#freebsd Articles

Migrating a Mastodon instance to FreeBSD with BastilleBSD - a multi-jail architecture with aggressive service separation, centralized PF firewalling, and a fully dual-stack network design.

A reproducible dual-stack configuration for FreeBSD on Hetzner Cloud with VNET jails, PF NAT for IPv4, and a /65 split trick to give jails native globally-routable IPv6 from a single /64.

Achieving near-Linux battery life on the T480 while staying purely BSD.

Using sysctl, coretemp, and shell scripting to monitor CPU and disk temperatures on FreeBSD - a lightweight approach without heavy monitoring frameworks.

A side-by-side reference of FreeBSD and Linux commands covering hardware, disks, networking, packages, services, users, and system management - for Linux admins getting started with FreeBSD.