FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-March/000181.html) From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/) News Roundup zfs-2.3.1 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.1) Complications of funding an open source operating system (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/) Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/) First Use on GhostBSD (https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/first-use-on-ghostbsd/) Better Shell History Search (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/better_shell_history_search.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Russell - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/606/feedback/russell%20-%20questions.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to
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