26/09/30 ⇒ The Forty-Four Switches on ls The standard asks ls for 26 switches. This machine gives it 44, and the GNU tree gives it 60. Every single one of them had a reason. Lean Software. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/forty-four-switches

26/09/27 ⇒ My Ansible Plugin Had a Jail Escape: CVE-2026-55074 At the end of last year I wrote about jailexec, my Ansible connection plugin that manages FreeBSD jails by SSHing to the jail host and running everything through jexec. That article has a section called Security Design. It proudly explains the two-stage file transfer: upload to a temporary location on the host, then move it into the jail with privilege escalation. https://blog.hofstede.it/my-ansible-plugin-had-a-jail-escape-cve-2026-55074/

26/09/26 ⇒ Adventures in FreeBSD Bringup on an RK3588 (Part 1) Last month while sitting in a cafe, my friend Andrew showed me an article about a quirky new E Ink device that was launching (we're both huge fans of the technology). It was cheap enough to be impulse purchase material, so I went to order it. And on the checkout page, something happened which has literally never happened to me... ever... I saw a "you might also like" style sales pitch, and the product was actually so compelling that I bought it The company was basically nerd sniping me. https://blog.ianwwagner.com//adventures-in-freebsd-bringup-on-an-rk3588-part-1.html

26/09/26 ⇒ Diff’ing NetBSD and FreeBSD ZFS zpool features I’ve been backing up my home directories on my NetBSD machines to my FreeBSD backup server using rsync(1). But I’ve been experimenting with using ZFS for /home on NetBSD, so I thought it made sense to use zfs send for backups to the FreeBSD machine instead. https://www.rubenerd.au/diff-ing-netbsd-and-freebsd-zfs-zpool-features/

26/09/23 ⇒ Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1 ZFS configuration decisions can affect storage performance for years, and some cannot be changed without rebuilding the pool. Learn how to identify and fix common misconfigurations involving ashift, recordsize, vdev layout, dedup, and pool capacity. https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-misconfigurations-how-to-fix-part-1/

I solved my issues by removing the very little pf config I had. scrub is probably my issue, need to do more testing.

26/08/18 ⇒ Void Linux is very dangerous for FreeBSD on my laptop This whole thing started because of Stefano and his blog. His guide to installing Void Linux on an encrypted ZFS root with hibernation support was the thing that got me curious enough to actually try it — and, as these things go, curiosity turned into an afternoon spent repartitioning a laptop I use every day. My setup below is simpler than his (no LUKS-encrypted swap, no hibernation), because I just wanted ZFS-on-root dual-booted alongside my existing FreeBSD/GhostBSD/OpenBSD rEFInd menu, but the bones of the approach — and the credit for pointing me at zfsbootmenu in the first place — are his. https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260918

26/09/14 ⇒ Learning at Scale: FreeBSD Foundation Intern Nimish Jain on Exploring the FreeBSD Codebase For Nimish Jain, working on FreeBSD this summer meant getting an up-close look at something he had long been curious about: how large, complex pieces of software work together. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/learning-at-scale-freebsd-foundation-intern-nimish-jain-on-exploring-the-freebsd-codebase/

⇒ bhyve Prometheus exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD This post describes how to export metrics from bhyve based virtual machines and Jails managed by Sylve on FreeBSD by my Prometheus exporter. The focus is on collecting reliable data from the host system without relying on tooling that was primarily designed for Linux hypervisors or assumes the existence of hypervisor level counters. https://gyptazy.com/blog/bhyve-sylve-freebsd-prometheus-metric-exporter/

26/09/09 ⇒ FreeBSD working on new service manager The BSD news will continue until morale improves. (...) Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD called rcd. https://www.osnews.com/story/145933/freebsd-working-on-new-service-manager/

This interactive application converts the FreeBSD technical security guide into an explorable operational dashboard. https://freebsd.toomany.net/hardening/en/

26/09/08 ⇒ FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. (...) It traces directly back through TrueNAS CORE to FreeNAS, and it's built on the same foundation CORE always used: FreeBSD and OpenZFS. The current stable release is 15.0-U1.3, and it is aimed at TrueNAS CORE holdouts. https://itsfoss.com/freecore-truenas-core-fork/ https://freecore.org

26/09/06 ⇒ AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/

26/08/30 ⇒ The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads. https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ FreeBSD backup libraries … https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117167186595295416 offers a possible explanation for BACKUP_LIBRARIES set to true.

Hey, thanks! Now I know to keep them cooler.

...and it was an idiot error. I had to enable wg in the host kernel. I knew it was built into the kernel these days...I just hadn't realised I needed to enable it. -->facepalm<--

@grahamperrin Optimus is a trademark of NVIDIA for their implementation of hybrid graphics.And other manufacturers like AMD calls almost the same thing differently.From the CPU-side of the view, PRIME is the underlying interface for iGPU and dGPU (not limited with NVIDIA) to offload heavy graphics tasks to mighty dGPU, mainly using efficient (but poor in performance) iGPU.Before Austin's port of nvidia-drm.ko appears, the only "working" way to achieve hybrid graphics was to use VirtualGL, with configuring individual "screen" for iGPU and dGPU respectively, and screen rendered by dGPU was needed to be transferred to another (for iGPU) with software BitBlt, as physical framebuffer cannot be shared with this method.And current implementation of nvidia-drm.ko relies on PRIME to work. Without PRIME, there's no way (arbitrations) for dGPU to access (part of) physical framebuffer of iGPU.See detailed and precise info by Austin here. https://badland.io/prime-configuration.md

The Wine 11.14 development release is officially out now bringing with it an assortment of new features to improve Windows apps / games on other platforms. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/wine-11-14-brings-improvements-for-directsound-bcrypt-freebsd/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.14-Released https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-11.14 New WoW64 mode supported on FreeBSD.