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OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly

Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

News Roundup

Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They Run NetBSD So They Can Not

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 Intel

January 2026 Finance Report

Beastie Bits

• The DragonFly site has a recently-updated page describing how DPorts is assembled and the process to contribute.
• TUHS - Unix use of VAX protection modes
• Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

- The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD

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NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement

Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It

News Roundup

Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2

Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and FreeBSD

Universities And In house Tech

Beating my head on OpenVPN

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I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went

FreeBSD Quarterly Report

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support Project

News Roundup

Migrating ZFS filesystems from one zpool to another – same host

Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU

OpneSSL 4.0

Other schedulers? Illumos?

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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS

GhostBSD 26.1

News Roundup

I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server

My Journey to the BSDs

The unseen hero of OpenBSD

Beastie Bits

• BSD Can Schedule up
• OpenBSD Campaign 2025
• OpenBSD Campaign 2026

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Breaking up with Big Tech

Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii

News Roundup

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250

Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not

Java Sun SPOTs

I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point

Beastie Bits

• OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh
• Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary
• A quick and easy Guide to Tmux

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From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware

News Roundup

Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like Isolation with User Friendly Operations

OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released

I'm just the Barista

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Tim - Are OCI Images useful for Freebsd.md

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Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs

[Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/)

News Roundup

PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

Nobody said there was math on this exam!

The web is bearable with RSS

The Pipe

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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

News Roundup

The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

Jailrun

+ jailrun github

FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code

Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

News Roundup

Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup

Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI

SYN attack

• Syn attack follow up

Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems

Beastie Bits

• OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta

- Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops

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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths

2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

News Roundup

PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

Beastie Bits

• BSDCan reg is now open
• An Oral History of Unix
• Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)
• Patched FreeBSD AMIs

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Jails for NetBSD

ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

News Roundup

Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required

Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

Beastie Bits

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ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability

RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment

News Roundup

Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root.
https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

FreeBSD Jail Memory Metrics

Tcl: The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language

How to Setup WireGuard on OpenBSD: The Ultimate Self-Hosted VPN Guide (2026)

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters

helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS.
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-freebsd-based-os-inspired-by-macos/

News Roundup

[Default GhostBSD to XLibre](https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/pull/259]

• Addressing XLibre Change and GhostBSD Future

Bhyve Prometheus Exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD.

Linux GNU C Library Fixes Security Issue Present Since 1996

Beastie Bits

• NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!
• The Book of PF, 4th Edition is now available
• December 2025 Finance Report
• LLDB improvements on FreeBSD
• Any desire for OnmiOS/Illumos Support : Now's your chance to convince me

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GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

News Roundup

Xfce is great

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

The scariest boot loader code

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

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One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics

Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

News Roundup

FFS Backup

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

• 8 more parts!

Beastie Bits

• The BSD Proposal
• UNIX Magic Poster
• Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
• FreeBSD 15.0 VNET Jails
• Call for NetBSD testing

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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

The story of Propolice

Desk reviews

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• ask questions

No reponses, no justications.

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News Roundup

FreeBSD vs. Slackware: Which super stable OS is right for you?

Prometheus, Let's Encrypt, and making sure all our TLS certificates are monitored

Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?

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Powering the Future of FreeBSD

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

BSDCan Organisating committee Interview

News Roundup

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us

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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

WebZFS

News Roundup

OpenBGPD 9.0 released

MidnightBSD 4.0

Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC
TVPC update

C&C Red Alert2 in your browser

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What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025?

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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?

News Roundup

We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem

The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector

Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back

All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train!

Beastie Bits

• Running A PDP-8 From 1965
• The library of time
• OPNsense 25.7.9 released

- OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released

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Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes

We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary

News Roundup

ZFS Boot Environments Explained

Why I (still) love Linux

rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team

A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug and YouTube

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• Claudio - A Silent Reflection

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FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3

ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization

News Roundup

How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' dataset properties work

Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up

[TUHS] David C Brock of CHM: 2024 oral history with Ken Thompson + Doug McIlroy

Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”

Source and state limiters introduced in pf

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• Göran - grafana

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FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege

How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI

News Roundup

Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks

Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit

Some notes on OpenZFS's 'written' dataset property

vi improvements on Dragonfly

Big news for small /usr partitions

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Signifier flotation devices

Open Indiana Hipster Announcement

Understanding Storage Performance Metrics

News Roundup

UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A

Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware

FreeBSD tribal knowledge: minor version upgrades

It's been 10 years since ZFS's 10th aniversary its integration into Solaris - A Reflection

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Thunderbolt on FreeBSD

The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)

News Roundup

zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs

The hunt for a home network monitoring solution

LibreSSL 4.2.0 Released

OpenSSH 10.2 released

• Related to 10.x versions : Post-Quantum Cryptography

Check your IP infos using nginx

Experimenting with Compression

(just given an overview, I dont exepect you to read the all three writeups fully)

• Experimenting with compression off
• Experimenting with compression=lz4
• Experimenting with compression=zstd
• Compression results

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• Anton - Boxybsd

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Headlines

OpenBSD 7.8 Released also (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822) and (https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679)

Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS

News Roundup

[TUHS] Was artifacts, now ethernet

I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity

Migrate a KVM virtual machine to OmniOS bhyve

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• brad - bhyve

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Why Self-host?

Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks

News Roundup

Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD

Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots

WSL-For-FreeBSD

Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD

The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available

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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations

Magical systems thinking

The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time

News Roundup

OpenSSH 10.1 Released

KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD

Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS

GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist

Beastie Bits

• Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca

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• Kylen - CVEs

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zipbomb defeated

Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads

News Roundup

Open Source is one person

Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD

Back to the origins

Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD

Undeadly Bits

• j2k25 - OpenBSD Hackathon Japan 2025
• OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic
• Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5
• OpenBSD enters 7.8-beta
• Full BSDCan 2025 video playlist(s) available
• OpenBGPD 8.9 released

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• Brad - a few things

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FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update

Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation

News Roundup

Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough

ClonOS

Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5

Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD

Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior

Call for testing - Samba 4.22 in 0mp's ports tree

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-Vincent - Ollama on FreeBSD

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Secure Boot for FreeBSD

The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning

News Roundup

Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins

Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name

ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata

Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend

Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD

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-Steve - Interviews

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The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics

Host Naming Convention

News Roundup

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities

A system to organise your life

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- Nelson - Books

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The Hype is the Product

Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl

News Roundup

Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?

How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD

SSHX

Zvault Status Update

Undeadly Bits

• 4096 colours and flashing text on the console!
• Font caching no longer runs as root
• OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic

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Headlines

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web

News Roundup

Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD

Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha

Despite thoughts to the contrary, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

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Headlines

FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition

BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli

News Roundup

Call for testing: USB webcams

From Minecraft to Markets: Java Hiding in Plain Sight

Recent new features in OpenSSH

NetBSD 11.0 release process underway

Interview: Nico Cartron

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Headlines

Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices

The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career

News Roundup

DragonFly DRM updated

NetBSD on Raspberry Pi!

Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD

Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes

One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode!

New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds

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When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering

How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14

News Roundup

OpenBSD Innovations

Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD

Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still)

A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup

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Headlines

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project

FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure

Interview

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Interview thoughts from Benedict and Jason

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Interview

Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation

• Personal website

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Headlines

Designing a Storage Pool: RAIDZ, Mirrors, and Hybrid Configurations

The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration

News Roundup

Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI: results and first impressions

dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon

Periodical 20 — Localized Computing

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Headlines

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)

That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List

rsync's defaults are not always enough

jemalloc Postmortem

Beastie Bits

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Headlines

Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide

The best interfaces we never built

News Roundup

You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy

I feel open source has turned into two worlds

UPDATE 2 – TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault

You should start a computer club in the place that you live

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Headlines

A year of funded FreeBSD

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes

FFS optimizations with dirhash

j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more

NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors

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Headlines

FreeBSD 14.3 released

Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware

News Roundup

My website is ugly because I made it

Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid

April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update

dhcpd(8): use UDP sockets instead of BPF

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Guests

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Headlines

How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD
14

What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production

News Roundup

rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia

Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD

FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280

Backup MX with OpenSMTPD

Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl

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Headlines

The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb

Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions
Matter

News Roundup

LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work

Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time

erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection

Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi

Beastie Bits

Some Interesting pieces of history

• Netnews History
• History of Solaris
• Nuclear Wall Charts
• [TUHS] The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System

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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces

DragonFly BSD 6.4.2

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

News Roundup

For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions

Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do

PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files

How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments

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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS

News Roundup

Optimisation of parallel TCP input

Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term"

Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade

What drive did I just remove from the system?

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Headlines

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal

Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS

News Roundup

Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files

What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025

FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations

Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems

FreeBSD as a Workstation

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Headlines

OpenBSD 7.7

ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication

News Roundup

Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel

Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon

Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree

The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here

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Headlines

Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking

Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator

News Roundup

OpenZFS Cheat Sheet

Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam

SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive

How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ?

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Headlines

World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS

Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad

News Roundup

Motivations

Tinker Writer Deck

How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check

Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender

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We should improve libzfs somewhat

Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark

News Roundup

Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD

OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s

Signing Git Commits with an SSH key

Pgrep

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs

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Headlines

FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available

From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog

News Roundup

zfs-2.3.1

Complications of funding an open source operating system

Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025

First Use on GhostBSD

Better Shell History Search

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Headlines

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands

Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP

News Roundup

Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop

Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop

Some terminal frustrations

Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp

You Should Use /tmp/ More

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Headlines

The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk

Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/

We are destroying software

News Roundup

FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106

TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected

Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on

If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well

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OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility

ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots

News Roundup

Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager

TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System

OpenBGPD 8.8 released

OPNsense 25.1

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I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went

Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets

News Roundup

State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon

The first perfect computer

Find Name Wildcard Gotcha

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The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again

The Biggest Unix Security Loophole

News Roundup

The monospace Web

What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means

Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9

Networking for System Administrators

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Topics

• Hector Martin stands down as lead developer on Asahi Linux
  • No forward progress for Rust to be given first class status in the kernel
  • Having to maintain a thousand plus patches against a fast moving upstream project (Linux Kernel)
  • Dwindling funds
  • What does this mean for sister projects like OpenBSD?

600th episode flash back

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Round Up

• Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD
  • As well, the NetBSD project is trying to bring up this board
  • Conversation around the state of ARM64 SoC and options
• LibreSSL is not affected by the OpenSSL vulnerabilities announced today.
• FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time
• OpenBGPD 8.8 released

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Headlines

Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS

Laptop Support and Usability Project Update: First Monthly Report & Community Initiatives

News Roundup

FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025

Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl

The Death of Email Forwarding

Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam

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Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance

OpenZFS 2.3.0 available

News Roundup

Updates on AsiaBSDCon 2025 - Cancelled -

GhostBSD Desktop Conference

Recovering from external zroot

Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible

Stories I refuse to believe

Defer the January 19, 2038 date limit in UFS1 filesystems to February 7, 2106

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Headlines

(due to excessive use of the F-bomb, perhaps we should somewhat censor it... You can do so in words... or I can use Tom's favorite Frequency tone to do it in post). You decide and let me know what you think would be funnier.)
Also I'm hoping for some good commentary from you guys on this one. :P

The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header

FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks

News Roundup

Generative AI is for the idea guys

Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones

FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD

The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else

Conference Bits

• BSD-NL
• BSDCan

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Headlines

Ridding my home network of IP addresses

Tools for Identifying and Resolving Storage Bottlenecks

News Roundup

OpenBGPD 8.7 released

Let's port the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64

Modify an OmniOS service parameters

The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes

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Headlines

Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC

Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights

News Roundup

Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail

Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

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Headlines

Roundup Storage and Network Diagnostics

Security Audit of the
Capsicum and bhyve
Subsystems

News Roundup

ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel

NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board

Domain Naming

BSDCan 2025 CFP

The Internet Gopher from Minnesota

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Headlines

FreeBSD replaces sendmail with dma

Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO’s Perspective

News Roundup

How I fell in love with OpenBSD

A GDC package for macOS/aarch64

Validate Your FreeBSD rc.conf

Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve

OPNsense 24.7.10 released

Printing With FreeBSD

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Producer Note

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Headlines

ZFS Storage Fault Management

FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement

News Roundup

I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6

Spell checking in Vim

OpenBSD Memory Conflict Messages

The Biggest Shell Programs in the World

Beastie Bits

• The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832
• Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released
• -current now has more flexible performance policy
• OpenBSD 5.1 on Sun Ultra 5

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Headlines

• The Markdown Guide

• The Pandoc Website

• Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce
  PDFs

• Eisvogel LaTeX Pandoc template

News Roundup

• Awk in 20 Minutes

• Awk by Example

• W3 Schools Tutorials

• The dot Guide

• Introduction to Graphviz

• Browser-based Graphviz Editor SketchViz

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Headlines

Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

A Brief History of Cyrix

News Roundup

Userland Disk I/O

OPNsense 24.7.9 released

GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

Keep your OmniOS server time synced

Beastie Bits

• "I'll take 2" - Solidigm introduces a 122TB Drive, the World’s Highest Capacity PCIe SSDs

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Feedback/Questions

• Ian - Thoughts

Producer Note

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Headlines

Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD

What To Use Instead of PGP

The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus

News Roundup

FreeBSD 14 on the Desktop

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old

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Headlines

FreeBSD Quarterly Report

News Roundup

Welcome to the new category: filesystems

BSD Misconceptions

Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024

Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind

A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3

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Feedback/Questions

• Izzy - Misconceptions
• John - UNIX Graphical Desktops

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Headlines

Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years

5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong

News Roundup

The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected

OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off

bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?

Beastie Bits

• Game of Trees 0.104
• Networking for System Administrators
• Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit Day 1
• Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit Day 2

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Feedback/Questions

• Chris - Truenas
• Brendan - NextCloud

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Headlines

From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration

FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

News Roundup

Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure

LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released

Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14

git: world - Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions

Beastie Bits

- How to Upgrade FreeBSD KDE 5 to KDE 6

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