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

The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

Jailrun

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

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

• OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta

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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

PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

• 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

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

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Emelio - openbsd

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Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more...

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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On.

An old article with covering : Running and administrating a 2.11 BSD system

Booting NetBSD from a wedge, the hard way

• The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026!
• Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments
• zfs-2.4.1
• Hardening OPNsense: Using Q-Feeds to Block Malicious Traffic

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• Gary - A nice blog

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ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability

RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment

Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root.
https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

FreeBSD Jail Memory Metrics

Tcl: The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language

How to Setup WireGuard on OpenBSD: The Ultimate Self-Hosted VPN Guide (2026)

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OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues.

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters

helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS.
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-freebsd-based-os-inspired-by-macos/

[Default GhostBSD to XLibre](https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/pull/259]

• Addressing XLibre Change and GhostBSD Future

Bhyve Prometheus Exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD.

Linux GNU C Library Fixes Security Issue Present Since 1996

• NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!
• The Book of PF, 4th Edition is now available
• December 2025 Finance Report
• LLDB improvements on FreeBSD
• Any desire for OnmiOS/Illumos Support : Now's your chance to convince me

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GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...

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GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

Xfce is great

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

The scariest boot loader code

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

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• Matt - Audio Levels

Interviews can be troublesome because there's only so much we can do with multiple guests with multiple feeds, and mulitple audio conditions. We can try to normalize but sometimes it's just not easy to do without editing taking an entire day..

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