Numerous improvements have been made to x11appjail between version v1.0.0 and v1.3.1:

• Performance improvements in both x11appjail(1) and appscript-verify(1).
• Shallow builds to decouple the image from the AppJail.
• BLAKE3 support for faster file hash calculation.
• True hardware acceleration via VirtualGL.
• A new command, transfer, for securely transferring files between the host and a jail, or between jails.
• Many more examples added: Brave (Linux), Telegram Desktop, Thunderbird, Chromium, BadWolf, Evince, Feh, and Mpv. Evince, Feh, and Mpv are particularly interesting, as they demonstrate how AppJails can utilize existing files on the host, processing them within a FreeBSD jail transparently to the user.
• su-exec has been replaced by mdo(1).
• And much more.

This video demonstrates some of the aforementioned features.

Chapters:

[00:00] In the host

[01:24] Trusted key

[01:41] Htop

[02:13] Htop (jail) vs Htop (host)

[02:50] Firefox

[04:00] WebGL (no hardware acceleration)

[05:00] User permissions

[05:43] WebGL (hardware acceleration)

[07:22] Fonts

[07:55] Allowing webcam permission

[08:26] Firefox (hardware acceleration + webcam + fonts)

[10:27] Evince

[13:48] Evince (with Puck)

[16:27] Feh

[18:10] Feh and transfer command

[19:07] Mpv

[21:20] The End

Video, six minutes, seven chapters (AI), with closed captions (AI).

In this video, I take a clean FreeBSD install and turn it into a polished, fully customized desktop.
 
We start by installing XFCE, then browse xfce-look.org for a custom theme and icon pack, extract them with tar, and apply everything. To finish, I set up Plank for a sleek, modern dock. …

Is the terminal easiest and simplest to use than linux? What i Will need to configure? It’s more stable? Wich is the advantages?

9 months ago , i released https://github.com/seuros/blackship .

Then i built it so i can have Jailfiles that look like Docker, but it also serve as monitoring for your service.

I use it for CI/CD (4 seconds to spin the env) and for creating complex architecture.

I'm releasing 0.2.0, with vnet support (took me few weeks to understand it).

But the new release also provides an MCP mode, where you can use a clanker to build Jailfiles for you.
You don't need a frontier model for this. Gemma 3 was already able to use it, but Gemma 4 or GLM will give you better results. Everything can be self-hosted.

You need to be on FreeBSD 16-CURRENT or the latest 15.1 to try it. I plan to get it into ports in the next weeks.

The main goal of this project is to see what the community actually needs, then harden the core by improving it in the kernel side, every other tooling benefit from it.

This is a free software, i'm not going to provide a PRO version or turn it into a subscription.
Once there is enough interest, i will open a PR in Forgejo to have BS jail:// fully supported.

I will never return to do CI/CD in linux, by the time github action wake up and install it dependencies... FreeBSD could have processed 5 workflows and finished.

Meanwhile, Plasma 6.7 is the final version with X11 support.

Using OpenMotif widgets with a double-buffered Xlib CPU history renderer.

Each graph represents a logical CPU (hardware thread).

If you test this application could you post a screen grab, especially if you are running an Arm or an AMD CPU.

https://github.com/johnrobdoyle/XSysMeter

Is the reported win for OpenBSD justifiable?

The test begins at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Dmm0tWyb8&t=270s, the frame is at 05:42 on the timeline.

top confuses me. I'll always find it difficult to understand, numerous explanations over the years have not made it easier for me to visualise what's going on in the frame above.

Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5.5, medium) reckons that a winner can not be called. I told it that, amongst other things, the browsing patterns in the two tests were non-identical.

Just the memory/RAM usage, please.

(If people would like to discuss the video as a whole, I can make a separate post.)

Video, December 2024, twenty minutes, seventeen chapters (AI) with closed captions (AI).

Discover the surprising performance differences between Linux and FreeBSD running ZFS in this in-depth analysis. We dive into benchmarking with iozone3, dd, and custom tests to uncover why FreeBSD outshines Linux in raw I/O but struggles with application-level writes like FWrite. Explore the impact of kernel optimizations, libc behavior, and ZFS tuning on performance. Whether you’re a system admin, developer, or tech enthusiast, this video reveals key insights into mastering ZFS on both platforms.

Summary (AI):

DJ Ware compares ZFS performance between FreeBSD and Ubuntu, focusing on 1080p and 4K video editing workloads. The testing examines tuning parameters like record size, compression, and memory management for each operating system.

I've been running a project on FreeBSD with ZFS and a couple services under rc.d.

Every now and then when traffic picks up one service just stops responding. Process still running, CPU/memory look fine, ZFS ain't showing no errors. SSH and everything else still works, restarting the service fixes it right away.

Checked top, sockstat, procstat and logs but not seeing much.

I'm thinking maybe file descriptor/socket limits, TCP connections piling up, or maybe increasing some sysctl limits and tuning the service itself.

sysctl kern.maxfiles
sysctl kern.maxfilesperproc
sockstat -4
procstat -f <pid>

I could also bump kern.maxfiles / kern.maxfilesperproc, increase the service's open file limit, or change some TCP settings, but don't wanna just start changing stuff blindly.

What would you guys check first? Is there a good FreeBSD way to figure out why a process is alive but basically doing nothing?

Is there no longer a working OpenCL for those who needs to do editing ? Or did I miss something. I hope I am wrong I use a T490 ThinkPad !

I want to target FreeBSD with my GUI app, For linux I create my own sysroots with docker, those sysroots contain bare essentials like development libs for wayland, xkbcommon and pipewire. Besides these I build all my other dependencies from source.

How can I create sysroot for FreeBSD desktop?

Video, 25 minutes, six chapters (AI), with closed captions (AI).

There is a small trend going on where a lot of the Linx core users or hardcore users are trying out FreeBSD.
 
Let's look into why that is.

Summary (AI):

Kent's Tech World examines the evolution of the Linux user base, categorizing adopters into groups based on technical proficiency and motivations. This analysis explores how changing accessibility and community dynamics influence long-time power users to consider alternative operating systems like FreeBSD to rediscover challenging computing environments.

ArtCraft is an open-source software collective and product family that builds free, capable desktop tools for artists — a "crafting" studio movement written largely in Rust, whose flagship product is itself named ArtCraft: an intentional crafting and AI-assisted composition engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers.

The three senses unpacked:

1. ArtCraft as the organisation — the entity behind getartcraft.com, which describes itself simply: "ArtCraft builds open source tools for artists. We pride ourselves on freedom of control and expression." Its positioning is anti-rent: no subscriptions, no aggregator middleman, free and open source, "yours to own and keep, forever."
2. ArtCraft as the suite — the ~59 repositories under the storytold GitHub organisation: a family of "-Craft" apps written from scratch in pure Rust, including PhotoCraft (photo editor), FilmCraft (nonlinear video editor), LightCraft (non-destructive photo editor), VectorCraft, DesignCraft, DeckCraft (a clean-room PowerPoint reimplementation), PdfCraft, EffectCraft, plus shared craft-libs. Most are Apache-2.0 licensed and several have tens of thousands of stars.
3. ArtCraft as the product — the pinned flagship repo, "an intentional crafting engine for artists, designers, and filmmakers" (MIT OR Apache-2.0). It's the AI-era composition studio marketed on the website: image-to-location virtual sets, 2D/3D compositing, character posing, image-to-3D-mesh, background removal, and generative backends (Midjourney, fal, Seedance, Nano Banana) — built around the idea that artists should compose the shot themselves rather than fight text prompts. It ships for macOS, Windows, and web (app.getartcraft.com).

Some of the apps are available for FreeBSD.

Related, FreeBSD-oriented

Anybody tried Soundcraft? Vibe-coded DAW. In Rust (of course) | The FreeBSD Forums

FreshPorts -- graphics/photocraft: Native image editor with layers, masks, type and PSD support

• version 0.6.0.

I tried PDFCraft and PhotoCraft.

https://beige.party/@fuzzy/117420928819243411 includes two screenshots of more recent PhotoCraft 0.7.0 in a virtual machine with 2 GB memory. The app uses not much memory, and it's fast.

The plan was boring on purpose: a FreeBSD desktop VM on my Proxmox cluster, KDE Plasma, reachable remotely, so I have a FreeBSD workstation I can open from any machine. Something to live in, not something to admire. …

u/Interesting-Coat1322 wrote:

… The big change is the new libexec/wrapper: one entry point that selects the right shell at runtime (ksh on OpenBSD, mksh on FreeBSD) and sanitizes the environment on every invocation. Every dropQbsd script now runs through it. …

RELEASE_NOTES_v0.3.0.md at main · nobraininside.tngl.sh/dropQbsd · Tangled

August 2026 discussion of dropQbsd: https://redd.it/1vxxu0i

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Plspls. Upd. I forgot. For details. Sorry😿

Title says it all. I cannot get the trackpad to work in Xorg or using moused. External USB mouse works fine. The trackpad works in Arch Linux.

Tried adding ig4, cyapa, and chromebook_platform to load at boot to no avail. Also tried installing the synaptics driver.

This thread is the only one on the topic that I could find on the forums and no solution was arrived at. I disabled ACPI in the FreeBSD boot options and my machine is running the 2017 firmware, which is what what was suggested but that didn't solve my issue.

Hello, Does FreeBSD have Flatpak Application Support? Or It Just For Linux ?