OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more...

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OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly

Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

News Roundup

Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They Run NetBSD So They Can Not

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 Intel

January 2026 Finance Report

Beastie Bits

• The DragonFly site has a recently-updated page describing how DPorts is assembled and the process to contribute.
• TUHS - Unix use of VAX protection modes
• Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

- The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD

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The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more...

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NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement

Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It

News Roundup

Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2

Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and FreeBSD

Universities And In house Tech

Beating my head on OpenVPN

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Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more...

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I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went

FreeBSD Quarterly Report

The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support Project

News Roundup

Migrating ZFS filesystems from one zpool to another – same host

Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU

OpneSSL 4.0

Other schedulers? Illumos?

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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...

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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS

GhostBSD 26.1

News Roundup

I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server

My Journey to the BSDs

The unseen hero of OpenBSD

Beastie Bits

• BSD Can Schedule up
• OpenBSD Campaign 2025
• OpenBSD Campaign 2026

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Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more...

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Breaking up with Big Tech

Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii

News Roundup

Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250

Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not

Java Sun SPOTs

I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point

Beastie Bits

• OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh
• Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary
• A quick and easy Guide to Tmux

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Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more...

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From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware

News Roundup

Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like Isolation with User Friendly Operations

OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released

I'm just the Barista

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Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe...

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Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs

[Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/)

News Roundup

PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

Nobody said there was math on this exam!

The web is bearable with RSS

The Pipe

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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more.

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FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View

Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

News Roundup

The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

Jailrun

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FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code

Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more...

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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

News Roundup

Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup

Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI

SYN attack

• Syn attack follow up

Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems

Beastie Bits

• OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta

- Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops

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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more...

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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths

2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

News Roundup

PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

Beastie Bits

• BSDCan reg is now open
• An Oral History of Unix
• Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)
• Patched FreeBSD AMIs

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Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more...

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Jails for NetBSD

ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

News Roundup

Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required

Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

Beastie Bits

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