We’ve published our 2025 report outlining the Foundation’s software development and infrastructure efforts. This year, 62% of our budget supported development work that improved wireless networking, graphics, power management, debugging tools, and broader hardware compatibility, including progress on Framework laptops.

Read the full report:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-software-development-and-infrastructure-support/

As you review the update, is there a particular area of development that stood out to you?
#FreeBSD #OpenSource

We’ve published our 2025 report outlining the Foundation’s software development and infrastructure efforts. This year, 62% of our budget supported development work that improved wireless networking, graphics, power management, debugging tools, and broader hardware compatibility, including progress on Framework laptops.

Read the full report:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2025-software-development-and-infrastructure-support/

As you review the update, is there a particular area of development that stood out to you?
#FreeBSD #OpenSource

Just two weeks left to reserve your spot in our upcoming "FreeBSD for Linux Users" training course. Seats are limited!

In this course you'll learn how to use FreeBSD through hands-on lab exercises in a secure environment, utilizing Bastille to experiment in jailed sandbox environments.

You'll become a pro with the most advanced filesystem in the wold, ZFS, and soon wonder how you ever used anything else!

Email training@bastillebsd.org for more details.

#FreeBSD #Training #Linux #BastilleBSD

Our Mastodon server, that hosts the burningboard.net Mastodon instance is running perfectly fine. The AMD EPYC Rome CPU isn't even sweating on the load 😄

It already felt pretty performant, great to see it in graphs as well ! 🙂

#freebsd #mastodon #mastoadmin #grafana #monitoring @tux

Our Mastodon server, that hosts the burningboard.net Mastodon instance is running perfectly fine. The AMD EPYC Rome CPU isn't even sweating on the load 😄

It already felt pretty performant, great to see it in graphs as well ! 🙂

#freebsd #mastodon #mastoadmin #grafana #monitoring @tux

Really happy to see this project moving along so well.

FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/

#freebsd

Just two weeks left to reserve your spot in our upcoming "FreeBSD for Linux Users" training course. Seats are limited!

In this course you'll learn how to use FreeBSD through hands-on lab exercises in a secure environment, utilizing Bastille to experiment in jailed sandbox environments.

You'll become a pro with the most advanced filesystem in the wold, ZFS, and soon wonder how you ever used anything else!

Email training@bastillebsd.org for more details.

#FreeBSD #Training #Linux #BastilleBSD

@SpaceLifeForm

I'll have to give it a try tonight. I'm on my faster #FreeBSD box right now.

Isn't youtube h264 by default these days?

@ltning @rqm @r1w1s1

No joy on #FreeBSD :P

rld@Intrepid:~$ type tetris
bash: type: tetris: not found
rld@Intrepid:~$ ls /usr/games
ls: /usr/games: No such file or directory
rld@Intrepid:~$ uname -srm
FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p5 amd64
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

There are some packages, though:

rld@Intrepid:~$ pkg search -i tetris
patapizza-tetris-1.0_7         Unofficial clone of the original Tetris game
vitetris-0.59.1                Terminal-based Tetris clone in vein of Nintendo Tetris
rld@Intrepid:~$ 

Found something somewhat terrifying in the man page on NetBSD, though:

AUTHORS
     Adapted from a 1989 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner by
     Chris Torek and Darren F. Provine.

     Manual adapted from the original entry written by Nancy L. Tinkham and
     Darren F. Provine.

     Code for previewing next shape added by Hubert Feyrer in 1999.

Adapted from a 1989 International Obfuscated C Code Contest winner 👀

Obfuscated C 👀👀👀👀

:BlobCatBlankieScared:

Making slow but steady progress experimenting with #FreeBSD on an old laptop. Loving parts of it, still struggling with other parts (slow WiFi, no opencl for Intel on 15.0?).

Also finally managed to get postgresql running in a Bastille jail thanks to @stefano 's it-notes article about hosting Mastodon. I would never have figured out it requires sysvXXX=new being set to run initdb. I'm finding his blog as valuable a resource as the FreeBSD handbook itself!

Making slow but steady progress experimenting with #FreeBSD on an old laptop. Loving parts of it, still struggling with other parts (slow WiFi, no opencl for Intel on 15.0?).

Also finally managed to get postgresql running in a Bastille jail thanks to @stefano 's it-notes article about hosting Mastodon. I would never have figured out it requires sysvXXX=new being set to run initdb. I'm finding his blog as valuable a resource as the FreeBSD handbook itself!

Really happy to see this project moving along so well.

FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-closes-the-laptop-gap-year-one-project-update/

#freebsd

Sorry für die 30-minütige Ausfallzeit unserer Mastodon-Instanz burningboard.net.

Zumindest laufen wir jetzt mit VIEL MEHR RESSOURCEN !! 😄 Die Datenbanken (PostgreSQL und Valkey) laufen jetzt auf einem separaten Host innerhalb desselben LAN (und auf FreeBSD+ZFS).

#mastodon #mastoadmin #freebsd #postgresql @tux