BSD Now

687: Long Term Support

BSD Now

Show Notes

NOTES

This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters

August/September Newsletter

News Roundup

All About the Whistle InterJet

FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

Beastie Bits

A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition

LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released

openssh-10.6 released

New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx

Brutal Unix

Tarsnap

This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.

Feedback/Questions

Sasha - bastille plugin

Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.

https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin

Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected]

Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

More from BSD Now

Oct 22, 2026

! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...

Oct 15, 2026

NOTES

Oct 8, 2026

Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...

Oct 1, 2026

NOTES

Sep 24, 2026

Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...

See all episodes →