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November 05688: Eighty
OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more...
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Headlines
Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1
OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article
dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests
brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more
News Roundup
WebZFS has reached Beta3
HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report
Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD
SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers
Beastie Bits
NetBSD smashes funding goal for 2026, set $50K, currently at $124K
dbupdate added to -current and backported to 7.9 and 8.0
emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD Ports
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Feedback/Questions
Reese - Casio BBS
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Team,
I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron.
Thanks
Reese
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50 min
October 29687: Long Term Support
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Headlines
FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters
August/September Newsletter
News Roundup
All About the Whistle InterJet
FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.
Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
Beastie Bits
A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition
LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released
openssh-10.6 released
New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx
Brutal Unix
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Feedback/Questions
Sasha - bastille plugin
Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.
https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin
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57 min
October 22686: Yell in your Shell
! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...
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Headlines
A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.
Learnign at Scale
News Roundup
Thinkcenter m710q
IPFS Remote Pinning
Beastie Bits
ThinkPhone
lapocket
OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)
vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs
OpenBGPD 9.3 released
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41 min
October 15685: Busy at the bar
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Headlines
Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2
Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD
News Roundup
Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap
Notes on clarifying man pages
Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD.
[Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/)
Beastie Bits
OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"
Sylve Ansible Modules
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1 hr 3 min
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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1 hr
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

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