New Podcast: FreeBSD with John Baldwin

In this episode of Software Engineering Daily, FreeBSD developer and contributor John Baldwin joins Gregor Vand to explore the origins of FreeBSD, how its governance model differs from other open-source projects, its role inside systems like Netflix’s CDN and PlayStation 4, and the challenges of maintaining a 30-year-old codebase.

Listen here:
https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/freebsd-with-john-baldwin/
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #BSD

Something I've been most surprised by while trying NetBSD is how much thought has been put into creating a high-quality TTY experience.

On Linux, trying to create a functional TTY work environment feels like a a hack. Things often don't work right or require lots of tinkering.

Here, everything just works. Straight out of the installer, I have 256 colour support, audio functionality, and the brightness/volume control keys just... work. No configuration. It's fantastic

#NetBSD #BSD #OpenSource

GhostBSD 27.1 to introduce Casper, a preinstalled AI assistant for system maintenance. Automate bug reports, system fixes, and OS management with local-first privacy powered by Claude AI.

More details here: https://ostechnix.com/ghostbsd-casper-ai-assistant/

#Ghostbsd #Casper #AI #Openclaw #Claude #Agent #AIAssistant #Opensource #BSD #Unix

Sorry for my previous rant, but Richard #Stallman has been predicting this since *decades* from their libre ITS machines suffering corporate bullshit forever. Their own GNU project was to liberate #Unix from the #AT&T hands. Yes, it was and it's a bit bloated from the #BSD perspective, I know, I was an OpenBSD user and now #9front, but #hyperbolaBSD will try to fix that: minimalist BSD freedom with a #GNU license. And you might not need to suffer FFSv2 fscking itself again ;) as a plus.

So you if you now need a free #Unix, you know what to support. Consider anything from #Redhat/#IBM ultimately tainted. #Trisquel
it's sadly on a razors' edge. They will patch it... until they can't anymore.

#GNU #Guix it's fine, but better if you pick it bia Bittorrent under a non-US mirror.

If you want a Unix 2.0, head to #9front, but help with ath9k drivers (there are none) as they are the only ones without needing binary blobs (less opaque things to debug and a total freedom to distribute them with base).

Have you registered for BSDCan yet? I finally got around to it myself a day or so ago ;) I really like to chat with Open/Net etc. BSD folks as well as Free since I'm a BSD Agnostic!

Full disclosure yes I am on the Committee but don't hold it against me.

#BSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragonFlyBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan

Apparently Artemis has a M$ problem. How the mighty have fallen!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.08230

#Artemis #BSD #RetroComputing

Announcing the BSD Cafe Billboard

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/04/02/announcing-the-bsd-cafe-billboard/