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  • Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support

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    CiotBSDC
    See: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Embed-Crates-LTS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-On-FreeBSD ping: https://framapiaf.org/@jbz@indieweb.social/116498971896054525
  • FreeBSD user groups

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    BigSneakyDuckB
    The FreeBSD User Groups page has got quite outdated so crowdsourcing some replies has helped update a few things. Mostly group closures unfortunately but also some changes of contact details. For people who don't have a Reddit user account, I also started a FreeBSD Forums thread that found a few more updates, including a change to a long-standing venue. So feel free to reply there too: forums.freebsd.org/threads/102512/ I don't check for replies quite so regularly here - but if you don't have a FreeBSD Forums or Reddit account then leave a reply here and I'll get back to you at some point.
  • Launch a FreeBSD 15 VPS Server

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    CiotBSDC
    This post provides a guide for how to launch a FreeBSD 15 VPS server from Rad Web Hosting. https://blog.radwebhosting.com/launch-a-freebsd-15-vps-server/ PS: I dont know if it's good idea to post this information… If this is a problem, because it comes from a hosting company, then please feel free to moderate or even delete it
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    See: https://blog.hofstede.it/joining-dn42-a-mikrotik-border-three-wireguard-peerings-and-a-freebsd-jail-in-the-hobbyist-internet/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@Larvitz@burningboard.net/116460532141910458
  • Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

    freebsd resilience maintainability
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    grahamperrinG
    Thank you! I blocked five of the respondents in the Fediverse https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116462528458368843 "Power is the ability to do good things for others." … https://mstdn.social/@happinessbot/116461840153065036 Think of the last person you interacted with. How happy do you think you are relative to them? (I ask this question every day to gauge how happy the Fediverse is.) #happiness #poll #mentalhealth #psychology
  • Advice for a re-newbie

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    nuintariN
    I apparently found your original post on Mastodon first: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@nuintari/116453958107402129
  • FreeBSD on Hetzner Cloud

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    CiotBSDC
    See: Part 1: https://bev.is/posts/2026-04-17-freebsd-on-hetzner-cloud/ Part 2: https://bev.is/posts/2026-04-22-freebsd-on-hetzner-2-cloud-init-boogaloo/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@gront@mastodon.social/116450160136477517
  • Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15

    freebsd bridge networking
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    CiotBSDC
    See: https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@ricardo@bsd.cafe/116453396670728593
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  • Enable media keys in Xorg on FreeBSD 15 (Solved!)

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    andersgoA
    One of my biggest "frustrations" when migrating from OpenBSD to FreeBSD as my daily driver, was the loss of of working media keys on my Das Keyboard - especially the very convenient volume jog wheel. After some poking around i confirmed that the usbhid driver was working - and also default enabled in FreeBSD15 kernel. Xev tool printed the correct keycode events keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay The problem narrowed down to how to map these event to something useful I found a working solution in this discussion thread, by using the x11/sxhkd daemon to pass the events to mixer(8) https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-enabling-multimedia-keys-gamepads-joysticks-for-desktop-usbhid.84464/ I had to tweak the sxhkd config a bit to work properly with mixer ~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc XF86Audio{Play,LowerVolume,RaiseVolume} mixer {vol.mute="toggle",vol="-3%", vol="+3%"} Then I invoke the sxhkd daemon from my ~/.xsession file sxhkd & exec /usr/local/bin/fvwm3 Viola! #FreeBSD #Solved #X11 #FVWM3 #Xorg #AskFedi
  • Running Your Own AS…

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    CiotBSDC
    Part1: Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/ Part2: Running Your Own AS: Going Multi-Homed with iBGP and three Transits: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-going-multi-homed-with-ibgp-and-three-transits/ Part3: Running Your Own AS: Joining an IXP with a Third Edge Router: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-joining-an-ixp-with-a-third-edge-router/ Part4: Running Your Own AS: Direct Hetzner Peering, a Fourth Edge, and Bringing the Home LAN into the Fabric: https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-direct-hetzner-peering-a-fourth-edge-and-bringing-the-home-lan-into-the-fabric/
  • Thoughts on the FreeBSD Logo

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    izder456I
    I have to say, i really like the glassy orb logo. i don't really think it needs changing. i think much the same WRT the website redesign. i like the skeumorphic layout. it reminds me of a time when the web was much more approachable without cleanup software like adblockers. i like the current freebsd website for the same reasons i like the OpenBSD website.
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    CiotBSDC
    See: https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2026/desktop-phone-connected-to-freebsd-server/
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    CiotBSDC
    See: https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/
  • FreeBSD 16 System Calls Table

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    @naltun said: This is an excellent post. Thank you for the share! e: It'd be cool to have this as a manual page, all of the syscalls laid out in a table with code references. I'm keeping this in mind as an OpenBSD user. It wouldn't be too hard to generate one, but it could lead to confusion for people if they use random internet manpages because the syscall codes are not guaranteed to be stable across versions on OpenBSD and syscalls get added/removed/deprecated sometimes.
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    https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web services since 1998, … – 24–30 minutes reading time, according to Firefox. Time well spent, IMHO, especially with security vulnerabilities for various operating systems recently in a spotlight. Also: to Mastodon @cperciva@mastodon.social @stefano and to Lobsters. Background: Colin Percival was, for many years, the FreeBSD Security Officer. He is now the FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead. You can show your appreciation for today's blog post at his shares in Reddit, in Hacker News, or in LinkedIn. A thought: AWS has its heroes. Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source – for this, and for what's described in today's blog post, it's probably fair to describe Colin as a hero in more ways than one.
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    CiotBSDC
    Egual, the FreeBSD Foundation Journal for the Q1 2026: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/
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    grahamperrinG
    For convenience, from the toot in Mastodon: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1sgmi14/claude_mythos_preview_fully_autonomously_finds/ … (plus Linux, OpenBSD, and others) – more concerning than calif.io story with known CVE and human prompting? …" – @bigsneakyduck (Sorry. I imagined that the original mention in Mastodon would have shared the whole of the toot as the opening post here.)
  • Call for testing: introducing the Laptop Integration Testing project

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    grahamperrinG
    The Foundation's announcement: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/call-for-testing-introducing-the-laptop-integration-testing-project/ Thanks to u/anh0516: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1seej1t/call_for_testing_introducing_the_laptop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1seei3y/freebsd_call_for_testing_introducing_the_laptop/ In The FreeBSD Forums, maybe not open to discussion: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/102265/