Installing *BSD in 2025 and Zero-Trust Builds for FreeBSD
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Eerie Linux ☛ Installing *BSD in 2025 part 0a – Modern myths: AI ramblings (DragonFly BSD and FreeBSD) – eerielinux
In this series I plan to take a look at the installers of the various BSD operating systems. There’s a lot of good reasons to install a BSD on your computer(s); and while that does not depend on the particular year too much, it’s still interesting to take a look at the state of this OS family now and then.
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[Repeat] FreeBSD ☛ Zero-Trust Builds for FreeBSD
The Foundation is pleased to announce that a planned project to deliver zero-trust builds has begun in January 2025. This project is a key component of the work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA) and is one of five initiatives that together are aimed at advancing Zero Trust builds, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), CI/CD automation, security controls in Ports and Packages, and technical debt reduction.
The Zero-Trust Build project is scheduled from Jan-Aug 2025 and centers on the FreeBSD build process, and in particular, release building. The primary goal of this work is to enable the entire release process to run without requiring root access, and that build artifacts build reproducibly – that is, that a third party can build bit-for-bit identical artifacts.
Additionally, the project aims to enhance build process documentation, ensuring that release building is straightforward and does not require specialized knowledge. The work is targeted for completion prior to the release of FreeBSD 15.0.
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LWN ☛ Zero-trust builds for FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that it has undertaken a project to deliver zero-trust builds commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA).
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The Foundation says that updates should not impact users of FreeBSD release images, but it may have an impact on developers basing projects or products on FreeBSD that make modifications to its release process.