New 𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 [Add Port to FreeBSD Ports] on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/add-port-to-freebsd-ports/

#verblog #freebsd #packages #ports #pkg #submit #add

Before this poll: were you aware of the search page?

#FreeBSD

Screenshot to follow.

FreeBSD crowd, what’s the lowest power device (in terms of Watts) made in the last few years that you’ve got FreeBSD successfully running on and with essential functionality like networking? #FreeBSD

building FreeBSD release media (the installer) with pkgbase instead of installworld: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54542

this is much faster, and also means you could build media from pkg.f.o without having to build src first, which is handy for building custom media.

and a few more changes in that stack to try to make this a bit more configurable and less finicky and error prone, since building the media has always been a bit of a hassle, especially if something goes wrong.

hopefully we can get all the release improvements for 16 in early enough that we're not left rushing to fix everything before release like we were with 15.

next: allowing the pkgbase installer to handle multiple kernel options, so we can provide both debug and non-debug GENERIC on the media…

#freebsd

Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails!

Just migrated my blog (https://blog.hofstede.it) to a fully native BSD stack (where my Gemini Capsule was already living).

Stack (using Bastille VNET Jails):
- Caddy (Ingress, TLS, Reverse-Proxy)
- Nginx Jail (Internal. Static file serving)
- PF

The Cool Part: A Zero-Trust CI/CD pipeline.

My Forgejo runner deploys via restricted rrsync into an air-gapped "transporter" jail, which nullfs mounts the web root.

Security: Source-IP restricted, no interactive shells, no PTY.

The simplicity of files-on-disk beats container abstraction every time.

#BastilleBSD #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #IPv6 #ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD

The FreeBSD stand at #Fosdem2026 will be in building H.
The table will be shared with our friends #FreeBSD Foundation, #OpenBSD, #NetBSD and #illumos.

Here is the CPU usage graph for the last 24 hours of the FediMeteo VM. A full 24 hours, during which a huge number of people are connecting, helped by the traction gained from being among the top stories on Hacker News and Lobsters, as well as the many shares across the Fediverse.

RAM usage? Active, around 450 MB. Then there is cache, ARC, and so on. But in practice, zero swap in use after days of uptime.

39 jails running, 39 snac instances, nginx serving the homepage, and HAProxy. HAProxy caching enabled. ZFS snapshots every 15 minutes, backups via zfs send and receive every hour. The same hourly schedule applies to the recalculation of cities, countries, and followers for the homepage.

All of this on a 4 euro per month FreeBSD VM.

If anyone has doubts about the quality and efficiency of FreeBSD, this is the data to show.

#FediMeteo #FreeBSD #RunBSD #IT #SysAdmin

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Time series graph showing CPU usage percentage over roughly 24 hours. The x axis represents time from about 13:00 to 12:00 the next day, and the y axis shows CPU usage from 0 to 100 percent. CPU usage fluctuates mostly between 15 and 35 percent, with periodic rises during daytime and early morning hours. Several short spikes reach around 45 to 55 percent, and one brief peak climbs to about 60 percent. Usage drops to lower levels, around 10 to 20 percent, during late evening and early morning periods. Overall, the graph shows moderate, variable CPU load with occasional sharp peaks.

＂A thoughtful walk through … FreeBSD 15.0—its design, discipline, and why composable systems still matter.

FreeBSD 15.0 quietly advances security, adapts to change with finesse, and reflects solid, intentional engineering. It powers some of the most flexible firewalls in use today and enables forward-looking filesystem design. It does not claim perfection, yet it consistently moves toward it. FreeBSD does not chase trends, influencers, or corporate fashion cycles. It focuses on doing essential work well, then stepping aside so the user remains in control. This release continues a long tradition of careful engineering, clarity of purpose, and architectural restraint. Some assume FreeBSD has faded away. Quality endures. Disorder eventually collapses. In this video, we take a slow walk through FreeBSD 15.0—its design goals, system requirements, storage footprint, shells, installation process, and the broader ecosystem that has grown around it. This is not a benchmark race or a feature checklist. It’s an exploration of why FreeBSD still matters, especially as operating systems increasingly reflect commercial priorities. If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to use an operating system that understands its role and stays true to it, this tour is for you.＂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJc5qHVLzg @djware

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1q03ep3/freebsd_150_composable_by_design_dj_ware_the/

#FreeBSD

Infrastructure Modernization Commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency

We’ve published an update on the infrastructure program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation.

Read the full update:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/infrastructure-modernization-commissioned-by-the-sovereign-tech-agency/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #Infrastructure

I donate money to a free and open source project each quarter, always selecting one that has impacted my life during that period.

The final one for 2025 just went out: the FreeBSD foundation (@FreeBSDFoundation)!

I know they put the money to good use. I run FreeBSD on my primary laptop and almost all my servers, and the progress from the Laptop Support & Usability Project has been amazing! Our Mastodon instance burningboard.net also runs on FreeBSD.

Q3/2025: Nitrokey (@nitrokey)
Q2/2025: Linux Foundation (@linuxfoundation)
Q1/2025: KDE e.V. (@kde)

#foss #opensource #donation #freebsd #gratitude

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Proud donor of the FreeBSD foundation seal

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115790975758203115

＂… the reality is that building an operating system is INCREDIBLY hard, … just the stuff that we did with the debugger and all these hoops you have to jump through, …

I mean, that's just a fraction of a thing, like, an OS is ENORMOUS, and it's decades of work layered on top, and somehow, someone has to keep it all in their head and get it working. … it's very, very difficult to understand that it's NOT easy – and if anybody thinks this stuff is easy, by the way, go build your own operating system and see how hard it is. It is unbelievably painful. …＂

― https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1pwtsqc/comment/nwgvvbs/

#FreeBSD

The #XLibre Xserver 25.1.0 and the 25.0.x drivers are now available in the main #FreeBSD ports tree for testing. The legacy #Nvidia support option is enabled by default. Please update your xlibre-xf86-* drivers to match the Xserver! https://ports.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=xlibre&sektion=x11

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XLibre 25.1 Beta 1 ports in the main FreeBSD ports tree

@kde season's greetings from Plasma on FreeBSD-CURRENT with pkgbase 🎄

#KDE #Plasma #FreeBSD #pkg #pkgbase

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Screenshot: a warped view of pkg fetching packages for FreeBSD-base, FreeBSD-ports, and FreeBSD-ports-kmods

If you are keen on attending next year's conference and require financial support, please consider applying for the "Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant" for 2026.

You can do this by contacting the board before February 1st, 2026, stating who you are, what you are doing with BSD (😈⛳🐡), and why you should receive the grant.

This grant is in recognition Paul's accomplishments and in memory of his work and dedication to the BSD community, the EuroBSDCon Foundation is offering a travel grant in his name.

Paul was one of the few - if not the only one - to have attended all EuroBSDCon conferences since their inception in 2001. Besides his many contributions to BSD in general and the EuroBSDCon conferences in particular, he established the EuroBSDCon Foundation in 2010 to ensure continuity for many more conferences.

The EuroBSDCon Foundation Board will consider all valid submissions in its sole discretion and communicate its selection by March 2026. The selected person will receive travel expense reimbursement and hotel accommodation during the conference as well as free entrance to the conference and social event.

More information can be found on: https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

The 2026 edition will be held in Brussels, Belgium.

#RUNBSD also in 2026!
#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

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Artistic drawing of Paul Schenkeveld

The BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS devroom schedule at Fosdem 2026 is online !

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/bsd-illumos-bhyve-openzfs/

#Fosdem #zfs #bsd #OpenBSD #NetBSD #FreeBSD #illumos

The recording of the December 17th, 2025 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/ucedjjzQ_b0

We discussed OpenZFS terminology for new developers, Zelta 'rebase', #FreeBSD bectl(8) zpool history improvements, User-Space OpneZFS news, a change in ashift=9 and 12 behavior on FreeBSD, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

The SATADOM in my FreeNAS mini XL died. If I need to replace that, I might as well investigate alternate BSD-based NAS software.

I know a few folks tried to build #FreeBSD-based successors to #freenas Did any of them get traction? #sysadmin

I want structured output from `pkg repositories` (e.g. JSON, XML, something).

The goal: parse the data via my code.

Here's what we're dealing with:

[22:44 r730-01 dvl ~] % pkg repositories local
local: {
url : "http://fedex.int.unixathome.org/packages/FreeBSD:14:amd64/",
enabled : yes,
priority : 0,
signature_type : "PUBKEY",
pubkey : "/etc/ssl/slocum.unixathome.org.cert"
}

Before I go coding which might break with each update, is there an existing method?

Thanks.

#FreeBSD #pkg

Long rumored and eagerly anticipated by some, the fourth edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder

More: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html), https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition @nostarch #openbsd #freebsd #pf #networking #bookofpf #freesoftware #firewalls

The last new #Linux #kernel for 2025 was just released and there are some really cool changes all around. One of the new additions is detection for FreeBSD's #bhyve #hypervisor. Wicked cool!

From the article:

"In what might be a sign of the quiet continued spread of FreeBSD, the kernel can now detect and handle that it is running under FreeBSD's built-in bhyve hypervisor. Coincidentally, FreeBSD 15.0 just appeared as well, and in this release bhyve supports over 255 virtual processors [PDF] in a VM. Now Linux can handle that configuration."

The juicy details are here:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/03/kernel_version_618/

#openSource #technews #FreeBSD #tech

My test VM server runs #FreeBSD 14. Gotta update to 15.

After twenty years, this will be one of my last times running freebsd-update. Weird. #sysadmin

Maybe I should just make world?

I need to communicate with someone in #FreeBSD #bhyve ASAP.

I tried an unusual approach to ping @dexter but I should be more forward.

I need some FreeBSD-side help.

FreeBSD 15.0 Now Available

The FreeBSD Project has announced the availability of FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE, introducing updated toolchains, enhanced hardware support, improved security features, and key updates across the base system. This release continues the Project’s focus on stability, long-term maintainability, and consistent engineering.

We encourage you to review the release notes and upgrade guidance

Read the full announcement: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #FreeBSD15

The first device I'm upgrading to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE is the Raspberry PI 4, and there's a specific reason: I want to test a new feature - bhyve(8) and vmm(4) now support the arm64 and riscv platforms.

#FreeBSD #RunBSD

✅ Upgrade my NAS to #FreeBSD 15.0 with pkgbase https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/pkgbase?action=show&redirect=PkgBase

FreeBSD Now Builds Reproducibly and Without Root Privilege

We’re pleased to share that the FreeBSD Project now supports builds without requiring root privileges, removing elevated access from the release pipeline and improving overall security. This work was completed as part of a program commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency.

Read more: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-now-builds-reproducibly-and-without-root-privilege/

#FreeBSD #ReproducibleBuilds #OpenSource #Security

FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook

<https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/> (parts) | <https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/accessibility/book/> (the book)

Published today.

Thanks to @alfonsosiciliano, to @pauamma for review, and to @FreeBSDFoundation for sponsorship.

#FreeBSD #accessibility

New 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 [ZFS Boot Environments Explained] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/zfs-boot-environments-explained/

#verblog #beadm #bectl #dataset #desktop #freebsd #laptop #pool #server #zfs

@encthenet @mwl

Perfect conference fodder.

I know, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS7Ajnx9Q8

#FreeBSD

Does anyone have a complete guide to how vnodes and vnode paging works on FreeBSD?

D&I doesn't tie things together very nicely, and the man pages are lacking a lot of the interplay between the vnops and what various functions do.

I'm getting closer to understanding things, but it seems like there's a lot of interplay between _read, _bmap, _read_pgcacche, _getpages, and _strategy, and helper functions like bread/cluster_read that isn't well described (or split between all the different man pages in ways that aren't obvious to me).

#FreeBSD

Hi #FreeBSD community, this might be of interest to you.
Let me know your thoughts on this.

*** Experimental ***
Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD.

#EuroBSDCon #WSL #WSL2 #FreeBSDonWSL2

https://x.com/balajesankar/status/1970585411153207715

We at @BoxyBSD are happy to announce our new and modern website!

While the missions keeps the same by providing a free place for beginners to learn, educate themselves and test things in the wild on BSD-based systems (such like #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #OpenBSD (or even #smolbsd) and many more ones) with public accessible IP addresses, the old nerdy design only hit a niche of users.

We want to make BoxyBSD more accessible & enjoyable to everyone and this is one of the first steps. We know, a laggy SSH connection doesn't make fun and therefore, we're also setting up new locations to provide you a better latency independent of your location.

During this time, signups for new users are currently deactivated until the new locations are up and running and the first real-user tests within the new interface have been successfully performed.

Web: https://boxybsd.com

Thanks to @gyptazy for this :)

#BoxyBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Runbsd #vps #freevps #vpshosting #community #education

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New BoxyBSD website

The updated control panel at @BoxyBSD by @gyptazy

@gyptazy #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #FreeVPS #Hosting #IPV6 #BGP #DN42 #smolBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #BSDHosting #Hosting #FreeHosting #community #opensource

The FreeBSD platform was merged into the OCI runtime spec!

FreeBSD is now an official target for OCI containers (it’s been working in Podman as an unofficial target for a while).

#FreeBSD #OCI

For the upcoming Fosdem, we submit a common devroom titled "BSD, illumos, bhyve, OpenZFS".

Our proposal was accepted 🥳 !
The devroom will take place Saturday 31 January afternoon.

#illumos #Fosdem2026 #FreeBSD #NetBSD #ZFS #bhyve

The CFP will be published in the upcoming days!

Hey, @stefano, the lovely peeps from @forgejo just mentioned you too are running #Forgejo on #FreeBSD and are planning something.
I've been doing that pretty much since Forgejo started, so let me know if there is anything that you need :-)

Made my FreeBSD server at Netcup ready to host multiple isolated applications with automatic https via Let's Encrypt.

Internet → Server → PF firewall → Caddy jail (reverse proxy) → Individual application jails

Each app gets its own isolated jail for security, while Caddy handles all the routing and https. PF keeps the front door locked.

All of course with IPv6 first, where every Jail has it's own public IP address and using NAT for legacy IPv4.

Love how FreeBSD jails make this kind of segmentation so elegant.

#FreeBSD #Jails #SelfHosting #Caddy #ipv4

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Traffic flow diagram

Client: "I’d like to try some alternative themes for my WordPress site you’re hosting, but I’m afraid of breaking the production site."

Me: "Say no more."

I start:
- create a record for the test site

- bastille clone -l prod testing ip

- bastille console nginx → edit nginx proxy, add the new domain → certbot --nginx -d newdomain.tld

- bastille console testing → mysql → UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'https://newdomain.tld' WHERE option_name = 'siteurl';
UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = 'https://newdomain.tld' WHERE option_name = 'home';

- "Done. You can now connect to..."

FreeBSD, jails, ZFS. No limits.

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #jails #BastilleBSD #WordPress

🎓 2025 Google Summer of Code participant Aaron Espinoza ran a project to test FreeBSD device drivers written in Rust. Here’s a short introduction to that piece of work.

Watch Aaron’s GSoC talk: https://youtu.be/y82-t1tDLWg?si=9n6X3uDZB_Hk3mDr
💻 Explore the code: https://github.com/Acesp25/rustkld

We’re grateful to Aaron, his mentors, and the FreeBSD/GSoC community for advancing this work.

👉 What are your thoughts on using Rust for FreeBSD driver development?

#FreeBSD #GSoC2025 #RustLang #OpenSource #KernelDevelopment

I submitted my #kqueue support for sound(4) on #FreeBSD. I hope we will polish it soon enough. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53029

cc @JdeBP

It's such a small gesture but it speaks volumes about the community and the love the developers put into it.

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Terminal output produced by the fortune(6) programme upon login to the FreeBSD operating system. The text says: "You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways. The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@%d To delete d and all later snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@d% To delete all dataset snapshots: zfs destroy mypool/data@% Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you intended. -- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>," followed by the system prompt "`u@frost ~ %`." Huge thank you to Benedict for submitting these <3