FreeBSD 13.4 first Beta and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 13.4-BETA1 Available: The first BETA build for the FreeBSD 13.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv6, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSDSec
OpenBSD Errata: August 2, 2024 (sndiod): Errata patches for sndiod have been released for OpenBSD 7.5 and 7.4. Binary updates for the amd64, arm64 and i386 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
As always, it’s worth following BSDSec. RSS feed and Twitter account available.
News
BSD Now 570: RIP dhclient: The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network, FreeBSD 14.1: What’s new, and how did we get here?, The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition), MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5, Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way), Reasons to use your shell’s job control, RIP dhclient(8).
BSD Jumpstart: Educational website to get an overview of some BSD Systems: Dragonfly, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD.
Tutorials
Evolving the BSD Cafe Network Setup: From Bridging to Routing with FreeBSD: Explore the evolution of the BSD Cafe network setup using FreeBSD, showcasing how to leverage advanced routing techniques for improved scalability and security.
A look at ShrinkPDF on FreeBSD: A simple wrapper around Ghostscript to shrink PDFs (as in reduce filesize). The script feeds a PDF through Ghostscript, which performs lossy recompression by such methods as ownsampling the images to 72dpi. The result should be (but not always is) a much smaller file.
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