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Why FreeBSD Should Be the Foundation for Your Security Product: As you already know, choosing the right technology stack is critical to building secure, reliable, and future-proof products. While Linux is often the default choice for open-source operating systems, it’s not the only option—and it may not be the best one. FreeBSD offers unique advantages that align with the priorities of security-focused organizations, providing a strong, stable foundation for your product’s success.
BSD Now 589: The buffering pipe: Open-Source Software Is in Crisis, A Brief History of Cyrix, Userland Disk I/O, OPNsense 24.7.9 released, GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available, Why pipes sometimes get “stuck”: buffering, Keep your OmniOS server time synced, and more.
FreeBSD 14 replaces Sendmail with DMA: FreeBSD 14 introduces DMA, the lightweight Mail Transport Agent from DragonFly BSD, as the default replacement for Sendmail. This article outlines the reasons behind the change, highlights the benefits of DMA, and provides a step-by-step guide to configuring it for efficient email handling on minimal systems.
Video: GhostBSD 24.10.01: “A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System” - the official description of GhostBSD, and it’s not wrong. Here we have a look at GhostBSD 24.10.1 and see how things are currently with this user friendly FreeBSD-based OS.
2024: A Year of Advocacy and Growth for the FreeBSD Foundation: In 2024, the FreeBSD Foundation significantly expanded its advocacy efforts, raising FreeBSD’s profile, fostering community collaboration, and celebrating its unique contributions to the tech world. Through impactful events, strategic communications, strengthened partnerships, and direct community engagement, the Foundation solidified FreeBSD’s reputation as a powerful, reliable, and innovative open source operating system.
Tutorials
Video: Run the latest Seamonkey Browser in FreeBSD & GhostBSD: Seamonkey has been gone from FreeBSD for a few years now, but not any longer - run the 64-Bit Linux version with no (or very little) effort. The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite which follows the famous Mozilla Internet Suite from a few years back.
Printing on HP Color Laser 150nw from OpenBSD: Author got an HP Color Laser 150nw wireless printer some time ago and never really tried to use it with OpenBSD. But after discovering that it works well on their wife’s Slackware Linux laptop (better than on Windows 10), they decided to give it a try using OpenBSD.
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