Episode 682

NAS NAS NAS

September 24th, 2026

39 mins 6 secs

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About this Episode

Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...

Headlines

[Two more BSD based NASes have appeared]

BSDNAS

FreeCORE

FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD

News Roundup

ICEBP Finally Documented

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

OpenSSH 10.5

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.

Tarsnap

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Feedback/Questions

  • [Phil - Listener Feedback]
Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard
Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that
working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important -
Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made!
And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn
a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me
there, plus google etc. 

I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished
file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what
the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the
last podcast a few times - They don't know yet????

Now I'm stuck!

I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop
policy and offer similar pkg/build systems?

Thanks
Phill