It’s not too late to join us in Dublin for EuroBSDCon 2024! The conference starts on September 20th and follows the FreeBSD Developer Summit September 18-19.
Visit the FreeBSD booth for a chance to win a LEGO® typewriter giveaway. Drew Gurkowski from the Foundation will give a talk about the Foundation’s recent advocacy efforts and how we can help you advocate for FreeBSD.
Keep reading for the latest exciting updates in FreeBSD
Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund will invest €686,400 in the FreeBSD project to drive improvements in infrastructure, security, regulatory compliance, and developer experience.
New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices
We’re excited to announce the release of the CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark, a comprehensive guide designed to help you configure your FreeBSD systems securely and efficiently against evolving threats.
This month’s user spotlight is Metify, For its enterprise version of its product, Metify switched the underlying operating system layer from Linux to FreeBSD. With FreeBSD, Metify simplified and secured its software stack and boosted reliability.
Do you want to be featured in a future User Spotlight? Submit your user story, and we might write it up and publish it—and give you some swag.
Intelligent CIO: Get to Know: Deb Goodkin, Executive Director, FreeBSD Foundation
“Remember Pong? That’s how Deb Goodkin got her start. Here, she tells us what time in tech since has taught her so far.”
Intelligent CIO sat down with Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation, for an interview that covered her career in software and open source, the unique challenges of leading an open-source software foundation, and more!
FreeBSD offers an official package collection with over 34,000 packages. The pkg(8) package management tool, available since 2014, is more flexible than the original pkg_install, making installing software using official packages efficient and straightforward.
Can you help test native cloud containers on FreeBSD? From Sept. to Oct. 11, 2024, the FreeBSD Open Container Initiative Runtime Extension Working Group is hosting a time-boxed testing project for its experimental implementation of Podman.