MixerTUI is an audio mixer with a terminal user interface (TUI) for the FreeBSD sound system. It allow to switch easily between laptop and HDMI, headphones and speakers, and so on. Features include: show the current driver configuration, select an audio device to get information, change the volume, or make the device the default. The version 1.5 is out!

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The FreeBSD 3q2023 status report is online!

My contribution is PortOptsCLI (Port Options CLI), a new utility to select the port options using a Command Line Interface. It is suitable for a speech synthesizer (currently tested with the speech synthesizer of accessibility/orca), so it is accessible to users with vision impairment.

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The FreeBSD Operating System provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications.

It is possible to configure a port before the building and installation. The configuration consists of a set of lists: checklists to enable or disable an option, radiolist to select at the most one option. Some list is mandatory, at least one option has to be active.

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A system call is the “tool” used by a software in the userspace to request a “service” to the kernel. The FreeBSD Operating System provides over 400 system calls. They are defined in syscalls.master, this file is processed by makesyscalls.lua to create: init_sysent.c, syscall.h, and so on.

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The FreeBSD Operating System provides the Ports Collection to give users and administrators a simple way to install applications. It is possible to configure a port before the building and installation. PortOptsCLI (Port Options CLI) is an utility to customize ports options via a command line interface.

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The bsddialog project provides bsddialog and libbsddialog, an utility and a library to build TUI dialogs and widgets. The version 1.0 is out!

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I’m back! The long medical treatment is over.

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We have two ears, so we hear the world in stereo. Two ears give us a sense of distance and direction. Therefore, the FreeBSD Operating System provides and enables multichannel audio by default, popularly referred to as “surround sound”. Properly, by default only 2 channels are enabled: “s16le:2.0, Stereo, 2 channels (left, right)”.

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The bsddialog project provides bsddialog and libbsddialog, an utility and a library to build TUI dialogs and widgets. The version 0.4 is out!

This release provides mainly new features and changes to integrate bsddialog (utility) with scripts in FreeBSD BASE system. Finally, it is possible to install FreeBSD using BSD-Like licensed tools/code only (at least like a proof of concept).

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The FreeBSD 1q2022 status report is online!

My contribution is PortConfig, a new TUI utility to select port options: https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-01-2022-03/#_portconfig.

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The BSDDialog utility builds TUI dialogs and widgets. This is the manual page, for an introduction and examples https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog.

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LibBSDDialog provides an API to build TUI dialogs and widgets to show messages, to get input and to inform about a computation status.

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The libBSDDialog library provides an API to build TUI dialogs and widgets. This is the manual page, for an introduction and examples https://gitlab.com/alfix/bsddialog.

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portconfig is an utility for the FreeBSD Operating System to customize a port building. A short description is available, this post is for the manual, refer to the project README for a technical description.

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BSDDialog is an utility to write a script with a Text User Interface. It can build widgets/dialogs: to show messages, to get input and to inform about a computation status.

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