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Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.Sponsored By:Jupiter Party Annual Membership: Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!Managed Nebula: Meet Managed Nebula from Defined Networking. A decentralized VPN built on the open-source Nebula platform that we love.Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMLinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, WashingtonTexas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TXTexas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer PortalDirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - UbuntuDirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching GuideLINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge RulesMagnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernelBrent's nixbsd configNomadBSD — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.GhostBSD — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating Systemgershwin-desktop — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchersgershwin-on-freebsd live isogershwin-on-debian live isogershwin-on-arch live isoMaintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD FoundationPick: kiji-proxy — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.Pick: Portbook — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.Pick: Sylve — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.AlchemillaHQ/Sylve — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSDFreshPorts: sysutils/sylve