Alauddin Maulana Hirzan 💻<p>my WiFi performance after using WiFiBox. almost double from initial speed. I hope FreeBSD stabilizes the driver as soon as possible. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/wifibox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wifibox</span></a></p>
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Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film OTD in 1926 https://cromwell-intl.com/technical/extract-mp3-audio-from-video.html?s=mb #Linux #FreeBSD #history
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreHow to Extract MP3 Audio from a Video File — MPEG, WEBM, MP4, AVI, WMV, etcExtract the audio track from a video file — MPEG, WEBM, AVI, WMV, MP4, what have you — and save it as MP3.
Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 [UPDATE 2] to 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗷𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲(𝟴) 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗝𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁/𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [New jmore(8) FreeBSD Jails List/Manage Tool] article.
Now with CPU/RAM info.
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/new-jless-freebsd-jails-list-manage-tool#UPDATE2
"I’m not saying that a knowledge of promiscuous mode, fdisk, or window scaling leads to misery, but I will say that happy folks have no understanding of any of them."
The new #FreeBSD Journal is out, including my "We Get Letters" column.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/networking-3/we-get-letters-4/ #sysadmin
FreeBSD Foundation | A non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and building the FreeBSD Project · We Get Letters | FreeBSD FoundationWe Get Letters We Get Letters By Michael W Lucas FreeBSD’s jails have a few different ways to network. How do I decide which to use? —Baffled and Distressed Dear BAD, I’m writing this at BSDCan 2025. Two stories above us, someone is using a hammer drill. Traversing the concrete building shifts the vibration so
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ZFS ARC Cache Explained
ZFS uses RAM as a powerful cache called the ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) to speed up disk reads and metadata operations.
It looks like ZFS “eats” RAM — but it’s actually putting your memory to work, caching data for blazing-fast access.
Important: ARC is not a memory leak!
It dynamically adjusts — if apps need RAM, ARC frees it instantly.
You can set a limit with zfs_arc_max so ZFS won’t take all your memory.
Properly tuned, ARC boosts performance without starving your system.
So don’t fear the RAM usage—embrace the cache! 
By the way, I'm having fun looking at some uptime data. Here's some:
%up 99.996 | since Wed Nov 22 10:51:03 2023
%up 99.998 | since Fri Jul 29 09:35:57 2022
%up 99.999 | since Wed Apr 6 14:48:49 2022
%up 99.931 | since Thu Sep 7 08:48:55 2023
%up 99.989 | since Sun Mar 20 18:06:40 2022
%up 99.994 | since Thu Dec 9 17:10:22 2021
In other words, they were only offline for updates that needed a reboot.
These are all leased production servers located in Europe, running FreeBSD with jails and VMs.
No need for Kubernetes or the cloud to get great uptime!
I, connecting to a server: 'I must have created that a couple of years ago at most'.
Then, I type uprecords: "%up 99.994 | since Thu Dec 9 17:10:22 2021"
EDIT: more about this here: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/114903904797352861
BSD.cafe Mastodon PortalStefano Marinelli (@stefano@bsd.cafe)By the way, I'm having fun looking at some uptime data. Here's some:
%up 99.996 | since Wed Nov 22 10:51:03 2023
%up 99.998 | since Fri Jul 29 09:35:57 2022
%up 99.999 | since Wed Apr 6 14:48:49 2022
%up 99.931 | since Thu Sep 7 08:48:55 2023
%up 99.989 | since Sun Mar 20 18:06:40 2022
%up 99.994 | since Thu Dec 9 17:10:22 2021
In other words, they were only offline for updates that needed a reboot.
These are all leased production servers located in Europe, running FreeBSD with jails and VMs.
No need for Kubernetes or the cloud to get great uptime!
#RunBSD #FreeBSD #OwnYourData
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@nausicaea I’m about to start graduate school at the end of August for a Masters of Social Work (MSW). I’ve worked professionally in IT for 22 years and I’m done. My new career goal is to open a private therapy practice. I sadly I never had the opportunity to be a Linux Systems Admin professionally. At home, I run #AlmaLinux, #ArchLinux, #FreeBSD, and #OpenBSD. My home lab is my escape from my hatred of #Microsoft.
Any Apple folks want to help get #FreeBSD working with Apple's new Container runner? I did the bits necessary to let Podman run a FreeBSD VM instead of a Linux one and run FreeBSD containers (and Linux ones actually - they mostly work nicely in FreeBSD in the Linuxulator), it would be great to have FreeBSD working out-of-the-box for containers on macOS (and would mean a container runner with no GPL'd code).
Today we want to thank the #FreeBSD core team for all their hard work and contributions. 
Our favorite OS wouldn't be what it is today without their work.
Thank you!
FreeBSD 15.0 aims to introduce a KDE desktop installation option, allowing users to boot directly into a graphical login with minimal setup required.
https://linuxiac.com/kde-desktop-environment-comes-to-freebsd-15-0-installer/
www.osnews.comFreeBSD 15.0’s installer to gain option to install a full KDE Plasma desktop environment – OSnews
Exciting! Full base system #FreeBSD images coming soon!. Being able to just do a podman run --rm -it FreeBSD-{whatever} is going to be so nice for quick testing!
reviews.freebsd.org⚙ D51471 release: build "full" oci image
Did you know Bastille supports dual-stack networking at create-time for VNET jails?
DHCP:
bastille create -V arkham 14.3-RELEASE "DHCP SLAAC" em0
STATIC:
bastille create -V alcatraz 14.3-RELEASE "10.17.89.53 2001:…" em0
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@stefano This is great news and certainly an improvement to both open source and FreeBSD.
While *I* would have preferred #xfce over #kde in the installer (because I am an XFCE user) that's not the point. The point being the FreeBSD team, based on user survey results, is *listening.*
To the people who leave comments like "it's too late" or "we already have Linux" then the point has been missed. What's great about #opensource is the plethora of choices. With #FreeBSD 15 offering #KDE, it means the quality of choices just improved.
www.phoronix.comFreeBSD 15.0 Aims To Have A KDE Desktop Install OptionThe crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment.
Ooo, fun. All of the Linux tools that we ship in the #CHERIoT dev container work in the Linuxulator on #FreeBSD with #Podman
There appears to be a bug in the Podman with image tags that are multi-arch manifests if you specify --os Linux: it downloads the image and then fails to run it. If you specify the tag for the x86-64 version, it works fine.
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