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BSD Leftovers
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Undeadly ☛ Big news for small /usr partitions
Several recent commits have improved sysupgrade(8) handling of low free disk space in /usr: [...]
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Desktop/Laptop
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Yorick Peterse ☛ A brief look at FreeBSD
Recently I've been playing around with FreeBSD in a virtual machine. The reason for this is that (if all goes well) some time in December my new Framework laptop will arrive, replacing my current X1 Carbon that is starting to show signs of old age (e.g. a keyboard where certain keys don't always work). Framework in turn has a strong focus on Linux compatibility, and FreeBSD compatibility to a certain degree. The FreeBSD foundation in turn is sponsoring work on improving the laptop experience of FreeBSD, with a focus on Framework laptops in particular.
In other words, if I ever wanted to run FreeBSD on a laptop, a Framework laptop would probably be the best option, and using a new laptop means I can just wipe the installation and replace it with Fedora if FreeBSD turns out to not be worth it. But before I do that, I needed to figure out if it's even worth the effort and what I might have to keep in mind.
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Kernel Space
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Klara ☛ When RAID Isn’t Enough: ZFS Redundancy Done Right - Klara Systems
Hardware RAID may look familiar and simple, but under the hood it’s fragile, outdated, and risky. Silent corruption, rebuild failures, and single-point controller crashes can all put your data on the line. ZFS changes the game with built-in checksums, copy-on-write, faster rebuilds, and powerful features like snapshots and scrubbing. If your data matters, it’s time to move beyond RAID and embrace redundancy done right.
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Undeadly ☛ Source and state limiters introduced in pf
This change has our resident packet manglers quite excited, and they think it will likely be a signature feature that will make the not-too-distant OpenBSD 7.9 release even more of an Internet favorite.
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