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⇒ 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.
Weekly Echoes #2026W27: IT news, round-up, week 27; from 06/29 to 07/05.
⇒ 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.
FreeBSD - a lesson in poor defaults
This page lists some of the changes I make to a vanilla install of FreeBSD for security hardening. Some changes to increase network performance or make things a bit more sane are also included. It only covers basic changes that a sysadmin can make to a running system.
It could also be considered a commentary piece on the state of security in FreeBSD's development ecosystem, highlighting their strong resistance to change and unwillingness to replace old cruft with modern alternatives.
The project's security page says the following:FreeBSD takes security very seriously and its developers are constantly working on making the operating system as secure as possible.
But is that really true? Let's find out.
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⇒ bhyve Prometheus exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD
This post describes how to export metrics from bhyve based virtual machines and Jails managed by Sylve on FreeBSD by my Prometheus exporter. The focus is on collecting reliable data from the host system without relying on tooling that was primarily designed for Linux hypervisors or assumes the existence of hypervisor level counters.
If you have been on the verge of checking-out OpenBSD, be it for your laptop, desktop, or a home server, but you were afraid that the install-difficulty may be out of your league - watch this video to gain confidence.
ping: https://framapiaf.org/@darth@watch.linuxrenaissance.com/116493233947855331
