At VidiGuard, we care a lot about physical security. In fact, it’s our job. But equally important to physical security is the security of our customers’ data. We also need a robust, reliable platform that can run with minimal interaction. To make both of those happen, we employ OpenBSD in our on-premise equipment and our data infrastructure. Why OpenBSD?
GhostBSD has an out-of-the-box firewall. This video shows what options there for configuration using the terminal.
This episode covers native inotify in FreeBSD, how poudriere.conf changes affect build time, migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and a recap of the April 2026 Frankfurt FreeBSD hackathon.
This video explores how to create a pkg cache with nginx. You can use this to serve FreeBSD packages to your (intranet) machines and to more quickly install software and perform system updates.
The pkgsrc developers announce the 91st quarterly release with 29,000+ packages, 187 new additions (including bob, a parallel builder, a new wayland category, and Rust 1.96), 3072 updates, and 45 removals.
This week covers FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE and its release notes, upgrading instructions, updated WiFi drivers and C23 support, the AI-assisted vulnerability discovery project, graphics port upgrade to Linux 6.12, NetBSD 11.0 RC5, MidnightBSD 4.0.6, BSDCan 2026 schedule, and more.
A recent commit by jsg@ raises the OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space from 4G to 512G to allow mapping all VRAM on recent Radeon cards with large PCI BAR sizes, such as a Radeon RX 6800 with 16G of VRAM.
The FreeBSD project announces the 2026 Core Team: Warner Losh, Baptiste Daroussin, Gleb Smirnoff, Kyle Evans, Adrian Chadd, Joseph Mingrone, Hiroki Sato, Adam Weinberger, and Olivier Cochard, and notes that a bylaws amendment passed and will tentatively take effect for the 2028 election.
FreeBSD 14.3 reaches end-of-life on June 30, 2026 and will no longer receive security support, with users urged to upgrade to a newer release.
A terminal screensaver that mimics the freebsd-update(8) tool, released as an Easter Egg for FreeBSD Day, with details on its settings and the project's move to PKGBASE.