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⇒ (06/05) FreeBSD Jails The classic system administration changed a lot in a decade. Virtualization and container technology went through a remarkable improvement. (…) FreeBSD Jails don’t compete with containers. They don’t substitute virtual machines. Jails just fill a gap. https://tomsitcafe.com/2026/06/05/freebsd-jails/

I agree and this is what politicians don't get.

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-05/msg07614.html Until now QEMU's code provenance policy declined any contribution believed to include or derive from AI-generated content. A blanket ban was easy to maintain while LLM output was rarely usable on its own, but as the tools improved an absolute prohibition has become harder to justify. … Via QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions - Phoronix comments discussion in r/linux – the first comment was popular but confused, I responded mentioned in Policy for AI/LLM contributions (#697) · Issue · alpine/council boosted in BSD Cafe Mastodon. The email was copied to Warner Losh (FreeBSD), Alistair Francis (WD), Alex Bennée and Peter Maydell (Linaro), and three people at Red Hat.

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https://github.com/maxsteciuk/freebsd-rtl8821ae … 802.11ac WiFi — PCIe kernel driver extending the rtwn(4) framework Bluetooth 4.0 — setup automation for the ng_ubt(4) / rtlbtfw(8) stack (RTL8821AE only; RTL8812AE is WiFi-only) … Please note, testing does not mention wake from sleep (resume from suspend). #AI

Thanks! Shared in Reddit (with a link back to Billboard): An AI audit of FreeBSD - Calif : r/freebsd Since we started this campaign of hacking the Internet with AI, we’ve learned something many of you already knew: the Internet runs on volunteers. … We feel like we owe these maintainers something. … … Thanks To the FreeBSD team, for working with us and for taking the work seriously. To OpenAI and Anthropic, for the tokens. And to all maintainers who keep the Internet running with very little credit and very few hands: thank you.

I built a native ambient sound generator … : r/freebsd https://github.com/elytraVIII/ElytAmbience a native ambient sound generator built for the BSD desktop. It is a high-performance rewrite of the popular Blanket application, specifically optimized for FreeBSD and GhostBSD. On an old train, listening to birdsong. Perfect. [image: 1779517938538-f481c96c-ccac-4503-a48e-c763242ab1bc-image.jpeg]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489We booted Debian and FreeBSD 15 using QEMU accelerated with bhyve/vmm for the first time. This is an epic milestone for the FreeBSD community and beyond ! : r/freebsd <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tk0eja/we_booted_debian_and_freebsd_15_using_qemu/> – Mario Zio.＂Further development is needed...a lot of development...but anyway this is a storic moment....we can use another hypervisor. This time in cooperation with the storic and mature QEMU. FreeBSD is second to none.This success has been possible thanks to the competence of Abhinav Chavali who started this project for the GSOC 2025 ; thanks bro.It's built on top of dumrich's work. …＂#FreeBSD #bhyve #QEMU #Linux #Debian @freebsd SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU - FreeBSD Wiki — <https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU>Cc @stefano @dexter @seanwbruno @dch

dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server. It works great. But another FreeBSD server is available and I don’t really need yet another gadget powered on. So I moved both the DHCP and DNS services to this machine. While I was there, I took the opportunity to put them into their own jails. Because, you know, privilege escalation… https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/dhcpd-and-unbound-in-freebsd-jails/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@joel@tumfatig.net/116599962350361525

https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install - a log @thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza wrote: I got triggered to revive my description on how to get a KDE Wayland session on FreeBSD up and running. … From line 105 onwards it handles the Big K and how to run a Wayland session. This is what you'll end up with: [image: 1779173184669-0e77c797-b26f-48da-8be5-9a23f2ede523-image.jpeg]

26/07/26 ⇒ All my FreeBSD boxes are now on 15.1 Jason asked me on a recent BSD Now if I’d made the switch to FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE. I said that I had, and that the upgrade was entirely uneventful! Which is my favourite kind of upgrade. https://www.rubenerd.au/all-my-freebsd-boxes-are-now-on-15-1/

FreeBSD Foundation Laptop Update: https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/2026-04 or https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-04.md Cross-post: https://redd.it/1tc70zr

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System Via @governa@fosstodon.org at https://fosstodon.org/@governa/117006685536082407 FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free - Phoronix

mdo on FreeBSD 15: Base-System Privilege Delegation with mac_do FreeBSD 15 ships mdo(1) and the mac_do(4) policy module in the base system. It replaces sudo and doas for most of my hosts, needs no ports, and configures with a single sysctl. This article walks t... https://blog.hofstede.it/mdo-on-freebsd-15-base-system-privilege-delegation-with-mac_do/

@CiotBSD said: OpenShift For people who never heard of it (there's no link in the article …) r/openshift in old and new Reddit: The OpenShift Application Platform is Red Hat's enterprise-ready Kubernetes distribution, optimized for continuous application development and multi-tenant deployment. A professional community to discuss OpenShift and OKD, Red Hat's auto-scaling Platform as a Services (PaaS) for applications. Red Hat OpenShift Build, accelerate, and scale with an application platform that’s built for today's workloads and tomorrow's innovation. Deliver a comprehensive experience to modernize and build new applications, accelerate AI adoption, and fuel growth. Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails - Klara Systems (2022) Kubernetes has become a hot technology for managing clusters of applications, but it is famously difficult technology to use and understand. RedShift is an Enterprise cloud platform for running and managing Kubes without tying you into a single platform. FreeBSD is our favorite platform for running applications here at Klara, how does RedShift relate to the technologies that FreeBSD provides and can we create similar environments on top of FreeBSD?

No problem with the vote @grahamperrin said: For what it's worth, I think: don't delete it from BSD Cafe Billboard. It's good to raise awareness of the reputation. I hadn't thought of it that way. Interesting!

See: https://www.rubenerd.au/bsd-bottles-of-water-and-positive-habits/

FreeBSD: After the First Boot https://www.dwarmstrong.org/freebsd-after-install/ ping: https://framapiaf.org/@dwarmstrong@fosstodon.org/116530466697991937

Spun off from (Linux) Fedora Verified: Help Shape a New Way to Recognize Fedora Contributors | BSD Cafe Billboard FreeBSD Project https://framapiaf.org/@tubsta@bsdlab.au/116478621827645455 – redirects to https://social.bsdlab.au/notice/B5jMI1FY3WtTTWqvNA: Something the #FreeBSD core team could consider. This is something that has probably been needed for a while @dch@bsd.network My initial thoughts: it's an awful lot to think about for a project, or team (Core, for example), that already has, I think, too much to think about. Fedora Project From the Proposal: Unanswered Questions for the Fedora Community While we have a framework, there are several major questions we need the community to answer before we move forward. Specifically, we want to know: Validation: Should applicants be approved by grassroots peer vouches, or an elected committee? Fairness: Does this model truly value non-code contributions equally? Progression: How strictly structured should the path to becoming “Verified” be? Maintenance: Should the status expire after 12 months of inactivity? Of those four questions, the first two are huge. https://mastodon.social/@mxenbionix/116478348932821730: … I do have to echo some of the concerns people seem to be raising about being unclear to what this is actually solving. … Also, the commentary at and under https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/188603/3.