Freebsd archive

  1. Writing EEPROMs on FreeBSD with minipro

  2. I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner?

  3. Postgres wouldn’t take my pg_hba.conf changes

  4. freebsd-update hanging on “rebuild these ports”

  5. Xfce is great

  6. What I watched, Week 1 2026

  7. Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD

  8. Quick reviews № 01

  9. Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15!

  10. What I’m reading, week 49 2025

  11. I’m your new BSD Now podcast co-host!

  12. Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots

  13. The BSD, OpenZFS, and illumos communities

  14. An affinity for specific versions

  15. I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs

  16. Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD

  17. #SciArtSeptember: Permutation

  18. Sysadmin work and design shouldn’t be so difficult

  19. My A-Z toolbox: dcfldd

  20. Building a new home server?

  21. What’s the point?

  22. The Good News Train: Week 14, 2025

  23. Wait, you don’t need permission to run BSD or Linux!?

  24. Wiping machines every year

  25. Stopping FreeBSD jails in reverse order

  26. A terminal survey

  27. Using an element14 Wi-Pi [sic] on FreeBSD

  28. Which shell do I use on FreeBSD?

  29. What I need in a desktop environment

  30. Matching toolkits and desktop environments

  31. Do you run more than one BSD?

  32. My A-Z toolbox: bwm-ng

  33. We moved our home DB to PostgreSQL

  34. Germany’s sovereign tech fund invests in FreeBSD

  35. BSD people discussing alternatives, limitations

  36. Performance issues, and posts from Thursday

  37. The new SilverStone CS382 homelab case

  38. I love Linux! ♡

  39. Create a FreeBSD jail with just base.tgz

  40. Practical differences between FreeBSD and Linux

  41. Testing our remote FreeBSD Minecraft server

  42. Build yourself a little FreeBSD jail services box

  43. Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics

  44. Thinking about the Framework laptop

  45. I wanted an HBA for FreeBSD, not a RAID JBOD

  46. Can’t delete file on FreeBSD, even as root

  47. FreeBSD 14-RELEASE’d!

  48. Inkscape turns 20

  49. My default applications, via proycon

  50. Jay on AMD AM5 system stability

  51. High-airflow case for my FreeBSD workstation

  52. Ten games to know me

  53. Sculpting package managers

  54. Nico Cartron’s BSD journey, and a coffee

  55. My computer as a house

  56. Trying the GNOME desktop for a few weeks

  57. Which BSD did you start on?

  58. The version of vi shipped with the BSDs

  59. A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower

  60. My daily carry in 2023

  61. Whats the worst advice you’ve received?

  62. GaryH Tech discusses Linux desktops

  63. Music Monday, and Antranig tries LXC

  64. Happy 30th birthday to FreeBSD!

  65. FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops

  66. That’s a huge number of folders

  67. Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']

  68. FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework

  69. Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop

  70. The BSD sockstat(1) command

  71. It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop

  72. The OSs I use most often

  73. FreeBSD pipes and redirection, via @klarainc

  74. What’s that FreeBSD/NetBSD/Mac/etc drive?

  75. Cleaning out my notes folder, 2022

  76. FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE available

  77. Speeding up FreeBSD jail start times

  78. Querying TXT records with drill(1)

  79. The wonderful tee(1) command

  80. Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use

  81. Running Unix commands in real life

  82. Setting up Minecraft, for absolute beginners

  83. How do you create zpools? Via @michaeldexter

  84. A list of games I’ve enjoyed

  85. A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI

  86. svnlite(1) removed from FreeBSD base

  87. Resource use of FreeBSD desktop environments

  88. How we run Minecraft

  89. Basic fix between pf tables and macros on FreeBSD

  90. My own drive reliability stats

  91. Our sites are now on FreeBSD 13.1-R

  92. The @vermaden, @BasementTrix on FreeBSD not being a native PC OS

  93. Linux is native to the PC, FreeBSD isn’t?

  94. Time splits between various OSs, via Mark C.

  95. FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE available

  96. A quick look at console file managers

  97. PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Invalid archive structure

  98. Arigato, K.G.Kobayashi

  99. Another mention on @BSDNow!

  100. Committing dotfiles and other essentials

  101. My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting

  102. Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu

  103. Comparing lzop and plzip compression

  104. KDE Plasma 5.24 released

  105. What a FreeBSD/KDE user misses on macOS

  106. Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD

  107. A home NAS of the future

  108. The current state of Linux gaming

  109. My FreeBSD laptop... without a GUI!?

  110. One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower

  111. The @Zoomosis on ZFS, tape, and external drives

  112. Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys

  113. Feedback on my “not sure if UNIX won” post

  114. Unix Text Processing

  115. Nix desktop ricing

  116. Troubleshooting netatalk3 in a FreeBSD jail

  117. A FreeBSD Puppet refresher by Romain Tartière

  118. Using freebsd-update to upgrade jails

  119. Using youtube-dl on FreeBSD

  120. The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls

  121. Erroneous systemd Ghost errors in FreeBSD

  122. pkgin’s manpage

  123. Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD

  124. Feedback about FreeBSD, Linux VM gatekeeping

  125. FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6

  126. Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can

  127. Clearing nginx’s cache

  128. I’m not sure that UNIX won

  129. Umbrage at trying FreeBSD and Linux in VMs

  130. Answering @klarainc: Where I started with ZFS

  131. My state of macOS virtualisation, with FreeBSD and NetBSD digressions

  132. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE sources via Git

  133. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE available!

  134. Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi

  135. i386 on FreeBSD 13 will be Tier 2

  136. grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD

  137. FreeBSD 13.0-BETA2 graphics on the Panasonic CF-RZ6

  138. fstab in FreeBSD jails

  139. Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages

  140. We might have a Hololive FreeBSD problem

  141. Things I was thankful for in 2020

  142. Tribblix m24 available

  143. Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE

  144. Starting with FreeBSD jails

  145. Block copy disk over SSH with gzip

  146. Antranig moving from macOS to FreeBSD

  147. Responses to my new homelab server

  148. Building a new homelab server

  149. Mktemp started on OpenBSD

  150. NetBSD 9.1, FreeBSD 12.2-R, OpenBSD 6.8

  151. OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD

  152. Raf Czlonka on BSD licencing

  153. People asking about FreeBSD licencing

  154. Band names in console output

  155. Minecraft; and on FreeBSD!

  156. Linux Journal is back!

  157. Consolidating running software

  158. Forgetting to set UTF normalisation on a ZFS pool

  159. You lock your data with us, we cannot fail

  160. You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS

  161. FSF’s Free Software Gang almost included FreeBSD

  162. Allan Jude discusses ZFS on Level1Linux

  163. iperf3: error - unable to connect to server: Permission denied

  164. Finding file duplicates with fdupes on FreeBSD

  165. nvi2 in FreeBSD ports

  166. Checking if FreeBSD geli is using AES-NI

  167. Colin Percival on the zeroth-system effect

  168. Tutorial sites treating FreeBSD like a Linux distro

  169. Michael Dexter on software project communication

  170. More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers

  171. .dotfile management

  172. Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port

  173. My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams

  174. csh feedback from @debdrup

  175. Custom tab completions in oksh

  176. Quick FreeBSD bridge when your switch is full

  177. Colour ls on NetBSD

  178. Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD 9.0, for a FreeBSD guy

  179. Remuxing old FLVs to MP4, without re-encoding!

  180. Locking down SSH to specific IPs

  181. Gatekeeping, and Mac users on FreeBSD

  182. FreeBSD consolidation, and spam apologies

  183. FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550

  184. Gigolo failed to mount Windows share

  185. Removing characters with tr

  186. Clearing up FreeBSD GCC news

  187. FreeBSD 12.1 Nvidia desktop

  188. What started as investigating /opt on FreeBSD

  189. Symlinking FreeBSD svnlite to svn

  190. fetch: authentication error on FreeBSD

  191. Gotchas when adding a drive to an existing ZFS pool to make a mirror

  192. The envelope method, and 64-bit YNAB4 works

  193. The first FreeBSD conference in Australia

  194. Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES

  195. A technical admission

  196. Installing Hunspell on FreeBSD and macOS

  197. Enabling /dev/diskid and /dev/gpt on FreeBSD

  198. A personal retrospective on the 2010s

  199. Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB

  200. Comparing BSD potatoes in liquid nitrogen

  201. New KDE/FreeBSD team website

  202. What a FreeBSD guy uses NetBSD for

  203. Talking at FreeBSD events

  204. Funding bhyve VirtFS/9p completion project

  205. Searching for FreeBSD ports

  206. What I’m excited about

  207. Site updates, late November 2019

  208. Chaining addresses in FreeBSD ipfw

  209. FreeBSD 12.1 available

  210. Fun with online ECC memory shopping

  211. Consolidating all the things, also watches

  212. Custom awk delimiters

  213. Windows games on FreeBSD via Homura

  214. GCC being removed from FreeBSD 13 base

  215. Some more jot numbers

  216. Goodbye again to the Linux Journal

  217. Choosing a NAS

  218. A brief history of KornShell time

  219. My 2019 essential tool list

  220. ZFS isn’t just for NAS boxes

  221. Ansible name parameters in cron

  222. Ansible authorized_key and user variables

  223. Versions of ksh93 in macOS, FreeBSD

  224. Don’t forget the -y with FreeBSD Ansible

  225. Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS

  226. A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box

  227. Tweeting about FreeBSD, NetBSD

  228. Cropping a single row of pixels with ImageMagick

  229. When did you learn version control?

  230. Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool

  231. OrionVM launches Melbourne PoP

  232. BSD questions from @romanzolotarev

  233. User 'polkitd' disappeared during update

  234. Perl 5.28.2 in ports and perlbrew

  235. FreeBSD devd files need a .conf extension

  236. Curly bracket substitution in sed, nvi, Vim

  237. Subversion in OrionVM FreeBSD templates

  238. PF in FreeBSD and NetBSD

  239. Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?

  240. Inline substitution with NetBSD sed

  241. No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more

  242. NetBSD devpubd as a FreeBSD devd equivalent

  243. Learning about shell indirect expansion

  244. FreeBSD sh getting set -o pipefail

  245. FreeBSD shared object libssl.so.8 not found

  246. Stack Overflow survey 2019

  247. fd, the find alternative

  248. Finding the current week number

  249. Windows versus BSD and GPL

  250. Bookmark cleanout, December 2018

  251. Could not chdir to fulljail

  252. rmdir versus rm

  253. OpenSSH undefined symbol on FreeBSD

  254. A dev quote attributed to Maurice Wilkes

  255. A dodgy USB key

  256. Option wishlist for shell software

  257. Red Hat deprecating KDE, with reminiscing

  258. Xorg: More than one possible primary device found

  259. Greyed out VMware Fusion NIC settings

  260. Not news, but ed25519 keys are tiny

  261. Ports

  262. mkfs.xfs on Debian

  263. Can you do it cheaper?

  264. Linux to FreeBSD: lspci to pciconf

  265. LattePanda

  266. WordNet and Problematical

  267. ifconfig

  268. You have detached Mosh sessions on this server

  269. Deleting all FreeBSD jails

  270. Suppress echo newlines

  271. PostgreSQL NOT IN with NULL

  272. Argument mnemonics

  273. FreeBSD ZFS catching mismatched disks

  274. The WQ command is unknown to FreeBSD nvi

  275. rsvg-convert svg to png

  276. Using rsyncd instead of rsync over SSH

  277. Nice FreeBSD bash prompt

  278. $q q Vim bug, and moving to vim-console

  279. FreeBSD doesn't need moused for Xorg

  280. Moving from 1Password for KeePassXC

  281. Turning 32!

  282. My Akihabara GPD Pocket

  283. When you cd to double slashes in bash, tcsh

  284. Tokyo 2018

  285. Sorting a *nix folder by last modification date

  286. Ports Collection support for your FreeBSD version

  287. FreeBSD swapinfo

  288. FreeBSD.org using Let’s Encrypt

  289. How to really add FreeBSD users to groups

  290. Prevent GELI password boot prompts

  291. Keep it simple, Ansible

  292. Python interpreter for Ansible

  293. Ansible with FreeBSD

  294. freebsd-update timezone changes

  295. Case-insensitive file systems aren't clear cut

  296. The wonderful FreeBSD cal

  297. rgb2ycbcr and rgrep

  298. FreeBSD and ZFS with Plex

  299. Enforce 4k sectors in FreeBSD

  300. Force overwrite with cp

  301. Alternative Let’s Encrypt Clients

  302. Basic sh to scan an IP range

  303. Showing dd progress

  304. scp can tab-complete for three slashes

  305. Browsing tar files with Vim

  306. Upgrading and locking FreeBSD 10+ ports in pkgng

  307. Perl 5.20 in FreeBSD

  308. Burning ISOs in El Capitan

  309. Required Nagios email alert packages

  310. FreshPorts on GitHub

  311. Finding the current week

  312. Segfaulting Firefox on FreeBSD

  313. jot and shuf

  314. Taking the hint, git

  315. Ignore certificate warnings in wget

  316. Mount ZFS in FreeBSD single user mode

  317. nginx 1.9.3

  318. Renaming files with invalid characters

  319. When nginx add_header don't appear

  320. git-lite on FreeBSD

  321. sed versus Perl substitution performance

  322. Xfce 4.12

  323. CPU architectures on nixCraft

  324. The bane of GNU Info

  325. An unexpected FreeBSD 10.1 RC4

  326. Recording screens with ffmpeg

  327. Missing FreeBSD map file

  328. Hey, bash doesn’t exist

  329. Incomplete bash code injection fix

  330. Bash code injection vulnerability

  331. Using xz with newsyslog

  332. FreeBSD 10 performance

  333. Disable moused on a FreeBSD Xen guest

  334. Changing the owner of a symlink

  335. Initialising regrettable decisions with systemd

  336. Wheel group for FreeBSD visudo

  337. Use curl to download image sequences

  338. FreeBSD 10 PVHVM serial console

  339. Terminal capability "cm" required

  340. pkgng repository size

  341. NTP sanity check

  342. A basic FreeBSD NAS with netatalk3

  343. Downloading from multiple sources with aria2

  344. Linux RdRand

  345. SaaS cloud encrypting customer data

  346. FreeBSD and hardware random number generators

  347. ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM

  348. FreeBSD 9.2 with vesa in Parallels Desktop 9

  349. Linux doesn’t have to lose for BSD to win

  350. bsdtar and xz on one line

  351. rsync remote command not found

  352. FreeBSD pkg bootstrap is being restored

  353. pkgng is now in the FreeBSD Handbook

  354. Malaysian FreeBSD nostalgia and community

  355. Changing timezones in CentOS, Fedora, FreeBSD, Yuki

  356. FreeBSD GPT works just fine on the ThinkPad X40

  357. pkgin and pkgng for pkgwin

  358. Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD

  359. HandBrakeCLI start-at and stop-at in

  360. Point Gnome 3 Contacts to SeaMonkey Address Book

  361. Make Qt applications match Gnome 3

  362. BSDInstall is just wonderful

  363. Merging KDE icons into the Task Manager

  364. libcxxrt C++ runtime now available under BSD licence

  365. FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE

  366. Enlightenment E17 at 1.0!

  367. A barely qualifying post on DSLness

  368. I’m an uncool computer scientist

  369. FreeBSD 8.1 freshly toasted

  370. hptrr: no controller detected FreeBSD error

  371. Caution: filename not matched unzip error

  372. Picking up an MSI P43T-C51 for peanuts!

  373. Using pushd and popd with tcsh

  374. Excited, verbose review of Joe’s Own Editor

  375. Gnome 2.30 has been released, I think

  376. Unix file compression basics

  377. Graduating from nvi, kinda

  378. Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?

  379. Trying out the nvi editor

  380. FreeBSD 8.0 boots on a Toshiba Libretto 70CT

  381. Tcsh telling me DING!

  382. unzip need PK compat. v4.5 error thing

  383. Answering @JJProjects about $100 million

  384. SuperDrive likes FreeBSD, scared by Fedora

  385. An ncurses virgin installs it and tries it out

  386. Answering J-Walk’s clock

  387. Could KDE 4.4 be enough to win me back?

  388. An OpenSSH epiphany

  389. Fun with graphical Links browser

  390. Restoring damaged FreeBSD boot loaders

  391. FreeBSD 8.0

  392. Spreading the FreeBSD 8.0 love

  393. Late November night ruminations

  394. Torrenting, downloading FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE

  395. LilyTerm is my favourite terminal emulator!

  396. Fedora 12 installed and go!

  397. Friday night shell adventure

  398. ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail

  399. Kaspersky’s FreeBSD anti virus! What?

  400. FreeBSD in new VMware Fusion 3

  401. FreeBSD in VMware Fusion 3.0 is amazing!

  402. Freshly toasted VMware Fusion 3 goodness

  403. Why must external drives behave this way?

  404. Windows 7 not faster than XP after all

  405. Rearranging Gnome titlebar buttons

  406. Mac and FreeBSD guy trying Debian

  407. MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris

  408. Getting around a Windows ban

  409. 64bit FreeBSD Commander Keen

  410. Using Gnome icons in the Xfce desktop

  411. The Midnight Commander… editor?

  412. Review of Nitrogen background setter and previewer

  413. Openbox FreeBSD netbook software whatnot

  414. Xfce 4.6.1’s I18n and bug fix improvements

  415. If you’ve never tried Midnight Commander…

  416. Congrats to Gerard van Essen from FreeBSDNews.net

  417. Netscape reference in FreeBSD

  418. FreeBSD 7.2 has been released

  419. Using Herrie to listen to Whole Wheat Radio

  420. It’s FreeBSD’s documentation, stupid

  421. My belated review of VirtualBox for Mac

  422. My belated review of Q.app

  423. Online monetisation is a misnomer at best

  424. Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300

  425. Spread FreeBSD and all that

  426. Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD

  427. The best tool for the job is the one you can use

  428. Booting Windows Vista should mean kicking it…

  429. Quick guide to burning CDs in FreeBSD

  430. Turning a Firefox story into an anti-Mac story?

  431. FreeBSD has come a long way on Wikipedia too

  432. A refreshed Windows disgust rant!

  433. FreeBSD 7.1 now available!

  434. Using env in shebang scripting language lines

  435. My falling out with Microsoft actually explained

  436. How to forcibly eject drives in Mac OS X

  437. Brief flirtation with FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro is over

  438. I can now boot FreeBSD on my MacBook Pro!

  439. Tips for compiling KDE 4.1 from FreeBSD ports

  440. My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive

  441. Google Chrome goodness!

  442. Networking issue to blame for poor VMware Fusion BSD performance?

  443. VMware Fusion 2.0 beta2 with FreeBSD review

  444. Western Digital MyBook DHCP adventure

  445. Backing up CDs to ISOs on FreeBSD

  446. FreeBSD AMD64 is good for you

  447. Tunneling X11 through SSH on Mac OS X

  448. Fun with Xfce part 4: Using Openbox

  449. Fun with Xfce, part three

  450. Fun with Xfce, part two

  451. Fun with Xfce, part one

  452. Latest computer book haul

  453. VIM security note for FreeBSD folks

  454. KDE user moving his main machine to GNOME

  455. Zip and rar archives in Gnome

  456. NTP primer on FreeBSD, NetBSD

  457. FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks

  458. On Adobe Air, limited accounts, updating, BSD

  459. Spreadsheet adventures (and Excel 08 sucks!)

  460. Well there you go, the K does mean something

  461. Cutting Mono out of GNOME on FreeBSD

  462. My Windows Vista Home Premium adventure

  463. Ironic Adobe FreeBSD advertising

  464. Dodgy Windows virus scanner on FreeBSD!

  465. Sleek Openbox in KDE on FreeBSD

  466. Debian Etch for 5, then back to Slackware

  467. Powered by FreeBSD case sticker

  468. Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun

  469. KDE 3.5.8 font registration fun

  470. Adobe Air musings and so forth

  471. The mysterious little DFE-670TXD

  472. Mahalo is just plain silly

  473. Another look at NetBSD

  474. Trolltech revises permitted Qt licences!

  475. Enabling UTF8 in Nano

  476. Learning FreeBSD, FreeBSD 6 Unleashed

  477. FreeBSD verbose package installation

  478. VMware Fusion Beta 3 released

  479. X11, FreeBSD, Parallels Desktop, xorg.conf

  480. FreeBSD guy tries and likes Slackware Linux!

  481. Mikuru, Fluxbox with ROX-Filer on FreeBSD

  482. FreeBSD Boleh!

  483. KDE user tries Gnome after 8 years!

  484. Fsck, power surges, journaling, FreeBSD

  485. Creating FreeBSD boot disks on Mac OS X

  486. Haruhi Suzumiya dancing on FreeBSD?

  487. Parallels Desktop FreeBSD issues

  488. Operating Systems Ranked