Jails were the original container, shipped in FreeBSD 4.0 in March 2000, eight years before LXC and thirteen…
FreeBSD ships without sudo or doas by default, which surprises Linux admins on day one. The base system…
Most Jenkins guides target Linux, but FreeBSD handles it just as well. The jenkins-lts package is in the…
Most FreeBSD users know jails for lightweight process isolation, but bhyve is a different beast entirely. It is…
FreeBSD 15.0 ships with OpenSSH 10.0p2, which supports post-quantum key exchange algorithms out of the box. The defaults…
PF is one of the reasons people stay on FreeBSD once they try it. It’s a stateful packet…
BIND 9 remains the de facto DNS server for the internet, ISC’s reference implementation, now in its 9.18…
HAProxy is the Swiss army knife of load balancers. Nothing else gives you the same combination of HTTP-level…
The pool layout you choose on day one is almost impossible to change without a full backup-restore cycle.…
FreeBSD 15’s pkg repository ships Go 1.25.9, and getting a working Go environment takes about two minutes. This…
When Redis changed its license to RSAL in 2024, the Linux Foundation forked it as Valkey. FreeBSD’s pkg…
