Found this great article (by Solene, no less!) on setting up a Roundcube mail server on OpenBSD.

Just what I was looking for! The link: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-07-24-openbsd-email-server-setup.html

Happy hacking!

06/29

⇒ Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.1

At BSDCan 2026, I attended the pkgbase in Production: A Practical Overview talk. What impressed me was the ease with which one could upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 etc. Included in the demonstration was pkgbasify (“Automatically convert a FreeBSD system to use pkgbase”).

• https://dan.langille.org/2026/06/29/running-pkgbasify-on-freebsd-15-1/

A major upgrade example: 14.4-RELEASE to 15.1-RELEASE

All commands should be run as root.

1. pkg update
2. pkg upgrade -Uy -r FreeBSD pkg
3. freebsd-update fetch
4. freebsd-update install
5. freebsd-update upgrade -r 15.1-RELEASE
6. freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU
7. freebsd-update install
8. do not reboot the operating system – ignore the on-screen advice from freebsd-update
9. freebsd-version -kru ; uname -KU
10. /bin/sh
11. export abi=FreeBSD:15:$(uname -p)
12. export osversion=1501000
13. pkg-static -o ABI=$abi -o OSVERSION=$osversion -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes update
14. pkg-static -o ABI=$abi -o OSVERSION=$osversion -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -Fqy
15. ignore all on-screen recommendations to force a bootstrap of pkg
16. pkg-static -o ABI=$abi -o OSVERSION=$osversion -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -Fqy
17. pkg-static -o ABI=$abi -o OSVERSION=$osversion -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -U -r FreeBSD-kmods
18. pkg-static -o ABI=$abi -o OSVERSION=$osversion -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes upgrade -U -g 'virtualbox-ose-additions*'
19. exit
20. upgrade the boot loader
21. disable loading of kernel modules for NVIDIA GPUs – you can use sysrc(8)
22. shutdown -r +10min "restarting with the upgraded kernel and boot loader"
23. after this restart, if software such as Discover invites you to upgrade software, ignore the invitation
24. freebsd-version -kru
25. freebsd-update install
26. be patient
27. freebsd-version -kru
28. if /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf includes FreeBSD and FreeBSD-kmods, change the names to FreeBSD-ports and FreeBSD-ports-kmods
29. pkg bootstrap -fy
30. pkg upgrade -fFqy -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
31. pkg upgrade -fFqy -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
32. pkg upgrade -fU -r FreeBSD-ports -r FreeBSD-ports-kmods
33. if reinstalling all third-party software is not possible, install misc/compat14x
34. if the previous run of freebsd-update install asked you to rerun the command, do so
35. shutdown -r +10min "restarting with the upgraded userland"

⇒ Automatic expiry at timeout for pf(4) overload tables

Network-oriented readers will be familiar with the concept of overload tables, commonly used with state tracking options to create adaptive rulesets for such things as punishing password-guessing botnets.

A downside to tables that would tend to fill up indefinitely is that at some point they will be quite full, and the administrator would need to either manually run pfctl expire or set up a crontab entry to weed out old entries at intervals.

• https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260513064948
• https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177846164902091&w=2

ping: https://framapiaf.org/@openbsdjournal@mastodon.social/116565993077076112

(06/04)

⇒ Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users

The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs…

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Boots-Apple-M3

(06/05)

⇒ Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM

In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER…

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-Non-4K

⇒ NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code

Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-DRM-Rust

⇒ More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2

In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/SpacemiT-K1-K3-Linux-7.2

What title says

More info here: https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/issues/30#issuecomment-4835472901

@CiotBSD said:

… my newsletters… …

Thanks. I'm curious, are some of those news items aggregated from another area in which you post?

framapiaf.org, maybe?

06/28

⇒ Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support

While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver.

• https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-DRM-Color-Format

True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably! And while there is no nerd who lacks an opinion on Richard Stallman personally, likewise let none claim he does not practice what he preaches. Why, the very laptop in front of him was selected deliberately because it can operate with no binary blobs and no firmware you couldn't examine or replace with your own, and runs his choice of fully libre operating systems. The fact it has a Chinese MIPS64 derivative in it was undoubtedly just more compound on the heat spreader.

• https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html

I have requested deletion of my Bugzilla accounts. I expect my name to change to devnull – not to be confused with other devnull users, at least one of whom has devnull in their email address.

In the Lounge in April:

… We're pro, not against. Supporters, not haters. Builders, not destroyers. …

With the same spirit of positivity, in May I wrote:

I'll continue to support users of FreeBSD in Mastodon, in r/freebsd, and elsewhere.

Hi! So I have a small VPS with OpenBSD on it and I anticipate that disk space will not be enough, so my question is, if I know that I will never compile the whole system from source, can I just repurpose the space allocated to /usr/obj and /usr/src and mount those partitions where they're needed? Or is this a really really bad idea? It would free up about 10GB (out of 40GB total).

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/18/freebsd-151-lands-but-desktop-dabblers-still-have-to-draw-their-own-gui/5257681

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net

Better laptop sleep and Wi-Fi support make the beastie more portable-friendly, but getting beyond the shell remains a DIY job

Tested with a Core i5-based ThinkPad X220.

Surprisingly:

… The handy optional desktop-installer script is still available, but as far as we can tell, it hasn't been updated for version 15.1 yet. In our testing, it couldn't correctly install a working desktop, and whatever desktop we tried, it failed without giving any visible error. …

Worked around, through manual installation of software, but I'm surprised that it happened.

Cross-post: r/freebsd

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-Ext-Restructured

Quoting Torvalds:

 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/ext_arena.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/ext_arena.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/ext_cid.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/ext_cid.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/ext_types.h

Please don't do this disgusting thing.

There's a reason we have subdirectories: it's to group files together and separate them out

Using name prefixing instead of directories is disgusting and wrong. If you have this many random sched-ext files, it damn well should be cleaned up and not be this kind of mess.

I've pulled this, but under protest. Proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965.

It's blunt, but it did begin with the word "Please".

His use of the word "disgusting" is, ahem, slightly at odds with this recent observation:

… Já o Linus sempre foi mais polido, político e mais comercial.

Translated by Reddit:

… Linus, on the other hand, was always more polished, political, and more business-minded.

Image source and context:

• AI-generated Reddit Answers
• https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/265/there-s-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity/10

grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> qutebrowser https://www.freshports.org/lang/python311/
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
19:05:12 WARNING: GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
fish: Job 1, 'qutebrowser https://www.freshpo…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [SIGSEGV]> qutebrowser https://www.freshports.org/lang/python311/
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
19:14:38 WARNING: GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
[385847:385871:0626/191439.649684:ERROR:simple_file_enumerator.cc(58)] Could not get file info for /home/grahamperrin/.cache/qutebrowser/webengine/Cache/Cache_Data/todelete_3610484eb923023d_0_1
fish: Job 1, 'qutebrowser https://www.freshpo…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [SIGSEGV]> qutebrowser https://www.freshports.org/lang/python311/
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
19:15:05 WARNING: GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
fish: Job 1, 'qutebrowser https://www.freshpo…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [SIGSEGV]> qutebrowser https://www.freshports.org/lang/python311/
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
19:15:17 WARNING: GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
fish: Job 1, 'qutebrowser https://www.freshpo…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [SIGSEGV]> 

Much the same for the page for nano:

grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~> qutebrowser https://www.freshports.org/editors/nano/
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
19:24:56 WARNING: GBM is not supported with the current configuration. Fallback to Vulkan rendering in Chromium.
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
MESA-INTEL: warning: Haswell Vulkan support is incomplete
fish: Job 1, 'qutebrowser https://www.freshpo…' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
grahamperrin@mowa219-gjp4 ~ [SIGSEGV]> 

I toyed with qutebrowser only because https://www.freshports.org/lang/python311/ is currently quirky in one of my very heavily-extended Firefox profiles (not reproducible in a different profile, not reproducible in Tor Browser):

The effect is not long-lasting, normal appearance resumes after a few seconds.

Four hours ago:

… critical services used by the human #FreeBSD community are either down, or so degraded they are mostly unusable, by AI scrapers. …

Does anyone know which services are, or were, down?

https://bsd.network/@dch/116816905361984918

Today felt pretty decent, or at least comparatively, and maybe only for ~22% of the hours of consciousness...

~0530 -> 22:42 ... just need to save this one file to the NFS share... and...

Seems today is a "No NFS for assholes" day, very astute.

So no NFS for me; still an asshole, sure sure (only sometimes), but no NFS? So unfair. LDAP/FreeIPA why are you the way that you are?

Maybe if I threaten the LDAP VM with its existential annihilation, and replace it with a RADIUS + TACACS + NIS (the OG right there, nothing better than a Trainwreck deep into the warm, loving arms, the secure embrace, the Inner Self unleashed - unbounded - staring directly into the eyes of `Network Information Service +` ... NIS+ YES!

@tribblix @ptribble

I read that NIS+ was removed from Solaris 11.x (hopefully this is incorrect), in which case... what are your thoughts on the subject? There's no Windows, no SMB, it's just Solaris, Tribblix, OmniOS, Gentoo, {Rocky 9/10, OEL 9/10}, and of course... FreeBSD, also one or two little nodes w/ NetBSD and a Xen box too... lots of boxes.

So.. NIC+ on Tribblix getting some traction if I decide to reprovision this new workstation w/ the latest instead of Sol 11.4... the video card situation is either a P2200 or A4000, and while those work on Solaris I've not been able to find the right combination of drivers to get these two working with Tribblix. Are those going to work or maybe a RTX 2080?

#solaris #gentoo #tribblix #workstation #linux

=> 662: I need a hero

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...

• https://www.bsdnow.tv/662

https://icosahedron.website/@greg/116790671827421036

@CiotBSD said:

Hum, I love Nvidia… hum, That's why I prefer to use an AMD GPU!
Hummm, nvidia: NO; it's NO way!
That said, I prefer to use an AMD GPU!

I never had a problem, at upgrade time, with my NVIDIA GPU.

Maybe because I used FreeBSD-CURRENT.