A well-maintained open source FreeBSD NAS can run flawlessly for years, but like any appliance, it requires routine care to ensure longevity and performance. Just as regular oil changes are essential for your car, proactive maintenance on your NAS—such as checking storage health and performing system updates—can prevent long-term issues.
The LibreSSL project, a closely associated subproject of the OpenBSD project, has announced the availability of their new stable release, LibreSSL 4.0.0, which comes with a number of improvements and a sprinkling of fixes.
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Errata patches for unbound and unwind 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.
This is the first test version for 7.6 i386 and 7.6 amd64 for this OpenBSD-based Live System.
MidnightBSD - A free Unix, desktop-oriented operating system originally forked from FreeBSD 6.1, and periodically updated with code and drivers from later FreeBSD releases. The tagline is "The BSD for everyone" - a noble aim, but often falls short. Let's have another go, and see if this OS is a BSD for everyone.
Jason is still on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community.
November 7-8, 2024, at NetApp’s San Jose campus and the program will include:
OpenZFS 2.2 was a milestone release that brought several long-anticipated features to everyone’s favorite filesystem. Article is talking about automatically deduplicated copy operations via the new Block Reference Table feature, also known as the BRT or File Cloning.
In the spirit of FreeBSD Day 2024, Foundation spoke with Tara Stella, an architect with a long history in open source development. With three decades of experience, Tara’s transition from Linux to FreeBSD is inspiring and insightful. Video is available in the article.