Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more...

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My Home Assistant Setup

Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates

• WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD
• Game of Trees 0.127 Released
• OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8)
• httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers
• LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64
• Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification

News Roundup

Wine 11.14 Brings New WoW64 Mode to FreeBSD

I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD

How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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• Tyler - IPv6 Question
• Reese - WebZFS

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The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more...

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Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin

Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously.

News Roundup

BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD

Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing

The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA!

The Virtual OS Museum

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• Marcus - Linuxulator vs Bhyve

- Reese - Feedback on episode 673

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FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more...

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Headlines

The Computer at the bottom of a canal

FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free

News Roundup

FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber

Phaethon 1 - a 68010-based Unix machine

Add a new m68k port oriented towards home-brew m68k machines

Bringing Swift to the Apple II

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

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Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more...

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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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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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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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Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more...

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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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.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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