Vasiliy Bukharev bvp

This procedure was tested on FreeBSD-CURRENT build from d8819d88af52.

Enable linuxulator and install linux userland:

# sysrc linux_enable="YES"
# service linux start
# pkg install linux_base-c7

How to get the Latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD

Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above.

1.0 Clean Up Existing Drivers

IMPORTANT: Log out of X session. Make sure you Desktop Manager (sddm|slim) is off. You need to be on the console.

# Create a boot env incase we need to rollback
sudo bectl create `date +%Y%m%d`-BeforeNvidia-Upgrade

Tunneling a Mailcow server through Wireguard

Mailcow is a easy to set up Mailserver running in Docker.

Unfortunately, most ISPs block port 25. In addition to that, residential IP addresses are generally blacklisted, making it impossible to self-host a mailserver at home. Mailcow by itself requires at least 6GB of RAM, which makes hosting it on a VPS rather expensive.

The solution: Running Mailcow at home and tunneling it's traffic through a cheap VPS.

The final setup will look like this:

Terminal Flutter

For fun, I recreated a subset of Flutter that is sufficient to build a tiny Minesweeper application for the terminal.

Here is how it looks:

+----------------------+
|Minesweeper       3/12|
| |

Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration (Hypervisor.framework)

This guide was adapted from https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278#running-ubuntu-server-for-arm64

Running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64

Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on your Mac running on Apple Silicon.

	#!/bin/bash
	set -e

	# specs for virtual machine
	declare -A VMACHINE=( [RAM]=4g [CPU]=2 )
	# you can override them by redifining them in this file
	[ -e specs.sh ] && source ./specs.sh

	echo all files in skel will be copied in /home/user

	#!/bin/sh

	# Copyright 2023 Khalifah K. Shabazz
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
	# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
	# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
	# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
	# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
	# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	/*
	* This document is provided to the public domain under the
	* terms of the Creative Commons CC0 public domain license
	*/

	How to boot Arch Linux ARM in QEMU (patched for M1)

	Prerequisites:

	QEMU - patched for M1 processors - patches: https://github.com/utmapp/qemu

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"os/signal"
	"path"
	"sync"
	"syscall"