Notices by Ed Maste (emaste@mastodon.social)

@FreeBSDFoundation Aymeric also has a corresponding blog post detailing Modern Standby on #FreeBSD https://obiw.ac/s0ix/

Wake up, #FreeBSD! Implementing Modern Standby with S0ix

Sponsored by the @FreeBSDFoundation -- Video from Aymeric Wibo's FOSDEM talk is now up: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6390-wake-up-freebsd-implementing-modern-standby-with-s0ix/

@_bapt_ Also nice that it's in FreeBSD ports and is up-to-date!

@lproven @theregister A little correction:

> and eventually in FreeBSD, too

"and is already in FreeBSD" is more accurate. These features have been coming into FreeBSD as they've been developed - for example, the RAID-Z expansion support arrived in November 2023.

@lproven I don't understand the comment that it will "eventually" be in FreeBSD, too -- if someone wanted to try OpenZFS 2.3 in FreeBSD I'd suggest grabbing the latest snapshot release from https://www.freebsd.org/snapshots/. How does one try it on Ubuntu or Void Linux?

The @FreeBSDFoundation invested a lot of money to develop RAID-Z expansion so I'm very happy that it's finally in an OpenZFS release.

@lproven @theregister Ah, FreeBSD 14.2 shipped with OpenZFS 2.2.6 and some subsequent fixes

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sys/contrib/openzfs?h=releng/14.2&id=755e773877e9f3abab3bed2d46d9d87978e303d9

FreeBSD main (aka CURRENT, and what will become 15.0) picked up RAID-Z expansion in 2023 https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e716630d4cf89e69ec3f675ebfceee09f1a85e05 and updated to OpenZFS 2.3 in Oct 2024 https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=7a7741af18d6c8a804cc643cb7ecda9d730c6aa6 with additional fixes after that.

A project has a shell script called "thermite.sh", and I wanted to see if it turns up in search results.

No such luck, enshittified Google gives me AI nonsense.

I wonder if anyone's super-familiar with the ways i915 graphics drivers can produce a corrupt display (on #FreeBSD, testing the driver port from Linux 6.7)

@silverwizard @joel @vermaden This issue predates Colin's tenure as lead release engineer. It's not new, but is exacerbated by more frequent releases.

Did you know that #FreeBSD can run a lot of #Linux software directly (without running Linux in a VM)? The Linuxulator is a compatibility layer that provides an implementation of many Linux interfaces available to userland programs.

So far everyone's responded with symlink, except for existing #FreeBSD installations. Haven't heard from my #OpenBSD or #NetBSD friends yet.

Lazyweb survey for users of UNIX-like systems (#Linux distros, #macOS, #BSD):

1. Is /etc/localtime a symlink to, or a copy of, the timezone file (in /usr/share/zoneinfo/)
2. On which distro or operating system

#Bell ran fibre down my street a month or two ago and I signed up for installation next week... but found out they don't offer #IPv6 and I had to cancel the planned install.

They tout their fibre service as "ready for the advancements of tomorrow" but offer only IPv4.

C'mon Bell, it's time to move out of the last millennium!

What's the largest number of NUMA domains you've encountered?

Anyone have a contact at imunify360.com? They claim "advanced procedures
to detect bots with bad or spoofed user agents" but one of those "advanced procedures" results in returning a 403 Forbidden when the user agent has "amd64" in it (as it does by default on FreeBSD).

https://blog.imunify360.com/modsecurity-rules-how-to-guide

🎵 The @FreeBSDFoundation is contracting work on the FreeBSD audio stack and is looking for comments and feedback https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-multimedia/2023-December/002087.html 🎵

Tired of seeing ZFS get all of the attention, ext4 developers introduce a data corruption issue of their own.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

@kkarhan @Lulukaros @chrisoffner3d @vaartis see e.g. https://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/171982/en-us/, Vulkan support added to the FreeBSD driver a few years ago

@feld @mms @pitrh #FreeBSD startup scripts have parsed rc.conf.local since prior to 2000.

After the recent #FreeBSD security updates, I've heard the first report of successfully applying them in a pkgbase world.