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I've happily run various Linux distros for a number of years, but with little exposure to other Unix-like operating systems.
I want to explore different ways of doing things on a computer, and I'm curious about the BSD descendants. I've briefly looked at OpenBSD and NetBSD.
Now I'm trying FreeBSD with beginner's mind. 
I'm using a Thinkpad T480s as my test rig, and will share my notes as I explore and figure things out.
Onward!
Day 20 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD
Quiet day today. FreeBSD just works. 
Ok so a fresh head has helped me resolve my Nerd font issue in #Xterm . I just needed to download the font
Go Mono from there rather than installing it from the #OpenBSD repo. Adding this to my .Xresources and voila I have the Go Mono font and symbols.xterm*faceName: Go Mono Nerd Font Mono#RunBSD
xterm*renderFont: true
xterm*faceSize: 10
Discovered that I can display an image in xterm using w3m and this works with neofetch too but not fastfetch but I'm OK with that. Also I can still preview images in ranger using w3m too. So I think at the moment I'm sticking with xterm even though I did try urxvt but I couldn't see any reason why I should use it over xterm. If you know of some then please do point them out.
#OpenBSD #RunBSD
#OpenBSD #RunBSD
Not a long time from now in a country close, close by....
The European *BSD event of 2025! 
Registration is open!! 
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/eurobsdcon/zagreb/
Sign up early and sign up lots!
While you're at it, don't forget to drop your abstract like it's hot! 
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/
The schedule will be published on 
2025-07-15
For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 
September 25-28, 2025
So still on my #OpenBSD adventure and although I missed images in the terminal be it
sixel in xterm or the kitty protocol in kitty, I've decided to stick with good old #Xterm . Also on my #FreeBSD daily driver I'm used to such luxuries as icons in the terminal like font awesome or nerd fonts but even though I could have used alacritty or kitty to achieve this I have decided to for go them. After all what do they do other make it look pretty ? I don't get any other functionality from them and they can easily be replaced with text. You might have noticed too that although I'm a #Wayland chic on my #ThinkPad I've decided to be all nostalgic and stick with Xorg on OpenBSD. I haven't yet settled on a window manager be it tiling or stacking but #HerbstluftWM and #Openbox are in my sights although I'm still using the default #Fvwm right now. I have my Qutebrowser setup and aerc for my email. Printing via cups and xsane for scanning. Looking into nsxiv for an image viewer as the OpenBSD port of imv is well out of date. Yes I'm having to make small changes but once I'm finished this wee Dell Optiplex 3080 tower will be perfect for daily driving OpenBSD and I'm looking forward to learning lots more. #RunBSD
Very strange ! Remember the printer issue I was having earlier on #OpenBSD ? Well every time I selected my printer in the cups admin and used the drop down to select the
Epson Inkjet ET-4700 series driver only to find that none of the ET models were listed. So I just did a quick ls /usr/local/share/ppd/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ and there was the required ET-4700 ppd file. So I selected it using the from file option and now it all works. #RunBSD#OpenBSD is very good but I'm struggling to decide on a terminal for two reasons.
I'd like it to have
Also it would be nice to support
I can get graphics support and
Yes
So it seems I'll have to compromise. #RunBSD
I'd like it to have
sixel and or kitty graphics support.Also it would be nice to support
font awesome fonts in the terminal.I can get graphics support and
font awesome icon support using kitty but it's not the latest version, it's about 2 years old for various reasons.xterm has sixel support which for reasons OpenBSD see as a security issue and so it's disabled. It also does not support font awesome icons.Yes
alacritty exists and supports font awesome icons but it does not support images in the terminal.So it seems I'll have to compromise. #RunBSD
[ Update ]
I can now print thanks to this reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/18bro15/epson_printing/
The driver was never listed in the drop down even though the printer was found. Doing a quick check of the PPD directory showed me that the
Hmm it seems that my Epson ET-4750 is not supported on #OpenBSD with the following drivers
#RunBSD
I can now print thanks to this reddit post
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbsd/comments/18bro15/epson_printing/
The driver was never listed in the drop down even though the printer was found. Doing a quick check of the PPD directory showed me that the
ET-4700 driver was there. So I just used the select file from location option and voilà it worked !Hmm it seems that my Epson ET-4750 is not supported on #OpenBSD with the following drivers
epson-inkjet-printer-escpr . My printer actually needs the Epson Inkjet Printer Driver 2 which no one has packaged yet. Any OpenBSD maintainers able to add this at all ??? I know it's a long shot. ;)#RunBSD
www.reddit.comReddit – Das Herz des Internets
Been tinkering around with my #OpenBSD Dell Optiplex 3080 rig learning how OpenBSD differs from say FreeBSD. I've also got X running with the default #FVWM but I cannot decide if I want to install #HerbstluftWM or #OpenBox ? Yes I know the first is a tiling window manager but I know I can setup OpenBox to tile too with a few scripts. I think I'll have to research a tad more and decide later. For now FVWM it is and yes I'm actually liking OpenBSD if I'm honest. #RunBSD #Nostalgia
Today's real champion is this one. One of my PC Engines APU devices - I don’t remember the exact year I bought it, probably 2017.
It worked at my home as a router/firewall with OPNsense for several months, then in 2018 I installed it at a client’s site, "as a temporary emergency solution". Still running OPNsense, always kept updated, and it hasn’t missed a bit since then.
During a severe thunderstorm, the access point and switch connected to it were fried, but it kept going - silently and reliably. Zerotier, Wireguard, port forwarding, bandwidth graphs - all handled in a hot office, often with the air conditioning turned off during holidays.
It did everything, and it still works.
The client moved to a new location this morning, and the APU was replaced with a more powerful device (in anticipation of a future Internet upgrade). I decided to take it back with me (technically, it’s still mine) - they couldn’t find the power adapter, probably still packed in boxes, but up until 07:30 this morning (the last time I connected to the server behind it via VPN), it was perfectly reliable.
I’ll probably keep using it - I have others - maybe in the office as a file server with two attached drives.
Honor to the device, honor to OPNsense, honor to FreeBSD.
One more cup of coffee before I go...
To configure a new FreeBSD server! 
does anyone run #freebsd on their gaming pc? how much harder, if at all, is it than gaming on linux?
Honoring Mike Karels – BSDCan Operations Team offer the Mike Karels Travel Grant:
https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/05/03/honoring-mike-karels/
2025 Application Deadline: May 17th
blog.bsdcan.orgHonoring Mike Karels – BSDCan Operations Team
Day 15 of #31DaysOfFreeBSD
Enabled "tap to click" on my touchpad by creating `/usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/touchpad.conf`: 1 finger = left-click, 2 finger = right-click, 3-finger = middle-click.
One snag, though, is that middle-clicking registers as multiple clicks. Haven't got that one working correctly yet. This is happening on a Thinkpad T480s.
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