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Manpage Monday: bastille create

One command creates and starts a jail:

A thick jail with a static MAC and start priority 10
> bastille create -TM -p 10 myjail 15.1-RELEASE 10.23.23.1

A VNET jail with boot off and a custom gateway
> bastille create -V --no-boot -g 10.1.1.1 web 15.1-RELEASE 10.1.1.4/24 vtnet0

Thick, thin, clone, empty, VNET, even Linux. All securely isolated in a FreeBSD jail.

See `man bastille-create` for more details.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #VNET #ManpageMonday

FreeBSD 14.5-BETA3 is now available, with several kernel panic fixes and updates for various architectures including amd64, aarch64, powerpc, riscv64, and more. #FreeBSD

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟮𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/08/24) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/24/valuable-news-2026-08-24/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our partner sponsors:
- Skylime - https://www.skylime.net/
- Netzkommune - https://www.netzkommune.de/
- OpenBSD Amsterdam - https://openbsd.amsterdam/
- LAYLO - https://laylo.io/
- The Lightbird - https://thelightbird.com/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

*frustration intensifies*

#slopification once again I am thwarted in doing fun #freebsd stuff because LLM scrapers are screwing with our bugzilla:

Error 503 Backend fetch failed

Second: The EOF character causes the #Debian #AlmquistShell to print the message about using the exit command, multiple times, and then the shell exits anyway.

This doesn't happen on Debian, only on the BSDs. I've built on Debian, #NetBSD, and #FreeBSD.

My first thought is that this is a libedit difference between the BSD version and the Debian port. It's the same tokenizer code in the shell in all three, so that doesn't seem a likely locus.

#UnixShells

First: I don't know what #glob and #fnmatch add to the #Debian #AlmquistShell. Nothing stands out as different with those features turned on.

The #NetBSD and #FreeBSD flavours of the Almquist shell don't use glob() and fnmatch() at all, and the BusyBox flavour is different, so this does appear (without checking the source history) to be a Debianism of some kind. It's unclear what it achieves, though, although it might that the reasoning does not apply nowadays.

#UnixShells

Without any intentional change to the system, one of my #FreeBSD hosts recently changed its SLAC-generated IPv6 address after a reboot. I am a bit baffled.

Minimal Sway setup on FreeBSD 15.1:

# Wayland
doas pkg install wayland seatd
doas sysrc seatd_enable="YES"
doas service seatd start

# Sway
doas pkg install sway foot wmenu noto-basic
mkdir ~/.config/sway
cp /usr/local/etc/sway/config ~/.config/sway
vi ~/.config/sway/config
input * xkb_rules evdev
input type:touchpad {
dwt enabled
tap enabled
natural_scroll enabled
}
input type:keyboard {
xkb_layout "dk"
}

# Foot
mkdir ~/.config/foot
vi ~/.config/foot/foot.ini
font=monospace:size=14

#FreeBSD #Wayland #Sway

#borgbackup 2.0.0b23 was just released!

With a ton of new features and some fixes, please check the change log and help testing:

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b23

#linux #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #macOS #windows #python

Yes. So, when I got Hyprland going on FreeBSD, there was more to learn.
Decided to use ashell as a bar, rio-terminal, wezterm, nwg-drawer, walker or good ol' rofi, neovim, you name it🤣 Rust and lua.
The curious mind can be a burden, as well as a pleasure 😄
It'll take some more time, but everything is up and running. Having a great time!
#freebsd #hyprland

Migrated my mastodon server's data disk to ZFS (which is to say, created a new volume and copied everything over) since the original was running low on space anyway.

If you can't see this, it broke.

#FreeBSD #zfs

One's wizardry with #Linux and #FreeBSD incantations begins here. #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/linux-commands.html?s=mc

@meluzzy

I still use the Almquist shells for scripts. Having none of the heavyweight interactive and extensions stuff to initialize is a definite advantage, as Debian/Ubuntu found out years ago.

I am glad that yet another person has learned of the #WatanabeShell .

Line editing, via libedit, and history work in the BSD flavours of the #AlmquistShell, by the way. Debian simply builds it with editing and history disabled.

#UnixShells #Unix #NetBSD #FreeBSD

4/ I tried FreeBSD on another and older thinkpad and while it mostly worked, the issue for me was software support for apps that I use on a regular basis like Clion. I know there are some ports for some apps, but the hassle for me ended up not being worth it (yet). I will revisit FreeBSD on a laptop in the future especially when wayland support is more mature.

I have landed on CachyOS for the time being running hyprland and Noctalia.

#FreeBSD #macos #linux

Ho identificato la causa dei problemi grafici su GhostBSD/FreeBSD lanciando applicazioni native Linux con la compatibilità. linsysfs non espone correttamente i dispositivi grafici a causa di un bug, impedendo a Vulkan di avviarsi correttamente.
C'è una correzione temporanea che corregge il problema, non riesco a farla andare all'avvio. Se attivata manualmente, funziona.

@[email protected] @giochi @computer @[email protected]

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-enable-vulkan-on-compat-linux.101997/#post-749250

#bsd #freebsd #ghostbsd #pcgaming