FreeBSD investing in laptop support and more.
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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption: This blog explores why enhancing laptop support is critical for FreeBSD’s continued growth, how the Foundation is tackling this challenge, and why the timing of this initiative is essential.
BSD Now 578: KVM, but Smol: Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Jail, Why You Should Use FreeBSD, The web fun fact that domains can end in dots and canonicalization failures, Replacing postfix with dma + auth, modern unix tool list, Smol KVM, The Computers of Voyager.
Tutorials
ClonOS – An Alternative to Proxmox Based on FreeBSD: In the realm of virtualization, there are already several robust and well-established platforms like Proxmox and OpenStack. These solutions have paved the way for efficient and comprehensive management of virtual environments, primarily on Linux-based systems. However, for those who appreciate the power and elegance of FreeBSD, there has been a notable absence of a comparable tool that leverages this operating system’s unique strengths.
Install snac2 on FreeBSD: This HowTo guides you through the setup process of snac2 on a minimalistic FreeBSD (FreeBSD 14) system to run and serve your own ActivityPub instance within the Fediverse. snac2 is also compatible with Mastodon instances for further interactions. snac2 is a simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C and can run on all Linux and BSD systems.
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