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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
· 10h ago
Boosted by @trending@homestead.social
RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117396625341557692 Hey #FreeBSD folks, NetBSD hit more than double their funding target after adopting a strong no-LLMs policy. Something to think about while you draft yours, perhaps?
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NetBSD Foundation 🚩
@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org
... and, yeah, we received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!
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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: @dch@bsd.network
· 2d ago
Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au

#PortsLife #FreeBSD I spent another morning updating and patching a bunch of stuff. I have a couple of new interesting ports to share:

PatDiff: diffs for the discerning developer

markpdf / markterm: PDFs from markdown

  • https://github.com/ralsina/markterm ported mainly because it provides a great markdown->PDF tool, with pagination support! I want this for simple invoice generation, and it was really quick to put a fake one together! Written in #Crystal.

The lovely fonts are from https://mbtype.com/

Valkyrie B for the table https://mbtype.com/fonts/valkyrie/sample.html Advocate 55 Wide Med for the headings https://mbtype.com/fonts/advocate/sample.html

DejaVu Sans for the body, public domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts from https://github.com/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts

GitHub

GitHub - janestreet/patdiff: File Diff using the Patience Diff algorithm. https://opensource.janestreet.com/patdiff/

File Diff using the Patience Diff algorithm. https://opensource.janestreet.com/patdiff/ - janestreet/patdiff

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Shawn Webb @lattera@bsd.network
· 3d ago
TIL you can nullfs mount a #ZFS snapshot. This could be particularly useful for making sure jail root filesystems are absolutely 100% immutable: hbsd-current-02[shawn]:/home/shawn $ uname -a FreeBSD hbsd-current-02 16.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #0 hardened/current/master-n196551-d4411c7c9cc3-dirty: Wed Sep 16 19:42:46 UTC 2026 shawn@hbsd-current-02:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/HARDENEDBSD amd64 hbsd-current-02[shawn]:/home/shawn $ sudo mount -t nullfs /usr/ports/.zfs/snapshot/2026-07-24_before /mnt $ ls -l /usr/ports | head -n 5 total 3215 -rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 149175 Oct 7 00:59 CHANGES -rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 727 Apr 26 18:13 CONTRIBUTING.md -rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 1412 Apr 26 18:13 COPYRIGHT -rw-r--r-- 1 shawn shawn 13370 Oct 1 18:46 GIDs hbsd-current-02[shawn]:/home/shawn $ mount | grep nullfs /usr/ports/.zfs/snapshot/2026-07-24_before on /mnt (nullfs, local) hbsd-current-02[shawn]:/home/shawn $ touch /mnt/blah touch: /mnt/blah: Read-only file system hbsd-current-02[shawn]:/home/shawn (1) $ echo ohai > /mnt/README zsh: read-only file system: /mnt/README #FreeBSD #HardenedBSD #infosec #OpenZFS
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Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 @tubsta@social.bsdlab.au
· 3d ago
Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au
@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social I wrote something. Consider #FreeBSD for your next big project in the cloud. https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/cloud-operations-using-freebsd-compute/ RE: https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/117394092954747546
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FreeBSD Foundation
@FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
The Q3 2026 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available. This edition explores Production Deployments, with articles covering home lab consolidation, cloud operations using FreeBSD Compute, USB in user space, auditable credential-exposure checks, and more. Inside, you'll also find the Foundation Letter, a EuroBSDCon trip report, and the latest 2026 events calendar. 🔗 Read it here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/ #FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SysAdmin
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FreeBSD Foundation | A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project

Cloud Operations Using FreeBSD Compute | FreeBSD Foundation

Cloud Operations Using FreeBSD Compute FreeBSD is an excellent choice when it comes to operating system diversification in cloud IaaS. Jason Tubnor The modern cloud has been around for about two decades. With Amazon coming up with the idea to provide retail compute services (EC2), AWS was formed to rent out this compute, and other

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FreeBSD Foundation @FreeBSDFoundation@mastodon.social
· 5d ago
The Q3 2026 issue of the FreeBSD Journal is now available. This edition explores Production Deployments, with articles covering home lab consolidation, cloud operations using FreeBSD Compute, USB in user space, auditable credential-exposure checks, and more. Inside, you'll also find the Foundation Letter, a EuroBSDCon trip report, and the latest 2026 events calendar. 🔗 Read it here: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/production-deployments/ #FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SysAdmin
FreeBSD Foundation | A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project

Production Deployments | FreeBSD Foundation

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littleFedi - Official Account @littlefedi_official@littleone.littlefedi.social
· 1w ago
Boosted by @fedicat@pc.cafe
Thank you, @dch@bsd.network One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux. The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD. I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years. #NetBSD #FreeBSD #littleFedi #Fediverse
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Stefano Marinelli
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
I want to publicly thank @dch@bsd.network The FreeBSD port of littleFedi was already ready at release time, and it’s really well done. One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux. The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD. I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years. #ThankYou #RunBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #OwnYourData #Fediverse #littleFedi
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Stefano Marinelli @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe
· 1w ago
I want to publicly thank @dch@bsd.network The FreeBSD port of littleFedi was already ready at release time, and it’s really well done. One of the peculiarities of littleFedi is that it was developed and tested first on the BSDs, then on illumos, and only later on Linux. The first public instance, my own @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it account, runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W with NetBSD. I don’t think many social platforms have started out on NetBSD in recent years. #ThankYou #RunBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #illumos #OwnYourData #Fediverse #littleFedi
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Daily CyberSecurity @DailyCyberSecurity@infosec.exchange
· 1w ago
Discover the new FreeBSD EC2 desktop images. Easily launch a KDE graphical environment on AWS without manual configuration. Connect via RDP effortlessly. #FreeBSD #AmazonEC2 #KDE #CloudComputing #RDP https://dailytechnow.com/freebsd-ec2-desktop-images/
FreeBSD EC2 Desktop Images: Seamless KDE Cloud Setup
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FreeBSD EC2 Desktop Images: Seamless KDE Cloud Setup

Discover the new FreeBSD EC2 desktop images. Easily launch a KDE graphical environment on AWS without manual configuration. Connect via RDP effortlessly.

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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
· 2w ago
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@jaypatelani@bsd.network I don't want to spoil the #retrocomputing fun, but for those new to the BSDs who do not have the context and might come away thinking that they should move from GUID partitioning, or even MBR-style partitioning with LBAs, to disk labels: The "BSD disklabel" is a partitioning scheme from 1988 that can destroy your GUID partitioning or boot loader if accidentally mis-used. #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, and #FreeBSD haven't agreed on disklabel partition types since IBM's JFS2. They don't agree on what the types for ZFS or HAMMER2 partitions are, for example. It is 32-bit, occasionally 16-bit, in some fields, and mostly has the old 2TiB size limits that the GUID system overcame with 64-bit addressing at the turn of this century. And the on-disk data structures are no longer even compatible as of OpenBSD discontinuing 'v0' in 2025 (with a somewhat optimistic note in the version control history that no-one has written that to disc since 2007). #disklabel #bsdlabel
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
· 2w ago
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@phlash@mastodon.me.uk I just gave the world a re-write of the boot chapter of the #FreeBSD Handbook that does away with bsdlabel and (finally!) uses gpart. https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/117326574782531292 I wonder whether we can get the FreeBSD Handbook people to embrace this. GEOM was a big new thing in FreeBSD in 2003. I see that the #NetBSD Guide suffers from the same disklabel-centrism, when it is closing in on 2 decades of having the gpt command. @jaypatelani@bsd.network#geom
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JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
I actually read the #FreeBSD Handbook's chapter on how FreeBSD bootstraps. It's stuck in 2010. I'm not kidding. There's stuff in there that changed in the FreeBSD 7.3 release notes. FreeBSD can boot on UEFI firmware nowadays, and directly from ZFS datasets. There's a gpart bootstrap command, and syscons does not use bright white for kernel messages any more. In the meantime, the Handbook is telling people how to accidentally destroy their MBR or GUID partition tables with bsdlabel. Do you think that we can get the Handbook people to catch up with the actual operating system, that is 16 years ahead? (-: https://github.com/jdebp/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/boot/_index.adoc #UEFI #ZFS
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JdeBP @JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk
· 2w ago
I actually read the #FreeBSD Handbook's chapter on how FreeBSD bootstraps. It's stuck in 2010. I'm not kidding. There's stuff in there that changed in the FreeBSD 7.3 release notes. FreeBSD can boot on UEFI firmware nowadays, and directly from ZFS datasets. There's a gpart bootstrap command, and syscons does not use bright white for kernel messages any more. In the meantime, the Handbook is telling people how to accidentally destroy their MBR or GUID partition tables with bsdlabel. Do you think that we can get the Handbook people to catch up with the actual operating system, that is 16 years ahead? (-: https://github.com/jdebp/freebsd-doc/blob/main/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/boot/_index.adoc #UEFI #ZFS
GitHub

freebsd-doc/documentation/content/en/books/handbook/boot/_index.adoc at main · jdebp/freebsd-doc

FreeBSD doc tree (read-only mirror). Contribute to jdebp/freebsd-doc development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Shawn Webb @lattera@bsd.network
· 2w ago
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@vmcall@infosec.exchange @hweissi@infosec.exchange @notbobbytables@infosec.exchange @lavados@infosec.exchange @isec_tugraz@infosec.exchange Unless someone beats me to it, I'm hoping to test on #FreeBSD now that it, too, has a native inotify implementation (only recently implemented). It'll take me a couple weeks to get to this, though, as I have a few other higher-priority tasks to clear off my plate.
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