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Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness

Recap of first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group

News Roundup

HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report

• [HardenedBSD 14-STABLE Now Available](https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-09-11/hardenedbsd-14-stable-now-available)

August 2023 donation report

• [Late on the announcement but... GhostBSD 23.06.01 ISO is now available](http://ghostbsd.org/23.06.01_iso_is_now_available)

MidnightBSD 3.1 Released

OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14 is out

Beastie Bits

• [ZFS for Dummies](https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/homelab/zfs-for-dummies/)
• [The Switch runs FreeBSD](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5xbe5a/the_switch_runs_freebsd_making_it_nintendos_first/)
• [KDE on OpenBSD](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=169391479324962)
• [(Kubernetes v1.28.0) for illumos, FreeBSD and OpenBSD](https://medium.com/@norlin.t/by-the-way-planternetes-kubernetes-v1-28-0-for-illumos-freebsd-and-openbsd-5d57026d6a25)
• [Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest, Wi-Fi DA](https://jcs.org/2023/09/20/vcfmw)

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Help the OpenBSD Foundation Reach Its 2022 Funding Goal

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Interview 1 - Brooks Davis - email@email / @twitter

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Interview 2 - Olivier Cochard-Labbe - email@email / @twitter

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FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience

With the release of FreeBSD 13.0 on the horizon, I wanted to see how it shapes up on my Lenovo T450 laptop. Previous major releases on this laptop, using it as a workstation, felt very rough around the edges but with 13, it feels like the developers got it right.

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FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud

Until the end of June, Amazon AWS is offering free ARM64 Graviton instances, learn how to try out FreeBSD to ARMv8 in the cloud

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Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace!

The releases below represent the historical releases of Plan 9. The two versions of 4th Edition represent the initial release and the final version available from Bell Labs as it was updated and patched. All historical releases of Plan 9 have been re-released under the terms of the MIT license.

• Inferno is open source as well *** ## News Roundup ### Hitting donation milestone, financial report for 2020 We nearly hit our 2020 donation milestone set after the release of 9.0 of $50,000. ***

grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD

I was dealing with a bizarre error with grep(1) on FreeBSD, and it soon infected my macOS and NetBSD machines too. It was driving me crazy!

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Random Programming Challenge

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This better not be an April Fools Joke… I want to see this actually implemented. I’ll donate $100 to the first BSD that actually implements this for real. Who’s with me?

OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

To make sure that OpenBSD can be used elsewhere than just earth, this diff introduces Coordinated Mars Time (MTC), the Mars equivalent of earth’s Universal Time (UTC).
OpenZFS had a good one too

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A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch

Larry Wall posted patch 1.3 to mod.sources on May 8, 1985. A number of versions followed over the years. It's been a faithful alley for a long, long time. I've never had a problem with patch until I embarked on the 2.11BSD restoration project. In going over the logs very carefully, I've discovered a bug that bites this effort twice. It's quite interesting to use 27 year old patches to find this bug while restoring a 29 year old OS...

Sandbox for FreeBSD

A sandbox is a software which artificially limits access to the specific resources on the target according to the assigned policy. The sandbox installs hooks to the kernel syscalls and other sub-systems in order to interrupt the events triggered by the application. From the application point of view, application working as usual, but when it wants to access, for instance, /dev/kmem the sandbox software decides against the assigned sandbox scheme whether to grant or deny access.
In our case, the sandbox is a kernel module which uses MAC (Mandatory Access Control) Framework developed by the TrustedBSD team. All necessary hooks were introduced to the FreeBSD kernel.

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News Roundup

Changing from one dataset to another within a jail

ZFS has a the ability to share itself within a jail. That gives the jail some autonomy, and I like that.
I’ve written briefly about that, specifically for iocage. More recently, I started using a zfs snapshot for caching clearing.
The purpose of this post is to document the existing configuration of the production FreshPorts webserver and outline the plan on how to modify it for more zfs-snapshot-based cache clearing.

You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS

Back in January I mentioned how to add redundancy to a ZFS pool by adding a mirrored drive. Someone with a private account on Twitter asked me why FreeBSD—and NetBSD!—doesn’t ship with a tmux or screen equivilent in base in order to daemonise the process and let them run in the background.
ZFS already does this for its internal commands.

HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations

This last month has largely been a quiet one. I've restarted work on porting five-year-old work from the Code Pointer Integrity (CPI) project into HardenedBSD. Chiefly, I've started forward-porting the libc and rtld bits from the CPI project and now need to look at llvm compiler/linker enhancements. We need to be able to apply SafeStack to shared objects, not just application binaries. This forward-porting work I'm doing is to support that effort.
The infrastructure has settled and is now churning normally and happily. We're still working out bandwidth issues. We hope to have a new fiber line ran by the end of September.
As part of this status report, I'm issuing a formal call for donations. I'm aiming for $4,000.00 USD for a newer self-hosted Gitea server. I hope to purchase the new server before the end of 2020.

Important parts of Unix's history happened before readline support was common

Unix and things that run on Unix have been around for a long time now. In particular, GNU Readline was first released in 1989 (as was Bash), which is long enough ago for it (or lookalikes) to become pretty much pervasive, especially in Unix shells. Today it's easy to think of readline support as something that's always been there. But of course this isn't the case. Unix in its modern form dates from V7 in 1979 and 4.2 BSD in 1983, so a lot of Unix was developed before readline and was to some degree shaped by the lack of it.

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