This article discusses the suspend/resume functionality in FreeBSD, highlighting its stability over different versions. The author shares their experience with FreeBSD on desktops and laptops over two decades and provides videos demonstrating suspend/resume cycles on FreeBSD 12.2 and 14.1.
The HardenedBSD 13-STABLE package repository has been archived and is now permanently available at https://installers.hardenedbsd.org/packages/13-stable/.
This article discusses the suspend/resume functionality in FreeBSD, highlighting its stability over different versions. The author shares their experience with FreeBSD on desktops and laptops over two decades and provides videos demonstrating suspend/resume cycles on FreeBSD 12.2 and 14.1.
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The FreeBSD Foundation is hiring a Technical Marketing Manager to promote the adoption of FreeBSD. This role involves increasing awareness and adoption of FreeBSD by engaging with both technical and business audiences. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and a passion for open source technology. Responsibilities include developing marketing campaigns, collaborating with developers, and identifying key events for promotion. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the open source community and work with a dedicated team.
As of 31 December 2024, FreeBSD 13.3 has reached its end-of-life and will no longer receive support from the FreeBSD Security Team. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to a newer release. The announcement provides a list of currently supported branches and their estimated end-of-life dates.
NetBSD, a highly portable, open-source Unix-like operating system, has earned a prominent place in satellite technology. Known for its adaptability, NetBSD runs on over 60 hardware architectures, making it ideal for the unique hardware configurations of satellites. Its lightweight design ensures efficient resource utilization, crucial for the constrained environments of space missions. NetBSD's reliability and stability, along with its real-time capabilities and extensive cross-compilation support, make it a dependable choice for managing time-sensitive operations and building software for target architectures. The article highlights NetBSD's use in various satellites, including the AeroCube series, BRICSat-P, ITSAT, and NASA's SAMPEX, demonstrating its versatility and robust performance in advancing space exploration.
This guide details the process of replacing old disks with larger ones in a ZFS pool on a FreeBSD server using zpool-replace. The article covers the background of migrating storage from TrueNAS CORE to FreeBSD, identifying and preparing new disks, and executing the replacement commands. It also includes steps to grow the pool to utilize the additional capacity.
Discover how to set up an OpenBSD virtual machine using OpenBSD Amsterdam. This guide covers booking your VM, accessing the VPS, and utilizing additional services. Ideal for experienced users looking to leverage a pure OpenBSD environment, this resource details the unique benefits and steps to get started with OpenBSD Amsterdam's VPS offerings.
The "Valuable News" weekly series provides summaries of news and articles primarily related to UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. It aims to filter out essential information from the overwhelming amount of data available online. This edition includes various updates on UNIX systems, hardware news, and other related topics.
The article discusses the Google Summer of Code 2024 project focused on enhancing NetBSD's kernel test framework for root device and file system selection. The author, Diviyam Pat, shares their experience working on this project, including initial interactions with NetBSD and the technical details of the tests developed. The project aims to improve the coverage of ATF tests for the setroot function, which is crucial for root device selection during the boot process.
The pkgsrc developers have released the 85th quarterly update of pkgsrc, a cross-platform packaging system. This release includes over 28,000 packages with support across 23 operating systems. Notable additions include MinGW-w64, OpenSMTPD Tables, Python 3.13, Ruby On Rails 7.2.2.1, and Thunderbird 115. Significant updates include matrix-synapse, pkgin, and pkglint. The infrastructure now supports mktool for improved performance. Users can access pkgsrc via CVS, tar files, and other mirrors.