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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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Ah, finally got this working on Aarch64 for the coming update of OpenJDK 24 for FreeBSD. This means stack traces on VM panics now should work properly also on FreeBSD/Aarch64 as well as Amd64. (Possibly also the other BSD's, but someone will have to verify that.)

Along with some other BSD related fixes and refactorings backported from mainline, I think version 24.0.2 will be the most solid OpenJDK for FreeBSD so far. It's still not on par with the platforms supported by upstream, but we're slowly getting closer.

#FreeBSD #OpenJDK #programming
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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:
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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. 😋

Trying to build plasma6-plasma from ports and I am not familiar with this #freebsd error

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 found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/cmake - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on executable: ninja - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on package: gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on executable: msgfmt - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/share/ECM/cmake/ECMConfig.cmake - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on package: xorgproto>=0 - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/x11.pc - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/qt6/bin/lupdate - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libintl.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libintl.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libGL.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libGL.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libOpenGL.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libOpenGL.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6ColorScheme.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6ColorScheme.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6ConfigCore.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6ConfigCore.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6CoreAddons.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6CoreAddons.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libkdecorations3.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libkdecorations3.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6I18n.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6I18n.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6KCMUtils.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6KCMUtils.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6NewStuffCore.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6NewStuffCore.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6Package.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6Package.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6Svg.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6Svg.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6WindowSystem.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6WindowSystem.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libQt6Core.so - found (/usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6Core.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libQt6Qml.so - found (/usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6Qml.so)
===> Configuring for plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2
===> Performing out-of-source build
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/work/.build
CMake Error: The source directory "/usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/work/aurorae-6.4.2" does not exist.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[2]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/x11/plasma6-plasma
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/x11/plasma6-plasma

cd /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/ && make install clean

===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/cmake - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on executable: ninja - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on package: gettext-runtime>=0.22_1 - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on executable: msgfmt - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/share/ECM/cmake/ECMConfig.cmake - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on package: xorgproto>=0 - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/x11.pc - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/qt6/bin/lupdate - found
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libintl.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libintl.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libGL.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libGL.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libOpenGL.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libOpenGL.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6ColorScheme.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6ColorScheme.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6ConfigCore.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6ConfigCore.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6CoreAddons.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6CoreAddons.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libkdecorations3.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libkdecorations3.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6I18n.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6I18n.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6KCMUtils.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6KCMUtils.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6NewStuffCore.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6NewStuffCore.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6Package.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6Package.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6Svg.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6Svg.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libKF6WindowSystem.so - found (/usr/local/lib/libKF6WindowSystem.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libQt6Core.so - found (/usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6Core.so)
===> plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2 depends on shared library: libQt6Qml.so - found (/usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6Qml.so)
===> Configuring for plasma6-aurorae-6.4.2
===> Performing out-of-source build
/bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/work/.build
CMake Error: The source directory "/usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae/work/aurorae-6.4.2" does not exist.
Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/x11-themes/plasma6-aurorae

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.

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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:

freebsdfoundation.org/blog/how

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!

Hi #freebsd friends, is it possible to make a raw copy of a hard drive under Linux (with dd) and run it in #bhyve?
I have a service running under an old Linux on a very old machine and I'm trying to back it up before the machine dies.
Thanks for your answers :)
RT appreciated.

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:
youtube.com/watch?v=V9-5QC6vLHY

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.