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#FreeBSD #FreeBSDFoundation Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-foundation-boards-role-in-the-freebsd-ecosystem/

Worry-free updates in FreeBSD Do you worry that upgrades will leave you with an unusable system? What if we told you worrying could be a thing of the past, because freebsd has a built in time machine…

EuroBSDCon2026 EuroBSDCon is the international annual technical conference held in a different European country each year. It focuses on gathering users and developers working on and with 4.4BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) based operating systems family and related projects. https://exquisite.tube/c/ebc2026/videos

TrueNAS Core, continued https://freecore.org/

zkcmp | Zero-Knowledge file comparison utility in C https://github.com/namiarj/zkcmp > note this is an early experiment/ongoing development version

Action Required: Recent ports history has been rewritten https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000295.html

Ports Repository Freeze https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2026-July/000294.html

FreeBSD ate my ram! Enter that rabbit hole and try to understand why reporting free or used memory in a modern operating system is more complicated than it seems.

FreeBSD introduction course (Persian)

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDmxZx08I6Sk6YdGNDOtoDO6Pa389Rzk1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H7FXntNSIw Live Streaming Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606 Day Two 08:00-09:00 Setup / Breakfast / Badges 09:00-10:00 We Don't Have to Be Afraid of the Cloud - Colin Percival and Gordon Tetlow 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Have Need Want Part 1 HackMD 12:00-13:00 Lunch 13:00-13:15 Group Photo 13:15-14:15 Have Need Want Part 2 14:15-14:30 Break 14:30-15:15 Kernel Scheduler - Olivier Certner 15:15-15:30 Break 15:30-16:15 What Should We Do in the Network Stack - Gleb Smirnoff 16:15-16:30 Adding Extended Errors - Kirk McKusick 16:30-16:35 Closing Remarks - John Baldwin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6L_ErsheVM Live Streaming Wiki https://wiki.freebsd.org/DevSummit/202606 Day One 08:00-09:00 Setup / Badges 09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks 09:15-10:15 LLM-driven kernel vulnerability research - Nicholas Carlini, Anthropic 10:15-10:45 Break 10:45-11:30 Michael Winser - Alpha Omega 11:30-12:30 Lunch 12:30-13:30 Building A Better BSD Through Time - Vince Milum, Jr 13:30-13:45 Break 13:45-14:45 FreeBSD Foundation Update - Deb Goodkin, Joe Mingrone, Ed Maste 14:45-15:15 Break 15:15-16:00 Srcmgr Update - Mark Johnston and John Baldwin 16:00-16:15 Break 16:15-17:00 FreeBSD by the Fire with John Baldwin - moderated by Benedict Reuschling 17:00-18:00 Free Time 18:00-20:00 Pizza Dinner at the Hacker Lounge in U90

FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch The FreeBSD Foundation has launched its AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with the key goal of reducing the number of exploitable vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD source code.

FreeBSD privilege escalation out-of-the-box Are you still using sudo or doas for privilege escalation? Did you know though, that's there's a solution integrated with FreeBSD and it's going to save you oodles of typing… https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mac_do

FreeBSD Device Drivers: From First Steps to Kernel Mastery Free, open-source book that takes you from "I've never written kernel code" to "I can write, debug, and submit production-quality FreeBSD drivers." It is a guided course rather than a reference, structured around 38 chapters, 6 appendices, and dozens of hands-on labs that compile and load on a real FreeBSD 14.x system.

Automating FreeBSD Jails with cdist - Zero Dependencies Inside the Jail https://blog.hofstede.it/automating-freebsd-jails-with-cdist-zero-dependencies-inside-the-jail/

FreeBSD Forums were offline for a couple of hours https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/forum-outage.102193/

Make a Simple NAS with FreeBSD and a Raspberry Pi Running #FreeBSD on a Raspberry is so simple we realised it would make a rather boring video. So with the help of some old hardware, we take a look at how easy it is to make a Pi into a NAS. src https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFiTRYo1fk

The state of gaming on FreeBSD - Thibault Payet https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/NXP3HE-bsd-gaming/slides/266931/the_state_mwacakv.pdf

Installing every window manager on FreeBSD We asked you folks what window managers, or desktop environments, besides KDE you'd like us to try installing. So after sifting through over 400 comments, we arrived at a list of 10. In this video we try a neat little tool, available as a package, that makes installing them a simple job. Check the handbook for more info too