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Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.
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Headlines
Why BSDs?
2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth
What are we excited for in tech in 2026?
• Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous
• The death of vmware and the possibilites for diversity that creates
• Capabilities arriving in FreeBSD main
• NetBSD on the WiiU and open hardware for retro computing
• Capabilities arriving with CheriIOT
News Roundup
Wireguard The FreeBSD Way
Beastie Bits
• BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey
• Re: ZFS status on NetBSD
Tarsnap
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