Exciting developments coming soon!
A new Bastille API with accompanying modern interface are coming along!
Soon you'll have the option to manage your systems from an intuitive interface.
We'll be sharing some screenshot previews over the next couple weeks for feedback.
Remember when automation meant Bash scripts duct-taped to crontab?
Now we’ve got declarative config, jails, and Rocinante.
Times change. Tools evolve.
FreeBSD: Leakage of information into vt consoles, from a desktop environment at ttyv8
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1k92yo8/leakage_of_information_into_vt_consoles_from_a/
– in other words, input in a desktop environment may be mistreated as input at a terminal e.g. ttyv0 or ttyv1.
Please help to identify relevant source code. Thank you.
Thanks to the #FreeBSD Handbook on Ports and the following page, I finally got around to building the drm-kmod port and dependencies so that amdgpu runs properly on 14.2. 
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-14-2-graphics-fix.96365/
The GENERIC kernel without a kernel panic.
Patched (vibe-coded by Claude):
sleepqueue-r0drv-freebsd.h
Partly related: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287755
Looks like the maintainers of xlibre packages in the FreeBSD 15.0 did a great work 
I was able to switch from Xorg to XLibre with just two commands and without any issues, lol
https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2026/01/22/freebsd-15-0-xlibre.html
Worth to mention, that any of my tricks described in the previous blogpost (https://eugene-andrienko.com/it/2025/07/24/x11-configuration-simple.html) are working too without any problems.
Does anyone have a complete guide to how vnodes and vnode paging works on FreeBSD?
D&I doesn't tie things together very nicely, and the man pages are lacking a lot of the interplay between the vnops and what various functions do.
I'm getting closer to understanding things, but it seems like there's a lot of interplay between _read, _bmap, _read_pgcacche, _getpages, and _strategy, and helper functions like bread/cluster_read that isn't well described (or split between all the different man pages in ways that aren't obvious to me).
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FreeBSD 15.0-RC2 Now Available
<https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20251119010332.2562F1B16C>
<https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-November/003585.html>
The second release candidate build of the 15.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available. …
"… The only changes between 15.0-RC1 and 15.0-RC2 relate to the process used to create "cloud" images, aka. for Amazon EC2, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle. Users of non-cloud installations will not see any difference between 15.0-RC1 and 15.0-RC2 aside from the version number. …"
<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1p1pxn1/freebsd_150rc2_now_available/>
After spending the last few days playing around with Linux distros from 1997-98 and comparing them to #FreeBSD 2.2.8, I'm left wondering why exactly it was Linux that ended up winning that round of the OS wars when it seems like FreeBSD was so much better? Nearly all the Linux distros I tried were at least partially broken out-of-the-box.
Best guess: lingering legal concerns vis-a-vis AT&T? 🤔
Does anyone manage to use the #keyboard media controls in #FreeBSD #Xorg? I have a DasKeyboard with a volume jog that works out of the box on #OpenBSD.
The events seems to be working using xev tester. It regognizes the RaiseVolume and LowerVolume events.
Not sure where to actually start looking for a solution.
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