Good evening #FreeBSD friends, I'm taking the plunge on a spare Laptop to install and use FreeBSD with a GNOME desktop under Wayland.
Having checked and re-checked the manual for Wayland and Desktop Environment install I can't get beyond a console. GDM does not start and gnome-session has a list of complaints I am unfamiliar with.
Is there a guide someone has written of achieving such a setup I could link to?
Thanks in advance!
Is there a FreeBSD-equivalent to systemd drop-in replacements for services?
The only way I can see at the moment is just by backing up the original /etc/rc.d/service file and creating a new one to replace it.
To run KDE Plasma 6, is it mandatory to install xorg or will it work only off Wayland? #freebsd
4chan servers were running #freebsd 10.1....
@vermaden @justine
Addendum: prefix "pkg upgrade" with "make-snapshots" to be able to rollback the file systems(s) without fuss ...
make-snapshots \
&& pkg upgrade && make-snapshots \
&& pkg autoremove && make-snapshots \
&& pkg clean && make-snapshots
... I had made the change before the issue of {missing,disappearing}-packages-on-upgrade that various other peoples are experiencing currently.
Design and organize your library with care. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/file-system.html?s=mc
I found the problem even with ImageMagick7, which can't convert SVG to PNG. Instead it crashes with coredump.
Before April's update all programs works perfectly fine.
For now, I creating the account in the #FreeBSD bugtracker to describe this bug...
Looks like I learnt about #Poudriere just in time, because since April updates #FreeBSD became ... unstable 
even in quarterly branch.
Because of the broken build of Go, a LOT of packages were vanished. As a result a lot of software were removed from user computers after running pkg upgrade (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/can-someone-explain-to-me-whats-going-on-with-pkg.97532/).
Some software became extremly buggy (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286083, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=286082).
Can't recommend anyone to switch to FreeBSD right now 
@dexter If any #FreeBSD folks are looking for a jails-related project, the one I’d really like someone to do is UID mapping:
For each jail, record the UID of the creator in the jail structure (we should reserve space for this in 15).
For filesystem access, do two checks, one of the creator UID against the file, the other of the jailed user UID against a field in extended attributes. If that field does not exist, do the check against the real rights for the file.
When file permissions or ownership are changed, record that change in xattrs, not in the file’s permissions.
Do not allow modification of these xattrs by jailed users.
This is most of what is required to permit jails to be created by non-root users. A jailed user’s rights are never more than those of the user, but may be less.
So, if I ever recommended @system76... disregard that shit.
I had to bury yet another battery in a bucket of sand in my yard for the same laptop. Fracking thing went all spicy pillow on me, again.
It wasn't even decent Linux centric hardware. The gorram Realtek on-board Ethernet was always dogshit slow. The wireless required me to use wifibox on #FreeBSD to get anything beyond 802.11g speeds. The speakers were tinty as hell, and the webcam was pathetic. It all worked.... barely.
I'm not paying for another battery. They took over a month the last time I needed a replacement. I'm going back to my Lenovo x230 from 2012, which is still far more reliable than anything I have wasted money on from System76.
#TrueNAS 25.04 Released For Unifying SCALE & CORE Offerings
TrueNAS 25.04 is notable for unifying their #Linux-based #TrueNASSCALE and #TrueNASCORE #FreeBSD-based platforms. While TrueNAS was previously known for its BSD base, Linux has proven viable for this network attached storage platform. TrueNAS 25.04 is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel while employing the #OpenZFS file-system support.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-25.04-Released #OpenSource #NAS
Documentation in operating systems is cool. It is possible to extend and rewrite utilities as time goes on, as #freebsd proves. You can still have cool utilities, like #containers and #zfs and #hypervisors, good docs for them and a consistent base system.
I dunno where I am going with this, other than wishing I didn't have to peruse the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki for everything when I get stuck, and instead could just "man xyz" and get good answers, speaking as #nixos user.
About the #random thingie ... I need random data in #swad to generate unpredictable #session IDs.
I previously had an implementation trying the #Linux-originating #getrandom if available, with a fallback to a stupid internal #xorshift #PRNG, which could be disabled because it's obviously NOT cryptographically secure, and WAS disabled for the generation of session IDs.
Then I learned #arc4random is available on many systems nowadays (#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, even Linux with a recent-enough glibc), so I decided to add a compile check for it and replace the whole mess with nothing but an arc4random call IF it is available.
arc4random originates from #OpenBSD and provides the only sane way to get cryptographically secure random data. It automatically and transparently (re-)seeds from OS entropy sources, but uses an internal CSPRNG most of the time (nowadays typically #ChaCha20, so it's a misnomer, but hey ...). It never fails, it never blocks. It just works. Awesome.
the FreeBSD ${svc}_svcj_ipaddrs rc.conf option for service jail was committed, so how you can limit an rc service to a specific set of IP addresses: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=6fbd1bed6e7bf880a6cc579b06bdc6476983613a
thanks netchild@
The @FreeBSDFoundation 15 release schedule was just announced, but I already see people saying that "looks good, I already use it in production" :-) So, I installed the latest snapshot in a VM, and tested #syslog_ng on it.
As expected: syslog-ng works fine on it :-)
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