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A conference talk introducing FreeBSD, its differences from Linux, and why it matters as an alternative in server and desktop environments.
An AI-assisted security audit of FreeBSD uncovered 15 kernel vulnerabilities, including privilege escalations and a VM escape, and details the collaborative process of reporting and patching bugs with the FreeBSD team.
FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Deb Goodkin successfully daily drives FreeBSD on a Framework Laptop, overcoming long-standing hardware support issues.
The author migrated their blog from a 10-year-old Ubuntu 16.04 VPS to a more cost-effective FreeBSD VPS, detailing the motivation, setup, and introduction to FreeBSD Jails with Bastille.
This article describes how to set up a private FreeBSD package repository secured with mutual TLS, including creating a custom certificate authority and configuring nginx to require client certificates.
A kernel stack buffer overflow in FreeBSD 14.x's setcred(2) system call allows any unprivileged local user to escalate privileges to root, even with SMAP/SMEP enabled. The bug is not yet fixed in stable branches.
A review of the early version of Sylve, an open-source web-based administration tool for FreeBSD that simplifies managing jails, virtual machines, and ZFS datasets.
The FreeBSD Project unveiled a new design for its official website, highlighting the operating system's features like ZFS, virtualization, jails, networking, documentation, and community.
An open-source terminal tool called witr, developed by an Indian independent developer, explains why a process is running, traces its origin from kernel to systemd, and includes an interactive TUI dashboard. It gained 15,400+ GitHub stars in less than five months.