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KDE Plasma with Wayland on FreeBSD in Oracle VirtualBox
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8gytd/kde_plasma_with_wayland_on_freebsd_in_oracle/
I get SDDM, but not the Wayland option.

FreeBSD release/15.0.0 is tagged.
Builds have begun.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p8haso/git_52f8c56b66b5_create_tag_release1500/> thanks to Colin Percival.
<

Escaping Containment: A Security Analysis of FreeBSD Jails
16:15 GMT, UCT, UTC Saturday 2025-12-27
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/escaping-containment-a-security-analysis-of-freebsd-jails<…

@…
FreeBSD 15 Kernel crash on amdgpu driver : r/freebsd — https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pccacw/freebsd_15_ke…

heise | FreeBSD abseits der Kommandozeile: Fünf schlüsselfertige Systeme für den Desktop
Der Weg zum FreeBSD-Desktop führt nicht zwangsläufig über das Textmodus-Terminal. Verschiedene FreeBSD-Distributionen bieten fertige Desktop-Umgebungen.

@… I see pros and cons with Linux (Kubuntu), pros and cons with FreeBSD.
Today: <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oeeed6…

While I maybe a Linux Penguin, It's worth pointing out there are plenty of other free OSs which share many of the user space parts (e.g. the desktop) - and some very different; So, give FreeBSD a go once in a while, Then there are things like FreeDOS, embedded OSs, and ReactOS which can run Windows software, or lots of other things to play with. Give some a go:

The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms.

Updated the codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-mangowc repo. Still a lot to do, but at least the most relevant things are there, including the mango configs itself 😆 Also the sw selection has been amended, including yazi and foot now.
cc @…
#freebsd

"Craft a single network packet to obtain root": I had hoped that this type of vulnerability hat been eliminated.
At least, the Router Advertisement packets should generally not be able to cross routers.
Patch your #FreeBSD systems now.
#rtsol

The truth is, I’ve never trusted FileVault or really any whole-disk encryption.
I have a couple of FreeBSD machines using geli but not on their boot disk (is that even a thing?) and I’ve never been willing to jump into FileVault because it seems to have had a steady stream of “Oh, well, hope you have a backup” problems.
#Sysadminnery

Thanks!
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pyab53/comment/nwhhj0h/>, and I marked the opening post as answered.

FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 Now Available
#FreeBSD

from my link log —
Building an Ansible training environment with FreeBSD jails.
https://jpmens.net/2019/12/11/on-building-an-ansible-training-environment-on-freebsd/
saved 2019-12-12

»FreeBSD kurz vor 15.0 — Vertrauen ist gut, Reproduzierbarkeit ist besser:
Für das im Dezember kommende FreeBSD 15 haben die Entwickler Zero-Trust Builds und Reproducible Builds implementiert.«
Spannend und gut davon zu wissen und ich hoffe, dass die anderen *BSD's so wie Linux Distros dies nun auch umsetzen werden (wenn die es nicht schon tun).
😈

FreeBSD kurz vor 15.0: Vertrauen ist gut, Reproduzierbarkeit ist besser
Für das im Dezember kommende FreeBSD 15 haben die Entwickler Zero-Trust Builds und Reproducible Builds implementiert.

Hetzner
― does anyone have a contact there?
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1nemrch/comment/ndw7i5e/>

@… CURRENT is 16.0, not 15.0.
There should be no need for a SRV line in
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
See /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
Also: if you chose pkgbase (packages) in FreeBSD Installer, do not remove /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
<

Attention to meta packages alone is insufficient to prevent removal of the kernel.
In the attached screenshot, there was no force.
#FreeBSD #pkgbase #bug

@…
pciconf -lv | grep -B 3 -A 1 display
– from <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1phujt9/…

@…
Cannot install emulators/linux_base-rl9: kernel missing 64-bit Linux support
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

Told y'all before: FreeBSD has the most exciting and full-fledged stack of Wayland compositors and applications.
Most exciting part of Mangowc: switching between tiling and scrolling with one keybind. And a ton more, to be discovered by yours truly. Enjoying it a lot so far.
#freebsd #mangowc

@… critically: the port offers no hint.
IMHO there should always be a package message in situations such as this.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/…

Time to say goodbye to #Fedora, after running the same installation on my laptop for 5 years, it is probably time to test something new.
#FreeBSD maybe?
:freebsd:

freebsd-version: command not found
Is my bash syntax wrong?
#FreeBSD

@… also, because the argument has not yet arisen:
― don't call FreeBSD a bistro.
@…
#FreeBSD

I obviously had a great short break. Totally forgot my revitalized setup of the River wm on FreeBSD, finished the night before departure 😆 . Cleaned up applications for Wayland. My educated guess is that Tumbleweed will be moved off the laptop (I mean who needs AI?) in favor of FreeBSD KDE pretty soon...
Configs at: (https://

@… thanks, some discussion with William J. Franck at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1m21t7o/ann_f…

What great news! Now that is something I've been on the lookout for 🥳
At the time @… wrote a nice blog post about how, together with @… , the port was submitted. Read it here:

FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook
<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/> (parts) | <https://

@… @… @… I was teasing. Not truly expecting freebsd-version to work :-)
I found UbuntuBSD …

@… there's no need for a redirect.
It's not in the Wayback Machine.
vermaden is imagining things.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://

@… no doubt :-)
I made then installed the other required port (not packaged by the Project) a few times in the past.
I'm now updating FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT.
pkgbase is a joy. Mostly.

That updating went totally transparant and without a hitch, from beta5:
# freebsd-version -kru
15.0-RC2
15.0-RC1
15.0-RC2
Already going to RC2. And still running KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland. Kudos!
#freebsd

@… hi, <https://itsfoss.com/news/freebsd-laptop-adoption/>
"The FreeBSD Foundation is responsible for the FreeBSD project, including…

@…
Cinnamon and MATE should be fine. System sounds are audible on FreeBSD 15.0-RC4.
VirtualBox host: Kubuntu.
@…
#FreeBSD

I can, for example, delete and then only register the FreeBSD-vi package, with confidence that a related file will not exist.
We can think of this as telling white lies to the database.
root@clean:~ # which vi
/usr/bin/vi
root@clean:~ # pkg delete -fqy FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD-vi-dbg
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/man...
Generating apropos(1) database for /usr/share/openssl/man...
root@clean:~ # pkg install -qUy --register-only FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD…

@… I know that support for Wi-Fi is improved in 15.0 (compared to 14.3-RELEASE).
Details, I don't know. Release documentation is not finalised.
#FreeBSD #WiFi…

I'm not a proponent of software stores, but whilst updating FreeBSD KDE (in the cli) tonight a notification from Discover popped up about updates.
And, to my surprise, it showed all available updates: FreeBSD base, FreeBSD packages, like micro, obviously KDE applications, as well as an update for the theme I'm using.
Never seen that before on Linux, wonder if that's a FreeBSD specific thing 🤔
Either way it looks like the software store is finally reaching full pote…

We have sound! RTFM, ye olde geezer 😆 The FreeBSD handbook delivered (again..). On with configuring Mangowc (and some River) today 🥭🪟
#freebsd

pkgbase: all packages deleted without deleting FreeBSD.
pkg-unregister(8) is our friend.
pkg version 2.5.0 is something special.
A software reason to be jolly for a festive season.
Fa la la la la, la la, la, la.
#FreeBSD #pkg

X11Libre: x11/xlibre on FreeBSD: first impressions
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qgcihy/x11libre_x11xlibre_on_freebsd_first_impressions/>
– inspired by a recent claim that "everything works" (be…

Anyone daily driving XLibre on FreeBSD in 2026?
/u/BigSneakyDuck asks – <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qgcihy/x11libre_x11xlibre_on_freebsd_first_impressions/>:
＂I intend to run a poll on Wayland vs X11 f…

It was nice to learn about containers and bootc. But after reinstalling Cosmix yesterday (my NixOS spin) I've decided to stick to that. KDE on the laptop will be served on Alpine, FreeBSD or Void for the next month (at least). GitHub repo's will go today, I'm perfectly happy at Codeberg.

@…
From <https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports/commit/4e3e9a9363be07def97619a44955157b4ee9ba45> for…

@… season's greetings from Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT with pkgbase 🎄
#KDE #Plasma #FreeBSD

My 'complaining' about KDE has led to an extra effort by the FreeBSD community to pull me in 🤣 Ungoogled Chromium is back in ports with the latest version 👍🏻
#freebsd

@… thanks!
Hints:
― procfs(5) is deprecated (the FreeBSD Handbook is outdated; <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?qu

FreeBSD bug 290024 – FreeBSD Installer live system: pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed (files such as dconf, indexinfo, xmlcatmgr not found)
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290024>
Cc @…

Love it when a plan comes together.
KDE Plasma 6.5.2 Wayland on FreeBSD 15 beta 5. My how-to will be updated tomorrow (some minor tweaks), but this is running solid on that laptop.
Thanks to @… for useful additions!
#freebsd

@… Plasma kernel with a hybrid FreeBSD/Linux userland ;-)

@… <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q3s0nu/comment/o02rj3l/>, NB the follow-up.

No need to be left behind.
The adjusted how-to is up and running at https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland.
So, go and get your latest KDE Plasma 6.5.2.Wayland on FreeBSD!

What I want, now, is a pkg command to list unregistered packages.
Oops, too late 🙃
#FreeBSD #pkg #MissionImpossible

@… @… @… FreeBSD 15 has three package repositories preconfigured:
FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-ports

For greater confidence, I must also lock the packages for which files were not installed.
Without locking: an upgrade may cause unwanted installation. <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1psmi54/comment/nvt7rq7/?context=1>

Has anyone successfully used these FreeBSD Project-provided virtual machine disk images?
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow2
Not booting for me in QEMU. Respectively:
― <https://…

When you get that opacity and Gruvbox theme working in Wezterm (wezterm.lua).
Pushing my luck here, but it looks to turn out as a great day.
#freebsd #wezterm #geekspeak

FreeBSD search: <https://www.freebsd.org/search/>
FreeBSD mailing list search engine: <https://lists.freebsd.org/search/…

The easy way out is riverwm on FreeBSD, dots and set-up already available on my Codeberg.
The more challenging way is qtile or sway on FreeBSD 15.
Let's get out of that slump!
#freebsd

@… incidentally,
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1925> – Don't overwrite /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
"… beca…

@… belated thanks … I still don't understand the calculations, but I'm not precious about the UNIX philosophy.
I stumbled across my old toot whilst responding to a FreeBSD/Linux post, https://www.

FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 Now Available
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20251119010332.2562F1B16C>
<

Given <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/ee110941e35c4354baa2e5b6fd64d3025cff4b7e> (2025-07-25), should <

@… thank you, again.
Sigh: <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/740074>.
On the plus side:
― <

@… I'm reassured by the top-ranking related comment in YouTube.
Yes, it's anime.
#FreeBSD #KDE

bsdinstall: Mount /dev and /packages after using the shell to partition disks
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/f63a8c0a0915a3eceac179d4d18b2c03b1319fa2> was a few days after FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. For <

I wonder why fonts are wrong in Konsole in LXQt Desktop.
(Not wrong in Openbox or KDE Plasma.)
#FreeBSD #LXQt
<https://

@… <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1loonbz/comment/n4rtrtw/>

GELI suspend/resume fails on non-rootfs partition …
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pr7l2k/geli_suspendresume_fails_on_nonrootfs_partition/> | <

@… setting a password in single user mode can be … ahem … entertaining, if your keyboard is not the United States standard.
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show

@… mis-typing your own username is OK.
The real fun begins when you lock yourself out, during installation, with a correctly typed password.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla…

FreeBSD: state of Wayland on NVIDIA
@… do you know, is <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1oyz96y/comment/np7zsr7/>…

@… also:
pkg prime-origins | sort -u
pkg leaf | grep -v FreeBSD
pkg leaf
Leaves, fall, nuts, and kernels: <https://www.reddit.com/r/fre…

Display brightness: "… some backlight hardware simply is not controllable with FreeBSD …" – true or false?
Would "not easily controllable" be truer?
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pn9flt/comment/nufe3nf/?context=1…

@… the configuration for FreeBSD-base was traditionally at:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf
I think of pkgbasify as setting and continuing that tradition, although it should probably change to FreeBSD.conf for consistency with what's done with things such as FreeBSD Installer.
It's OK to touch FreeBSD.conf.
Not OK to o…

@… reportedly not working for someone at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1os15la/drm_on_freebsd/

FreeBSD bug 291034 – Minimal base is not compatible with (for example) bsdinstall keymap
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291034>
> … for the correctly-keyed password:
>
> Login incorrect
– via <

@… thanks!
It didn't bug me personally (virtual hardware). I can't recall where I first saw a discussion, but it would have been users of NVIDIA on physical hardware.
Maybe something should be noted under <

From <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290344#c5>:
＂Without force: deleting all packages may cause removal of the one and only kernel …＂
In other words, if I'm not mistaken, flagging FreeBSD-base meta packages as vital does not necessa…

Solved.
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pdsyfo/freebsdbase_major_upgrades_pkgstatic_no_trusted/nty3dqx/> includes my rough notes from apparently successful major upgrades in VirtualBox

@… at <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/732569>, SirDice wrote:
＂… it was likely trashed because people kept making it political.＂
Additional food for thou…

Upgrading a base package install from 15.0-RELEASE to 16.0-CURRENT
Simple.
<https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2026-01-18-upgrading-base-packages-to-current/> @…

@… I count two posts in /r/freebsd – not a ton there.
@… @…

OK, it's not just me :-)
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?0100019bd2ccfdea-5246b911-2304-42ad-a249-a7a44505ef57-000000>
＂Yeah, we had some weird breakage on the VM builds last week. At first …

@… clarification:
＂… it was more about the wider "vibe" I get when taking a high-level look at the FreeBSD community (and the BSD community in general, as this isn't specific to FreeBSD, it just happens to be the largest one). …
My hope is that should I interact more with FreeBSD in the future, the community turns out to be a lot bet…

@… below, is the apparent mismatch between 580.95.x and 580.105.x likely to cause an actual problem?
Or does it simply _look_ a little strange?
Thanks
New packages to be INSTALLED:
drm-66-kmod: 6.6.25.1500068_8 [FreeBSD-ports-kmods]
egl-wayland: 1.1.20 [FreeBSD-ports]
nvidia-driver: 580.95.05 [FreeBSD-port…

@… thanks!
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q82jiq/goal_framework_laptop_12_with_freebsd_as_…

@… I can't find your thread about things going wrong with … was it swap and fstab?
<https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169077> …

@… @… firmwmware for iwm is automatic with the FreeBSD-set-minimal meta package.
root@clean:~ # pkg info --required-by FreeBSD-firmware-iwm
FreeBSD-firmware-iwm-15.0:
FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.0
root@clean:~…

I got most ARM64 machines working in QEMU. One exception:
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow
XML at <#FreeBSD

FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for X86 compatible, DEC Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 and UltraSPARC architectures.
Что такое FreeBSD?
FreeBSD - это мощная операционная система для компьютеров архитектур, совместимых с x86, AMD64, Alpha, IA-64, PC-98 и UltraSPARC®. Она основана на BSD, версии UNIX®, созданной в Калифорнийском Университете в Беркли. Она разрабатывается и поддерживается большой командой разработчиков. Поддержка других платформ находится на разных стадиях разработки.<…

@… some of what's written about pkgbase is unnecessarily alarmist.
In a nutshell: you can use it for RELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT. No need to build from source for updates.
#FreeBSD

@… add a hashtag? Thanks.
#FreeBSD

@… partially quoted at <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1plg50g/comment/nufguez/>, hope that's OK with you. …

@… bookmarked, thanks.
A little discussion (straying into comparable pages): https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/

@… from the posts below, I assumed that whilst 6.9 does work for Intel Meteor Lake graphics, acceleration was an issue. Maybe I misunderstood.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/co…

Honey, I shrunk the kernel!
@… #FreeBSD #pkgbase

@…
/usr/home is legacy FreeBSD.
@…

@… occasional gems, or puzzles, may be found in commit log messages.
<https://freshbsd.org/freebsd/doc/commit/3d68db2b1d…

If this file exists, please do NOT follow the widespread advice to overwrite it:
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
Bug reports for the src and doc trees, and the wiki:
― <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291501>
― <

@…
An example: neither <https://duckduckgo.com/?q="lists.freebsd.org/search and www.…