freebsd

With the upcoming changes in 15.0, and some of the major changes before, FreeBSD development seems lost. There are solutions being applied and thrown around, without a problem. I think that the rust-in-base, deprecation of longstanding base utilities, and the push for more "toe-in-the-water"...

What do you think the biggest major FreeBSD version release was, in terms of the amount of users its changes would impact (not counting dropped hardware), and the amount of changes it made? I am curious to see what people's experiences with prior updates were.

Hey group, I always make sure to update my fork of base system on GitHub. I was inspecting and looking over the CI/CD pipeline when syncing my forked repository and I tabbed over because I noticed some security notifications. I guess CodeQL popped some bugs during the builds. What does this mean...

Hi gang! Editorial (brief) So.. the FreeBSD foundation posted a new article on their blog today (= time of writing) which explains 3 ways to try FreeBSD. I really enjoyed the article, but... uhm... what about us Microsofties? ;) They addressed Apple Macbook, Amazon (Lightsail & EC2), but...

Preamble. I installed utility sudo from ports system. Everything is fine! In my version of the OS the package manager (pkg) is already installed. I enter pkg info, and see sudo in the list of applications. It turns out that now I can perform any operations with this software through the package...

I got it working with Linux, so if anyone knows why that my Logitech bluetooth mouse (host) as guest 3.0 USB doesn't permit. I'm talking about, "a working mousewheel".. Does the Xorg come to be culprit because I rebooted after adding hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 To /boot/loader.conf The behavior...

So I got myself a cheap (well, everything is relative) Apple MacBook Air 13.6 M2, this is comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge - everything is soldered in. Of course I had to try booting FreeBSD on it for fun. I used the...

Google Gemini has a feature called the Gem manager This allows you to create your own gems which are custom prompts for Gemini So you can create a Gemini prompt that searches the Freebsd Handbook, Forum, Youtube and vermaden's site you can also set it to exclude Google results so you only get...

i have 3 jails that use nullfs to mount the home directory each jail has zsh installed and so they all use the zsh config files i need a way to check the os, so i can have different shell config for each jail so they can have different shell paths XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directories, or use X11 or...

Good moorning, I need help for install COSMIC desktop on FreeBSD I need the instructions, please Thanks

I have this Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptop now. As everything is soldered in, it is more of an overgrown phone, but anyway. For fun I tried booting a recent FreeBSD snapshot on it, the snapshot was FreeBSD-15.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-20250227-8a85584785e3-275712-memstick.img.xz which I put on a...

Just a heads up Freebsd 14.2 p1 is out freebsd-version -kru 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 14.2-RELEASE-p1 uname -a FreeBSD pollux 14.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC amd64 there is an update for musicpd note if you have a custom musicpd rc.d script in...

I have this idea that I thought that Linuxulator is great when it runs a Linux program. But there exists programs which do not work with Linuxulator or are not developed with Linuxulator or FreeBSD in mind. So when such software exists, I want to use Linux, because the program is made for it...

Hello FreeBSD (BabaOS) community, I'm experiencing issues with a Bluetooth USB dongle on my FreeBSD system and need your help. System details: FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE releng/14.2-n269506-c8918d6c7412 GENERIC amd64 Hardware: Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Vendor ID: 0x0a12...

Freebsd 14.2 quarterly has more up to date packages than Ubuntu 24.10 wlroots on Freebsd is version 18, on Ubuntu its version 17 dwl 0.7 requires wlroots 18, a lot of other wlroots wayland compositors require version 18 Freebsd is better if you want to use a wlroots wayland compositor...

Hey, everybody! Guys, I have a few questions. I've switched from linux to openbsd on my laptop for a few months now and I'm loving it. But I have questions about freebsd on my PC, which I also want to migrate from linux to freebsd. The only thing is that I really like the PoE game series. I...

I can't find an answer to my question anywhere so I decided to post on the forum, is my tp link archer t600u plus adapter supported under freebsd or not?????

I just installed linux-steam-utils on my main machine after trying it out in a VM yesterday but either it's no longer working or I did something wrong. This is all I get when running the steam command after following the steps I got after installing it and rebooting (Linux is already enabled)...

I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my PC (Switching from Arch Linux) and for some reason installing the drm-kmod package the handbook says to install I no longer even get a console when I reboot. Instead when I boot everything appears to be successful and then randomly my monitor goes black...

Hello, I have just upgraded my old HP nc6320 notebook from FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE to 14.2-RELEASE following the manual to the letter. The machine boots all the way to the login screen and I can log in remotely via ssh. Thing is I can't see that local login screen (terminal login), because the...