Well I can confirm that on my #FreeBSD #ThinkPad using the AX200 WiFi setup with lagg works solidly after a wee doas service netif restart && doas service routing restart. On first boot sometimes it gets WiFi and then drops it and others it just doesn't get. But running the above commands after bootup fixes it and it stays connected.
freebsd
Confirming a fix in FreeBSD 14.3-BETA3
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1khf860/comment/mstkxfs/
The slides, the video, and the text behind my presentation at EuroBSDCon 2024 - 'Why and how we're migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs.'
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/03/i-solve-problems-eurobsdcon/
#ITNotes #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin #EuroBSDCon #EBC24 #EuroBSDCon24 #EuroBSDCon2024 #NoteHUB
Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!
UPDATE: I have created an account for updates and other information on FediMeteo - follow the account @admin to stay updated!
UPDATE: Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland have just been added
Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.
FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.
You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).
Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, – with many more regions coming soon!
FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.
Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
https://fedimeteo.com
Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️
FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.
#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon
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CHERI Alliance officially launches, adds major partners including Google, to tackle cybersecurity threats at the hardware level
From the November 2024 press release, <https://semiiphub.com/news/cheri-alliance>:
"… Previously announced founding members of the CHERI Alliance include Capabilities Limited, Codasip, CyNam, the FreeBSD Foundation, lowRISC, OpenHW Group, SCI Semiconductor, Swansea University, and the University of Cambridge. Following its initial formation in June 2024, the CHERI Alliance’s new additions reinforce the collaborative effort to protect against memory-related vulnerabilities, a critical security challenge that constitutes approximately 70% of the vulnerabilities exploited in cyberattacks. …"
– via <https://semiiphub.com/industryexpertblogs/cheri-alliance-1> and <https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ho911c/cheri_alliance_officially_launches_adds_major/>
FreeBSD Project-provided repositories for kernel modules in the ports collection: usage
<https://blendit.bsd.cafe/post/821622>
14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE
… an interim approach to avoiding the DRM graphics issue that was noted for 14.2-RELEASE before the release announcement …
#FreeBSD #upgrade #FAQ #Ludwig #LDWG #CFT #callfortesting #DRM #graphics #kmods #kernel
FreeBSD: new package repositories for kernel modules
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html
For FreeBSD 14.3-BETA4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1ku1qff/freebsd_143beta4_now_available/mu4e3d8/
FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.
In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon:
― https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)
― https://i.imgur.com/j3LVxGP.png – Geany
…
Breakage was first observed following an upgrade on 28th April. Broken again with the most recent round of updates, a few hours ago.
I can reactivate a boot environment that has recent base packages alongside increasingly outdated port packages, however this is far from ideal.
Can anyone explain the breakage?
Thanks
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k9wjv5/comment/
Postscript: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/114567643239283752
Edited 269d ago
Progress!! I managed to get the #PinePhonePro screen working on #FreeBSD 🎉 Long way to go yet, but this is a massive step forward for making FreeBSD usable on the device.
https://tobykurien.com/images/microblog/post-1736141510-0.jpg
To generate background color (for "xterm(1)"), I use the #Perl (was 5.3[68]; is 5.40) program on #FreeBSD (was 13; is 14) …
use strict; use warnings;
my @red = qw[ 05 15 20 25 30 ];
my @green = qw[ 00 05 10 15 ];
my @blue = qw[ 00 10 15 16 ];
print join( q[/],
$red[ rand @red ],
$green[ rand @green ],
$blue[ rand @blue ]
);
Rarely the FIRST time is the color other than same shade of brown. Because "@red" is longer? Some initial state?
Edited 269d ago
Some technical details for those interested:
The entire FediMeteo setup runs on a FreeBSD VM costing around 4 euros per month. It supports almost all major EU countries (plus the UK), with just a few left to complete. Currently, there are 25 separate jails, each running its own instance of snac, totaling 25 instances. The VM load typically stays around 10%, which increases to 30% when updates are published for countries with larger numbers of cities (currently Germany and Italy). The only time the load spikes is when new countries are announced; during that time, all remote instances connect to all cities to download their details.
As for RAM usage, excluding the ZFS cache, it's currently a total of 213 MB. Yes, MB.
Default vm-bhyve template for #freebsd has 256MB RAM.
The installer dies silently trying to fetch pkgbase packages.
2GB works.
@dvl can Seriously Motivate a person.
🍵 
Adventures in #FreeBSD:
Install FreeBSD
GELI, I don't know who you are or what you mean, but you're lovely
How do you scroll up in the console???
Mistyped username when setting it up. Oops.
usermod. Where's usermod??? pw usermod????? Umm, OKAY!?
Changed group name, changed user name, changed home dir
Oh, it didn't actually move the home dir
No problems, cd /home; mv oldname newname
WHAT DO YOU MEAN, YOU CAN'T MV IT
Fine, mkdir /home/newname
NO?? WHAT.
Fine, pw usermod yadda yadda make new homedir
Homedir is created, but blank.
cd /home/oldname; mv -n * ../newname
Why is this taking so long
HOLY CRAP ARE YOU ACTUALLY COPYING ALL THOSE FILES?!? WHY?!?!?
zfs, I love and respect you. I just don't understand you. X'D
Oh, I have to install drm video drivers and enable them to get a GUI, even for Wayland. Of course. Totally normal FreeBSD things.
At least the handbook kicks butt, and is mostly accurate, compared to "we wrote this for Linux to weeks ago and it's already out of date. Oh, and even when it was new, it only applied to 15% of all distros"
Edited 89d ago
Having way too much fun re configuring my old #Vim setup and I haven't even got to the LSP and linting side of things yet. That'll get setup a little later probably using ALE and COC but I'm not 100% just yet ? I might even push my config to my git repo to share or allow others to show me the error of my ways.
#FreeBSD #RunBSD
#FreeBSD #RunBSD
I have some strange and annoying problem with my @frameworkcomputer #Framework 16 notebook: Since a few months, when the notebook is running non-stop for a few days, the touchpad and the keyboard stop responding. The keyboard is responding again after a few seconds but not the touchpad.
Only after the notebook has been shut down for a day or so, the touchpad starts responding again but not if it is powered down only for a few minutes.
Framework support has sent a replacement touchpad which shows the same behaviour and they otherwise are not helpful at all. They just keep asking the same questions, do not care to read my replies and tell me it is because I am running #FreeBSD and this is "not a supported Linux distro" (sigh...).
Does anybody have any idea what could be the problem?
I have been quite happy with the notebook but this kind of customer support experience is really frustrating...
Code - OSS
Visual Studio Code – Open Source
Paste seems to be bugged in editors/vscode 1.96.4_2 and greater on FreeBSD.
If you have 1.96.4_1: consider locking it before your next upgrade of packages.
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1igc6is/editorsvscode_1964_2_paste_not_working/mde5u33/>
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1gzcbbl/electron_and_related_ports/> Electron 34 is not yet ported.
Noticed that @claudiom said #FreeBSD 14.2 P2 was available and I did the usual doas freebsd-update fetch install and then rebooted but it still says 14.2p1 in fastfetch or uname -a but if I do freebsd-version it shows 14.2-RELEASE-p2 ??? Any ideas ??
Edited 362d ago
Is everything terrible again? Let's focus on something completely different. Do you write amazing, perfect code on Linux or the BSDs? Well stop reading and get out. For the rest of us, how do we secure our systems? I've put together a survey on Source Code Sandboxing, https://kristaps.bsd.lv/devsecflops, which surveys the practical complexity and uptake of sandbox tools like seccomp, landlock, pledge, and capsicum.
If you've ever interfaced any of the tools I've mentioned, or want to mention another, head on over to https://github.com/kristapsdz/dev_sec_flops and make a pull request.
Enjoy! #Linux #openbsd #freebsd #programming
Finally tried #NetBSD 10.1 RELEASE baremetal on my #ThinkPad #T470s. Good news is most things seem to work out of box: WiFi, touchpad, i915 drived video card. Bad news is, suspend/wakeup (S3) not working. It appears suspend worked well since after issuing sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleep.state=3 the laptop went to sleep with blinking power led, fan stops. However, at wakeup keyboard just stops responding, even swtiching tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fn keys. WiFi usually wakes up just fine since I gain ssh session back shortly after wakeups. I will conclude a major issue for a system if suspend/wakeup won't work for a laptop. I simply cannot imagine having to poweroff a laptop every day before going to bed. It is kinda a sueprise to me since I assume ThinkPad laptops usually get along well with #BSD and #Linux systems.
FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.
#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS
FYI, S3 suspend/wakeup works flawlessly with #FreeBSD and #OpenBSD on this laptop without any hack.
#BSD #RunBSD #Unix #FOSS
Secondary: "Tianve" - HP 250 G3
Kernel: 14.3-RELEASE-p4 amd64
Operating System: GHostBSD 25.02
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.3
Graphics Platform: Wayland
https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=102fa9b597
#GhostBSD #FreeBSD #RunBSD #KDE #Plasma #kde_plasma #wayland #screenshot #desktop #unix
Edited 85d ago
New 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝟭𝟱.𝟬-𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 [Valuable FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Updates] article.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/valuable-freebsd-15-0-release-updates/
#verblog #freebsd #improvements #release #updates
List of hosts for #remotePuterRental collected from others' queries, with URLs on first reference where provided …
https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@emilianosandri/115543215260941334
20251113, re #BSD-friendly European cloud provider (using Contabo with no issues):
— #FreeBSD: Hetzner https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ -may need to supply own custom image, etc; Netcup; OVH;
— {Free,Open}BSD: TransIP;
— #OpenBSD: OpenBSD Amsterdam https://openbsd.amsterdam/ .
…
Edited 82d ago
FreeBSD 15.0 (almost)-RELEASE, using pkgbase, on my Ryzen 9 MiniPC (and compared to openSUSE Tumbleweed):
- Full disk encryption works beautifully via GELI, as usual.
- Installing KDE is easy and it works perfectly on Wayland.
- All my main apps work. Others will run via the Linuxulator or Wine (Linux browsers, WinBox for MikroTik, etc).
- The fan seems more relaxed.
- The system generally feels snappier.
- Native ZFS. I can autosnapshot every 5 minutes. If I try to do this with btrfs - snapshots of the home directory included and quotas enabled - the system hangs while handling them (which is why Tumbleweed doesn’t snapshot home by default).
- The media keys on my keyboard work, but volume control uses huge steps and 30 percent is already extremely loud. This can be fixed. The monitor brightness setting is also a bit off, but I don't care.
- amdgpu works perfectly.
- The wifi card works. I haven’t tested the speed because I immediately installed the realtek-re-kmod driver to use the 2.5 Gbit ethernet connection.
- Suspend doesn’t work. This is a big problem for me. It’s probably more psychological than technical, but I can’t leave the computer powered for hours when I’m not using it. I already have servers running 24/7 here. I even considered putting my Qotom FreeBSD server in a VM. It would probably work, but next summer it might be an issue because temperatures here aren’t low and spinning disks don’t love heat (and I don’t love their noise).
- It’s stable and reliable. I’ve done almost everything and it just works, as expected.
- Some small glitches remain, mostly due to missing configuration or packages (I didn’t tune anything. I just installed it and started using it).
A much smoother experience than a year ago, when I bought it.
Will I keep using FreeBSD on this minipc?
I’m not sure yet, since Tumbleweed works great and the lack of suspend really influences my choice. I'll contact Aymeric and try to offer some help to improve this.
For now, I’ll keep it on an external SSD and switch from time to time, especially when I know I’ll be using the minipc for hours.