BSD Now

By JT Pennington

Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as... more

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December 28, 2023539: Query all hosts
In this special holiday episode, we, the BSDNow hosts, get together to answer questions that listeners have sent us over time. We give you updates on our gear, books we read, favorite places, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
NOTES
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1h
December 21, 2023538: Gadget Catalog Age
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs, FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0, Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Netgate Releases pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1, SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right, Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs
FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0 – properly detailed and (hopefully) correct way
News Roundup
Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Netgate Releases pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right
Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage
Tarsnap
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42min
December 14, 2023537: Authentic SSH Host
OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases pt 2, MNT Reform – almost a year on, Why do I know shell, and how can you, Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to, dsynth in DragonFly, Navigating around in shell, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases – Part 2: File Serving and SANs
My MNT Reform – almost a year on
News Roundup
Why do I know shell, and how can you?
Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to
dsynth in DragonFly
Navigating around in shell
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - jail manager questions
Jail manager comparison: https://appjail.readthedocs.io/en/latest/compare/
nixbytes - sharing a link.md
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54min
December 07, 2023536: Pot-flavored Jails
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 Released, FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases - Part 1: Snapshots and Backups
EuroBSDCon 2023 report (1/2) – arrival & tutorial days
EuroBSDCon 2023 report (2/2) – Main conference, social event & conclusion
News Roundup
Disks from the Perspective of a File System
OpenIKED 7.3 released
OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released
FreeBSD – Creating Jails using flavours in pot
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds
Tarsnap
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52min
November 30, 2023535: Untitled Episode
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 vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), and more
NOTES
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Headlines
FreeBSD 14
• [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html)
• [Vermaden’s FreeBSD 14 valuable news] (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/valuable-freebsd-14-0-release-updates)
News Roundup
Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD
Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk
clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16
NetBSD Security Advisory 2023-007: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8)
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - zpool disk allocation questions
Kevin - shell question
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57min
November 23, 2023534: Narrow Waisted Internet
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 Studio 12.6 on Illumos
NOTES
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Headlines
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
News Roundup
FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison
Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - Detective work on zpool history
Extrowerk - End of the world type stuff
Mike - principle of least astonishment
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1h 3min
November 16, 2023533: Package the Base
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 7.4.0p0 Released
NOTES
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Headlines
Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture
A bit of XENIX history
News Roundup
Official packages
recover lost text by coredumping firefox
FuguIta 7.4 has been released
LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released
OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released
Conference News
AsiaBSDCon 2024
BSDCan 2024
EuroBSDCon 2024
Tarsnap
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45min
November 09, 2023532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship
218 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 OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, and more
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Headlines
218 dollars to open source
Special Thanks to Colin for supporting BSD Now for over 10 years!
***
### EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report – Bojan Novković
***
### FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian)
***
News Roundup
Introduction to sysclean8
Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD
My FreeBSD years: 2000-2005
Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway
Beastie Bits
How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities
A Practical Guide of GNU grep With Examples
FreeBSD Container VM for Podman
User Certbot to create SSL certificates on FreeBSD
OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection
OpenBSD Webzine Issue #15
FreeBSD OpenSSL 3.0 ported
Harden FreeBSD Script
Something odd happened...
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55min
November 02, 2023531: Everlasting Software
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 Arkenfox, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.4
Making Software Last Forever
News Roundup
DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions
HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report
NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod
Firefox hardening with Arkenfox
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.
Feedback/Questions
A Random Listener - Other Podcasts
Dante - Thanks
Lars - WEI DRM
YKLA - transcripts
***
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1h 3min
October 26, 2023530: Old Computer Rescue
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 messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD
Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD
The First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server
News Roundup
OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201
[CFT] sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs
How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities
Keeping my email sorted (the hard way)
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Albin - Links
Douglas - Best practices
Patrick - Ideas Feedback
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55min

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