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New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code

Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more...

This book collects three essays I wrote in 2022 about the NetBSD operating system.

The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more...

How NASA built Artemis II's fault tolerent Computer, Jails vs LXC, Respsectfully getting a personal copy of a website, Opensense 26.1.9 and more...

inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more...

FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more…

Like the Spanish Inquisition, nobody expected the internet. Its earliest appearance (as ARPANET) took place in the same year—1969—as the comedy troupe behind the Spanish Inquisition quip, Monty Python. But during its first decade, the internet was treated as a convenience for file-sharing and a couple other applications; few observers anticipated how it would alter modern life until decades later. The major institution that brought computers into the internet age was the University of California at Berkeley, which created a version of Unix that they called the Berkeley Software Distribution and is now known as BSD.

.NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more…

The NetBSD Foundation’s 2026 AGM covers progress on NetBSD 11.0 (now at RC5), the CVS-to-Git/Mercurial migration, and infrastructure challenges like LLM scraping and hardware aging. Highlights include five Google Summer of Code projects, CNA onboarding for security advisories, and plans to streamline release cycles. The full IRC log details team updates from core, admins, releng, and security.

BSD Cafe is a small, inclusive, independent place on the internet where we care about open protocols, simplicity and long term reliability. Here you can create a Delta Chat account powered by our chatmail relay and start messaging right away, without giving up your privacy.

fatgid, why zfs is ideal for media production, the CTF scene is dead, private repo behind TLS, and more…

System administrators must manage software packages. With a mix of Unix-family operating systems, you must use the commands specific to each platform. On Red-Hat-derived systems, these include rpm, dnf (formerly yum), and urpmi. On Debian derivatives such as the many Ubuntu variants, these include apt and dpkg. On FreeBSD, one command pkg does it all. On OpenBSD, it's a family of commands starting pkg_, and on Solaris, similarly named pkg. Here are explanations through examples of how to manage software packages and answer questions about installed or missing software using these commands across all those operating systems.

OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more…

The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more…

Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more…

The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the fourth (and this time hopefully final) release candidate of the upcoming 11.0 release, please help testing! See the release announcement for details.

• https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-11/NetBSD-11.0.html

Wouldn’t you believe it, this site is running off my special home server: a Nintendo Wii with a 729 MHz PowerPC CPU and a whopping 64 MB usable RAM! It runs NetBSD 10.1 and serves this site exclusively over IPv6 – clients connecting through IPv4 are proxied via another server…

Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...