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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Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

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

• 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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ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability

RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment

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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OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues.

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OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters

helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS.
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-freebsd-based-os-inspired-by-macos/

[Default GhostBSD to XLibre](https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/pull/259]

• Addressing XLibre Change and GhostBSD Future

Bhyve Prometheus Exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD.

Linux GNU C Library Fixes Security Issue Present Since 1996

• NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available!
• The Book of PF, 4th Edition is now available
• December 2025 Finance Report
• LLDB improvements on FreeBSD
• Any desire for OnmiOS/Illumos Support : Now's your chance to convince me

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GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...

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GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

Xfce is great

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

The scariest boot loader code

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

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• Matt - Audio Levels

Interviews can be troublesome because there's only so much we can do with multiple guests with multiple feeds, and mulitple audio conditions. We can try to normalize but sometimes it's just not easy to do without editing taking an entire day..

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AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.

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One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics

Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

FFS Backup

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1)

• 8 more parts!

• The BSD Proposal
• UNIX Magic Poster
• Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15
• FreeBSD 15.0 VNET Jails
• Call for NetBSD testing

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• Gary - Links

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ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more.

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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity

The story of Propolice

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No reponses, no justications.

[Tj's Desk](media/bsdnow649-tjs-desk.jpg)
[Ruben's Desk](media/bsdnow649-rubens-desk.jpg)

FreeBSD vs. Slackware: Which super stable OS is right for you?

Prometheus, Let's Encrypt, and making sure all our TLS certificates are monitored

Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?

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FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more.

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Powering the Future of FreeBSD

Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

BSDCan Organisating committee Interview

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner

BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us

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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

• 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

Wireguard The FreeBSD Way

• BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey
• Re: ZFS status on NetBSD

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• Albin- Foss-North

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