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Hi, after various previous attempts to migrate to FreeBSD from Linux, finally i can do it.
First time AMDGPU drivers were a pain in the but to set it up (don't remember what version was, but several years in the past), second was the streaming of DRM content plus printer drivers with linux binaries.
But this time with FreeBSD 15.1, was an easy setup of those things
I wanted to install openBSd but got to know that my wifi card RTL8852BE is not supported on it. Now i want to install freeBSD whats the situation with this driver how do i install it on say a usb and then install it
Video, twelve minutes, 2026-08-17
>DJ Ware explores the performance characteristics of Btrfs, ext4, F2FS, XFS, and ZFS using IOzone3 on an MSI Prestige 16 AI EVO. By benchmarking these systems across various workloads like gaming, workstations, and servers, DJ Ware provides a technical starting point for users deciding which filesystem best suits their specific computing needs.
I tested ext4, XFS, Btrfs, ZFS, and F2FS on the same hardware to answer a more useful question than simply, “Which filesystem is fastest?”
Instead of dragging you through 26 benchmark charts, I distilled the results into four real-world workloads:
The testing includes small and medium workloads, single-user and multi-user behavior, and several different kinds of read and write activity.
But graphs are never the full story.
A filesystem may win a throughput benchmark while consuming more memory or CPU, behaving differently as the workload grows, or introducing operational tradeoffs that matter more than a few percent of performance. Your workload may also be very different from mine.
The workload model used in this video is new, and it needs more data points before I’m comfortable treating it as anything more than a useful decision-making tool.
So this isn’t “here’s the winner.”
It’s what do you gain, what do you give up, and which filesystem makes sense for what you actually do?
If you want to see the raw benchmark charts and the work behind the scoring model, let me know in the comments. I may do a behind-the-scenes or live session and go through the data.
>Integrated by Design
Why the Best Systems Are the Ones You Don't Notice
FreeBSD, from philosophy to practice.
https://vivianvoss.net/print/integrated-by-design
From Integrated by Design — Launch Day (23rd April):
>… Five months of writing. Three weeks of final proofs. Then the last 72 hours, dedicated entirely to problems one does not anticipate. In the interest of transparency, and in the hope that it spares somebody else a week of the same, here are the four of them. …
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928554 – please note the author's comments.
same as title
i want to know
how ports work?
how to install a linux app if it doesnt have a port/ or it is a binary?
how i can port a app in freebsd?
Hello , i want to run to run any v2ray gui for freebsd like nekobox
It is ported but it is broken , any suggestions for other clients that work?
>I have recently put a fair amount of work into refining the www/linux-brave port on FreeBSD to make it DRM-ready out of the box.
Out of the box means 1 command on a vanilla FreeBSD desktop and you are ready to go:
pkg install linux-brave linux-widevine-cdm
…
⚙ D58784 www/linux-brave: DRM out of the box, GPU auto-detection
Video, seventeen minutes, 2026-05-26.
>DJ Ware demonstrates how to configure thin and thick jails on FreeBSD. The guide covers essential prerequisites, including ZFS snapshots and PF firewall network setup, while utilizing the Bastile management tool to streamline the deployment process. Viewers learn the architectural distinctions between these two container types and how to implement them effectively.
In this deep dive we explore the real differences between Thin and Thick Jails on FreeBSD 15.0 using Bastille an easier and more widely used method of creating jails on FreeBSD.
I'm porting an application to FreeBSD 15. The application uses gnuplot. https://www.freebsdsoftware.org/math/gnuplot.html says that to install the package, run "pkg install gnuplot". This results in a "No package available" error.
How can I install gnuplot?
One so-called freedom that we do not advocate is the "freedom to choose any license you want for software you write". --Richard M. Stallman
Link: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html
There is nothing wrong with the GPL license. You should be free to use it if what it is trying to do is that same thing that you are trying to do. And indeed, the popularity of GPL tells us that that this is true for a bunch of people.
The GPL license is all about control. It controls what others can do with the software. Specifically, it forces them to release any changes made to the software under the same GPL license and publish the changes for the world to see and re-use.
The BSD license is all about freedom. It places almost no restrictions on how the software can be used, modified, and distributed. The primary requirement is that you retain the BSD copyright notice so people know that they are using something that contains BSD-licensed code.
Unlike most people who choose GPL, who just want any improvements to be made available to them, a tiny but vocal minority are members of The Religion Of GNU and claim that, through some dark magic that nobody understands, the mere existence of any non-free derivative work somehow makes the original nonfree. There is no point arguing with them. They did not reach that conclusion through logic and reason and no amount of logic or reason will get them to leave the cult.
Here are the two most popular BSD licenses:
main branch of the src tree for FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT ― some overlap with the abovehttps://mastodon.social/@mrmasterkeyboard/117113034580627041
> Made a proper no AI policy (and a Code of Conduct) for CoffeeBSD. :D
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> https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/CoffeeBSD/commit/275a4620098c3c120b7a5219b356234b913cd2e2
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> CoffeeBSD is the fork of FreeBSD 13.0 I'm working on. Originally intended for myself to play with but FreeBSD doesn't have a proper no AI fork so I thought why not about a week ago.
Tried kde and xfce4 and i cant get desktop to work just black screen
So is their any automated way that works to get desktop
Even desktop installer doesnt work i just reboot and get the shell again no desktop
GPU : GTX 1650
Hello. i'm new to freebsd and i'm trying to migrate a void linux nas setup running incus containers. so far, so good... i was able to configure a couple of jails for which freebsd pkgs and binaries where available.
The last piece of my setup is a proxmox backup server instance running in a virtual machine. By reading the handbook i was able to set a bhyve vm up and running.
I'm using plain bhyve, no vm-bhyve or any other manager. Yes, i like torturing myself, but i like knowing what's being done under the hood.
The thing is, right now i'm starting the vm by running a script manually. Is there anything to have the vm started whenever freebsd boots? I guess i could use some kind of script to do it and run it as a service (https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/config/#configtuning-rcd) but if there is any other and maybe easier way, I'd love to know.
Thanks.-
Personally i think its fine for drivers. but id like to hear what you guys have to say.
I have installed freebsd today (i am new to freebsd so please be patient), installed and enabled nvidia driver by using
pkg install nvidia-drm-kmod
sysrc kld_list+=nvidia-drm
And placing
hw.nvidiadrm.modeset="1" to loader.conf
but nvidia-smi fails with cant communicate with driver
GPU : GTX 1650
I have a VPS running FreeBSD but I want to migrate to other hosting provider. Is there any tool to automatically backup all configuration files and data?
It’s been a long time, I thought AI is going to takeover but unfortunately not yet.
The VPN service in my homelab suddenly stopped working after a Let's Encrypt certificate renewal today, and I initially spent a fair amount of time debugging it assuming that I had broken my own configuration.
In my case, it was a strongSwan VPN, but the underlying issue is broader: any service that relies on OpenSSL to validate a Let's Encrypt certificate chain may be affected.
My certificate was renewed under Let's Encrypt's new Generation Y hierarchy. It is issued by YR2, which chains through ISRG Root YR.
FreeBSD's ca_root_nss bundle doesn't contain Root YR, and, importantly, the Mozilla Root Store doesn't contain it yet either.
OpenSSL consequently fails to build the chain and reports errors such as:
C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=YR2
error 2 at 1 depth lookup: unable to get issuer certificate
The particularly confusing part is that ISRG Root X1 is present and trusted, so everything looks correct at first glance.
If you run FreeBSD services depending on Let's Encrypt certificates, especially after recent certificate renewals, check the actual certificate chain and the CA trust store before assuming your configuration is broken.
PS seems this issue has been known for a while https://forum.vyos.io/t/ikev2-remote-access-vpn-breaks-after-lets-encrypt-cert-renewal-ike-authentication-credentials-are-unacceptable-windows-error-13801/17574
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pki ca value — they need to be loaded as separate CA objects. Several people on the Let’s Encrypt community forum hit exactly this (thread 1, thread 2) and resolved it by splitting the cross-signed root into its own file/CA slot."
PPS I can confirm that splitting the certificate chain into multiple files, as suggested in the above link, does solve the strongswan issue. Simply splitting the Let's Encrypt given chain with a script, and placing the individual pem certificates files in the correct /usr/local/etc/swanctl/x509ca/ directory is enough.
After doing that, swanctl successfully loads the complete chain:
ca.pem, x1.i.lencr.org.pem, yr2.i.lencr.org.pem, and yr.i.lencr.org.pem.
No other strongSwan or client configuration changes are required.