Time to update our /etc/hosts file...
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Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more...
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The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)
zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs
The hunt for a home network monitoring solution
Check your IP infos using nginx
(just given an overview, I dont exepect you to read the all three writeups fully)
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OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more...
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OpenBSD 7.8 Released also (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822) and (https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679)
Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
[TUHS] Was artifacts, now ethernet
I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity
Migrate a KVM virtual machine to OmniOS bhyve
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Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD, Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD, The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal, and more
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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks
Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD
Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots
Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD
The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available
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ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more
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What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations
KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD
Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS
GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist
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zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more
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Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads
Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD
Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD
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FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more
Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more
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The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning
Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins
Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name
ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata
Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend
Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD
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The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
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The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics
Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian
It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities
A system to organise your life
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The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, and more
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Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl
Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?
How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD
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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more
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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web
Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD
Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha
Despite thoughts to the contrary, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos
Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?
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FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more
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FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition
BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli
From Minecraft to Markets: Java Hiding in Plain Sight
Recent new features in OpenSSH
NetBSD 11.0 release process underway
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Special Guest: Nico Cartron.
Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, DragonFly DRM updated, NetBSD on Raspberry Pi, Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD, Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes, One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode, New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds, and more
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Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices
The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career
Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD
Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes
One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode!
New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds
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OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, OpenBSD Innovations, Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD, Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still), A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup, and more
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When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14
Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD
Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still)
A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project.
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure
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Special Guest: David Gwynne.
This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.
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Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation
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Special Guest: Mark Phillips.
Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more
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Designing a Storage Pool: RAIDZ, Mirrors, and Hybrid Configurations
The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration
Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI: results and first impressions
dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation
The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals
Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon
Periodical 20 — Localized Computing
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)
That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List
rsync's defaults are not always enough
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
The best interfaces we never built
You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
I feel open source has turned into two worlds
UPDATE 2 – TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault
You should start a computer club in the place that you live
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A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes
FFS optimizations with dirhash
j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more
NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors
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