Optional Rust-In-FreeBSD Support May 2025 Status Report https://lobste.rs/s/juveen #freebsd #rust
https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-05-20/optional-rust-freebsd-support-may-2025-status-report
What's cute? This is cute:
$ grep bind /etc/passwd
bind:*:53:53:Bind Sandbox:/:/usr/sbin/nologin
TrueNAS CORE lebt weiter: Community spaltet quelloffenen Fork zVault ab
iXsystems setzt künftig auf die GNU/Linux-Variante von TrueNAS. Daher entwickelt die Community die FreeBSD-Version TrueNAS CORE im Fork zVault weiter.
Just released: #swad 0.10
https://github.com/Zirias/swad/releases/tag/v0.10
Swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon". If you're looking for a way to add #authentication (and/or proof-of-work access as known from #anubis) to your #nginx reverse proxy -- without adding yet another reverse proxy -- swad could be for you! It's written in pure #C, has few external dependencies (just zlib, and optionally OpenSSL/Libressl and/or libpam) and compiles to a pretty small binary. It's designed for usage with nginx' 'auth_request'.
Swad is tested on #FreeBSD, some basic functionality tests were also done on #Linux and #illumos (descendant from #solaris). It *should* build and work on most #POSIX-alike systems.
This release mainly brings performance improvements and a few bugfixes. It's now stress-tested with Apache jmeter, verifying it can deal with at least 1000 requests per second on my personal (somewhat limited) FreeBSD host machine.
So I was short on storage on my archive drive. I saw librewolf source code. It was tar.gz and ~800MB. I uncompressed it then recompressed it with bzip2 -9 and now it's ~600MB. Generally #bzip2 has better compression for such these data than #gzip.
Edit: But don't do bzip2 -9 all and everywhere. Sometimes -4 is the same as -9 however the latter being tons slower. Also there is pbzip2 for using all your CPU cores.
I see #FreeBSD is at release 14.2. Asking solely for a friend, you understand, what's the likelyhood I'd be able to upgrade in one shot from 12.4-RELEASE-p1 ?
They. That should spell "they'd be able to upgrade"!
#EuroBSDcon speakers needed!
My ever popular #jails tutorial needs a presenter!
Love #FreeBSD? Jails? Like talking all day to a captive and yet adoring audience? ***
I’ll be otherwise occupied this year but if you want to pick up the mantle just let me know and I’ll help you get up to speed.
It’s had the OCI container and network segments added and extended, it’s all open source.
*** actual audience may vary, caveat speaker
About FreeBSD — Why I think FreeBSD is a good OS
https://laser-coder.net/articles/about-freebsd/index.html
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://laser-coder.net/articles/about-freebsd/index.html
People working on Linux or the BSDs (or illumos based OSes, etc), are you using two monitors? And, if so, what do you use them for?
I'm trying to understand if it makes sense to keep two monitors on my desk
Please boost
Thinking about attending the June 2025 FreeBSD Developer Summit? Now’s the time to register!
Co-located with #BSDCan25
June 11–12, 2025 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Join fellow developers, contribute, collaborate, and help shape the future of FreeBSD!
https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
#FreeBSD #DevSummit #OpenSource #BSDCan
Not a long time from now in a country close, close by....
The European *BSD event of 2025! 
Registration is open!! 
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/zagreb/
Sign up early and sign up lots!
While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/
The schedule will be published on 
2025-07-15
For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 
September 25-28, 2025
sixel in xterm or the kitty protocol in kitty, I've decided to stick with good old #Xterm . Also on my #FreeBSD daily driver I'm used to such luxuries as icons in the terminal like font awesome or nerd fonts but even though I could have used alacritty or kitty to achieve this I have decided to for go them. After all what do they do other make it look pretty ? I don't get any other functionality from them and they can easily be replaced with text. You might have noticed too that although I'm a #Wayland chic on my #ThinkPad I've decided to be all nostalgic and stick with Xorg on OpenBSD. I haven't yet settled on a window manager be it tiling or stacking but #HerbstluftWM and #Openbox are in my sights although I'm still using the default #Fvwm right now. I have my Qutebrowser setup and aerc for my email. Printing via cups and xsane for scanning. Looking into nsxiv for an image viewer as the OpenBSD port of imv is well out of date. Yes I'm having to make small changes but once I'm finished this wee Dell Optiplex 3080 tower will be perfect for daily driving OpenBSD and I'm looking forward to learning lots more. #RunBSDDo you have an interesting project on a BSD and want to present?
EuroBSDCon 2025, Zagreb, September 2025 - Call for Talk and Presentation proposals is open
Feel free to submit at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/
Please also visit the main website https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/ for information about the conference.
See you in Zagreb!
#eurobsdcon #bsd #conference #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #unix #development #devops #freesoftware #libresoftware @eurobsdcon
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ISO a decent Python IDE again
Before the important question...
- often I use emacs (-nox)
- sometimes vim or vi
- blah on micro, neovim, ed, ee, etc
This isn't about terminal IDEs, rather it's about standard desktop IDEs running on Xorg, primarily for python, shell, ansible, sql
Eclipse + PyDev
1) Ages ago, Eclipse with PyDev ... crashes often and I have no more patience
JetBrains PyCharm Pro
2) PyCharm Pro for a decade, JetBrains ruined it with the UI redesign and critical plugins no longer work when running "just use the old UI mode it's still fine"
Spyder well...
3) Have been messing with Spyder but it's rather limited (no markdown native? the plugin is unstable when it's even recognized). Verdic is still on the fence.
Something else, what have I missed in my search? I have no quals paying for a license on a truly good product, which used to be PyCharm Pro - but no longer.
OSS Note: I never use MSFT products for any reason, so fans of vscode should not bother.
Dogfooding, new screenshot of the latest release of #GNOME Flashback (3.56.0) on #FreeBSD.
We can see several applications ptyxis, papers (in the future it will replace evince), decibels (the new default audio player) and in background nautilus.
If anyone is interested → https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286697
neovim setup as per my working #FreeBSD laptop but I cannot get the font awesome icons to display even though they are installed. I checked fc-list and they are there. Tried nerd fonts too.xterm will not display those icons as well as my default font Go Mono ??On FreeBSD, which interactive shell do you primarily use for your non-root user?
If "other", perhaps leave a comment about which shell it is.
