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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more...

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Headlines

The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

News Roundup

Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15

FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup

Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI

SYN attack

Syn attack follow up

Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems

Beastie Bits

OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta

- Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops

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Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more...

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Headlines

Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths

2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died

Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

News Roundup

PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

Beastie Bits

BSDCan reg is now open

An Oral History of Unix

Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)

Patched FreeBSD AMIs

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Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more...

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Headlines

Jails for NetBSD

ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

News Roundup

Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required

Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

Beastie Bits

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Emelio - openbsd

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Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more...

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Headlines

Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

News Roundup

KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On.

An old article with covering : Running and administrating a 2.11 BSD system

Booting NetBSD from a wedge, the hard way

Beastie Bits

The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026!

Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments

zfs-2.4.1

Hardening OPNsense: Using Q-Feeds to Block Malicious Traffic

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Gary - A nice blog

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Headlines

ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability

RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment

News Roundup

Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root.

https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

FreeBSD Jail Memory Metrics

Tcl: The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language

How to Setup WireGuard on OpenBSD: The Ultimate Self-Hosted VPN Guide (2026)

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