A practical walkthrough for hosting a website on OpenBSD using httpd, WireGuard for tunneling, and pf for forwarding, with DNS and basic server configuration steps.
The FreeBSD Foundation explains how its Board is elected, its governance and oversight role, and how it differs from the FreeBSD Project, while welcoming new Board member Dave Cottlehuber.
FreeBSD community member and former Core Representative Dave Cottlehuber was elected to the FreeBSD Foundation Board and shares his background with FreeBSD and goals for strengthening connections between the Foundation, developers, and the community.
OpenBSD -current has entered the 8.0-beta phase, marking the start of stabilization for the next release, with snapshots now available for testing.
OpenBSD has retired the loongson hardware platform after clang 22 rebuilds hit deterministic SIGSEGV on mips64el, with debugging deemed impractical given long rebuild times and modern ports requiring C++11.
The FreeBSD Foundation outlines ways to advocate for FreeBSD, from speaking at meetups and staffing booths to requesting virtual speakers for classes, and offers grants and materials to support community outreach.
This episode covers Unix pipes under load, the FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 release, OpenBSD's 512GB kernel virtual address space on amd64, and a study on pledge(2) and unveil(2) being developer-friendly.
OpenBSD has released errata patches for kernel ELF exec, System V IPC, NFS and IPsec on 7.8 and 7.9, with binary updates available via syspatch for amd64, arm64 and i386.
Job Snijders describes the g2k26 hackathon in the Netherlands and details his work adding stateful backoff retry logic to rpki-client(8) to reduce pressure on broken RPKI endpoints.
This week covers hunting memory leaks in bsnmpd with DTrace, OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 release, FreeBSD Git Weekly and Foundation laptop updates, NetBSD 11.0 RC6, a study on OpenBSD pledge and unveil, GhostBSD stability impressions, FreeBSD build scripts for Stremio, and more.
This episode covers ZFS vs Ceph, running Victoria Logs on FreeBSD, splitting syslogd into privileged and non-privileged binaries, and detecting dangerous secrets on dev workstations, plus more.
Synth is an alternative to poudriere - designed to be used for live systems. In this video they show the basics of synth, and how to get one port compiling.
The NetBSD project has released the sixth release candidate for 11.0, encouraging users to test the nearly year-old netbsd-11 branch and report issues via mailing lists or PRs, with install images available on CDN and ARM builds on armbsd.org.
A FreeBSD-based distribution with an XFCE desktop and a curated red team and penetration testing toolkit, available as VMware-ready images.
A step-by-step guide to installing and configuring GitLab on FreeBSD 15.1 in a bhyve VM, covering PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and GitLab setup with commands and configuration details.
The NetBSD project has released the sixth release candidate for 11.0, asking users to test the nearly year-old netbsd-11 branch and report issues via mailing lists or PRs, with DVD-sized ISO images recommended for full-featured installs.
A recent academic paper measures the adoption of pledge and unveil in OpenBSD's base and packages and concludes that these sandboxing features facilitate secure coding practices rather than hinder them.
OpenSSH 10.4 adds experimental composite post-quantum signatures (ML-DSA 44 + Ed25519), fixes several security issues in sftp, scp, and sshd, and includes numerous bugfixes and portability improvements.
This week covers FreeBSD boot process fundamentals, running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.1, upgrading FreeBSD 15.0 to 15.1, a degraded ZFS pool analysis, FreeBSD on Framework systems, monitoring a FreeBSD Mastodon instance, GhostBSD's March 2026 finance report, and more.
After upgrading Homebox to 0.26.2 in a FreeBSD jail, the service fails to start due to a missing auth.apikeypepper; the fix is to generate a 48-byte base64 key with openssl, store it in /etc/rc.conf.d/homebox as HBOXAUTHAPIKEYPEPPER, and restart the service.