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Playing around with ed(1) like I probably should have done years ago. I never realised how much fun it would be. I know baby steps as you can see from the screenshot but this is way cool! Sorry if you've not noticed before but I am easily pleased. I'm still using vi(nvi) but you never know I might get used to using a line editor? 🤣 #RunBSD

This World Environment Day, combat e-waste by recycling your old tech with #NetBSD. Don't let planned obsolescence dictate your hardware's lifespan. Give that old machine a second life as a rock-solid firewall, file server, or lightweight workstation. 🖥️🌱
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NetBSD #RunBSD #RetroComputing #EcoFriendly #FOSS #Linux

Anyone running #FreeBSD desktop in a #QEMU VM? I remembered I simply had to install xf86-video-qxl and use a #Xorg conf file like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "qxl"
EndSection

it should work. But today when I was firing up a FreeBSD 15.1 VM the Xorg session instantly crashed with a segment fault and returned back to tty, changing the qxl driver to scfb worked flawlessly though. Am I missing something? 1/n

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

This qxl video driver issue with #FreeBSD #QEMU VM appeared more interesting than I thought: in another boot environment #BE where I installed #Xlibre instead of #Xorg, using #qxl driver and startx in a #TTY brought up a bare X session with a #Xterm. Quitting the xterm instance successfully terminated X session and brought back TTY session, while on #Xorg quitting the session resulted in a full black screen, no tty. Switching ttys from with QEMU's sendkey failed to get any tty bacl either. If a window manager like #CWM was launched by startx, however, both Xlibre and Xorg failed with a #SegmentFault error. 2/n

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS

Main: "Tionisla - Dell Latitude e6540
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p9 amd64
Operating System: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p9
Desktop: LXQT 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Graphics Platform: X11/xorg 7.7

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

#runbsd #freebsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #shareyourdesktop

Where does the #sysrc utility come from in a #FreeBSD 15-RELEASE system? I was playing around with an experimental #FreeBSD system which was installed with #pkg from the freebsd-base repository. The FreeBSD-set-minimal, FreeBSD-set-kernel plus a few other firmware packages were installed. The system boots and all works good as usual. But I found #sysrc is no where to find, pkg search sysrc gives py311-ansible-sysrc which does not seem right, freshports reports it is not in 15 but I have it in another system installed using the traditional method. Is it coming from FreeBSD-set-base itself? The the new #pkgbase world, how do I suppose to search where does each utility comes from?

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix #FOSS

Stumped upon same situation as two days ago where I found it extremely hard to to find where a #FreeBSD base utility comes from using a #pkgbase system. It was the sysrc utiity last weekend, and today mixer. They are there in the manual pages, in source code, but no easy way to find out where they end up in FreeBSD-xxx packages. Luckily when I used enough keywords Google Gemini actually was capable to point me to the FreeBSD-sound package.

#BSD #RunBSD #Unix

Well that latest #FreeBSD update was painless for both my #ThinkPad and my server Beastie running #Bastille jails.

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p10

Nice one! 💪 #RunBSD

Ok, I'm testing something cool.

A blend of #snac, #Mastodon, #honk, #GoToSocial...and more.

This is running on a Raspberry PI Zero W, powered by NetBSD. The same that is powering my own smart thermostat. And it's quick.

I'll use this account and try to "stress" it.

Own your data. Always own your data!

#littleFedi #OwnYourData #Fediverse #NetBSD #RunBSD

Got to say that I'm actually acting my age and loving Claws Mail. This is so retro! 🤣

https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php

#EmailClient #FreeBSD #RunBSD

@BoxyBSD Returns to #FreeBSD: Migrating from #Proxmox to #Sylve (#bhyve)

Some journeys don't end where you expect them to. Sometimes they bring you right back to where everything began, only with a lot more experience and a much better ecosystem waiting for you.

That's exactly what is happening with BoxyBSD!

In my (longer) blog post I cover my circuit, where I moved from bhyve to Proxmox, developed many tools for Proxmox and now moved back to FreeBSD with bhyve and Sylve.

More details in my blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/boxybsd-moving-from-proxmox-to-bhyve-with-sylve/

#RUNBSD #bsd #freebsd #boxybsd #openbsd #netbsd #sylve #bhyve #opensource #vps #vpshosting #opensource #community #bsdcafe #boxybsd

On 10 March 2021, I had only just fallen asleep when my phone started buzzing. Then another notification, and another. In a matter of minutes, 142 of my servers went up in the clouds. And not the cloud-computing kind.

Most of them were physically going up in a column of smoke in Strasbourg.

My wife looked at me and asked if I wanted a coffee. I nodded. It was going to be a very long day.

At EuroBSDCon 2026, I won't be giving a theoretical lecture on high availability. Instead, I’m going to tell the raw story of that night: the emergency recovery, the architectural choices that actually saved us, and the ones that crumbled under pressure (because we rarely talk about what fails).

Most of all, I’ll explain why that night changed my perspective, and why I’ve come to see BSD systems not just as operating systems, but as essential, practical tools for building simpler, more resilient infrastructure.

The official schedule is now live. If you want to hear a real-world post-mortem, join me on Saturday, 12 Sept at 11:15 (Room D.0.02).

EuroBSDCon Full schedule: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/
See you there! ☕️

#FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #EuroBSDCon #SysAdmin #SelfHosted #IT #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSDCon

I know there are bots scraping and DDOSing and all, so we have to have some protection, but is this taking also forever to complete for all of you? On my PC it usually is fast (less than 5s) I guess, but on my phone it takes ages!

#FreeBSD #BSD #RunBSD #UNIX #cgit

Today is a special day! It is the BSD Cafe's birthday!

Exactly three years ago today, I was rather timidly announcing this project to the world. It was an idea that had already been in my mind for some time, but had not yet become reality.

Three years later, I am proud to say that the BSD Cafe is sailing at full speed towards the uncertain horizons of the modern world.

We are here to talk about BSD, Open Source, projects, conferences, freedom, pizza and tiramisu, but above all about passions, interests, discoveries and knowledge. We are here among friends who share interests and passions, without geography or borders, apart from those defined by mutual respect.

Your Barista is more energised than ever.

During the past year, he had to retire one of the services, BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, but he also added several new ones: Journal, based on WordPress, Billboard, running on NodeBB, the Delta Chat relay, and more.

He also had to withdraw from BSDCan, with enormous regret, but he is now ready for EuroBSDCon. And for other new things that will gradually follow.

For example, here is a small preview: I have been experimenting with MeshCore.

My dream? One or more BSD Cafe services that do not use the Internet at all. I already have a few ideas, so I shall not disclose anything more for now 😉

And I will never grow tired of repeating that the BSD Cafe is a success because of you.

I am just the Barista, but a place like this is nothing without the friends sitting at the bar. And the friends of this bar are wonderful people who, every day, help make my days calmer, happier and more interesting.

So thank you for these three years, and thank you for being here.

We shall continue sailing together towards the future, with smiles on our faces and passion in our hearts.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/03/31/im-just-the-barista/

#BSDCafe #BSDCafeBirthday #Celebrations #RunBSD #BSD

Most nodes at @BoxyBSD are now operated by #bhyve on #FreeBSD via #Sylve again! Thanks to @hayzam for his incredible work by crafting #Sylve! As it’s not that easy to drain nodes to be reinstalled with FreeBSD, there’re still nodes serving VPS instances via #Proxmox / #KVM.

#RUNBSD #VPS #freevps #opensource #community

With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.

If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/

Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!

#FreeBSD #macOS #TimeMachine #ZFS #BastilleBSD #Samba #SysAdmin #Backup #OwnYourData #SelfHosted #BSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

Still messing around with (trialing?) FreeBSD over here.

One of the little things that I missed from the typical Linux configuration of KDE Plasma is that FreeBSD's default configuration does not have the Restart and Shutdown menu options in the menu by default.

I found a thread on the FreeBSD forums that explains what to do but figured I'd share it here since there seems like a lot of people are trying out FreeBSD as a desktop client these days. And hunting and pecking through forums is annoying so...

Steps:

* Add your user to the wheel group

* Create /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/40-wheel-group.rules with this content:

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
if (subject.isInGroup("wheel")) {
return polkit.Result.YES;
}
});

* Reboot and you should see the Restart and Shutdown menu options like in the attached screenshot.

This is FreeBSD 15.1 and Plasma 6.6.6

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #Plasma

I had to replace #FreeBSD with #Linux on my old laptop at home serving as a streaming server for movies mainly. The only reason is low internet speed. The laptop came with an Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth wireless card, both the iwn and iwlwifi successfully bring it up and connect. However, neither driver worked well enough to achieve as fast as 1M/s speen when downloading large files. After installing #Debian downloading speed easily goes up to as 2M/s when downlading the same large files.

#Unix #BSD #RunBSD #FOSS

Looks like #FreeBSD ports freeze is over Action Required: Recent ports history has been rewritten . Huge thanks to the core team and all developers and coordinator!

#RunBSD #Unix #FOSS #BSD #News

All this nostalgia is making me want to give Claws Mail a shot instead of my usual aerc.
OMG I'm old! 🤣

https://www.claws-mail.org/

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

I accidentally came across this #MediaTek #MT7601U #WiFi driver for #NetBSD on GitHub: https://github.com/MakwanaVihas/gsoc_2k22 but it seems long abandoned. I wonder if someone knows how to use it. I actually have such a USB WiFi dodge, and since the #iwm driver works on and off for my Intel 8260 card on NetBSD I think I can give this a try maybe.

#RunBSD #BSD #Unix

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

What's a user-friendly terminal mail client I should try?

#runbsd

🚀 It goes to 11! The NetBSD Project is incredibly proud to announce the official release of NetBSD 11.0!

This release brings massive performance improvements, modernized hardware support, and the rock-solid stability you expect. Whether you are deploying on the latest ARM64 servers or keeping a classic toaster alive, NetBSD got you covered.

A huge thank you to developers, testers, and community for making this happen. 🧡

Check out the release notes and grab the images here: https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OpenSource #UNIX #RetroComputing #Server

Still no good news with the freshly out #NetBSD 11.0 RELEASE. S3 suspend woke up with dead WiFi (Intel 8265, iwm driver), in addition to keyboard and touchpad as before on my #ThinkPad T470s. So basically dead machine and no way to reset unless long press power button for a hard reboot. Desktop usability needs more love.

#runBSD #BSD #Unix #AskFedi