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It seems me, it's not possible to change posts from a subforum to another subforum. Any idea about changing this behavior?!

26/10/15 ⇒ The T480 Is Back: My FreeBSD 15.1 Laptop, From Boot to Browser I wrote about power tuning my ThinkPad T480 on FreeBSD last year. That was the article you write when a laptop is still a project: get the graphics driver loaded, persuade the wireless card to connect, measure battery drain, repeat. My T14s later became my main writing machine, but the T480 stayed on my desk. Recently I brought it back into regular use. https://blog.hofstede.it/the-t480-is-back-my-freebsd-151-laptop-from-boot-to-browser/

26/10/15 ⇒ RAIDZ Expansion in Practice: What It Solves and What It Doesn’t RAIDZ expansion in OpenZFS 2.3 lets you add one disk at a time to an existing RAIDZ vdev without downtime. It increases capacity, but it does not change the RAIDZ level, improve IOPS, or retroactively upgrade the parity ratio of data written before the expansion. Here's what it solves, and what to plan around. https://klarasystems.com/articles/raidz-expansion-in-practice-what-it-solves/

26/10/13 ⇒ EuroBSDCon 2026 Trip Report – Yan-Cheng Chen This summer, I started an internship with FreeBSD Taiwan, and my mentor, Li-wen Hsu, recommended that I attend EuroBSDCon. He said it is a good chance to make connections and get familiar with the community, as I had also started my master’s degree in the Netherlands. Through the generous support of travel grants provided by the FreeBSD Foundation, I was able to attend the conference. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2026-trip-report-yan-cheng-chen/ ⇒ EuroBSDCon Trip Report – Federico Angelilli This year, I had the great opportunity to participate in the Google Summer of Code for the FreeBSD Project. After my proposal for “Live-patching for the FreeBSD kernel” was accepted, I worked for three months to make the first revision of the subsystem and associated tooling. My mentors, Bojan Novkovic and Mateusz Piotrowski, recommended that I attend the EuroBSDCon and invited me to the Devsummit, where I could expose my work to other developers and gather feedback to improve it. https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-trip-report-federico-angelilli/

Following previous post where using M720q as a desktop machine was considered not that good, someone on the Fediverse pointed me to the AMD versions of ThinkCentre. Having noticed that ATI/AMD/Radeon GPU do seem to work pretty well on OpenBSD, I got a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q and had a look at it. https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/m715q-power-usage-and-the-bsdes/

26/10/13 ⇒ NetBSD may have found a new role: The AI-free FOSS OS Increasing awareness and adoption, followed by increasing donations https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

26/10/12 ⇒ Your Precious Linux Binaries Already Run on FreeBSD Most migrations away from Linux stop at one program that ships only as a Linux binary. FreeBSD has run such programs since 1995, when somebody wanted to play Doom, and today it runs one as a service in a jail without an address, started without a shell and out of reach of the Linux kernel interfaces that attackers have liked best in recent years. Unix Universe. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/linux-binaries 26/10/13 ⇒ Your Edited Config Survives the Upgrade on FreeBSD On Debian an upgrade stops to ask what to do about every configuration file you have changed, and an unattended one quietly leaves the package behind, security fixes included. RHEL writes the new version beside yours and says nothing. FreeBSD keeps a copy of what it shipped last time and merges both sets of changes on its own. Like for Like. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/config-merge 26/10/14 ⇒ What cloud-init Installs to Read One YAML File A new virtual machine learns who it is, and who may log in, from a note of eleven lines. On Debian 13 the program that reads the note arrives with 46 packages and a Python interpreter. On FreeBSD the reader was in the base system before the machine had a name. Lean Software. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/cloud-init 26/10/15 ⇒ Your Software Need Not Wait An operating system release is a promise about the operating system. The stable Linux distributions stretch it over every application on top, and the admin settles the difference with somebody else's repository or a container. FreeBSD has kept two calendars from the start. IT Philosophy. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/app-versions 26/10/16 ⇒ CARP Fails Over Without a Daemon Two FreeBSD machines can share one IP address with two lines of configuration and no process to keep alive, because the heartbeat runs in the kernel, and the same interface speaks VRRPv3 whenever the other side of the switch expects it. Technical Beauty Scope. https://vivianvoss.net/blog/carp-failover

26/09/20 ⇒ Fediverse comments Hugo How to set up a system for managing comments on articles published via the Fediverse using Hugo, in just a few minutes. https://it-log.fr.eu.org/en/web/hugo/fediverse-comments-hugo/

⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W40: Open IT (Data, Hardware, Software, Standards) news, round-up, for the week 40; from 09/28 to 10/04. https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/echoes/week-40-2026/

Now discussion is held at freebsd-arch ML. Note that this does NOT mean whole 32bit supports on amd64 is removed. And won't merged into existing stable branches and corresponding releases.

26/09/13 ⇒ Deshittification as a Service: Reclaiming Privacy and Performance with OpenBSD pf and Unbound When you buy a modern Smart TV, you are buying a display subsidized by surveillance. Even at high price points, manufacturers make slim margins on physical hardware. To drive post-sale revenue, they track your viewing habits, log your interactions, and serve you targeted ads. Smart TVs, especially LG models running WebOS, have quietly morphed from simple screens into active network spyware appliances. https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service/ 26/09/20 ⇒ Deshittification Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper In my previous post, Deshittification as a Service, I shared a blueprint for taking back control from modern Smart TVs. I placed an LG OLED running WebOS inside an isolated VLAN behind an OpenBSD gateway. My goal was simple. I wanted to block vendor telemetry, strip out ads, and force the TV to act like a plain display again. ⇒ Deshittification Part 3: The Cold-Boot Consent Trap in Three Acts In my first write-up, Deshittification as a Service, I laid out a network blueprint using OpenBSD, pf and Unbound to isolate an LG Smart TV running WebOS inside a dedicated VLAN. In Part 2: Bypassing the App Store Gatekeeper, I documented how WebOS responds to telemetry blocking by locking users out of the LG Content Store with artificial error codes, effectively holding software management hostage. https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part3-the-cold-boot-consent-trap-in-three-acts/ 26/10/04 ⇒ Deshittification Part 4: The Factory Reset Consent Trap In Part 1 of this series, I laid out the foundational OpenBSD and Unbound architecture used to reclaim network sovereignty from an LG Smart TV. In Part 2, we saw how the OS holds the App Store hostage. In Part 3, I documented a stateful TCP kill switch that actively terminates Netflix streams if telemetry is blocked. https://fabricati-diem.inform.social/post/deshittification-as-a-service-part4-the-factory-reset-privacy-trap/

26/10/03 ⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Improving and Stabilizing the racoon2 IKE Daemon in NetBSD racoon2 is a system to exchange and install security parameters for IPsec. It consists of an IKEv1/IKEv2 key exchange daemon, a security policy management daemon, and a Kerberos-based key exchange daemon. The project lives at zoulasc/racoon2 and is being modernized so that it can serve as a reliable L2TP/IPsec or IKEv2 VPN server on NetBSD and Linux for built-in Windows, iOS and Android VPN clients. http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_racoon2

26/10/02 ⇒ Headers Up! What's New in httpd and relayd As I mentioned in my Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) was revived. https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/update-relayd-and-httpd/

26/09/29 ⇒ What about ThinkCentre M710q, M720q and *BSD Thanks to being subscribed to self-hosting and homelab feeds, I yet again was trapped by compulsive buying and collector’s impulse while browsing the local refurb marketplaces. This may end now. Until then, here’s a quick look at ThinkCentre M710q and M720q on various BSD systems. https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/what-about-thinkcentre-m710q-m720q-and-bsd/

26/09/28 ⇒ GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD. https://itsfoss.com/news/ghostbsd-new-desktop/ https://github.com/mocka-desktop/mocka-dock

26/09/26 ⇒ Adventures in FreeBSD Bringup on an RK3588 (Part 1) Last month while sitting in a cafe, my friend Andrew showed me an article about a quirky new E Ink device that was launching (we're both huge fans of the technology). It was cheap enough to be impulse purchase material, so I went to order it. And on the checkout page, something happened which has literally never happened to me... ever... I saw a "you might also like" style sales pitch, and the product was actually so compelling that I bought it The company was basically nerd sniping me. https://blog.ianwwagner.com//adventures-in-freebsd-bringup-on-an-rk3588-part-1.html

26/09/26 ⇒ Diff’ing NetBSD and FreeBSD ZFS zpool features I’ve been backing up my home directories on my NetBSD machines to my FreeBSD backup server using rsync(1). But I’ve been experimenting with using ZFS for /home on NetBSD, so I thought it made sense to use zfs send for backups to the FreeBSD machine instead. https://www.rubenerd.au/diff-ing-netbsd-and-freebsd-zfs-zpool-features/

26/09/25 ⇒ NetBSD: Playing with disklabels Coming from DOS and Linux (and having largely ignored this on my OpenBSD systems -- yeah, shame on me), I'm not very familiar with the BSD disklabels. So let's have a look. https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-25/0/POSTING-en.html

26/09/24 ⇒ BSD Now—682: NAS NAS NAS Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more... https://www.bsdnow.tv/682