How would you like to spend minimal time setting up your workstation or laptop, and most of it doing creative work? This is the design goal of desktop-installer, and FreeBSD helps make it possible. The core purpose of desktop-installer is to help you quickly and easily create the most reliable and secure desktop system available, so you can spend your time on productive work rather than tedious systems management.
This is the third release of the stable/14 branch. Some of the highlights:
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.
This month saw a few improvements in HardenedBSD's source tree. We can now boot to multi-user on the StarFive VisionFive2 riscv64 SBC dev boards. They use a 39-bit address space, so we had to tune down our ASLR deltas for this board as if we were operating on a 32-bit architecture. This is obviously far from optimal, but it's what we have.
The initial list of 21 'low hanging fruit' videos from EuroBSDcon 2024 has been released with more to follow.
Jeremie Courreges-Anglas (jca@) committed a change which is likely to be welcomed by laptop users: Lets the user provide an alternative perfpolicy when on battery. This is now in snapshots, so please test if you run those.
A simple approach to prevent ZFS pools from getting stuck due to a lack of free space.
Neofetch is still around, but it may soon disappear - so, here are 7 alternatives for all you FreeBSD ASCII system spec aficionados!
FreeBSD Quarterly Report, Welcome to the new category: filesystems, BSD Misconceptions, Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024, Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind, A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3, and more.
Netflix, one of the world's leading video streaming services, is renowned for its robust and efficient infrastructure that powers billions of hours of content streaming globally. At the core of this infrastructure lies FreeBSD, a free and open-source operating system. Netflix's adoption and enhancement of FreeBSD have significantly influenced both its own operations and the open-source community at large.
The first RC 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.
The Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit brought together developers, contributors, and enthusiasts for two days of dynamic discussions, technical deep dives, and community collaboration. Hosted at NetApp’s San Jose Campus, this event highlighted FreeBSD’s adaptability and impact across industries. With a focus on connectivity, security, and innovation, the summit set the stage for exciting advancements in FreeBSD’s ecosystem.
Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years, 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong, The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected, OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off, bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?, and more.
The venerable Network File System (NFS) has been expanded with distributed capabilities, pNFS v4.2 allows distributing data across multiple servers to increase performance and fault tolerance. Learn how to deploy a high-speed resilient storage system quickly and easily with FreeBSD.
With funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, the FreeBSD Foundation recently partnered with the offensive security firm Synacktiv to perform an in-depth security audit of critical FreeBSD components, focusing on the bhyve hypervisor and the Capsicum security framework. The comprehensive findings from the audit, available in the full report, highlight several vulnerabilities. Most of these vulnerabilities have been addressed through official FreeBSD Project security advisories, which offer detailed information about each vulnerability, its impact, and the measures implemented to improve the security of FreeBSD systems.