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641: Open to Free

641: Open to Free

Update: 2025-12-11
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FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...



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



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Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes






We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary



News Roundup



ZFS Boot Environments Explained






Why I (still) love Linux






rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team






A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug and YouTube






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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.



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