And we're done! #FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE is working great here, smooth transition. And it looks like ungoogled-chromium made its way back into the repos again, so I think I'll be able to work with it!
Not sure why the fetch shows it still in 14.0, though.
You are correct „G” stands for GEOM. The rest is to be discovered (it doesn’t stand for Encryption Layer Interface). It’s been twenty years and I still didn’t get the right answer:)
This <$100 thing might be the most performant machine I own. 😆
Also, I've been experimenting a bit with #NomadBSD lately. It's not quite as polished as a Linux distro, but it's mighty nice! (Persistent #FreeBSD-based boot USB image, can do UFS or ZFS and optionally encrypt)
Hey #FreeBSD nerds :p
Has anyone configured passthrough for an nvidia eGPU / Thunderbolt using #bhyve?
Does it actually work properly (hear you get the full power out of it) on the VM getting the video card?
One of the most fundamental yet little-known features of FreeBSD is its ability to be used in read-only mode very easily. By installing the system on a UFS file system, you just need to modify the fstab file, change "rw" to "ro," and reboot. On the next boot, the system will automatically create mount points in RAM for the main directories (/tmp, log, etc.), and it will run perfectly.
This was the main reason why, many years ago, I chose FreeBSD for almost all my embedded systems. Even today, on my Raspberry Pies, I keep the SD cards in read-only mode and use external storage in read-write mode. This ensures that, in case of an unexpected poweroff, the system will come back up, and there will be no wear on the memory card.
I've been meaning to do this for a while, and tonight I finally supported @mwl for his new book: Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & Privacy
Every book I've read by mwl has gifted me with smiles, laughter, knowledge, awareness, and a desire to experiment.
Can't wait to dive into this new work!
2024-06-15: CfP closes (BSDCan closes on 2024-06-01)
2024-06-22: PC finalizes speaker selection
2024-06-31: Early Bird closes
2024-07-15: Schedule published
2024-09-19—22: EuroBSDCon 2024 in Dublin
I will refrain from looking up who decided that #FreeBSD needed to lose a magic comment line from every init script and config file but didn’t need etcupdate (or whatever we're calling mergemaster now) to understand that change as a no-op, because if I were to identify that person I would feel compelled to find them and extract my wasted time from the front end of their remaining lifespan.
@jhx Thanks. I have some older stuff here also which I use for #freebsd also. Jails to the rescue. Only Bhyve bites me every time booting so a separate debian box would be better.
@antranigv Note: the reason you can't use mount.fstab is because this parses the file line by line makes regular mount commands out of it instead of just using mount -F to the file! And there's not even a way to make mount ignore already-mounted errors unless you use -F
Maybe it would be easiest to umount the stopped jail as you will know for sure it was torn down correctly if you can successfully do that
if someone is interested in contributing to #FreeBSD but do not have ideas, here is one: "fix API compatibility between our libusb and linux's one without breaking ABI", don't hesitate to ask me for more detail
As planned last week, in tomorrow's weekly #BSDPub meetup, we'll delve into backup strategies and showcase some behind-the-scenes of the BSD Cafe setup and its backups. More details on the event's website: https://bsdpub.bsd.cafe
@mms That's super funny 😃 I'd love to go full in BSD, however many of the libs/langs I use are either not available or in a very specific version and I don't want to compile them all by myself.
BSD clearly has some momentum in the end-user area and that's great.
Alas, I have to consider some other hardware that is more BSD friendly than what I currently have for my main laptop. Wifi worked great on NetBSD, whereas it was flaky on FreeBSD, but the audio input was the flaky one.
A ThinkPad, maybe? I'll gladly accept hardware recommendations for BSD-friendly models from at least a decade ago (read: cheap).
Current status: Deciding between Void and Alpine for the next episode of The Main Machine Trials®
@greggyb@jutty Sadly most from Lenovo have BIOS whitelists by default, forbidding you from changing the card, though there's the option of getting an X230 with Coreboot pre-installed from various vendors.
I've been using an X260 for the past years, though I use an USB WiFi device (urtwn) or ethernet for reliability.
@netbsd@jutty Yeah, that is a pretty lame part about Lenovo machines. I loved my x260 and its dual batteries, but I've recently moved to a #FrameworkLaptop and I couldn't be happier.
Do you live in Guernsey?
Do you use FreeBSD?
Do you want to financially support its continued development?
If you answered 'yes' to all of these questions, then I have good news for you - the FreeBSD Foundation's payment provider have made some fixes so you can now donate from Guernsey!
You should also get in touch with me so that we can start a user group :-)
