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See: https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. The fact that it was a web service made it even more appealing; I had been building web services since 1998, … – 24–30 minutes reading time, according to Firefox. Time well spent, IMHO, especially with security vulnerabilities for various operating systems recently in a spotlight. Also: to Mastodon @cperciva@mastodon.social @stefano and to Lobsters. Background: Colin Percival was, for many years, the FreeBSD Security Officer. He is now the FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead. You can show your appreciation for today's blog post at his shares in Reddit, in Hacker News, or in LinkedIn. A thought: AWS has its heroes. Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source – for this, and for what's described in today's blog post, it's probably fair to describe Colin as a hero in more ways than one.

@naltun said: This is an excellent post. Thank you for the share! e: It'd be cool to have this as a manual page, all of the syscalls laid out in a table with code references. I'm keeping this in mind as an OpenBSD user. It wouldn't be too hard to generate one, but it could lead to confusion for people if they use random internet manpages because the syscall codes are not guaranteed to be stable across versions on OpenBSD and syscalls get added/removed/deprecated sometimes.

For convenience, from the toot in Mastodon: https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1sgmi14/claude_mythos_preview_fully_autonomously_finds/ … (plus Linux, OpenBSD, and others) – more concerning than calif.io story with known CVE and human prompting? …＂ – @bigsneakyduck (Sorry. I imagined that the original mention in Mastodon would have shared the whole of the toot as the opening post here.)

Egual, the FreeBSD Foundation Journal for the Q1 2026: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/

Install xteddy! And sl!

fix the code location for the doc tree … It doesn't need fixing, we might need to contact them. What works for the src tree (in the first screenshot below) does not work for the doc tree (second shot). [image: 1775276658791-261d9e5a-1b05-4950-9bfd-1e03904d139f-image.jpeg] [image: 1775276700827-ab9776c2-f7cb-4c58-81a7-e0df05aa9caa-image.jpeg] The previous repo URL was the cgit URL. Before I removed it, today, IIRC there was the same red alert: Error: This Code Location is flagged as Do Not Fetch. Please contact us for assistance – with the same status: Step 1 of 3: Downloading source code history (Failed about 2 years ago.) There's an on-screen suggestion to wait twenty-four hours. I will wait, although given the failure about two years ago: I doubt that it'll make a difference. [image: 1775280296655-67daeab0-2790-4c4f-84b3-ed5dd0bf4460-image.jpeg] There's a suggestion of "special handling" in the help forum. There's also no response to a report that someone made more than five months ago, which is not particularly special

@BastilleBSD I hope you have a great Easter weekend

Additional coverage of the roadmap: FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year - Phoronix

New Podcast: FreeBSD with John BaldwinIn this episode of Software Engineering Daily, FreeBSD developer and contributor John Baldwin joins Gregor Vand to explore the origins of FreeBSD, how its governance model differs from other open-source projects, its role inside systems like Netflix’s CDN and PlayStation 4, and the challenges of maintaining a 30-year-old codebase. Listen here:https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/freebsd-with-john-baldwin/#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD

@hypostase The final version of the fix is now accepted and landed onto both main (aka latest) and 2026Q2. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=a92d927574fca313453ae266f4e78517eb406a33 https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?h=2026Q2&id=1c9a29edad562f0650166239fba46dd8b2cc1fdd

Thank you!

EuroBSDcon 2026's call for papers is open, see https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/ Here is a direct link to the submissions form https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/submit/ew426G/info/@eurobsdcon #eurobsdcon #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #conference #development #devops #sysadmin #freesoftware #libresoftware

@hayzam thank you for increasing the fun to use FreeBSD