# BSD

Bookmarks about Free/Net/OpenBSD.

## Contents

## Communities & sites {#sites}

- [BoxyBSD](/boxybsd):
  A free IPv6-only Free/Net/OpenBSD VPS provider.
  Provides BSD VMs to professionals, students, and enthusiasts at no cost.
- [SDF](https://sdf.org):
  A public-access Unix system that is the world's largest NetBSD installation site.
  SDF has a [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System).
- [tilde.institute](https://tilde.institute/):
  A [tildeverse](https://tilde.wiki/Tildeverse) public-access Unix system running OpenBSD.
- [UnitedBSD](https://www.unitedbsd.com/):
  A BSD user forum.
  Covers the major BSDs and Solaris; focused on NetBSD.

## Writing

### FreeBSD

- <!-- 2021-06-06 -->["FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective"](https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user), washbear (2021)
- <!-- 2022-07-29 -->[How to install FreeBSD on a dedicated server from a Linux rescue environment](https://depenguin.me/), bretton (2022)
- <!-- 2024-01-06 -->["Plan 9 from Outer Host: Using 9P2000 for bHyve VM mounts in FreeBSD"](https://www.sisyphus.de/post/2024-01-06-9p-for-freebsd-bhyve/), Tobias Henöckl (2024)
- <!-- 2024-07-27 -->["BTRFS read write on freeBSD: It is possible, and works well"](https://treefort.piusbird.space/blog/btrfs-freebsd/), Matt Arnold (2024)
- <!-- 2024-11-26 -->["Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve"](https://abnml.com/blog/2024/11/26/replacing-proxmox-with-freebsd-and-bhyve/), Steven Anderson (2024)
- <!-- 2025-01-26 -->["LXQT Desktop Guide"](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/lxqt-desktop-guide.96567/), RacerBG (2025)

### NetBSD

- <!-- 2007-02-01 -->["NetBSD survival guide"](https://www.luke.maurits.id.au/writing/netbsd-survival-guide.html), Luke Maurits (2007)
- <!-- 2021-05-16 -->["NetBSD Tips and Tricks"](https://netbsd.stupin.su/en/tips/), Stefan Schaeckeler (2021)
- <!-- 2024-07-12 -->["From Linux to NetBSD, with SSH only"](https://cloudbsd.xyz/main/), Naguam (2024)
- <!-- 2024-12-16 -->["Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z"](https://luke8086.dev/netbsd-on-th), luke8086 (2024)
- <!-- 2025-02-16 --> ["NetBSD on a JavaStation"](https://fatsquirrel.org/oldfartsalmanac/netbsd-on-a-javastation/), veg (2025)

### OpenBSD

- <!-- 2005-04 -->["A technical look at the OpenBSD operating system from a NetBSD perspective"](https://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/openbsd-comparison.html), Hubert Feyrer (2005)
- <!-- 2015-02 -->["OpenBSD 6.5 on an iMac G3 from 1999 (iMac,1)"](https://www.increasinglyadequate.com/macppc.html), anonymous (2015)
- <!-- 2018-01-25 -->["How to Increase OpenBSD's Resilience to Power Outages"](https://www.mimar.rs/blog/how-to-increase-openbsds-resilience-to-power-outages), Marko Cupać (2018)
- <!-- 2024-02-20 -->["Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known"](https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-02-20-rarely-known-openbsd-features.html), Solène Rapenne (2024)
- <!-- 2024-11-15 -->["Why I stopped using OpenBSD"](https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-11-15-why-i-stopped-using-openbsd.html), Solène Rapenne (2024)

## See also

- [My FreeBSD star list](https://github.com/stars/dbohdan/lists/freebsd)
- [Long-running servers](/long-running)

## Page metadata

URL: <https://dbohdan.com/bsd.md>

Published 2025-07-06, updated 2025-11-01.

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