536: Pot-flavored Jails from 2023-12-07T08:00

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 Rel...

535: Untitled Episode from 2023-11-30T08:00

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 vulnerabil...

534: Narrow Waisted Internet from 2023-11-23T08:00

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 S...

533: Package the Base from 2023-11-16T08:00

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...

532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship from 2023-11-09T10:00

2^18 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using O...

531: Everlasting Software from 2023-11-02T10:00

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 Arken...

530: Old Computer Rescue from 2023-10-26T10:00

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 me...

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse from 2023-10-19T10:00

Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule insta...

528: Pledge the Program from 2023-10-12T11:00

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 program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting ...

527: Reports are in from 2023-10-05T11:00

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, O...

526: ZFS Replication Tools from 2023-09-28T10:00

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 v3, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is broug...

525: Old NetBSD Server from 2023-09-21T10:00

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 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Pro...

524: Legendary Unix Recovery from 2023-09-14T06:00

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 twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, and more NOTES...

523: Literally Unix from 2023-09-07T06:00

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...

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting from 2023-08-31T03:00

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 wh...

521: BSD Summer Reading from 2023-08-24T03:00

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 Ams...

520: 4 months BSD from 2023-08-17T03:00

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 FreeB...

519: Telegram from BSDNow from 2023-08-10T03:00

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SC...

518: Unix Edition Zero from 2023-08-03T03:00

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 and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edi...

517: Huge pfsync rewrite from 2023-07-27T03:00

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 yo...

516: Computer Time Origins from 2023-07-20T03:00

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 NOTESThi...

515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf from 2023-07-13T03:00

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 ...

514: Infecting Public Keys from 2023-07-06T06:00

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 s...

513: New Host Interview from 2023-06-29T03:00

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 NOTESThis epis...

512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat from 2023-06-22T03:00

Recorded at BSDCan 2023 NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) HeadlinesBSDNow - The early...

511: Against Innovation from 2023-06-15T03:00

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 innovatio...

510: The BSD Slabtop from 2023-06-08T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode of...

509: Dot File Naming from 2023-06-01T03:00

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, G...

508: Foundational Proceedings from 2023-05-25T03:00

FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members, OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments, SCaLE20X Conference Report, 916 days of Emacs, XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought, Net...

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview from 2023-05-18T03:00

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. NOTESThis ep...

506: A greener BSD from 2023-05-11T03:00

Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions, FreeBSD Q1 Status Report, Hello Systems 0.8.1 Release, OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with NUT, Tips for Running a Greener FreeBSD, BSDCAN R...

505: BSD Desktop Setup from 2023-05-04T03:00

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 i...

504: Release the BSD from 2023-04-27T03:00

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,...

503: Fast Unix Commands from 2023-04-20T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode...

502: Ping from Hell from 2023-04-13T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsn...

501: Boot that Snapshot from 2023-04-06T03:00

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 p...

500: Guarding the Wire from 2023-03-30T03:00

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 NOTESThis episo...

499: Dan Langille Interview from 2023-03-23T03:00

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 ...

498: Dropping Privileges from 2023-03-16T03:00

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...

497: Random Relinking SSHD from 2023-03-09T03:00

How to Catch a Bitcoin Miner, A Call For More Collaboration, zstd updates, hating hackathons, How to monitor multiple log files at once, KeePassXC, sshd random relinking at boot, and more NOTESThis...

496: Hacking the CLI from 2023-03-02T03:00

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 ...

495: Limited Jail Time from 2023-02-23T03:00

FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2022, How to limit a jail, the parallel port, Hello System 0.8, Solbournes in space, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://...

494: Unix workstation extinction from 2023-02-16T03:00

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 ...

493: Dotfile Management from 2023-02-09T03:00

Write Admin tools from Day One, Differentiating between Data Security and Data Integrity, 45 year-old Unix tool is finally getting an upgrade, OpenBSD 7.2 on an ODROID-HC4, Dotfiles Management, and...

492: Feeling for NetBSD from 2023-02-02T03:00

Writing your own operating system, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64, GCC uses Modula-2 and Rust, do they ...

491: Catch the Spammers from 2023-01-26T03:00

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: Ub...

490: New Year’s Plan9’ing from 2023-01-19T03:00

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 NOTESThis e...

489: Refreshing Perspective from 2023-01-12T03:00

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 ser...

488: Old ping(8) bug from 2023-01-05T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you b...

487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2 from 2022-12-29T03:00

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! NOTES***This episode of BSDNow...

486: EuroBSDcon interviews from 2022-12-22T03:00

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 do...

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant from 2022-12-15T03:00

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 mimmutable, Unix's (technical) history is mostly old no...

484: Birth of stderr from 2022-12-08T03:00

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 workst...

483: ZFS Time Machine from 2022-12-01T03:00

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 client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report, ...

482: BSD XFCE Desktop from 2022-11-24T03:00

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. NOTESThis episo...

481: Fiery Crackers from 2022-11-17T03:00

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...

480: OpenBSD 7.2 from 2022-11-10T03:00

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 pr...

479: OpenBSD Docker Host from 2022-11-03T03:00

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 signals to Unix process groups, Toolchains advent...

478: Debunking sudo myths from 2022-10-27T03:00

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 debugbr...

477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures from 2022-10-20T03:00

Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to...

476: Warren Toomey interview from 2022-10-13T03:00

In this special episode, we interview Warren Toomey from the Unix Historical Society. We chat about his involvement in preserving old Unix systems and why that is important. NOTESThis episode of BS...

475: Prompt Injection Attacks from 2022-10-06T03:00

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback on Fre...

474: EuroBSDcon 2022 from 2022-09-29T03:15

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, Porta...

473: Rusty Kernel Modules from 2022-09-22T03:00

Writing FreeBSD kernel modules in Rust, Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE, Linux subsystem for FreeBSD, FreeBSD Journal: Science, Systems, and FreeBSD, NetBSD improves Amiga support, OpenBSD on Sc...

472: Consistent Exit Code from 2022-09-15T03:00

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...

471: De-Penguinization from 2022-09-08T03:00

Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD, BSD for Linux users, r2k22 Hackathon Report on rpki-client, Configuring OpenIKED, De-Penguin Me, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you b...

470: 0mp interview from 2022-09-01T03:00

In this special episode, we are interviewing Mateusz Piotrowski about his various roles in the FreeBSD project, his ports work, and a few other interesting things he’s involved with. Enjoy this int...

469: Ctrl-C Reset from 2022-08-25T03:00

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 FreeBSD’s Linuxulator, and more. NOTESThis episode of...

468: Apples and CHERI from 2022-08-18T03:00

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 Silico...

467: Minecraft on NetBSD from 2022-08-11T03:00

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, O...

466: cat(1)’s efficiency from 2022-08-04T03:00

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 Ja...

465: Deep Space Debugging from 2022-07-28T03:00

Debugging Lisp in Deep Space, 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD&AsciiDoc, Deleting old snapshots on FreeBSD, Full multiprocess support in lldb-server, Basic fix between pf tables and macros, and m...

464: Compiling with kefir from 2022-07-21T03:00

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 OpenB...

463: The 1.0 Legend from 2022-07-14T03:00

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 ...

462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch from 2022-07-07T03:00

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)...

461: Persistent Memory Allocation from 2022-06-30T03:45

Q1 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2022, Nginx on OpenBSD 7.1, Persistent Memory Allocation, Colorize your BSD shell, cgit With Gitolite and Nginx on FreeBSD 13, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNo...

460: OpenBSD airport folklore from 2022-06-23T03:00

Containerd gains support for launching Linux containers on FreeBSD, OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64, true minimalistic window manager does not exist, OpenBSD folklore, HardenedBSD May 2022 Status R...

459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark from 2022-06-16T03:00

Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use, Time Machine-like Backups on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on the Graviton 3, Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark, Network Management with the OpenBSD Packe...

458: Traceroute interpretation from 2022-06-09T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode ...

457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow from 2022-06-02T03:00

Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more NOTESThis...

456: FreeBSD 13.1 from 2022-05-26T03:00

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 NOTESThis episo...

455: Ken Thompson Singularity from 2022-05-19T03:00

OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, ...

454: Compiling 50% faster from 2022-05-12T03:00

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 m...

453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor from 2022-05-05T03:00

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 Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more. ...

452: The unknown hackers from 2022-04-28T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brough...

451: Tuning ZFS recordsize from 2022-04-21T03:00

Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being moun...

450: Unix Tool Writing from 2022-04-14T03:00

The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, and more. NOTESThis ep...

449: Reproducible clean $HOME from 2022-04-07T03:00

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, g...

448: Controlling Resource Limits from 2022-03-31T03:00

Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD, and more. N...

447: Path to BSD from 2022-03-24T03:00

FreeBSD Foundation Proposals, UNIX: On the Path to BSD, Fujitsu ends its mainframe and Unix services, Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator, new OpenBSD Webzine is out, and more. NOTESThis...

446: Debugging ioctl problems from 2022-03-17T03:00

Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My, and more. NOTESThis epis...

445: Journey to BSD from 2022-03-10T03:00

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 s...

444: Historic Developments from 2022-03-03T03:00

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.NOTES This episode of BSDNow is...

443: Certified Unix Compliant from 2022-02-24T03:00

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, W...

442: Birthing Unix from 2022-02-17T03:00

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. NOTESThis episode...

441: Migration to BSD from 2022-02-10T03:00

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. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is br...

440: BSD Inside Zone from 2022-02-03T03:00

GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to install Gnome on OpenBSD, The important Unix id...

439: Browser Tab Unix from 2022-01-27T03:00

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. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought ...

438: Toolchain Adventures from 2022-01-20T03:00

FreeBSD Foundation reviews 2021 activities, DragonflyBSD 6.2.1 is here, Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 available, toolchain adventures, The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7, Bastille Template: AdGuard Home, set...

437: Audit that package from 2022-01-13T03:00

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 obscure X11 tools, and more NOTESThis episode o...

436: Unix Standards Battle from 2022-01-06T03:00

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, run Unix on Microcontrollers with PDP-11 emulators...

435: Year End Interview from 2021-12-30T03:00

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 created, how she got involved and other topics. E...

434: It’s Quiz-mas time from 2021-12-23T03:00

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 yo...

433: GhostBSD of Christmas from 2021-12-16T03:00

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...

432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah from 2021-12-09T03:00

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 N...

431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents from 2021-12-02T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode...

430: OpenBSD Onwards from 2021-11-25T03:00

Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk Encryption, Onwards with OpenBSD, and more NOTESThis epi...

429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots from 2021-11-18T03:00

FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD Audio, Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops...

428: Cult of BSD from 2021-11-11T03:00

OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a whole lot of BSD bits, and more. NOTESThis episode ...

427: Logging is important from 2021-11-04T03:00

Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released, getting started with pot, and mo...

426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero from 2021-10-28T03:00

A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https:/...

425: Releases galore from 2021-10-21T03:00

The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) HeadlinesRISC...

424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge from 2021-10-14T03:00

J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brou...

423: RACK the Stack from 2021-10-07T03:00

FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!), au...

422: The Brian Callahan Interview from 2021-09-30T03:00

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 BS...

421: ZFS eats CPU from 2021-09-23T03:00

Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more NOTESThi...

420: OpenBSD makes life better from 2021-09-16T03:00

Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project upda...

419: Rethinking OS installs from 2021-09-09T03:00

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. NOTESThis e...

418: The greatest time in history to be a creator from 2021-09-02T03:45

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more. NOTESIn...

417: bhyve private cloud from 2021-08-26T03:00

Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, por...

416: netcat printing from 2021-08-19T03:00

OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap ...

415: Wrong OS Switch from 2021-08-12T03:00

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 intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init syste...

414: Running online conferences from 2021-08-05T03:00

OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by ...

413: BSD/Linux Chimera from 2021-07-29T03:00

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. NOTESThis epis...

412: Command-line secrets from 2021-07-22T03:00

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. NOT...

411: FreeBSD Deep Dive from 2021-07-15T03:00

Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, Ope...

410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway from 2021-07-08T03:00

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 Gate...

409: The Filesystem Dungeon from 2021-07-01T03:00

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 into toolchains, and more NOTESThis episode of...

408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021 from 2021-06-24T03:00

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 ...

407: The jail Detail from 2021-06-17T03:00

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 ...

406: Jailed Gemini Capsule from 2021-06-10T03:00

Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package in pfSense, CGI wi...

405: OOM Killer Feature from 2021-06-03T03:00

NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages, Deleting old FreeBSD boot envi...

404: 404 BSD Now Hosts Not Found from 2021-05-27T03:00

Allan, Benedict and Tom are MIA, so JT fills in with two friends. This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow)CoHosts this week: • Ash Gokhale: https://t...

403: The Linuxulator Investment from 2021-05-20T03:00

Why You Should Use BSD Licensing for Your Next Open Source Project or Product, Update on FreeBSD Foundation Investment in Linuxulator, OPNsense 21.1.5 released, FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop, Run...

402: Goodbye GPL from 2021-05-13T03:00

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 12 year old laptop, and more. NOTESThis episode ...

401: OpenBSD Dog Garage from 2021-05-06T03:00

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, FreeBSD's ports migration to git and its impact o...

400: FreeBSD became 13 from 2021-04-29T03:00

FreeBSD 13 is here, multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD, KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2, NetBSD GSoC report, a working D compiler on OpenBSD, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tar...

399: Comparing Sandboxes from 2021-04-22T03:00

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, HardenedBS...

398: Coordinated Mars Time from 2021-04-15T03:00

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 donation milestone, grep returns (standard inpu...

397: Fresh BSD 2021 from 2021-04-08T03:00

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel, OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong, how ZFS on Linux brings up pools and filesystems at boot under systemd, LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed, FreshBSD...

396: License to thrill from 2021-04-01T03:00

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

395: Tracing ARM’s history from 2021-03-25T03:00

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 mor...

394: FreeBSD on Mars from 2021-03-18T03:00

Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover, Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data, OpenBSD guest with bhyve - OmniOS, NextCloud on OpenBSD, MySQL Transactions - the physical...

393: ZFS dRAID from 2021-03-11T03:00

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 Should Do Now, Just: More unixy than Make, and ...

392: macOS inspired Desktop from 2021-03-04T03:00

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 helloSyst...

391: i386 tear shedding from 2021-02-25T03:00

Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all ...

390: Commercial Unix Killer from 2021-02-18T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode of...

389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails from 2021-02-10T03:00

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 with ZFS, Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Stand...

388: Must-have security tool from 2021-02-04T03:00

FreeBSD Q4 2020 Status report, a must-have security tool from OpenBSD, Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence, FreeBSD Wall Display Computer, etymology of command-line tools, GhostBSD 21.01.15 R...

387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio from 2021-01-28T03:00

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 f...

386: Aye, 386! from 2021-01-21T03:00

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...

385: Wireguard VPN mesh from 2021-01-14T03:00

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 mo...

384: In memoriam from 2021-01-07T03:45

Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMM...

383: Scale the tail from 2020-12-31T03:00

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 NOTESThis episode o...

382: BSDNow Q&A 2020 from 2020-12-24T06:00

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 wee...

381: Shell origins from 2020-12-17T06:00

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. NOTESThis episo...

380: Early ZFS-mas from 2020-12-10T06:00

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. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to ...

379: bhyve my guest from 2020-12-03T06:45

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 Free...

378: Networknomicon from 2020-11-26T06:00

Interview with Michael W. Lucas: SNMP and TLS book, cashflow for creators, book sale and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) HeadlinesIn...

377: Firewall ban-sharing from 2020-11-19T06:00

History of FreeBD: BSDi and USL Lawsuits, Building a Website on Google Compute Engine, Firewall ban-sharing across machines, OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD, Sorting out what the Single Unix ...

376: Build stable packages from 2020-11-12T06:00

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 NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought...

375: Virtually everything from 2020-11-05T06:00

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 ...

374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary from 2020-10-29T07:00

OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old tarsnap backups, Michael W. Lucas’ book sale, and ...

373: Kyle Evans Interview from 2020-10-22T07:00

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 team and a whole lot of other stuff. NOTESThis epis...

372: Slow SSD scrubs from 2020-10-15T06:00

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. NOT...

371: Wildcards running wild from 2020-10-08T06:00

New Project: zedfs.com, TrueNAS CORE Ready for Deployment, IPC in FreeBSD 11: Performance Analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Ta...

370: Testing shutdown from 2020-10-01T06:15

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 NOTEST...

369: Where rc.d belongs from 2020-09-24T12:00

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...

368: Changing OS roles from 2020-09-17T06:00

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 package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and mo...

367: Changing jail datasets from 2020-09-10T06:00

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 Donati...

366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints from 2020-09-03T06:00

OpenZFS with ZSTD lands in FreeBSD 13, LibreSSL doc status update, FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead), Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought ...

365: Whole year round from 2020-08-27T07:00

FreeBSD USB Audio, Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users, Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around, CLI Tools 235x Faster than Hadoop, FreeBSD Laptop Battery Life Status Command, and more...

364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind from 2020-08-20T07:00

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 Dragonfl...

363: Traditional Unix toolchains from 2020-08-13T07:00

FreeBSD Q2 Quarterly Status report of 2020, Traditional Unix Toolchains, BastilleBSD 0.7 released, Finding meltdown on DragonflyBSD, and more NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsna...

362: 2.11-BSD restoration from 2020-08-06T08:00

Interview with Warner Losh about Unix history, the 2.11-BSD restoration project, the Unix heritage society, proper booting, and what devmatch is. Interview - Warner Losh - imp@freebsd.org (mailto:i...

361: Function-based MicroVM from 2020-07-30T07:00

Emulex: The Cheapest 10gbe for Your Homelab, In Search of 2.11BSD, as released, Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM, First powerpc64 snapshots available for OpenBSD, OPNsense 20.1.8 rel...

360: Full circle from 2020-07-23T08:00

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. NOTESThis episo...

359: Throwaway Browser from 2020-07-16T07:00

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. N...

358: OpenBSD Kubernetes Clusters from 2020-07-09T09:00

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 ...

357: Study the Code from 2020-07-02T07:00

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. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Ta...

356: Dig in Deeper from 2020-06-25T07:00

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, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought...

355: Man Page Origins from 2020-06-18T07:00

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, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought ...

354: ZFS safekeeps data from 2020-06-11T07:00

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. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is bro...

353: ZFS on Ironwolf from 2020-06-04T11:00

Scheduling in NetBSD, ZFS vs. RAID on Ironwolf disks, OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go 2, FreeBSD for Linux sysadmins, FreeBSD on Lenovo T480, and more. NOTESThis episode of BSDNow is brought to you...

352: Introducing Randomness from 2020-05-28T08:00

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 ...

351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7 from 2020-05-21T08:00

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, influence TrueNAS CORE roadmap, and more. Headline...

350: Speedy Bridges from 2020-05-14T08:00

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. Headlines5x if_bridge Pe...

349: Entropy Overhaul from 2020-05-07T08:00

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy overhaul, Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment,...

348: BSD Community Collections from 2020-04-30T08:00

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a ...

347: New Directions from 2020-04-23T08:00

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-a...

346: Core File Tales from 2020-04-16T08:00

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, Caddy, Restic; extending NetBSD-7 branch support,...

345: Switchers to BSD from 2020-04-09T08:00

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. HeadlinesNetBSD 8.2 is available! (http:...

344: Grains of Salt from 2020-04-02T08:00

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up ZSH, How Unix pipes work, grow ZFS pools over ti...

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight! from 2020-03-26T08:00

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more. Headlines...

342: Layout the DVA from 2020-03-19T08:00

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, full name of FreeBSD’s root a...

341: U-NAS-ification from 2020-03-12T08:00

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. HeadlinesFreeBSD on Power (https://www.freebsdfou...

340: Check My Sums from 2020-03-05T08:00

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro aarch64 Pinebook-pro, central log host with syslog-n...

339: BSD Fundraising from 2020-02-27T08:00

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 mor...

338: iocage in Jail from 2020-02-20T08:00

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 ...

337: Kubernetes on bhyve from 2020-02-13T11:30

Happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work, building a FreeBSD fileserver, Kubernetes on FreeBSD bhyve, NetBSD 9 RC1 available, OPNSense 20.1 is here, HardenedBSD’s idealistic future, and more...

336: Archived Knowledge from 2020-02-06T08:00

Linux couldn’t duplicate OpenBSD, FreeBSD Q4 status report, OPNsense 19.7.9 released, archives retain and pass on knowledge, HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes, and more. HeadlinesOpenBSD has t...

335: FreeBSD Down Under from 2020-01-30T08:00

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 FreeBSD conference in Australia, and a guide to cont...

334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD from 2020-01-23T08:00

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 has...

333: Unix Keyboard Joy from 2020-01-16T08:00

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. HeadlinesYour Impact on Fr...

332: The BSD Hyperbole from 2020-01-09T08:00

Announcing HyperbolaBSD, IPFW In-Kernel NAT setup on FreeBSD, Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux, LLDB Threading support ready for mainline, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base, Dragonfly d...

331: Why Computers Suck from 2020-01-02T08:00

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. HeadlinesWhy com...

330: Happy Holidays, All(an) from 2019-12-26T08:00

Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 is available, Running FreeNAS on a DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3 is here, at e2k19 nobody can hear you scream, and more. HeadlinesAuth...

329: Lucas’ Arts from 2019-12-19T08:00

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book. Interview - Michael LucasSend questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or sto...

328: EPYC Netflix Stack from 2019-12-12T07:00

LLDB Threading support now ready, Multiple IPSec VPN tunnels with FreeBSD, Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance, happy eyeballs with unwind(8), AWS got F...

327: ZFS Rename Repo from 2019-12-05T07:00

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. HeadlinesFreeBSD third quarterly status report for 2019...

326: Certified BSD from 2019-11-28T07:00

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

325: Cracking Rainbows from 2019-11-21T07:00

FreeBSD 12.1 is here, A history of Unix before Berkeley, FreeBSD development setup, HardenedBSD 2019 Status Report, DNSSEC, compiling RainbowCrack on OpenBSD, and more. HeadlinesFreeBSD 12.1 (https...

324: Emergency Space Mode from 2019-11-14T07:00

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 the X11 ICCCM selection system, hammer 2 emergen...

323: OSI Burrito Guy from 2019-11-07T07:00

The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, appeasing the OSI 7-layer burrito guys, and mor...

322: Happy Birthday, Unix from 2019-10-31T07:00

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. HeadlinesUnix is 50 (https://www.bell-labs.com/u...

321: The Robot OS from 2019-10-23T23:00

An interview with Trenton Schulz about his early days with FreeBSD, Robot OS, Qt, and more. Interview - Trenton Schulz - freenas@norwegianrockcat.com (mailto:freenas@norwegianrockcat.com)Robot OS o...

320: Codebase: Neck Deep from 2019-10-16T23:00

Headlines FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google Pixelbook (https://unrelenting.technology/articles/FreeBSD-and-custom-firmware-on-the-Google-Pixelbook)FreeBSD and custom firmware on the Google ...

319: Lack Rack, Jack from 2019-10-09T23:00

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) S...

318: The TrueNAS Library from 2019-10-02T23:00

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmark on Ryzen 7, JFK Presidential Library chooses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12.1-beta is available, cool but obscure X11 tools, vBSDcon trip repo...

317: Bots Building Jails from 2019-09-26T02:00

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...

316: git commit FreeBSD from 2019-09-18T23:00

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, ...

315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019 from 2019-09-12T01:45

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. HeadlinesvBSDcon Recap Allan and Benedict att...

314: Swap that Space from 2019-09-04T20:00

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 ...

313: In-Kernel TLS from 2019-08-29T00:30

OpenBSD on 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, how to install FreeBSD on a MacBook, Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS), Boot Environments on DragonflyBSD, Project Trident Updates, vBSDcon schedule, and...

312: Why Package Managers from 2019-08-21T23:00

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...

311: Conference Gear Breakdown from 2019-08-15T09:00

NetBSD 9.0 release process has started, xargs, a tale of two spellcheckers, Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Exploiting a no-name freebsd kernel vulnerability, and more. HeadlinesNetBSD 9.0 release...

310: My New Free NAS from 2019-08-07T23:00

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 FreeNAS Mini, and more. HeadlinesOPNsense 19.7....

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix from 2019-07-31T23:45

DragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a chapter from the FBI’s history with OpenBSD and...

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD from 2019-07-24T23:00

Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released, implementing DRM ioctl support for NetBSD, High quality/low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD, the PD...

307: Twitching with OpenBSD from 2019-07-18T10:00

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 ...

306: Comparing Hammers from 2019-07-11T10:00

Am5x86 based retro UNIX build log, setting up services in a FreeNAS Jail, first taste of DragonflyBSD, streaming Netflix on NetBSD, NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini, Hammer vs Hammer2, and more. Head...

305: Changing face of Unix from 2019-07-03T22:00

Website protection with OPNsense, FreeBSD Support Pull Request for ZFS-on-Linux, How much has Unix changed, Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage, the death watch for X11...

304: Prospering with Vulkan from 2019-06-27T03:45

DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, ZFS vs OpenZFS, and more. HeadlinesDragonflyBSD...

303: OpenZFS in Ports from 2019-06-19T22:30

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 ...

302: Contention Reduction from 2019-06-12T23:00

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 synt...

301: GPU Passthrough from 2019-06-05T23:15

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.

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300: The Big Three from 2019-05-30T12:00

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 for security, a new Opnsense release, wireguard on...

299: The NAS Fleet from 2019-05-22T14:00

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...

298: BSD On The Road from 2019-05-15T23:00

36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, upgrading VMM VMs to OpenBSD 6.5, and more.

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297: Dragonfly In The Wild from 2019-05-09T00:00

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 forwarding, OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5 upgrade guide, and m...

296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5 from 2019-05-03T13:00

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)...

295: Fun with funlinkat() from 2019-04-25T16:00

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...

294: The SSH Tarpit from 2019-04-18T12:00

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...

293: Booking Jails from 2019-04-11T12:00

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 ...

292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap from 2019-04-04T11:00

FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project trident: 18.12-U8 is here, and more.

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291: Storage Changes Software from 2019-03-28T10:00

Storage changing software, what makes Unix special, what you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands”, running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, the ultimate guide to memorable tech talks, light-weigh...

290: Timestamped Notes from 2019-03-21T10:00

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...

289: Microkernel Failure from 2019-03-14T19:00

A kernel of failure, IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s pf, a guide to the terminal, using a Yubikey for SSH public key authentication, FreeBSD desktop series, and more.

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288: Turing Complete Sed from 2019-03-07T10:00

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 /dev/null, using GMail with mutt, and more.

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287: rc.d in NetBSD from 2019-02-28T12:00

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 virtu...

286: Old Machine Revival from 2019-02-21T16:00

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 p...

285: BSD Strategy from 2019-02-14T10:00

Strategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD integrating LLVM sanitizers in base, FreeNAS 11.2 di...

284: FOSDEM 2019 from 2019-02-07T11:00

We recap FOSDEM 2019, FreeBSD Foundation January update, OPNsense 19.1 released, the hardware-assisted virtualization challenge, ZFS and GPL terror, ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE, and more.

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283: Graphical Interface-View from 2019-01-31T11:00

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.

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282: Open the Rsync from 2019-01-24T11:00

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.

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281: EPYC Server Battle from 2019-01-17T10:00

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 pictures, and more.

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Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280 from 2019-01-10T03:00

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

Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279 from 2019-01-03T11:00

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 ...

Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278 from 2018-12-27T04:00

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.

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Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277 from 2018-12-24T11:00

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.

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Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276 from 2018-12-13T04:15

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

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Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275 from 2018-12-09T04:00

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 source Unix, OpenBGPD adds diversity to the rou...

Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274 from 2018-11-29T02:00

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

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Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273 from 2018-11-23T02:00

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.

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Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272 from 2018-11-15T13:00

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,...

Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271 from 2018-11-08T04:00

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....

Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270 from 2018-11-01T07:00

OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in F...

Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269 from 2018-10-24T05:00

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

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Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268 from 2018-10-17T01:00

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

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Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267 from 2018-10-10T06:00

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.

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Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266 from 2018-10-03T13:00

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 dirs, Multiboot a Pinebook KDE neon image, and m...

Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265 from 2018-09-27T04:00

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.

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Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264 from 2018-09-20T01:00

FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD benchmarks on AMD’s Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2 has been released, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, why ed is not a good editor today, tell your BS...

Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263 from 2018-09-07T14:00

Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS backup appliance sho...

Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262 from 2018-09-06T05:00

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.

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Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261 from 2018-08-30T03:00

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 shock...

Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260 from 2018-08-23T05:00

Trip reports from the Essen Hackathon and BSDCam, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS performance benchmarks on a FreeBSD server, how to port your OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about ...

Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259 from 2018-08-16T03:00

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 user, ZFS file server, and reflections on one ye...

Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258 from 2018-08-08T01:00

FreeBSD Foundation July Newsletter, a bunch of BSDCan trip reports, HardenedBSD Foundation status, FreeBSD and OSPFd, ZFS disk structure overview, and more Spectre mitigations in OpenBSD.

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Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257 from 2018-08-02T03:00

NetBSD 8.0 available, FreeBSD on Scaleway’s ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups with OpenBSD, Dragonfly server storage upgrade, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, and more.

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Episode 256: Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8 from 2018-07-25T01:00

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 j...

Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At | BSD Now 255 from 2018-07-18T03:00

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 of Ctrl+T.

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Episode 254: Bare the OS | BSD Now 254 from 2018-07-12T11:00

Control flow integrity with HardenedBSD, fixing bufferbloat with OpenBSD’s pf, Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD, MeetBSD CfP, crypto simplified interface, twitter gems, interesting BSD commits, and ...

Episode 253: Silence of the Fans | BSD Now 253 from 2018-07-05T07:00

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.

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Episode 252: Goes to 11.2 | BSD Now 252 from 2018-06-28T03:00

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. Listen

Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER | BSD Now 251 from 2018-06-21T05:00

DragonflyBSD’s hammer1 encrypted master/slave setup, second part of our BSDCan recap, NomadBSD 1.1-RC1 available, OpenBSD adds an LDAP client to base, FreeBSD gets pNFS support, Intel FPU Speculati...

Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap | BSD Now 250 from 2018-06-14T07:00

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 accelera...

Episode 249: Router On A Stick | BSD Now 249 from 2018-06-06T14:00

OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block size importance, and...

Episode 248: Show Me The Mooney | BSD Now 248 from 2018-05-29T14:30

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...

Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD | BSD Now 247 from 2018-05-24T15:00

FreeBSD internship learnings, exciting developments coming to FreeBSD, running FreeNAS on DigitalOcean, Network Manager control for OpenBSD, OpenZFS User Conference Videos are here and batch editin...

Episode 246: Properly Coordinated Disclosure | BSD Now 246 from 2018-05-17T01:00

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, ed mastery is a must read, and the distributed ob...

Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245 from 2018-05-10T08:00

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 ...

Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244 from 2018-05-03T03:00

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 almost broken, EuroBSDcon CfP is out, and the BSDCan ...

Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243 from 2018-04-25T16:00

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 scheduler, NetBSD on RPI3, thoughts on being a comm...

Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath | BSD Now 242 from 2018-04-18T14:00

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.

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Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241 from 2018-04-12T09:00

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 ans...

Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording | BSD Now 240 from 2018-04-07T15:00

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 ...

Episode 239: The Return To ptrace | BSD Now 239 from 2018-03-29T11:00

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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