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February 01, 2024544: Geeky weather check
GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions,
The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a
FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage
devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and
ZFS
NOTES
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Headlines
GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions
The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like
News Roundup
Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail
DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s
Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS
Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS
Conferences
FOSDEM
AsiaBSDCon
BSDCan
EuroBSDcon
Southeast Linuxfest
Dont let the name fool you, SELF is BSD friendly and they'd love to have BSD/Unix Talks if you're in the area. JT is staff at SELF, so he can put in a good word for you. ;)
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1 hr 8 min
January 25, 2024543: OpenBSD Workstation Hardening
OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs, 2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement, Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snapshot directory?, OpenBSD workstation hardening, KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current, MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs
2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement
News Roundup
Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve
FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snapshot directory?
OpenBSD workstation hardening
KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current
MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Kieran - Feedback
Albin - links inquires questions
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1 hr
January 18, 2024542: Retro and Futuro
8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024, System Design
for Advanced Beginners, 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective, Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10*RC1, FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6, Ctrl+Alt Museum
NOTES
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Headlines
8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024
System Design for Advanced Beginners
News Roundup
2024 plans and 2023 retrospective
Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10_RC1
FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6
Ctrl+Alt Museum
Beastie Bits
Taylor's Hackerstation
An Empirical Study of the Reliability of UNIX Utilities
BSD on Windows: Things I wish I knew existed
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54 min
January 11, 2024541: Learning and Teaching
Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14, HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report, How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop, A sneak Peak, Programming FreeBSD Reading Process Information, Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries 'name caches', Always learning, Always Teaching
NOTES
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Headlines
Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14
HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report
News Roundup
How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop
A sneak Peak
Programming FreeBSD Reading Process Information
Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries 'name caches'
Always learning, Always Teaching
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56 min
January 04, 2024540: Terrapin Attacks SSH
Terrapin Attack, SSH Hardening with ssh-audit, MidnightBSD 3.1.2, syscall(2) removed from -current, 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here
NOTES
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Headlines
Terrapin Attack
OpenSSH 9.6 is out
OpenBSD Patches
FreeBSD Patches
If anyone is aware of NetBSD Patches, please send them into the show so I can update the show notes
SSH Hardening with ssh-audit
News Roundup
MidnightBSD 3.1.2
syscall(2) removed from -current
2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here
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Feedback/Questions
(Markus - how to verify FreeBSD deliverables](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/539/feedback/Markus%20-%20how%20to%20verify%20FreeBSD%20deliverables.md)
(neb - tui](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/539/feedback/neb%20-%20tui.md)
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54 min
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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1 hr
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
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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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42 min
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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54 min
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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52 min
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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57 min

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