Episodes
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17...
Published 05/02/24
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System, Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop, Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability, Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate, Not Not Porting 9front to Power64, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more
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OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System
Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop
News Roundup
Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability
Techies vs spies:...
Published 04/25/24
Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems, NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts, Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud, Poudriere on Apple Silicon, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more
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Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems
NetApp’s strategic contributions to...
Published 04/18/24
The XZ Backdoor, NetBSD 10.0, iX announces that they will put out a release of TrueNAS 13.3, State of the Terminal, LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released and more
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People have no doubt heard of this by now, but are not aware of the BSD side of
things since its mostly been Linux getting all the news. It'd be nice if we
could give a summary of the issue and then address how it does/doesn't affect
the...
Published 04/11/24
Using Git offline, Make your own E-mail server, quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development, Configuring openzfs for nvme databases, Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide part 1, Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev, and more...
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Using Git offline
Make your own E-Mail server - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included - Part 1
News Roundup
quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS...
Published 04/04/24
Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi, TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD, SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop, Sparkbook Teardown, SSH over HTTPS, Keycloak Identity and Access Management on FreeBSD, Ford Aerospace and BSD Unix, and more
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HOWTO: Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi (running RPi OS) via TFTP & NFSv4 from a FreeBSD ZFS server
TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD
No one needs to panic,...
Published 03/28/24
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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The story of getting SSH port 22
Can GCC use Clang as its assembler?
News Roundup
AUXrunner: a macOS QEMU-based app for running A/UX
Stabweek
Using the Kensington SlimBlade Pro TrackBall with OpenBSD
Running 9front on an...
Published 03/21/24
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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When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare (featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)
You are not too late
News Roundup
netmap on cxgbe interfaces
OpenZFS 2.2.3
A recent abrupt change in Internet...
Published 03/12/24
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 almost added Tetris to htop, and more
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FreeBSD Foundation Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act
DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s
News Roundup
Ampere in the...
Published 03/07/24
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, and more
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FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2023
In Memoriam : Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
News Roundup
Migrate a...
Published 02/29/24
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 pressure, and more
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Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT
A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples
News Roundup
Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)
Don't prefill...
Published 02/22/24
Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD, Please, don’t force me to log in, Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics, Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens, What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?, Beginning of the year Laugh
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Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD
Please, don’t force me to log in
News Roundup
Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics
Failed Product Designs:...
Published 02/15/24
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 patches
into GhostBSD source code, DSA removal from OpenSSH, NetBSD/evbppc 10.99.10 on
the Nintendo Wii, NetBSD/amd64 current performance patch
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ZFS High Availability...
Published 02/08/24
GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions,
The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a
FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage
devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and
ZFS
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GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions
The Geeks way of checking what the...
Published 02/01/24
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 the .zfs/snapshot directory?, OpenBSD workstation hardening, KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current, MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use...
Published 01/25/24
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 12.6, Ctrl+Alt Museum
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8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024
System Design for Advanced Beginners
News Roundup
2024 plans and 2023 retrospective
Upgrading...
Published 01/18/24
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 Information, Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries 'name caches', Always learning, Always Teaching
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Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD...
Published 01/11/24
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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Terrapin Attack
OpenSSH 9.6 is out
OpenBSD Patches
FreeBSD Patches
If anyone is aware of NetBSD Patches, please send them into the show so I can update the show notes
SSH Hardening with ssh-audit
News Roundup
MidnightBSD 3.1.2
syscall(2) removed...
Published 01/04/24
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 our gear, books we read, favorite places, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
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Published 12/28/23
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 Software Version 2.7.1, SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right, Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage, and more
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DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0 – properly detailed and (hopefully) correct way
News...
Published 12/21/23
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 shell, and more
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases – Part 2: File Serving and SANs
My MNT Reform – almost a year on
News Roundup
Why do I know shell, and how can...
Published 12/14/23
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 boot in 25 milliseconds, and more
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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases - Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
EuroBSDCon 2023 report (1/2) – arrival & tutorial...
Published 12/07/23
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 OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), and more
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FreeBSD 14
• [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html)
• [Vermaden’s FreeBSD 14 valuable news]...
Published 11/30/23
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
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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
News Roundup
FreeBSD Jails vs....
Published 11/23/23