In this video, learn how FreeBSD boot environments can make upgrades and system maintenance easier to manage.

Worried that an upgrade could leave you with an unusable system?
FreeBSD boot environments powered by ZFS give you a way back.
Using `bectl`, administrators can create and manage boot environments before system or package upgrades, allowing them to test changes and return to a known working state if needed.

Watch the video to learn more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHCXEzRfao&t=4s

#FreeBSD #ZFS

New post: Claude Code on a FreeBSD 15.1 Plasma desktop, running as a Linux binary through the Linuxulator. In a Proxmox VM, over xrdp.

Four detours, four wrong labels. Xorg found no screens. VirtIO-GPU gave me a framebuffer, not acceleration. And a "version regression" was really two Claude installs fighting over my PATH.

Then the agent firewalled its own host with pf and a dead-man's switch. It also misread a config file about root.

https://blog.hofstede.it/claude-code-on-a-freebsd-desktop-plasma-xrdp-the-linuxulator-and-one-very-confusing-path/

#FreeBSD #Linuxulator #ClaudeCode #KDE #pf

The October 6th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/6w53RZ20dpA

We discussed the virtual init review, Qubes OS functionality for #FreeBSD and OpenBSD, DCH's bug fixes, if_pair news, the future FreeBSD distribution sets in the PkgBase era, LibreNMS in Daemonless, AppJail, Kyua, the #Sylve installer and Zen mode, remaining bhyve wish list items, Sylve #KDE jails, why FreeBSD is good for management by an #LLM, Sylve custom installations, DHCP option 114, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

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The Q3 2026 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available.

This edition explores Production Deployments, with articles covering home lab consolidation, cloud operations using FreeBSD Compute, USB in user space, auditable credential-exposure checks, and more.

Inside, you'll also find the Foundation Letter, a EuroBSDCon trip report, and the latest 2026 events calendar.

🔗 Read it here:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SysAdmin

FreeBSD VDI/Desktop system on Amazon AWS .. What a time to be alive 😅 🙂

#freebsd #unix #vdi #kde #kdeplasma #cloud

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟬/𝟬𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/10/05) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/valuable-news-2026-10-05/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Earlier this year, the FreeBSD Foundation launched its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Readiness project to help prepare FreeBSD, its community, and manufacturers for the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Our October update looks at the work completed so far, what’s underway, and how the Foundation is helping prepare the FreeBSD ecosystem for the CRA.

Read the full update to learn more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/october-2026-update-getting-ready-for-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act/

#FreeBSD #CyberResilienceAct #OpenSource #Cybersecurity

Manpage Monday: bastille cp

Copy files from the host straight into a jail.

Drop in a resolv.conf:
> bastille cp myjail /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf

Copy a whole directory, quietly
> bastille cp -q myjail /etc /etc

Need the reverse?
> bastille rcp pulls jail → host

Or, maybe jail to jail?
> bastille jcp goes jail → jail

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #sysadmin #ManpageMonday

kind of a shame that freshports is vibe coded, i always found that website quite useful.

#freebsd

v2.4.0 of my ansible-jails module is now available:

https://git.sr.ht/~dch/ansible-jails

In particular, it supports base system packaged jail templates, and will use them by default on FreeBSD 15+ systems, and improved corner cases for 14.x and 16.0-CURRENT, as well.

Thanks to @beni I fixed a number of IPv6 related bugs, and no-IP jails bugs too.

It has a significant improvement in test coverage thanks to Ansible Molecule, and https://sourcehut.org/ CI, so we know that both post-jail templates & ZFS usage works as expected!

v3.0.0 might come out this week, with VNET jail support. I don't expect this to be a significant change, it's just that I personally never tested it, and it seems like a good milestone.

#FreeBSD #PortsLife #ansible #jails

Volunteers wanted to help translate FreshPorts.

https://news.freshports.org/2026/10/04/freshports-now-speaks-more-than-english/

#FreeBSD

New in FreeBSD Foundationals, part 4: rc.d, the service framework that fits in your head.

How /etc/rc orders your services, why rc.conf is just shell, what rc.subr gives you for free, and the daemon(8) pidfile trap that makes "service stop" quietly restart your process.

Then I audited my own production rc.d scripts. One of them reports "not running" while serving live Mastodon traffic.

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-rcd-the-service-framework-that-fits-in-your-head/

#FreeBSD #rcd #SysAdmin #Unix #RunBSD

He #fediverse . What's your favorite FOOS organizer for ebooks? I have PDFs, EPUBs, etc. All locally on my machine and want them organized.

#askFedi #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #Linux

Turkish and Chinese support deployed to test.freshports.org

#FreeBSD

The first translations are in for FreshPorts.

See https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/678

#FreeBSD

Let's give Claude a go at language support for FreshPorts.

#FreeBSD

If you need financial assistance to attend EuroBSDCon 2027, the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html may be for you. Apply before 2027-02-01 #eurobsdcon @EuroBSDCon #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd

How does dev.freshports.org look like now?

It should be usable on phones and tablets now

I asked Claude to help with: https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/636

#FreeBSD

More progress on correctly reporting ports which get version bumps from outside the Makefile.

https://news.freshports.org/2026/10/02/portversion-deviations-for-devel-boost-docs/

#FreeBSD #ports

A new #FreeBSD ports feature came in recently: BUILD_RUN_DEPENDS

Some ports have the same depends for both RUN and BUILD. Specifying them twice wasn't fun.

mat@ built this: https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=006125500eb7a334c325ec460f9d29a561a6dcb2

FreshPorts was prepared. It's on dev now:

https://dev.freshports.org/devel/p5-Tree-DAG_Node/#dependencies (which has the code to display it)

compare with:

https://www.freshports.org/devel/p5-Tree-DAG_Node/#dependencies

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

As followup. I got the Amiga version of Amberstar to work with fs-uae FreeBSD, too... I prefer the Amiga one to the PC/DOS one because of Jochen Hippels Soundtrack (though I think Mathias Steinwachs, who made the MIDI/DOS Soundtrack on PC did a terrific job too. Just taste)
So I could play now both parts of Thalion's unfinished Amber trilogy.

Not checked, yet. But it (and the Amiga Ambermoon. Am a bit too lazy to convert it to whdload or discswapping 9 different adf files, tho;-) should also work with OpenBSD's fs-uae port.

#Game #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #Retrogames #Amiga #RunBSD

Alt...

There's a fs-uae amiga emulator instance on FreeBSD running Amberstar's intro screen. There's a pixelgfx of a stone slap In Gold letters there's an inscription: *AMBERSTAR* AMIGA CONVERSION Udo Fischer

And last but not least. I managed to set up dosbox and my Bestsellergames coverdisc of "Albion" by Blue Byte's (ex-thalion devs). Now I can play all three (again:-)
Due to dosbox it should like work the same on OpenBSD too.

#Retrogames #dosbox #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

Alt...

FreeBSD running a dosbox instance with the Albion RPG by Bluebyte. A colourful in blue/green bg graphics with some truncated letters of the name of the game and a dialog box showing some options like go on playing, options or quitting in German locale

ansible-jailexec 2.0.3 is out: a security release for the Ansible connection plugin that runs tasks inside FreeBSD jails via jexec.

Files pushed into a jail were staged in /tmp on the jail host with the source file's mode (often 0644), so other local users on the host could read them during the transfer. Staging now uses a private 0700 directory.

Thanks to GitHub: manus-pi for the report!

Advisory: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec/security/advisories/GHSA-cfm5-946c-m3qx

#FreeBSD #Ansible #Security #DevOps

I want to publicly thank @dch
The FreeBSD port of littleFedi was already ready at release time, and it’s really well done.

One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux.

The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD.

I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years.

#ThankYou #RunBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #OwnYourData #Fediverse #littleFedi

Hello speakers!

What's happening... I gonna need you to go ahead and submit that abstract.

So if you could do that, that would be great. Okay...

CfP: https://events.bsdnl.nl/late2026/

#RUNBSD #BSDNL #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

Alt...

Image of the "That Would Be Great" meme featuring the character Bill Lumbergh from the 1999 comedy film Office Space. It has the text: "That'd be great"

Do you have a special jail on #FreeBSD which has no network access? You can update that jail (FOO) from the host with this command:

# pkg --rootdir /jails/FOO upgrade -yr FreeBSD-base

#FreeBSD #jail

Monthly reminder to periodically check your bastille.conf for updates or new entries from the sample config:

cd /usr/local/etc/bastille
diff -u bastille.conf bastille.conf.sample

We try to keep config updates to a minimum, but sometimes they are required.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD

The September 29th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/LxzXBXy8VjU

We discussed the PID 1 virtualization review, jail to physical host migration, #Daemonless in #FreeCORE, LibreNMS in Daemonless, Zoom alternatives, VM Actions for GitHub, C#UDA in #FreeBSD, the Daemonless Fjord GUI, Daemonless/Sylve integration and a CLI tool, a kernel work queues proposal, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

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Worried that an upgrade could leave you with an unusable system?

FreeBSD boot environments, powered by ZFS, provide a straightforward way to recover.

In this video, learn how FreeBSD boot environments can make upgrades and system maintenance easier to manage.

Watch the video to learn more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfHCXEzRfao&t=4s

#FreeBSD #ZFS #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Ah, nice! Ambermoon.net (linux) runs fine with the Linuxulator on FreeBSD :-)

https://github.com/Pyrdacor/Ambermoon.net

Alas, off to Lyramion, then. Heading for Twinlake!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #Amiga #Ambermoon #Retrogames

Alt...

Screenshot of the End of the Intro of the Ambermoon Game. The archipelago af the different island of what's left after the meteorite devastaed Lyramion, looking down from an eable eye perspective. Clouds frame the view on the central island where a tall spinelike tower. In the upper right corner there is a sun. All done in Thalion's glorius 16bit Amiga pixelart

This seems like a useful tool:

"pkg-be-plugin is a pkg(8) plugin that automatically creates a ZFS boot environment before each install, upgrade, or deinstall transaction. If a transaction leaves the system in a broken state, the pre-transaction BE provides a clean rollback point.

The plugin uses libbe(3) directly with no subprocess invocations of bectl(8) or zfs(8). Boot environments are pruned automatically basedon a configurable keep count and minimum age."

https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-be-plugin/

#FreeBSD #pkg #ZFS

In today’s episode of "You can’t pronounce the hostname but you can hopefully read the content", an overview of the two #ThinkCentre that I recently got, centered towards power consumption when running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD.

TL;DR: not bad at all!
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/what-about-thinkcentre-m710q-m720q-and-bsd/

Hi! 👋 Anyone in #Ireland around the #mastodon #UNIX #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #OpenSource #coding communities?

I’m moving there in a few weeks, initially to #Dublin, but I’m also considering places like #Cork or #Galway.

Any tips on finding a place to live, work, sorting out a bank account/phone, or just getting settled?

I left the UK about 10 years ago, so I’ll also need to get my English back up to speed! 😅

🚨 It's is happening!! 🚨

Some people might have seen the EuroBSDCon closing, either in person or the video, where it was announced there would be BSD-NL Late / Autumn edition.

It's all true!! And... we are looking for speakers. If you have something to share with a small group of like-minded people, please add your submission. First time speakers are very welcome!

https://events.bsdnl.nl/late2026/

All the other details:

📅 2026-11-07 @ 09:30-end
📍 Utrecht, NL
🌐 https://bsdnl.nl/
🎫 https://tickets.bsdnl.nl/bsdnl/late26/

The moment at EuroBSDCon ... https://exquisite.tube/w/xkUjYkVYdcKWwq8Jnr1aMz?start=52m41s

#RUNBSD #BSDNL #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #HardenedBSD

Alt...

"My brain is full" meme. It has a picture of Jackie Chan holding is hands up near his head, with a "my brain is full" expression on his face. It has the text: What is happening?

Manpage Monday: bastille cmd

Run a command inside a jail without ever logging in.

List the contents of /etc
> bastille cmd myjail ls /etc

Stopped jail? -a starts it, runs the command, then you're done:
> bastille cmd -a myjail cat /etc/resolv.conf

Great for scripting across your fleet.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #automation #ManpageMonday

#FreeBSD there's an update for #UptimeKuma #PortsLife https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60093 bringing it to v2.5.5 now, testing welcomed #WorksOnMyMachine on arm64 already.

If you're using this port please let me know, I'd like to keep a few early beta testers of new versions in the loop!

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/09/28) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/28/valuable-news-2026-09-28/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

For almost a year, my Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD jails had a jail escape.

A symlink inside a jail, a root-owned mv on the host, and every file transfer could land wherever the jail wanted. Rejecting ".." didn't help at all.

Now it's CVE-2026-55074. Here's the bug, the fix, and what disclosing it looks like when the project has one maintainer.

https://blog.hofstede.it/my-ansible-plugin-had-a-jail-escape-cve-2026-55074/

#FreeBSD #Ansible #InfoSec #CVE #Jails #OpenSource #Security #SysAdmin

When do FreeBSD commits happen?

docs - https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/when-do-commits-happen-in-the-freebsd-docs-tree/

ports - https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/when-do-commits-happen-to-the-freebsd-ports-tree/

src - https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/26/when-do-commits-happen-in-the-src-tree/

#FreeBSD

Launching #FreeBSD EC2 instances with a graphic desktop via @cperciva ofc

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-09-24-Launching-FreeBSD-EC2-desktop-AMIs.html