FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020

submited 18 September 2020

The script is slightly longer and more involved now, comparing to year ago when it was published first.

  • Support for more operating environments has landed
  • Support for application installations has landed
  • VMWare support was submitted
  • SDDM / polkit configuration has been introduced so you can shutdown / reboot from inside the KDE Plasma environment via the Leave menu
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18 November 2024
Migrating Windows VMs  

Experience migrating a client’s Windows BIOS VMs from Proxmox to FreeBSD/uefi, using bhyve and ZFS.

FreeBSD at EuroBSDCon 2024  

How FreeBSD is advancing open source technology through firsthand insights in networking, security, automation, and enterprise solutions.

15 November 2024
OpenBSD Errata: November 15, 2024 (expat)  

Errata patches for libexpat have been released for OpenBSD 7.6 and 7.5. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.

BSD Now 585: Infrastructure Administration Workstation  

From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration, FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS, Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure, LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released, Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14, Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions, and more.

Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights  

The FreeBSD community continuously innovates to enhance the Project’s capabilities and support cloud native applications. As part of this effort, the FreeBSD OCI Runtime Extension Working Group recently completed a time-boxed testing program for the experimental implementation of Podman, an OCI-compliant container engine, on FreeBSD. This program ran from September 2, 2024, to October 11, 2024, intending to assess the current state of Podman on FreeBSD and gather insights to guide future development.

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12 November 2024
Display switch for OpenBSD laptop  

The article details a setup for automatically switching the display on an OpenBSD laptop. Author uses USB-C so if you connect your monitor(s) using VGA, DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort, this post will probably not be useful.

Valuable News – 2024/11/11  

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.

11 November 2024
Install FreeBSD with One Command  

The article describes a method to install FreeBSD on a computer or virtual machine with a single command, bypassing traditional installation methods.

10 November 2024
FreeBSD 14.2-BETA2 Available  

The second BETA 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.

BSD Now 584  

New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices, Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT, The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops, Jailfox - Firefox in a Freebsd Jail, Make Your Own Read-Only Device With NetBSD, ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc advanced.

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