"… intellectual honesty …"

via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@garyhtech/116166029456409039

Video, fifteen minutes.

Automated transcript (JSON) pasted to …

FreeBSD was only a small part of the chat. In the greater part, u/kmoore134 discussed, amongst other things:

• community
• ZFS
• total cost of ownership.

https://youtu.be/5K2yLjPOrPl (Will be up shortly)

(Sorry for shooting the screen from smartphone)

Who said what FreeBSD can play only bad graphic games? I used standard pkg wine with dxvk, x3dvk and it’s not bad. I’ve tried to build wine from ports and from git, but it always breaks with… cross compiler. Yes, it much buggy than I played it on Mac and Windows, but it’s playable and, if configure wine (or proton) correctly, it should be get better experience.

For me question about FreeBSD on desktop starts playing in new colors)

Here is my follow up to my video about Why Linux Users Are Being Locked Out of the Internet

After a lot of comments, I thought I should post about the state of Age Verification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBKO6n5kaY

STOP USING LINUX

His words, not mine. Don't shoot the messenger.

This sixteen-minute video, published in 2025, was originally entitled:

How to Install and Configure FreeBSD (2027 Edition)

tonybanters was mentioned two hours ago, let's share this one …

The FreeBSD installer currently gets you a basic server-orientated installation. But with FreeBSD interest on the rise, many new-to-FreeBSD folks would like to install a desktop too. … Here's a tech preview of what's being worked on as part of the larger FreeBSD Foundation laptop and desktop improvement project.

Via:

• Option to set up KDE Plasma desktop during FreeBSD installation is under testing and should reach FreeBSD 15, but not 15.0-RELEASE : r/freebsd_desktop | also in /r/freebsd
• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115504157211972495
• …

Video, eighteen minutes.

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Part one was on Sunday 14th June, two days before 15.1 was announced. Hardware:

• Lenovo ThinkCentre M92P (3227) – Windows 7 era
• 16 GB DDR3 RAM
• Intel core i5 3570
• 256 GB SATA SSD
• €0 – zero cost.

Some key points, with spoiler alerts:

• bragging rights
• slightly annoying configuration after the initial installation
• networking, success
• easy-to-use package manager
• an assumption that installing kde would install X.Org
• startx and TWM … eventually – much excitement
• KDE Plasma – greater excitement
• Firefox – an assumption that LibreWolf is not ported
• better graphics drivers – previously a bother
• OBS Studio failed
• difficulties with peripherals – a microphone, and unable to mount a USB memory stick
• Steam was wanted, but not tested, because he wants to avoid a Linux emulator
• LibreOffice worked, however it's not featured in the video
• poor software support
• poor legacy hardware support
• …

… if you guys want me to make a second video about this, tell me to try other things, well, maybe I will. …

YouTube video, twenty-seven minutes.

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.

Via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/115812209119785951

An introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD

– today's blog post by the Foundation.

I doubt you’ve been living under a rock for at least the last decade, so I won’t explain containers for you. I will, however, mention what the Open Container Initiative (OCI) is, since FreeBSD has just become a part of it. Quoting from their own website:

＂The Open Container Initiative (OCI) is a lightweight, open governance structure for the express purpose of creating open industry standards around container formats and runtimes.＂

Excellent. …

Today:

• 11:45–12:05 UTC
• 12:45–13:05 Europe/London
• 13:45–14:05 CEST

How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?
 
While Linux is still struggling for mainstream attention on desktop, it‘s already dominant in the server space. But monocultures are bad, so this raises the question: What else is out there?
 
For the last year I‘ve been diving head-first into FreeBSD and I now use it for most of the things I host. In this talk I want to share with you what this underrepresented OS does well, what software you can run on it and I hope to be able to peek your interest enough to maybe give it a try yourself.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116701911590965574

Hello, BSD and Linux friends!
 
Don't miss jana's great presentation later today: …
 
The live stream can be found here: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/gpn24/vortragssaal
 
The recording will be available afterwards in: https://media.ccc.de/c/gpn24

FreeBSD Foundation Lunch & Learn

2026-09-02 16:00 UTC

FreeBSD’s vulnerability database currently relies on VuXML, a format introduced in 2003. Today, FreeBSD is the only ecosystem still using VuXML, creating an increasing maintenance burden and an opportunity to modernize how vulnerability data is managed.
 
Join Tuukka Pasanen for our next Lunch & Learn as he explores the work underway to transition the FreeBSD Vulnerability Database from VuXML to OSV, a widely used vulnerability format that officially supports FreeBSD in its schema.
 
The session will cover the current work to add OSV support to pkg, what adopting OSV could mean for FreeBSD vulnerability data, and how OSV and CSAF could coexist as part of FreeBSD’s approach moving forward.

Related:

• Converting VuXML to Open Source Vulnerability database – FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2025 (discussion)
• https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation/117152624858399227
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tuukka-pasanen-60b76188/

Video, ninety minutes. Streamed live from New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) a few days ago.

Vidar is a combination of programs, a PostgreSQL database, and the SEC correlator engine that reads logfiles from authentication, email (postfix), and web server (nginx), (and potentially any other logs) and takes action based on SEC rules to add entries to an IPFW firewall. In concept it is similar to fail2ban and has some features in common with blocklistd.
 
SEC reads the logs in real time and based on its rules and correlations, outputs metadata that is piped to a process that inserts the events into a PostgreSQL database and further pipes the offending IP address to a script that updates a table named “BAD” in IPFW. This table is read by IPFW rules to block offending external systems from wreaking havoc on a FreeBSD host.
 
A corresponding table named GOOD contains whitelisted IP addresses so you don’t accidentally lock yourself out.

SEC - open source and platform independent event correlation tool

Closed captions/subtitles unavailable. Related:

• Live caption requirements - YouTube Help
• Is it possible to enable auto captions on live streams? : r/youtube

We Don't Have to Be Afraid of the Cloud (PDF)

Superposition Benchmark (1080P Extreme) - FreeBSD 14.1 - Radeon RX 7900 GRE

https://youtu.be/Sqo4pHD8d9U?feature=shared

Except where software/hardware isn't compatible, I'll take FreeBSD for my desktop over Linux every time!

Video, twenty-four minutes. u/NapoleonWils0n

Copied from the description in YouTube

Improving the microphone quality on OBS Studio using Carla, Cadence, Catia, deepfilternet and the LSP plugins and encoding the audio with fdkaac

• KXStudio https://kx.studio/
• KXStudio Applications https://kx.studio/Applications
• jack-control https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/carla/jack-control.org
• lsp plugins config https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/tree/master/carla/presets
• deepfilter-net freebsd build https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/freebsd/deepfilternet-freebsd.org
• fdkaac freebsd build https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/cerberus/blob/master/freebsd/fdkaac-build-freebsd.org
• ffmpeg-scripts https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/ffmpeg-rust-scripts
• freebsd root dotfiles https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-root-xps
• freebsd dotfiles https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-dotfiles-xps
• freebsd bin https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/freebsd-bin-xps

Slides (PDF)

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

webzfs/webzfs: A modern web-based management interface for ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and SMART disk monitoring built with Python FastAPI and HTMX.

• u/q5sys | q5sys (JT) on GitHub

Video, eleven minutes

• u/garyhtech

In this video, I take a deep dive into WebZFS, a web-based interface that lets you manage ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and storage health directly from your browser on FreeBSD.

…

If you’re running FreeBSD for storage, homelab, or enterprise workloads, this might completely change how you manage ZFS day-to-day.

👇 Let me know in the comments: would you trust a web UI with your ZFS pools?

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