The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1) . The Usual Suspects section at the end is permanent and have links to other sites with interesting UNIX/BSD/Linux news. Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page. FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE Now Available. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-September/000316.html FreeBSD 14.5 Goes Official. https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/09/08/freebsd-14-5-goes-official/ FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements and Many Bug and Security Fixes. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.5 Adds inotify(4) Support and Boot Loader Fixes. https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/freebsd-14-5-adds-inotify-support-and-boot-loader-fixes/ Eleven Lines for a Dozen Jails. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/eleven-lines ekkoBSD 2.1 Released after More then Two Private Decades. https://ekkobsd.org/downloads Hex Editor ImHex for Reverse Engineers/Programmers. https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex Dedicated Jail Images. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/dedicated-jail-images GSoC 2026 Reports – Testing Compat Linux on NetBSD – Syscall Testing – Part 2. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_testing_compat_linux_2 Package Management in AIX – Enable autofsinstall(8) and Say Goodbye to Manual Fileset Hunting. https://osadmins.com/en/package-management-in-aix-how-to-enable-autofsinstall-and-say-goodbye-to-manual-fileset-hunting/ VIOS System Update Using Alternate ( alt_disk ) Disk. https://osadmins.com/en/vios-system-update-using-alternate-disk-alt_disk/ Why is Everyone Stuck on FreeBSD 13? https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-13-eol-why-systems-are-still-running-freebsd-13/ BSD Part Deux. https://ministryofmayhem.space/posts/bsdptdeux/ V Language Enabled by Default on BSD. https://github.com/vlang/v/pull/28475 FreeBSD ZFS Pool DEGRADED. https://dan.langille.org/2026/09/12/data04-degraded-oh-and-have-i-mentioned-watchgoose/ NetBSD/amd64 Guest Can Boot in 40ms. https://reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1wehwzb/netbsd_amd64_guest_can_boot_in_40ms/ System Activity Monitor tosview(8) Inspired by SGI IRIX gr_osview / xosview Tools. https://github.com/lex0de/tosview Aptivi Weekly Tech News – Issue #15 – Week 37. https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/09/12/aptivi-weekly-tech-news-issue-15-week-37-9-12-2026/ Unix Heritage Society Preserves/Maintains Historical UNIX Artifacts. https://tuhs.org/ BIRD on FreeBSD: BGP MD5 Needs Source Address. https://kuon.ch/post/2026-09-10-til-bird-setkey/ DaemonForums Down as One of Creators Terminally Ill at Hospital. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/daemonforums.103642/ MariAdmin and OpenBSD on OVHcloud. https://ozgurkazancci.com/freebsd-jstats-a-resource-monitoring-tool-for-jails/ Small jstats(8) Tool for FreeBSD Jails RAM/CPU/DISK Stats. https://github.com/ozgurkazancci/jstats Overview of AOOSTAR WTR Pro on *BSD. https://tumfatig.net/2026/overview-of-aoostar-wtr-pro-on-bsd/ FreeBSD Jail Orchestration Runtime Descriptor. https://fjord.daemonless.io/ Firewall I Never Had to Relearn. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/pf-twenty-years FreeBSD Basics – Part 2 – System /bin/sh Shell. https://youtube.com/watch?v=-6NlGRxZNWU FreeBSD Basics – Part 3 – System /bin/sh Shell. https://youtube.com/watch?v=MQTtPsjmJOw Modern Service Manager rcd(8) FreeBSD Way. https://exquisite.tube/w/nPGJ2TbJ8kzP8SHXiwzirU Make FreeBSD Cloud Native with nuageinit(7) Tool. https://exquisite.tube/w/4Z2quSCm6Ni1ExrsQJa249 EuroBHYVEcon 2026. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KJ_XYyzzTLc Checking Out Gershwin Desktop on GhostBSD/FreeBSD Live. https://youtube.com/watch?v=oixYFTC-jI4 BSD Now 680: What FS? https://www.bsdnow.tv/680 OpenNMC is Open Replacement for Expensive APC Management Cards. https://jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/opennmc-apc-ups-replacement-card/ Introducing JetKVM Mini. https://jetkvm.com/blog/introducing-jetkvm-mini Intel Xeon 600 vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 Performance. https://phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-600-amd-threadripper-9000/15 Intel Opens X86 to 3rd Parties: Licenses Atom RTL Code to RosaicLabs. https://alextech.ai/en/news/intel-opens-x86-to-third-parties-licenses-atom-rtl-code-to-rosaiclabs/ 216.000.000 Spy TVs – LG Smart TV Problem. https://youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA The Art of Being Dangerous – Jordan Peterson Motivation. https://youtube.com/watch?v=kxjMYWAV2Pk Firefox AI Switch is Off. Telemetry is Not. https://marius.blog/firefox-155-ai-kill-switch-retest/ UNIX Inspired Literature Crumbs – Small Artifacts Each About One Idea. https://alfredollaquet.github.io/Alfredo_Llaquet-Alsina_Crumbs/ Lazy Reading for 2026/09/13. https://dragonflydigest.com/2026/09/13/lazy-reading-for-2026-09-13/ ASCII Graffiti @ GOTO8O. https://goto80.com/ascii-graffiti BSD Weekly. https://bsdweekly.com/ DiscoverBSD. https://discoverbsd.com/ BSDSec. https://bsdsec.net/ DragonFly BSD Digest. https://dragonflydigest.com/ FreeBSD Patch Level Table. https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/ FreeBSD End of Life Date. https://endoflife.date/freebsd Phoronix BSD News Archives. https://phoronix.com/linux/BSD OpenBSD Journal. https://undeadly.org/ Call for Testing. https://callfortesting.org/ Call for Testing – Production Users Call. https://youtube.com/@callfortesting/videos BSD Now Weekly Podcast. https://www.bsdnow.tv/ Nixers Newsletter. https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php BSD Cafe Journal. https://journal.bsd.cafe/ DragonFly BSD Digest – Lazy Reading – In Other BSDs. https://dragonflydigest.com BSDTV. https://bsky.app/profile/bsdtv.bsky.social FreeBSD Git Weekly. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/ FreeBSD Meetings. https://youtube.com/@freebsdmeetings BSDJedi. https://youtube.com/@BSDJedi/videos RoboNuggie. https://youtube.com/@RoboNuggie/videos GaryHTech. https://youtube.com/@GaryHTech/videos Sheridan Computers. https://youtube.com/@sheridans/videos 82MHz. https://82mhz.net/ Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1) . The Usual Suspects section at the end is permanent and have links to other sites with interesting UNIX/BSD/Linux news. Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page. FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-08-24 to 2026-08-30. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-08-24.html Caching freebsd-update(8) and pkg(8) Files with NGINX. https://omussell.github.io/fbsd-update-cache/ BaroPAM Installation Guide on FreeBSD. https://mc529.tistory.com/1567 LibreOffice 26.8 is Out – Local First – No AI. https://theregister.com/applications/2026/08/28/libreoffice-26.8-out/5293301 Call for Testers with NVMe on FreeBSD. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2026-September/010763.html Offshoots of Cancelled TrueNAS CORE Upgrade to FreeBSD 15. https://theregister.com/storage/2026/09/02/offshoots-of-cancelled-truenas-core-upgrade-to-freebsd-15/5293725 Report periodic(8) Sends Anyway. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/periodic-sheet FreeBSD Release Cycle: What It Means for Your Upgrade Schedule. https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-release-cycle-and-upgrade-schedule/ Wine 11.17 Released with Initial Support for Display Mode Emulation. https://phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.17-Released AppJail 5.5.0 Released. https://github.com/DtxdF/AppJail/releases/tag/v5.5.0 NetBSD 9.5 Released. https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.5.html NetBSD 11 from Scratch. https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/ AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/ FreeBSD Introduces Similar to top(1) Tool nfsdtop(8) with NFS Server I/O Using dtrace(1) . https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=60c7313074b93adf4ea70ff44b78b3b4fc15c29f FreeBSD Git Weekly: 2026-08-31 to 2026-09-06. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/2026-08-31.html Moving from Binary Packages to pkgsrc. https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-09-07-bsd-pkgsrc-ports.html FreeBSD Basics – Part 1 – System /bin/sh Shell. https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbvzOGv8lm8 BSD Now 679: It Also Goes to 11. https://www.bsdnow.tv/679 ThinkPad Endgame. https://williamjansson.com/posts/thinkpad_endgame/ How EV Tires are Made Differently from Regular Tires? https://youtube.com/watch?v=lfjc4XyU0Og What the Fuck Happened to Nerds. https://mrmarket.lol/what-the-fuck-happened-to-nerds/ Can Tech Legends Find the Liar – Mafia Episode 1. https://youtube.com/watch?v=EDCwQe7P8T0 Balkanization of Virtualization will Dethrone VMware. https://theregister.com/virtualization/2026/08/31/balkanization-virtualization-vmware/5292488 82MHz – Linkdump No 123. https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/09/linkdump-no-123/ Porsche Unleashed. https://www.filfre.net/2026/09/porsche-unleashed/ BSD Weekly. https://bsdweekly.com/ DiscoverBSD. https://discoverbsd.com/ BSDSec. https://bsdsec.net/ DragonFly BSD Digest. https://dragonflydigest.com/ FreeBSD Patch Level Table. https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/ FreeBSD End of Life Date. https://endoflife.date/freebsd Phoronix BSD News Archives. https://phoronix.com/linux/BSD OpenBSD Journal. https://undeadly.org/ Call for Testing. https://callfortesting.org/ Call for Testing – Production Users Call. https://youtube.com/@callfortesting/videos BSD Now Weekly Podcast. https://www.bsdnow.tv/ Nixers Newsletter. https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php BSD Cafe Journal. https://journal.bsd.cafe/ DragonFly BSD Digest – Lazy Reading – In Other BSDs. https://dragonflydigest.com BSDTV. https://bsky.app/profile/bsdtv.bsky.social FreeBSD Git Weekly. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/ FreeBSD Meetings. https://youtube.com/@freebsdmeetings BSDJedi. https://youtube.com/@BSDJedi/videos RoboNuggie. https://youtube.com/@RoboNuggie/videos GaryHTech. https://youtube.com/@GaryHTech/videos Sheridan Computers. https://youtube.com/@sheridans/videos 82MHz. https://82mhz.net/ Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one 🙂 I spent way too much time finding new Mini-ITX case for the next one … and after all possibilities … I got Silverstone case again :] … because nothing else was this small and with all needed features. Also … I was thinking WHAT exactly should I buy – especially in the times with AI prices. For one of my older projects that failed (I hope to also publish about that some day) I had AMD Ryzen 4750GE CPU with 35W TDP but still 8C/16T CPU on AMD4 socket … so instead of killing all price/performance efficiency with DDR5 and AM5 setup … I went to decent AM4 option. Older build used Silverstone SG05 case and this one uses Silverstone SG13 … which is almost the same. So one can say that its just a tiny 5% increase in size … but a welcome and needed one. The new setup is about 25% faster when it comes to CPU and 40-60% faster in GPU department … depending on the workload. The SSD/NVMe speeds will be the same as its still the same AM4 platform … and RAM would also be similar as its again DDR4 sticks. After having the parts laying around for about a quarter (yes I was busy) my son finally forced me to make that build … and it was a positive push – we sit down in dining room with all needed parts and I started to assembly it with my son being more then curious how it is to actually build a computer. First CPU into the motherboard … and NVME into the M.2 slot. Next thermal paste and fan onto the CPU. To be honest it was easier said then done as the Thermalight AXP-90 X47 comes with install options for both AMD and Intel solutions and it took me a little time to check all needed screws to use and their accessories. Next – motherboard into the case. Next RAM or GPU … as GPU was measured to fit within millimeters in that case I started with the GPU. … and no matter how I tried … no matter which angles I tried to use … GPU would just not fit into the case 😦 I found funny that the GPU name was Challenger and it was REALLY challenging to fit it into the case. I even decided to name that system challenger after that. I am a big fan of Dodge Challenger cars … I own a Dodge personally … just not a Challenger … yet 🙂 I inspected the GPU from every possible direction and one detail caught my attention … The plastic cover with the fans was about 1cm wider then the PCB for the card … so I decided to cut it precisely at that place. This is how the plastic cover looked like after being cut to the PCB length. Here is how it went with the cutting – something like 2-3 minutes of work. … and after reattaching the cover to the GPU card. I went back to trying to fit the GPU into the case … but the cut was not enough … it would still not fit … so I changed strategy. I dissembled the expansion slot bracket from the GPU – out that expansion slot bracket into its place in the case – and tried to fit the card again – so later I can add screws to expansion slot bracket to attach it to GPU again … but I was not able to fit all those again. So next ‘victim’ of cutting was the expansion slot bracket … before on the picture below. Not much was needed – but without that cut – fitting that Challenger into the case was not possible. After that I was able to finally attach the GPU to the motherboard. It was more or less like that. … and after the additional bracket cover. Next for the installation were RAM sticks and SSD SATA drive – nothing spectacular about that – after also adding the PSU it was more or less complete. Its really nice that Thermaltake Toughpower Grand 750W PSU has detachable cables … so I could have one cable less in my case :] <sarcasm/> I generally like to build … everything – that means also building computers … but one thing always pisses me off when I build a PC – the cables from the case buttons to motherboard. Back in 2006 when I was building a gaming PC for my friend it looked more or less like that below – starting a PC with a screw 🙂 The difference in CPU power between older AMD Ryzen 7 1700 and AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750GE is about 25% percent. When it comes to GPU between 5700XT 8GB and 7700XT 12GB its somewhere between 40-60% percent. There is almost zero ‘visual’ difference between the two – first the older one. … and the newer one. The most important part of this article is sharing that all of these parts – especially GPU – works very well with FreeBSD with drm-kmod and x11-drivers/xlibre-xf86-video-amdgpu XLibre AMD Radeon GPU driver. After I learned how much some Red Hat people wanted to cripple and kill the X11 … I am not going back to Xorg X11 implementation … the XLibre X11 is my home … and do not even get me started on Wayland – the details about that topic are in the 200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop article. After install and reboot I started the fwget(8) command so that all needed firmware for FreeBSD will be fetched. But as it seams it was not enough as I got these boot errors on every FreeBSD system start. … so I start to dig where the problem is. For a start I checked all /etc/rc.d services for iwmbtfw name. So the /usr/local/share/iwmbt-firmware seems to be missing but its suppose to be there … OK … lets install the comms/iwmbt-firmware package. After reboot I never saw that error message again – so that is the needed fix. This is the exact hardware I got with the prices I paid for it in EUR currency. Some were bought as new and some as used. Not sure it was worth it but I did it anyway. In the mean time I also upgraded my older HP E221c FullHD monitor for HP E271i FullHD one … with additional HP soundbar mounted below the screen. To be honest – nothing fancy about that – the monitor was about 70 EUR and about 15 EUR for the soundbar. I installed these packages. Next I started the XLibre X11 as usual. … and the X11 XLibre display server started as usual – but after I checked the logs … I was using the software scfb driver … and I was not in the video group – so I added myself there. Next … I searched for amdgpu driver … Its important to install the x11-drivers/xlibre-xf86-video-amdgpu one because the other one will force You to uninstall XLibre and install Xorg. Next I added the AMD Radeon X11 config. Nothing fancy but works as desired. I also checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for details and … Yep … this is what we wanted. This is how that GPU looks like in the pciconf(8) output. This is how resources usage looks like in X11 XLibre session on FreeBSD. This is how the main FreeBSD /etc/rc.conf config looks like. Far from fancy – just simple stuff. Power measurement seems similar to older model – but slightly smaller. The Turbo frequency for the AMD Ryzen 7 4750GE CPU is at 4.3GHz … but I am not sure its used … because for example a CPU in my laptop has two ‘final’ speeds shown as 1801/15000 1800/15000 and the one with additional 1 it the one with Turbo mode … but nothing like that for that AMD Ryzen 7 4750GE CPU. Also … there is only C1 state supported … which is sad 😦 This is how the sensors(8) output looks like on that box. Not great. Not terrible. As I installed stock 15.1-RELEASE I will now upgrade to latest 15.1-pX release available. … and it all went well. After the upgrade finished I rebooted and everything worked like a charm. Fast forward half a year later after the build happened in that dining room – my 10 years old son comes to me a month ago and says ‘Hey dad I just wrote this PC Builder game with ChatGPT do You want to play it?’ … and after I checked it I was really shocked … positively. I mean … when I was 10 years old I did not even had my AMIGA 600 … I was playing various games on Pegasus – which is a cheap Polish NES clone … I would get AMIGA 600 when I was more or less like 12 years old (speaking from foggy memories) … and I was still playing games like Sensible World od Soccer or Cannon Fodder instead of creating anything. This is how this (after many iterations with AI) PC Builder game looks like. Yes – its in Polish – but I believe its just one prompt away from making it English/Polish when needed 🙂 My son also surprised me because one of the times I told him that ‘its not only ChatGPT out there – there are others like Perplexity or Claude or Gemini or … and several times he said ‘Dad I run out of tokens and just copied that I had and put that into other AI and it picked up my work and added the changes I wanted …’ – when I look at my son doing this stuff – being literally a Vibe Coder (still at the beginning of his route but still) … I feel like the schooling system is just one big fucking joke … I mean Mathematics/Physics/English/… are needed and useful … bot others? Optional to say the least … and I felt (and act accordingly) when I was in the school. Its just such a fucking waste of time to cram for some exam and forgot all that shit to get a grade. What I find funny is that my son never played a game I wrote … and I already played two games of his … I wish every parent to have the same. Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1) . The Usual Suspects section at the end is permanent and have links to other sites with interesting UNIX/BSD/Linux news. Past releases are available at the dedicated NEWS page. Bhyve Inside Jail: FreeBSD Feature Nobody Uses. https://blog.hofstede.it/bhyve-inside-a-jail-the-freebsd-feature-nobody-uses/ FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Now Available. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2026-August/004288.html FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released with Several Security Fixes. https://phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RC1 Why is This Running witr(1) Tool to Trace any Process/Port/Container/File. https://github.com/pranshuparmar/witr GSoC 2026 Reports: Improving RAIDframe on NetBSD. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_raidframe Install Void Linux with ZFS Boot Environments/Hibernation/Encryption. https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/22/void-linux-zfs-hibernation-guide/ VirtIO GPU QEMU/UTM Display Driver for FreeBSD Guests so Xorg/Xlibre Use xf86-video-scfb Dirver. https://gitlab.com/tgasiba/virtio_gpu_qemu Powercool 1000VA and 850VA UPS on FreeBSD with NUT. https://forums.sheridancomputers.com/t/powercool-1000va-and-850va-ups-on-freebsd-with-nut/185 New FreeBSD Compatible wifi-tui Tool to Scan/Conenct/Manage WiFi Networks. https://github.com/hirechbaghdad/wifi-tui/ GParted or Partition Manager for FreeBSD. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/gparted-partition-manager.103693/ There is No Linux Admin. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/no-linux-admin FreeBSD facl(8) Tool to Manage NFSv4 ACLs. https://github.com/olgeni/facl FreeBSD zfs-allow(8) Tool to Manage ZFS Delegated Administration. https://github.com/olgeni/zfs-allow FreeBSD zfs-set(8) Tool to Manage ZFS Dataset Properties. https://github.com/olgeni/zfs-set FreeBSD zpool-set(8) Tool to Manage ZFS Pool Properties. https://github.com/olgeni/zpool-set Hardware Acceleration on FreeBSD 14.4 i386. https://reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vyez95/hardware_acceleration_on_freebsd_144_i386/ Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4 per Month. https://nil.wallyjones.com/run-openbsd-on-digitalocean-for-4month/ What Happens When You Connect to Starbucks WiFi. https://nil.wallyjones.com/what-happens-when-you-connect-to-starbucks-wi-fi/ Sylve 0.3.0 Released. https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve/releases/tag/v0.3.0 What Shell am I Using? https://nil.wallyjones.com/what-shell-am-i-using/ FreeBSD Foundation Intern Jim Huang Chen on Raspberry Pi Support and Open Source. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-intern-jim-huang-chen-on-raspberry-pi-support-and-open-source/ Sylve – Modern Virtualization Solution. https://tomsitcafe.com/2026/07/24/sylve-a-modern-virtualization-solution/ Postgres pgbot(1) Intelligence for AI Agents and Apps. https://github.com/pgrundev/pgbot Lenovo XClarity Administrator in FreeBSD Bhyve VM. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/lenovo-xclarity-administrator-in-freebsd-bhyve-vm/ BSDnas is Community Fork that Continues TrueNAS CORE on Current FreeBSD. https://bsdnas.com/ WebZFS is Modern Web Interface for ZFS Administration. https://webzfs.com/ FreeCORE Descends from FreeNAS/TrueNAS CORE and Builds on FreeBSD and OpenZFS. https://freecore.org/ Challenges in Bringing AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. https://phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD – Part 10 – New Home. https://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-09-01-f3s-kubernetes-with-freebsd-part-10.html Sandbox Inside the Jail. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/sandbox-inside-the-jail What Isolation Actually Costs. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/isolation-costs BSD Weekly – Issue 293. https://bsdweekly.com/issues/293 Enabling TRIM on LUKS Encrypted SSD on Linux. https://forums.sheridancomputers.com/t/enabling-trim-on-a-luks-encrypted-ssd-on-arch-linux/186 BSD Now 678: Ceiling Cat Has Another Meaning. https://www.bsdnow.tv/678 PINE64 Partially Halts Production Due to Memory Shortage. https://heise.de/en/news/PINE64-partially-halts-production-due-to-memory-shortage-11423218.html Commodore 77. https://commodore.net/store/commodore64/ MNT Station Modular and Open Hardware Desktop/Server Computer. https://crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station Motorola GrapheneOS Phones Will Launch in 2027 Pricier than Pixels https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/motorolas-grapheneos-phones-will-launch-in-2027-priced-higher-than-pixels/ Samsung New P9 USB4 SSD Promises 4000MB/s. https://dpreview.com/news/step-aside-t9-samsungs-new-p9-usb4-drive-delivers-4-000mb-s-for-photo-workflows/ How Much of Internet is Written With AI? https://pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/ Meet Eliza Zhang – Book Scanner at Internet Archive. https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/ Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything is Starting to Look the Same. https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperature-zero-for-culture-why Heroes ]|[ Remake – Gameplay Overview Trailer with Commentary. https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9RahV1tj50 ReactOS 0.4.16 Released with New Graphical Installer and Better Hardware Support. https://phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-0.4.16-Released Aptivi Weekly Tech News 2026/08/29. https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/aptivi-weekly-tech-news-issue-13-week-35-8-29-2026/ Lazy Reading for 2026/08/30. https://dragonflydigest.com/2026/08/30/lazy-reading-for-2026-08-30/ Making My Dream City Builder – Part 1 – Parcels. https://youtube.com/watch?v=4heM4MqK82w Making My Dream City Builder – Part 2 – Traffic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoqK5wOGpfU Making My Dream City Builder – Part 3 – City Simulation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NvNp9QXMCM BSD Weekly. https://bsdweekly.com/ DiscoverBSD. https://discoverbsd.com/ BSDSec. https://bsdsec.net/ DragonFly BSD Digest. https://dragonflydigest.com/ FreeBSD Patch Level Table. https://bokut.in/freebsd-patch-level-table/ FreeBSD End of Life Date. https://endoflife.date/freebsd Phoronix BSD News Archives. https://phoronix.com/linux/BSD OpenBSD Journal. https://undeadly.org/ Call for Testing. https://callfortesting.org/ Call for Testing – Production Users Call. https://youtube.com/@callfortesting/videos BSD Now Weekly Podcast. https://www.bsdnow.tv/ Nixers Newsletter. https://newsletter.nixers.net/entries.php BSD Cafe Journal. https://journal.bsd.cafe/ DragonFly BSD Digest – Lazy Reading – In Other BSDs. https://dragonflydigest.com BSDTV. https://bsky.app/profile/bsdtv.bsky.social FreeBSD Git Weekly. https://freebsd-git-weekly.tarsnap.net/ FreeBSD Meetings. https://youtube.com/@freebsdmeetings BSDJedi. https://youtube.com/@BSDJedi/videos RoboNuggie. https://youtube.com/@RoboNuggie/videos GaryHTech. https://youtube.com/@GaryHTech/videos Sheridan Computers. https://youtube.com/@sheridans/videos 82MHz. https://82mhz.net/ Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This is another entry that is sponsored by fme AG company. If You have multiple Lenovo ThinkServer systems to manage You may do that by hand with entering UEFI/BIOS setup and doing needed things by hand … or You can setup a Lenovo XClarity Administrator VM.

The problem is that this VM from Lenovo comes by default in three versions … and none of them is by default suited for FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor. VHD for Windows Hyper-V hypervisor. OVA for VirtualBox and others that support OVA format. QCOW2 for Linux KVM based hypervisors. As usual I decided not to give up at that point and tried harder … and that trying led me to some interesting conclusions. I downloaded the QCOW2 version listed as lnvgy_sw_lxca_120-4.3.0_kvm_x86-64.qcow2 file – its about 3.2 GB in size. Then I created the Bhyve VM for that Linux system. As I had the Lenovo image in QCOW2 format I used qemu-img(1) from the emulators/qemu package to convert it to RAW format that is suitable for FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor. One important thing to note before doing the conversion … the size of RAW disk will be 192 GB . It will not matter on ZFS with compression enabled – but it can fill Your disk if You have compression disabled. Now the conversion. I then investigated what actually is on that raw disk and FreeBSD md(4) driver helped here beautifully. We will also use my mdconfig.sh script to make it easier. So … now we know that its an MBR partitioning scheme … which means UEFI boot is not possible – and this is where it gets ugly because Bhyve is not VirtualBox (and I admit this is one of the Bhyve downsides) which means we now have to find needed parameters for Bhyve to boot that Linux VM. We can at least mount these partitions to check what is in them … and also check the GRUB config. We will use lklfuse(8) from the filesystems/lkl package for that – lets try with the 1st partition. So … we know what the GRUB config looks like – lets try to translate that into FreeBSD Bhyve VM config. After playing some time I settled on this lxca VM config as shown below. Then we need to start the VM with usual command. You may (and should) trace the boot process with vm console {VM} command of course. You will see lots of Linux boot messages both first from the Linux kernel itself and later from the booting process of applications/daemons/databases needed to start Lenovo XClarity Administrator appliance. After some time – definitely longer then shorter – You will see something like that below. This means that You can how try to access https://10.1.1.52/ in Your browser … and after I tried that I (of course) needed to accept the self generated certificate and then I saw this. Voila! It works! 🙂 Now You can configure it from the browser as needed. Guide that really helped me to setup all these things right was the Lenovo XClarity Administrator – Users Guide that has this in its contents. It shows TWO network interfaces here – eth0 and eth1 – not just one – and when I used only one – everything failed – after I added 2nd network interface – everything started to work as desired. I do not have anything more to add here – I am really glad that I persisted hard to try all available options here – take care 🙂 UPDATE 1 – Lenovo XClarity One Graham Perrin commented on one of the places where I shared the article that XClarity Administrator will not be supported after 2027/06/30 and that XClarity One is now the future … so I tried to setup XClarity One under FreeBSD Bhyve VM and this update will show You the details. The Lenovo XClarity One can be downloaded as QCOW2 image here – so I did. Now it seams that there are TWO disks instead of just ONE – but that does not bring any problems for Bhyve – we will attach them both. I believe at least some things could have change – so lets have a look inside 🙂 So … no more initrd and different linux line … not much. This is how the new vm-bhyve config looks like. Lets start this thing. Seems to boot without errors – this is what is visible on the console. It generally ‘refreshes’ or just ‘adds’ new CPU/RAM/… status once in a while. This is how it looks like in the web browser (after accepting self signed certificate warning). As You see it takes a while for it to pick up the DHCP IP address. Seems to work … till next time. Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1) . 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With normal carp(4) installation we would need 3 IP(s) from that network – two IP(s) for each of the two nodes and an additional HA IP for the service. To overcome that we will use 3 IPs(2) from different 192.168.0.x/24 network and only one IP from the limited 10.0.0.x/24 network. The net/ucarp port that we will use here has only one disadvantage that we can overcome easily – it does not do anything to MAC addresses of the network interfaces – and knowing how the network switches work – they may ‘redirect’ traffic to ‘bad’ interface with ‘bad’ MAC address – so we will also use something like HA MAC concept and move that HA MAC with the HA IP. List of these Bhyve VMs below. Below You will find summary of IPs(s) and MAC(s) addresses. The net/ucarp provides the ‘UP’ and ‘DOWN’ scripts – I just copied them to new /usr/local/etc/ucarp/ dir and added some content to them. The node01a config /etc/rc.conf file related to UCARP config is below – all the other options are default and standardized – I also added hostname and networking information for clarity. The node01b config /etc/rc.conf file related to UCARP config below. Now – the UCARP needs the ‘UP’ and ‘DOWN’ scripts – the ‘UP’ scripts are the same on both nodes but the ‘DOWN’ scripts are different because they bring back the ‘local’ MAC after stepping down from the ‘master’ role. The The /usr/local/etc/ucarp/100-up.sh for both node01a and node01b hosts below. The /usr/local/etc/ucarp/100-down.sh for node01a node below. The /usr/local/etc/ucarp/100-down.sh for node01b node. To move the HA IP from the ‘master’ to the ‘backup’ is to execute this command on the ‘master’ host: This is how ‘master’ networking looks like – its on node01b host this time: This is how ‘backup’ networking looks like – its on node01a host this time:: Nothing special in that custom config to be honest – but maybe someone will find that useful. Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook I made a funny mistake in one of my clients when installing FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE on their server … I have chosen wrong disk for the installation. The server had 4 local disks – 2 of them were some really low end SATA SSD drives ( ada0 and ada1 ) and the server also had 2 fast NVMe disks ( nda0 and nda1 ). I used Auto (ZFS) option in the bsdinstall(8) installer and chosen (wrongly) the ada1 disk. This is how my ZFS pool looked like after installation. … but this is the ZFS world – nothing stops You from adding as many drives to ZFS mirror as You want – so for a start I used FreeBSD gpart(8) tool to copy the partitions from ada1 disk to the NVME nda0 and nda1 drives. Then as FreeBSD was installed with BIOS+UEFI option I cloned the freebsd-boot partition and the UEFI partition. Next I added these nda0 and nda1 as mirror devices for ada1 disk. For the record – the ada1p3 is a SWAP device – no need to clone it for obvious reasons. This is when ZFS decided to do the resilvering process immediately (which is good). We can even track the status of that replication. After resilvering process is finished we can detach the ada1 drive from the ZFS mirror. … and after all these quite simple and predictable operations – everything when the system was still running – we have FreeBSD installation migrated from ada1 disk to ZFS mirror on two NVMe nda0 and nda1 disks as shown below. Its kinda short article (for my standards) but it shows what was needed and possible with ZFS and other FreeBSD tools to do the job. One more thing that its needed to be done is that in BIOS/UEFI you need to add boot option specifying the path to the loader.efi file – separate one for each NVMe drive. UPDATE 1 – BIOS/UEFI Boot Option Someone asked me how this is exactly done … and it is done differently in each BIOS/UEFI manufacturer – below one is from some Lenovo ThinkServer system server. First enter into BIOS/UEFI and go to Boot Settings part. Next select Add UEFI Full Path Boot Option there. In the next ‘window’ use Select Device Path Option position. Next select the drive You know You installed FreeBSD on – this is one of the two NVMe drives I moved FreeBSD to. Next click <efi> dir. Next click <freebsd> dir. Next select loader.efi file. Next add wanted name – I used FreeBSD/nda0 there. Click Commit Changes and Exit option. Next click Change Boot Order and set that FreeBSD/nda0 option as first one. Do the same for another NVMe disk and add another FreeBSD/nda1 option there. Alternatively You can do that from within FreeBSD system using efibootmgr(8) command – Important efibootmgr(8) Command – details here. Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the Internet I just put it here. Today the amount information that we get using various information streams is at massive overload. Thus one needs to focus only on what is important without the need to grep(1) the Internet everyday. Hence the idea of providing such information ‘bulk’ as I already do that grep(1) . 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