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Headlines

FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters

August/September Newsletter

News Roundup

All About the Whistle InterJet

FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

Beastie Bits

• A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition
• LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released
• openssh-10.6 released
• New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx
• Brutal Unix

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Feedback/Questions

• Sasha - bastille plugin

Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones. https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin

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! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...

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Headlines

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.

Learnign at Scale

News Roundup

Thinkcenter m710q

IPFS Remote Pinning

Beastie Bits

ThinkPhone

lapocket

OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

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Headlines

Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2

Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD

News Roundup

Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap

Notes on clarifying man pages

Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD.

[Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/)

Beastie Bits

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"

Sylve Ansible Modules

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Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...

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Headlines

A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator.

Notes on software quality

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

News Roundup

Add ACPI layer into vmd

NetBSD 11 from scratch

FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so

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Headlines

GeFS

GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview

Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future

NetBSD 9.5 has been released

ekkoBSD 2.1 released

News Roundup

Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication

OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released

Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent

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Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...

Headlines

[Two more BSD based NASes have appeared]

BSDNAS

• The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP
• They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort

FreeCORE

• Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1
• Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2

FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD

News Roundup

ICEBP Finally Documented

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

OpenSSH 10.5

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.

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Feedback/Questions

• [Phil - Listener Feedback]

Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important - Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made! And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me there, plus google etc. I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the last podcast a few times - They don't know yet???? Now I'm stuck! I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop policy and offer similar pkg/build systems? Thanks Phill

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Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...

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Headlines

Where Unix runs today
(Dont get distracted by the game)

WebZFS Updates

• The bugs are coming from inside the house
• NetBSD 11 Support

News Roundup

A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD

Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation

Beastie Bits

• 1978 Aussi Users Group Newsletter
• Terminal UI and CLI for FreeBSD NFSv4 ACLs
• Sounds of the IBM 1401

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Feedback/Questions

• [Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?]

Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department. Whats the best song about a former Australian colony? Toto - Africa Men at work - Down Under For completeness: Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand) Don McLean - American Pie U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland) Gorillaz - Hong Kong Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada)

• [Reece - Webzfs]

Guys, Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly? Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it. 73..

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BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS

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Headlines

BSD pt Deux

Code that Built the Internet

Interview JT on WebZFS

TJ: I started by asking JT...

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Headlines

NetBSD 11 Release

SR-IOV Is a first class feature

News Roundup

Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment

OpenSSH 10.5 released

FreeBSD Ate my RAM

ThinkPad End Game

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Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more...

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Headlines

How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling

On AI

News Roundup

Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade

Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS!

• Why a Flip Phone?
• $399 - $640 preorder

BSD Make extravaganza

HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report

MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE

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

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Headlines

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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Feedback/Questions

• 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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Headlines

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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Feedback/Questions

• 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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Feedback/Questions

Producer note : Ive been insanely busy this past week and I've fallen behind on a few things, including checking the show email. If you sent an email in and we havent covered it yet, we'll get caught back up soon. If yuo haven't sent in an email... shame on you. You should email us and ask us something.

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

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Headlines

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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Headlines

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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Headlines

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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Headlines

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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Headlines

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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• Davi - BSDCan 2026

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