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NetBSD ☛ Annual General Meeting 2026
Today, the NetBSD Foundation had an open annual general meeting in a public IRC channel. It began with presentations, and was followed by a Q&A session where we took questions from the public. Here's the full log.
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CCC ☛ It doesn’t always have to be Linux - An intro to FreeBSD - media.ccc.de
How is FreeBSD different from Linux, what does it do well and why should I care?
While Linux is still struggling for mainstream attention on desktop, it‘s already dominant in the server space. But monocultures are bad, so this raises the question: What else is out there?
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Undeadly ☛ Random relinking at boot comes to httpd(8) and smtpd(8)
Now in a series of commits that split one daemon (smptd(8)) into six separate binaries, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) is bringing httpd(8) and smptd(8), both common in network facing configrations, into the random relink at boot fold.