I commend this #podcast episode to the house: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/freebsd-with-john-baldwin/

#FreeBSD #CHERI #CheriBSD

#BSDCan_2025
Improvements to #FreeBSD #KASAN,
by Zhuo Ying Jiang Li,
https://toobnix.org/w/4QfYkB1s1bT3gZxxkrbys1

#CheriBSD #CHERI

Yay, #Morello machine updated, now running the latest #CheriBSD. It's been ages since I did a source upgrade of FreeBSD. Hopefully CheriBSD will get pkgbase support soon!

#FreeBSD #CHERI

[2022] So you want to add a system call? - Brooks Davis

https://exquisite.tube/w/adPxbUiKKDQNgETjisEmXc

Arm Morello

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zi28s83exk

– overheard during day one of the FreeBSD Developer Summit at BSDCan 2024.

https://www.bsdcan.org/2024/

https://www.arm.com/architecture/cpu/morello

#FreeBSD #Amarillo #TonyChristie #Arm #Morello #CheriBSD

The ‘security revenue addiction’ section in this WIRED article really struck home. I remember attending a talk by a new security VP at Microsoft who was talking about this revenue growth in after-market security products as if it were a good thing that customers needed to pay more to fix preventable issues in core products. It was then that I realised how hard it would be for Microsoft to push #CHERI. The cost of porting the Windows ecosystem across was large but the dent that it would put in that revenue stream was much larger.

This is a problem for incumbents (see: the innovator’s dilemma). If you already have 90% of the market, most changes will, at best, do nothing to your market share. If you have 5% then you need only a small number of switchers from the dominant platform do double your market share.

With the mature state of #CheriBSD (#FreeBSD for CHERI platforms), I think there’s a bit opportunity for another vendor to provide a CHERI solution and then pass the ‘must have two suppliers’ rule for requirements in government procurement.