We could not pass the opportunity to inform you that in 42 days the European *BSD 
event of 2025 will start!
Grab your tickets 
at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org
You can find the schedule 
on: https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/
For everything else, peek at 
https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia 
September 25-28, 2025
Serving a simple website from a Jail with Bastille
A great article by @jhx for the BSD Cafe Journal!
https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/08/13/serving-a-simple-website-from-a-jail-with-bastille/
Serving a simple website from a Jail with Bastille
In this short little howto we will be setting up a simple Jail via Bastille and host a static website.
Beware: The article assumes that sudo is configured. You can of course also use doas or switch to root, if you so desire. Some commands need root rights to work – keep that in mind as you go along!
First, we need to install Bastille itself.
$ sudo pkg install -y bastille
After installing, we enable the bastille service.
$ sudo sysrc bastille_enable=YES
And finally we start it.
$ sudo […]
https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/08/13/serving-a-simple-website-from-a-jail-with-bastille/
Anyone seeing this on last week’s #FreeBSD aarch64 snapshot?
pkg-static: Missing shlib dependency: libutil.so.9
Steady in a shifting Open Source world: FreeBSD’s enduring stability
https://opensource.net/freebsd-steady-shifting-open-source-world/
Bastille turns "works on my machine" into "works in my jail" securely and repeatably.
It’s container automation, the FreeBSD way.
Studying at the morning is the best way to learn. I have successfully deployed Client1-Router-Client2 with netgraph and vnet. Screenshot 1 is the deployment result, and Screenshot 2 dot image produced by netgraph with some editing (my first time hacking Graphviz dot file, and so confusing. But actually quite simple).
My last objectives are to route the traffic between client 1 and client 2, and automate the netgraph process
Friends, it finally happened. On August 7th, 2025, the number of spamtraps intended to fool spammers rolled past the number of inhabitants in my home country of Norway. It's time for a retrospective.
Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html)
The BSDCan 2025 FreeBSD Developer Summit Core Team Update is now available to watch on YouTube.
This session offers a look at the ongoing work and discussions shaping FreeBSD’s direction, including:
-Planning for FreeBSD 15.0 and beyond
-Improving package delivery speeds via CDN
-Strengthening documentation and modernizing the wiki
-Ideas for smoother core team transitions and contributor engagement
Watch the full update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ace0C_wXII&t=958s
I've never hidden my admiration for #illumos-based systems. I have a few setups based on #OmniOS and #SmartOS, and they're solid as a rock. I like them both: OmniOS is more "malleable", while SmartOS is more of a hypervisor like #xcp-ng or #xen - meaning you install it on the host and delegate everything else to the zones.
I also love #FreeBSD jails, but zones sometimes cover use cases that jails can't (and vice versa). For example, imposing RAM limits in jails works, but it effectively "denies more ram" to a process when it requests more memory. The end user doesn't see this directly. On illumos, the user sees everything. I have some `lx` zones with Debian and Virtualmin, and users have never noticed that they aren't really on #Linux. A free or top will show only the assigned RAM.
And that's one of the biggest problems with open-source operating systems: they all have something good, and I always feel the urge to use them all! 
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/github-will-be-folded-into-microsoft-proper-as-ceo-steps-down/
"GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon," Dohmke wrote.
No thanks. Codeberg is as good a place to hang my hat as any.
Hello to our friends in Singapore 
!
We’re happy to announce that we just opened up a new POP in Sin1, SG to come even closer to you! What does it mean?! IP-Space in Singapore including GEO objects & lower latencies in your area 
Thanks to Route64 and @gyptazy !
NEW VIDEO - How Easy is it to set up an OpenBSD Desktop for a FreeBSD user?
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/ATnMPOg_k6E?si=vgbEYyOk_E3VovLw via @YouTube
NEW VIDEO - How Easy is it to set up an OpenBSD Desktop for a FreeBSD user?
#FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Unix #opensource #garyhtech
https://youtu.be/ATnMPOg_k6E?si=vgbEYyOk_E3VovLw via @YouTube
With Rocinante, your FreeBSD config is just a single Bastillefile away.
No bloated tools.
No YAML jungles.
Just clean, repeatable automation.
Migrating from github to codeberg was very easy.
BastilleBSD = FreeBSD hardened + automation ready.
Ship with sane default.
Build on a secure base.
Run anywhere you trust.
