FreeBSD 13.4 first RC and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 13.4-RC1 Available : The first Release Candidate 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
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News
Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization: he FreeBSD Foundation, dedicated to advancing the open source FreeBSD operating system and supporting the community, announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) has agreed to invest €686,400 in the FreeBSD project to drive improvements in infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience. The work, organized and managed by the FreeBSD Foundation, will begin in August 2024 and continue through 2025. It will focus on five key projects: - Zero Trust Builds: Enhance tooling and processes - CI/CD Automation: Streamline software delivery and operations - Reduce Technical Debt: Implement tools and processes to keep technical debt low - Security Controls: Modernize and extend security artifacts, including the FreeBSD Ports and Package Collection, to assist with regulatory compliance - SBOM Improvements: Enhance and implement new tooling and processes for FreeBSD SBOM
No unmodified files remain from original import of OpenBSD: All files from the original import of OpenBSD have now been modified (or deleted). We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus.
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Tutorials
Building a Self-Hosted CDN for BSD Cafe Media: Discover how to create a distributed caching system using FreeBSD jails and open-source tools to build your own CDN, improving content delivery while maintaining full control of your data.
5 Mistaken Assumptions about FreeBSD: Here are 5 mistaken assumptions often made by new & potential users about FreeBSD especially when coming from Windows or Linux.
FreeBSD Ports and Packages: What you need to know: There’s a common misconception that third-party software for FreeBSD must be built from source using the ports tree. However, FreeBSD has long provided an official package collection, offering over 34,000 packages at the time of writing. The current package management tool, pkg(8), available since 2014, offers much more flexibility than the original pkg_install created by Jordan Hubbard in 1993. Thus, for most users, installing software on FreeBSD using the official packages is more efficient and straightforward.
Micropod-sampler: A Minimal Viable FreeBSD-based Container Virtual Data Center PoC: This how-to shows how a setup can look like on FreeBSD to run OCI containers with Buildah, Podman, Nomad and Consul to build a vDC.
Build and Run Your Own FreeBSD-native Containers with Buildah, Containerfiles and Podman: How-To explaining how to run Containerfile-based FreeBSD native containers with Buildah and Podman.
Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind: Learn to automate ZFS snapshots using zfs-autobackup for effortless system protection and easy file recovery.
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