Getting closer to FreeBSD 14.2 and more.
Releases
FreeBSD 14.2 RC1: The first RC build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
FreeBSD 14.2-BETA3: The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 14.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpc64le, powerpcspe, armv7, aarch64, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites.
GhostBSD 24.10.1: This release brings system updates from FreeBSD and better hardware compatibility with some old AMD Radeon and FirePro GPU. They resolved live session startup issues with Legacy BIOS and started to fix some issues with Update Station functionality.
BSDSec
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News
Netflix’s FreeBSD Servers and Their Impact on Open Source: Netflix, one of the world’s leading video streaming services, is renowned for its robust and efficient infrastructure that powers billions of hours of content streaming globally. At the core of this infrastructure lies FreeBSD, a free and open-source operating system. Netflix’s adoption and enhancement of FreeBSD have significantly influenced both its own operations and the open-source community at large.
Reflecting on the Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit: Insights and Innovations: The Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit brought together developers, contributors, and enthusiasts for two days of dynamic discussions, technical deep dives, and community collaboration. Hosted at NetApp’s San Jose Campus, this event highlighted FreeBSD’s adaptability and impact across industries. With a focus on connectivity, security, and innovation, the summit set the stage for exciting advancements in FreeBSD’s ecosystem.
BSD Now 586: Cloud Exit Savings: Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years, 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong, The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected, OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off, bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?, and more.
Strengthening FreeBSD: Addressing Vulnerabilities Through Synacktiv’s Code Audit: With funding from the Alpha-Omega Project, the FreeBSD Foundation recently partnered with the offensive security firm Synacktiv to perform an in-depth security audit of critical FreeBSD components, focusing on the bhyve hypervisor and the Capsicum security framework. The comprehensive findings from the audit, available in the full report, highlight several vulnerabilities. Most of these vulnerabilities have been addressed through official FreeBSD Project security advisories, which offer detailed information about each vulnerability, its impact, and the measures implemented to improve the security of FreeBSD systems.
Why I stopped using OpenBSD: Last month, author decided to leave the OpenBSD as they have not been using OpenBSD for a while. A lot of people asked them why they stopped using OpenBSD, although they have been advocating it for a while. They like OpenBSD, it has values, and it is important that it exists. But it does not fit all needs anymore.
Tutorials
Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD: The venerable Network File System (NFS) has been expanded with distributed capabilities, pNFS v4.2 allows distributing data across multiple servers to increase performance and fault tolerance. Learn how to deploy a high-speed resilient storage system quickly and easily with FreeBSD.
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