Distributions and Operating Systems: BSD, GNU/Linux, HaikuOS and More

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 20, 2025

• Security

  • LWN ☛ Security updates for Friday

    Security updates have been issued by Debian (roundcube), Fedora (checkpointctl, containernetworking-plugins, mingw-libpng, NetworkManager, php, python3-docs, python3.13, and webkitgtk), Oracle (kernel, keylime, and libssh), and SUSE (apache2, clair, colord, flannel, gnutls, golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager, grafana, grub2, helm, ImageMagick, libpng16, netty, openssl-3, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, python36, salt, uyuni-tools, and venv-salt-minion).

• Audiocasts/Shows

  • Hackaday ☛ Hackaday Podcast Episode 350: Damnation For Spreadsheets, Praise For Haiku, And Admiration For The Hacks In Between

    This week’s Hackaday Podcast sees Elliot Williams joined by Jenny List for an all-European take on the week, and have we got some hacks for you!

• Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization

  • Feld ☛ Wireguard The FreeBSD Way

    Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux. This was working great, but after my upgrade to FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE I started to have intermittent networking issues. It turns out this is due to fixes in FreeBSD that allowed the Wireguard route monitor to work correctly and it was wiping out static routes from my routing table.

    You don't need the Wireguard route monitor; I don't really know why it exists. Perhaps this is solving an issue due to modern networking management on Linux, but it's causing me problems so here's the solution.

• Applications

  • The New Stack ☛ If You Need a Documentation Manager, Paperless-Ngx Is the Way To Go

    You’re a company with a developer or a team of developers. Those developers have created several in-house applications and services

• Distributions and Operating Systems

  • HaikuOS ☛ The Gerrit code review iceberg, episode 3

    Recently some discussions on the forum led to asking about the status of our Gerrit code review. There are a lot of changes there that have been inactive for several years, with no apparent interest from anyone. To be precise, there are currently 346 commits waiting for review (note that Gerrit, unlike Github and other popular code review tools, works on a commit-by-commit basis, so each commit from a multiple-commit change is counted separately). The oldest one has not seen any comments since 2018.

    Let’s look at the next set of changes. Note that these are from late 2020, so, while we covered only 10 changes in this blogpost series, we have already covered a timespan of almost 3 years.

  • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

    • Ubuntu ☛ MicroCeph: why it’s the superior MinIO alternative (and how to use it)

      Ceph has set the standard as the trusted, production-worthy open source storage for over a decade. However, some users have found the upstream tooling complex to use; so, a couple of years ago we introduced MicroCeph as an opinionated and simple way to deploy Ceph.

    • Ubuntu ☛ A better way to provision NVIDIA BlueField DPUs at scale with MAAS

      But, what are BlueField DPUs? This leads to a broader question: what are DPUs and SmartNICs, and why is the ability to provision them through the BMC a significant advancement?