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Rafael Sadowski ☛ g2k26: Rust in CMake, and a Heartbeat for Old Daemons
It feels a bit strange to start this post by thinking that this is my first blog post in 2026. I think it’s because time was limited this year and I focused on doing things in OpenBSD instead of writing about it. Maybe it’s because the year did not go as planned (When has it ever been like that?). While we’re on the subject of plans: I planned to ride my gravel bike from FRA to the Hackathon in Kloosterburen. But because of illness, I ended up travelling by car. Which, of course, is simply a waste of time in the grand scheme of my life. However, I had been really looking forward to the hackathon, as the idyllic coastal region of the Netherlands offered little in the way of distractions, meaning I could focus entirely on hacking.
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Sacred Heart SC ☛ FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop
FreeBSD 15 really feels like a breakthrough release.
It’s always been my favorite operating system for servers, but with the arrival of pkgbase, massive improvements to the LinuxKPI drivers, and the launch of the Laptop Support and Usability Project, it’s become my primary desktop, too.
Since my last attempt with FreeBSD 14, a lot has changed: [...]
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DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Lazy Reading for 2026/06/28
I should maybe create a Thinkpad category. NYCBUG’s having a social meetup on July 1st; stories about BSDCan will be told, I’m sure. When Dystopian Sci-Fi Ruled the Cola Wars. This seems like a named aesthetic. (via) Building a serial and VGA “everything console”.