OS108 MATE version released

submited 27 March 2019

OS108 is a fast, open and Secure replacement Operating System for Windows and macOS. Built on top of NetBSD, OS108 provides a simple desktop-oriented operating system.

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03 December 2024
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Available  

This is the third release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights:

  • OCI container images are now available.
  • The installer now supports downloading and installing necessary firmware packages after installing the FreeBSD base system.
  • OpenZFS has been upgraded to version 2.2.6.
  • OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.0.15.
Valuable News – 2024/12/02  

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems.

HardenedBSD November 2024 Status Report  

This month saw a few improvements in HardenedBSD's source tree. We can now boot to multi-user on the StarFive VisionFive2 riscv64 SBC dev boards. They use a 39-bit address space, so we had to tune down our ASLR deltas for this board as if we were operating on a 32-bit architecture. This is obviously far from optimal, but it's what we have.

Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released  

The initial list of 21 'low hanging fruit' videos from EuroBSDcon 2024 has been released with more to follow.

29 November 2024
OpenBSD-current now has more flexible performance policy  

Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) committed a change which is likely to be welcomed by laptop users: Lets the user provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery. This is now in snapshots, so please test if you run those.

Managing ZFS Full Pool Issues with Reserved Space  

A simple approach to prevent ZFS pools from getting stuck due to a lack of free space.

7 Neofetch Alternatives for FreeBSD  

Neofetch is still around, but it may soon disappear - so, here are 7 alternatives for all you FreeBSD ASCII system spec aficionados!

BSD Now 587: New filesystems category  

FreeBSD Quarterly Report, Welcome to the new category: filesystems, BSD Misconceptions, Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024, Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind, A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3, and more.

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26 November 2024
Netflix's FreeBSD Servers and Their Impact on Open Source  

Netflix, one of the world's leading video streaming services, is renowned for its robust and efficient infrastructure that powers billions of hours of content streaming globally. At the core of this infrastructure lies FreeBSD, a free and open-source operating system. Netflix's adoption and enhancement of FreeBSD have significantly influenced both its own operations and the open-source community at large.

FreeBSD 14.2 RC1  

The first RC build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.

Reflecting on the Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit: Insights and Innovations  

The Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit brought together developers, contributors, and enthusiasts for two days of dynamic discussions, technical deep dives, and community collaboration. Hosted at NetApp’s San Jose Campus, this event highlighted FreeBSD’s adaptability and impact across industries. With a focus on connectivity, security, and innovation, the summit set the stage for exciting advancements in FreeBSD’s ecosystem.

BSD Now 586: Cloud Exit Savings  

Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years, 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong, The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected, OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off, bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?, and more.

Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD  

The venerable Network File System (NFS) has been expanded with distributed capabilities, pNFS v4.2 allows distributing data across multiple servers to increase performance and fault tolerance. Learn how to deploy a high-speed resilient storage system quickly and easily with FreeBSD.

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