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thanks. my friends. have a good day:)
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FreeBSD

RE: https://mastodon.social/@emaste/116597496244280489
We 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

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OpenBSD

the work I did on perfecting desktop-installer on OpenBSD has been merged.

This additionally adds gnome and kde support too.

also there's a wip installer for the script for the time being while its not in the official openbsd ports collection.

I plan on re-submitting the ports to ports@ once the ports tree unlocks again.

https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/blob/master/OpenBSD/getting-started.md

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[image: 1779402791145-3d230b19-00a3-4225-8320-d2fa5e496ccf-image.jpeg] Reporting Lumina as functional and in a good state. At least for the default locale.
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BSD Cafe Lounge

Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy – Jacob Moody, Posixcafe
https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/05/0/ @moody@hj.9fs.net

I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about some talking points that Jonathan Blow made regarding the "UNIX Philosophy" during his interview on Oxide's On The Metal podcast. I'll place an excerpt of the provided transcript here. …

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There is this idea that to be UNIX means you have multiple tiny programs talking to each other over pipes, and some even take it further to implicate that this communication must be plain text. This classification is a deep misunderstanding of the ideas put forward by UNIX, and yet is a position I see many of my peers share. …

Also:
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FreeBSD

2026-05-20 FreeBSD errata notice and seven security advisories
An overview, including clickable links to CVE records:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tjaceg/20260520_freebsd_errata_notice_and_seven_security/
Via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/116611475150461633
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FreeBSD

big problem about freebsd 15 bridge .......please help me. thanks.

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@gta1998 We have an issue with a realtek device and vnet/bridges starting with FreeBSD 14.4, maybe try ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsumand see if this helps.
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BSD Cafe Lounge

Framasoft and more
Framasoft

https://framasoft.org/, for anyone who's interested.

A non-profit association founded in 2004, …

Framasphère (diaspora*)

Long ago I was a member of https://framasphere.org/, which no longer exists. The original address redirects to https://alt.framasoft.org/framasphere and then (for me) to a language-specific version of the page. In both languages:
- https://alt.framasoft.org/en/framasphere
- https://alt.framasoft.org/fr/framasphere/
I made a place for myself at diaspora.psyco.fr in 2025, but rarely used it: Graham Perrin.

Framaforms

https://framaforms.org/

As far as I can tell, from my browsing history in Firefox, I was refused access in July 2025 – "Accès refusé / Identification requise".

Framapiaf

I can not log in (I am not a registered user), and https://framapiaf.org/about explains that registration is closed ("Les inscriptions sont fermées").
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Exactly! Its goal is to reduce GAFAM's dominance (particularly: Google) It "launch" another excellente/amazing/terrible initiative named "Les Chatons" (real FR term, translated too in EN) : CHATONS – kittens in french – is the Collective of Hosters Alternative, Transparent, Open, Neutral and Solidarity. This collective aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralised online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). CHATONS is a collective initiated by the association Framasoft in 2016 following the success of its campaign De-google-ify Internet. See: https://www.chatons.org/en
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Introductions

Hello fellow boarders

My liferaft has a name: Pickle. If you recognise the name, you might already know
a little about
me.

People's
hidden
histories

… please tell me yours.

#SilentSunday so here,
today
I'll say
no more.

Snippets, instead,
weeks and months ahead.

Peace

@fuzzy@beige.party @grahamperrin

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… Neither Ivy nor George had children. After George's death, I heard his voice in conversation with Anne and Rose. All three of them were alive. Can you guess the hidden history that explains the voice? It was not a voice from beyond the grave. Not quite. It was George's son, whose existence had been hidden from George's sisters (Anne and Rose) and everyone else in the known family, as far as we could tell. Barnardo's – things were very different in the 1950s. Fast-forward to when Anne (my mum) and Rose met my cousin for the first time. I stood in my mum's kitchen, making a pot of tea for him and his newfound family, listening to them in the front room, thinking: "it's George". George's son spoke like him, despite them never meeting each other (in living memory), and the resemblance was more than just a regional accent. Mysterious and lovely. Hidden histories …
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BSD Cafe Lounge

Online forms and surveys
https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/504 mentioned Framaforms.

From the same period in my Firefox history (July 2025): Yakforms. Related:
- Oubliez Framaforms, faites de la place à Yakforms !
- Forget Framaforms, make some room for Yakforms !
I don't have a saved password, I do have this in my Firefox history:
- Work items · Yakforms Docs · GitLab
– which probably means that I was unable to use Yakforms at the time. An intention to report an issue.

https://redd.it/1m973go (July 2025) reminds me:

I chose to use a CryptPad instance.

Specifically:
- https://pad.envs.net/
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Comments & Feedback

Mentioning a new user of Mastodon

At https://billboard.bsd.cafe/post/491 I mentioned the ID of a user whose BSD Cafe Mastodon account might be less than an hour old:

@Darknessraptor@bsd.cafe

There's no auto-matching (no auto-linking) when his ID is typed, I guess it's too soon.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Darknessraptor

Background: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/comment/omq7w4v/ (announcing his presence in Mastodon) was posted around an hour ago.

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Hmm. @Darknessraptor@bsd.cafe does not work as a link. Copied after double-clicking his ID at his profile in BSD Cafe Mastodon: [image: 1779268634080-ef539131-574e-4fbc-9720-19adaa79749a-image.jpeg] If, instead, I begin typing @dark then he's found. A menu of matching IDs: [image: 1779268827076-b93b77c8-36a9-4341-9a2f-5f104b8c9537-image.jpeg] @darknessraptor@mastodon.bsd.cafe Maybe I have forgotten part of how this part of the Fediverse works
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FreeBSD

Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self
Posted by Luis Emanuel to r/BSD:

I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.

Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough — call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.

If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload:

…

Question for this sub

What's the one thing you wish someone had told you in your first year on FreeBSD?

I suspect we'll generate a better FAQ in this thread than the wiki currently has.

Yesterday from the same author:
- The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Two Systems on My Desk | The FreeBSD Forums
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@grahamperrin said: I get the same (and don't intend to log in, although I do have an account) Me too!
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OpenBSD

OpenBSD 7.9 is released!!

https://www.openbsd.org/

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FreeBSD

[Joel Carnat]
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
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FreeBSD

FreeBSD and Plasma 6 install (with Wayland) – a log – Mark @thesaigoneer

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:

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OpenBSD

#OpenBSD wallpaper collection.
Some of them are really cool.
I was told that most of these images are LLM generated.
BE WARNED !
https://github.com/raffaelschneider/openbsd-wallpapers/

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TBH some were quite usable. I converted one to use as an icon for OpenBSD on my personal startpage. [image: 1779160607261-openbsd_right.png]
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OpenBSD

NGINX (Rift) on OpenBSD: vulnerable?

Hi.

About Nginx: Rift vulnerability:
On my OpenBSD (actually on 7.8) server, I use Nginx (v1.28.x) — I known, normally tomorrow, in few hours, v7.9 will be release, and Nginx will release with 1.30.1 — and I've some rewrite rules.

As we can see on this page, I rewroted my rules.

Is-it needed on OpenBSD? Your opinion about, plz.

In any case, I think — maybe I'm wrong?! — that it's a good idea to get into the habit of “filtering” rewrite rules this way, don't you think? is-not-it?

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RetroComputing

LEGO Amiga 4000 build: Commodore classic reimagined as the Amiga CD3200
Retro Connoisseur is building the Amiga 4000 into a LEGO block case, and the project already feels like the kind of wonderfully unlikely machine that could
- https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/05/17/lego-amiga-4000-build-commodore-classic-reimagined-as-the-amiga-cd3200/
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OpenBSD

OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future
The SMTP mail server for the 21st century and onwards is OpenSMTPD, which is developed as an integral part of OpenBSD, but available in a portable variety too. It was one of those things that I had fully intended to do years ago, but I only got around to actually doing once there was a definite deadline to get it done. The time has come, as OpenBSD 7.9 will leave the exim package behind, and exim users will need to find a replacement before upgrading. This article describes my transition to OpenBSD's own OpenSMTPD mail server.
- https://nxdomain.no/~peter/time_for_opensmtpd.html
- https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/05/opensmtpd-is-mail-server-for-future.html
ping: https://framapiaf.org/@pitrh@mastodon.social/116577188355690184
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Today on undeadly log: Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful Like (we suspect) quite a few of our readers, undeadly.org co-editor Peter Hansteen runs a mail service and settled on exim as the reasonable alternative to the classic sendmail way back when. However, that software has had its share of security issues over the years, and during the preparations for the OpenBSD 7.9 release, the ports maintainers decided that… https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260516064650
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FreeBSD

[Phoronix] FreeBSD articles
FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience

FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.2-KDE-Desktop
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Thanks. Less formally: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1t7mzw1/comment/okqt36w/?context=1 …
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BSD Cafe Lounge

Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead trickle it out to a selected few companies for a while to allow a few good ones(?) to get a head start and fix the most pressing problems first, before the general populace would get their hands on it…
- https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
ping: https://framapiaf.org/@bagder@mastodon.social/116554421974341351
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Linked from the commentary, the gov.uk domain: Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities | AISI Work