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.

Keep track of FreeBSD's efforts to extend Laptop support*

Maybe you can even help

https://github.com/orgs/FreeBSDFoundation/projects/1/views/4

Jailfox - Firefox in a Freebsd Jail

repo: https://github.com/NapoleonWils0n/jailfox

source: yt

The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here

The survey will remain open until May 7, 2025, so we ask for your prompt participation. It should take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Thank you for your help!

src: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-2025-freebsd-community-survey-is-here/
direct survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/freebsdsurvey25

kld-rootkit
A collection of FreeBSD 14.2 rootkit kernel modules and utilities

src: https://github.com/mrg0ne/kld-rootkit

UPD: > It is a collection of kernel modules and utilities derived from the examples in Joseph Kong's excellent book DESIGNING BSD ROOTKITS (2007)