▲ 56 r/freebsd

Linux vs FreeBSD CVE numbers — is Linux just getting harder AI scanned?

How do you guys see FreeBSD in this context? Is the codebase genuinely cleaner and more manageable by design, or are we mostly just seeing fewer CVEs because 99% of the ai scanner currently scanning for Linux security bugs?

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u/Majestic_Department7 — 8 days ago

❤️My new Thinkpad runs OpenBSD incl. WiFi ❤️

• ⁠Manufacturer: Lenovo
• ⁠Model: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Generation
• ⁠Display Size: 14 inches
• ⁠Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U
• ⁠Processor Cores: 4 Cores / 8 Threads
• ⁠Clock Speed: 1.80 GHz
• ⁠Turbo Speed: Up to 4.00 GHz

Video and Wecam works. WiFi works with additional fw driver. Audio recording and playback works.

Only Bluetooth not working because OpenBSD, but I don’t care so much…

u/Majestic_Department7 — 12 days ago
▲ 154 r/openbsd

My New High security Laptop

Encrypted Disk. BIOS Password and MFA on OpenBSD… wifi works, too

I had last night and today lot of trouble to get it running. KDE plasma failed so I am on pretty XFCE. Lots to do, but all works.

What works:

- Bootup with encrypted Disk

- Video and Audio (Tested simply with youtube)

- Video Recording with Webcm (tested with vlc)

- Audio Recording (tested with Audacity)

With additional firmware drivers wifi works:

iwm0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265"

Got from Ebay for ~ 177 Euro // Problem: Display has little bit ghosting, maybe new thermal paste needed

  • Manufacturer: Lenovo
  • Model: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 6th Generation
  • Display Size: 14 inches
  • Processor: Intel Core i7-8550U
  • Processor Cores: 4 Cores / 8 Threads
  • Clock Speed: 1.80 GHz
  • Turbo Speed: Up to 4.00 GHz
u/Majestic_Department7 — 12 days ago

My Homelab on one PC is running on Linux Mint (so it is not only for beginners??)

3 Proxmox Virtual Servers with Guests (Windows Server, Windows 10, etc)

1 Windows 11 in KVM

1 FreeBSD 15.1 in KVM

1 TrueNAS in KVM

And still idle :)

u/Majestic_Department7 — 1 month ago
▲ 75 r/qemu_kvm+1 crossposts

SOLVED: My Windows 11 crashed today and reason was KB5101650 - Thank you Microsoft

Fix was

Boot in repair mode.

Replace tcpip.sys with an older WinSxS to get it boot again.

!!Important!!

After reboot works fix all issues you get now with network with this

wusa /uninstall /kb:5101650wusa /uninstall /kb:5101650

I paused my auto update Win11 till end of August.

I hope this helps some of you

u/Majestic_Department7 — 1 month ago
▲ 54 r/freebsd

FreeBSD is now my NFS Server for my Proxmox Lab

Simply adding a new network card vtnet1 in the proxmox cluster network

Added new network config to rc.conf

ifconfig_vtnet1="inet 192.168.1.60 netmask 255.255.255.0"

Started the network

sudo service netif restart vtnet1

Check the config

[root@freebsd15 /etc]# ifconfig
vtnet0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=ec07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS>
ether 52:54:00:d9:7c:55
inet 192.168.178.125 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fed9:7c55%vtnet0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 2003:c4:ef05:7600:5054:ff:fed9:7c55 prefixlen 64 autoconf pltime 1800 vltime 7200
media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
lo0: flags=1008049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=680003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
groups: lo
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
vtnet1: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=ec07bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,TSO6,LRO,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS>
ether 52:54:00:57:5e:d5
inet 192.168.1.60 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
media: Ethernet autoselect (10Gbase-T <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Check and Add the new Disk

[root@freebsd15 /etc]# sysctl kern.disks
kern.disks: cd0 vtbd1 vtbd0

Create on new disk vtdb1 zfs for NFS

zpool create pve_pool /dev/vtbd1
zfs set compression=lz4 pve_pool
zfs create pve_pool/shared
zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/pve_shared pve_pool/shared

Add the Exports to the 3 Proxmox Servers 51 till 53:

[root@freebsd15 /etc]# cat /etc/exports 
/mnt/pve_shared -maproot=root 192.168.1.51 192.168.1.52 192.168.1.53

Enable NFS

sysrc nfs_server_enable="YES"
sysrc nfsv4_server_enable="YES"
sysrc rpcbind_enable="YES"
sysrc mountd_enable="YES"
sysrc mountd_flags="-r"

Fire up the data transfer daemons

service rpcbind start
service mountd start
service nfsd start

Final Checks

showmount -e
ifconfig
u/Majestic_Department7 — 1 month ago
▲ 46 r/freebsd

The good old days of multiple VT100 Terminals work on FreeBSD15.1 simulated with KVM

I just found out for fun :D

Just add multiple Serials to your KVM machine.

And configure them on /etc/ttys to:

ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure

ttyu1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure

ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure

ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure

---

On reboot you get even the boot screen

u/Majestic_Department7 — 1 month ago
▲ 59 r/freebsd

Fantastic ... FreeBSD can Podman ... so i can play clumsy bird

This was more or less the approach:

  1. Install Podman

sudo pkg install -y podman ca_root_nss

  1. Enable Linux

sudo sysrc linux_enable="YES"

sudo service linux start

  1. Configure the PF Firewall:

Podman requires PF for NAT (internet access) and port forwarding (to play the game).

cat /etc/pf.conf  
# Corrected interface name from vtnet0
v4egress_if = "vtnet0"

# Define the container network manually so we don't rely on Podman to fill the table
table <cni-nat> { 10.88.0.0/16 }

# Perform the NAT
nat on $v4egress_if inet from <cni-nat> to any -> ($v4egress_if)

# Required anchors for Podman port forwarding
rdr-anchor "cni-rdr/*"
nat-anchor "cni-rdr/*"

# Allow all traffic (Crucial for testing)
pass all

  1. Enable and start PF:

sudo sysrc pf_enable="YES"

sudo kldload pf

sudo service pf restart

sudo sysrc gateway_enable="YES"

sudo sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

sudo sysctl net.pf.filter_local=1

echo "net.pf.filter_local=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

  1. Set Linux version to a conservative value

sudo sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=3.10.0

echo "compat.linux.osrelease=3.10.0" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

  1. Set Registry (`/usr/local/etc/containers/registries.conf`)

unqualified-search-registries = ["docker.io"]

  1. Start the container:

sudo podman run -d \

--os=linux \

--name clumsybird \

-p 8080:8000 \

docker.io/library/python:alpine \

sh -c "apk add --no-cache git && git clone https://github.com/nebez/floppybird.git /game && cd /game && python3 -m http.server 8000"

u/Majestic_Department7 — 1 month ago