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26/09/11 ⇒ Long time no text! jstats updates, MariAdmin and OpenBSD on OVHcloud Özgür Konstantin Kazanççı shares the latest improvements to jstats, his FreeBSD jail resource monitor, and introduces MariAdmin, a simple terminal menu for managing MariaDB/MySQL databases and users. He also presents openbsd-setup-ovh, a script that prepares a Debian or Ubuntu VPS to boot the OpenBSD installer through GRUB, with BIOS and UEFI support. The article includes console examples and his experience running OpenBSD on an OVHcloud VPS-4 from the 2027 range, with both IPv4 and IPv6 working successfully. https://ozgurkazancci.com/long-time-no-text-jstats-updates-mariadmin-and-openbsd-on-ovhcloud/ https://github.com/ozgurkazancci/jstats https://github.com/ozgurkazancci/MariAdmin https://github.com/ozgurkazancci/openbsd-setup-ovh

26/09/09 ⇒ FreeBSD working on new service manager The BSD news will continue until morale improves. (...) Baptiste Daroussin, creator of pkg and poudriere, is working on a service manager for FreeBSD called rcd. https://www.osnews.com/story/145933/freebsd-working-on-new-service-manager/

This interactive application converts the FreeBSD technical security guide into an explorable operational dashboard. https://freebsd.toomany.net/hardening/en/

26/09/08 ⇒ FreeCORE is What Your TrueNAS CORE Box Should Have iXsystems put TrueNAS CORE into what it called a sustaining engineering phase back in 2024. Under this, the open source NAS operating system would only receive security and stability fixes, with new features going to the Linux-based SCALE branch instead. (...) It traces directly back through TrueNAS CORE to FreeNAS, and it's built on the same foundation CORE always used: FreeBSD and OpenZFS. The current stable release is 15.0-U1.3, and it is aimed at TrueNAS CORE holdouts. https://itsfoss.com/freecore-truenas-core-fork/ https://freecore.org

A guide to deploying an OpenBSD VPS on TierHive, a NAT VPS provider offering supported OpenBSD images for under $5 per year. It covers setting up a 512 MB instance, SSH keys, and routing domain traffic with SSL using TierHive's built-in HAProxy service. https://btxx.org/posts/cheap-openbsd-vps/

26/09/08 ⇒ ekkoBSD 2.1 now available The ekkoBSD project has announced the release of ekkoBSD 2.1, its first public release since the original 2003–2004 project era. ekkoBSD is a complete BSD-family operating system developed as an integrated kernel, boot chain, userland, installer, package manager, shell and documentation set. https://ekkobsd.org

26/09/07 ⇒ Network Management with the PF Packet Filter Toolset on OpenBSD and FreeBSD The OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF) is at the core of the network management toolset available to professionals working with the BSD family of operating systems. https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/RKCHRW/

26/09/06 ⇒ NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch. https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.5-Released

26/09/06 ⇒ NetBSD 11 from scratch In this post I will cover the installation process of the NetBSD operating system, including disk level encryption. Instead of using the standard installation program (sysinst), I decided to install NetBSD “from scratch”, as a way to dive into the internals, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of this great operating system. https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/06/netbsd-11-from-scratch/

26/09/06 ⇒ AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded My previous AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop is still up and running – it will now be my kids computer … so I needed a new one … but not a bigger one https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/amd-based-freebsd-desktop-reloaded/

26/09/02 ⇒ OpenBSD stories—Strange Medieval Devices In the late 1970s and the 1980s, the best choice for high-performance, high-capacity storage was so-called SMD disks. http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/smd.html

I started out on XFree86, now on X11. I'm wondering if there is a reason I would want to try Wayland. Or do I even want to spend the time to investigate. Good to see this about my distro. They may switch over to Wayland before I'm gone. The other switch years ago worked out okay.

26/08/30 ⇒ The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads. https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net you're still missing the point.

14th August: [image: 1787919384226-f4652bcd-c833-4b59-b72c-124cf24ac76f-image.jpeg] @one_old_coder@piefed.social said: slop slop Whilst do understand that AI can be scary for some people, there's really nothing frightening about a birthday. Some people like to celebrate, not moan, on celebratory occasions. Maybe a brandy will lighten your mood? Tux―pictured below, one day after your expression of fear―is off duty this week, but I'm quite sure that he won't mind pouring a glass for you. Pouring, or should I say serving? The new Power to Serve. [image: 1787918793407-f2a865cd-6e75-4f51-89a3-65930beb9fab-image.jpeg] #elegance #harmony #camaraderie #Tux #Linux #FreeBSD #AI

https://cylog.ai/ These are games I originally wrote from the DOS/Turbo Pascal era through the Win32/Delphi era — running on everything from DOS prompts to Windows NT, 95, XP, 2000, you name it. Chunky dialogs, raw GDI graphics, text-mode screens, and all the charm of a beige tower PC. Now, powered by Gemini CLI and Claude Code, each title has been faithfully re-engineered to run natively in your browser. No plugins. No emulation. Just the games, reborn. … I'm not a game-player. This is serendipity. https://bsd.network/@dvl/117172923405570692 led me to: UTF-8 to HTML Converter - atopon.org – thanks to @dvl@bsd.network. Seeing "atopon", I assumed Aaron Toponce. I was wrong, of course! atopon.org is a division of CyLog Software: … a software house specializing in Win32 utilities and games. Our programs are free for non-commercial use. We believe that people should be able to try and use computer software freely. This is how ideas become popular and better computer software is built. Jolly [image: 1787918059052-1e5893dd-4d5d-41b0-815c-75bc93720212-image.jpeg]

https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/ @modal@mastodon.design We are excited to announce a significant investment of €508,640 by the German Sovereign Tech Agency, through its Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) initiative, into the development and stewardship of Flatpak. This two-year initiative, co-organized by Modal and with Para-Real Ltd. as supporting organization, will accelerate the evolution of Flatpak as a secure, sandboxed platform for packaging and distributing Linux desktop software. … https://mastodon.social/@openrisk/117172813501923122 Sovereign investment in #opensource software can be the most efficient use of public funds imaginable. Its not a panacea, its not without its own risks but it has been a blind spot for too long. … Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak | Lobsters Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak - Phoronix | comments https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117170401738169097 Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak | Hacker News

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released … their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon". Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS ships with all of the bug and security updates collected as stable release updates (SRUs) since the April release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. This first point release doesn't contain any new hardware enablement "HWE" stack with newer kernel and the like … https://masto.ai/@phoronix/117170283935424930 It seems that I'm gaining 26.04.1 with Kubuntu through Discover: [image: 1787915183504-4b8690e6-31f8-4489-8c37-284dc026d5bf-image.jpeg]

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ Openterface Mini-KVM I can't figure out what's going on with those things. The more I look, the more I'm confused.

@CiotBSD said: ⇒ FreeBSD backup libraries … https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117167186595295416 offers a possible explanation for BACKUP_LIBRARIES set to true.