@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 1mo ago

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗦𝗜 [FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/freebsd-openshift-democratic-csi/ #verblog #freebsd #linux #openshift #kubernetes #k8s #k3s #csi #miami #storage

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FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI

Today quite different topic, using ZFS/NFS on FreeBSD as backend storage for containers/pods running on OpenShift platform. Serving storage for OpenShift is not as simple as OpenShift will not just…

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

If You upgrade PKGBASE FreeBSD from 15.0 to 15.1-RELEASE version make sure You have these packages installed after 'pkg upgrade' command:

FreeBSD-pam
FreeBSD-pam-dev
FreeBSD-pam-lib
FreeBSD-zstd-lib

Because w/o them - You will not be able to login(1) or use pkg(8) at all.

Details:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2026-July/001554.html

lists.freebsd.org

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟴/𝟬𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/08/03) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/valuable-news-2026-08-03/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/07/20) available. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/valuable-news-2026-07-20/ Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/ #verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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Valuable News – 2026/07/20

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…

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· 2mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/07/27) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/27/valuable-news-2026-07-27/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗

Valuable News – 2026/07/27

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…

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

FreeBSD Foundation does not provide PDFs anymore [1] for Journal - I did not liked that so I generated them myself.

Use links [2] [3] [4] below to download them.

[1] https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/improving-software-quality/

[2] https://mediafire.com/file/omonxv2u5b5gi0e/FreeBSD_Journal_-_2026-04-05-06_-_Come_Friendly_SBOMs.pdf/file

[3] https://mediafire.com/file/fccs0e4u69x788w/FreeBSD_Journal_-_2026-04-05-06_-_Debugging_with_CHERI.pdf/file

[4] https://mediafire.com/file/81w18blpqbgtqz0/FreeBSD_Journal_-_2026-04-05-06_-_Modern_Java_on_FreeBSD.pdf/file

freebsdfoundation.org

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

RE: @68000@corteximplant.com

I bet Discord itself does several orders of magnitude worse things with Your data then it tries to scare You with X11 bullshit.

... and X11 is better then ever with XLibre X11 sever - I use it daily since they forked from crippled and broken by some Red Hat employees Xorg X11.

Wayland is a huge NO GO for me.

corteximplant.com

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 3mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟳/𝟬𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/07/06) available. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/07/06/valuable-news-2026-07-06/ Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/ #verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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Valuable News – 2026/07/06

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…

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Back in school I really liked to watch 'The Pretender' series ... the idea itself that You can teach yourself to be anyone and know everything felt insane back then ... fast forward 30 years to today's reality - its funny that S01E20 has FreeBSD /etc dir output :)

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

I remember times when computers were kind enough to even say 'HI' to You :)

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

FreeBSD UNIX is finally free from any GPL licensed software in its 'Base System'. https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/134a4c78d070f8c4ea43a060a7ae28d22ac39558

github.com

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 4mo ago

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟳 - 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 - 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 [UPDATE 7 - FreeBSD Device Drivers - From First Steps to Kernel Mastery] to 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 [Books About FreeBSD] article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/02/04/books-about-freebsd#UPDATE7

#verblog #freebsd #books

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

I am happy to announce that latest 4.1 version of lsblk(8) for FreeBSD will soon be available in Ports and pkg(8) packages.

Details:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=293887

Changelog below:

bugs.freebsd.org

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟱/𝟬𝟰 (Valuable News - 2026/05/04) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/valuable-news-2026-05-04/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟳 (Valuable News - 2026/04/27) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/valuable-news-2026-04-27/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 7mo ago

MISSION: Save Myrient (https://myrient.erista.me/)

DEADLINE: 30 days.

HARDWARE:
- 2500 USD:
--- 1 x Supermicro SSG-6029P-E1CR24L [1]
- 10600 USD: (20 x 530 USD)
--- 20 x HDD 3.5 Seagate Exos 24TB

SOFTWARE:
- FreeBSD along with redundant ZFS (RAIDZ2 or DRAID) with ZSTD compression

TOTAL COST:
- 13500 USD

Maybe some company come with the needed budget.

I can do the FreeBSD/ZFS part for free.

[1] https://ebay.com/itm/375757742355

myrient.erista.me

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟭𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/04/13) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/valuable-news-2026-04-13/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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· 5mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/04/20) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/valuable-news-2026-04-20/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟭𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/03/16) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/valuable-news-2026-03-16/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟲 (Valuable News - 2026/04/06) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/valuable-news-2026-04-06/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟮𝟯 (Valuable News - 2026/03/23) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/23/valuable-news-2026-03-23/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟯/𝟯𝟬 (Valuable News - 2026/03/30) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/valuable-news-2026-03-30/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@jornane@mastodon.bsd.cafe Yep, its not yet perfect. You can also use 15.x in NON-PKGBASE mode - with distribution sets and freebsd-update(8) the same as with 14.x. The 16.x is the first FreeBSD that will ONLY allow PKGBASE way of things.

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟭 - 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 [UPDATE 1 - Additional Features and Clarification] to the 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿/𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗴(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 article.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/freebsd-image-builder-installer-verimg-tool#UPDATE1

#verblog #freebsd #verimg

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

New 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗕𝗦𝗗 𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿/𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗴(𝟴) 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹 [FreeBSD Image Builder/Installer verimg(8) Tool] article on vermaden.wordpress.com blog.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/freebsd-image-builder-installer-verimg-tool/

#verblog #freebsd #image #vmimage #build #install #unattended #automation

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Haydar@social.tchncs.de There are several explanations to this. FreeBSD is not like Linux - things that were posted long time ago are still valid on FreeBSD. Often when I add older stuff I try to remember to add [YEAR] at the end of title to suggest that its not from yesterday but still valuable - I do not remember and know all of the Internet - sometimes I see some blogs or article YEARS after they were posted - its just I was not able to find them. ... and in the end I am just a human - I make errors and mistakes - thank You for reminding me of my human nature. Regards, vermaden

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Radio_Azureus@ioc.exchange Thanks for a nice collection of colorful appreciation :)

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sarahdalgulls I got that one and its really great: https://amazon.de/-/en/dp/B0D1BVHQYP Sometimes I even travel with 3 different 14" laptops inside. After a lot of search I did not find anything better. Price could be smaller ... but for all these features its worth it. Hope that helps.

amazon.de

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@evgandr@mastodon.bsd.cafe @rl_dane@polymaths.social @thedaemon @vermaden@bsd.network @millie@infosec.exchange Sounds a lot like "I want to play a game." :)

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

If your heart is filled with gasoline (like mine) and not volts - you will understand what I mean by sharing this :)

https://youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Au_1G2V8i60

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Larvitz Another great article that goes straight to latest Valuable News issue - thank You for writing it :) Now ... I would probably add least needed and least technical comment here - but that also hit me in the past ... the 'special' ASCII character ... misalign like 9 in 10 times. Using 'regular' chars like '|' or '+' instead always aligns these ASCII diagrams well. Regards, vermaden

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@omar @sarahdalgulls Yes - they also have other models - even some waterproof ones.

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@mirkobrombin@mastodon.social Looks really nice - thanks for making it - and that is a great name :)

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Larvitz I have something similar. 4.1 - 3 - 1 backup rule ... Besides 'Offsite' backup I also include 'Offline' backup and 'Cloud' backup.

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@dasra You seem to have everything ready and it should work. I do not know where the problem is. Please start a thread on FreeBSD Forums and put there all these details - maybe there would be easier to resolve this.

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 13mo ago

Replying to

@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe @thedoctor@polymaths.social This one served me well: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2019/04/03/silent-fanless-freebsd-server-redundant-backup/ There is also Asus X300 Desk Mini that can hold two 2.5 SATA disks - but it will take some large passive cooler and clocked down 35W AMD Ryzen CPU. Hope that helps.

Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup

𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗

Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – Redundant Backup

I brought up this topic in the past. It was in the form of more theoretical Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server post and more hands-on Silent Fanless FreeBSD Server – DIY Backup article. On…

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 12mo ago

Replying to

@wiedi@m.fru.bar @vab@bonn.social Something similar for FreeBSD is done by sensors(8) tool. https://github.com/vermaden/sensors

github.com

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@dasra Ok, please show me output of that command: % pkg info -qoa | awk '/drm.*kmod/ {print $1}'

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @rl_dane@polymaths.social @squirtle@neondystopia.world

The rc(8) is quite simple and well documented:

But also new FreeBSD rcd(8) service manager daemon is in the works:

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-June/006427.html

Think of rcd(8) as launchd(8) or systemd(1) FreeBSD altarnative - w/o issues of both of them.

... and that new rcd(8) does not rewrite anything - it still uses the same existing rc(8) infra - so You can to things 'today way' and new rcd(8) way ... best of both worlds.

FreeBSD Documentation Portal

Practical rc.d scripting in BSD

A guide to writing new rc.d scripts and understanding those already written

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@alex_deplov@mastodon.social You may find that useful in the feh(1) part: https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/blob/master/random-wallpaper-always.sh It also uses feh(1) and sets random wallpaper from a dir - also supports 'TILE' wallpapers if their name starts with TILE- prefix. % ls gfx/wallpapers | grep TILE TILE-bg-grass.jpg TILE-brick-orange.png TILE-brick-wood.png TILE-cats-playing-darker.png I also have it in crontab(1) to change wallpaper every 20 minutes. % crontab -l | grep wallpapers */10 * * * * ~/scripts/random-wallpaper-always.sh ~/gfx/wallpapers 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

github.com

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@mirkobrombin@mastodon.social Does it have a name or some github page?

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@alex_deplov@mastodon.social ... and as You post photographs instead of screenshots ... you may also want to check that screenshot tool with scrot(1) tool :) https://github.com/vermaden/scripts/blob/master/shot.sh

github.com

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vermaden @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@dasra

There is 'linux-steam-utils' package in the FreeBSD repos - so You may start with that.

This is a packages of this:

https://github.com/shkhln/linuxulator-steam-utils

So You may also try more 'direct' way ...

Which AMG GPU You have there?

Which DRM-KMOD You use? The older 'drm-515-kmod' or newer 'drm-61-kmod' one?

GitHub

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