has freebsd taken a stance on ai? at a glance i'm not seeing references to systemd in their documentation pages

#FreeBSD #NoAI

Contributions to FreeBSD: LLMs and AI

From <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#when-not-to-use-a-pull-request> for the src tree:

＂Do not submit a pull request for … changes generated by AI tools without substantial human review and validation.＂

Comparable lines from a July 2025 edition:

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/015ae668899383ebf7969863dae1b45e169bbcdc/CONTRIBUTING.md?plain=1#L53-L54>

Back to June 2025, the Core Team Update at the FreeBSD Developer Summit, <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1mpelrz/comment/nk0m7bg/> includes links to:

― part of the recording

― <https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50650> @dch – ⚙ D50650 committers: add AI policy.

The more recent review – accepted:

⚙ D54817 Committer's Guide: Add project's AI policy and link to AI guide

<https://reviews.freebsd.org/D54817>

Related:

<https://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode/#llm>

@krishean

#FreeBSD #GSoC #LLM #human #validation #AI

FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available.

The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the stable/14 branch. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is available for multiple architectures and can be installed via ISO, USB, VM images, cloud platforms, and OCI containers.
Download and release information:
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.4R/announce/

Thank you to the Release Engineering Team and the many contributors who make each release possible.
#FreeBSD #OpenSource #ReleaseEngineering

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html - now that I have physical copies, I'll bring some to the upcoming conferences such as #asiabsdcon #bsdcan #eurobsdcon #freebsd #openbsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #networktrickery #freesoftware #libresoftware #bookofpf @EuroBSDCon @nostarch

#FreeBSD’s entry-level ee(1) text editor recently gained full #Unicode support 🎉
Huge thanks to @_bapt_
- much appreciated!

One more step toward making FreeBSD even more welcoming… #GenZ, we’re ready for you

Alt...

GenZ - we are ready !

Thanks everyone for the constructive discussion and participation in the naming poll over the past days. It was really helpful.

The former "Jails for NetBSD" project will move forward under the name "Cells for NetBSD".

New project page:
https://netbsd-cells.petermann-digital.de

Next steps will focus on stabilizing the current prototype, testing it with real-world workloads, and exploring further ideas around a NetBSD-native container technology.

#netbsd #freebsd

Just stumbled on http://bsdsec.net and damn, it’s perfect.All the security advisories & errata from #OpenBSD, #FreeBSD, #NetBSD, #MidnightBSD and the rest… all in one dead-simple page.
👉https://bsdsec.net

Alt...

bsdsec.net

@superuserdo is it a #FreeBSD login screen?

Hey #freebsd #bhyve users!

I'm trying to test draid virtually for #openzfsmastery, because nobody's gonna give me a shelf of 60 disks to play with. I set everything up like:

disk35_name="disk35"
disk35_type="ahci-hd"
disk35_dev="sparse-zvol"

Seems that if I have 35 ahci-hd entries, disk0 through disk34, bhyve and freebsd works. At disk35, the host panics on boot.

Is this expected with bhyve? Or does FreeBSD need a special tweak with 36 disks?

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #firewall #networktrickery #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

I’ve been following the discussions about the name of my NetBSD project ("Jails for NetBSD") across a few platforms over the past days and really appreciate the thoughtful feedback.

The short version: the current prototype is probably closer to a cell or a cage than a strict jail, so the name might indeed not be perfect. The project originally started as an experiment inspired by FreeBSD jails, but while exploring NetBSD internals it evolved into something slightly different: controlled process isolation built around the secmodel framework, a different approach for the tool chain and configuration, and without resource limits and network virtualization.

Because of that, I’m open to renaming the project at this stage.

I’ve attached a small poll with a few candidate names — please vote if you like.
And if the right name isn’t listed yet, feel free to drop suggestions in the comments 🙂

Project site: https://netbsd-jails.petermann-digital.de/

#netbsd #jails #freebsd #openbsd

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

#FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #runbsd #linux

The #eurobsdcon 2026 Call for Papers is open!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

Submit by June 20th, come to Brussels September 9-13 and mingle with #BSD people!

We also offer pre-submission guidance/mentoring, see within.

Wonder what BSD and the conferences are about? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

The #eurobsdcon call for papers is on!

https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/cfp/

We offer pre-submission mentoring, see within!

@EuroBSDCon #freebsd #netbsd #openbsd #freesoftware #libresoftware #brussels #bruxelles

I think 2026 is the right time to bring back BSDmag

https://archive.org/details/BSD_Magazine_11_2014/page/16/mode/1up

#DragonflyBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #MidnightBSD #RunBSD

CDE… But how to live it? #FreeBSD #RunBSD #CDE #Desktop

HTTP/3 on FreeBSD: Getting QUIC Working with nginx in a Bastille Jail | Larvitz Blog

https://blog.hofstede.it/http3-on-freebsd-getting-quic-working-with-nginx-in-a-bastille-jail/

#freebsd #bastilleBSD

I just wrapped up an interesting call that was originally scheduled for last week but rescheduled for today. The client is looking for a unique setup, and thanks to having an early re-read of the fantastic The Book of PF - 4th Edition, I was able to propose some configurations that had completely slipped my mind. The client is extremely curious, and this will likely lead to a new OpenBSD deployment in an interesting environment.

At the same time, I received an email from a professor at an Italian university whom I had encouraged to extend his lectures to include BSDs. I piqued his curiosity as well and proposed a session specifically on firewalls, focusing on OpenBSD and pf. He will be reading The Book of PF soon and will likely add it to his students' recommended reading list. I'll probably present them, too.

In short - one book, a thousand new possibilities. Infinite thanks to @pitrh for the massive and wonderful work behind it.

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #RunBSD #PF #Firewalling #IT #SysAdmin

World #RISC-V Days - Gujarat India

#NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #RunBSD

https://community.riscv.org/events/details/risc-v-international-risc-v-synergy-forums-technical-talks-and-webinars-presents-world-risc-v-days-gujarat-india/

#FreeBSD #zfs anybody know how to tell what the *actual* checksum chosen by OpenZFS is, on FreeBSD?

When a zpool is created by bsdinstall, it defaults to checksum=on, and a micro benchmark is done to choose the appropriate checksum (from fletcher4, sha256, sha512, skein, blake3).

I would like to know what that chosen checksum is.

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Checksums.html provides instructions for ZoL but its not matched on FreeBSD.
Sysctl shows only:

$ sysctl -a |egrep -i 'blake3|fletcher|sha2|sha5'
vfs.zfs.fletcher_4_impl: [fastest] scalar superscalar superscalar4 sse2 ssse3 avx2 avx512f avx512bw
vfs.zfs.sha512_impl: cycle [fastest] generic x64 avx avx2
vfs.zfs.sha256_impl: cycle [fastest] generic x64 ssse3 avx avx2 shani
vfs.zfs.blake3_impl: cycle [fastest] generic sse2 sse41 avx2 avx512

Which is not very helpful!

Inspecting zdb shows that the überblock uses fletcher4, if so that's a bad choice for almost all the machines I have, vs one of the more modern CPU-accelerated ones.

Uberblock:
magic = 0000000000bab10c
version = 5000
txg = 29818863
guid_sum = 12865431551488305392
timestamp = 1770722160 UTC = Tue Feb 10 11:16:00 2026
bp = DVA[0]=<0:1ef37817000:1000> DVA[1]=<0:1f26e5c1000:1000> DVA[2]=<0:8c341bf000:1000> [L0 DMU objset] fletcher4 uncompressed unencrypted LE contiguous unique triple size=1000L/1000P birth=29818863L/29818863P fill=75881 cksum=00000003035e0207:00000baf31d8f848:0016adf241101a15:1d6126f678dd7a91

Registration for BSDCan 2026 is open at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html + tutorial schedule published.

#bsdcan #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #development #networking #devops #sysadmin #conferences

For more on BSD and the BSD conferences, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-is-bsd-come-to-conference-to-find.html +
https://medium.com/@peter.hansteen/what-is-bsd-come-to-a-conference-to-find-out-06acd7d77fd8 )

"The Rest Is Trash"

We are now halfway through the nineteenth year of greytrapping, still tracking and collecting from the wealth of imbecility out there

https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html) #spamd #greytrapping #greylisting #openbsd #freebsd #spam #antispam #cybercrime

# FreeBSD
pkg ins vim   # same as pkg install vim
pkg sea vim   # same as pkg search vim
# NetBSD
pkgin in vim # same as pkgin install vim
pkgin se vim # same as pkgin search vim
# while in Debian
apt search vim  # no apt se/sea
apt install vim # no apt in/ins

My BSDCan submission has been approved!

It will be wonderful to be back in Ottawa, meet again all the "old" (and new) friends from the BSD world and, this time, present something that has saved me more than once... and it’s based on NetBSD!

#BSDCan #BSDCon #NetBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #RunBSD #BSDCan2026 #Ottawa #Canada #BSD

This morning I was thinking about something: one of the reasons why every enthusiast should consider going to a BSDCon is simple.

I eat a lot and I still come back slimmer 😄

2024 - EuroBSDCon: ate twice as much as usual, came back from Dublin 1 kg lighter.
2025 - BSDCan: breakfasts that could cover a whole day’s calories, huge delicious meals... came back from Ottawa 0.5 kg lighter.
2025 - EuroBSDCon: double breakfast (sweet + savory), massive lunches, delicious dinners (including a huge pizza, as @outofcreativity, @angie and @mwl can confirm) and still came back 0.5 kg lighter.

Positive emotions burn calories.

So come to BSDCons: you’ll come back happy and slimmer!

#RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD #BSDCon #AsiaBSDCon #BSDCan #EuroBSDCon

Deadline this weekend - apply by Feb 1st, 2026!

Do you want to go to EuroBSDCon https://2026.eurobsdcon.org/ but need support to do so?

Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for the Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!

https://eurobsdconfoundation.org/travel-grant.html

#eurobsdcon #netbsd #openbsd #freebsd #conference #travelgrant

Oh, I suppose I have been slacking and not telling you that if you order The Book of PF, 4th ed https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition now, you will get the *final version* ebook (print is still in progress) #bookofpf #openbsd #freebsd #networking #firewalls #pf #networktrickery #freesoftware #libresoftware @nostarch

Also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/yes_the_book_of_pf_4th_ed_is_coming.html