Mastodawn

Very nice post by @evgandr
"FreeBSD and Thinkpad-specific keys and indicators"
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2026/03/24/freebsd-thinkpad-specific-keys.html

#FreeBSD #Thinkpad #RunBSD

FreeBSD and Thinkpad-specific keys and indicators

Thinkpad laptops, e.g. mine Thinkpad X220, has a lot of functional keys. Some of them work without any problems — they are passed by the underlying kernel to the X server and it recognizes them as a usual key symbols: XF86AudioMute, XF86AudioRaiseVolume, XF86AudioNext, etc. But some special keys are not passed to the X server from the underlying OS layers.

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Anders Gulden Olstad 5h ago

I love this talk by Kirk McKusick on the history of the #BSD #UNIX history #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonflyBSD https://youtu.be/bVSXXeiFLgk

A Narrative History of BSD

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Tionisla 6h ago

Secondary: "Tianve" - HP-250 G3
Operating System: OpenBSD 7.8 amd64
Desktop: LXQT 2.2.0
Windowmanager: XFWM4
Qt Version: 6.8.3
Graphics Platform: X11

https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=77494a1526

#runbsd #openbsd #fishlinux #unix #foss #lxqt #desktop #screenshot

Tomáš 7h ago

"love, mister computo?"

#unix_surrealism #art #comic #runbsd

Justine Smithies 9h ago

So I went and put one of @[email protected] pictures on a 60x40 cm canvas for my office / homelab. I'll have to get some more artwork now I've seen how it turned out. 😍 #RunBSD #OpenBSD

https://analognowhere.com/

Root Moose 1d ago

Installed OpenBSD in a VM. Just scratching the surface but I like it. Booting into OpenBSD's version of xdm and then logging into a simple fvwm desktop was a rush of familiarity. Ha.

I was non-plused about X11 but I see that OpenBSD maintains their own X11 implementation (Xenocara) that is more secure than Xorg due to privilege separation - if I'm understanding correctly. I need to discover more about it but colour me intrigued.

I need to figure out how to get LXQt going. While I ran a fully customized fvwm setup for eons in the paleocomputing era I'm kind of over it now.

Not having zfs will be something to get my head around as well.

I wonder if it's possible to 'prettify' the boot up screen and output.

Fun!

#OpenBSD #RunBSD

Russ Sharek 1d ago

I am blaming the influence of @gumnos for my EDITOR variable now being set to (n)vi.

Thank you so much for the pointers.

#TechnicalJiggeryPokery
#RunBSD
#vi
#noslop #noai #StopSlop

Root Moose 1d ago

Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him...

Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd? A man of your talents?

Galen: It's a peaceful life.

#systemd #Linux #RunBSD #meme

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Sandy S.1d ago

Oh noooo! This worked so well!!!! Thank you for all your time over the year! #runbsd @BoxyBSD @gyptazy

Tionisla 2d ago

First official day of my free days. An old friend asked to come over for coffee or tea and asked if I introduce him to BSD. He's using Fedora, atm.

So I mopped the deck... err... the floor, cleaned up a bit, get some cake and prepare some USB sticks with FreeBSD, GhostBSD, NomadBSD and OpenBSD and downloaded the netbsd image just in case.

who cares for the Linux darkside having cookies if you can get cake when looking into #RunBSD 🤷‍♀️