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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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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The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...

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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape

WebZFS

OpenBGPD 9.0 released

MidnightBSD 4.0

Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC
TVPC update

C&C Red Alert2 in your browser

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• rick - shout out.md

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What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87

Perl's decline was cultural

Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity

Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025)

Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas...

HardnedBSD News

FreeBSD + Flua

Json in Base
Building from Source

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• Dave - FreeBSD and Flua

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Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?

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What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025?

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