It’s probably just bad luck, but always have such terrible experiences trying to get FreeBSD setup for desktop usage. For servers it’s wonderful, but there is a reason I fall back to OpenBSD for desktop: it just works.
Maybe my monkey brain just isn’t built to deal with FreeBSD 😛
Assuming I have FreeBSD auditd / auditdistd logs.. is there any ruleset or process that looks for oddities and can alert? Generally, what is a reasonable way for security monitoring #FreeBSD?
cc @stefano
"Sure, lets do a quick update of the #freebsd box in the evening"
...and now i'm presented with walls of "zio_read error:45" and no bootable kernel.
I really like the handling of it when it runs, but the track record with upgrades is not exactly great for me :-(
I have been a full time Linux user for over 10 years. But I will never forget my first experience with it. My first distro I ever set up was Kali Linux. It had just been updated from BackTrack. Wrecked my Windows 7 partition on the laptop and all I had was a persistent live boot of Kali. To finish homework for the end of the semester (when at home) I had to compile LibreOffice from source (wasn’t in the Kali repository).
Over Christmas I installed Ubuntu 15.10
1/2
Wizards conjure up lists of all those dwelling within the realm. #Samba #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/samba-active-directory/deployment.html?s=mc
Est-ce que j'envisage sérieusement de passer à FreeBSD pour lutter contre l'IA ?
Bon ceci dit, le gap de linux à BSD n'est pas aussi important que de Microslop à linux (ya même KDE sur freeBSD, la classe)
Donc je pense partir sur un double boot linux/BSD, car j'ai toujours besoin de nux pour me former en adminsys et réseau.
La poisse...
The version of #Nikto in the #FreeBSD ports tree is woefully out-of-date.
Version in ports: 2.1.6
Last official release: 2.6.0
Ouchies. I might try my luck at updating it in the #HardenedBSD ports tree, depending on timeframes at ${DAYJOB}.
Got tired of the slow speed of freebsd-update and freebsd-update’s usage within #iocage. Now I figured out how that was being used and using freebsd-rustdate together with a #varnish reverse proxy for #FreeBSD’s update server(s) I’m doing jail upgrades from 14.3 to 14.4 under ±3 minutes after the cache has been prime 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 (this was *hours*)
I felt like writing a technical post (and sorting out my blog's styling for code blocks), so I wrote up more about what I've spent way too much time on lately: FreeBSD packages
FreeBSD desktop installer script test: quick start
https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/ff0172d54775e4c15019b6158bc6c7af
FreeBSD 15.1 overview – with KDE Plasma and applications, Ly, and SDDM
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rje9xu/freebsd_151_overview_with_kde_plasma_and/
<https://redd.it/1rgx8ts> … thirty-six hours later, no-one has spotted the two deliberate mistakes.
Note to self: be genuinely careless more often. Much more. Especially at weekends, when no-one's paying attention 🙃
jahrelang habe ich gesagt: "Ich brauche kein #Nix. ich kann #ansible". Genau so lange habe ich gesagt: "Ich brauche kein #nixOS, ich kann #FreeBSD und #Ansible" ... Dann habe ich eine Zeit lang auf dem Macbook #brew durch #nix ersetzt und fand es sehr nice. habe erste Versuche mit #nixOS gemacht aber bin da immer wieder falsch rangegangen... Jetzt habe ich seit einer Woche nixOS auf all meinen Systemen, so richtig mit Flakes und home-manager und alles in einem mono-repo... und es ist gut!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
Using a phone browser to read the FreeBSD handbook, so I can install Xfce. "Sneakers* is running on the TV. Just a regular Tuesday evening.
VIM
Bram Molenaar
human programming
Background
It has come to my attention that my beloved VIM has become invested with LLM AI slop
The lead programmer is not following standard rules of coding anymore.
People have called him many things, but one thing is certain. The man is intelligent in the programming field and knows what he wants.
VIM needs LLM slop!
the programmer screams!
We don't think so!
we roar back!!!
A couple of programmers decided to create a hard fork of vim
VIM
version V9.1.0 January 2K24
last commit
no LLM slop
Pure Bram Molenaar level human crafted code
If you are categorically against large language model slop this is a project for you to support!
This is a hard Fork meaning that you cannot merge it back with me VIM main source line
Project
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/vim
Source
https://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/116192873098653079
https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/vim
#VIM #VIMMasterRace #programming #LLM #AI #hostile #environment #Amiga #BSD #freeBSD #netBSD #openBSD #ghostBSD #LINUX #mac #win64 #OpenSource #POSIX #technology #mathemathics #physics
A pack of fresh nipples arrived.
Which means its time to install a desktop on this nice old Latitude.
After fixing the Intel Wifi not working because somehow I always have the exact hardware with the bug and not any of the others that don't have a typo in the firmware package filename 👼
FreeBSD 14.4 is now available!
#FreeBSD #BSD #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates
https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/freebsd-14-4-goes-official/
Sometimes I write well, and then sometimes I ramble on. This is the latter:
Our Mastodon instance "burningboard.net" now internally **ONLY** uses the Internet Protocol in Version 6. I did successfully migrate away from any RFC1918 addresses in all of the internal infrastructure connections.
Nginx -> Mastodon: IPv6
Mastodon -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Mastodon -> Opensearch: IPv6
Mastodon -> Sidekiq: IPv6
Mastodon -> Loki: IPv6
Sidekiq -> PostgreSQL: IPv6
Prometheus -> Mastodon: IPv6
All using globally routed unique addresses and proper routing and packet filtering with "pf" (FreeBSD).
Outbound connections to legacy hosts (for example for Federation) uses NAT64 over Tayga.
Inbound the Nginx is the only component, that supports IPv4 via NAT on a best-effort basis.
I refuse to put a lot of work into this as we have 2026 and it's a dying, smelly protocol, that I don't even monitor anymore.
And if someone looks at the Firewall rules.. Yes, we do run a (private) Factorio Server on our Mastodon server 
#mastodon #mastoadmin #ipv6 #networking #freebsd @tux
Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟬𝟵 (Valuable News - 2026/03/09) available.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/valuable-news-2026-03-09/
Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/
#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday
Managed to uefi boot a cloud init configured debian trixie vm using (vm-)bhyve under #FreeBSD but why does the interfahahahace needs to be “enp0s6” instead of eth0
To migrate #FreeBSD guest VMs from #Hyper-V to #libvirt/#KVM:
* Convert to .qcow2 from .vhdx at host, using #Cloudbase.it #qemu-img.exe.
On import:
* Choose FreeBSD 14.2 as OS.
* Choose Q35 as chipset.
* Choose BIOS.
* Import disk image as #VirtIO disk; change to SCSI.
* Add missing virtio-scsi controller.
* Apply "stateless" #EFI <os> from libvirt docs, to enable EFI non-secure boot without XML schema errors.
* Boot the FreeBSD guest.
* Edit /etc/rc.conf to use #vtnet(4), not hn(4).
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