BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6
BoxyBSD
@BoxyBSD@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

⚠️ News/Changes:

BoxyBSD will bring in a feature for more advanced users for our free boxes. Instead of only selecting a set of pre-defined BSD based images, you'll soon also be able to create your install simply from scratch with full remote access to your box. This lets you perform custom installations of #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, #DragonflyBSD, #MidnightBSD but also of some other niche systems like #illumos

Unfortunately, this might still take some time and fully relies on the spare time of @gyptazy.

#freeVPS#VPS#BSD#Box#BoxyBSD #gyptazy #opensource #education #community #foss #runbsd #hosting #freehosting #learning #ipv6
Marce Coll
@dziban@functional.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#illumos #omnios is absolutely incredible. The system is very well designed IMO, I had already experienced the more cohesively designed #BSD but here it feels a bit *more* (although quite similar in some aspects to #freebsd of course).

Linux feels like a duct-taped amalgamation of random ideas, don't get me wrong I love Linux and all it represents, but it's a system that has been grown in any direction.

With Illumos instead it feels like you have orthogonal powerful building blocks you can compose into something greater than the sum of its parts. #zfs #dtrace #zones #crossbow it all works beautifully, both on their own and together.

After seeing how virtualized networking can be done in solaris, the docker networking stack feels so sad in comparison.

So far I'm very impressed.
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Tonight I made a simple, yet destructive (or at least partly) mistake: when I told FreeBSD which disk to destroy, I accidentally gave it the system disk of my little home server. This happened because it had the same size as the external SSD I had just plugged in, and I got confused.

I lost some reproducible configurations (the server’s name was in fact tempfbsd01), but I took the chance to run an experiment. My home server runs FreeBSD in read-only mode (that's the part I destroyed). From there, I manually enable the external drives (encrypted with GELI) and, in turn, the ZFS pools. Then I start the various jails and the (single, Proxmox Backup Server) VM.

Since I also have another test box running SmartOS, I decided to experiment: I connected the disks to it, created a FreeBSD bhyve VM on SmartOS, and passed the entire disks through to the VM. I reconfigured the FreeBSD VM with the bare minimum and booted it all up. The jails with BastilleBSD started without any issues - obviously the Proxmox Backup Server VM itself is still missing, but I’ll deal with that later.

I’m tempted to leave everything like this for a while.

And yes, for anyone wondering: I had fun 🙂

#FreeBSD#RunBSD #illumos#SmartOS#DisasterRecovery#IT#SysAdmin#Homelab
Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

I have a client who uses Proxmox and its backup server. Last week, I upgraded the backup server from Debian 12 to 13. The backup server "sleeps" most of the day, so it also runs Docker for a Gitea runner. Everything seemed fine initially.

Then, my client messaged me yesterday because the runner had stopped working. When I logged in, I found that for some reason, the runner could no longer connect to the Docker socket, even though I was passing it the official way. I tried the same thing on a different Debian 13 server and got the same result. But, on a Debian 12 VM using the (old) Docker from the Debian repos, everything worked perfectly.

This incident just reinforces my point that for production servers, it’s crucial to use solutions that don't introduce breaking changes between releases. It seems to be an Apparmor issue (thanks @gyptazy for the head up!).

Because this component was non-critical and easily replaceable, I didn't pay much attention to testing it right after the server upgrade.
Colonel Kramer 🇮🇱
@ColonelKramer@digitalcourage.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@stefano

I have successfully avoided dealing with Docker for the past 12 years. I made this decision for myself bcs I always wanted to be able to solve problems.

#runbsd or #illumos based things

@gyptazy
Marce Coll
@dziban@functional.cafe  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
#illumos #omnios is absolutely incredible. The system is very well designed IMO, I had already experienced the more cohesively designed #BSD but here it feels a bit *more* (although quite similar in some aspects to #freebsd of course).

Linux feels like a duct-taped amalgamation of random ideas, don't get me wrong I love Linux and all it represents, but it's a system that has been grown in any direction.

With Illumos instead it feels like you have orthogonal powerful building blocks you can compose into something greater than the sum of its parts. #zfs #dtrace #zones #crossbow it all works beautifully, both on their own and together.

After seeing how virtualized networking can be done in solaris, the docker networking stack feels so sad in comparison.

So far I'm very impressed.
simonv
@simonv@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hi illumos.cafe, #introduction time - I'm Simon, coming from the bsd.network instance though I haven't touched that account in quite a while 😬.

Whilst I've not been an IT professional in any capacity (apart from a short stint in tech support) I've kept the interest and collected and ran various systems with flavours of BSD and Linux, but semi-recently started to use some #illumos in the office, liked what I saw and stuck with it.

I'm also an open-source enthusiast and a computer multi-culture idealist, I guess you'd call it.

Who knows what I'll share here, but looking forward to connecting and sharing knowledge with like-minded fellows.
simonv
@simonv@mastodon.illumos.cafe  ·  activity timestamp last week

Hi illumos.cafe, #introduction time - I'm Simon, coming from the bsd.network instance though I haven't touched that account in quite a while 😬.

Whilst I've not been an IT professional in any capacity (apart from a short stint in tech support) I've kept the interest and collected and ran various systems with flavours of BSD and Linux, but semi-recently started to use some #illumos in the office, liked what I saw and stuck with it.

I'm also an open-source enthusiast and a computer multi-culture idealist, I guess you'd call it.

Who knows what I'll share here, but looking forward to connecting and sharing knowledge with like-minded fellows.