Stuck at the „Loading kernel…“ message when you expect #freebsd to continue booting after the Beastie screen? Hit 3 while you still can to escape to the loader prompt. Type „set boot_verbose=-v“, confirm with Enter, then „boot“. Solved the problem for me. To make that permanent add boot_verbose=-v to loader.conf.

Sometimes I think, maybe I should use TrueNAS, and then I remembered that their C•Suite decided to give the to FreeBSD... the very same operating system and community of developers and engineers who enabled their company to exist from the start, to scale to the level which brought them success and growth and accolades from the OSS and enterprise storage communities alike.

So no, I don't use TrueNAS. Whatever many reasons they and their indolent fanboys push for moving to Linux, and I have heard them all, it's irrelevant. They didn't just bite the hand that feeds, they went straight over to the clown-show makeup meme table and slathered it on; trying so hard to convince everyone including themselves that this betrayal was the Good and Ethical thing to do.

Luckily there are alternatives, and those will get my time, engineering efforts, and fiscal support. One thing to remember: alienated users do not recommend those formerly loved products to their employers, they do not "spread the love" via organic marketing, and perhaps sometimes they dissuade when they would formerly embrace.

Apparently in the US today is #PiDay, but in the rest of the world it's 14.3, which means it's #FreeBSD release day! right?

(Don't @ me, I know 14.3 is planned for June, just let me enjoy this.)

For those that use #FreeBSD as their wireless APs: do you set your bssid to a random value? If so, how?

I just saw the Netatalk logo fro the first time, and am now inclined to wipe Linux off the RaspberryPi 5 that is running my Netatalk server and put FreeBSD it instead.

#vintagemacintosh #retrocomputing #freebsd #netatalk #globaltalk

On #FreeBSD 14.2 with OpenVPN 2.6.13, I'm using

data-ciphers AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:AES-256-CBC:ChaCha20-Poly1305
data-ciphers-fallback AES-128-GCM

However, this appears in the logs:

Note: cipher 'AES-256-CBC' in --data-ciphers is not supported by ovpn-dco, disabling data channel offload

What ciphers and fallback are you using to avoid that disability?

Anyone seen how to tell #openvpn to use the #FreeBSD opvn(4) option? - let's me use DCO - but there's no examples I can find which show what to do. First step done: kldload if_ovpn

Get ready for the European *BSD event of the year 2025!

The Call for Proposal is now open, and will remain open until 2025-06-21!

Bring your freshest, craziest, most mind-blowing ideas on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD & more!

You can submit yours at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/

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EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia
September 25-28, 2025

I was listening to the BSD Now podcast and they were talking a lot about BSD conventions. It sounded like fun. I'd like to go to one. They said they are very welcoming to newcomers.

With my social phobia and agoraphobia, I think a BSD convention might be more manageable than, say, something like DEFCON or SCaLE. My estimate is that the latter would contain an order of magnitude more people than a BSD convention, and thus take place at larger, more daunting locations.

The folks on the BSD Now podcast mentioned that to maximize enjoyment of a BSD (or any) convention, one must observe the 6-2-1 rule, which consists of at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, and 1 shower. This is reasonable. To help with my anxiety, I'd make it the 6-2-2-1 rule, which is at least 6 hours of sleep, 2 meals, 2 clonazepams (take one an hour before, and one during the convention), and 1 shower.

The closest upcoming BSD convention is BSDCan in June 2025, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The BSDCan website has information about accommodations and traveling to Canada. https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/

I looked up flights out of O'Hare to Ottawa on June 10th, and there are 20 available on the Air Canada website. It is a 2 hour flight. ~$252 for economy class seat and a shittier flying experience. ~$500 for a non-refundable business class seat, which is a more tolerable flying experience. ~$600 for a refundable business class one. I'm leaning toward the latter.

yes.

Has anyone tried using #ZFS as home partition and common between #FreeBSD and #linux?

If yes, Have you got an advice?

Boosts very much appreciated

#MyElixirStatus #FreeBSD I just dropped https://www.erlang.org/news/174 into FreeBSD latest ports, https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=84d19e6a367258225e0db1337bce401133f33145 along with latest #Elixir in the -devel flavour, https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=0a21db81b4b036504e7b1a59f5b38507cb01a05c and in a few days we should have gleam https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases/tag/v1.9.0-rc1 I'll wait for a proper release for that tho.

Do you know @dexter? If not, congrats, this your lucky day!

He's kind of the ultimate hype man and force multiplier, and an all round excellent human. I know him through the #OpenZFS and #FreeBSD worlds, though he seems to be everywhere! Every day, he's working hard to get the right people for the job in front of each other in the same room, and creating space (time, money) for them to get shit done.

Follow him, and when he asks for help, listen. You'll be helping to lift a lot of boats.

Recommendations for a lightweight local DNS resolver/cache for my home network?

Not a fan of the way my router's DNs seems to hijack all queries to redirect to a Network Login page, like this is some sort of free public wifi, whenever the fibre has a hiccup (which has been happening a lot these past few weeks)

Hello #FreeBSD friends,

I loan a new vps (Thanks @stefano for the provider name). As every #FreeBSD admin (I guess) I will use jails.

But which is "best" to manage jails?

#ezjail is no morre maintened
#iocage, I tryied(??) and I don't really like it
#cbsd
#bastille
still #vanilla
other tools?

Please et me know our choice andmay be why did choose this tool.

Thanks in advance,

Take care

@amoroso beyond all expectations, I installed #Interlisp from source on #FreeBSD today.

I was doing a quick test of how much pain it would be to create a port package for #freebsd

Maiko built on the first try.
I got the runtime via git.
I got the prebuilt loadups.

After unpacking, I ran the (obsolete) startup script and…it just worked. Medley running under Wayland.

Was it. Supposed. To work?

EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025

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GhostBSD 25.01-R14.2p1 released based on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 with MATE 1.28.2, better hardware support

https://ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_25.01-R14.2p1_Now_Available