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Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD a… read more

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

An important message from RadioPublic

552: The Laptop Sparc

March 28th, 2024

59:33

Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi, TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD, SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop, Sparkbook Teardown, SSH over HTTPS, …

551: SSH Port Story

March 21st, 2024

52:21

This week on the show, The story of SSH getting port 22, GGC using Clang, AuxRunner, Stabweek, Using a Kensington SlimBladePro on OpenBSD, and more...

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550: Netware and Netmap

March 12th, 2024

53:16

This week on the show, you're not too late to develop the future, netmap on czgbe, OpenZFS 2.2.3, SSH Brute Forcing, some unknown OpenBSD Features, Release notes for the latest Omni OS, and more...

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549: htop Tetris

March 7th, 2024

56:46

FreeBSD Foundation Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, How FreeBSD
Employs Ampere Arm64 Servers in the Data Center, FreeBSD Yubikey authentication, that time I …

548: NTP - In Memoriam

February 29th, 2024

56:59

FreeBSD Status Report Q4 2023, In Memorium of the NTP inventor, Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS, AI-free blog, Hard disk LEDs and Noisy Machines, SSH based comment system, NetBSD 10 RC.4 is available, …

547: IT Impostor Syndrome

February 22nd, 2024

44:02

Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT, A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples, Early computer art by Barbara Nessim, Don't prefill config files, Trapping Spambots Based on Target Domain Only, You cannot cURL under …

546: Debunking FreeBSD Myths

February 15th, 2024

53:49

Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD, Please, don’t force me to log in, Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics, Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with …

545: BSD Audio Enhancements

February 8th, 2024

1:03:23

ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep, Stop
Blogging and start documenting, 2023 in Review: Infrastructure, NovaCustom NV41
laptop review, OpenBSD Video Audio Screen Recording, HDMI Audio sound …

544: Geeky weather check

February 1st, 2024

1:07:08

GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions,
The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a
FreeBSD …

543: OpenBSD Workstation Hardening

January 25th, 2024

59:21

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs, 2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement, Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find …

542: Retro and Futuro

January 18th, 2024

53:11

8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024, System Design
for Advanced Beginners, 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective, Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10*RC1, FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio …

541: Learning and Teaching

January 11th, 2024

55:13

Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14, HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report, How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop, A sneak Peak, Programming FreeBSD Reading Process …

540: Terrapin Attacks SSH

January 4th, 2024

53:13

Terrapin Attack, SSH Hardening with ssh-audit, MidnightBSD 3.1.2, syscall(2) removed from -current, 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here

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539: Query all hosts

December 28th, 2023

59:40

In this special holiday episode, we, the BSDNow hosts, get together to answer questions that listeners have sent us over time. We give you updates on …

538: Gadget Catalog Age

December 21st, 2023

41:02

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs, FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0, Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Netgate Releases pfSense CE …

537: Authentic SSH Host

December 14th, 2023

53:16

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases pt 2, MNT Reform – almost a year on, Why do I know shell, and how can you, Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to, dsynth in DragonFly, Navigating around in …

536: Pot-flavored Jails

December 7th, 2023

51:49

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases, EuroBSDcon trip report, Disks from the Perspective of a File System, Creating Jails using flavours in pot, OpenIKED 7.3 released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released, FreeBSD can now …

535: Untitled Episode

November 30th, 2023

56:38

FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in …

534: Narrow Waisted Internet

November 23rd, 2023

1:03:00

Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos

533: Package the Base

November 16th, 2023

44:11

FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released

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532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship

November 9th, 2023

54:25

218 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery …

531: Everlasting Software

November 2nd, 2023

1:02:52

OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, and more

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530: Old Computer Rescue

October 26th, 2023

54:15

Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using …

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse

October 19th, 2023

1:02:06

Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, …

528: Pledge the Program

October 12th, 2023

53:39

If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a …

527: Reports are in

October 5th, 2023

1:00:43

Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE …

526: ZFS Replication Tools

September 28th, 2023

46:49

Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge …

525: Old NetBSD Server

September 21st, 2023

44:19

Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 …

524: Legendary Unix Recovery

September 14th, 2023

57:42

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a …

523: Literally Unix

September 7th, 2023

40:11

The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, and more

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting

August 31st, 2023

48:26

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, and more

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521: BSD Summer Reading

August 24th, 2023

57:00

FreeBSD Status Report Q2 2023, Klara Systems Recommended Summer Reads 2023, install Kanboard on OpenBSD howto, A bit of Unix history on 'su -', hints for splitting commits, Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam, and more

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520: 4 months BSD

August 17th, 2023

43:26

4 Months of BSD, Self Hosted Calendar and address Book, Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs, Self-hosted git page, Bastille template example, Restrict nginx Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD, and more.

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519: Telegram from BSDNow

August 10th, 2023

37:25

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating …

518: Unix Edition Zero

August 3rd, 2023

56:42

A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple …

517: Huge pfsync rewrite

July 27th, 2023

46:49

Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27 Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite, OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really …

516: Computer Time Origins

July 20th, 2023

46:07

Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, and more

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515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf

July 13th, 2023

40:15

FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories, ChatGPT was asked to write a pf.conf to spec, GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available, OPNsense 23.1.9 released, Running …

514: Infecting Public Keys

July 6th, 2023

48:30

OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware, I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages, I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer", Writing shell scripts in Nushell, Sudo and signal propagation, …

513: New Host Interview

June 29th, 2023

53:24

We have a new show host, Understanding ZFS vdev Types, Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges, Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3, new Libressl, Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12, and more

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512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat

June 22nd, 2023

40:35

Recorded at BSDCan 2023

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Headlines BSDNow - The early years BSDNow - Production Process News Roundup FreeBSD …

511: Against Innovation

June 15th, 2023

50:54

Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them, OpenZFS for HPC Clusters, Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD, Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3, WOL Plex Server, Against innovation, and more

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510: The BSD Slabtop

June 8th, 2023

46:40

AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices, The Gnome and Its "Secret Place", ttyload, and more

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509: Dot File Naming

June 1st, 2023

41:14

Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance, Install OpenBSD as a VM, Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD, display basic computer information using DMI table decoder, Gpart CheatSheet, Rob …

508: Foundational Proceedings

May 25th, 2023

41:05

FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members, OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments, SCaLE20X Conference Report, 916 days of …

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview

May 18th, 2023

58:41

Author Michael W. Lucas joins us in this interview to talk about his latest book projects. Find out what he’s up to regarding mail servers, conferences, his views on ChatGPT, and more.

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506: A greener BSD

May 11th, 2023

32:04

Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions, FreeBSD Q1 Status Report, Hello Systems 0.8.1 Release, OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with …

505: BSD Desktop Setup

May 4th, 2023

29:26

OpenBSD 7.3 released, Accelerating Datacenter Energy Efficiency by Leveraging FreeBSD as Your Server OS, install Cinnamon as a Desktop environment, xmonad FreeBSD set up from scratch, Burgr books in your terminal, and …

504: Release the BSD

April 27th, 2023

36:06

FreeBSD 13.2 Release, Using DTrace to find block sizes of ZFS, NFS, and iSCSI, Midnight BSD 3.0.1, Closing a stale SSH connection, How to automatically add identity to the SSH authentication agent, Pros and Cons of …

503: Fast Unix Commands

April 20th, 2023

36:54

ZFS Optimization Success Stories, Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces, better support for SSH host certificates, Fast Unix Commands, Fascination with AWK, and more

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502: Ping from Hell

April 13th, 2023

35:41

5 Key reasons for a OpenZFS Performance Audit, The Ping from Hell, OpenBGPD 7.9 released, Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks, and more

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501: Boot that Snapshot

April 6th, 2023

38:02

Nextcloud + OpenBSD = <3, Understanding the Origins of DTrace, Bastille Templates for FreeBSD Jails, Initial support for guided disk encryption in the OpenBSD installer, Dynamic host configuration please, OpenBSD …

500: Guarding the Wire

March 30th, 2023

36:18

Wireguard VPN Server with Unbound on OpenBSD, Auditing for OpenZFS Storage Performance, OpenBSD 7.2 on a Thinkpad X201, Practical Guides to fzf, Replacing postfix with dma, and more

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499: Dan Langille Interview

March 23rd, 2023

40:20

We’re interviewing Dan Langille about his new server project. He’ll talk to us about the things he’s building, some of which are a bit out of the ordinary. We’re also talking about BSDCan 2023 and what to expect after …

498: Dropping Privileges

March 16th, 2023

42:58

OpenZFS auditing for storage Performance, Privilege drop; privilege separation; and restricted-service operating mode in OpenBSD, OPNsense 23.1.1 release, Cloning a System with Ansible, FOSDEM 2023, BSDCan 2023 Travel …

497: Random Relinking SSHD

March 9th, 2023

42:29

How to Catch a Bitcoin Miner, A Call For More Collaboration, zstd updates, hating hackathons, How to monitor multiple log files at once, KeePassXC, …

496: Hacking the CLI

March 2nd, 2023

45:05

Automation and Hacking Your FreeBSD CLI, Run your own instant messaging service on FreeBSD, Watch Netflix on FreeBSD, HardenedBSD January 2023 Status Report, How To Set Up SSH Keys With YubiKey as two-factor …

495: Limited Jail Time

February 23rd, 2023

30:18

FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2022, How to limit a jail, the parallel port, Hello System 0.8, Solbournes in space, and more

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494: Unix workstation extinction

February 16th, 2023

46:45

Mass extinction of UNIX workstations, Determine Who Can Log In to an SSH Server, Factors When Considering FreeBSD vs. Linux Packages, A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels, Harvesting the Noise While it’s Fresh, Bastille - The …

493: Dotfile Management

February 9th, 2023

42:29

Write Admin tools from Day One, Differentiating between Data Security and Data Integrity, 45 year-old Unix tool is finally getting an upgrade, …

492: Feeling for NetBSD

February 2nd, 2023

38:43

Writing your own operating system, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: …

491: Catch the Spammers

January 26th, 2023

42:18

Dragonfly BSD 6.4 is out, Running OpenZFS – Choosing Between FreeBSD and Linux, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems ebook leaks, catching 71% spam, crazy unix shell prompts, Linux Binary Compatibility: Ubuntu on FreeBSD, …

490: New Year’s Plan9’ing

January 19th, 2023

46:13

FreeBSD Foundation’s Software Development review of 2022, what can we learn from Vintage Computing, OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022, a Decade of HardenedBSD, In Praise of Plan9, and more

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489: Refreshing Perspective

January 12th, 2023

36:11

FreeBSD vs. Linux – Networking, HDMI sound output through TV speakers on FreeBSD 13, Getting started with tmux, Samba Active Directory, OpenIKED 7.2 released, FreeBSD Plasma 5 GUI Install, DHCP server howto in German, …

488: Old ping(8) bug

January 5th, 2023

35:25

Finding a 24 year old bug in ping(8), The Role of Operating Systems in IOT, Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.4 is out, and more

487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2

December 29th, 2022

34:19

This year end episode of BSDNow features a trip report to EuroBSDcon by Mr. BSD.tv, as well as an interview with FreeBSD committer John Baldwin. Happy New Year, 2023!

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486: EuroBSDcon interviews

December 22nd, 2022

39:01

This special episode features two interviews we did at EuroBSDcon in Vienna this year. We talk with FreeBSD developers about how they got started, their current projects and more. Also, consider donating to your …

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant

December 15th, 2022

43:32

Tails of the M1 GPU, Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail, interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan, Next steps toward …

484: Birth of stderr

December 8th, 2022

36:26

Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more

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483: ZFS Time Machine

December 1st, 2022

50:46

Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and …

482: BSD XFCE Desktop

November 24th, 2022

39:20

5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more.

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481: Fiery Crackers

November 17th, 2022

47:54

FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an …

480: OpenBSD 7.2

November 10th, 2022

48:55

OpenBSD 7.2 and FuguIta have been released, Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team, how to get notified about FreeBSD updates, using unbound for ad blocking on OpenBSD, further memory protections on OpenBSD …

479: OpenBSD Docker Host

November 3rd, 2022

42:03

EuroBSDcon 2022 as first BSD conference, Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails, Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8), history of sending …

478: Debunking sudo myths

October 27th, 2022

46:13

Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new debugbreak command, 7 sudo …

477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures

October 20th, 2022

46:57

Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite …

476: Warren Toomey interview

October 13th, 2022

44:34

In this special episode, we interview Warren Toomey from the Unix Historical Society. We chat about his involvement in preserving old Unix systems …

475: Prompt Injection Attacks

October 6th, 2022

47:37

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your …

474: EuroBSDcon 2022

September 29th, 2022

46:13

Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud, A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends, EuroBSDcon 2022 recap, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report, OpenBGPD 7.6 Released, immutable userland mappings, Portable OpenSSH commits …

473: Rusty Kernel Modules

September 22nd, 2022

46:21

Writing FreeBSD kernel modules in Rust, Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE, Linux subsystem for FreeBSD, FreeBSD Journal: Science, Systems, and …

472: Consistent Exit Code

September 15th, 2022

45:22

FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop, Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux, why OpenBSD’s documentation is so good, configure dma for mail delivery in jails on internet hosts, introducing muxfs, RAID1C boot support, and more

471: De-Penguinization

September 8th, 2022

49:08

Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD, BSD for Linux users, r2k22 Hackathon Report on rpki-client, Configuring OpenIKED, De-Penguin Me, and more.

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470: 0mp interview

September 1st, 2022

52:38

In this special episode, we are interviewing Mateusz Piotrowski about his various roles in the FreeBSD project, his ports work, and a few other …

469: Ctrl-C Reset

August 25th, 2022

42:30

FreeBSD Q2 2022 Status Report, FreeBSD in Science, fastest yes(1) in the west, Why Programmers Can’t "Reset" Programs With Ctrl-C, Run Slack in …

468: Apples and CHERI

August 18th, 2022

38:19

Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond, NetBSD 9.3 released, OPNsense 22.7 available, CHERI-based computer runs KDE for the first time, Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac, and more

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467: Minecraft on NetBSD

August 11th, 2022

48:30

Installing BSDs on Cubieboard1, Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd, NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server, A Little Story About the yes Unix Command, Shell History: Unix, OpenBGPD 7.5 released, …

466: cat(1)’s efficiency

August 4th, 2022

53:39

Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development, bringing TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things, How efficient can cat(1) be, boost the speed of Unix shell programs, Running FreeBSD VNET Jails on AWS EC2 with …

465: Deep Space Debugging

July 28th, 2022

38:45

Debugging Lisp in Deep Space, 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD & AsciiDoc, Deleting old snapshots on FreeBSD, Full multiprocess support in …

464: Compiling with kefir

July 21st, 2022

39:20

From 0 to bhyve on FreeBSD, Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge, OpenBSD Webzine: ISSUE #10, HardenedBSD June 2022 Status Report, two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir in OpenBSD, SSD TRIM in NetBSD …

463: The 1.0 Legend

July 14th, 2022

55:11

Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD, Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking, Audio on FreeBSD – Quick Guide, FreeBSD’s Legend starts at 1.0, Hacker News running by FreeBSD, TrueNAS 13, and more

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462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch

July 7th, 2022

53:49

The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system, selling OpenBSD as a salesperson, Speeding up autoconf with caching, Allowing non-root execution of a jailed application, Configure login(1) and sshd(8) for …

461: Persistent Memory Allocation

June 30th, 2022

49:40

Q1 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2022, Nginx on OpenBSD 7.1, Persistent Memory Allocation, Colorize your BSD shell, cgit With Gitolite and Nginx on …

460: OpenBSD airport folklore

June 23rd, 2022

37:38

Containerd gains support for launching Linux containers on FreeBSD, OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64, true minimalistic window manager does not exist, …

459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark

June 16th, 2022

54:05

Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use, Time Machine-like Backups on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on the Graviton 3, Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a …

458: Traceroute interpretation

June 9th, 2022

48:41

Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell, Spammers in the Public Cloud, locking user accounts properly, overgrowth on NetBSD, moreutils, ctwm & spleen, interpreting a traceroute, and more

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457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow

June 2nd, 2022

47:03

Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE …

456: FreeBSD 13.1

May 26th, 2022

51:19

FreeBSD 13.1 is released, Unix command line conventions over time, Branching for NetBSD 10, Microbhyve, Own your Calendar and Contacts with OpenBSD, the PSARC case for ZFS, and more

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455: Ken Thompson Singularity

May 19th, 2022

45:21

OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD …

454: Compiling 50% faster

May 12th, 2022

48:50

OpenBSD 7.1 is out, Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2, Let's try V on OpenBSD, Waiting for Randot, Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster, A Salute for 10+ years of service, and more

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453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor

May 5th, 2022

45:13

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD …

452: The unknown hackers

April 28th, 2022

46:29

The unknown hackers, Papers we love to read, Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed, OpenSSH 9.0 released, OS battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS, and more

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451: Tuning ZFS recordsize

April 21st, 2022

1:00:45

Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, …

450: Unix Tool Writing

April 14th, 2022

58:53

The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, …

449: Reproducible clean $HOME

April 7th, 2022

50:17

FreeBSD Status Report 4th Quarter 2021, Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence, Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server, helloSystem 0.7.0 is out, lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting, going to jail, and more.

448: Controlling Resource Limits

March 31st, 2022

45:22

Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland …

447: Path to BSD

March 24th, 2022

53:54

FreeBSD Foundation Proposals, UNIX: On the Path to BSD, Fujitsu ends its mainframe and Unix services, Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator, …

446: Debugging ioctl problems

March 17th, 2022

48:24

Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, …

445: Journey to BSD

March 10th, 2022

47:12

Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, and …

444: Historic Developments

March 3rd, 2022

53:36

The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more.

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443: Certified Unix Compliant

February 24th, 2022

46:29

Certifying an OS Unix compliant, 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report, Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD, file hashes updated for NetBSD 8.1, Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD, Why "process …

442: Birthing Unix

February 17th, 2022

46:19

The Birth of Unix, Help request for three big Lumina items, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report, OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" released, and more.

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441: Migration to BSD

February 10th, 2022

50:13

Migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD, Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD, LibBSDDialog, FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET, and more.

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440: BSD Inside Zone

February 3rd, 2022

44:57

GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to …

439: Browser Tab Unix

January 27th, 2022

39:28

ACM: It takes a community, Don’t use discord for OSS projects, Unix in a browser tab, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 available, Omni OS CE v11 is out, and more.

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438: Toolchain Adventures

January 20th, 2022

46:35

FreeBSD Foundation reviews 2021 activities, DragonflyBSD 6.2.1 is here, Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 available, toolchain adventures, The OpenBSD BASED …

437: Audit that package

January 13th, 2022

41:03

Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit, 20 year old bug that went to Mars, FreeBSD on Slimbook, LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support, Steam on OpenBSD, Cool but …

436: Unix Standards Battle

January 6th, 2022

43:32

UNIX Wars, What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3, FreeBSD 12.3 is here, TrueNAS 13 begins, what Unix pre-boot envs looked liked, …

435: Year End Interview

December 30th, 2021

33:51

In this last episode of 2021, we interview Solene from OpenBSD. She’s blogging about her experiences with OpenBSD on dataswamp.org, the webzine she …

434: It’s Quiz-mas time

December 23rd, 2021

58:30

In this special xmas episode we let the audience interview us using questions they sent us and we’ll answer now. Tom, Allan, JT, and I are all here, so stay tuned for some interesting answers to your questions.

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433: GhostBSD of Christmas

December 16th, 2021

29:18

GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web …

432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah

December 9th, 2021

54:43

HAMBug hybrid meeting, Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0, OpenZFS 3.0 introduced at Dev Summit, HardenedBSD Home Infrastructure Status, Running Awk in parallel, FreeBSD Announces Wayland 1.19.91, and more

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431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents

December 2nd, 2021

43:57

Why use OpenBSD part 2, FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4, Ending up liking GNOME, OPNsense 21.7.5 released, Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2, and more

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430: OpenBSD Onwards

November 25th, 2021

45:46

Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk …

429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots

November 18th, 2021

39:04

FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD …

428: Cult of BSD

November 11th, 2021

54:21

OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a …

427: Logging is important

November 4th, 2021

43:45

Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition …

426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero

October 28th, 2021

59:12

A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more.

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425: Releases galore

October 21st, 2021

41:57

The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more.

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424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge

October 14th, 2021

49:41

J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from …

423: RACK the Stack

October 7th, 2021

51:30

FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, …

422: The Brian Callahan Interview

September 30th, 2021

49:59

We interview Dr. Brian Callahan about his language porting work for OpenBSD, teaching with BSDs and recruiting students into projects, research, and his work at NYC*BUG in this week’s episode of BSDnow.

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421: ZFS eats CPU

September 23rd, 2021

50:42

Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, …

420: OpenBSD makes life better

September 16th, 2021

49:18

Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth …

419: Rethinking OS installs

September 9th, 2021

51:39

Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more.

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418: The greatest time in history to be a creator

September 2nd, 2021

52:25

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, …

417: bhyve private cloud

August 26th, 2021

57:18

Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home …

416: netcat printing

August 19th, 2021

53:14

OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more.

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415: Wrong OS Switch

August 12th, 2021

54:17

Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P …

414: Running online conferences

August 5th, 2021

1:03:11

OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more.

413: BSD/Linux Chimera

July 29th, 2021

46:21

Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD, AdvanceBSD thoughts 2/2, FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective, FPGA programming and DragonFly, Chimera Linux, EuroBSDcon 2021, and more.

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412: Command-line secrets

July 22nd, 2021

50:46

FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance!BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more.

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411: FreeBSD Deep Dive

July 15th, 2021

46:21

Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in …

410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway

July 8th, 2021

41:54

Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more.

409: The Filesystem Dungeon

July 1st, 2021

52:03

DTrace network probes, next 50 years of shell programming, NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, system CPU time in top, your filesystem as a dungeon, diving …

408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021

June 24th, 2021

57:49

Report from virtual FreeBSD DevSummit 2021, another promising release by FreeBSD Based helloSystem, GearBSD, OpenBGPD release, Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note, and more

NOTES
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407: The jail Detail

June 17th, 2021

45:29

Confining the omnipotent root, Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean, NomadBSD 130R is out, KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD, Firefox under FreeBSD with Privacy, Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere, and more.

NOTES
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406: Jailed Gemini Capsule

June 10th, 2021

54:01

Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard …

405: OOM Killer Feature

June 3rd, 2021

57:09

NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git …

404: 404 BSD Now Hosts Not Found

May 27th, 2021

49:39

Allan, Benedict and Tom are MIA, so JT fills in with two friends.

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403: The Linuxulator Investment

May 20th, 2021

50:52

Why You Should Use BSD Licensing for Your Next Open Source Project or Product, Update on FreeBSD Foundation Investment in Linuxulator, OPNsense …

402: Goodbye GPL

May 13th, 2021

49:38

It's time to say goodbye to the GPL, a new OCI Runtime for FreeBSD Jails, A bit of Xenix history, On Updating QEMU's bsd-user fork, FreeBSD 13 on a …

401: OpenBSD Dog Garage

May 6th, 2021

58:03

Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD, EuroBSDcon 2021 Call for Papers, FreeBSD’s iostat, The state of toolchains in NetBSD, Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8, …

400: FreeBSD became 13

April 29th, 2021

1:02:43

FreeBSD 13 is here, multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD, KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2, NetBSD GSoC report, a working D compiler on OpenBSD, and more

399: Comparing Sandboxes

April 22nd, 2021

57:04

Comparing sandboxing techniques, Statement on FreeBSD development processes, customizing FreeBSD ports and packages, the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop, Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay, HardenedBSD March 2021 Status …

398: Coordinated Mars Time

April 15th, 2021

50:14

FreeBSD 13.0 Full Desktop Experience, FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud, Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace, Inferno is open source as well, NetBSD hits …

397: Fresh BSD 2021

April 8th, 2021

56:01

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel, OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong, how ZFS on Linux brings up pools and filesystems at boot under systemd, LLDB: …

396: License to thrill

April 1st, 2021

53:27

FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, and more.

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395: Tracing ARM’s history

March 25th, 2021

37:59

Tracing the History of ARM and FreeBSD, Make ‘less’ more friendly, NomadBSD 1.4 Release, Create an Ubuntu Linux jail on FreeBSD 12.2, OPNsense 21.1.2 released, Midnight BSD and BastilleBSD, and more.

NOTES
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394: FreeBSD on Mars

March 18th, 2021

43:31

Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover, Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data, OpenBSD guest with bhyve - OmniOS, …

393: ZFS dRAID

March 11th, 2021

50:40

Lessons learned from a 27 years old UNIX book, Finally dRAID, Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD, Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD, Things You …

392: macOS inspired Desktop

March 4th, 2021

47:26

FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks, FreeBSD Jails Deep Dive by Klara Systems, FreeBSD Foundation looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer & OSS Project Coordinator, macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS by helloSystem, A Trip into …

391: i386 tear shedding

February 25th, 2021

38:55

Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 …

390: Commercial Unix Killer

February 18th, 2021

55:36

Did Linux kill Commercial Unix, three node GlusterFS setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen), NetBSD on EdgeRouter Lite, TLS Mastery first draft done

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389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails

February 10th, 2021

41:16

A week with Plan 9, Exploring Swap on FreeBSD, how to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere, How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail …

388: Must-have security tool

February 4th, 2021

49:41

FreeBSD Q4 2020 Status report, a must-have security tool from OpenBSD, Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence, FreeBSD Wall Display Computer, …

387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

January 28th, 2021

43:11

GNN's tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home, Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD, Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS, Dan's CURL tip of the Day, List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD, and more

386: Aye, 386!

January 21st, 2021

37:00

Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more

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385: Wireguard VPN mesh

January 14th, 2021

34:28

Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more.

NOTES
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384: In memoriam

January 7th, 2021

35:00

Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD …

383: Scale the tail

December 31st, 2020

43:12

FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achieved, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more

NOTES
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382: BSDNow Q&A 2020

December 24th, 2020

1:06:51

We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of …

381: Shell origins

December 17th, 2020

41:57

The Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more.

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380: Early ZFS-mas

December 10th, 2020

43:59

We read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more.

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379: bhyve my guest

December 3rd, 2020

37:19

Adventures in Freebernetes, tracing kernel functions, The better way of building FreeBSD networks, New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings, LibreSSL update in DragonFly, Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD, and more.

NOTES

378: Networknomicon

November 26th, 2020

56:20

Interview with Michael W. Lucas: SNMP and TLS book, cashflow for creators, book sale and more.

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377: Firewall ban-sharing

November 19th, 2020

48:07

History of FreeBD: BSDi and USL Lawsuits, Building a Website on Google Compute Engine, Firewall ban-sharing across machines, OpenVPN as default …

376: Build stable packages

November 12th, 2020

46:20

FreeBSD 12.2 is available, ZFS Webinar, Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, how the OpenBSD -stable packages are built, OPNsense 20.7.4 released, and more

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375: Virtually everything

November 5th, 2020

44:48

bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor, udf information leak, being a vim user instead of classic vi, FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB, OpenBSD Laptop, and more.

374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

October 29th, 2020

54:40

OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old …

373: Kyle Evans Interview

October 22nd, 2020

33:33

We have an interview with Kyle Evans for you this week. We talk about his grep project, lua and flua in base, as well as bectl, being on the core …

372: Slow SSD scrubs

October 15th, 2020

48:04

Wayland on BSD, My BSD sucks less than yours, Even on SSDs, ongoing activity can slow down ZFS scrubs drastically, OpenBSD on the Desktop, simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm, and more.

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371: Wildcards running wild

October 8th, 2020

41:17

New Project: zedfs.com, TrueNAS CORE Ready for Deployment, IPC in FreeBSD 11: Performance Analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and more

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370: Testing shutdown

October 1st, 2020

45:12

The world’s first OpenZFS based live image, FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration video, FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020, testing the shutdown mechanism, login_ldap added to OpenBSD, and more

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369: Where rc.d belongs

September 24th, 2020

44:09

High Availability Router/Firewall Using OpenBSD, CARP, pfsync, and ifstated, Building the Development Version of Emacs on NetBSD, rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc, FreeBSD 11.3 EOL, OPNsense 20.7.1 Released, MidnightBSD …

368: Changing OS roles

September 17th, 2020

48:32

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find …

367: Changing jail datasets

September 10th, 2020

45:28

A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch, Sandbox for FreeBSD, Changing from one dataset to another within a jail, You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS, HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations, and more.

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366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

September 3rd, 2020

53:02

OpenZFS with ZSTD lands in FreeBSD 13, LibreSSL doc status update, FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead), Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader, …

365: Whole year round

August 27th, 2020

46:54

FreeBSD USB Audio, Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users, Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around, CLI Tools 235x Faster than Hadoop, …

364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

August 20th, 2020

46:58

FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more.

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363: Traditional Unix toolchains

August 13th, 2020

34:45

FreeBSD Q2 Quarterly Status report of 2020, Traditional Unix Toolchains, BastilleBSD 0.7 released, Finding meltdown on DragonflyBSD, and more

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362: 2.11-BSD restoration

August 6th, 2020

1:02:30

Interview with Warner Losh about Unix history, the 2.11-BSD restoration project, the Unix heritage society, proper booting, and what devmatch is.

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361: Function-based MicroVM

July 30th, 2020

1:02:10

Emulex: The Cheapest 10gbe for Your Homelab, In Search of 2.11BSD, as released, Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM, First powerpc64 …

360: Full circle

July 23rd, 2020

42:27

Chasing a bad commit, New FreeBSD Core Team elected, Getting Started with NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD on the Intel 10th Gen i3 NUC, pf table size check and change, and more.

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359: Throwaway Browser

July 16th, 2020

43:25

Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With "pot" within 5 minutes, OmniOS as OpenBSD guest with bhyve, BSD vs Linux distro development, My FreeBSD Laptop Build, FreeBSD CURRENT Binary Upgrades, and more.

NOTES
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358: OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters

July 9th, 2020

43:32

Yubikey-agent on FreeBSD, Managing Kubernetes clusters from OpenBSD, History of FreeBSD part 1, Running Jitsi-Meet in a FreeBSD Jail, Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD, Game of Github, Wireguard official merged into …

357: Study the Code

July 2nd, 2020

37:59

OpenBSD 6.7 on PC Engines, NetBSD code study, DRM Update on OpenBSD, Booting FreeBSD on HPE Microserver SATA port, 3 ways to multiboot, and more.

356: Dig in Deeper

June 25th, 2020

32:08

TrueNAS is Multi-OS, Encrypted ZFS on NetBSD, FreeBSD’s new Code of Conduct, Gaming on OpenBSD, dig a little deeper, Hammer2 and periodic snapshots, …

355: Man Page Origins

June 18th, 2020

40:39

Upgrading OpenBSD, Where do Unix man pages come from?, Help for NetBSD’s VAX port, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7390, PFS Tool changes in DragonflyBSD, …

354: ZFS safekeeps data

June 11th, 2020

35:07

FreeBSD 11.4-RC 2 available, OpenBSD 6.7 on a PineBook Pro 64, How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe, Bringing FreeBSD to EC2, FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey, and more.

NOTES
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353: ZFS on Ironwolf

June 4th, 2020

38:31

Scheduling in NetBSD, ZFS vs. RAID on Ironwolf disks, OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go 2, FreeBSD for Linux sysadmins, FreeBSD on Lenovo T480, and …

352: Introducing Randomness

May 28th, 2020

50:56

A brief introduction to randomness, logs grinding netatalk to a halt, NetBSD core team changes, Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests, WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop, and more.

351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7

May 21st, 2020

49:09

Backup and Restore on NetBSD, OpenBSD 6.7 available, Building a WireGuard Jail with FreeBSD's standard tools, who gets to chown things and quotas, …

350: Speedy Bridges

May 14th, 2020

34:40

5x if_bridge Performance Improvement, How Unix Won, Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD, Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS, TrueNAS 11.3-U2 Available, and more.

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349: Entropy Overhaul

May 7th, 2020

57:33

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy …

348: BSD Community Collections

April 30th, 2020

1:00:16

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, …

347: New Directions

April 23rd, 2020

1:00:50

Rethinking OpenBSD security, FreeBSD 2020 Q1 status report, the notion of progress and user interfaces, Comments about Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses, making Unix a little more Plan9-like, Not-actually Linux distro …

346: Core File Tales

April 16th, 2020

55:58

Tales from a core file, Lenovo X260 BIOS Update with OpenBSD, the problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines, Hugo workflow using FreeBSD Jails, …

345: Switchers to BSD

April 9th, 2020

47:48

NetBSD 8.2 is available, NextCloud on OpenBSD, X11 screen locking, NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel, community feedback about switching to BSD, and more.

Headlines NetBSD 8.2 is available!

The third release in …

344: Grains of Salt

April 2nd, 2020

55:39

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up …

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

March 26th, 2020

39:04

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE …

342: Layout the DVA

March 19th, 2020

47:49

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in …

341: U-NAS-ification

March 12th, 2020

51:01

FreeBSD on Power, DragonflyBSD 5.8 is here, Unifying FreeNAS/TrueNAS, OpenBSD vs. Prometheus and Go, gcc 4.2.1 removed from FreeBSD base, and more.

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The power and promise of all open source …

340: Check My Sums

March 5th, 2020

50:39

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro …

339: BSD Fundraising

February 27th, 2020

53:56

Meet FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0 has been released, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup, a retrospective on OmniOS ZFS-based NFS fileservers, NetBSD Fundraising 2020 goal, OpenSSH 8.2 released, and more.## Headlines

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338: iocage in Jail

February 20th, 2020

1:02:44

Distrowatch reviews FuryBSD, LLDB on i386 for NetBSD, wpa_supplicant as lower-class citizen, KDE on FreeBSD updates, Travel Grant for BSDCan open, ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail, and more.

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337: Kubernetes on bhyve

February 13th, 2020

1:19:24

Happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work, building a FreeBSD fileserver, Kubernetes on FreeBSD bhyve, NetBSD 9 RC1 available, OPNSense 20.1 is …

336: Archived Knowledge

February 6th, 2020

57:57

Linux couldn’t duplicate OpenBSD, FreeBSD Q4 status report, OPNsense 19.7.9 released, archives retain and pass on knowledge, HardenedBSD Tor Onion …

335: FreeBSD Down Under

January 30th, 2020

53:54

Hyperbola Developer interview, why you should migrate from Linux to BSD, FreeBSD is an amazing OS, improving the ptrace(2) API in LLVM 10, First …

334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

January 23rd, 2020

48:07

Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1, Distrowatch switching to FreeBSD, Torvalds says don’t run ZFS, iked(8) removed automatic IPv6 blocking, working towards LLDB on i386, and memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme in NetBSD.

333: Unix Keyboard Joy

January 16th, 2020

40:29

Your Impact on FreeBSD in 2019, Wireguard on OpenBSD Router, Amazon now has FreeBSD/ARM 12, pkgsrc-2019Q4, The Joys of UNIX Keyboards, OpenBSD on Digital Ocean, and more.

Headlines Your Impact on FreeBSD in 2019

332: The BSD Hyperbole

January 9th, 2020

45:12

Announcing HyperbolaBSD, IPFW In-Kernel NAT setup on FreeBSD, Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux, LLDB Threading support ready for …

331: Why Computers Suck

January 2nd, 2020

1:09:47

How learning OpenBSD makes computers suck a little less, How Unix works, FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Well on Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, BSDCan CFP, HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals, and more.

Headlines Why computers suck and how …

330: Happy Holidays, All(an)

December 26th, 2019

1:15:06

Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 is available, Running FreeNAS on a DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3 is here, at e2k19 …

329: Lucas’ Arts

December 19th, 2019

51:05

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book.

Interview - Michael …

328: EPYC Netflix Stack

December 12th, 2019

57:43

LLDB Threading support now ready, Multiple IPSec VPN tunnels with FreeBSD, Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC …

327: ZFS Rename Repo

December 5th, 2019

1:23:27

We read FreeBSD’s third quarterly status report, OpenBSD on Sparc64, ZoL repo move to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, keeping NetBSD up-to-date, and more.

Headlines FreeBSD third quarterly status report for 2019

This quarter the …

326: Certified BSD

November 28th, 2019

1:00:06

LPI releases BSD Certification, openzfs trip report, Using FreeBSD with ports, LLDB threading support ready, Linux versus Open Source Unix, and more.

Headlines Linux Professional Institute Releases BSD Specialist …

325: Cracking Rainbows

November 21st, 2019

57:40

FreeBSD 12.1 is here, A history of Unix before Berkeley, FreeBSD development setup, HardenedBSD 2019 Status Report, DNSSEC, compiling RainbowCrack on …

324: Emergency Space Mode

November 14th, 2019

46:30

Migrating drives and zpool between hosts, OpenBSD in 2019, Dragonfly’s new zlib and dhcpcd, Batch renaming images and resolution with awk, a rant on …

323: OSI Burrito Guy

November 7th, 2019

49:22

The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, …

322: Happy Birthday, Unix

October 31st, 2019

1:07:30

Unix is 50, Hunting down Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNSense have new releases, Clarification on what GhostBSD is, sshuttle - VPN over SSH, and more.

Headlines Unix is 50

In the summer of 1969 computer scientists Ken …

321: The Robot OS

October 24th, 2019

55:16

An interview with Trenton Schulz about his early days with FreeBSD, Robot OS, Qt, and more.

Interview - Trenton Schulz - freenas@norwegianrockcat.com

320: Codebase: Neck Deep

October 17th, 2019

56:41
Headlines FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook
  • FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook

Back in 2015, I jumped on the …

319: Lack Rack, Jack

October 10th, 2019

1:07:50

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, NetBSD Assembly Programming Tutorial, The IKEA Lack Rack for Servers, a new OmniOS Community Edition LTS has been published, List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style, Project Trident …

318: The TrueNAS Library

October 3rd, 2019

46:40

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmark on Ryzen 7, JFK Presidential Library chooses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12.1-beta is …

317: Bots Building Jails

September 26th, 2019

52:36

Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails, Set up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd, OpenBSD amateur packet radio with HamBSD, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 gets fsck, return of startx for users.

Headlines

316: git commit FreeBSD

September 19th, 2019

1:05:04

NetBSD LLVM sanitizers and GDB regression test suite, Ada—The Language of Cost Savings, Homura - a Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD, FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transition to Git, OpenBSD 6.6 Beta …

315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

September 12th, 2019

1:16:55

vBSDcon 2019 recap, Unix at 50, OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook, humungus - an hg server, how to configure a network dump in FreeBSD, and more.

Headlines vBSDcon Recap

Allan and Benedict attended vBSDcon …

314: Swap that Space

September 5th, 2019

48:28

Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space, Dsynth details on Dragonfly, Instant Workstation on FreeBSD, new servers new tech, Experimenting with streaming setups on NetBSD, NetBSD’s progress towards Steam support …

313: In-Kernel TLS

August 29th, 2019

55:12

OpenBSD on 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, how to install FreeBSD on a MacBook, Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS), Boot Environments on …

312: Why Package Managers

August 22nd, 2019

1:12:03

The UNIX Philosophy in 2019, why use package managers, touchpad interrupted, Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD second evaluation report, Enhancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, all about the Pinebook Pro, killing a …

311: Conference Gear Breakdown

August 15th, 2019

1:13:25

NetBSD 9.0 release process has started, xargs, a tale of two spellcheckers, Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Exploiting a no-name freebsd kernel …

310: My New Free NAS

August 8th, 2019

48:09

OPNsense 19.7.1 is out, ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size, Hammer2 is now default, NetBSD audio – an application perspective, new …

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

August 1st, 2019

48:24

DragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a …

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

July 25th, 2019

44:25

Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released, implementing DRM ioctl support for NetBSD, High quality/low latency …

307: Twitching with OpenBSD

July 18th, 2019

50:59

FreeBSD 11.3 has been released, OpenBSD workstation, write your own fuzzer for the NetBSD kernel, Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, streaming to twitch using OpenBSD, 3 different ways of dumping hex contents of a file, …

306: Comparing Hammers

July 11th, 2019

38:21

Am5x86 based retro UNIX build log, setting up services in a FreeNAS Jail, first taste of DragonflyBSD, streaming Netflix on NetBSD, NetBSD on the …

305: Changing face of Unix

July 4th, 2019

56:09

Website protection with OPNsense, FreeBSD Support Pull Request for ZFS-on-Linux, How much has Unix changed, Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, FreeBSD …

304: Prospering with Vulkan

June 27th, 2019

1:03:33

DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, …

303: OpenZFS in Ports

June 20th, 2019

52:33

OpenZFS-kmod port available, using blacklistd with NPF as fail2ban replacement, ZFS raidz expansion alpha preview 1, audio VU-meter increases CO2 footprint rant, XSAVE and compat32 kernel work for LLDB, where icons for …

302: Contention Reduction

June 13th, 2019

1:09:30

DragonFlyBSD's kernel optimizations pay off, differences between OpenBSD and Linux, NetBSD 2019 Google Summer of Code project list, Reducing that contention, fnaify 1.3 released, vmctl(8): CLI syntax changes, and things …

301: GPU Passthrough

June 6th, 2019

45:34

GPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more.

Headlines GPU Passthrough Reported Working …

300: The Big Three

May 30th, 2019

1:14:06

FreeBSD 11.3-beta 1 is out, BSDCan 2019 recap, OpenIndiana 2019.04 is out, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, why open source firmware is important …

299: The NAS Fleet

May 22nd, 2019

52:47

Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.

298: BSD On The Road

May 16th, 2019

52:22

36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, …

297: Dragonfly In The Wild

May 9th, 2019

40:16

FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL performance, Dragonfly 5.4.2 has been release, containing web services with iocell, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, Problem with SSH Agent …

296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

May 3rd, 2019

1:01:35

OpenBSD 6.5 has been released, mount ZFS datasets anywhere, help test upcoming NetBSD 9 branch, LibreSSL 2.9.1 is available, Bail Bond Denied Edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, and one reason ed(1) was a good editor …

295: Fun with funlinkat()

April 25th, 2019

1:01:02

Introducing funlinkat(), an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse, using NetBSD on a raspberry pi, ZFS encryption is still under development, Rump kernel servers and clients tutorial, Snort on OpenBSD 6.4, and more.

294: The SSH Tarpit

April 18th, 2019

57:03

A PI-powered Plan 9 cluster, an SSH tarpit, rdist for when Ansible is too much, falling in love with OpenBSD again, how I created my first FreeBSD port, the Tilde Institute of OpenBSD education and more.

Headlines A …

293: Booking Jails

April 11th, 2019

1:16:41

This week we have a special episode with a Michael W. Lucas interview about his latest jail book that’s been released. We’re talking all things jails, writing, book sponsoring, the upcoming BSDCan 2019 conference, and …

292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap

April 4th, 2019

1:30:25

FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project …

291: Storage Changes Software

March 28th, 2019

1:12:44

Storage changing software, what makes Unix special, what you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands”, running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, the …

290: Timestamped Notes

March 21st, 2019

50:01

FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX, looking at NetBSD as an OpenBSD user, taking time-stamped notes in vim, OpenBSD 6.5 has been tagged, FreeBSD and NetBSD in GSoC 2019, SecBSD: an UNIX-like OS for Hackers, and more.

289: Microkernel Failure

March 14th, 2019

1:01:03

A kernel of failure, IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s pf, a guide to the terminal, using a Yubikey for SSH public key authentication, …

288: Turing Complete Sed

March 7th, 2019

59:10

Software will never fix Spectre-type bugs, a proof that sed is Turing complete, managed jails using Bastille, new version of netdata, using grep with …

287: rc.d in NetBSD

February 28th, 2019

1:00:20

Design and Implementation of NetBSD’s rc.d system, first impressions of Project Trident 18.12, PXE booting a FreeBSD disk image, middle mouse button pasting, NetBSD gains hardware accelerated virtualization, and more.

286: Old Machine Revival

February 21st, 2019

1:18:56

Adding glue to a desktop environment, flashing the BIOS on a PC Engine, revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer, An OpenBSD WindowMaker desktop, RealTime data compression, the love for pipes, and more.

285: BSD Strategy

February 14th, 2019

1:09:32

Strategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD …

284: FOSDEM 2019

February 7th, 2019

59:26

We recap FOSDEM 2019, FreeBSD Foundation January update, OPNsense 19.1 released, the hardware-assisted virtualization challenge, ZFS and GPL terror, …

283: Graphical Interface-View

January 31st, 2019

46:44

We’re at FOSDEM 2019 this week having fun. We’d never leave you in a lurch, so we have recorded an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team for you. Enjoy.

##Interview - Niclas Zeising -

282: Open the Rsync

January 24th, 2019

1:01:20

Project Trident 18.12 released, Spotifyd on NetBSD, OPNsense 18.7.10 is available, Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, OpenRsync, LLD porting to NetBSD, and more.

##Headlines

###AsiaBSDCon 2019 Call for …

281: EPYC Server Battle

January 17th, 2019

1:23:52

SCP client vulnerabilities, BSDs vs Linux benchmarks on a Tyan EPYC Server, fame for the Unix inventors, Die IPv4, GhostBSD 18.12 released, Unix in …

Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280

January 10th, 2019

52:23

A EULA in FOSS clothing, NetBSD with more LLVM support, Thoughts on FreeBSD 12.0, FreeBSD Performance against Windows and Linux on Xeon, Microsoft …

Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279

January 3rd, 2019

1:33:21

The future of ZFS in FreeBSD, we pick highlights from the FreeBSD quarterly status report, flying with the raven, modern KDE on FreeBSD, many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2, GOG installers on NetBSD, and more.

Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278

December 27th, 2018

49:39

We sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more.

##Interview - Kirk McKusick -

Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277

December 24th, 2018

1:16:25

The Open Source midlife crisis, Donald Knuth The Yoda of Silicon Valley, Certbot For OpenBSD's httpd, how to upgrade FreeBSD from 11 to 12, level up your nmap game, NetBSD desktop, and more.

##Headlines
###Open Source …

Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276

December 13th, 2018

1:10:41

FreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more.

##Headlines

Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275

December 9th, 2018

1:24:52

DragonflyBSD 5.4 has been released, down the Gopher hole with OpenBSD, OpenBSD in stereo with VFIO, BSD/OS the best candidate for legally tested open …

Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274

November 29th, 2018

1:04:24

Assembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more.

##Headlines
###Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64

Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273

November 23rd, 2018

1:14:32

Thoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review.

##Headlines
###Some thoughts on NetBSD 8.0

Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272

November 15th, 2018

1:08:39

Byproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and …

Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271

November 8th, 2018

1:08:01

MidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more.

##Headlines
###

Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270

November 1st, 2018

1:09:07

OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, …

Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269

October 24th, 2018

1:28:19

FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD …

Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268

October 17th, 2018

1:07:20

6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat …

Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267

October 10th, 2018

1:07:38

We have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience.

##Headlines
##Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266

October 3rd, 2018

1:15:00

Running OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, vermaden’s FreeBSD story, thoughts on OpenBSD on the desktop, history of file type info in Unix …

Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265

September 27th, 2018

1:41:55

We report from our experiences at EuroBSDcon, disenchant software, LLVM 7.0.0 has been released, Thinkpad BIOS update options, HardenedBSD Foundation announced, and ZFS send vs. rsync.

##Headlines

###[FreeBSD …

Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264

September 20th, 2018

1:11:58

FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD benchmarks on AMD’s Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2 has been released, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, …

Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263

September 7th, 2018

1:03:45

Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native …

Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262

September 6th, 2018

1:13:20

OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation August Update, What’s taking so long with Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code.

##Headlines
###OpenBSD on the Microsoft …

Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261

August 30th, 2018

1:49:13

Insight into TrueOS and Trident, stop evildoers with pf-badhost, Flashback to FreeBSDcon ‘99, OpenBSD’s measures against TLBleed, play Morrowind on OpenBSD in 5 steps, DragonflyBSD developers shocked at Threadripper …

Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260

August 23rd, 2018

1:20:14

Trip reports from the Essen Hackathon and BSDCam, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS performance benchmarks on a FreeBSD …

Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259

August 16th, 2018

1:47:36

The strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, EuroBSDcon 2018 talks and schedule, OpenBSD on G4 iBook, PAM template …

Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258

August 8th, 2018

1:27:52

FreeBSD Foundation July Newsletter, a bunch of BSDCan trip reports, HardenedBSD Foundation status, FreeBSD and OSPFd, ZFS disk structure overview, …

Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257

August 2nd, 2018

1:23:11

NetBSD 8.0 available, FreeBSD on Scaleway’s ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups with OpenBSD, Dragonfly server storage upgrade, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 …

Episode 256: Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8

July 25th, 2018

1:44:42

FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS, OpenBSD on Tuxedo InfinityBook, how zfs diff reports filenames efficiently, why choose FreeBSD over Linux, PS4 double free exploit, OpenBSD’s wifi autojoin, and FreeBSD jails the hard way.

Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At | BSD Now 255

July 18th, 2018

1:20:27

What ZFS blockpointers are, zero-day rewards offered, KDE on FreeBSD status, new FreeBSD core team, NetBSD WiFi refresh, poor man’s CI, and the power …

Episode 254: Bare the OS | BSD Now 254

July 12th, 2018

1:31:23

Control flow integrity with HardenedBSD, fixing bufferbloat with OpenBSD’s pf, Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD, MeetBSD CfP, crypto simplified …

Episode 253: Silence of the Fans | BSD Now 253

July 5th, 2018

1:26:51

Fanless server setup with FreeBSD, NetBSD on pinebooks, another BSDCan trip report, transparent network audio, MirBSD's Korn Shell on Plan9, static site generators on OpenBSD, and more.

##Headlines
###Silent Fanless …

Episode 252: Goes to 11.2 | BSD Now 252

June 28th, 2018

1:34:26

FreeBSD 11.2 has been released, setting up an MTA behind Tor, running pfsense on DigitalOcean, one year of C, using OpenBGPD to announce VM networks, the power to serve, and a BSDCan trip report.

##Headlines
###FreeBSD …

Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER | BSD Now 251

June 21st, 2018

1:28:43

DragonflyBSD’s hammer1 encrypted master/slave setup, second part of our BSDCan recap, NomadBSD 1.1-RC1 available, OpenBSD adds an LDAP client to …

Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap | BSD Now 250

June 14th, 2018

1:41:10

TrueOS becoming a downstream fork with Trident, our BSDCan 2018 recap, HardenedBSD Foundation founding efforts, VPN with OpenIKED on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on a System76 Galago Pro, and hardware accelerated crypto on Octeons.

Episode 249: Router On A Stick | BSD Now 249

June 6th, 2018

1:25:17

OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows …

Episode 248: Show Me The Mooney | BSD Now 248

May 29th, 2018

1:44:33

DragonflyBSD release 5.2.1 is here, BPF kernel exploit writeup, Remote Debugging the running OpenBSD kernel, interview with Patrick Mooney, FreeBSD buildbot setup in a jail, dumping your USB, and 5 years of gaming on …

Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD | BSD Now 247

May 24th, 2018

1:29:59

FreeBSD internship learnings, exciting developments coming to FreeBSD, running FreeNAS on DigitalOcean, Network Manager control for OpenBSD, OpenZFS …

Episode 246: Properly Coordinated Disclosure | BSD Now 246

May 17th, 2018

1:29:54

How Intel docs were misinterpreted by almost any OS, a look at the mininet SDN emulator, do’s and don’ts for FreeBSD, OpenBSD community going gold, …

Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245

May 10th, 2018

1:24:37

Allan’s recap of the ZFS User conference, first impressions of OmniOS by a BSD user, Nextcloud 13 setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on a fanless desktop computer, an intro to HardenedBSD, and DragonFlyBSD getting some SMP …

Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244

May 3rd, 2018

1:25:32

Arcan and OpenBSD, running OpenBSD 6.3 on RPI 3, why C is not a low-level language, HardenedBSD switching back to OpenSSL, how the Internet was …

Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243

April 25th, 2018

1:25:24

OpenBSD 6.3 and DragonflyBSD 5.2 are released, bug fix for disappearing files in OpenZFS on Linux (and only Linux), understanding the FreeBSD CPU …

Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath | BSD Now 242

April 18th, 2018

1:23:20

TrueOS Stable 18.03 released, a look at F-stack, the secret to an open source business model, intro to jails and jail networking, FreeBSD Foundation March update, and the ipsec Errata.

Headlines TrueOS STABLE 18.03 …

Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241

April 12th, 2018

2:01:00

Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers.

Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording | BSD Now 240

April 7th, 2018

1:39:18

New ZFS features landing in FreeBSD, MAP_STACK for OpenBSD, how to write safer C code with Clang’s address sanitizer, Michael W. Lucas on sponsor gifts, TCP blackbox recorder, and Dell disk system hacking.

Episode 239: The Return To ptrace | BSD Now 239

March 29th, 2018

1:32:43

OpenBSD firewalling Windows 10, NetBSD’s return to ptrace, TCP Alternative Backoff, the BSD Poetic license, and AsiaBSDcon 2018 videos available.

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September 4th, 2013

1:53:51

We kick off the first episode with the latest BSD news, show you how to avoid intrusion detection systems and talk to Peter Hessler about BGP spam …

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