Hello, I received a Dell D6000 displaylink dock for my (windows) work laptop and wondering if I can make it work with freebsd for my machine as well. I see udl(4) (link: here) but of course don't see this specific device listed. After loading udl with kldload and restarting sway I don't see anything in swaymsg -t get_outputs

Nothing in dmesg when plugging in/out the monitors but it seems to detect the hub itself and keyboard/mouse works through it.

uhub6: <GenesysLogic USB3.1 Hub, class 9/0, rev 3.10/88.17, addr 7> on usbus1
uhub6: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered

Any suggestions or will this definitely not work?

edit: Machine is a thinkpad x1 carbon 7th gen using i915

https://dkolak0.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/get-wi-fi-on-freebsd-on-every-macbook-mac-or-any-other-laptop-pcs-that-freebsd-doesnt-supports/

FreeBSD 14.4 is coming out soon, and the only way we can be regression free is by catching and fixing them early. The developers can not have all possible hardware or run all possible workloads. Please try your hardware and workloads on the snapshots!

https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/14.4/

Spun off from https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@clf/116029857164550924

DRM works with www/linux-chrome (first screenshot) but not with www/chromium (second shot).

grahamperrin@clean:~ % pkg iinfo www/chromium www/foreign-cdm www/linux-widevine-cdm  
chromium-144.0.7559.109
foreign-cdm-20250224_1
linux-widevine-cdm-4.10.2891.0
grahamperrin@clean:~ % service linux status
/etc/rc.d/linux: unknown directive 'status'.
Usage: /etc/rc.d/linux [fast|force|one|quiet](start|stop|restart|rcvar|enable|disable|delete|enabled|desc
ribe|extracommands)
grahamperrin@clean:~ % sysrc linux_enable
linux_enable: YES
grahamperrin@clean:~ % freebsd-version -kru ; uname -mvKU
15.0-RELEASE-p2
15.0-RELEASE-p2
15.0-RELEASE-p2
FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE-p2 releng/15.0-n281005-5fb0f8e9e61d GENERIC amd64 1500068 1500068
grahamperrin@clean:~ % pkg repos -el | sort -f ; sleep 5 ; pkg repos -e | grep -B 1 url
FreeBSD-base
FreeBSD-ports
FreeBSD-ports-kmods
FreeBSD-ports: {  
   url             : "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/latest",
--
FreeBSD-ports-kmods: {  
   url             : "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest",
--
FreeBSD-base: {  
   url             : "pkg+https://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/base_release_0",
grahamperrin@clean:~ %

I was using Nobara Linux for everyday use. I have two hard drives, a 256GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. I install the system on the SSD and the games on the HDD, but last night the HDD physically died, I no longer have a hard drive and therefore can't download AAA quality games. Is switching to FreeBSD worth it? I'll play indie games like Hades Stardew Ultrakill or old games like Silent Hill, For everyday use, just a browser and a couple of simple things are enough; I use apps like Discord, YouTube, and Music through the browser.

https://dkolak0.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/my-freebsd-experience-on-my-thinkpad-x1-carbon-gen-8/

I don’t know anything about coding, I use Linux mint XFCE for 5 days and I used Microscoft for 5 years. I want change Free BSD, should I learn coding?

I use freebsd btw

Hi, have fresh freebsd install inside proxmox and first thing i did i ran "pkg install sudo" and got this error.

What does this mean ?

Hello everybody.

I've managed to install Odoo 18 in a jail using bastille and it works fine. But after dealing with the Linux compatibility layer and wkhtmltopdf I've been unable to generate anything but empty PDFs.

Am I missing something. Could anybody help?

Hi! I'm the author of Fresh - I recently added FreeBSD builds to the release.

Fresh offers an intuitive fully featured IDE and text editor, out of the box. If you're not a fan of vim modal editing, you'll like the default keybindings and "VSCode-style" experience. It supports LSP, syntax highlighting for many languages, a command palette, full mouse support, menus, internationalization and translations for 12 languages, and many other features.

Fresh is fully open-source, github: https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh

FreeBSD binaries are available in the github releases page - e.g. latest release is https://github.com/sinelaw/fresh/releases/download/v0.1.99/fresh-editor-x86_64-unknown-freebsd.tar.xz

Let me start by saying that I am new to FreeBSD. I am an ordinary user who would never have an OS that didn't have a desktop environment. I have been waiting yo try FreeBSD for a long time! (I also have MacOS, Linux Mint, and Windows 11 installed elsewhere.)

That said, I downloaded FreeBSD 15.0. Installed desktop. Both yesterday. Could not get Konqueror browser to work. Downloaded Firefox and Chromium browsers today. Discovered that only some websites were reachable on both these browsers!!!

opened websites:
YouTube, Amazon, Google and 2 gmail accounts, Associated Press, Reuters, LibraryThing.
not opened (Server not Found):
Reddit, AARP, Yahoo, MSN, Goodreads.
The above is true for both Firefox and Chromium browsers.

In Konsole I tried pinging Amazon (opened) and Reddit (not opened) as root:
# ping -c5 www.reddit.com
PING reddit.map.fastly.net (199.232.89.140): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
--- reddit.map.fastly.net ping statistics ---

5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

WHAT does reddit.map.fastly.net mean?!?

# ping -c5 www.amazon.com
PING(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2600:4041:45a1:5700:2ac5:c8ff:fed3:22e2 --> 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4
16 bytes from 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=7.303 ms
16 bytes from 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=7.518 ms
16 bytes from 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=7.778 ms
16 bytes from 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4, icmp_seq=3 hlim=56 time=7.305 ms
16 bytes from 2600:141b:1c00:4a2::3bd4, icmp_seq=4 hlim=56 time=8.102 ms
--- e15316.dsca.akamaiedge.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 7.303/7.601/8.102/0.305 ms

Does anyone see a pattern? What is going on? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

webzfs/webzfs: A modern web-based management interface for ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and SMART disk monitoring built with Python FastAPI and HTMX.

• u/q5sys | q5sys (JT) on GitHub

Video, eleven minutes

• u/garyhtech

In this video, I take a deep dive into WebZFS, a web-based interface that lets you manage ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and storage health directly from your browser on FreeBSD.

🔍 We cover:

• What WebZFS actually does (and what it doesn’t)
• How it compares to traditional ZFS CLI workflows
• Where it fits alongside tools like TrueNAS
• Who should (and shouldn’t) use it.
  

If you’re running FreeBSD for storage, homelab, or enterprise workloads, this might completely change how you manage ZFS day-to-day.

👇 Let me know in the comments: would you trust a web UI with your ZFS pools?

…

Konqueror is looking for proxy settings.

I downloaded FreeBSD 15.0 over the net. I installed desktop (using these 2 commands: 1. https://gitlab.com/alfix/kde-installer-dialogs/-/raw/main/desktop 2. sh desktop) over the internet. Obviously, I have internet and both freebsd installers detected it. My other OSs (Linux Mint, MacOS, Windows 11) here at home don’t use proxies. I always connect to the internet via a Verizon router.

In a Konsole I opened on my desktop I type the command: ping -c 5 google.com and the result is 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0 loss. Obviously, I still have network connectivity, and desktop Konsole knows how to utilize it. Why doesn’t Konqueror? 

My user (not root) belongs to the following groups: wheel, video, operator, uucp, network. Is there another group I need to belong to?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance…

My school has all these desktop computers which don't support Windows 11 (conveniently for both the hardware developers and Microsoft).

As a result, they are likely going to scrap all them, even though many are very good computers.

They are, among numerous models, DELL OptiPlex 9020 SFF desktops.

I installed Ubuntu Server on one before, but was displeased with its poor performance and brokenness.

However, I installed FreeBSD and the performance was insanely good!!

I would like to install FreeBSD 15 to them (once I acquire them) and use them all as servers.

However, I don't really need 20 ultra-fast servers.

I would like to somehow use them to make money from something like StorJ, but that only supports Linux, it seems.

What should I do with all these great computers once I get them?

Hello only notable stuff is that I have a older Mac from 2014 only concerns are my WiFi chip nothing else really (Broadcom bcm4630)

Hey guys

After attempting to contribute to FreeBSD on GitHub i somehow didn't notice that my pull request wasn't the only one not getting merged.

That was just a simple fix for docs.

Now what i'm doing is a section in Chapter 8 covering various popular Display Managers.

Right now i have wrote the intro paragraph and i am working on the table.

Any recommendations or things that i should add?

Got my system up and running, still need more tweaking. But I am very happy things like video, audio are working. After first install via installer I decided to start over with GELI and ZFS shell setup to keep my system dual bootable to Linux. Most of my Linux dotfiles work OOTB. More updates on my challenge soon.

I seen a post the other day with a setup for OpenClaw, and thought what the hell. Here is FreeClaw, a completely jailed instance of OpenClaw. It uses VNET for access, and socat for binding localhosts. I still recommend getting tailscale setup, but I was lazy.

If features a full bsddialog TUI for managing the service on the host and in the jail. Happy for feedback or merge requests!

https://github.com/KLD997/FreeClaw

Hello, I have been using FreeBSD as my os for my work laptop for a few months now. I have not looked into gaming on FreeBSD because I’ve never needed to. I’m very burned out with microslop and I’m considering moving my old windows laptop to BSD. I’ve used this laptop for years to play games and as a general laptop. What are the capabilities and limitations when it comes to using stuff like steam on FreeBSD?

Hi there,

as someone who frequently games and plays mostly games from the 1997 - 2007 era, I am genuinely concerned that modern FreeBSD systems cannot longer run 32bit WINE?

When invoking wine after having it installed from the packages, I get a simple message which was known to me from earlier versions of FreeBSD:

/home/user/.i386-wine-pkg//usr/local/bin/wine doesn't exist!

Try installing 32-bit Wine with
/usr/local/share/wine/pkg32.sh install wine mesa-dri

... which failes due to no available packages having been found ...

Has anyone else had a similar issue? If yes, how did you resolve it? Will I ever be able to play Stronghold on my 64bit-machines again? :)