I'm not getting much traction on a couple of reported issues in #FreeBSD ports.

Can some ports maintainers / committers take a look at these please?

These changes fully BROKE every adguardhome installation and need to be FULLY reverted. I've reported as such, but have not seen any responses.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294574

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=294711

#FreeBSD #ports #adguardhome

#FreeBSD #runBSD 🤷‍♂️

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Meme of a giant toad dressed in a vest and jacket, sitting with its hands on its knees with a serious expression: "Gentleman, it is with great pleasure that I inform you, that I solved a problem today by reading the documentation"

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #mywork #FLOSS

@tfb @jrsharp
#FreeBSD had proceeded some parts of "abstraction" in this several decades.
For example, separation of buses (like ISA, PCI, USB, ...) and devices connected to any of the buses called "newbus" when it was introduced, GEOM for disks, NETGRAPH for networks. But the appoaches would be different with #NetBSD.
Putting newbus (current implementation) aside, others were for "flexibilities" over "abstraction for compatibilities".

My understanding in difference between aproaches of FreeBSD and of NetBSD would be...
FreeBSD: Make it work and stable, fast for running platform in production first. Then, consider making it portable.

NetBSD: Make it elegant and portable by separating machine independent (MI) parts and machine dependent (MD) parts. Then, making it stable would be easier to achieve. So the next would be performance tunings.

Link to document about newbus (already not "new" bus but "current" bus, though):
https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/arch-handbook/newbus/

@rl_dane @mirabilos Good to know, thanks. I've used FreeBSD and OpenBSD extensively, but have yet to dabble with Net. My requirements are hosting Nextcloud, Synapse, and an IRC server, and having a usable browser on desktop/laptop. I'll investigate NetBSD.

Speaking of #FreeBSD, do you know if they've made a firm statement yet? I haven't found much in my cursory searches...

FreeBSD Hackathon | April 24–26, 2026 | Wiesbaden, Germany.

We’re proud to support the FreeBSD Hackathon kicking off today in Wiesbaden, bringing together developers, contributors, and community members for focused collaboration and hands-on progress.
Over the next three days, participants will work together to advance FreeBSD in a productive, supportive environment.
Learn more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/hackathon-202604/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Hackathon #Community #BSD

105 days unemployed

Anyone have a DevOps or Sysadmin position available? PM me with anything if you can. #Linux #FreeBSD #hardware #academic #corporate

30 years experience.

thyme

#openbsd #freebsd #runbsd #foss #comic

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fish and daemon examine old photos

SYNOPSIS
bastille console [-ax] TARGET [USER]

DESCRIPTION
The bastille console sub-command will enter a jails shell. If a user is given, it will enter as that user.

EXAMPLES
Console into myjail:
# bastille console myjail

Console into myjail as bob:
# bastille console myjail bob

Console into a stopped jail as bob:
# bastille console -a myjail bob

#ManpageMonday #BastilleBSD #FreeBSD

NetBSD turns 33 this Sunday! 🚩

To celebrate 33 years of clean code, portability, and zero bloat, Challenging the rest of the fediverse to help hit this year's funding goals.

Also do drop a screenshot of your uptime, uname -a, or a pic of the weirdest hardware you've got running NetBSD right now. (RockPro64 NPF routers or Pi's hooked up to retro CRTs highly encouraged).

Throw some money at the developers keeping the real UNIX alive:

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #UNIX #RetroComputing #OpenSource #runbsd #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Linux

https://www.iqiipi.com/the-quiet-colossus.html

Should we rewrite BSDs in Ada/SPARK!?
#runbsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

We’ve published the second monthly report (March 2026) for the Cyber Resilience Act Readiness project, part of our ongoing 2026 effort to prepare the FreeBSD community for the European Union’s cybersecurity regulation.

Read the March report: https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/all-projects/blob/main/Cyber%20Resilience%20Act%20Readiness/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Security #CyberResilienceAct #CRA #Community

TFW you're upgrading to #FreeBSD 15 and it has fixes for inotify (an entirely new implementation, actually) which renders all your old workarounds for inotifywait and friends moot - and causes monitoring to go nuts because things you relied on not working suddenly work.

It's been a long evening. And I'm not even complaining! :D

The latest #FreeBSD Journal just escaped! My Letters column contains some of the best advice I have ever offered system administrators. "Snuggle the pain" is only the beginning.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/

@brainwagon @stefano Pretty sure I installed 386BSD from floppy disks, before #FreeBSD and #NetBSD evolved from the "Jolix" work.

[Edit - Lynne's obituary of William Jolitz: https://386bsd.org/memoriam ]

https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/

I wonder why they didn't check #NetBSD ! 🤔
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd

An overview on running #FreeBSD, #NetBSD and #OpenBSD on the #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 #arm64 board, bare and with PCIe extension cards, in the context of building a NAS system.

https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/bsd-discovery-on-the-pine64-rockpro64/

And now, the #dmesg for this bare #PINE64 #ROCKPro64 board have been uploaded to NYC*BUG dmesgd:

• #FreeBSD 14.4
• #NetBSD 10.1
• #OpenBSD 7.8

*using a curl call inspired by https://gist.github.com/afresh1/99cdd481184147f0e8c0

#RunBSD

sysadmin socks && Thongs.

#NetBSD #Linux #FreeBSD #runbsd #unix

EuroBSDcon 2026's call for papers is open, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Here is a direct link to the submissions form https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/submit/ew426G/info/

@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware

FreeBSD Forum outage: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/forum-outage.102193/

#FreeBSD

The FreeBSD Forums were recently compromised and are currently offline while recovery efforts are underway.

We will provide updates as more information becomes available.

Thank you for your patience.
#FreeBSD #Forums

@trashheap @grahamperrin I don't know about #FreeBSD but #NetBSD has policy of not accepting AI/LLM generated code

https://www.netbsd.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

@grahamperrin @dch @ltning I have been telling folks here in mastodon and in real life, for months about #FreeBSD's draft policy against LLM code contribution. I resumed using FreeBSD after having spent years away, due in large part to positive indicators like that.

AND in the past couple days multiple FreeBSD committers have alternatively told me "no decision has been made" or discussed at length in replies of how soon LLM in code reviews by some members will be done, and describing generative AI in floss as an arms race that FreeBSD cannot afford to loose out in.

FreeBSD has already made one popular list of FLOSS software accepting LLM code. (Rightly or wrongly).

I am frustrated that there is no clear communication on this point to the "people in the pews" who are concerned about this; and a little tired of feeling like people are telling me I am wrong for expressing my disappointment, in the midst of this chaos.

Users are trying to figure out how to keep their software stack slop free today.

Damn. This changes everything :-(

#FreeBSD folk - calling for your help!

Upgrading a server with broadcom NICs to 15.0-RELEASE causes VNET jails to stop resolving DNS names. Even trying direct drill freebsd.org fails. Can't even resolve local names.
Pinging IPs - fine. Just no DNS resolution.

Rolling back to 14.3 the jails work again.
Putting a different brand NIC in (i.e. Intel) also resolves the problem.
Seems to be a Broadcom only issue.
Fresh 15.0-RELEASE install has the same issue too.

I've had a forum discussion on the link below, where a lot of time was spent convincing people there's nothing wrong with my DNS servers

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/broadcom-nic-leads-to-vnet-jails-being-unable-to-make-dns-requests.101534/#post-751758

Any help appreciated! (But I'm probably just going to buy some Intel NICs)

#BSD #RunBSD

The European BSD conference, EuroBSDcon 2026 will be in Brussels, 9-13 September 2026.

You can send your talk, tutorial, BOF or other session submission to our program committee before June 20th, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

For more about the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #development #programming #devops #bsd #conference @EuroBSDCon

In case you missed it earlier,

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html

And I will have copies with me to upcoming events #openbsd #freebsd #bsd #pf #packetfilter #bookofpf #4thedition #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon @nostarch

@justine Not a hardcore user but this shitshow has caused me to look very closely at EVi. As soon as it shows up in #FreeBSD #Ports I'll be replacing Vim everywhere I can reach - including at work.

I wanted to create that port but since there is no #EVi release yet, and the Vim port is fairly complex, I'll probably leave that to someone who is a "hardcore" user...

Probably been discussed already, but any #recommendations for a good #usb #WiFi dongle for #FreeBSD 15? #RunBSD

Happy PF tutorial at #asiabsdcon 2026 day to all who celebrate!

https://2026.asiabsdcon.org/entry/talk/ZUQPMV/

Slides are available as https://nxdomain.no/~peter/pf_fullday.pdf

#freebsd #openbsd #pf #networking #packetfilter

Jail chroot escape via fd exchange with a different jail
CVE-2025-15576

"Note that in order to exploit this problem, an attacker requires control over processes in two jails which share a nullfs mount in which a unix socket can be installed."

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:04.jail.asc

#freebsd #jails #security