#FreeBSD I’m finding my #iwlwifi #AX210 fails to receive ipv6 RA messages so SLAAC doesn’t work. Anybody else able to try?

IPv4 works fine.

https://community.intel.com/t/intel-ax2xx-wi-fi-6e-and-ipv6-slaac and several other threads for windows and Linux suggest this may be a firmware / hardware issue.

Thought for a second about #FreeBSD linuxator's future. Sad, anyway ...

After the bots pegged the database server at 100%, access was closed off and some optimizations were done.

Still on the horizon, letting you search without logging in.

https://news.freshports.org/2026/10/16/search-improvements/

#FreeBSD #FreshPorts

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

New blog post! I'm sharing some personal notes from my experiments with FreeBSD and the HumanWare BrailleNote Apex.

These are just personal notes, but I hope they may also be useful to others who want to start connecting a Braille display to FreeBSD, or to curious developers who want to understand how their software is used by people relying on screen readers and other assistive technologies.

Article: https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2026-10-15-freebsd-apex.html

#FreeBSD #Accessibility #A11y #UNIX #OpenSource #Braille #Coding #DeviceDrivers #AssistiveTechnology #ScreenReaders #OpenSourceHardware #BSD

The recording of the October 1st, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/FtPwUs5bJIM

We discussed Reviews that need your attention and testing, keelOS, the Triton hypervisor-agnostic control plane, repeatable #FreeBSD development VMs , Apiary news and yet another deep dive into responsible #AI, 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

This content is not AI generated

My old ThinkPad T480 is back in daily use, running FreeBSD 15.1.

Xfce, 5 GHz Wi-Fi, hardware video decoding in Firefox and Chromium (checked in the decoder, not just a capabilities page), a webcam that survived a 45-minute Zoom call, a Bluetooth speaker via virtual_oss, and SSH and Git signing from a smart card.

It's boring now. That's the point.

https://blog.hofstede.it/the-t480-is-back-my-freebsd-151-laptop-from-boot-to-browser/

#FreeBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #BSD #Xfce

How to annoy two purist camps at once:

1. Run FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE on a ThinkPad T480.
2. Let an agentic AI (Crush + GLM 5.3 Flash) write the Ansible roles for rc.conf, pf.conf, and loader.conf.

I know AI isn't the most popular topic around here, but watching a TUI agent haggle with a missing Jinja2 module in real time is great entertainment for a single cent. And the result was actually good after reviewing and tweaking it just a little.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #Ansible #DevOps #bsdcafe #ai #genai

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A desktop screenshot of a FreeBSD system featuring the red Beastie daemon wallpaper. An open terminal window runs the Charm Crush CLI agent (v0.96.1) inside the directory ~/work/ansible/t480autom. The right pane displays the Crush logo, context info showing the model "Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash via OpenRouter", and a list of modified Ansible and template files including site.yml, rc.conf.j2, sysctl.conf.j2, pf.conf.j2, and loader.conf.j2. The left pane shows an automated bash execution running an inline Python test using Jinja2 to render configuration templates with network parameters for host 'christop-bsd'.

Finally got Bluetooth audio singing on my ThinkPad T480 under FreeBSD! 🎧 Running smoothly through PulseAudio to my Muvo speaker.

Truly a great time to be running desktop BSD.

#FreeBSD #Bluetooth #PulseAudio #Unix #RunBSD #ThinkPad #DesktopBSD

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Screenshot of an XFCE desktop on FreeBSD featuring the red FreeBSD Daemon wallpaper. An open terminal shows outputs from pactl info, pactl list short sinks, and hccontrol, confirming an active Bluetooth connection to a "muvo" audio device via PulseAudio.

Earlier this month, FreeBSD was represented at IndiaFOSS 2026, where community member Shane Cardoz helped coordinate a FreeBSD booth over two days of the conference.

The booth gave attendees an opportunity to explore FreeBSD firsthand, with live demonstrations highlighting features such as Jails and ZFS.

A big thank you to Shane and everyone who helped represent FreeBSD and connect with the open-source community at IndiaFOSS 2026!

#FreeBSD #IndiaFOSS2026 #OpenSource #FreeBSDCommunity

"FreeBSD is only for servers" needs to be permanently retired.

Running FreeBSD 15.1 on the trusty ThinkPad T480, and the desktop experience is outright sublime:

- Idle power draw: hovering at an absurd ~2.0W package power
- Wi-Fi: 802.11ax rock-solid
- Hardware video acceleration: fully working in both Firefox and Chrome
- Webcam and audio: working flawlessly
- Productivity: Xfce 4.20 on X11 flying along on ZFS
- Yes, even Factorio runs like a dream

Between the battery efficiency, sane base system, and native ZFS, this machine feels faster and quieter than it has in years.

2026 really is the year of the BSD desktop.

#FreeBSD #ThinkPad #T480 #Unix #BSD #OpenSource #Xfce #Factorio

Registration is now open for the November 2026 FreeBSD Vendor Summit!

On November 5-6, join FreeBSD developers and industry partners at NetApp’s headquarters for two days of direct collaboration, technical discussion, and strategic planning.

Don’t miss your chance to participate.

Register now: https://bit.ly/4AS4O0a

#FreeBSD #Summit #OpenSource

This morning I'm updating the last-before-production FreshPorts website. Prod should get updated on Thursday morning (between 11:30 and 13:00) UTC.

#FreeBSD

My 2027 UNIX wishlist.

-NetBSD gets ZFS on root, and in the installer.
-NetBSD gets FreeBSD's jails, including VNET support.

<or>

-FreeBSD fully and finally declares a no AI policy.

As much as I like OpenBSD, neither of those things have ANY chance of making it into their source.

Also, has anyone forked a slop free tmux, yet?

#UNIX #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #BSD

New on the blog: ArtCraft is rebuilding Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, Word, Excel and more in Rust, with AI coding agents.

I tried it. PhotoCraft actually handled my video thumbnails, apps start in 1-2 seconds, and there are native #FreeBSD builds.

The more interesting part: GUI, CLI and agents drive the same engine. And when code gets cheap, verification becomes the bottleneck.

https://blog.hofstede.it/artcraft-rust-agent-desktop-apps/

#RustLang #OpenSource #AI #AIAgents #Linux #FOSS

In a discussion on LinkedIn somebody opined that PF is "an evolved fork" of IPF.

My as-polite-as-possible correction to that was,

"$poster, It's not a fork.

Rather, an independent implementation that was initially tweaked so OpenBSD kept a mostly compatible configuration syntax.

ipf was removed https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99118909527873&w=2 and the initial PF import happened later https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=99341215821296&w=2 (with lots of commits following)."

#pf #packetfilter #networking #openbsd #freebsd

BSD Conference

Hey folks! Are you a BSD aficionado? On Saturday 7 November we will be having a one-day BSD conference in Utrecht, The Netherlands For those whom don't speak Dutch, no worries - the main language is English

It will be a day full of fun, hacking, a talk or two and if you are up for: beers afterwards, downstairs

Sounds like a good day that you want to join? Well, love to have you over!

You will need to get your ticket before November, due to the lunch orders (vegetarian and vegan options are there!).

Checkout the website, get your ticket and perhaps submit a talk.

See you there!?

#OpenBSD #SecBSD #HardenedBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonflyBSD #RUNBSD #EvenMyMotherRunsBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟭𝟬/𝟭𝟮 (Valuable News - 2026/10/12) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10/12/valuable-news-2026-10-12/

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

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

Manpage Monday: bastille clone

Duplicate a jail exactly. New name, new IP, in seconds.

Clone myjail to newjail
> bastille clone myjail newjail 10.23.3.4/24

On ZFS you can even clone a running jail live
> bastille clone -l myjail newjail 10.23.3.4/24

Perfect for spinning up test copies of jails.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #ZFS #ManpageMonday

🚨 Monday PSA 🚨

We will be bringing a selection of books, booklets and stickers, which are looking for a new home.

If you are interested, and in of course the Late Autumn BSD-NL Conference Day in November, grab your tickets!

If you want to talk out the event you can drop your abstract at: 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/

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

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Selection of books by Michael W Lucas and The Book of PF by Peter Hansteen in a cardboard box.

Of course, when I renamed some FreshPorts packages when going from svn to git[1], I forgot to rename the corresponding faux packages[2] which prevented them from being installed in dev environments.

What brought them to mind today?

I hosed the dev environments on two hosts.

No data lost. Just time.

#FreeBSD

1 - https://news.freshports.org/2026/10/05/converting-the-last-freshports-subversion-repos-to-git/

p5-freshports-scripts -> p5-freshports-ingress-scripts

p5-freshports-modules -> p5-freshports-ingres-modules

2 - https://github.com/FreshPorts/packaging - see the commits made today

All the latest FreshPorts features are on test and stage.

#FreeBSD

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117396625341557692

Hey #FreeBSD folks, NetBSD hit more than double their funding target after adopting a strong no-LLMs policy. Something to think about while you draft yours, perhaps?

NetBSD Foundation 🚩 » 🌐 2026-10-06
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org

... and, yeah, we received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!

People in #FreeBSD think about replacing git with got for the release process. I am pretty much in favour of that. That's why I share that news with you.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D60606
https://gameoftrees.org/

After a couple weeks of procrastinating, I finally migrated my NetBox instance from the Ubuntu 22.04 Proxmox LXC old to the new #FreeBSD 15.1 Jail.

The old NetBox instance was still on v4.1.7, because I would have needed to upgraded Postgres 14 to a later version.

Fortunately, the only thing I had to do was to dump the old netbox database and restore it into the Postgres 18 DB inside the jail, and copy all the images from .../media/devicetype-images over.

The Jails runs v4.6.10 and simply running "manage.py migrate" once after restoring the data was all it took.

Now I can finally shut down my Proxmox VE server, as all services have been migrated to my FreeBSD NAS / home server. 😁

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Screenshot of the old NetBox instance, after all services have been stopped. "502 Bad Gateway" "nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)"

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Screenshot of the new NetBox instance, running inside a FreeBSD jail.

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝘂𝗰𝗸𝘂𝗽 [FreeBSD Cope with Signal Fuckup] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/10/10/freebsd-cope-with-signal-fuckup/

#verblog #freebsd #laptop #linux #signal #ubuntu #x11 #apt #chrome #debian #debootstrap #desktop

Hi! A quick survey for screen reader, speech synthesizer, and Braille display users in the open-source communities.

I'd like to know what assistive technologies you use. Fenrir? Speakup? Orca with a speech synthesizer and/or a Braille display? BRLTTY?

Do you use the virtual console, desktop environments such as Xfce, GNOME, KDE, or a combination of these?

The goal of this survey is to gather feedback and ideas from the community and help provide the best possible accessibility solutions for FreeBSD as well.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

#FreeBSD #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #BrailleDisplay #OpenSource #UNIX

Over lunch, all the latest work on FreshPorts was pushed to test.freshports.org

There are few more things I want to try / watch before I go to prod, including deploying to stage.

#FreeBSD

Happy Friday #FreeBSD

If these ports are now showing the right PORTVERSION values, it's because the new compare-index script detected a anomaly and repaired it.

[11:34 dev-ingress01 dvl ~] % cat /var/db/freshports/cache/spooling/refresh.txt
accessibility/kdeaccessibility
deskutils/kdepim
devel/kdesdk
games/kdegames
graphics/kdegraphics
lang/go
misc/kdeedu
misc/kdeutils
multimedia/kdemultimedia`
net/kdenetwork
sysutils/kdeadmin
x11/kde
x11/kde-baseapps
x11/kde-gear

re: https://news.freshports.org/2026/09/27/using-index-to-find-portversion-deviations/

#FreeBSD

This morning, I'm dealing with two different stacks for the same goal: a specific PHP deployment.

In one setup, the developers sent me a Docker stack. It builds the images, then mixes and matches the contents of the containers, then runs a whole series of deployment scripts so the developers can upload their changes, trigger the deployment scripts from their build agent, and so on.

The second one: I set up FreeBSD jails with the various components, along with an SFTP space accessible over VPN, where the developers can upload their updated files.

Then I asked them to give both setups a try.

Guess which one we're going to put into production?

#FreeBSD #Docker #KISS #Simplicity

Does anyone know if #FreeBSD runs on a @starlabssystems StarLite? My wife has Ubuntu 24.04 on hers but I'd really like to know if FreeBSD will work on it. It has an Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9560 WiFi card and an Intel Alder Lake-N graphics chipset.

I suppose I could pop a USB stick in and try it. There has to be someone else on the Fediverse that has one of these devices and has tried BSD on it.

The Ansible guy finally uses Ansible on his own infra 🙈

Today FreeBSD routers, Bastille jail hosts, the mail server and the Proxmox cluster + PBS moved to AAP: git inventory, defensive patch playbooks, and a curated Private Automation Hub as the only collection source.

Jails are patched via my jailexec connection plugin, now also a collection. Already on GitHub, Codeberg & PyPI - Ansible Galaxy release coming soon!

https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec/

#Ansible #FreeBSD #AAP #Proxmox

Evening thoughts: FreeBSD jails and illumos zones are really, really great.

#FreeBSD #illumos

Old: "Zaonce" - Dell Inspiron 1525
Kernel: 15.0-RELEASE-p8 amd64
Operating System: GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p13
Desktop: LXQT 2.4.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Graphics Platform: X11/xorg 7.7_3

https://bsd-hardware.info/?computer=58b29987d5af

#runbsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot #shareyourdesktop

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Screenshot of GhostBSD running LXQT. - Styling: Qogir gtk2/3/xfwm, QT theming via qt6gtk2 - LXQT Panel: Graphite - Icons: Qogir - Wallpaper by @orbite There's a panel with some pinned icons floating on the left, a qterminal showing some system stats. Audacious playing a flac encoded Amiga music file by uade123. At the bottom is a floating/intellihide panel with two desktop switcher buttons. hidden: An autohide panel with window actions: min, max and close for maximized windows in upper right corner.

"pkg upgraded -f" "Zaonce", my old ancient core2duo Dell Notebook I ususally use for couch surfing to GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p13. Also using a great new pixelated artwork as wallpaper by @orbite

All went well. Thanks to all the people who make the BSDs and make my Desktop such a good experience. Really appreciated.

#RunBSD #GhostBSD #FreeBSD #Unix