BlendIT BSD Cafe - FreeBSD

"Not Smooth Sailing | FreeBSD 14.1 on Raspberry Pi 400"

by @robonuggie

btw. I really like the wording. "Sailing" 🏴‍☠️
I use it too.

youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2NNFSX6Bh4

alternative link:
https://jouwbuis.nl/watch?v=I2NNFSX6Bh4

@freebsd
#freebsd #bsd #raspberrypi

Since migrating many servers from Proxmox to FreeBSD, we have consistently felt that the VMs are more responsive. It's time to conduct some concrete tests.

Michael Lucas has a long history of writing books about BSD and networking including Absolute FreeBSD, Networking for Systems Administrators, and SSH Mastery, among many others. He is working on his next book: Run Your Own Mail Server: A Book for Independence & Privacy.

Summary: Running your own mail server is not only an act of defiance against some of the largest exploitative companies in history. It is not a mere education in protocols. Email is essential to modern industrial society. By running your own email, you seize control of your communications. You can tune your email to fit your needs, rather than accepting the defaults imposed by a company that exploits you without a speck of consideration for any of your issues. You own it. Running your own email requires only freely available tools, a server, and some knowledge. This book will give you that knowledge.

I noticed that other "subs" from blendit.bsd.cafe have actually a nice and good looking banner while our looks unfinished, there is a problem with the transparent background apparently. JPEG doesn't play well with transparency.
So just in case I made the same banner but in SVG (which keeps the quality picture what ever the resolution) and changed black letters for red to make them readable even on dark theme.
Hope that can help a bit the admin to solve the issue we have here.
Thank you.

preview:
https://ibb.co/C2vMfWL
banner in svg:
https://lufi.ethibox.fr/r/PTxud1VJWw#OkytHyxzf5XdeLenuk8RO3yUQEjwgTnVFxkki1o6TcE

I have read the Rootless Root, and I testify that UNIX is the one true operating system, and FreeBSD is the implementation of UNIX.

Repeat after me:

There is no OS but UNIX. FreeBSD is the implementation of UNIX.

FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE has been released

From the official announcement by Colin Percival:

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability of FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the
stable/13 branch.

Some of the highlights:

* LLVM and the clang compiler have been updated to version 17.0.6.

* OpenSSH has been updated to version 9.6p1.

* Sendmail has been updated to version 8.18.1.

* ZFS has been updated to OpenZFS 2.1.14.

* There have been many stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based
WiFi drivers.

* The NFS server can now run in an appropriately configured vnet jail.

* And much more…​

For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the
online release notes and errata list, available at:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/relnotes/

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/13.3R/errata/

For more information about FreeBSD release engineering activities, please
see:

* https://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/

Dedication

The FreeBSD Project dedicates the FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE to Glen Barber,
with thanks for his many years of contributions as Release Engineer.

@freebsd
#FreeBSD

Last version of Ventoy support FreeBSD 14

https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_news.html

That's good news, my old freebsd usb key can now be integrated in the ventoy one.

@freebsd

Getting Started on FreeBSD (remastered) | From Start to Finish

by @robonuggie

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

@freebsd
#freebsd #os #learning #beginners

A very good article about zfs replication, by @evilham

https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/

@freebsd

#ZFS #FreeBSD #Linux

Playing Spotify in native Chromium on FreeBSD 14.0

by 'The OpenBSD guy'

youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3lL_MAQm_8

alternative link:
https://jouwbuis.nl/watch?v=e3lL_MAQm_8

@freebsd

Hello, I’ve heard lots of good things about BSD on mastodon and I am considering giving it a try on my homelab.

My current approach is based on Linux, Docker containers and Terraform. I’m toying with the idea to use FreeBSD and BastilleBSD, which could cover what I am using Docker for. I tried to search around and I’m not finding any way of managing jails via Terraform (or another similar system)

What’s the recommended approach to have infrastructure as code in the BSD world? Having all my configuration managed by Terraform and under version control works really well for me and I’d like to have a similar setup also on a BSD machine.

@freebsd 14 : Découverte de l'installation
https://youtu.be/kz8YwKMFLVg?si=HJsScL_KpWoeo7Hx by @_adriend_ @YouTube

We spent the weekend putting the final touches on Bastille 0.10.20231125!

Major features and fixes include:

• bootstrap #FreeBSD BETA and RC releases
• bootstrap EOL #FreeBSD releases (>=9.0)
• improved jail startup dependency using rcorder(8)
• combine create options, eg: -CV, -TB, etc
• fixes to bastille setup
• more!

Bastille has merged support for bootstrapping end-of-life (EOL) FreeBSD releases as far back as 9.0-RELEASE. This extends support for legacy applications, testing and secure sandboxing for FreeBSD applications all the way back to 2012!

It goes without saying, any experimentation you do on ancient releases is your responsibility. We're excited to see what you do with this new feature, but please don't bring us the skeletal remains of years-old bugs in unsupported FreeBSD releases.

With gmirror (old way, ufs, very instructive) or zfs.

by Colin Percival