FreeDNS(freedns.afraid.org)
343 points by esher | 89 comments
Homepage of FreeDNS (afraid.org), a free and premium DNS hosting service offering dynamic DNS, static DNS, subdomain and domain hosting.
#freebsd on Hacker News
12 stories tagged freebsd, newest first.
Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD(crocidb.com)
353 points by speckx | 214 comments
Personal blog post describing migrating a blog from a decade-old Ubuntu 16.04 DigitalOcean VPS to a cheaper FreeBSD virtual machine on Hetzner.
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)(blog.hofstede.it)
564 points by zdw | 246 comments
A blog post sharing practical Unix shell tricks and keyboard shortcuts for bash and other shells to speed up everyday terminal work.
Why I love FreeBSD(it-notes.dragas.net)
485 points by enz | 246 comments
A personal blog post on the IT Notes site explaining why the author loves the FreeBSD operating system.
FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me(vladimir.varank.in)
387 points by varankinv | 311 comments
Blog post describing how the author used AI coding tools to build a FreeBSD Wi-Fi driver for the Broadcom BCM4350 chip in a 2016 MacBook Pro.
FediMeteo: A €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service(it-notes.dragas.net)
365 points by birdculture | 87 comments
Blog post on IT Notes describing how FediMeteo, a fediverse weather service, runs on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS serving thousands of followers.
A Love Letter to FreeBSD(tara.sh)
401 points by rbanffy | 266 comments
A personal blog post written as a love letter to FreeBSD, praising its coherent base system, boot environments, and long-term stability.
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again(jsteuernagel.de)
376 points by todsacerdoti | 148 comments
A personal blog post describing how the author switched to FreeBSD to make self-hosting enjoyable again after feeling burned out on their previous setup.
Jemalloc Postmortem(jasone.github.io)
724 points by jasone | 216 comments
Jason Evans's blog post announcing the end of active jemalloc development and reviewing its history, phases, successes, and failures over about 20 years.
A year of funded FreeBSD development(daemonology.net)
370 points by cperciva | 121 comments
Colin Percival's blog post reflecting on a year of Amazon-sponsored work on FreeBSD, including EC2 support and release engineering duties.
Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source(daemonology.net)
364 points by cperciva | 167 comments
Colin Percival's blog post explaining that Tarsnap has donated $274,482 (over 2^18 dollars) to open source since 2009, mostly to the FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs(twitter.com)
331 points by gslin | 314 comments
Tweet by Colin Percival noting that FreeBSD booting in Firecracker spends 7% of its time bubblesorting SYSINITs, prompting a switch to a faster sort.