Nostr notes by Larvitz

Successfully updated my ThinkPad T480 to FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 ...

2026-05-25T21:04:02Z

Successfully updated my ThinkPad T480 to FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 :freebsd_logo:

First impression: Solid release!

- WiFi (Intel AX210) stable on 5 GHz (802.11AC) with expected WAN speed.
- Graphics, Audio, USB-C Dock all working fine.
- Factorio Space-Age running perfectly smooth.

All running super well and without unexpected issues :-) Yay!

#freebsd #thinkpad #runbsd #wifi #freebsd15 #t480

Updated my ThinkPad T480 to FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 :freebsd_logo: First ...

2026-05-25T20:56:19Z

Updated my ThinkPad T480 to FreeBSD 15.1-RC1 :freebsd_logo:

First impression: Solid release!

- WiFi (Intel AX210) stable on 5GHZ with expected speed.
- Graphics, Audio USB Dock all working fine.
- Factorio Space-Age running perfectly smooth.

All running super well and without unexpected issues :-) Yay!

Hello there 7.9 :openbsd: 🙂 Updated my OpenBSD based ...

2026-05-25T08:45:08Z

Hello there 7.9 :openbsd: 🙂

Updated my OpenBSD based bastion/jump-host to 7.9 without issues. Everything running absolutely fine!

Nice 🥳

#unix #openbsd #runbsd

Hello 15.1-RC1 :freebsd_logo: 🙂 :freebsd_logo: Everything ...

2026-05-23T17:07:10Z

Hello 15.1-RC1 :freebsd_logo: 🙂 :freebsd_logo:

Everything super stable so far!

#freebsd #runbsd #rc1 #unix

Giving 15.1-BETA3 a test-run today 🙂 Looking all very good so ...

2026-05-17T12:48:51Z

Giving 15.1-BETA3 a test-run today 🙂 Looking all very good so far! Even on an underpowerd troubleshooting node with just 512MB of memory!

#freebsd #beta #testing #runbsd

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116584334811849567 ...

2026-05-16T20:49:03Z

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116584334811849567

Post-mortem from today’s FreeBSD/arm64 outage of my prod web-server:

After reboot, the box appeared to hang around ZFS root/init. Pools imported fine from live media, /sbin/init was valid, old kernel/BE made no difference. There was also a stale GPT signature on a whole-disk ZFS vdev, which made the trail extra noisy.

Actual RCA: a stray " in /etc/rc.conf in my static_routes line. rc.conf is shell, so that broke early boot badly enough that networking never came up and it looked like kernel/ZFS/init trouble.

Fixed syntax, restored ZFS canmount values, jails back online.

Lesson: always run sh -n /etc/rc.conf before rebooting. 🫠

#freebsd #outage #runbsd #oopsie

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note1kw0…ycvr

My web-server is broken and does not boot anymore. Great :(

My upgrade process for several full jails on a host: for jail in ...

2026-05-16T19:58:57Z

My upgrade process for several full jails on a host:

for jail in $(jls name); do
echo "=== Updating jail: $jail ==="
jexec $jail freebsd-update fetch install
jexec $jail pkg upgrade -y
done

service jail restart

Works, gets the job done and is "good enough".

#freebsd #jails #automation #shell

It’s bigger on the inside. Successfully trapped a Bhyve ...

2026-04-18T08:21:34Z

It’s bigger on the inside.

Successfully trapped a Bhyve hypervisor :bhyve: inside a VNET Jail on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE :freebsd_logo:

Host -> Jail (named 'tardis') -> Hypervisor -> Virtual Machine.

Complete with working dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 routed via pf on the host. Why? Because I needed to isolate the VMs from the host's network, and I apparently enjoy fighting deep-nested devfs rulesets on a Friday night.

#FreeBSD #bhyve #jails #networking #devops #sysadmin

Successfully virtualized a MikroTik Router ("Cloud Hosted ...

2026-04-16T13:29:20Z

Successfully virtualized a MikroTik Router ("Cloud Hosted Router") on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE with BHYVE :bhyve:

Works absolutely great (920 Gbps throughput on a 1Gbps license!)

#freebsd #mikrotik #routeros #networking

Latest quarterly FreeBSD package upgrade broke my Nextcloud ...

2026-04-14T10:36:45Z

Latest quarterly FreeBSD package upgrade broke my Nextcloud 😮‍💨

Post mortem: The new version of php85-pdo_pgsql is now compiled against PostgreSQL 18, not 17. So pkg upgrade removed postgresql17-server, leaving Nextcloud dysfunctional without a database.

Solution:
- Reinstalled postgresql17-server
- Dumped the db with pg_dump
- Installed postgresql18-server & php85-pdo_pgsql
- Copied over pg_hba.conf & postgresql.conf
- Created empty db/user in PG18
- Imported the db dump
- Ran occ maintenance:data-fingerprint

Restarted php-fpm & nginx

All fine again. But that was unpleasant 🙂

#SysAdmin #SelfHosted #FreeBSD #Nextcloud #Postgresql

Exciting news. I've just pushed a collection of ports for the ...

2026-03-20T20:57:46Z

Exciting news. I've just pushed a collection of ports for the #OpenPGP Card ecosystem to Codeberg.

Includes:
- openpgp-card-tools (oct)
- openpgp-card-tools-git (oct-git)
- openpgp-card-ssh-agent

I'm currently polishing them for official submission to the freebsd ports tree this April!

A huge thank you to Heiko (npub1ugf…hya8) for these excellent #Rust tools!

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/freebsd-openpgp-card-ports

#freebsd #Security #Smartcard #Yubikey #Nitrokey #Infosec #RustLang

Nice! NAT64 in action, My IPv6-only jail can successfully talk ...

2026-03-08T13:06:26Z

Nice! NAT64 in action, My IPv6-only jail can successfully talk with Github. No tayga, just the new "af-to" feature, that the "pf" firewall got in 15.0-RELEASE:

pass in quick on bastille0 inet6 from $jail_net to 64:ff9b::/96 \
af-to inet from ($ext_if) keep state

This is genuinly nice! 🙂

#freebsd #networking #pf #nat64 #ipv6

Another work week starting :freebsd_logo: Short one (just 3 days) ...

2026-02-09T09:08:44Z

Another work week starting :freebsd_logo:

Short one (just 3 days) and the last before I’ll move to another city next week.

#freebsd #workfromhome #SysAdmin

New blog post: PF Firewall on FreeBSD - A Practical Guide After ...

2026-02-06T21:58:15Z

New blog post: PF Firewall on FreeBSD - A Practical Guide

After years of running PF across multiple FreeBSD servers, I've written up the patterns that work: macros, tables, brute-force protection, NAT for jails, and dual-stack filtering.

Covers everything from basic concepts to production configs, plus a sidebar on authpf for bastion hosts.

If you're running FreeBSD and want a firewall that's elegant, powerful, and actually understandable, PF is worth your time.

https://blog.hofstede.it/pf-firewall-on-freebsd-a-practical-guide/

#FreeBSD #PF #Firewall #Security #Jails #SysAdmin #IPv6

Nice, my parcel from the FreeBSD foundation with some swag did ...

2026-01-31T17:03:14Z

Nice, my parcel from the FreeBSD foundation with some swag did just arrive :freebsd_logo:

#freebsd #swag #bsd FreeBSD Foundation (npub1kkf…6dgf)

I’ve documented a clean, native way to integrate FreeBSD 15 ...

2026-01-25T19:52:29Z

I’ve documented a clean, native way to integrate FreeBSD 15 into a FreeIPA realm. No heavy dependencies, no Python shims, just pure Kerberos (GSSAPI) and nslcd.

We get full SSH SSO, automated home directories, and centralized sudo rules using standard BSD tools. Pure, stateless, and sane.

https://blog.hofstede.it/integrating-freebsd-15-with-freeipa-native-kerberos-and-ldap-authentication/

#FreeBSD #FreeIPA #SysAdmin #Unix #Kerberos #LDAP

Just published a deep dive on self-hosting CryptPad on FreeBSD ...

2026-01-24T11:24:49Z

Just published a deep dive on self-hosting CryptPad on FreeBSD using VNET jails, PF NAT, and Caddy.

End-to-end encrypted collaboration, fully isolated networking, no direct internet exposure for the app jail, and a few real-world gotchas (including the infamous “Loading…” issue).

If you like FreeBSD, jails, and privacy-first self-hosting, this one’s for you.

https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosted-cryptpad-on-freebsd-with-vnet-jails-and-caddy/

#FreeBSD #SelfHosting #Privacy #Jails #CryptPad

My FreeBSD :freebsd_logo: ThinkPad T480 now runs on XLibre. ...

2026-01-19T19:34:38Z

My FreeBSD :freebsd_logo: ThinkPad T480 now runs on XLibre.

Migrating over from xorg was simple and painless. Everything running just perfectly. XLibre is available in ports and packages 🙂

#freebsd #xlibre #x11 XLibre (npub1wj9…gx3h)

The Linux version of the game Factorio runs perfectly fine (with ...

2026-01-19T11:33:34Z

The Linux version of the game Factorio runs perfectly fine (with solid 60 FPS/UPS) on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE. Using linux64.ko and the rl9 user-land implementations. Performance is great, even on an 8 year old ThinkPad T480.

$ file factorio
factorio: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, BuildID[sha1]=3e1ef3fc882aecbbebb1c9d2fc5ca064842310fc, for GNU/Linux 3.2.0

On 14.3-RELEASE, I did still run the Windows64 version via wine (the Linux version was flickering), but now the Linux version is running perfectly on FreeBSD.

I'm very happy with how perfectly it works. Love to play that when traveling on in the hotels at business trips.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW!! 🙂 🏭

🎮 :freebsd_logo:

#bsdgaming #gaming #linuxlator #freebsd #runbsd #tinkpad #factorio

The best way to reclaim your privacy is to own the ...

2026-01-18T15:49:16Z

The best way to reclaim your privacy is to own the infrastructure.

I migrated my email to a hardened FreeBSD setup. Encrypted at rest via ZFS, isolated via Jails, and owned by me. Not a data-mining giant.

If you want to build your own communication hub, here is the blueprint:

https://blog.hofstede.it/self-hosting-email-on-freebsd-a-secure-jailed-setup-with-postfix-and-dovecot/

#DigitalSovereignty #DeGoogle #Privacy #SelfHosted #BSD #Mailserver

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just ...

2026-01-18T12:37:20Z

I self-host my own e-mail servers for ~25 years now. Just finished he migration to a new system today.

- OS: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE
- MTA: Postfix 3.10
- IMAP: Dovecot 2.3
- Filter: Rspamd 3.14

I used Imapsync to migrate the content of my Mailboxes from the old to the new system. Worked absolutely fine.

Having the E-Mail Jail and the mailbox data on an encrypted ZFS dataset (AES256) that's manually unlocked with my passphrase after rebooting the system. Backups are done via ZFS send/recv to by backup server (-w for raw send to ensure, data is encrypted at rest)

- SPF: ✅
- DKIM Signing: ✅
- DMARC Reporting: ✅
- E-Mail delivery to major providers: ✅
- IPv6 working and actually being used: ✅

All working perfectly well. In about a week, I'll decomission the old Debian based system, that I used since 2017!

#linux #freebsd #sysadmin #selfhosting #email #postfix

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that ...

2026-01-15T18:21:00Z

Running Mastodon on FreeBSD? Stop using wrapper scripts that break service status.

I've refactored the init scripts for Sidekiq, Puma, and Streaming to be fully production-grade:

- Clean privilege dropping (no su wrappers)
- Native signal handling for log rotation
- Correct PID tracking & status reporting.

I published the scripts and the reasoning behind them in my Codeberg gists:

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2026/20250115-FreeBSD_Mastodon_rc.d.md

I use those to run a Mastodon instance and they're working great so far!

:freebsd_logo: ❤️ 🦣

#FreeBSD #Mastodon #SelfHosting #mastoadmin #runbsd #OpenSource

New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD Running ...

2026-01-13T17:34:53Z

New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

Running a mail server means constant brute-force attempts. My solution: geographic filtering. SMTP stays open for global mail delivery, but client ports (IMAP, Submission, webmail) are restricted to Central European IP ranges only.

Result: ~90% reduction in attack logs, cleaner signal-to-noise ratio, smaller attack surface.

Using MaxMind GeoLite2 + PF tables with ~273k CIDR blocks.

https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #InfoSec #SysAdmin #pf #DevOps

New blog post: Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible. I wrote ...

2025-12-31T11:09:36Z

New blog post: Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible.

I wrote jailexec - an Ansible connection plugin that lets you manage FreeBSD jails without running SSH inside each one. It connects to the jail host via SSH and uses jexec to run commands, just like you would manually.

Features:
• Single Python file, easy install
• Supports doas and sudo
• Secure two-stage file transfers
• Works with any jail manager

Blog: https://blog.hofstede.it/managing-freebsd-jails-with-ansible-the-jailexec-connection-plugin/

Code: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec

#FreeBSD #Ansible #DevOps #SysAdmin #Jails #Automation

Running FreeBSD 15 VM-Image on Proxmox? You might have noticed ...

2025-12-28T21:08:28Z

Running FreeBSD 15 VM-Image on Proxmox? You might have noticed your cloud-init static IPs are being ignored. 😓

The issue: Proxmox generates legacy cloud-init "v1" configs, but FreeBSD's new nuageinit tool only understands the modern "v2" format. The result is a silent fallback to DHCP (or no IP at all..).

I wrote a shell script to bridge the gap. It runs on the host and generates a custom ISO with the v2 syntax FreeBSD actually expects.

Read the full breakdown and grab the script:

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-15-cloud-init-on-proxmox-working-around-nuageinits-network-config-gap/

#FreeBSD #Proxmox #SysAdmin #CloudInit #Virtualization

FreeBSD shorts: Did you know "ps" can natively display ...

2025-12-28T10:28:24Z

FreeBSD shorts:

Did you know "ps" can natively display Jail information?

Use the -o flag to customize your columns.

Example (shows Jail ID, Name, PID, User, and resources):

# ps -aux -o jid,jail,pid,%cpu,%mem,command

#freebsd #sysadmin #devops #jails

Mastodon 4.5 running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE with all major ...

2025-12-25T21:32:26Z

Mastodon 4.5 running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE with all major services seperated into different VNET Jails, different networks (different bridges, different l2-domains, firewalled by pf).

Did a little writeup about the infrastructure over at https://blog.hofstede.it/migrating-burningboardnet-mastodon-instance-to-a-multi-jail-freebsd-setup/

It's running extremely stable for 30 hours now, migration from the old (Linux) host was a full success!

And of course, everything implemented IPv6 first (It's 2025!) with IPv4+NAT only bolted on where neccesary for legacy-compatibility.

#mastoadmin #freebsd #jails #bastillebsd #runbsd #ipv6

Migrated the database of my Mastodon instance burningboard.net ...

2025-12-22T20:09:22Z

Migrated the database of my Mastodon instance burningboard.net from Linux to PostgreSQL+Valkey on FreeBSD (+zfs)

All looking perfectly fine :) Although there's quite a lot of activity, the AMD EPYC Rome system is pretty much idling with the load being at 0.28 🙂 :freebsd_logo:

#mastodon #freebsd #postgresql #valkey

New blog post: Running a Factorio dedicated server on FreeBSD ...

2025-12-20T13:22:55Z

New blog post: Running a Factorio dedicated server on FreeBSD 🏭

No native port? No problem. The Linuxulator runs Linux binaries seamlessly - Factorio doesn't even know it's not on Linux.

Covered: Bastille jails, rc.d service script, PF firewall rules for IPv4/IPv6.

The factory must grow. Even on FreeBSD.

https://blog.hofstede.it/running-a-factorio-headless-server-on-freebsd-with-the-linuxulator/

#FreeBSD #Factorio #Linuxulator #Gaming #SelfHosted #BastilleBSD

I feel dirty :freebsd_logo: 🪟 :bhyve: 😂 I needed some ...

2025-12-14T21:44:52Z

I feel dirty :freebsd_logo: 🪟 :bhyve: 😂

I needed some Windows for a (German) tax related application, so just ran it in BHYVE. (Bit slow on the ThinkPad T480, but got the job done!)

#freebsd #bhyve #windows #windows11 #runbsd #unix

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Larvitz/115718085687749256 My ...

2025-12-14T13:25:56Z

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@Larvitz/115718085687749256

My latest blog-article is (of course) also available via the Gemini protocol on my personal Gemini capsule:

gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/freebsd_blog_infrastructure.gmi

#freebsd #gemini #geminispace #smallweb

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note12hs…kr63

New blog post: Hosting a Static Blog on FreeBSD with Bastille Jails

A deep dive into my self-hosting setup:
- FreeBSD 15.0 with securelevel 2
- Bastille jails for isolation (Caddy, Nginx, deployment gateway)
- PF firewall with strict NAT/RDR rules
- CI/CD via Forgejo Actions with rrsync-restricted deployments
- nullfs mounts for zero-copy file sharing between jails

The "transporter pattern" keeps the blog jail unexposed while enabling automated deploys. Jails remain the most elegant isolation mechanism around.

https://blog.hofstede.it/hosting-a-static-blog-on-freebsd-with-bastille-jails-and-automated-deployment/

#freebsd #bastillebsd #jails #blog #devops #cicd #forgejo

New blog post: Hosting a Static Blog on FreeBSD with Bastille ...

2025-12-14T13:11:00Z

New blog post: Hosting a Static Blog on FreeBSD with Bastille Jails

A deep dive into my self-hosting setup:
- FreeBSD 15.0 with securelevel 2
- Bastille jails for isolation (Caddy, Nginx, deployment gateway)
- PF firewall with strict NAT/RDR rules
- CI/CD via Forgejo Actions with rrsync-restricted deployments
- nullfs mounts for zero-copy file sharing between jails

The "transporter pattern" keeps the blog jail unexposed while enabling automated deploys. Jails remain the most elegant isolation mechanism around.

https://blog.hofstede.it/hosting-a-static-blog-on-freebsd-with-bastille-jails-and-automated-deployment/

#freebsd #bastillebsd #jails #blog #devops #cicd #forgejo

Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails! ...

2025-12-13T12:59:09Z

Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails! :freebsd_logo:

Just migrated my blog (https://blog.hofstede.it) to a fully native BSD stack (where my Gemini Capsule was already living).

Stack (using Bastille VNET Jails)
- Caddy (Ingress, TLS, Reverse-Proxy)
- Nginx Jail (Internal. Static file serving)
- PF

The Cool Part: A Zero-Trust CI/CD pipeline.

My Forgejo runner deploys via restricted rrsync into an air-gapped "transporter" jail, which nullfs mounts the web root.

Security: Source-IP restricted, no interactive shells, no PTY.

The simplicity of files-on-disk beats container abstraction every time.

#BastilleBSD #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #IPv6 #ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD

Mastodon running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE in a Bastille jail. ...

2025-11-30T15:55:54Z

Mastodon running on FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE in a Bastille jail. Running really smooth! Less problems than I had anticipated.

Next steps:
- Seperating into multiple jails (Postgres+Valkey, Sidekiq, Puma and Streaming)

Then testing and planning the actual migration of my instance ofer to the new server 🙂

#freebsd #runbsd #mastodon #selfhosted #socialmedia

Factorio: Space Age working PERFECTLY under FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 with ...

2025-11-23T12:21:35Z

Factorio: Space Age working PERFECTLY under FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 with proper 60fps and really REALLY smooth performance on my Intel iGPU (UHD 620 via drm-66-kmod).

Oh my productivity will be suffer so much from that !!! 🙂

THE FACTORY MUST GROW !!!

#factorio #freebsd #runbsd #freebsd15 #bsdgaming #gaming

The headless Factorio game server runs absolute fine on FreeBSD ...

2025-11-19T17:42:09Z

The headless Factorio game server runs absolute fine on FreeBSD 14.3 via Linuxlator (Linux API compatibility layer) and the linux-base-rl9 userland package :)

The factory must grow !! :-)

#factorio #freebsd #linuxlator #gaming #runbsd bbₜᵤₓᵢ (npub1zyt…u6da) Agent6491 (npub1gjr…9nul)

New blog post: FreeBSD Dual-Stack with Jails on Hetzner Cloud ! ...

2025-11-12T20:07:15Z

New blog post: FreeBSD Dual-Stack with Jails on Hetzner Cloud !

How to run VNET jails with proper IPv6 (no NAT66!) by splitting a /64 into two /65 subnets.

- Complete working configs
- IPv6-first philosophy
- Production-tested

https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-dual-stack-jails-on-hetzner-cloud/

#FreeBSD #IPv6 #Jails #Bastille #Hetzner #sysadmin

I did finally put my Blog website back online. Currently ...

2025-11-09T14:09:18Z

I did finally put my Blog website back online.

Currently featuring three FreeBSD related articles from the past year:

- FreeBSD 15.0 on the ThinkPad T480 - Efficient, Stable, and 8 Hours on Battery

- Simple Temperature Monitoring on FreeBSD

- FreeBSD Cheat Sheet for Linux Admins

I will keep publishing my FreeBSD / Linux / Sysadmin articles there.

Web: https://blog.hofstede.it

Gemini: gemini://gemini.hofstede.it

#blog #freebsd #bsd #unix #website

Just published a detailed write-up on tuning a ThinkPad T480 for ...

2025-11-09T11:15:06Z

Just published a detailed write-up on tuning a ThinkPad T480 for power efficiency under FreeBSD 15.0-BETA5.

Achieving 6–8 hours of battery life with full suspend/resume, ZFS, Wi‑Fi, and XFCE.

Read here → https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251109-T480_FreeBSD_Laptop_Efficiency.md

#FreeBSD #BSD #ThinkPad #XFCE #ZFS #Unix

Earlier this year, I developed "ansible_jailexec", a ...

2025-11-02T12:13:47Z

Earlier this year, I developed "ansible_jailexec", a modern Ansible connection plugin that can manage FreeBSD Jails via jexec from the host (incl. transparent file copy into the jails filesystem). All released under a BSD license.

That way, you can automate FreeBSD Jails via Ansible, even when they have no ssh or network connectivity.

On Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/ansible_jailexec

On GitHub: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec/

The connection-plugin comes as a single python file (jailexec.py) and comes with Unit tests and internal safety checks.

Maybe someone finds it useful Happy automating :freebsd_logo: 🙂

#freebsd #ansible #automation #bsd #automation #opensource #foss #jails

Little bit experimenting with OpenBSD 7.8 🙂 Working nice, but ...

2025-11-01T22:37:42Z

Little bit experimenting with OpenBSD 7.8 🙂
Working nice, but I'll stay with FreeBSD on my systems (too many commands in muscle-memory)

:openbsd:

#openbsd #bsd #unix #foss #opensource #xfce

Upgraded my Laptop (ThinkPad T480) from 14.3-STABLE to ...

2025-10-28T19:00:38Z

Upgraded my Laptop (ThinkPad T480) from 14.3-STABLE to 15.0-BETA3. Did only take ~2.5 hours (makeworld, makekernel ..)

Everything reasonably stable, iwlwifi with 802.11ac performing like a beast (300-500 Mbps on 80Mhz channel)

Only issue: GPU firmware isn't loading. Neither from -quarterly, from -stable or from the current ports tree :(

GPU itself works fine with the DRM driver, just missing some power-management capabilities.

KLD i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin.ko: depends on kernel - not available or version mismatch
i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin: could not load binary firmware /boot/firmware/i915_kbl_dmc_ver1_04_bin either
drmn0: could not load firmware image 'i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin'
drmn0: [drm] Failed to load DMC firmware i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin. Disabling runtime power management.

#freebsd #freebsd15 #beta #opensource #foss #thinkpad

And a fully functioning "zone" (like a isolated Jail) ...

2025-10-20T21:55:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…fycn
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And a fully functioning "zone" (like a isolated Jail) runnong on Openindiana/illumios (Solaris)

Yay, i still know how do ti that :)

#bsd #solaris #illumos #openindiana

Today somethin different than FreeBSD for a change (but still ...

2025-10-20T21:28:24Z

Today somethin different than FreeBSD for a change (but still Unix!). Brings back so many memories from 2001-2005 when I was administering Solaris machines during my first job.

Even some commands still were in my head like zones (OS virtualization. somewhat like Jails but different isolation :)

# Install zone
zoneadm -z myzone install
# Boot zone
zoneadm -z myzone boot
# Check if zone is running
sudo zoneadm list -cv
# Llogin to zone
sudo zlogin myzone

So much nostangia :-) ☕

#freebsd #solaris #opensolaris #illumos #sunos #sunmicrosystems #unix #openindiana

Seeing FreeBSD base updates like that in pkg still feels foreign ...

2025-10-20T19:08:36Z

Seeing FreeBSD base updates like that in pkg still feels foreign (and I did of course type "freebsd-update fetch" before, which doesn't work anymore 😅)

But so far, it works flawlessly on my 15-STABLE system :freebsd:

#freebsd #pkgbase #desktop #update

Hello 15-STABLE BETA2 :freebsd_logo: 😀 All working great, but ...

2025-10-18T15:49:26Z

Hello 15-STABLE BETA2 :freebsd_logo: 😀

All working great, but PKGBASE is something, I need to get used to haha.

#freebsd #freebsd15 #testing #unix

Made my FreeBSD server at Netcup ready to host multiple isolated ...

2025-10-18T09:42:35Z

Made my FreeBSD server at Netcup ready to host multiple isolated applications with automatic https via Let's Encrypt.

Internet → Server → PF firewall → Caddy jail (reverse proxy) → Individual application jails

Each app gets its own isolated jail for security, while Caddy handles all the routing and https. PF keeps the front door locked.

All of course with IPv6 first, where every Jail has it's own public IP address and using NAT for legacy IPv4.

Love how FreeBSD jails make this kind of segmentation so elegant.

#FreeBSD #Jails #SelfHosting #Caddy #ipv4

For 10 years now, people from the Linux side, tell me systemd is ...

2025-10-10T22:58:53Z

For 10 years now, people from the Linux side, tell me systemd is so much easier and "Unit-Files" are so much cleaner and better than init-scripts ...

Well, I still don't get it. A well implemented init-system like that of FreeBSD is:

- Clean
- Flexible
- Way more lightweight
- Works with just shell code

I have written a rc.d init-script for zigbee2mqtt today and honestly? It's not going to be shorter than that. Would chose that instead of systemd! ANY TIME! K.I.S.S.

10 years in and I still don't see a real advantage of monolithic-binary init-systems with static configuration files.

#freebsd #init #systemd #kiss #simplicity #scripting #linux

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to BSD, of course running inside a Jail ...

2025-10-10T19:24:48Z

Migrated my ZigBee2MQTT to BSD, of course running inside a Jail (and with IPv6!) 🙂

All running perfectly fine and as stable as you'd expect from FreeBSD :freebsd_logo:

Plus the rc.d script is so minimalistic and simple, that I don't get it, why anyone would prefer intransparent systemd to that!

Another part of my home-infrastructure migrated over!

#freebsd #jais #zigbee #mqtt #smarthome #unix #homelab

Keep your FreeBSD system cool with built-in temperature ...

2025-10-09T20:54:59Z

Keep your FreeBSD system cool with built-in temperature monitoring!

No ports needed, just sysctl and a simple shell script. Perfect for FreeBSD 14.x users who want lightweight, dependency-free thermal monitoring.

Quick, practical, and very Unix.

https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/gists/src/branch/main/2025/20251009-FreeBSD_Temp-Monitoring.md

#FreeBSD #BSD #SysAdmin #Unix

Yay, got bhyve :bhyve: running on my Laptop. With Virtual ...

2025-09-28T19:03:55Z

Yay, got bhyve :bhyve: running on my Laptop.

With Virtual Machines behind a local bridge and NAT via pf :-)

Just installed a test VM with Debian Linux and it's working flawlessly.

My FreeBSD :freebsd_logo: based workstation gets more feature complete every day :-)

#freebsd #bhyve #workstation #linux

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p3 on Lenovo ThinkPad T480 with XFCE. - 5 ...

2025-09-28T10:38:57Z

FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p3 on Lenovo ThinkPad T480 with XFCE.

- 5 Ghz WiFi working like a charm with iwlwifi and really good speeds
- System runs stable, reliably and snappy.

Very very well usable, even without wifibox yay 🙂

#freebsd #runbsd #wifi #networking #thinkpad #ipv6