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Dendrobatus Azureus

It's possible you've not heard of #boxyBSD

I was lucky to get a TIL moment when @stefano boosted it's existence into my feed.

However you should know about it, learn something about the user perspective from proxmox in the process, while working with a boxyBSD VM.

Here are some nice screencaps of the boxyBSD site so you can ask nicely for a VM and learn to play with one of the *BSD flavours from a distance.

I'm sure you can duckduckgo the address of boxyBSD when you analyze the screencaps, right?

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

THe screencap displays a black background with white text, featuring a terminal interface. At the top, the text "BoxyBSD" is prominently displayed in a stylized font. Below this, a command line reads "guest[@]mgmt-boxybsd-5:~$ cat services.txt," indicating a user named "guest" is executing a command to display the contents of a file named "services.txt." The text in the file describes a platform offering free virtual machines (VMs) for learning and practicing BSD-based systems and open-source projects. It specifies that the VMs come with IPv6-only networking, 1 CPU, 1 GB of RAM, and 10 GB of disk space. The network configuration includes an IPv6 subnet of 64/48 availability. The operating systems available are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MidnightBSD, DragonflyBSD, and OpenIndiana. The text also mentions that new boxes can only be registered by the BoxyBSD bot in their Matrix channel, with more information available on the website. Additional services offered include DNS, email, web hosting, runners, and shared shell, with a note encouraging users to contact for further information.
shows a web browser window displaying the BoxyBSD.com website. The background of the webpage is black, with white text and a logo in the center. The logo reads "BoxyBSD" in a stylized font. Below the logo, there is a section titled "Info" with a paragraph describing BoxyBSD as a non-profit initiative and hosting provider dedicated to supporting the BSD community. The paragraph mentions that BoxyBSD offers free virtual machine hosting, email hosting, and web hosting solutions to help enthusiasts, students, and professionals gain hands-on experience in system administration, networking, and security without financial barriers. The text is in a monospace font, and the website's URL is visible at the top of the page. The browser's address bar shows the URL "https://boxybsd.com" and the page title "BoxyBSD.com 1.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) boxybsd.com/". The browser's tabs and bookmarks are visible at the top, with some of the tabs showing names like "MX Blog," "MX Forum," and "OpenVPN - Debian Wiki." The bottom of the page includes a copyright notice for 2025.
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Dendrobatus Azureus

It has arrived. proxyLB v1.1.0 the loadbalancer for proxmox clusters. Instead of telling you the features of this major version I invite you to read about it yourself, download proxyLB then play with it.

As with any great Open Source project, this has grown out of a necessity that @gyptazy has for his other amazing project boxyBSD, which just needs a versatile tool like this.

Now go and play.

gyptazy.com/introducing-proxlb

🖋️ #bash #proxyLB #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #proxmox #loadbalancer

This is a screenshot of a blog post by an IT Consultant named Gyptazy. The post is titled "Introducing ProxLB 1.1.0 as an Advanced Loadbalancer for Proxmox Clusters: A Complete Code Refactor for Enhanced Performance and Stability." The date of the post is April 1, 2025, and it is categorized under "CODING, DEBIAN GNU/Linux, OS, PERSONALLY, PROJECTS, PROXLB, PROXLB, PROXLB, PROXMOX, VIRTUALIZATION." The post features an illustration of two server towers labeled "ProxLB" with a small blue car on a conveyor belt, set against a background of binary code. The text below the illustration reads, "April, April! No, even it's the first of April – this is real! After months of development, I'm thrilled to announce the release." The navigation bar at the top includes options for "ABOUT," "BLOG," "TALKS," "PROJECTS," and "SKILLS."
The image shows a screenshot of a personal blog post by a user named "gyptazy," who is identified as a developer. The post is titled "April, April! No, even it's the first of April – this is real!" and announces the release of ProxLB 1.1.0. The post is dated mid-2024 and highlights the project's journey, mentioning that it was sponsored by credativ GmbH, allowing the author to work on it during work hours. The post emphasizes the significant milestone of the latest version, which includes a complete code refactor, improved load balancing behavior, and numerous bug fixes, making ProxLB more stable and capable than ever. The author explains that ProxLB was created as a straightforward load balancing solution for Proxmox clusters for their BoxyBSD project, similar to VMware's DRS. Additionally, several customers at credativ GmbH requested DRS-like features when migrating to Proxmox. The blog post is displayed on a dark background with text in white and orange, and navigation tabs at the top include "ABOUT," "BLOG," "TALKS," "PROJECTS," and "SKILLS."
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Radio Azureus

Gotten tired of those massive browsers hogging GB (*1024 = MB) of ram? Want to go back to the days of text based browsing?

Links has got you covered. For decades (lynx and later) links gives us back the nostalgic feel of *sh* based browsing, just like BitchX gives it with IRC in the shell.

Look how smooth and fast it works with DuckDuckGo

The image shows a IPS LED screen with a text based web browser, running in bash open to the GhostBSD home page on DuckDuckGo. The browser window has a dark theme with a search bar at the top, displaying the DuckDuckGo logo and search fields labeled "All Regions" and "Any Time." The search bar contains the text "ghostbsd home." Below the search bar, there is a link labeled "image_src" and a search button. The main content area of the browser displays a page with a title "ghostbsd home at DuckDuckGo (p1 of 4)" and a severly darkened background image of a gorgeous female model. The text on the page describes GhostBSD as a simple, elegant desktop BSD operating system based on FreeBSD, featuring the MATE desktop environment and preinstalled essential software. It also provides a link to download GhostBSD. The page is structured with two main sections, the first describing GhostBSD and the second providing a download link. The browser tabs at the top show URLs such as "//mocp//," "//mc-all//," "//cafe//," and "//RemAD//."
#retroComputing#bash#csh
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Dendrobatus Azureus

I have found an interesting quirk with my freeBSD installation, running on my SATA SSD, which I mount through an USB tray, directly to the USB port on the computer.

As long as i leave the second port of the USB tray open, everything runs fine and smooth. The moment I mount another drive in the second port, freeBSD only does the initial part of the startup sequence and then complains that it cannot go any further.

No further explanation given

Seeking for log files is not an option because the operating system itself doesn't boot.

Where in the documentation should I look for this type of issue?

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX #AskFediverse

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Dendrobatus Azureus

Finally I've captured some sh photographs of the running minimal freeBSD system

No x.org here. Even mc can't run after the pkg install! It needs proc filesystems installed mounted cfg first

I was surprised that I now need to read documents to find out how my second HDMI IPS LED display can be turned on in text mode, something that happens automatically in Linux out of the box 🎁

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

The photograph shows a IPS LED panel displaying the boot menu of the FreeBSD operating system. The screen is predominantly dark with a red logo in the center, which is the FreeBSD mascot, a stylized cat. On the right side, the text "FreeBSD" is displayed vertically in white. The boot menu is presented in a white box with a black background, listing various boot options such as "boot," "boot kernel," and "boot kernel text." The text is in white, with some options highlighted in green. The screen is framed by a black border, and the background is dark, emphasizing the text and logo. The image was captured with a telephone sensor which clearly shows the horrific low Quality of the Light vs the dark. Phones fail when shooting in darkness
This photograph features a digital IPS LED panel with a vertical arrangement of white text on a dark background. The text appears to be a sequence of alphanumeric characters, resembling a stream of data or code. The characters are densely packed at the top and gradually become sparser towards the bottom, creating a cascading effect. The text is predominantly in a monospaced font, with some lines containing hexadecimal values and others with ASCII characters. The overall effect is reminiscent of a digital waterfall or a data stream, with the text appearing to fall downwards. The background is uniformly dark, which contrasts sharply with the bright white text, enhancing the visual impact of the display. This photograph was also taken with a phone which explains the extremely low quality of it
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Dendrobatus Azureus

As you can see here the first part of my freeBSD installation is going smoothly

My 2.5GBit NIC it's not supported but my Wi-Fi NIC is properly supported so everything is good, so far

I've just installed the free BSD handbook which requires the network so extra proof that my Wi-Fi NIC is working magnificently

What is also evident is that you should not ignore warnings that you're HDD set up will not boot. It turns out that the drive I used, which has an MBR, not GPT, is not usable in the configuration where I made a second partition / and a third partition /home, the installation goes smoothly but of course it doesn't boot and not surprising GRUB Linux, cannot find a way to make it boot.

So now I have to make a much smaller partition on a GPT USB SSD

It's wise to listen to the options of the installer. Using my GPT partitioned SATA SSD, mounted on a USB tray 📥 I was able to install freeBSD base config without a hitch, jumping into full blown tcsh mode

Extra images will follow in a minute

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh  #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

The photograph shows a computer screen displaying the FreeBSD installer interface. The background is a solid blue color, and the text is primarily in white and red. On the right side of the screen, the text "FreeBSD Installer" is visible in white. In the center, there is a white rectangular box with red text that reads "Welcome to FreeBSD. Would you like to install or use the live system?" Below this, there are three options listed vertically: "Install," "Shell," and "Live System." The cursor is positioned next to the "Install" option. The overall layout is simple and straightforward, with a focus on the installation options.
The photographic composition shows a computer screen with a blue background. In the center, there is a pink rectangular box with a black border containing text and a progress bar. The text reads "Extracting distribution files..." and lists several file types being extracted, including "base.txz," "kernel-dbg.txz," "kernel.tgz," "ports-txz," and "11p32-txz." The progress bar is partially filled with a green section labeled "Done," indicating the extraction process is ongoing. The screen also displays vertical text on the left side, reading "88830 files read" and "793.1 files/sec." The cursor is visible as a small white arrow in the bottom left corner of the screen.
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Due to my brain dead ISP which does not support IPv6 for clients in 2K25(!) I cant access my boxyBSD box.

boxyBSD is thus so far away from me :(

I have a client connection with fixed IPv4 IP somewhere, but it collapses when I use a free available IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel service.

Instead of sitting and twiddling my fingers on my Bass guitar(s) generating random() notes, I decided to get an image of the latest freeBSD and play with it locally, until I can get my ISP to provide all of us with a (set) of free IPv6 addresses because we pay them for a full service here in my country

>> log

$ wget -c download.freebsd.org/releases/
--2025-03-23 13:32:46-- download.freebsd.org/releases/
Resolving download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)... 200.160.6.227, 2001:12ff:0:6224::15:0
Connecting to download.freebsd.org (download.freebsd.org)|200.160.6.227|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
Length: 4826406912 (4.5G), 4255655894 (4.0G) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso’

-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1 12%[++++ ] 559.57M 1.01MB/s eta 75m

<< ^Z

Yes they give a puny 1MB speed, you read that correctly

🖋️ #bash #freeBSD #boxyBSD #sh #zsh #ksh #csh #netBSD #openBSD #POSIX

The mage is a screenshot of the FreeBSD website, featuring a red and black color scheme. At the top, the website's logo, "FreeBSD The Power To Serve," is prominently displayed. The navigation menu includes options such as "Home," "About," "Get FreeBSD," "Documentation," "Community," "Developers," "Support," and "Foundation." A search bar is located in the top right corner, with a "Donate to FreeBSD" button next to it. The main content area is divided into sections. The left sidebar lists various FreeBSD release information, including "Release Information," "Production," "Release: 13.3," "Release: 13.4," "Release: 14.1," and "Release: 14.2." The right side of the page contains sections titled "Choosing an Architecture" and "Choosing an Image." The "Choosing an Architecture" section explains that most users will have hardware for amd64 or arm64 architectures, with support for modern PCs, embedded devices, and single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4, ESPRESSObin, and Allwinner and Rockchip boards. The "Choosing an Image" section details the formats for the FreeBSD installer, including DVD, network install, and USB memory sticks, as well as virtual machine and embedded platform images. At the bottom, a table lists the FreeBSD 14.2 RELEASE version, including options for the installer, VM, SD Card, and Documentation. The text emphasizes that RELEASE versions are the result of release engineering and are recommended for most users.
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Giving credits to the programmers of
file-roller(1)

I'm really in a user interface mood right now. Only playing with the mouse meanwhile I'm making a backup of the long download of the massive multiplayer online role-playing game SWTOR

I mounted the source partition using thunar(1)
Then I physically mounted the drive in the tray where the destination was going to reside. After invoking file-roller I smoothly dragged the directory of SWTOR and dropped it into the Archiver which gave me the possibilities to make a tgz file of it and a dropdown where I could save tgz archive

Without lifting any more fingers than necessary I prepared the tape archive which would be gz compressed afterwards.

Since we're talking about a massive 56 GB it would take a while. As the progress bar slowly crept forward I did other things on other machines including Androids feeling content at the ease of which user interfaces bring sweet and smooth operations to us when we don't want to use any of our favorite shells

#bash #csh #ksh #sh #SCSI #programming #POSIX
#Archiver #compression #tar #gz #tgz #UI #XFce

#Mmorpg #SWTOR #gaming #Backup

wiki.gnome.org/Apps/FileRoller

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/file-ro

docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/star

Photograph of an IPS LED panel displaying a file compression process. The main window is titled "Archive Manager" and shows the progress of adding files to a tgz file named "Star Wars - The Old Republic.tar.gz." The window indicates that 46 files remain to be added. The background has a Scania truck in a blue-toned image of a gorgeous blue truck with the word "SCANIA" visible on its side, parked in front of a massive building. The truck has a robust design with multiple lights and a mesh guard on the front. The photograph was composed using a very simple small sensor camera driven by an Android operating system, shot in Total Darkness with the camera in full automatic mode, driven by Open Camera
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Dendrobatus Azureus

You can download a live image of gparted and work with the latest version with ease. My debian based distro has GParted 1.3.1 which is quite behind v1.7.0-1

Im downloading the latest right now!

log
$ wget -c cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/pr
--2025-03-16 11:54:11-- cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net/pr
Resolving cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)... 146.71.73.5
Connecting to cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net (cfhcable.dl.sourceforge.net)|146.71.73.5|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 589299712 (562M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘gparted-live-1.7.0-1-amd64.iso?viasf=1’

gparted-live-1.7.0-1 9%[==> ] 55.49M 286KB/s eta 28m 15s
^Z

gparted.org/livecd.php

#gparted#partitions#bash
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Dendrobatus Azureus

Giving credit to the programmers of GPARTED(8)

gparted works its magic, by entering correct parameters to a suite of partition control & editing commands, which are sh envoked, so you can easily manipulate your partitions on all your SSDs HDDs from the comfort of your UI

When you want to batch manipulate partitions, you can study the log output and make sh scripts yourself, controlling partitions anywhere.
You also have the convenience of running gparted from sh so it still works its magic for you, without the UI!

I usually run cfdisk gdisk fdisk when I partition a fresh mechanical or SSD, later on I invoke gparted when I want to resize or move them

it also runs important commands at the end so that the kernel gets to know your new partition layout, which makes rebooting your machine to use them unneeded

I shrunk and resized a partition where I installed a program, which needed 75GB (*1024!) as installation space but only uses 56GB in the end. I left 12GB of breathing room on the partition after the shrink and of course grew the partition before with the same size, minus the alignment snip of 1MB

log:
myserver kernel: JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
myserver kernel: SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, scrub, repair, quota, debug enabled
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
myserver kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
^Z

@altbot

gparted.org

#gparted#partitions#bash
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Dendrobatus Azureus

A fabulous amount of source notes pop up

{quote

scsi_all.h started out life as a work by Julian Elischer to add SCSI
support to CMU Mach 2.5. It was 373 lines. Julian ported this to 386BSD,
included in the 386BSD patch kit and incorported into FreeBSD at its
creation. Justin used this file when writing CAM, and imported it with
the initial CAM import, but only 30% (100 lines) of the original
remained. Justin moved from bitfields to bytes in structures, dropped
the complex unions, and renamed many structures to have their length
appended. Only about 30 structure names and about 40 #defines remained
from the original. The define names were taken directly from the SCSI
standard with spaces replaced by '_', so had no creativity. Apart from
the license comment, there were no comments retained (all the comments
in the CAM import were written by Justin and Ken). Even at that time,
Justin and Ken could have put their copyrights and names and moved to an
acknowledgement of Julian.

In the almost 30 years since that original import, this file has grown
to 4500 lines. Kenneth Merry, Alexander Motin and Justin Gibbs write
85% of the file's lines, if mechanical commits are omitted. Other
contributors contributed less than %5 each of the file.

Replace the original license (which lacked a copyright even and has been
criticized as ambiguous) with FreeBSD's standard 2-clause license. Add
copyrights for Justin, Ken and Alexander, with the date ranges they
contributed to the file. Add a note about the origin of the file to
acknowledge Julian's original work upon which all this was built, though
it's become a ship of Theseus in the mean time, built and rebuild many
times.

On an absolute scale, there's less than 1% of the current file with
lines from the original, and those are named after the names in the SCSI
standards and likely wouldn't qualify for copyright protection.

Sponsored by: Netflix
Reviewed by: mav, ken
Differential Revision: reviews.freebsd.org/D49016

End Quote}
^Z

How wonderful to have learned this now

#bash #csh #ksh #sh #freeBSD #SCSI #bhyve #jails #ZFS #programming #POSIX

codeberg.org/FreeBSD/freebsd-s

Summary card of repository FreeBSD/freebsd-src
Codeberg.orgcam: Update scsi_all.h to reflect 30 years of evolution · 1016b3c344 scsi_all.h started out life as a work by Julian Elischer to add SCSI support to CMU Mach 2.5. It was 373 lines. Julian ported this to 386BSD, included in the 386BSD patch kit and incorported into FreeBSD at its creation. Justin used this file when writing CAM, and imported it with the initial CA...
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