Question for the #FreeBSD folks:

Have you ever written your own tools or resources, but were NOT part of the #Ports tree, and used #Poudriere to build them?

#RunBSD #tech #homelab

I'm in the market for an ARM SBC for use in an RV. I need USB-C power. Wifi and Bluetooth.

What are the best FreeBSD supported options?

#FreeBSD #ARM #SBC

#omarchy #wealth

I wouldn't usually get political here, but I think it's sickening how a madman has garnered millions of pounds when there's plenty of other institutional open source projects which we rely on every day who''ll never get to this level of monetary support.

I do try in my own way to support the projects I love where I can -- #freebsd, #openbsd, #gameoftrees, etc., all of which I've put some level of money behind.

Don't neglect the power of this -- and don't listen to the hype around some fascist's projects building up millions of pounds.

Your individual support means more than you could know.

I absolutely love #gameoftrees, for example, and I know my paid for VM goes a long way to supporting that project. See? You can make a difference and not even realise it. :)

There's a subtle kind of pleasure in shutting down a VM on a FreeBSD host. You suddenly see the RAM becoming available again on the host, and then, little by little, being "taken over" by the ZFS ARC cache.

I don't know, it sounds like such a trivial thing, but I find it fascinating.

#FreeBSD #ZFS

It’s the FreeBSD challenge! We all get it running on a laptop and it’s great. Honest.

https://linuxafterdark.net/linux-after-dark-episode-131/

#podcast #linux #opensource #freebsd

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Linux After Dark artwork

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

When you say ‘I use Linux’ and accidentally summon the entire BSD family.

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Unix #Linux #BSD #Meme #Memes #Humor #SpongeBob

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Six-panel cartoon featuring SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward. Patrick says, “I use Linux.” Squidward asks, “What is Linux?” SpongeBob replies, “It means he is afraid of BSD.” Squidward responds, “No it does not.” The next panel lists “FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,” while Patrick looks funny. In the final panel, SpongeBob raises his hands in panic and says, “Stop it Patrick! You’re scaring him.”

FYI, ports which get their PORTVERSION from outside their own Makefile has been a years-old problem for FreshPorts. Unless FreshPorts knows it has changed, it can't keep the database current. The most likely solution now appears to be INDEX, as suggested by mat - parse it, compare against the DB, update.

Full disclosure, most of this coding is being done by Claude. It's a 425 line shell script, with some of that being an SQL query.

Comments on that approach welcome: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/74f5de44b4b8534674d45e35e2a0cb24

#FreeBSD #FreshPorts

Interested in contributing to FreeBSD but not sure where to start?

For FreeBSD Foundation intern Nimish Jain, it started with curiosity and a desire to better understand how large, complex pieces of software work together.

Read our intern spotlight to learn more about Nimish’s experience and his advice for students and new contributors interested in getting involved:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/learning-at-scale-freebsd-foundation-intern-nimish-jain-on-exploring-the-freebsd-codebase/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Internship

Anybody running lots of #FreeBSD 15.x systems who could run

netstat -nxptcp | grep -

And report back a % of machines that report any lines in addition to the header?

More details at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D58484 which is in STABLE but not RELEASE

Found #NVIDIA released new Production Branch of their #GPU #drivers 595.104.02.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/279809/

Linux counterparts for x11/linux-nvidia-libs is:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/279807/

Already filed a PR for upgrading #FreeBSD #ports as Bug298790
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=298790
and opened corresponding review D59925 for it.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59925

Note that the regression I've described in commit message for New Feature Branch 615.71.09 at commit ports ea09eafd0488 doesn't happen on 595.104.02.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=ea09eafd0488eee9bfb7362f626a35518bcc998f

Here's a clever way to know if any updates have happened since the last time we ran. Run an md5 over all the active port for name, version, revision, epoch....

It's a fast query: about 1.3 seconds.

I'm not using it for anything. It's just something that came up...

freshports.dev=# SELECT md5(string_agg(category || '/' || name || ' ' || version ||
coalesce('_' || revision, '') ||
coalesce(',' || portepoch, ''), E'\n' ORDER BY category, name))
FROM ports_active;
md5
----------------------------------
88d6a009e0bfc523a56e896cae43dc23
(1 row)

freshports.dev=#

#FreshPorts #FreeBSD

Currently building the ports for #BraveBrowser on #FreeBSD!

Manpage Monday: bastille list

See everything at a glance.

Default overview
> bastille list [all]

List all releases:
> bastille list releases

Running jails, by type, in pretty JSON columns:
> bastille list -jup type

You can also list: ips, ports, paths, states, snapshots, limits and templates.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #sysadmin

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟮𝟭 (Valuable News - 2026/09/21) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/valuable-news-2026-09-21/

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

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

It's probably time to have a deeper look at #Zelta

#ZFS #FreeBSD

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

I always find it funny when someone on the Internet says "ZFS is memory hungry" or "ZFS needs at least 8 GB of ECC RAM to run". Nonsense.

To prove it, I installed #FreeBSD 15.1 (64 bit!) on a 23 year old PC, with ZFS and only 1 GB of RAM, running multiple jails without issue. 😎

It has been a bit tricky to get FreeBSD 15.1 to boot off a modern SATA drive, but I found some old PCI SATA controller I bought way back in the Windows 7 days which is still supported.

The single core AMD Athlon 64 3000+ is a bit slow, but pkgbase really helps with speeding up installing patches. It's still fast enough to reach 604 Mbit/s in iperf3 (and 490 Mbit/s in client mode).

If I wanted to, I could even turn this ancient machine into a NAS, which really proves that old PCs aren't trash, but modern software is.

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Screenshot of a 23 year old AMD Athlon 64 gaming PC running FreeBSD 15.1 with many programs like htop and fastfetch running inside tmux.

Reposting this because I got #RunBSD stickers at #EuroBSDcon2026 and can now illustrate the post with a proper image :D Also updated the temperatures screenshot.

So that's basically how much watts are #NetBSD and #OpenBSD using by default on this AOOSTAR WTR Pro NAS machine and how to have #FreeBSD use less watts as possible while still operating Jail and #bhyve services.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/

#selfhost #homelab

The September 15th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/IcjkGCvlQB8

We discussed daemonless.io Fjords single-click application installations, the architecture of the PID 1 virtualization project, process supervision strategies, and more!

#FreeBSD

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

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

This content is not AI generated

If you use #FreeBSD jails, the feature described on this call is HUGE.

It adds support for init at PID 1, allowing for more host-like behavior and should allow systemd to work in a Linux compatibility jail.

Consider it a request for comments on the architecture with many, “how should this behave” questions.

From: @dexter
https://bsd.network/@dexter/117278219123418481

Hey #FreeBSD folks: I'm running Prometheus in a jail, but I have jail_exporter running on the host. Am I better off getting jail_exporter to listen on, say, prometheus' jail IP so prometheus can just scrape its own IP for the metrics or is there another way? I'm not using VNET. (Actually can't use VNET in this case)

Please boost! Thanks so much!

The September 15th, 2026 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/IcjkGCvlQB8

We discussed daemonless.io Fjords single-click application installations, the architecture of the PID 1 virtualization project, process supervision strategies, and more!

#FreeBSD

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

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

This content is not AI generated

Call for Proposals – CHERITech’26

If you’re working with CHERI technology, secure software development, hardware-software co-design, or real-world CHERI implementations, this is your chance to submit a talk or poster and share your work with the CHERI community.

The CHERITech’26 Call for Papers closes today!
📅 Conference: November 12–13, 2026
📍 Location: Munich, Germany at SEMICON Europa
🗓️ Proposal Deadline: Today, September 15

Submit your proposal: https://cheri-alliance.org/events/cheritech26/call-for-papers/

#FreeBSD

Claude AI has noticed that FreshPorts has transposed EXTRACT_DEPENDS and PATCH_DEPENDS in the database.

This was previously unknown.

There are at least 5300 ports which this affects.

Claude also supplied a fix. I'll deploy that to test and try it out there.

FYI, all this was in support of providing support RUN_AND_BUILD_DEPENDS before it gets implemented: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59664

#FreeBSD #FreshPorts

Finally, this Braille display has arrived from the United States!

The goal is to get it working with #FreeBSD and, eventually, provide a proper subsystem for Braille display devices on FreeBSD.

Another small step toward making FreeBSD more accessible. Learn more about the FreeBSD Foundation's Vision #Accessibility project: https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/vision-accessibility-subsystem-for-freebsd/

#Accessibility #a11y #FreeBSD #Unix #OpenSource #AssistiveTechnologies #Blindness #LowVision #Kernel #DeviceDriver

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The HumanWare BrailleNote Apex photographed from above, with a monitor showing FreeBSD in the background.

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The HumanWare BrailleNote Apex photographed from the front, showing the Next and Previous buttons, with a monitor showing FreeBSD in the background.

I have some questions for the #FreeBSD folks in the room:

1.) What are the best practices for Poudriere and Packages. I understand one shouldn't mix Ports and packages, but I want to have some custom builds for my machines, like vim, zsh, wget, mutt, nano, while not relying on compiling everything. Is there a safe way to do this? Presumably one tracks the same quarterly ports tree as packages. But is there more to it?

2.) When managing software using Poudriere and Ports, how does one manage emergency OOB patches? I would imagine switching Poudriere to use LATEST is an operational death wish.

#RunBSD #homelab #tech #unix #software #sysadmin

Manpage Monday: bastille rdr

Redirect a host port straight to a jail. No hand-editing pf.conf.

Forward TCP traffic from host:80 to jail:80
> bastille rdr myjail tcp 80 80

Bind the redirect to only a specific interface:
> bastille rdr -i vtnet0 myjail tcp 80 80

Limit the redirect to a single source IP:
> bastille rdr -s 200.200.200.200 myjail tcp 80 80

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #ManpageMonday

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟵/𝟭𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/09/14) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/14/valuable-news-2026-09-14/

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

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

PFWall: building firewall images to run at scale - the last presentation of this wonderful conference

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon2026 #eurobsdcon

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Ready to present the firewall slides

The recording of my @EuroBSDCon talk about #FreeBSD on #ARM64 from a user’s perspective is up:

https://exquisite.tube/w/sYTVoGDVh6oVHNqvLgM7qs

Olivier: supporting hibernate (s4) on FreeBSD

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026

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Olivier is presenting

From EuroBSDCon 2026: "What has (can) the EU Cyber Resilience Act done (do) for you?" by Peter Hansteen - video https://exquisite.tube/w/pZuKtVxhfgGYYayG81SwVa article https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_hascan_eu_cra_donedo_for_you.html @eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #cra #cyberresilience #softwareengineering #engineerup #softwaredevelopment #PDE #digitalelements

Baptiste presenting: rcd(8): modern service manager the FreeBSD way

#FreeBSD #EuroBSDCon2026 #EuroBSDCon

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Baptiste is presenting

Lukas is presenting: pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #RunBSD

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Lukas is ready to start

An NVMe stick disappeared. I'll wait a bit before booting the host.

And have I mentioned https://watchgoose.com ?

See https://dan.langille.org/2026/09/12/data04-degraded-oh-and-have-i-mentioned-watchgoose/

#FreeBSD #ZFS

#EuroBSDcon @allanjude founder at http://klarasystems.com looking at the perils and pitfalls of Enterprise #FreeBSD to maintain security validations and patch consistency. He has 3 doors in choose your own adventure!

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Allan points out the release cycles of FreeBSD

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Allan talks about poudriere and organisational implications

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Choose your own adventure the risk tradeoffs