Discussion of Part 3 included a comment from Kyle Evans.
>pkg-be-plugin is a pkg(8) plugin that automatically creates a ZFS boot environment before each install, upgrade, or deinstall transaction. If a transaction leaves the system in a broken state, the pre-transaction BE provides a clean rollback point.
The plugin uses libbe(3) directly with no subprocess invocations of bectl(8) or zfs(8). Boot environments are pruned automatically based on a configurable keep count and minimum age. …
Via https://bsd.network/@dvl/117354088901529257 u/dlangille
Video, eight minutes, five chapters, with closed captions and a transcript.
>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…
Credit: u/Commercial_Boss4065
Helpful links include:
https://www.freebsd.org/security/notices/ – three notices.
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/ – six advisories.
> Laurent Gaffie (secorizon.com)
Secorizon — Offensive Security & Research
> Yuxiang Yang, Yizhou Zhao, Ao Wang, Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, and Ke Xu from Tsinghua University using GLM-5.1 from Z.ai
<https://z.ai/> redirects to Z.ai - Advanced AI Chatbot & Agent powered by GLM-5.3-Flash
Updated an hour ago. Found during a chat with Anthropic Claude (Sonnet 5.5, extra).
>Overall Status: Delayed
– FreeBSD 15.2 is not explicitly a target.
>… The code development phase is now complete. The current phase is discussion and improvement before adding the work to the FreeBSD. …
>There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD. …
Credit: u/spmzt
https://sueden.social/@me_/117288177904568705
>NextBSD and the Gershwin desktop running in a UTM virtual machine on Apple Silicon/Arm64!
x86-64 and Raspberry Pi 500+ (and possibly other Raspberry Pi 5, currently being tested) systems are also supported.
>… You will view a short AI-generated shopping summary about a personal-care product and answer questions about your impressions of the summary and possible purchase decisions. There are no right or wrong answers; please respond based on your own views. The full purpose of the study will be explained at the end of the survey. …
Via https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:share:7500558876078014464/ and a LinkedIn post from the student's supervisor:
>Please help my brilliant MSc Digital Marketing student Mira Beshara who is conducting her research into how consumers respond to Ai generated summaries in their everyday sustainable shopping decisions …
Ethics reference: 15776
the Conn interface, rendered by the real engine
>Meridian is a UEFI boot manager for x86_64 systems. It is the current project identity for a codebase descended from RefindPlus and rEFInd, with local work focused on EDK2 builds, Apple firmware support, generic UEFI PCs, OpenCore and Clover chain-loading, Secure Boot/MOK tooling, and filesystem driver support. …
Via https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@seuros/117252881022053134
>… tested in 20 years of hardware. … I would love people to contribute to SVG art in https://github.com/seuros/meridian/tree/master/conn/art/splash …
cc u/TheAtlasMonkey
The revamped website – https://www.nextbsd.org/:
Video, eighty minutes, with closed captions (subtitles).
Producer's description:
>In this video, I rant about why I use FreeBSD.
I took some moment of self-reflection, to come up with the main reasons that lead me to use FreeBSD, and this is the result!
Initially I thought that this would be a 20min video, but it ended up being almost 1,5 hours! Damm.... so...it seems like I had a lot to say here...
Enjoy and be nice with comments...
Its not my intention to start any flamewar :-)
#FreeBSD #BSD #Unix
Written summary to follow …
FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE was announced yesterday.
From Colin Percival's post in LinkedIn:
>Note that this is a "legacy" release intended primarily for maintaining existing systems; most users should deploy FreeBSD 15.1 on new systems.
Congratulations to Google for having the only Marketplace which managed to ingest images in time for the release announcement.
<https://github.com/ricardobranco777/howtos/blob/master/BSD/Multiboot.md>
From https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/774411 a few days ago:
>… Last weekend I repeated the whole process on a VM so I could screenshot the whole thing to enhance it in a blog post. …
https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/freebsd-laptop-testing/
The BSD Hardware Database at bsd-hardware.info also shares user-provided results from probes, however this database is not for scoring.
EMBRACE MASOCHISM
Video, sixteen minutes, with closed captions.
>… it can also serve as a viable daily driver which is what I will be attempting in this video. …
Video, seven minutes, with closed captions.
>In a recent video I did about FreeBSD I said that FreeBSD is Unix like but some people tried to correct me to say it was Unix, lets talk about what Unix actually is.
…
Disclosure: Wherever possible I use referral links, which means if you click one of the links in this video or description and make a purchase I may receive a small commission or other compensation.
YouTube's AI-generated summary:
>Brodie Robertson explores the historical development of Unix and the formal standardization efforts that emerged during the Unix wars. The discussion examines the role of The Open Group in defining the Unix trademark and the complex certification process required to legally use that branding today, contrasting this with open-source Unix-like operating systems.
Hi
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1ujtebf/comment/ous39w7/?context=1> on 2026-06-30, Reddit administrator u/boat-botany wrote:
> Archive.org and the Wayback Machine are separately identified and have specific access to reddit.com!
Context:
All recent Wayback Machine captures are failing, for me.
2026-08-30 (Sunday, around six days ago) <https://web.archive.org/web/20260830130035/https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1w1v1v2/beastie_color_3d_print/> was OK. A capture of:
2026-09-05 (today, Saturday, a few minutes ago) <https://web.archive.org/web/20260905172152/https://old.reddit.com/login/?reason=lor2&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffreebsd%2Fcomments%2F1w1v1v2%2Fbeastie_color_3d_print%2F> for the same page failed to capture the post. Instead:
https://old.reddit.com/login/?reason=lor2&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffreebsd%2Fcomments%2F1w1v1v2%2Fbeastie_color_3d_print%2F
The modal dialogue within the page:
> Log in to use old Reddit
Today's capture used version 3.2 of The Official Wayback Machine Extension, added to Firefox.
>Next Saturday at #EuroBSDCon 2026, I'll tell the story of one of the longest nights of my career. …
This talk is about what happened next. The things that worked, the architectural choices that saved us, and especially the ones that failed when we needed them most.
And it's also the story of why that night changed the way I design infrastructure, and why BSD systems became such an important part of it. …
– u/dragasit | Stefano Marinelli – Barista, BSD Cafe
https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/talk/KAEQA8/
2026-09-12 09:15 UTC
