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Talk about the FreeBSD operating system
Just submitted a patch to update the lang/zig port to 0.11.0. Zig is a pretty awesome language and has good FreeBSD support on x86_64. Fingers crossed it'll get merged soonish.
💬 1 like · 2023-08-14 · 4 weeks ago
Yesterdays FreeBSD activity was installing updates on my client's machines. SSH is all sorted now. For some reason, I missed that freebsd-update patches /usr/src as well the binaries 😎
💬 View post · 2023-08-12 · 4 weeks ago
How to use pinentry-gtk-2 instead of pinentry-curses? — Can somebody please tell me how to force FreeBSD to use pinentry-gtk-2 instead of pinentry-ncurses? On Debian I'd use "update-alternatives", but I'm not aware of a similar command on FreeBSD...
💬 3 comments · 2023-08-03 · 5 weeks ago
Just finished updating FreeBSD to patch the SA's revealed yesterday. I went ahead and did a source based update because it's been a long time and I wanted to see how it went. Surprisingly well is how it went. I had never used the `etcupdate` command before, having always used `mergemaster` in the past,and it was a huge improvement. Mergemaster was the most time consuming part of the entire process in years past, requiring the user to individually decide what to do with every file in /etc. The `...
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-07-30 · 6 weeks ago
A security advisory for OpenSSH has come out recently. Now would be a great time to run freebsd-update to make sure you're covered 😎
💬 1 comment · 2023-07-29 · 6 weeks ago
Reminder - FreeBSD 13.1's end of life is expected to be July 31, 2023. Be sure you upgrade your machines soon ☺️
💬 2 likes · 2023-07-03 · 2 months ago
FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade — Yesterday I visited my main system administration client and upgraded seven of his bare metal servers to FreeBSD 13.2 from 13.1. It went really well with only a few minor hiccups. This time I did practice upgrades by restoring backups onto isolated Bhyve virtual machines. That helped me work through any issues before working on the production hardware. BVCP is a great web interface to Bhyve. I recommend that you take a look.
💬 View post · 2023-07-01 · 2 months ago
Any good FreeBSD Gemini clients with a GUI? Hi! I'm #newhere , altho I'm on my macOS now using Lagrange, I was wondering what are YOU using to access Gemini on FreeBSD? :)
💬 3 comments · 2023-06-28 · 2 months ago
Sadly my laptop has a Broadcom WiFi card so i cant really use FreeBSD
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-17 · 3 months ago
The Lagrange port in FreeBSD is two years old — So I'm working on updating it myself. I've gotten the build working fine now with the newest stable, just need to fix the plist to include translations. Posting this from Lagrange-1.16.4 on FreeBSD built with my updated port.
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · 2023-06-17 · 3 months ago
I was hoping that someone would start a FreeBSD subspace here. I just installed 13.2 onto real hardware for the first time in a while. FreeBSD used to be my everyday OS for a few years, and while I had my reasons for walking away I have to say I did miss it. [gemini link] Some thoughts after installation
💬 8 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-15 · 3 months ago