Episode 687
Long Term Support
October 29th, 2026
56 mins 44 secs
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Headlines
FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters
News Roundup
All About the Whistle InterJet
FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.
Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
Beastie Bits
- A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition
- LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released
- openssh-10.6 released
- New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx
- Brutal Unix
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
- Sasha - bastille plugin
Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.
https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin
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