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Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?

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

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Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.

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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

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

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!

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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?

Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative

Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva

We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again

The usability of open source operating systems

Phoenix AZ timezone issue

The only existing copy of UNIX v4

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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?

Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative

Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva

We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years

Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again

The usability of open source operating systems

Phoenix AZ timezone issue

The only existing copy of UNIX v4

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FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...

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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

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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FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...

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FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3

ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization

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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Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...

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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

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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New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more...

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Signifier flotation devices

Open Indiana Hipster Announcement

Understanding Storage Performance Metrics

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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Time to update our /etc/hosts file...

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Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more...

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Thunderbolt on FreeBSD

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

zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs

The hunt for a home network monitoring solution

LibreSSL 4.2.0 Released

OpenSSH 10.2 released

Check your IP infos using nginx

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

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OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more...

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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

[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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