This week covers hunting memory leaks in bsnmpd with DTrace, OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 release, FreeBSD Git Weekly and Foundation laptop updates, NetBSD 11.0 RC6, a study on OpenBSD pledge and unveil, GhostBSD stability impressions, FreeBSD build scripts for Stremio, and more.
This episode covers ZFS vs Ceph, running Victoria Logs on FreeBSD, splitting syslogd into privileged and non-privileged binaries, and detecting dangerous secrets on dev workstations, plus more.
Synth is an alternative to poudriere - designed to be used for live systems. In this video they show the basics of synth, and how to get one port compiling.
The NetBSD project has released the sixth release candidate for 11.0, encouraging users to test the nearly year-old netbsd-11 branch and report issues via mailing lists or PRs, with install images available on CDN and ARM builds on armbsd.org.
A FreeBSD-based distribution with an XFCE desktop and a curated red team and penetration testing toolkit, available as VMware-ready images.
A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring GitLab on FreeBSD 15.1 in a bhyve VM, covering PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and GitLab setup with commands and configuration details.
The NetBSD project has released the sixth release candidate for 11.0, asking users to test the nearly year-old netbsd-11 branch and report issues via mailing lists or PRs, with DVD-sized ISO images recommended for full-featured installs.
A recent academic paper measures the adoption of pledge and unveil in OpenBSD's base and packages and concludes that these sandboxing features facilitate secure coding practices rather than hinder them.
OpenSSH 10.4 adds experimental composite post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA 44 + Ed25519), fixes several security issues in sftp, scp, and sshd, and includes numerous bugfixes and portability improvements.
This week covers FreeBSD boot process fundamentals, running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.1, upgrading FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1, a degraded ZFS pool analysis, FreeBSD on Framework systems, monitoring a FreeBSD Mastodon instance, GhostBSD's March 2026 finance report, and more.
After upgrading Homebox to 0.26.2 in a FreeBSD jail, the service fails to start due to a missing auth.apikeypepper; the fix is to generate a 48-byte base64 key with openssl, store it in /etc/rc.conf.d/homebox as HBOXAUTHAPIKEYPEPPER, and restart the service.