Beginning on July 17, we hope you’ll join us for an expanded #FreeBSDFridays series of 101 classes. We’re building on our FreeBSD Day content to offer 1 hour live sessions every Friday, designed to get you started with FreeBSD. The program kicks off with Deb Goodkin’s Intro to FreeBSD class, followed by a two-part Installfest led by Roller Angel. The sessions will take place at 10am PDT at https://live.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/freebsdfriday/
Other classes include, Introduction to OpenZFS by Dan Langille, A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Kirk McKusick, and more.
Experience migrating a client’s Windows BIOS VMs from Proxmox to FreeBSD/uefi, using bhyve and ZFS.
How FreeBSD is advancing open source technology through firsthand insights in networking, security, automation, and enterprise solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The article describes a method to install FreeBSD on a computer or virtual machine with a single command, bypassing traditional installation methods.
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.
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.