Issue 196
Published July 31, 2024

OpenBSD mail server and more.

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News

Celebrating FreeBSD: Insights from Deb Goodkin : In recent interviews with CIO Influence and the Sustain Open Source Software and Craft of Open Source podcasts, Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, shared valuable insights into the world of FreeBSD. Her discussions highlighted the operating system’s unique strengths, community-driven development, and the crucial role of the FreeBSD Foundation. Here’s a look at the key takeaways from her appearances.

NetBSD Subfiles By: Elijah Sherwood & Dr Philip Nelson: Subfiles provide a way for the user to store files ”within” other files. They can be found in a variety of different file systems with a variety of limitations and use cases. Subfiles are not currently available to the NetBSD user. William Dobbins and Philip Nelson attempted to change this in 2016 by beginning a subfile implementation for NetBSD. Their progress has been built upon in this new attempt to implement subfiles by making changes to the user-land, kernel and Fast File System. The success of the project has been proven by rigorous testing, yet there are still things that need to happen to make full integration a reality.

BSD Now 569: The ZFS Pi: Enhancing FreeBSD Stability With ZFS Pool Checkpoints, Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs, Initial playlist of 28 BSDCan Videos released, Installing FreeBSD 14 on Raspberry Pi 4B with ZFS root, A practical guide to VPNs, IPv6, routing domains and IPSEC, How to mount ISO or file disk images on OpenBSD, and more.

FreeBSD as a Platform for Your Future Technology: At the November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit, Sabine Anja, co-founder of Klara Inc., sat down with a panel of industry leaders representing NetApp, Arm, and Juniper to discuss FreeBSD as a platform for future technologies. Participants discussed why their companies chose to use FreeBSD and how that choice benefited them.

Tutorials

View Website Headers in FreeBSD Terminal: Checking the headers of a website can provide valuable information about the server. This can be useful for web developers & security professionals. The FreeBSD terminal offers a few ways to allow users to inspect website headers easily.

Full-featured email server running OpenBSD: This blog post is a guide explaining how to setup a full-featured email server on OpenBSD 7.5. It was commissioned by a customer of authors consultancy who wanted it to be published on this blog.

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