freebsd

And now that I know #pkg will do pkg update automatically if I run pkg upgrade directly, I am never running update again 😂

#FreeBSD

#FreeBSD 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'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's location and re run fc-cache -fv then everything is fine ?????

Did a #FreeBSD upgrade to newest patch level and then #pkg upgrade, I was finally getting a steady 1.4M/s download speed using the #iwlwifi driver!

#Unix #BSD #RunBSD

Anyone got some good accounts to follow for #OpenBSD and #FreeBSD related stuff? #askfedi

It's not a great photo but you can clearly see I've modified my #ThinkPad boot logo for #FreeBSD .

Tried to use this manual about using #wine to launch games in the #FreeBSD #jail

https://pertho.net/2025/11/07/wine-gaming-freebsd-jails/

The manual from @pertho 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 #Thinkpad — the cursor somehow wouldn't appear where I wanted it to, lol

BTW, it is not necessary to issue the command "xhost +" since it is too insecure. Since all necessary X server sockets and files are accessible from inside jail, the command "xhost local:" is enough. Only local connections (from local machine and from inside jail) will be accepted.

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.

If I'm running #FreeBSD 15.0p1 on the latest branch then should I not replace drm-kmod with drm-latest-kmod ?

If you ever want to get more details on a disk in #FreeBSD simply leverage diskinfo.

$ doas diskinfo -v /dev/ada0

(For example)

Dang near every jail on my #freebsd server needs either pgsql or mariadb.

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.

Which is better? All I know is whatever choice wins, I will lose. #sysadmin

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

Any #FreeBSD 15.0 user able to test #MangoWC with #Foot terminal and do a screenshot selection of the terminal using the following commands ?

grim -t jpeg -g "$(slurp)" ~/Pictures/Screenshots/"$(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%m-%s)".jpg

I get a translucent white artifact in the finished image as seen in this bug report. Yet if I do the same in #SwayWM it works perfectly.
The MangoWC dev cannot reproduce but they use Linux so I'm after some kind souls to test this on their PC's.

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/mangowc/issues/569

Please boost ♥️

I'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. 🤣

I'll figure this out. This is quite the humbling experience. 👍️

UPDATE: Using the dd command worked. I now have the FreeBSD ISO on the thumb drive. Should have tried this earlier.

Yet another UPDATE. ISO is on the thumb drive but still won'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't boot.

#FreeBSD #BSD

Right in the process of changing my Desktop Environment from KDE/Plasma to LXQT on my main laptop .

Main: "Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE amd64
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p1
Desktop: LXQT 2.3.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Graphics Platform: X11

Styling:
gtk2/3/QT/XFWM: Greybird
LXQT: Sombre-et-Rond
Icons: Qogir
Wallpaper: "Sonnenuntergang_im_Schilf" (Sunset in the reeds) by @orbite lamba

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

#lxqt #xfwm4 #freebsd #runBSD #screenshot #desktop #unix #foss

Right since I'm back on #FreeBSD and #MangoWC ( #Wayland ) I think I'm going to swap back from #Rofi to #Fuzzel .

Has anyone successfully used these FreeBSD Project-provided virtual machine disk images?

FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2

FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2

FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow2

Not booting for me in QEMU. Respectively:

― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o028zow/>
― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o034fef/>
― <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qf56hq/comment/o035bqq/>

#FreeBSD #ARM64 #aarch64 #QEMU

If you put this image on your website, you are WRONG. 😅

https://www.freshports.org/images/notbug.gif

#FreeBSD

Just thought I'd reinstall #OpenBSD 7.9 again and then switch to the latest snapshot to see if my not being able too boot /bsd past the 14th May snapshot and it now fails to verify the downloaded stuff 😂
Good thing I've still my trusty #FreeBSD laptop.

Even more random redoing the sysupgrade -s and it passes straight away and upgrades. Does it boot the /bsd ? No it does not only boot.rd and boot.sp boot.

I found an old Acer laptop running #windows98 It has an external CD-ROM unit which doesn't work until drivers are loaded. Same for USB, so I can't boot it with anything except Windows.

I would like to give it a new life installing #freeBSD ... Can you suggest a way to install it from within Windows 98?

Right I'm not interested in starting a flame war but I am interested to see how many folk in 2026 use #Wayland or #Wayback and how many use #X11 or even #Xlibre . Feel free if you wish to say what OS/Distribution you use and which window manager or desktop environment below. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD
Please boost and thanks in advance.

One thing that I always missed in my infrastructure at @BoxyBSD when running with #bhyve was a missing #Prometheus exporter for metrics of the #VMs (and #jails) - agentless of course... It f*cked me up, that I simply wrote it for my new platform which is based on #Sylve in #FreeBSD (thanks to @hayzam for creating Sylve!).

It's written in Go and will be published asap.

Ah-ha! Just discovered a better way of listing only the packages that I installed on #FreeBSD . Most folk tell you to use pkg info -q -a which just gives you a list of everything installed. I wanted just what I installed after the initial FreeBSD install. So to do that type the following.

pkg query -e '%a=0' %n

Everyday is indeed a school day. 😎

#RunBSD

Exciting developments coming soon!

A new Bastille API with accompanying modern interface are coming along!

Soon you'll have the option to manage your systems from an intuitive interface.

We'll be sharing some screenshot previews over the next couple weeks for feedback.

#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD

Updated the codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-mangowc repo. Still a lot to do, but at least the most relevant things are there, including the mango configs itself 😆 Also the sw selection has been amended, including yazi and foot now.

cc @wickedlester
#freebsd #mangowc

Looks like the maintainers of xlibre packages in the FreeBSD 15.0 did a great work

I was able to switch from Xorg to XLibre with just two commands and without any issues, lol

https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2026/01/22/freebsd-15-0-xlibre.html

Worth to mention, that any of my tricks described in the previous blogpost (https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html) are working too without any problems.

#FreeBSD #XLibre

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