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Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...

Headlines

[Two more BSD based NASes have appeared]

BSDNAS

The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP

They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort

FreeCORE

Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1

Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2

FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD

News Roundup

ICEBP Finally Documented

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

OpenSSH 10.5

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.

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Feedback/Questions

[Phil - Listener Feedback]

Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard
Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that
working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important -
Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made!
And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn
a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me
there, plus google etc.

I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished
file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what
the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the
last podcast a few times - They don't know yet????

Now I'm stuck!

I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop
policy and offer similar pkg/build systems?

Thanks
Phill

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Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...

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Headlines

Where Unix runs today

(Dont get distracted by the game)

WebZFS Updates

The bugs are coming from inside the house

NetBSD 11 Support

News Roundup

A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD

Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation

Beastie Bits

1978 Aussi Users Group Newsletter

Terminal UI and CLI for FreeBSD NFSv4 ACLs

Sounds of the IBM 1401

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Feedback/Questions

[Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?]

Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department.
Whats the best song about a former Australian colony?

Toto - Africa
Men at work - Down Under

For completeness:

Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand)
Don McLean - American Pie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland)
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada)

[Reece - Webzfs]

Guys,

Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly?

Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it.

73..

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BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS

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BSD pt Deux

Code that Built the Internet

Interview JT on WebZFS

TJ: I started by asking JT...

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Headlines

NetBSD 11 Release

SR-IOV Is a first class feature

News Roundup

Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment

OpenSSH 10.5 released

FreeBSD Ate my RAM

ThinkPad End Game

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Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more...

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How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling

On AI

News Roundup

Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade

Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS!

Why a Flip Phone?

$399 - $640 preorder

BSD Make extravaganza

HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report

MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE

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