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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The FreeBSD Operating Systems provides the Ports Collection to allow a simple way for users and administrators to install applications, to know more https://www.freebsd.org/ports/.

It is possible to configure a port before the building and installation, ports-mgmt/dialog4ports is a well known TUI utility for the port options, unfortunately dialog4ports depends on non-permissive open source software. portconfig is a new utility to provide the same features of dialog4ports, it and its dependecies (bsddialog and ncurses) are completely permissive.

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ncurses is a library to write programs with a TUI, I used ncurses to implement MixerTUI and currently BSDDialog. The library is released under a permissive open source license so the FreeBSD Operating System provides it in BASE (and in PORTS devel/ncurses).

The following table lists the manuals linking to https://man.freebsd.org, the ncurses project provides also some tool but the table takes into account only the API.

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