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Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.

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Why BSDs?

2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth

What are we excited for in tech in 2026?

Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous

The death of vmware and the possibilites for diversity that creates

Capabilities arriving in FreeBSD main

NetBSD on the WiiU and open hardware for retro computing

Capabilities arriving with CheriIOT

News Roundup

Wireguard The FreeBSD Way

Beastie Bits

BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey

Re: ZFS status on NetBSD

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Albin- Foss-North

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The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...

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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

WebZFS

News Roundup

OpenBGPD 9.0 released

MidnightBSD 4.0

Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC

TVPC update

C&C Red Alert2 in your browser

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rick - shout out.md

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What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87

Perl's decline was cultural

News Roundup

Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity

Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025)

Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas...

HardnedBSD News

FreeBSD + Flua

Json in Base

Building from Source

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Dave - FreeBSD and Flua

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Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?

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What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025?

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- Gary - Storage Is Cheap

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Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.

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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community

Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?

News Roundup

We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem

The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector

Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back

All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train!

Beastie Bits

Running A PDP-8 From 1965

The library of time

OPNsense 25.7.9 released

- OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released

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Martin - recordings

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