FediMeteo is an international weather service running on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS, delivering weather updates to thousands of users on the Fediverse. The project, inspired by personal experiences, utilizes FreeBSD jails for efficient resource management and relies on open-source tools like Open-Meteo and wttr.in for weather data. Despite initial expectations of limited interest, FediMeteo gained widespread attention, expanding to cover 33 countries and over 2,600 cities. Its success highlights the potential of minimalist, efficient systems in creating impactful services. BSD users will appreciate the technical implementation, including the use of snac for low-resource management and the Unix philosophy in designing the system. The project also demonstrates the scalability of FreeBSD and snac, as the service continues to grow without significant performance issues.
The NetBSD Foundation has announced its participation in Google Summer of Code 2025. This program offers a unique opportunity for contributors to work on NetBSD and pkgsrc projects. A list of possible projects is available, and participants are encouraged to propose their own ideas. Interested individuals can connect via the netbsd-code IRC channel on Libera.Chat or through the official mailing lists. This initiative highlights NetBSD's commitment to fostering open-source development and community engagement.
This episode of BSD Now marks its 600th milestone, covering key updates such as the lead Asahi developer stepping down, OpenBSD support for the Radxa Orian O6 board, and discussions on FreeBSD for hi-fi audio setups. The hosts also reminisce about their journey and discuss future directions for the podcast. Additionally, the release of OpenBGPD 8.8 and its implications are highlighted.
The FreeBSD Status Report for the fourth quarter of 2024 highlights significant progress across various teams and projects within the FreeBSD ecosystem. The report includes updates from the FreeBSD Core Team, Release Engineering, Cluster Administration, Continuous Integration, Ports Collection, and more. Key developments include infrastructure modernization, improvements in laptop support, security audits, and advancements in wireless and suspend/resume functionality. The report also features updates from third-party projects like the Laptop and Desktop Work Group (LDWG) and container management tools like Pot and Potluck.
FediMeteo is an international weather service running on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS, delivering weather updates to thousands of users on the Fediverse. The project, inspired by personal experiences, utilizes FreeBSD jails for efficient resource management and relies on open-source tools like Open-Meteo and wttr.in for weather data. Despite initial expectations of limited interest, FediMeteo gained widespread attention, expanding to cover 33 countries and over 2,600 cities. Its success highlights the potential of minimalist, efficient systems in creating impactful services. BSD users will appreciate the technical implementation, including the use of snac for low-resource management and the Unix philosophy in designing the system. The project also demonstrates the scalability of FreeBSD and snac, as the service continues to grow without significant performance issues.
Errata patches for X server 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.
FreeBSD 13.5-BETA3 release, OpenSSH vulnerabilities in FreeBSD, and OpenZFS RAID-Z expansion and more.
The Valuable News series offers a weekly summary of news, articles, and insights primarily focused on UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. This edition highlights key updates such as moving Bhyve VMs and Jail Containers in FreeBSD, FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE schedule, and OpenZFS compression and encryption. It also covers hardware innovations like fanless Intel N150/N355 motherboards and discussions on hardware like RISC-V computers.
The advertisements were published in magazines such as: Sun Expert and Unix World.
This guide explains how to set up a UEFI multiboot system for Slackware Linux and OpenBSD on a single laptop. It covers partitioning the storage, formatting the EFI partition, and installing both operating systems with their respective bootloaders (LILO/ELILO for Slackware and the OpenBSD bootloader). The article also details manual steps to register the OpenBSD bootloader in the UEFI Boot Menu and switch between operating systems.
The GhostBSD 2024 Year-End Finance Report highlights the project's financial status, thanking donors, patrons, and sponsors for their support. Funds were used to maintain infrastructure and support development.
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.5 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
The OpenZFS RAID-Z expansion feature now allows users to add disks to a RAID-Z array, addressing a long-standing limitation. This enables incremental storage growth, reducing costs and complexity for users of FreeBSD-based systems. The feature supports all RAID-Z levels (RAID-Z1, RAID-Z2, RAID-Z3) and ensures data redundancy during the expansion process. This development is significant for enterprise environments and NAS systems, providing a flexible and reliable storage solution. The FreeBSD Foundation funded this project, led by ZFS co-creator Matt Ahrens, with rigorous testing and integration efforts.