Hackernews posts about FreeBSD

FreeBSD is an open-source operating system that provides a free and stable alternative to proprietary Unix-like systems.

1. Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (jsteuernagel.de)
   399 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | 166 comments
2. Swift on FreeBSD Preview (forums.swift.org)
   234 points by glhaynes 6 days ago | 155 comments
3. Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD (conradresearch.com)
   193 points by vermaden 5 days ago | 47 comments
4. A brief look at FreeBSD (yorickpeterse.com)
   130 points by todsacerdoti about 15 hours ago | 67 comments
5. FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege (freebsdfoundation.org)
   58 points by marcodiego 16 days ago | 15 comments
6. FreeBSD Celebrates the Milestone of Reproducible Builds and No Root Needed (www.phoronix.com)
   45 points by mikece 16 days ago | 1 comments
7. FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 (freebsdfoundation.org)
   8 points by todsacerdoti 8 days ago | 1 comments
8. FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 (freebsdfoundation.org)
   7 points by birdculture 7 days ago | discuss
9. An Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.org)
   4 points by dypa 12 days ago | 1 comments
10. Wine Gaming in Containers with BastilleBSD Jails on FreeBSD (pertho.net)
    4 points by vermaden 5 days ago | discuss
11. Sandbox Your Program Using FreeBSD's Capsicum [video] (www.youtube.com)
    2 points by todsacerdoti 18 days ago | discuss
12. Run Linux containers on FreeBSD [video] (www.youtube.com)
    1 points by BSDobelix 12 days ago | discuss
13. I built sbsh: Persistent terminal sessions with discovery, profiles, and an API
    3 points by eminwux 8 days ago | 4 comments
14. Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users (fsfe.org)
    296 points by DavideNL 5 days ago | 177 comments
15. Writing FreeDOS Programs in C (www.freedos.org)
    144 points by AlexeyBrin 11 days ago | 73 comments
16. War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Grocery Prices Are Way Down (paulkrugman.substack.com)
    17 points by rbanffy about 12 hours ago | discuss
17. Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?
    217 points by evolve2k 4 days ago | 293 comments
18. Ask HN: How to find something to work on for myself?
    4 points by StuckWorking 1 day ago | 3 comments
19. Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple (freedium-mirror.cfd)
    14 points by RustSupremacist 5 days ago | 17 comments
20. AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service (christianheilmann.com)
    267 points by freediver 5 days ago | 194 comments
21. Beyond the Spectacle (rodgercuddington.substack.com)
    3 points by freespirt about 12 hours ago | 1 comments
22. I'm taking a three-week LLM fast (cekrem.github.io)
    3 points by freediver about 9 hours ago | discuss
23. A year of funded FreeBSD development (www.daemonology.net)
    382 points by cperciva 5 months ago | 126 comments
24. Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD (github.com)
    278 points by rguiscard about 1 month ago | 139 comments
25. FreeBSD 14.0-Release (www.freebsd.org)
    273 points by cperciva almost 2 years ago | 121 comments
26. The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf] (people.freebsd.org)
    247 points by ksec over 1 year ago | 111 comments
27. RavynOS Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD (ravynos.com)
    231 points by cable2600 almost 2 years ago | 176 comments
28. How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD? (2012) (knowyourmeme.com)
    197 points by sph almost 2 years ago | 13 comments
29. Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024) (aumont.fr)
    190 points by psxuaw 8 months ago | 243 comments
30. FreeBSD 13.4-Release (www.freebsd.org)
    162 points by todsacerdoti about 1 year ago | 52 comments
31. Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686k in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization (freebsdfoundation.org)
    158 points by nesarkvechnep about 1 year ago | 94 comments
32. FreeBSD 4 Bug may be present in Playstation 4/5 (wololo.net)
    143 points by gotschi_ almost 2 years ago | 65 comments
33. FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift (www.phoronix.com)
    142 points by vermaden almost 2 years ago | 97 comments
34. FreeBSD Suspend/Resume (vermaden.wordpress.com)
    139 points by vermaden 10 months ago | 64 comments
35. Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD (lists.freebsd.org)
    123 points by PaulHoule over 1 year ago | 110 comments
36. Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold (it-notes.dragas.net)
    122 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 5 comments
37. FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs (wiki.freebsd.org)
    119 points by fntlnz 3 months ago | 33 comments
38. FreeBSD: How Can We Make It More Attractive to New Users? (gyptazy.com)
    115 points by tosh about 1 year ago | 164 comments
39. Superstitious Users and the FreeBSD Logo (lists.freebsd.org)
    114 points by CppPro about 1 year ago | 104 comments
40. FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system (lwn.net)
    111 points by signa11 about 1 year ago | 140 comments
41. FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance over time (www.daemonology.net)
    109 points by cperciva about 1 year ago | 35 comments
42. FreeBSD-rustdate, a reimplementation of FreeBSD-update (rustdate.over-yonder.net)
    101 points by ggm about 1 year ago | 41 comments
43. FreeBSD for hi-fi audio: real-time processing, equalizer, MPD and FFmpeg (m4c.pl)
    101 points by m4c-pl 9 months ago | 39 comments
44. HardenedBSD Feature Comparison with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD (hardenedbsd.org)
    99 points by transpute about 1 year ago | 77 comments
45. Local Chatbot RAG with FreeBSD Knowledge (hackacad.net)
    98 points by todsacerdoti 4 months ago | 9 comments
46. VPP on FreeBSD (ipng.ch)
    93 points by bpbp-mango over 1 year ago | 7 comments
47. FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ (briancallahan.net)
    92 points by ingve over 1 year ago | 35 comments
48. A Journey from Linux to FreeBSD (freebsdfoundation.org)
    87 points by BSDobelix about 1 year ago | 60 comments
49. Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD (patmaddox.com)
    83 points by signa11 almost 2 years ago | 63 comments
50. AMD and FreeBSD Begin Collaborating over OS Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
    74 points by BSDobelix about 1 year ago | 17 comments
51. FreeBSD OCI Container on Jails/Bhyve with Support for Podman (freebsdfoundation.org)
    72 points by BSDobelix 11 months ago | 9 comments
52. Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD's strategic move toward broader adoption (freebsdfoundation.org)
    71 points by mav3ri3k about 1 year ago | 54 comments