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Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, 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, and more

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Why Self-host?

Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks

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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ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more

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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

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

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zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more

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zipbomb defeated

Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads

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

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FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, 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, and more

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FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update

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

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

Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, 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, and more

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Secure Boot for FreeBSD

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

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

The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.

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The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics

Host Naming Convention

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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The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, and more

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The Hype is the Product

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

Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?

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

SSHX

Zvault Status Update

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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more

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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

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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FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more

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FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition

BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli

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

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Special Guest: Nico Cartron.

Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, 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, and more

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Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices

The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career

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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