Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/
Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
https://arcan-fe.com/2025/12/27/arcan-0-7-1-minutes-to-midnight/
if_bridge(4) on #freebsd 15 works a little different than the previous implementations. Assigning an IP address directly to the bridge interface is now the recommended thing to do. There are also pretty fine-grained ways to use and control VLANs on a bridge now. #callfortesting was where I heard about those changes first. Support https://www.youtube.com/@callfortesting on https://bsdfund.org, it’s super easy, took me less than a minute.
if_bridge(4) on #freebsd 15 works a little different than the previous implementations. Assigning an IP address directly to the bridge interface is now the recommended thing to do. There are also pretty fine-grained ways to use and control VLANs on a bridge now. #callfortesting was where I heard about those changes first. Support https://www.youtube.com/@callfortesting on https://bsdfund.org, it’s super easy, took me less than a minute.
I got bhyve passthru on #FreeBSD working for a card with USB ports. Nice! Now I can work on kernel side of music without disasters.
I got bhyve passthru on #FreeBSD working for a card with USB ports. Nice! Now I can work on kernel side of music without disasters.
The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)
Also: indico mail problem has been fixed
What I want, now, is a pkg command to list unregistered packages.
Oops, too late 🙃
🦣 Migrating burningboardnet Mastodon instance to a Multi-Jail FreeBSD Setup | Larvitz Blog
｢ Over the last few weeks, I’ve been working on migrating our Mastodon instance burningboard.net from its current Linux host to a modular FreeBSD jail-based setup powered by BastilleBSD ｣
The @bsdcan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html
The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #ottawa
Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein)
Also: indico mail problem has been fixed
FreeBSD: Installation on a ThinkPad X200 Tablet in 2025
https://rtfm.co.ua/en/freebsd-installation-on-a-thinkpad-x200-tablet-in-2025/
Is DNS in vnet jails with #FreeBSD 15.0 just broken for me after an upgrade with iocage? Jails with "shared IP" have working DNS, but with vnet I get the following:
# drill @141.1.1.1 google.com
Error: error sending query: Could not send or receive, because of network error
Also pkg updates with srv records don't work, had to remove "pkg+" as workaround in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf for every URL to download packages.
🎉 OpenZFS 2.4 Extends Linux Kernel Support to 6.18 and Supports FreeBSD 14–16
｢ Administrators can now define quota policies that automatically apply to new datasets, reducing manual configuration and helping enforce consistent storage limits across systems. Allocation behavior has also been reworked through a new unified allocation throttling algorithm designed to reduce vdev fragmentation under heavy load ｣
https://linuxiac.com/openzfs-2-4-extends-linux-kernel-support-to-6-18-and-supports-freebsd-14-16/
When they said FreeBSD 15 was now easier to install, they weren’t wrong. Here it is up and running on a Lenovo Thinkpad. Wifi works, trackpad works, setting up X11 was easy.
Pretty impressed really.
Told y'all before: FreeBSD has the most exciting and full-fledged stack of Wayland compositors and applications.
Most exciting part of Mangowc: switching between tiling and scrolling with one keybind. And a ton more, to be discovered by yours truly. Enjoying it a lot so far.
#freebsd #mangowc #maomao
so Raptor gave me access to a Talos II to do some work on FreeBSD/ppc64le.
first thing i noticed: the boot process is *very* unusual. it doesn't use the FreeBSD loader at all; instead it has a Linux-based firmware loader called Petitboot which can load and kexec() the FreeBSD kernel directly. however it needs a rather odd partition layout to do that:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/nda0p2 / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/nda0p1 /boot msdosfs rw 2 2
i assume this is because Petitboot can't read FreeBSD UFS, so we need the kernel (which is in /boot/kernel) to be on FAT.
Raptor suggested we should make the loader kexec()able instead, which seems like a good idea, but from what i can tell this platform doesn't use OpenFirmware at all, and i'm not even sure we have a PowerNV-native loader.
(as you can tell, i know very little about either POWER or FreeBSD/powerpc, so this is going to be an interesting learning experience.)
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