March 13, 2025

602: Wildcard Gotchas

57 minutes

I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more

NOTES

This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

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I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went

Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets

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State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon

The first perfect computer

Find Name Wildcard Gotcha

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By JT Pennington

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March 13, 2025

602: Wildcard Gotchas

57 minutes

NOTES

This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went

Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets

News Roundup

State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon

The first perfect computer

Find Name Wildcard Gotcha

New Patreon Levels

Level 1 - user memory (Tip Jar) @ $1 / month

Show your support for the show

Level 2 - virtual memory (Ad-Free Episodes) @ $5 / month

Ad-free episodes

Level 3 - kmem (VIP Patron) @ $10 / month

Everything in higher memory levels &

Your feedback and questions jump the queue and go in the next episode.

Personal shout outs (with your consent) for recommending articles we cover.

Level 4 - physical memory @ $20 / month

What's included:

Everything in higher memory levels &

You can send in audio/video questions and we'll air your audio in the show feedback section (if the quality of your recording is decent)

Behind-the-scenes content - Raw Video from Recording sessions with intro/outro discussion not included in the show

Additional Content when we all make it

Tarsnap

This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.

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