OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more...

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Headlines

OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly

Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

News Roundup

Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They Run NetBSD So They Can Not

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 Intel

January 2026 Finance Report

Beastie Bits

• The DragonFly site has a recently-updated page describing how DPorts is assembled and the process to contribute.
• TUHS - Unix use of VAX protection modes
• Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

- The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD Tarsnap

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