The April 15th, 2025 Jail/Zones Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/7JzanDRuhlg

We #FreeBSD 15.0 goals, jail escape mitigations (please review!), attracting Kubernetes users, configuration file delimiters, an update on Kleen.dev, Jail names vs. IDs, and more!

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#TrueNAS 25.04 Released For Unifying SCALE & CORE Offerings
TrueNAS 25.04 is notable for unifying their #Linux-based #TrueNASSCALE and #TrueNASCORE #FreeBSD-based platforms. While TrueNAS was previously known for its BSD base, Linux has proven viable for this network attached storage platform. TrueNAS 25.04 is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel while employing the #OpenZFS file-system support.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-25.04-Released #OpenSource #NAS

Documentation in operating systems is cool. It is possible to extend and rewrite utilities as time goes on, as #freebsd proves. You can still have cool utilities, like #containers and #zfs and #hypervisors, good docs for them and a consistent base system.

I dunno where I am going with this, other than wishing I didn't have to peruse the Arch wiki and the Gentoo wiki for everything when I get stuck, and instead could just "man xyz" and get good answers, speaking as #nixos user.

Here's a new-to-me #FreeBSD tool:

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?bsdconfig

The #FreeBSD monster server is happening! This will replace one of my old Xeon-D boxes and, hopefully, will last me another four to five years.

Supermicro H12SSL-i mobo
AMD EPYC 7443P 24-core
512GB RAM
2x NVMe M.2 (zroot in zmirror)
8 port SATAIII for the disks which migrate from the old box
2x 1G NIC
2x 10G NIC
IPMI
super-silent case & cooling ​

More bhyve VMs! More jails with iocage!

the FreeBSD ${svc}_svcj_ipaddrs rc.conf option for service jail was committed, so how you can limit an rc service to a specific set of IP addresses: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=6fbd1bed6e7bf880a6cc579b06bdc6476983613a

thanks netchild@

The @FreeBSDFoundation 15 release schedule was just announced, but I already see people saying that "looks good, I already use it in production" :-) So, I installed the latest snapshot in a VM, and tested #syslog_ng on it.

As expected: syslog-ng works fine on it :-)

Why shouldn't a FreeBSD ISO image count as a "custom ISO" Hetzner?
https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq#how-can-i-get-a-custom-iso

Packed tightly, a voyager might easily carry many scrolls across the wastelands to distant caravanserays. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/external-disk/?s=mc

Do any operating systems other than #Linux (#Windows, #macOS, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, etc) have an API for non-blocking file IO?

I know Linux has that in #io_uring, which can do almost any IO operation (even fsync) in the background and tell you when it's done, but is that the only OS with such a feature?

#FreeBSD
I changed my "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf" file to "latest" instead of quarterly.

Now when I do PKG search there are a lot of packages I cannot find, yet the FreshPorts webpage claim those packages are indeed available.

Any ideas? Please assist! Thanks.

Wield dual weapons to gather scrolls rapidly. #Linux #FreeBSD #OpenSource https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/tar-and-ssh.html?s=mc

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