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OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, 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, and more

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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

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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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project.

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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project

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

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Special Guest: David Gwynne.

This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.

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Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation

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Special Guest: Mark Phillips.

Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more

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

The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration

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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-Aleksej - RockPro64

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more

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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

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

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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more

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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide

The best interfaces we never built

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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A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more

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A year of funded FreeBSD

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

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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FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it, Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid, April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, UDP sockets instead of BPF in dhcpd(8), and more

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FreeBSD 14.3 released

Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware

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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This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.

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Special Guests: Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs.

How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, 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, and more

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How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD

What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production

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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