Mastodawn

🚧 Ah, FreeBSD 15's new "bridging" act—brought to you by the same innovators who think deprecating features without a plan is a cool party trick. 🎩 VLAN support? Check. Confusing sysctls? Check. Of course, they graciously leave future headaches to sort out the whole router-on-a-stick mess. 🎉✨
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ #FreeBSD15 #Bridging #VLANs #Sysctls #Innovation #Networking #HackerNews #ngated

Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15 comes with a new bridging implementation which has native support for VLANs. They have also soft-deprecated the ability to have any layer 3 addresses on member interfaces which makes it behave like a real hardware switch. The net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs sysctl controls this behavior and it will …

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Hacker News Feb 22

Using New Bridges of FreeBSD 15

https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/

#HackerNews #FreeBSD15 #NewBridges #Networking #Technology #Blog

Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15

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Malte Bublitz

Jan 28

Bootloader dürfen auch schön aussehen.

#refind #dualboot #fedora #fedora43 #freebsd #freebsd15

andrethemac Jan 26

Finaly migrated the last homelab server from #FreeBSD 14.3 to #FreeBSD15 including the #jails . All without a hickup thanks to the fine work of the #freebsd devs and the #bastille devs.

FreeBSD Foundation Jan 23

Community Spotlight: How FreeBSD Is Inspiring New Users Through Real-World Experiences

We’re pleased to see how the community is responding to our Executive Director Deb Goodkin’s ongoing series documenting her experience running FreeBSD 15.0 on the Framework 12" Mini laptop.

Deb is now on Day 18 of her journey, sharing daily progress as she evaluates FreeBSD in everyday workflows.

Follow her latest update here:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/deb-goodkin-b282924a_day-18-of-freebsd-150-on-my-framework-12-activity-7419942116832833536-KdPO

#FreeBSD #OpenSource #FreeBSD15 #FrameworkLaptop

FreeBSD Foundation Jan 21

New in the Q4 2025 FreeBSD Journal: FreeBSD 15.0 Fixes and Features

We’re pleased to highlight this article from our Q4 2025 Journal. It provides an in-depth look at the key fixes and enhancements included in FreeBSD 15.0, outlining meaningful improvements to system stability, hardware support, and the overall user experience. It’s a valuable overview for anyone upgrading or evaluating the release.

Read the full article:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/freebsd-15-0-fixes-and-features/

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #FreeBSD15

not Evander Sinque Jan 19

So `sockstat` on FreeBSD 15 now needs the -w switch to properly show v6 sockets? The old "ugly" version is not there anymore, but at least, it showed the full socket address. #FreeBSD #FreeBSD15

Ulrich Hoffmann🖖Jan 17

Installed and running FreeBSD 15p1 on a Thinkpad X200. Was concerned about it being just a core 2 duo and equipped only with 4GB RAM. But to my delight it is actually quite usable for typical mild use. XFCE Desktop. Even Firefox runs ok. Just 5GB of 256GB SSD used. 👍️ 😊
#freebsd #freebsd15 #x200 #thinkpad