HardenedBSD Joins Radicle as GitHub Alternatives Grow

HardenedBSD is moving its source code hosting away from centralized forges and onto Radicle, signaling growing interest in decentralized, self-hostable version control for infrastructure projects. The team says Radicle is now “usable” in practice, with core workflows working even as rough edges remain. Early tooling has also landed in the HardenedBSD ports tree to fetch distfiles from a radicle-httpd instance, roughly analogous to FreeBSD’s USE_GITHUB/USE_GITLAB helpers, and is already sufficient to build ports-mgmt/pkg. The project cautions about performance on large repos and recommends raising Radicle’s fetch-pack receive limit to ~3GB. More repository migrations are planned.

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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

HardenedBSD has moved its code repositories onto Radicle and says the decentralized Git platform is now “usable” for the project, with core functionality working despite remaining rough edges. The maintainer also added an early, minimal integration in the HardenedBSD ports tree to fetch distfiles from a radicle-httpd instance, comparable to FreeBSD-style USE_GITHUB/USE_GITLAB helpers; it is currently sufficient to build ports-mgmt/pkg but needs more work. The project notes performance limitations and recommends configuring Radicle for large repositories by setting node.limits.fetchPackReceive to at least 3GB in ~/.radicle/config.json. Repositories are available via rad.hardenedbsd.org, including HardenedBSD-src, HardenedBSD-ports, and HardenedBSD-pkg, with plans to migrate all repos over time.

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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

HardenedBSD has moved its code hosting to Radicle and says the decentralized Git-based platform is now “usable” for the project, with core functionality working despite remaining rough edges. The maintainer also added an early, “basic/naive” integration to the HardenedBSD ports tree to fetch distfiles from a radicle-httpd instance, similar to FreeBSD-style USE_GITHUB/USE_GITLAB, and reports it is sufficient to build ports-mgmt/pkg. The project notes performance issues with large repositories and recommends increasing Radicle’s fetch pack receive limit in ~/.radicle/config.json to at least 3GB. Repositories are browsable via rad.hardenedbsd.org, with HardenedBSD-src, HardenedBSD-ports, and HardenedBSD-pkg available now and more planned, including secadm.

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