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The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 brings RISC-V cores to the board: what RISC-V is, what's new on the Pico 2, practical uses, and what it means for open hardware.
Tune FreeBSD for speed: kernel sysctls, asynchronous I/O, ZFS and UFS tweaks, network buffers and TCP settings, powerd, and SSD optimization.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are at the forefront of artificial intelligence, transforming the way we interact with technology. From chatbots to content creation, LLMs have a wide range of applications. In this beginner'
Build a highly available, load-balanced FreeBSD pair with HAProxy, CARP failover and pfsync state sync, with configs for each and failover tests.
Run Meta's Llama 3.1 on your own machine with Ollama: install it, start the server, pull the model and chat with it locally, in four steps.
FreeBSD vs OpenBSD compared across performance, security, ZFS support, hardware compatibility, and real-world use cases — so you pick the right BSD.
Get free Let's Encrypt certificates on FreeBSD with Certbot: install it from packages, issue certificates for Nginx or Apache, and renew with cron.
A practical guide to ZFS on FreeBSD: pools, datasets, snapshots, replication, and tuning — the filesystem that makes FreeBSD storage resilient.
Manage FreeBSD users and groups with adduser and pw: create, modify and delete accounts, change shells, add users to groups, and edit the account files.
Compare FreeBSD's firewalls — PF, IPFW, and IPFILTER — with working ruleset examples for NAT and hosting, and guidance on when to choose each.
A 2024 snapshot of FreeBSD adoption: global usage figures, the companies and institutions that run it, community demographics, and market trends.
Monitor a FreeBSD server with top, gstat and systat, nightly periodic reports, Monit alerts, Prometheus with node_exporter, and log shipping to a central host.