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July 30674: Software development never changes
Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more...
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Headlines
If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken
WebZFS Updates
Beta Announcement
Why wont my pool export
zfs iostat
- Pictures so you can get a better idea of how it works
News Roundup
Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem
Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD
Diskless Workstations Two Models
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Davi - BSDCan 2026 Follow up
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1 hr 1 min
July 23673: There's somebody at the door
Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more...
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Headlines
I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up.
FreeBSD Foundationals: The Boot Process - From the Loader to Boot Environments
News Roundup
FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop
GhostBSD - March 2026 Finance Report
Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD
NFS-problems I didn’t expect at all
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51 min
July 16672: Kitchen Calculator
Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more...
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Headlines
Unix Pipes Under Load: Streaming, Barriers, Backpressure, and Bottlenecks
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
News Roundup
FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch
Sometimes it actually is the network: a war story
FreeBSD Tribal Knowledge: Boot Enviroment Management
Beastie Bits
OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 released!
OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB
OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2) are developer-friendly, study finds
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47 min
July 09671: Rage Against the Machine
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more...
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Headlines
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need Ceph?
News Roundup
Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does
FreeBSD sh for MacOS
syslogd(8) privileged and non-privileged parts now separate binaries
Getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD
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54 min
July 02670: Failure is not an Option
How NASA built Artemis II's fault tolerent Computer, Jails vs LXC, Respsectfully getting a personal copy of a website, Opensense 26.1.9 and more...
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Headlines
How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer
Jails vs LXC: What’s the Right Choice for Infrastructure?
News Roundup
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Announcement
Release Notes
Notes on respectfully getting a personal copy of a website's contents
OPNsense 26.1.9 released
Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose
The status of OpenSSL 4.0 support in syslog-ng
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59 min
June 25669: Poudriere Speed Run
inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more...
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Headlines
Native inotify in FreeBSD
News Roundup
How changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time
Follow on Giving poudriere a jump start
Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful
Orion PDA
Recap of the April 2026 Frankfurt Area FreeBSD Hackathon – Sven Ruediger
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38 min
June 18668: Wiring up the BSDs
FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more...
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Headlines
FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard
Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS
News Roundup
zfs – a helper script for labelling all those drives
AI errno(2) values
The vi Family
Creating a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller on FreeBSD
Beastie Bits
Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs
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Davi - BSDCan 2026
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46 min
June 11667: Don't exceed by security boundary
.NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more...
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Headlines
Running .NET 10.0 on FreeBSD 15.0
How Klara and TrueNAS collaborated to fix one of ZFS's longest standing limitations
News Roundup
Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails
How our environment still needs the security boundary of Unix logins
Increasing a bhyve vm disk
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48 min
June 04666: Everyone gets an LPE
fatgid, why zfs is ideal for media production, the CTF scene is dead, private repo behind TLS, and more...
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Headlines
fatgid
Why ZFS is the ideal filesystem for multi-user media production
News Roundup
The CTF scene is dead
A Private pkg Repo Behind Mutual TLS
This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
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1 hr 5 min
May 28665: 60 Puffies
OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more...
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Headlines
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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1 hr 1 min

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