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In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan interview Kyle Evans and discus his grep project, flua and lua in base, bectl, the Core Team and some other things. Click play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/373 The post BSD Now Episode 373: Kyle Evans Interview...

The FreeBSD Foundation recently introduced the Core Team 11 to take over projects such as Git migration, Code of Conduct update, the Working Group structure, and several other initiatives. Welcome to the new members, in addition to the returning members. Congrats to the Core Team for 20 years so...

The developers of OPNsense have made available version 20.7.4 of their Legendary Lion release. Notable changes include switch web GUI address fix, use fault button, auth user changed, replace gateway widget, firewall support for network exclusions, NAT rules, ui, plugins, ports updates, and much...

FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information page. Continue reading...

The developers if TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) have made available version 12.0-RELEASE! TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise are now ready for production deployments. The merger of FreeNAS and TrueNAS into a unified software image is officially complete and is a production-ready platform. You can...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss Wayland on BSD, someone’s BSD that sucks less than yours, SSDs and ZFS scrubs slowing down, OpenBSD, shell status bar for cwm and OpenBSD, and some others. Press play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/372 The...

In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan & Benedict discuss zedfs, TrueNAS CORE, IPC in FreeBSD 11 – performance analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and some others. Click play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/371 The post BSD Now Episode 371: Wildcards...

In a recent post, Brian Krebs discussed a technique for disrupting 8chan, a controversial message board. Ron Guilmette, a security researcher, spotted that N.T. Technology, the hosting company owned by 8chan’s current operator, no longer has the right to transact business as it is in the...

Some BSD related news, articles, and discussions you may have missed out on. Enjoy and happy BSD-ing! OpenZFS Support Merged Into Mainline FreeBSD via Phoronix OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 Released With Bug Fixes, Intel QAT Support For Newer Kernels via Phoronix FreeBSD 11.3 end-of-life via BSDSec...

The July to September 2020 Status Report is now available with 35 entries. Continue reading...

History of FreeBSD Part 1: UNIX and BSD This is part of our article series published as “History of FreeBSD“. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the beginnings of FreeBSD FreeBSD, a free and open-source Unix-like operating system has been around since 1993. However, its...

OpenZFS: All about the cache vdev or L2ARC This is part of our article series published as “OpenZFS in Depth”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS Today we’re going to talk about one of the well-known support vdev classes under OpenZFS: the CACHE vdev...

Dummynet: The Better Way of Building FreeBSD Networks Dummynet is the FreeBSD traffic shaper, packet scheduler, and network emulator. Dummynet allows you to emulate a whole set of network environments in a straight-forward way. It has the ability to model delay, packet loss, and can act as a...

bhyve The FreeBSD Hypervisor Subscribe to our article series to find out more about FreeBSD in general. FreeBSD has had varying degrees of support as a hypervisor host throughout its history. For a time during the mid-2000s, VMWare Workstation 3.x could be made to run under FreeBSD’s Linux...

The OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020 Morning Overview This is part of our article series published as “OpenZFS in Depth”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS As with most other conferences in the last six months, this year’s OpenZFS Developer’s Summit...

The OpenZFS Developers Summit 2020 Afternoon Overview This is part of our article series published as “OpenZFS in Depth”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS If you are just joining us, be sure to checkout the post covering the history of the OpenZFS...

History of FreeBSD Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits This is part of our article series published as “History of FreeBSD“. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the beginnings of FreeBSD In this second part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we continue to trace the...

OpenZFS: Understanding Transparent Compression This is part of our article series published as “OpenZFS in Depth”. Subscribe to our article series to find out more about the secrets of OpenZFS Transparent (inline) configurable compression is one of OpenZFS’ many compelling features—but it is...

In the October 2020 survey we received responses from 1,205,797,275 sites across 264,098,084 unique domains and 10,449,223 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 9.50 million hostnames and 111,000 computers, but a loss of 187,000 domains. nginx experienced the largest growth in domains...

The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites. Continue reading...