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

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Headlines

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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Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more...

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Headlines

My Home Assistant Setup

Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates

WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD

Game of Trees 0.127 Released

OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8)

httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers

LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64

Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification

News Roundup

Wine 11.14 Brings New WoW64 Mode to FreeBSD

I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD

How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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Feedback/Questions

Tyler - IPv6 Question

Reese - WebZFS

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The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more...

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Headlines

Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin

Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously.

News Roundup

BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD

Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing

The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA!

The Virtual OS Museum

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Feedback/Questions

Marcus - Linuxulator vs Bhyve

- Reese - Feedback on episode 673

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FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more...

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Headlines

The Computer at the bottom of a canal

FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free

News Roundup

FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber

Phaethon 1 - a 68010-based Unix machine

Add a new m68k port oriented towards home-brew m68k machines

Bringing Swift to the Apple II

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

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Feedback/Questions

Producer note : Ive been insanely busy this past week and I've fallen behind on a few things, including checking the show email. If you sent an email in and we havent covered it yet, we'll get caught back up soon. If yuo haven't sent in an email... shame on you. You should email us and ask us something.

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Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more...

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If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken

WebZFS Updates

Beta Announcement

Why wont my pool export

zfs iostat

- Pictures so you can get a better idea of how it works

News Roundup

Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem

Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD

Diskless Workstations Two Models

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Feedback/Questions

Davi - BSDCan 2026 Follow up

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