In this episode, Benedict shows some of the tools he loves to use including Markdown (producing PDFs and other docs using Pandoc), AWK, and Graphviz. A lot of tutorials and getting-started links in this practical-oriented episode for you.

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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis, A Brief History of Cyrix, Userland Disk I/O, OPNsense 24.7.9 released, GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available, Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering, Keep your OmniOS server time synced, and more

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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

A Brief History of Cyrix

Userland Disk I/O

OPNsense 24.7.9 released

GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

Keep your OmniOS server time synced

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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD, What To Use Instead of PGP, The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus, I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6, Spell checking in Vim, Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old, and more

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Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD

What To Use Instead of PGP

The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus

FreeBSD 14 on the Desktop

Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old

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FreeBSD Quarterly Report, Welcome to the new category: filesystems, BSD Misconceptions, Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024, Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind, A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3, and more

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FreeBSD Quarterly Report

Welcome to the new category: filesystems

BSD Misconceptions

Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024

Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind

A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3

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Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years, 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong, The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected, OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off, bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?, and more

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Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years

5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong

The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected

OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off

bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?

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From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration, FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS, Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure, LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released, Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14, Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions, and more

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From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration

FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure

LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released

Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14

git: world - Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions

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New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices, Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT, The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops, Jailfox - Firefox in a Freebsd Jail, Make Your Own Read-Only Device With NetBSD, ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc advanced,

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New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices

Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT

The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops

Jailfox - Firefox in a Freebsd Jail

Make Your Own Read-Only Device With NetBSD

ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc file (config file) advanced topics (undocumented?): Adding comments, escaping the pipe, mapping key combinations

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Run Linux Containers on FreeBSD 14 with Podman, Open Source FreeBSD NAS: Maintenance Best Practices, Self-hosting Bitwarden / VaultWarden on FreeBSD, I most definitely should (self-host)!, My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures, Make Your Own CDN With OpenBSD Base and Just 2 Packages, and more

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OpenBSD 7.6 Released

Open Source FreeBSD NAS: Maintenance Best Practices

Self-hosting Bitwarden / VaultWarden on FreeBSD

I most definitely should (self-host)!

My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures

Make Your Own CDN With OpenBSD Base and Just 2 Packages

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And now... for some laughs, I shall share with you all, some of the delightful spam we have gotten for your entertainment.

Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption, ZBM 101: Introduction to ZFSBootMenu, How I batch apply and save one-liners, Moving an Entire FreeBSD Installation to a New Host or VM in a Few Easy Steps, How to install "standard" TTF Microsoft fonts, We need more zero config tools, Reasons I still love the fish shell, You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks, and more

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Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption

ZBM 101: Introduction to ZFSBootMenu

How I batch apply and save one-liners

Moving an Entire FreeBSD Installation to a New Host or VM in a Few Easy Steps

How to install "standard" TTF Microsoft fonts

We need more zero config tools

Reasons I still love the fish shell

You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tasks.

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Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD - Part 2, FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE Announcement, OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.6, acpidumping,Install snac2 on FreeBSD – An ActivityPub Instance for the Fediverse, Managing dotfiles with chezmoi, Podman testing on FreeBSD, and more

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Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD - Part 2

FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE Announcement

OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.6

acpidumping

Install snac2 on FreeBSD – An ActivityPub Instance for the Fediverse

Installing Uptime-Kuma on a FreeBSD Jail

Managing dotfiles with chezmoi

Podman testing on FreeBSD

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