It was fun patching DTS, compiling FreeBSD from source and making it run on Nanopi R2S Plus. However, unfortunately, progress is not always smooth. There was a bug that affected one of my ports. This bug has not been resolved.
But it was fun! Thank you for the great experience.
@autonomysolidarity I was raised by Anti-fascist parents who were in the Army in Europe in WWII, teachers and acquaintances, served there & in the Pacific
New blog post: Managing FreeBSD Jails with Ansible.I wrote jailexec - an Ansible connection plugin that lets you manage FreeBSD jails without running SSH inside each one. It connects to the jail host via SSH and uses jexec to run commands, just like you would manually. Features: • Single Python file, easy install • Supports doas and sudo • Secure two-stage file transfers • Works with any jail managerBlog: https://blog.hofstede.it/managing-freebsd-jails-with-ansible-the-jailexec-connection-plugin/Code: https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec#FreeBSD #Ansible #DevOps #SysAdmin #Jails #Automation
Great update Bash Static Site GeneratorStefano coded an important update #Programming #OpenSource #HTML #site #generator #BSD #freeBSD #Linux #ghostBSD https://blog.bssg.dragas.net/2025/12/28/announcing-bssd-0-33-0-full-content-homepage/
Beware! Christos committed 9b26d309123abf0e90651298b131783ba7d9b945 on main branch of #FreeBSD #ports tree to ignore FreeBSD15 on audio/virtual_oss port and posted heads-up. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=9b26d309123abf0e90651298b131783ba7d9b945 https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003305.htmlAnd correlated virtual_oss codes are NOT YET MFC'ed into stable/15. https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003306.htmlChristos states he would MFC in 1 or 2 days, https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003307.htmlbut it means if you upgrade ports including and after the above-mentioned commit on stable/15 including any of ALPHA snapshots before the MFCs are done, you'll lose virtual_oss functionalities.So hold upgrades of ports/pkgs or `pkg lock audio/virtual_oss` would be wanted in the meantime.
Unix philosophy reminder: Do one thing well. BastilleBSD keeps that spirit alive by automating FreeBSD jails cleanly. Small tools, composable power. What’s your favorite "do one thing well" tool?#FreeBSD #BastilleBSD #UNIX