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The ZFS partition/volume expansion is generally not an ultra hard task … but needs one step at a time approach. Today we will follow them one by one to expand GELI encrypted ZFS disk. There is only one potential problem – and I faced that recently with one of the other VMs I manage. If […] Read more ›
I’ve spent the past week explaining to various family members that no, I cannot just ‘hack into’ their neighbour’s Ring doorbell because the tree dispute has escalated. Here’s what happened whilst I was declining to become a cyber-criminal. The CEO’s Little Black Book A chief executive kept all 2,000 employee passwords in a desktop Excel … Continue reading Breach of Confidence: 19 June 2026 → Read more ›
With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase. Read more ›
This was Intended to be a BSD only blog, but now it's about all Unix Like Free Operating Systems, Linux, FreeBSD etc. Read more ›
FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS News Roundup zfs – a helper script for labelling all those drives AI errno(2) values The vi Family Creating a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller on FreeBSD Beastie Bits Let's find out how to get predictab... Read more ›
Concurrent programming has a reputation problem. Mention “lock-free” in conversation and watch eyes glaze over. The terminology sounds… Read more ›
Klara Systems compares ZFS and Ceph, explaining when Ceph's distributed storage is necessary and when ZFS offers a simpler, lower-latency, and more cost-effective solution for virtualization, databases... Read more ›
Contribute to michalsustr/egui-cursor development by creating an account on GitHub. Read more ›
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by . Home Assistant OS, or HAOS for short, has been upgraded to version 18.0. HAOS is an independently-developed, Linux-based operating system optimised to run Home Assistant, an open-source home automation tool. It is available for several popular platforms, including Raspberry Pi and ODROID, as well as generic x86_64 and.... Read more ›
OK, but how can this update be done? The old command \(which the Handbook suggests\) doesn't work: \# freebsd-update -r 15\.1-RELEASE upgrade freebsd-update is incompatible with the use of packaged base\. Please see for more information\. and the PkgBase wiki is a bit unclear \(it tries to reinstall existing files when trying to follow these instructions\)\. I get lost with all these FreeBSD\.\*\.conf files\. Are they documented anywhere? Regards -- Marek Anioła Read more ›
The NetBSD project has released the fifth release candidate for 11.0, urging users to test it before the final release, with updated third-party software like OpenSSL and unbound and split ISO images f... Read more ›
Skip to main content Back to top Ctrl+K Search Ctrl+K * .rst * .pdf # Overview ## Contents x86\_64 EFI Image x86\_64 Recovery Image View on GitHub ZFSBootMenu is a bootloader that provides a powerful and flexible discovery, manipulation and booting of Linux on ZFS. Originally inspired by the FreeBSD bootloader, ZFSBootMenu leverages the features of modern OpenZFS to allow users to choose among multiple "boot environments" (which may represent different version... Read more ›
Self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server. Single binary. Zero config. 50+ distros out of the box. Read more ›
A new Craft cache has been published about a week ago. The update has already been rolled out to KDE's CD and Windows CI with the update to Qt 6.11 beeing the most important change. Changes (highlights) General We added updated our to build the Linux cache from AlmaLinux 8.10 to AlmaLinux 9.8. This implies a newer minimum required GLIBC. We did inital work on MSVC 2026 support, but given that it is not supported by Qt 6.11, we did not complete it yet. Blueprints OpenSSL 3.6.2 Qt 6.11.1 New Qt... Read more ›