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As FreeBSD PKGBASE moves faster then its documentation - some light on these:- *.pkgnew- *.pkgsave- .pkgtemp.*#freebsd #PKGBASEhttps://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/freebsd-pkgbase-minor-upgrades/#comment-27442

@stefano @mkj ... into not having to test your Schrödinger backup

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

BAD -> BSD + DAD

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]

Listing block devices on FreeBSD FreeBSD newcomers regularly ask me “what’s the equivalent to this Linux command?”. The most common of said commands is lsblk(8) that lists block devices. https://www.rubenerd.au/listing-block-devices-in-freebsd/

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

Thanks. Less formally: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t7mzw1/comment/okqt36w/?context=1 …

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/

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/freebsd-pkgbase-minor-upgrades/ Vermaden's alternatives do not make proper use of the FreeBSD-ports-kmods repo. Related: FreeBSD 15.1 boot problem : r/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