Curious to know the rough distribution of BastilleBSD and FreeBSD users around the globe. If you don't mind sharing...
Which region do you call home?
Curious to know the rough distribution of BastilleBSD and FreeBSD users around the globe. If you don't mind sharing...
Which region do you call home?
Yesterday, I experienced two disappointments, and in such cases, a bit of my enthusiasm tends to wane. It's been a long and winding week.
The fortunate thing, though, is that these very disappointments cause me to "withdraw" a bit into my own world. And this often means some cool "nerd" experiments. Plus, in the afternoon, some relaxation. And my wife is happy because she sees me doing my "nerd" things with a smile, and afterward, I have that sense of well-being to dedicate to doing some nice activities with her.
Currently, I have two PCEngines APUs (retired from client workloads but still in full form and energy). One with OpenBSD, the other with NetBSD, added to the FreeBSD one that's already been running since yesterday evening.
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Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html
Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #freebsd #networking #security #tcpip #ipv6 #ipv4 #bookofpf
It's important to recognize community members for their hard work.
Today we want to recognize bmac2 for his tireless work and many, many contributions to Bastille.
The project would not be what it is today without his help. Thank you Barry!
What does it really take to fund and execute a successful security audit in open source?
In this newly released talk from the Open Source Summit North America, FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Deb Goodkin and Alpha-Omega’s Michael Winser walk through the full lifecycle of FreeBSD’s third-party audit—from funding and planning to outcomes and lessons learned.
Watch the full talk here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7_0aKMs6zs
Proof that *BSD truly nourishes!
Just dropped off a FreeBSD server for a client (a bakery, how cool is that?!) who's already a *BSD evangelist (they've been running FreeBSD & OpenBSD thanks to my earlier installs).
They were so chuffed, they sent me home with a haul of their yummy products!
Best. Clients. Ever.
Do you remember the first command line you ever typed? What was it and on which system?
cd /usr/ports/x11/plasma6-plasma/ && make install clean
===> plasma6-plasma-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libexec/plasma-apply-aurorae - not foundcd /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/ && make install clean
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/cmake - foundThings I like about FreeBSD:
"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."
is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3
I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.
FreeBSD 15 recently gained a nice feature called "exterr”, which allows syscalls to return an error message string in addition to an errno value.
that's nice for lots of things, but particularly for things like if_bridge that have a lot of error cases that return EINVAL and it's not really clear what's going on.
old behaviour:
# ifconfig bridge1 untagged epair2a 20
ifconfig: BRDGSIFPVID 20: Invalid argument
new behaviour:
# ifconfig bridge1 untagged epair2a 20
ifconfig: BRDGSIFPVID 20: Invalid argument (extended error VLAN filtering not enabled)
this only works for syscalls which have specifically added support for it, so it'll take a while for everything to get the new errors.
Looking to self-host your own video conferencing platform?
Check out our latest blog on how to install and configure Galene, a lightweight video meeting server that runs seamlessly on FreeBSD.
This step-by-step guide walks you through:
Setting up a FreeBSD 14.3 environment
Configuring Galene for your use case
Tips for using ZFS to enhance performance and reliability
Read the full guide:
Does anyone on the Fediverse who runs #FreeBSD ever got WINE to work properly in 14.3? It just won't play games. I get weird memory issues.
If you do run FreeBSD and WINE to run Windows apps, please share how you got it working. Thanks!
Boosts very welcome!
What would you like to see built with FreeBSD?
FreeBSD is more than just an operating system — it’s the foundation for powerful tools, applications, and creative projects.
We want to hear from you: What would you like to see us explore, create, or showcase next using FreeBSD as the base platform?
Watch past videos in this series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9-5QC6vLHY
before and after adding Anubis to the #FreeBSD wiki and bugzilla services
https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
Long rumored, eagerly anticipated by some, "The Book of PF, 4th edition" https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition is now available for PREORDER. The most up to date guide to the OpenBSD and FreeBSD networking toolset #openbsd #freebsd #networking #pf #packetfilter #firewall #preorder #security (again for the CEST-ish crowd)
So I'm curious, #Musicians
There are now legions of people using #Linux for recording, synthesis, processing, etc - it's a full-on cottage industry at this point.
There are also a large number of Music Professionals using #BSD, but they call it MacOS.
But what I'm curious about, what is the state of Music Production on #FreeBSD and other non-Apple BSD.
I will not be surprised if it turns there are none, nor will I be surprised if it turns out that there is a tiny community of elite DSP nerds making high-end products with it.