As you can see in this photograph a level of stability has been reached in the installation and configuration of this 64bit SBC.

The configuration that was chosen by the maintainers of the Pi distro is one, where Super User needs to be run at any time, for root commands, because access to the root account has been disabled by default.

Security wise the SBC is fair provided that you do not allow others to get close to it in a physical plane.

I already have two installations one is on a microSD card the other is on a USB stick

It is important to realize that when you boot from the USB stick your USB-C power supply needs to be able to produce 5,000 milliamps, at 5V DC otherwise there will not be enough current for that control to be smooth.

Note:
The second display that you see does not belong to the control of the Raspberry Pi.
I need to get myself a second longer microHDMI to HDMI cable to reach the other IPS LED panel

Remember when automation meant Bash scripts duct-taped to crontab?

Now we’ve got declarative config, jails, and Rocinante.

Times change. Tools evolve.

That is a lot of fun! The update to 6.4.4 is rolling out as we speak, but just to give a first impression.
Plasma 6.4.3, Wayland session, basics installed and up and running. Even Spectacle (was a big issue previously) works well.
Wrapping up tomorrow, I've deserved that cool for now.
#freebsd #kde

I immediately felt at Home when I was in Debian. It doesn't matter that the processor Is Arm, it doesn't matter that the memory is just 8gb. What Matters is that it's an SBC that Works fantastically with many many 100 of 1000 of Projects

The moment to connect a keyboard on the USB buss you get this splash screen

I can also run freeBSD on the Pi of course.

*BSD runs on almost anything that is a computer, even if its from 40 years ago, but you know that already
I just need to get better imaging software on the level of Ventoy for Arm architecture

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi

Running untrusted apps?

Jail them.

Testing configs?

Snapshot, revert, repeat.

Bastille makes isolation part of your workflow.

The August 8th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/p3xiz-901rc

We discussed surprises on the Power architecture, #RHEL to #FreeBSD migration with up to a 40% performance increase, the approval and abilities of the executable jail.conf Review, strategy for automating disaster recovery on FreeBSD hosts, jail ABI backwards compatibility, t-shirt ideas, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 - 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲 [UPDATE 2 - Sensors Available in Ports Tree] to 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [Sensors Information on FreeBSD] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/sensors-information-on-freebsd#ports

the full bridge(4) VLAN filtering feature has now landed in FreeBSD, 3 days prior to code slush!

this includes the new ifconfig syntax: ifconfig bridge0 addm ix0 untagged 10 tagged 100-199

i wrote a brief description of the feature here: https://people.freebsd.org/~ivy/bridge_vlan_filtering.txt

this will be in 15.0-RELEASE.

Did you notice? The registration was temporary open today and we welcome all new users!

While we still have a plenty of free resources, we might switch from an open registration model to a recommendation / mentor model where already present users can invite new users.

This is not yet fix but a possibility to avoid misusage and abuse where our primary goal is still to provide resources for people interested into BSD based systems. Maybe also closer integrations with BSD communities like the BSD Cafe (@stefano) could be an approach.

#freevps #free #education #ipv6 #hosting #bhyve #proxmox #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #runbsd #boxybsd @gyptazy

#FreeBSD mac_do(4) as a method of privilege escalation in an unprivileged chroot: https://pastebin.com/4fXx6K8D

News de Doomyflocrochet : j'ai décliné mon Beastie freeBSD de 20 cm en version mini de 12cm
Moins volumineux et prix doux ;)
1 exemplaire en stock et sur demande comme d'habitude! merci de partager
https://www.doomyflocrochet.com/boutique/amigurumi-linux/mascotte-bsd-daemon-beastie-figurine-coton-au-crochet-amigurumi/#cc-m-product-7442948162
#fiberarts #crafts #freebsd #daemon #amigurumi #crochet #shopping

Anyone using net-mgmt/net-snmp on #FreeBSD with AES-256-C support? Or indeed, anything more than plain AES?

How can I confirm support is compiled in?

I ask because I can use these on snmpwalk

-x AES
-x AES128

but not

-x AES193
-x AES256
-x AES256C

They give an error such as:

Invalid privacy protocol specified after -3x flag: AES193

I ask because some newer gear uses AES-256 by default.

This is a vuxml node from #FreeBSD security/vuxml port.

<vuln vid="44101b31-8ffd-11e7-b5af-a4badb2f4699">
<cancelled/>
</vuln>

I'm trying to detect cancelled vid.

I'm using perl's XML::DOM::PARSER

I tried:

my $cancelled = $node->getAttributeNode('cancelled');

and

my $cancelled = $node->setNodeValue('cancelled');

But that comes back as: Use of uninitialized value $cancelled

I don't know what functions to call to detect a cancelled node.

First preview of #GNOME 48 on #FreeBSD

You're allowed to take a break.
You're allowed to breathe.
You're allowed to not be productive.
This is your reminder that rest is part of the process.