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October 08684: Nerds 2.0
Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...
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Headlines
A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator.
Notes on software quality
What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
News Roundup
Add ACPI layer into vmd
NetBSD 11 from scratch
FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so
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October 01683: GeFS (GeFUS)
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Headlines
GeFS
GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview
Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future
NetBSD 9.5 has been released
ekkoBSD 2.1 released
News Roundup
Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication
OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released
Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent
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44 min
September 24682: NAS NAS NAS
Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...
Headlines
[Two more BSD based NASes have appeared]
BSDNAS
The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP
They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort
FreeCORE
Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1
Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2
FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD
News Roundup
ICEBP Finally Documented
Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag
OpenSSH 10.5
Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.
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Feedback/Questions
[Phil - Listener Feedback]
Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard
Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that
working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important -
Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made!
And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn
a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me
there, plus google etc.
I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished
file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what
the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the
last podcast a few times - They don't know yet????
Now I'm stuck!
I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop
policy and offer similar pkg/build systems?
Thanks
Phill
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40 min
September 17681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure
Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...
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Headlines
Where Unix runs today
(Dont get distracted by the game)
WebZFS Updates
The bugs are coming from inside the house
NetBSD 11 Support
News Roundup
A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD
Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C
Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation
Beastie Bits
1978 Aussi Users Group Newsletter
Terminal UI and CLI for FreeBSD NFSv4 ACLs
Sounds of the IBM 1401
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Feedback/Questions
[Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?]
Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department.
Whats the best song about a former Australian colony?
Toto - Africa
Men at work - Down Under
For completeness:
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand)
Don McLean - American Pie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland)
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada)
[Reece - Webzfs]
Guys,
Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly?
Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it.
73..
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1 hr 1 min
September 10680: What FS?
BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS
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Headlines
BSD pt Deux
Code that Built the Internet
Interview JT on WebZFS
TJ: I started by asking JT...
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45 min
September 03679: It also goes to 11
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Headlines
NetBSD 11 Release
SR-IOV Is a first class feature
News Roundup
Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment
OpenSSH 10.5 released
FreeBSD Ate my RAM
ThinkPad End Game
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1 hr 3 min
August 27678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning
Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more...
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Headlines
How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling
On AI
News Roundup
Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade
Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS!
Why a Flip Phone?
$399 - $640 preorder
BSD Make extravaganza
HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report
MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE
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48 min
August 20677: Butler at your service
Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more...
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Headlines
My Home Assistant Setup
Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates
WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD
Game of Trees 0.127 Released
OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8)
httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers
LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64
Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification
News Roundup
Wine 11.14 Brings New WoW64 Mode to FreeBSD
I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
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Feedback/Questions
Tyler - IPv6 Question
Reese - WebZFS
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1 hr 11 min
August 13676: 10 print "goto 10"
The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more...
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Headlines
Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin
Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously.
News Roundup
BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD
Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing
The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA!
The Virtual OS Museum
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Feedback/Questions
Marcus - Linuxulator vs Bhyve
- Reese - Feedback on episode 673
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1 hr 1 min
August 06675: Going GPL Free
FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more...
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Headlines
The Computer at the bottom of a canal
FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free
News Roundup
FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber
Phaethon 1 - a 68010-based Unix machine
Add a new m68k port oriented towards home-brew m68k machines
Bringing Swift to the Apple II
Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
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Feedback/Questions
Producer note : Ive been insanely busy this past week and I've fallen behind on a few things, including checking the show email. If you sent an email in and we havent covered it yet, we'll get caught back up soon. If yuo haven't sent in an email... shame on you. You should email us and ask us something.
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