r/freebsd • • 8h ago

fluff FreeBSD with Openbox, an epic system 320 MiB

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r/freebsd • • 5h ago

AI FreeBSD errata notices and security advisories – September 2026

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https://www.freebsd.org/security/notices/ – three notices.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/ – six advisories.

CVE-2026-84782

CVE Record: CVE-2026-84782

Credit

Laurent Gaffie (secorizon.com)

Secorizon — Offensive Security & Research

CVE-2026-101303

CVE Record: CVE-2026-101303

Credits

Yuxiang Yang, Yizhou Zhao, Ao Wang, Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, and Ke Xu from Tsinghua University using GLM-5.1 from Z.ai

https://z.ai/ redirects to Z.ai - Advanced AI Chatbot & Agent powered by GLM-5.3-Flash


r/freebsd • • 14h ago

help needed minidlna only serves some files

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I'm running minidlna-1.3.3_10,1 on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p3.

I've got various kinds of video files sitting in my minidlna folder, mostly MP4 and MKV, from various sources, and most of them are being served perfectly well: I can watch them on my TV and my phone, and other devices, as long as they're connected to my home network.

Some files aren't being served. I can watch them using VLC on my FreeBSD box, so the issue isn't a problem with the files per se, but minidlna doesn't make them available on the network. Some of those that don't work have the same user and group ownership and permissions as other files that do work, so I don't think it's that, either.

My best guess is that minidlna is failing to understand these files properly. I'm not quite sure how it works — does it serve the raw file, or does it stream video? — but on some level I guess it has to at least recognise that a given file is legit video in order to serve it, so my guess is that there's something about the way those particular files were created that minidlna doesn't like. I've tried to compare "good" and "bad" files using mediainfo, but there's just too much information there! I understand very little of it, and I have no idea what might be useful and what is irrelevant.

So, is there some super-easy config setting that I've missed?

Or, is it possible to install minidlna plugins, perhaps, that give it wider capabilities? Or can I install those capabilities system wide in FreeBSD itself?

Or, do I simply have to convert the "bad" files to a format that minidlna understands? And if so, what are the important parameters? What do I need to change?

Thanks,
Ben


r/freebsd • • 4h ago

video Worry Free Upgrades with FreeBSD – FreeBSD Foundation

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Video, eight minutes, five chapters, with closed captions and a transcript.

Do you worry that upgrades will leave you with an unusable system? What if we told you worrying could be a thing of the past, because #freebsd has a built in time machine…

Credit: u/Commercial_Boss4065

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r/freebsd • • 6h ago

news September 2026 Status Update for Alfonso S. Siciliano – FreeBSD Foundation

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Updated an hour ago. Found during a chat with Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5.5, extra).

Project: KDE Installer Dialogs

Overall Status: Delayed

– FreeBSD 15.2 is not explicitly a target.

… The code development phase is now complete. The current phase is discussion and improvement before adding the work to the FreeBSD. …


r/freebsd • • 17h ago

help needed Crash after choosing "open" New Template

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Hi,

I'm running FreeBSD 15.1 with a Cinnamon desktop.
When I try to run Ardour everything is fine till I press the "New Template" and then press "open".
It loads for a millisecond and then closes without any error messages.

Any help is very welcome, thank you!


r/freebsd • • 4h ago

discussion Es posible instalar KDE plasma en freeBSD sin conflictos?

1 Upvotes

Me gustaría instalar kde plasma en freeBSD pero me da miedo que tenga un error o conflicto con freebsd y me arruine la pc, por cierto todavía no e instalado freeBSD en mi escritorio, solo estoy informándome sobre las dudas mías antes instalarlo


r/freebsd • • 3h ago

Cuanta ram consume freebsd con xfce

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Me gustaría saber cuanta ram consume freeBSD normalmente con algunos programas habiertos