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26/08/11 ⇒ FreeBSD Storage for OpenShift with Democratic CSI Today quite different topic, using ZFS/NFS on FreeBSD as backend storage for containers/pods running on OpenShift platform. https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/freebsd-openshift-democratic-csi/

26/08/11 ⇒ Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag I start with apologies to williewillus, calvin, and reezer on Lobste.rs. Prior to July 9, I would have agreed with you all. But it appears I was wrong. There is no need to further engage; it is clear that critique-from-within is undesirable. Which is perfectly OK, because I stepped away from being on the inside. So let's just keep evaluating OpenBSD's mitigations and we'll continue to learn interesting things along the way. https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html

⇒ Weekly Echoes #2026W32: IT news, round-up, week 32; from 08/03 to 08/09. https://huc.fr.eu.org/en/news/week-32-2026/

Always great to see active DOS communities!

26/08/03 ⇒ Show memory information on OpenBSD Finding memory information and usage on OpenBSD requires a few commands and the right places to look. If you are used to Linux, then commands like free are no longer available. Let’s have a look at memory details on OpenBSD. https://bsd-audit.com/openbsd/memory-information-on-openbsd/ 26/08/05 ⇒ Running your own mail server with OpenBSD and OpenSMTPD Self-hosting your own services such as a blog, website, or email is a valuable skill. It gives you a better understanding in the technology and usually also fun to do. With privacy under pressure and Big Tech continuing to store our data, this might be a good time to host your own mail server. https://bsd-audit.com/self-hosting/running-your-own-mailserver/

26/08/07 ⇒ Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD Enlightenment desktop is a low on resources desktop environment without sacrificing on visuals. NetBSD support for this BSD-licensed desktop has been left a few years behind. The aim of this project is to port the newest version of the desktop to pkgsrc and commit upstream portability fixes when necessary to ease future versions updates for NetBSD. https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2026_enlightenment

Tribblix and OmniTribblix m41 released http://tribblix.org/download.html This doesn't have any significant breaking changes on the application side, just a lot of normal version updates, but does pick up the handful of illumos CVEs we've had recently.

Hey, thanks! Now I know to keep them cooler.

26/08/06 ⇒ OpenBGPD 9.2 released A sure sign that a new OpenBSD will soon be ready is that a new OpenBGPD release appears. On August 6th, 2026, the project released OpenBGPD version 9.2. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260807061435 https://www.openbgpd.org/

26/07/30 ⇒ BSD Now—674: Software development never changes Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more... https://www.bsdnow.tv/674 26/08/06 ⇒ BSD Now—675: Going GPL Free FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more... https://www.bsdnow.tv/675

Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD. https://bozo.httpd.rocks/

NomadBSD based on FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE from @pfriedma@pfedi.pfriedma.org : r/NomadBSD cross-posted to r/freebsd.

...and it was an idiot error. I had to enable wg in the host kernel. I knew it was built into the kernel these days...I just hadn't realised I needed to enable it. -->facepalm<--

26/08/02 ⇒ reFrame — the ePaper camera reFrame is an experimental camera with a color ePaper display. Designed to capture and display one photo at a time, making every frame deliberate and memorable. https://reframe.camera/

26/08/01 ⇒ MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE is uploading right now. It contains a number of security updates and is recommended for all users. https://bsdsec.net/articles/midnightbsd-security-midnightbsd-4-0-7-release

Development Updates - July 30 2026

@grahamperrin Optimus is a trademark of NVIDIA for their implementation of hybrid graphics.And other manufacturers like AMD calls almost the same thing differently.From the CPU-side of the view, PRIME is the underlying interface for iGPU and dGPU (not limited with NVIDIA) to offload heavy graphics tasks to mighty dGPU, mainly using efficient (but poor in performance) iGPU.Before Austin's port of nvidia-drm.ko appears, the only "working" way to achieve hybrid graphics was to use VirtualGL, with configuring individual "screen" for iGPU and dGPU respectively, and screen rendered by dGPU was needed to be transferred to another (for iGPU) with software BitBlt, as physical framebuffer cannot be shared with this method.And current implementation of nvidia-drm.ko relies on PRIME to work. Without PRIME, there's no way (arbitrations) for dGPU to access (part of) physical framebuffer of iGPU.See detailed and precise info by Austin here. https://badland.io/prime-configuration.md

@stefano Thank you.

There's usually booths and a room dedicated to BSD at Fosdem, seem interesting to me to add it, no? Ludo

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System Via @governa@fosstodon.org at https://fosstodon.org/@governa/117006685536082407 FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free - Phoronix