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from my link log —
The saga of phkmalloc.
https://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/phkmalloc/
saved 2025-06-17 https://dotat.…

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1l0cw3n/

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#FreeBSD 14.3 was released!
Some changes to `ps` -u and -O behavior, llvm/clang goes to 19.1.7, OpenSSH goes to 9.9p2, OpenSSL goes to 3.0.16, `sysctl` and `ip6addrctl` get jail support, lots more in the release notes:
https://www.

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE Release Notes
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Installer Dotclear sur FreeBSD 13
#dotclear

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I also finally got around to setting up a local Wallabag instance running in a FreeBSD jail on the home server, and applying the requisite hacks to my Kobo to replace its now-gone Pocket support (shakes fist at Mozilla)
https://jqno.nl/post/2025/06/04/reading-b…

Reading blogs on my Kobo e-reader via Wallabag
In which I compare two options for reading blog posts on my e-reader, using the Wallabag read-it-later service.

Okay, no fetches and no Mate here.
But just showing off that FreeBSD has that great Wayland stack, very much up to date, in the Ports collection.
River WM, Wayland, wezterm, FreeBSD 14.3.
#freebsd #riverwm

My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Ma…

Plasma visually bugged following an upgrade on FreeBSD
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1lne10b/plasma_visually_bugged_following_an_upgrade_on/

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FreeBSD: new package repositories for kernel modules
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2025-May/007611.html
For FreeBSD 14.3-BETA4:

Grr wanted to add a vagrant freebsd machine but It kept not adding ssh keys. password config did not work. While the fedora base ismage worked.
What do you use to run FreeBSD VMs on linux?
#freebsd #vm

Yes, I am a very political person. And that's why the unbelievable has happened in the last few days: as an old Linux and Unix user since the 1980s, I've switched from Fedora to Linux Mint... (and I'm still using FreeBSD too)
Technically a step backwards, as Fedora is far more up-to-date and modern, but politically and morally a step forward. Why?
Here in Europe, since the fascist, racist, narcissist, uneducated primitive moron and would-be dictator Trump became presi…

Okay, new NUC unpacked, radio mouse and kb acquired (bcs FreeBSD, you know 🤪), utp in da slot, I'm good for an install.
Will be tomorrow though. Busy tonight (bcs gf off to hometown, Vietnam you know 🤣😭)
And discovered spectrwm in the FreeBSD repos! Tried it briefly before, but it deserves better and more.
#freebsd

For anyone who wonders about the absence of system requirements for FreeBSD:
― the two bug reports linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1lcm1ze/freebsd_system_requirements/ may be of interest.
I reopened the first…

I maintain a heterogeneous MSP environment for backup which consists of a collection of sh scripts (they mostly run on FreeBSD) with (c) notes dating back to 2004, with 5 authors, 4 of whom are no longer my cow-orkers. As the unfortunate 5th, I am still doing tweaks to catch edge & corner cases >20y after the 1st author had the idea that rsync, shell, mt, & standard POSIX tools could be assembled into a decent free backup world.
Use Python. Or Go. Or even Perl.

FreeBSD pkg version 2.2.0 seems to simplify things for users of FreeBSD-kmods repositories.
Big thanks to @…
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

I'm preparing for that FreeBSD Mate install. The poll is already pointing to that 🥳
Thnx all for input; the polling station is still open.
I'll start out with 14.2, and have GhostBSD already lined up as a fallback.
Of course I've done a number of installs of FreeBSD before, but that was just scratching the surface.
Looking forward to the deep dive! Jails, ports, bhyves and podmans beware 👻

Worked around. There may be a bug.
pkg(8) --rootdir and triggers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1kvp4uw/pkg8_rootdir_and_triggers/
"As far as I can tell, nothing is triggered when I use the --rootdir option of p…

The FreeBSD Forums versus the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Recently: "Save Page Now could not capture this URL because it was unreachable. If the site is online, it may be blocking access from our service."
I assume that the block is inadvertent.
Pictured below: an attempt to capture

archive.today seems to be OK.
http://archive.today/2025.05.25-025114/https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/question-about-manual-install-freebsd14-2.97950/#21%

The crazy nutter:
- Updated Slackware KDE to 6.4
- Discuss make.conf and cpu flags for gentoo dwm
- Spend the afternoon in FreeBSD 14.3, with the river wm et al. Wifi is working, sound is good, usb mounting also but bt not and smb is challenging
- Brought back waybar to a normal statusbar, excluding all cruft
- Keybinds and rules are up and running mostly.
And then you find out riverwm probably doesn't support switchtotag (open terminal, it opens on tag 2 a…

FreeBSD: icons are broken in Geany, GIMP, HandBrake, PDF Arranger, Remmina, and various other applications.
In addition to the four screenshots here in Mastodon:
― https://i.imgur.com/iJ2eKe6.png – the Save As dialogue in Firefox (the File Open dialogue is similarly broken)
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Fun fact: NUC's with the Intel N150 are certainly not supported everywhere....
FreeBSD 14.2, 14.3,15.0; Void, MXLinux 23.6ahs, Artix daily 20250609, Ubuntu 25.04 install fine, but don't get past the resulting Grub menu.
Fedora 42, Linux Mint 22.1 (surprising!), Slackware Current liveslak Slackeroni & Mate and the Arch iso do.
And of course our all time fav Win 11 Pro 😜
Something to keep in mind when scoring the latest and greatest for that amazingly low p…

@… nearly all of my tests were before exiting bsdinstall. In the chroot for final changes before booting the installed system.
Re: <https://www.

Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): May 2025 report from the FreeBSD Foundation
<https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2025-05.md>
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