OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, OpenBSD Innovations, Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD, Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still), A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup, and more
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When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering
How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14
Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD
Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still)
A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project.
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Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure
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Special Guest: David Gwynne.
This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.
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Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation
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Special Guest: Mark Phillips.
Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more
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Designing a Storage Pool: RAIDZ, Mirrors, and Hybrid Configurations
The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration
Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI: results and first impressions
dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation
The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals
Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon
Periodical 20 — Localized Computing
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more
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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist
ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)
That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List
rsync's defaults are not always enough
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
The best interfaces we never built
You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy
I feel open source has turned into two worlds
UPDATE 2 – TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault
You should start a computer club in the place that you live
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A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes
FFS optimizations with dirhash
j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more
NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors
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FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it, Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid, April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, UDP sockets instead of BPF in dhcpd(8), and more
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware
My website is ugly because I made it
Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid
April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update
dhcpd(8): use UDP sockets instead of BPF
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This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.
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Special Guests: Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs.
How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, and more
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How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD
14
What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production
rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD
Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl
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The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, and more
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The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb
Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions
Matter
LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work
Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time
erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection
Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi
Some Interesting pieces of history
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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart, For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions, Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do, PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files, How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments, and more
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Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions
Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do
PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files
How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments
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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, and more
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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS
Optimisation of parallel TCP input
Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term"
Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade
What drive did I just remove from the system?
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GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, and more
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GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal
Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS
Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files
What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025
FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations
Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems
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Effie - FreeBSD as a Workstation
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OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, and more
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ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication
Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good
Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel
Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon
Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree
The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here
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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more
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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking
Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam
SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive
How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ?
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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more
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World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS
Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad
How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender
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We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more
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We should improve libzfs somewhat
Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark
Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD
OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s
Signing Git Commits with an SSH key
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
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FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more
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FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available
From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog
Complications of funding an open source operating system
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
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FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more
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FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP
Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop
Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop
Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp
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