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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The Computer at the bottom of a canal

FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free

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

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

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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Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948

FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch

Sometimes it actually is the network: a war story

FreeBSD Tribal Knowledge: Boot Enviroment Management

• 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?

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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How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer

Jails vs LXC: What’s the Right Choice for Infrastructure?

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

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

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

• 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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