FreeBSD: FPGA development of RISC-V 32bit CPU, and buffer overflow demo

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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption

FreeBSD faces a significant challenge: supporting modern laptops. Keep reading at:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/why-laptop-support-why-now-freebsds-strategic-move-toward-broader-adoption/

quiz: tiny VMs for kernel development By: Rob Norris

I wrote quiz, a tool to make fast edit-compile-test cycles on kernel code possible. Under the hood it uses QEMU's "microvm" profile and a custom kernel config to boot from cold into the OpenZFS test suite in a couple of seconds. Its great, and I use it hundreds of times a day.

My FreeBSD-using colleagues naturally said "cool, but what about us?!" so I started looking at what it would take bring quiz to FreeBSD. The answer to that is "its complicated", and involves either adding bhyve to QEMU as a hardware virtualisation backend, or adding support for direct kernel loading support to /usr/sbin/bhyve. "Why not both?" I said, before promptly shriveling into a corn cob.

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#Security Audit of the #Capsicum and #bhyve Subsystems
Report
Authors: Pierre Pronchery,
Alice Sowerby, Ed Maste, and Gordon Tetlow, The #FreeBSD Foundation
November 2024
https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/latest-news/freebsd-foundation-releases-bhyve-and-capsicum-security-audit-funded-by-alpha-omega-project/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_Code_Audit_Capsicum_Bhyve_FreeBSD_Foundation.pdf

FreeBSD: running a Large Language Model with ollama

Install ollama in FreeBSD and explore how to use two Large Language Models - Mistra and Llama3.2.

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First batch videos #EuroBSDCon
https://www.youtube.com/@EuroBSDcon/videos
and adorable #BSDCAFE logo and pdf https://it-notes.dragas.net/slides/EuroBSDCon2024_Marinelli.pdf waiting second batch
https://bsd.cafe

#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD

10(ish) years of FreeBSD/arm64

AndrewTurner - EuroBSDCon 2024

This will cover the history of FreeBSD on AArch64, how to learn the architecture before documentation was publicly available, getting support into the repo, architecture extension enablement, side projects along the way, and recent developments.

The History of the BSD Daemon

Marshall Kirk McKusick

[...] It starts with the first renditions in the 1970s of the daemons that help UNIX systems provide services to users. These early daemons were the inspiration for the well-known daemon created by John Lasseter in the early 1980s that became synonymous with BSD as they adorned the covers of the first three editions of `The Design and Implementation of the BSD Operating System' textbooks. [...]

2024: A Year of Advocacy and Growth for the FreeBSD Foundation

In 2024, [...] Through impactful events, strategic communications, strengthened partnerships, and direct community engagement, the Foundation solidified FreeBSD’s reputation as a powerful, reliable, and innovative open source operating system.

Gaming on BSD - update

https://github.com/es-j3/Steam-BSD-Runtime

Steam BSD Runtime is a script that utilizes Proton to run the latest version of Steam in FreeBSD, and tries to replicate vanilla Steam as much as possible.

https://github.com/namiarj/zrollback
Zrollback is an experimental in development tool for Managing ZFS snapshots with dialog (beware of its usage, it might lead to dataloss).
Help to develop the tool is welcome

FreeBSD on the PinePhone Pro

https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro

WIP Porting FreeBSD to run on the PinePhone Pro. The project is in its early stages, with FreeBSD booting but most hardware features not yet functional.

Bhyvemgr
Bhyvemgr is a bhyve management GUI written in Freepascal/Lazarus on FreeBSD. [...] Currently it supports amd64 and aarch64. The main goal is to be a desktop user application to easily and quickly setup and run virtual machines on the FreeBSD host.

The Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Story

Bell Labs colleagues Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie developed UNIX, a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system alternative to the batch processing systems then dominating the computer industry.