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“Oopsies!” FreeBSD Devs Say There’s Still GPL in the Kernel

FreeBSD thought it had scrubbed all GPL code, but a few kernel leftovers remained.
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FreeBSD 16 Cleans House: No GPL Left in the Base System

The removal of GPL code from FreeBSD 16’s base system isn’t just housekeeping — it reflects a BSD vision of “software freedom” that differs from FSF, Gnu, and Linux.
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FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

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.
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FreeBSD Wants to Know a Few Things

FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.
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Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!

Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially released! I am excited as I write this and can’t wait to share some incredible new features and improvements in this release. GIMP 2.1…

Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems

Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or setting up mirrors. It minimizes data copied by transfe…

ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.0

After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAID 5, which you find with hardware or Linux software rai…

Ardour: A Powerful Tool for Music Making and Audio Editing

Ardour is a simple, easy-to-use, and powerful audio recording and processing tool for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows. Ardour is a freeware application that comes with its own set of built-in features to record and organize sound. As a sophisticated tool, Ardour requires a little bit of experience with recording and processing sound. Ardour’s main […]

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Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Injects €686,400 Into FreeBSD

Germany’s STF funds FreeBSD with €686,400 to advance zero trust builds & SBOM tooling for enhanced security.
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Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund Puts Over $750K Into FreeBSD Infrastructure Projects

The FreeBSD Foundation will organize and manage the projects that STF is funding, which mainly focuses on security.
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FreeBSD Announces Changes to Release Schedule and Support Period

Colin Percival, FreeBSD release engineering lead, has recently announced changes to FreeBSD release schedule and support period.
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lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix

It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to view log files. However, you may need help with so many …

How to Upgrade to FreeBSD 14 from 13

If you are running the earlier FreeBSD 13 series (13.2-P5), here are the steps you may follow to upgrade to the FreeBSD 14 release.
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FreeBSD 14 Release: Best New Features

After a long development and testing phase covering four RC cycles, FreeBSD 14 is now officially available to download and upgrade. FreeBSD 14 brings several noteworthy changes that enhance both functionality and user experience. In this article, we wi…

How to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 From FreeBSD 13.1

If you’re running older FreeBSD versions, you can upgrade to the latest available version. Here’s how to upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 from FreeBSD 13.1.
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How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version 13.1 to 13.2 using the CLI over an ssh-based session. …

helloSystem: A New, Promising Macintosh-like Free Desktop OS

helloSystem is a completely new desktop operating system based on FreeBSD. It is created by the founder of AppImage technology for GNU/Linux, Simon Peter, a software developer from Germany. Its look and feel mostly designed to be like MacOS but ten tim…

GhostBSD: A Simple Unix-Like Desktop OS Based on FreeBSD

GhostBSD is an open-source Unix-like desktop operating system created upon the most recent release version of FreeBSD. Learn more about it here.
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macOS Alternative helloSystem 0.7.0 is Moving Toward Stability

Check out the release highlights of helloSystem 0.7.0 version, based on FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE, which brings a more stable system.
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GhostBSD – A Simple Unix-like Desktop OS Based on FreeBSD

The post GhostBSD – A Simple Unix-like Desktop OS Based on FreeBSD first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Brief: This article describes the basic instructions on installing GhostBSD using the graphical installer using DVD / USB me…