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OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more...

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Headlines

Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1

OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article

dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests

brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more

News Roundup

WebZFS has reached Beta3

HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report

Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD

SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers

Beastie Bits

NetBSD smashes funding goal for 2026, set $50K, currently at $124K

dbupdate added to -current and backported to 7.9 and 8.0

emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD Ports

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Feedback/Questions

Reese - Casio BBS
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Team,

I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron.

Thanks

Reese

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Headlines

FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters

August/September Newsletter

News Roundup

All About the Whistle InterJet

FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.

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

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

Beastie Bits

A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition

LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released

openssh-10.6 released

New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx

Brutal Unix

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Feedback/Questions

Sasha - bastille plugin

Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.

https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin

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! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...

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Headlines

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.

Learnign at Scale

News Roundup

Thinkcenter m710q

IPFS Remote Pinning

Beastie Bits

ThinkPhone

lapocket

OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

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Headlines

Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2

Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD

News Roundup

Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap

Notes on clarifying man pages

Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD.

[Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/)

Beastie Bits

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"

Sylve Ansible Modules

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Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...

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Headlines

A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator.

Notes on software quality

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

News Roundup

Add ACPI layer into vmd

NetBSD 11 from scratch

FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so

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