OpenZFS and storage in general is a complex and important part of any project’s architecture. It should be planned thoughtfully and ideally, ahead of time! In this article, they talk about how to understand, measure, and plan for storage performance needs.
In a late-stage addition prior to the release of OpenBSD 7.3, Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has committed more aggressive randomisation of the stack location for all 64-bit architectures except alpha.
The third RC build for the FreeBSD 13.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are available on most of FreeBSD mirror sites.
Errata patches for libc resolver have been released for OpenBSD 7.1 and 7.2. Binary updates for the amd64, i386 and arm64 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
In this short blog post, author summarizes their attempts to make FreeBSD work on this laptop.
OpenZFS auditing for storage Performance, Privilege drop; privilege separation; and restricted-service operating mode in OpenBSD, OPNsense 23.1.1 release, Cloning a System with Ansible, FOSDEM 2023, BSDCan 2023 Travel Grants.
DTrace is a powerful tool for system administrators to diagnosis system issues without unduly impacting performance. DTrace became part of FreeBSD with the release of FreeBSD 7.1 in 2009—two years before Oracle began porting DTrace, and nine years before Oracle eventually solved the inherent CDDL vs GPL license conflict.
How to Catch a Bitcoin Miner, A Call For More Collaboration, zstd updates, hating hackathons, How to monitor multiple log files at once, KeePassXC, sshd random relinking at boot, and more.
A new howto is available showing how to use Pot and Potluck containers to run Matrix Synapse and OpenLDAP on FreeBSD.
After setting up Pot (which is easy in itself), it just takes six commands to download and run e.g. the OpenLDAP container (i.e. jail) including the LDAPAccountManager web interface.
The OpenBSD installer now has basic support for configuring disk encryption during the regular installation process. Previously, disk encryption needed to be set up manually by dropping to the shell from the installer.
The FreeBSD Project is excited to announce that we will again be serving as a mentoring organization in this year’s Google Summer of Code. If you’ve ever wanted to work with FreeBSD, take advantage of this amazing opportunity.