FreeBSD bug 100782 – [keyboard] Default keymap to support ALT+Left, ALT+Right console switching

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100782

@lproven I had completely forgotten this report. Does it begin to address the shortcomings that you find with keyboard shortcuts?

(Sorry, I can't find our previous conversations about forward and back at the command line.)

Postscript: sorry, ignore me. 100782 is probably for switching from one tty to another. Not for navigating the command line in a single tty.

#FreeBSD #keyboard

A small power blip can reveal when you've installed a new package over the old one and the new one didn't have all the dependencies lined up, and it's good to have a second system where you can rip those shared objects from.

ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libnetsnmp.so.40" not found, required by "zabbix_server"

#Fail
and
#Recovery

#freeBSD

Got my desktop up and running. Vim, KeepassXC, and Firefox all working with the classic (if basic) Chicago95 theme!

With XFCE 4.20 though, I do have wayland installed and could mess around with different shells and window managers if I wanted to.

At least for now for basic computer usage this is acceptable. I usually use stock GNOME on Linux tbh.

#30DayBSDChallenge #runbsd #FreeBSD #xfce #fishshell #chicago95

(I'm experimenting with Docker Engine 29.0+ here and, maybe, I'm reinventing the wheel, but...)

I do like #FreeBSD and I like #ZFS. So, I thought, I can use OpenZFS on linux too... With docker... Right... Well....

ZFS storage driver is apparently slow as hell and overlay2 don't really work on ZFS.
So, the best option I found, just create a zvolume, format it with something linux friendly and go with it.
But that's kinda killing entire idea of having pools of storage you can mess however you need.

But hey, docker only need overlay for root on it's containers. I can keep everything else on zfs.
And that where it's became interesting (rabbit hole)...

Nothing goes to rootfs... MM, why? o_O

https://gist.github.com/anparker/c4c7a6c2f96a253ba6f4fed344d9037c

Nice, with a great help of https://www.programmingfonts.org/ (URL was found in the lost toot of one fedizen), I finally found the ideal font which I was searching a lot — a monospace Serif font, which looks like font from a book! 

A Monaspace Xenon font and a Monaspace Radon font (the last is hand-writing like monospace font). Luckily, the support of Cyrillic symbols was added in the latest version of font, literally few weeks ago.

Finally, my desktop is closer to the mine ideal 

#FreeBSD #AwesomeWM #Emacs #unixporn #fonts

Ummm, does anyone else think that FreeBSD.org has got the anti-bot setting turned up just a bit too high? I just waited on Anubis for 30 seconds for a single page load, and my machine is hardly old.

#FreeBSD

My first Mastodon 4.5.11 to 4.6.0 beta1 upgrade on FreeBSD has been smooth and successful.
In the coming days, I'll perform more tests (like rising the char limits, etc) to be sure that, when it will be stable, the BSD Cafe upgrade will be smooth as well.

#Mastodon #FreeBSD

The May 2026 FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter is here!

This month, we’re sharing:

- A reminder that FreeBSD Day is June 19, plus a simple way to celebrate (and support the Foundation) through the FreeBSD Foundation Shop
- BSDCan + the FreeBSD Developer Summit are coming up June 17–20 in Ottawa (Dev Summit runs June 17–18). Registration is open.

Read the full newsletter: https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/may-newsletter/

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSDCan #FreeBSDDay #Newsletter