The NanoPi NEO2 from FriendlyARM has been serving the post author well since 2018, being their test machine for OpenBSD/arm64 related things. As NetBSD/evbarm finally gained support for AArch64 in NetBSD 9.0, released back in February, they decided to give it a try on this device. The board only has 512MB of RAM, and this is where NetBSD really shines.
The NetBSD project announces the seventh release candidate for 11.0, encourages testing, and notes that ISO images are split into CD and DVD variants with full features.
This episode covers leaving port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals on the boot process, GhostBSD's March 2026 finance report, making a read-only device with NetBSD, and more.
FreeBSD's ports tree history was rewritten to remove a 150MB binary file that broke mirroring, with a reproduction script provided for users and downstreams to align their local repositories.
OpenBSD's httpd now supports setting, adding, or removing custom HTTP response headers via new directives in httpd.conf, enabling security headers and metadata without FastCGI or relayd.
A FreeBSD Foundation travel grant recipient recaps BSDCan 2026, covering FreeBSD devsummit talks on LLM-driven kernel security, embedded GPS NTP appliances, infrastructure and cloud expansion, scheduler work, network stack and VM improvements, plus conference talks on OpenNTPD history, FreeBSD 15.0 release, ZFS AnyRAID, hibernation support, TLS, /dev/null internals, and UFS support.
Patrick McEvoy recaps BSDCan 2026 and the FreeBSD DevSummit, noting successful streaming via ScaleEngine, a new microphone system for DevSummit Q&A, Brooks Davis presenting from a CheriBSD box, AI integration talks, improved AV and social media coordination, and nearly $2,000 raised for local charities.
ShengYi Hung recaps BSDCan 2026, covering DevSummit discussions on AI's impact on FreeBSD maintainability, presenting USB stack and CPU throttling work, and highlighting talks on heterogeneous scheduling and Thread Local Storage.
Explains why painful ZFS scrubs signal a pool lacking IOPS and metadata performance, and how adding a special VDEV for metadata offload to SSDs or NVMe can speed up scrubs, resilvers, and daily operations without a full redesign.
A GSoC 2026 report by Henrique Brito describes using the Linux Test Project to evaluate NetBSD's compat_linux syscall translation, noting mature POSIX support but gaps with Linux-specific features and edge cases, and includes a package for running LTP on NetBSD.
relayd(8) now supports ECDSA keys and certificates via a new commit that ports the CA engine code from smtpd(8), resolving prior compatibility issues.
Part one of a two-part series explores how Berkeley's BSD and the internet co-evolved, covering DARPA's role, the creation of Berkeley sockets, and BSD's early implementation of DNS via BIND.
Video explores how to setup VLANs in FreeBSD, and how to configure the "jump host" machine to provide internet access to the machines connected to a private network, and separated by the individual VLAN.
This week covers FreeBSD 16 removing the last GPL code from base, OPNsense 26.7 on FreeBSD 15.1, OpenBSD 8.0-beta and upcoming WPA3 support, FreeBSD laptop improvements, a guide to FreeBSD jails with a single public IP, and more.
Stefan Sperling posted a patch to the OpenBSD tech list that adds WPA3 support to the net80211 subsystem and ifconfig, with testing requested and NLnet Foundation funding noted, supporting the revised, side-channel-free WPA3 standard for iwm, iwx, and qwx drivers.
A practical walkthrough for hosting a website on OpenBSD using httpd, WireGuard for tunneling, and pf for forwarding, with DNS and basic server configuration steps.
The FreeBSD Foundation explains how its Board is elected, its governance and oversight role, and how it differs from the FreeBSD Project, while welcoming new Board member Dave Cottlehuber.
FreeBSD community member and former Core Representative Dave Cottlehuber was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board and shares his background with FreeBSD and goals for strengthening connections between the Foundation, developers, and the community.
OpenBSD -current has entered the 8.0-beta phase, marking the start of stabilization for the next release, with snapshots now available for testing.
OpenBSD has retired the loongson hardware platform after clang 22 rebuilds hit deterministic SIGSEGV on mips64el, with debugging deemed impractical given long rebuild times and modern ports requiring C++11.
The FreeBSD Foundation outlines ways to advocate for FreeBSD, from speaking at meetups and staffing booths to requesting virtual speakers for classes, and offers grants and materials to support community outreach.
This episode covers Unix pipes under load, the FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 release, OpenBSD's 512GB kernel virtual address space on amd64, and a study on pledge(2) and unveil(2) being developer-friendly.
OpenBSD has released errata patches for kernel ELF exec, System V IPC, NFS and IPsec on 7.8 and 7.9, with binary updates available via syspatch for amd64, arm64 and i386.