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Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more...

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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On.

An old article with covering : Running and administrating a 2.11 BSD system

Booting NetBSD from a wedge, the hard way

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ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability

RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment

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, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues.

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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.

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

Bhyve Prometheus Exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD.

Linux GNU C Library Fixes Security Issue Present Since 1996

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GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...

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GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

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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Interviews can be troublesome because there's only so much we can do with multiple guests with multiple feeds, and mulitple audio conditions. We can try to normalize but sometimes it's just not easy to do without editing taking an entire day..

AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.

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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

FFS Backup

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

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ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more.

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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

The story of Propolice

No reponses, no justications.

[Tj's Desk](media/bsdnow649-tjs-desk.jpg)

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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FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more.

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Powering the Future of FreeBSD

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

BSDCan Organisating committee Interview

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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Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.

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Why BSDs?

2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth

Wireguard The FreeBSD Way

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The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...

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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic

WebZFS

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

C&C Red Alert2 in your browser

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What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87

Perl's decline was cultural

Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity

Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025)

Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas...

HardnedBSD News

FreeBSD + Flua

Json in Base

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