical details, you can find it here:<br><a href="https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26</span><span class="invisible">/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/</span></a></p><p>Today is also Tuesday, a <a href="/tags/thankyoutuesday/" rel="tag">#ThankYouTuesday</a>, so I want to say thanks to:</p><p>* OpenMeteo - <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@openmeteo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>openmeteo</span></a></span> - for providing accurate, high quality data, without which FediMeteo would be far less useful</p><p>* <span class="h-card"><a href="https://comam.es/snac/grunfink" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grunfink</span></a></span> - creator of snac, who made all of this possible using very few resources, on a 4 euro per month VM</p><p>* 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</p><p>* FediFollows - <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FediFollows</span></a></span> - that periodically spreads the word about cities, countries, and the enthusiasm around the project</p><p>*All of you*, who suggested, encouraged, corrected, and celebrated this project</p><p>And forward toward supporting more countries and other interesting features already in the works.</p><p>Happy birthday, FediMeteo! 🎉</p><p><a href="/tags/fedimeteo/" rel="tag">#FediMeteo</a> <a href="/tags/happybirthday/" rel="tag">#HappyBirthday</a> <a href="/tags/meteo/" rel="tag">#Meteo</a> <a href="/tags/weather/" rel="tag">#Weather</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/openmeteo/" rel="tag">#OpenMeteo</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/podman/" rel="tag">#Podman</a> installation dialogs based on bsdinstall:</p><p><a href="https://gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-installer-dialogs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-installer-dialogs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gitlab.com/ly2en/podman-instal</span><span class="invisible">ler-dialogs</span></a></p><p>Inspired by the the alfix/kde-installer-dialogs repository.</p><p>I hope you will enjoy <a href="/tags/oci/" rel="tag">#OCI</a> <a href="/tags/containers/" rel="tag">#containers</a> on <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a>.</p>

<p>Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/</span><span class="invisible">1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/kde/" rel="tag">#KDE</a> <a href="/tags/plasma/" rel="tag">#Plasma</a> <a href="/tags/upgrade/" rel="tag">#upgrade</a> <a href="/tags/bug/" rel="tag">#bug</a></p>

I am running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> RELEASE 15.0 with <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a> for package management, no <a href="/tags/ports/" rel="tag">#ports</a> at all. It appeared to me that the Joe&#x27;s Window Manager port, x11-wm/jwm, was built without <a href="/tags/svg/" rel="tag">#SVG</a> image support by default. However svg files are actually widely used by multiple icon themes, meaning that many of them will not work under <a href="/tags/jwm/" rel="tag">#JWM</a> . Should I simply compile it manually out of ports tree? I mean getting the ports tree is not difficult but setting up <a href="/tags/poudriere/" rel="tag">#poudriere</a> and all just for one package seems tedious. Are there any other simpler waysnto achieve this?<br><br><br><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/wm/" rel="tag">#WM</a><br>

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.</p><p>If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.</p><p><a href="/tags/fedimeteo/" rel="tag">#FediMeteo</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a> <a href="/tags/it/" rel="tag">#IT</a> <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#SysAdmin</a></p>

So I have <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0 running on my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> again and running <a href="/tags/mangowc/" rel="tag">#MangoWC</a> but for some reason <a href="/tags/qutebrowser/" rel="tag">#Qutebrowser</a> fails to run unless I have the following in my .kshrc<br><br><p>export QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS=&quot;--disable-gpu&quot;<br></p>But I have noticed that the old config which previously ran on 14.3 now doesn&#x27;t load my GoMono fonts using exactly the same config. Those fonts are working in foot so I know they are installed. Strange ???<br><br>I see a similar bug report here too.<br><br><a href="https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287599" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287599"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show</span><span class="invisible">_bug.cgi?id=287599</span></a><br>

<p>New 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 [Add Port to FreeBSD Ports] on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.</p><p><a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01</span><span class="invisible">/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/verblog/" rel="tag">#verblog</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/packages/" rel="tag">#packages</a> <a href="/tags/ports/" rel="tag">#ports</a> <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a> <a href="/tags/submit/" rel="tag">#submit</a> <a href="/tags/add/" rel="tag">#add</a></p>

Strange! I have exactly the sane configs on both <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/qutebrowser/" rel="tag">#Qutebrowser</a> 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&#x27;ll run under <a href="/tags/wayland/" rel="tag">#Wayland</a>. I never noticed differences like this before on 14.3 but on 15.0 I&#x27;m not quite sure what&#x27;s different yet ?<br>

Well that&#x27;s me back up and running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> on my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> P14s AMD with <a href="/tags/mangowc/" rel="tag">#MangoWC</a> 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. 😁 <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/runbsd.jpg" class="emoji" alt=":runbsd:" title=":runbsd:"> <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/freebsd.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd:" title=":freebsd:"><br>

Ooh ! Both <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> have Vim 9.2 in ports. Now to wait until pkgs are built. 😀<br><a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a><br>

I really love to see <a href="/tags/sylve/" rel="tag">#Sylve</a> in <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> allowing us to define CPU pinning with <a href="/tags/bhyve/" rel="tag">#bhyve</a>! That&#x27;s a missing piece in other &quot;major&quot; solutions... Well done!<br><br><a href="/tags/virtualization/" rel="tag">#virtualization</a> <a href="/tags/proxmox/" rel="tag">#proxmox</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a> <a href="/tags/alternatives/" rel="tag">#alternatives</a><br>

And now that I know <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a> will do pkg update automatically if I run pkg upgrade directly, I am never running update again 😂<br><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a><br>

<a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0 folk. Why would me putting the font Helvetica Ultra Compressed.otf in ~/.local/share/fonts/ make qutebrowser and firefox use that font only on Github pages ?? I wasn&#x27;t wanting to use that font for the browser it was just for my ThinkPad custom bios logo via Gimp. If I move that font out of it&#x27;s location and re run fc-cache -fv then everything is fine ?????<br><br>

Did a <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> upgrade to newest patch level and then <a href="/tags/pkg/" rel="tag">#pkg</a> upgrade, I was finally getting a steady 1.4M/s download speed using the <a href="/tags/iwlwifi/" rel="tag">#iwlwifi</a> driver!<br><br><a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#Unix</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#RunBSD</a><br>

<p>Anyone got some good accounts to follow for <a href="/tags/openbsd/" rel="tag">#OpenBSD</a> and <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> related stuff? <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>

It&#x27;s not a great photo but you can clearly see I&#x27;ve modified my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#ThinkPad</a> boot logo for <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> . <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/snac.smithies.me.uk/freebsd.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd:" title=":freebsd:"><br>

<p>Tried to use this manual about using <a href="/tags/wine/" rel="tag">#wine</a> to launch games in the <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/jail/" rel="tag">#jail</a> </p><p><a href="https://pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gaming-freebsd-jails/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gaming-freebsd-jails/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gam</span><span class="invisible">ing-freebsd-jails/</span></a></p><p>The manual from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@pertho" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pertho</span></a></span> is well-written, I was able to complete all stages without any problems, even though I was too drunk even to use clit mouse on my <a href="/tags/thinkpad/" rel="tag">#Thinkpad</a> — the cursor somehow wouldn&#x27;t appear where I wanted it to, lol <img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/bsd.cafe/drgn_blush_giggle.png" class="emoji" alt=":drgn_blush_giggle:" title=":drgn_blush_giggle:"> </p><p>BTW, it is not necessary to issue the command &quot;xhost +&quot; since it is too insecure. Since all necessary X server sockets and files are accessible from inside jail, the command &quot;xhost local:&quot; is enough. Only local connections (from local machine and from inside jail) will be accepted.</p><p>One minor edit — the command to change to owner of the user directory should be issued twice — the second time at the end of Bastillefile, instead the owner of user directory will be the root.</p>

If I&#x27;m running <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0p1 on the latest branch then should I not replace drm-kmod with drm-latest-kmod ?<br>

<p>Dang near every jail on my <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> server needs either pgsql or mariadb.</p><p>I could stop running databases everywhere by building a database jail, eliminating many small points of small failures by implementing a single point of complete failure.</p><p>Which is better? All I know is whatever choice wins, I will lose. <a href="/tags/sysadmin/" rel="tag">#sysadmin</a></p>

<p>Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.</p><p>I&#x27;ve refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade: </p><p>- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)<br>- Native signal handling for log rotation <br>- Correct PID tracking &amp; status reporting.</p><p>I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src</span><span class="invisible">/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md</span></a></p><p>I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they&#x27;re working great so far!</p><p><img src="https://eggplant.place/media/emoji/bsd.cafe/freebsd_logo.png" class="emoji" alt=":freebsd_logo:" title=":freebsd_logo:"> ❤️ 🦣 </p><p><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#SelfHosting</a> <a href="/tags/mastoadmin/" rel="tag">#mastoadmin</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runbsd</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a></p>

Any <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> 15.0 user able to test <a href="/tags/mangowc/" rel="tag">#MangoWC</a> with <a href="/tags/foot/" rel="tag">#Foot</a> terminal and do a screenshot selection of the terminal using the following commands ?<br><br>grim -t jpeg -g &quot;$(slurp)&quot; ~/Pictures/Screenshots/&quot;$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%m-%s)&quot;.jpg<br><br>I get a translucent white artifact in the finished image as seen in this bug report. Yet if I do the same in <a href="/tags/swaywm/" rel="tag">#SwayWM</a> it works perfectly.<br>The MangoWC dev cannot reproduce but they use Linux so I&#x27;m after some kind souls to test this on their PC&#x27;s.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc/issues/569" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc/issues/569"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc</span><span class="invisible">/issues/569</span></a><br><br>Please boost ♥️<br>

<p>I&#x27;ve been running one Linux distro or another (mostly Debian) for 30 years, so how hard can it be to get a FreeBSD 15.0 ISO or memstick.img on a USB thumb drive for installation? Apparently, for me, very hard. 🤣<br><br>I&#x27;ll figure this out. This is quite the humbling experience. 👍️<br><br>UPDATE: Using the dd command worked. I now have the FreeBSD ISO on the thumb drive. Should have tried this earlier.<br><br>Yet another UPDATE. ISO is on the thumb drive but still won&#x27;t boot on the X1 Carbon. I have an older laptop I can try this on. The Boot Menu recognizes the thumb drive but won&#x27;t boot.<br><br><a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="/tags/bsd/" rel="tag">#BSD</a></p>

<p>Right in the process of changing my Desktop Environment from KDE/Plasma to LXQT on my main laptop .</p><p>Main: &quot;Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540<br>Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE amd64<br>Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p1<br>Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0 <br>Windowmanager: XFWM4<br>Qt Version: 6.10.1<br>Graphics Platform: X11</p><p>Styling:<br>gtk2/3/QT/XFWM: Greybird<br>LXQT: Sombre-et-Rond<br>Icons: Qogir<br>Wallpaper: &quot;Sonnenuntergang_im_Schilf&quot; (Sunset in the reeds) by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@orbite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>orbite</span></a></span> lamba</p><p><a href="https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c664559"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsd-hardware.info/?probe=7e1c6</span><span class="invisible">64559</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/lxqt/" rel="tag">#lxqt</a> <a href="/tags/xfwm4/" rel="tag">#xfwm4</a> <a href="/tags/freebsd/" rel="tag">#freebsd</a> <a href="/tags/runbsd/" rel="tag">#runBSD</a> <a href="/tags/screenshot/" rel="tag">#screenshot</a> <a href="/tags/desktop/" rel="tag">#desktop</a> <a href="/tags/unix/" rel="tag">#unix</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a></p>