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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BSD Now episodes:

July 07, 2022462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system, selling OpenBSD as a salesperson, Speeding up autoconf with caching, Allowing non-root execution of a jailed application, Configure login(1) and sshd(8) for YubiKey on OpenBSD, and more.
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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system
How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
News Roundup
Speeding up autoconf with caching
Allowing non-root execution of a jailed application
Configure login(1) and sshd(8) for YubiKey on OpenBSD
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
Glen - Thanks Todd
Karl - Memory Question
alejandro - Tom's laptop
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54min
June 30, 2022461: Persistent Memory Allocation
Q1 FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 2022, Nginx on OpenBSD 7.1, Persistent Memory Allocation, Colorize your BSD shell, cgit With Gitolite and Nginx on FreeBSD 13, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report First Quarter 2022
Installing Nginx on OpenBSD 7.1
News Roundup
Live Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting started with bhyve
Hosted by Jim Salter and Allan Jude
Live July 12th at 13:00 ET
Available on-demand a few days later
Persistent Memory Allocation
Colorize your BSD shell
How to Install cgit With Gitolite and Nginx on FreeBSD 13
EuroBSDCon 2022 (Austria) Program announced
Come to Austria and learn about the latest happenings in the BSDs
2 days of tutorials, and 2 days of 3 concurrent tracks of talks
Registration is open now. See you there!
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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
Brad - Drive question
Carl - Wiring question
Jon - Jails question
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50min
June 23, 2022460: OpenBSD airport folklore
Containerd gains support for launching Linux containers on FreeBSD, OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64, true minimalistic window manager does not exist, OpenBSD folklore, HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report, DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 out, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Containerd gains support for launching Linux containers on FreeBSD
Uses Linux compat and the Linux Jails concept to deploy a full Linux container userland on FreeBSD
OpenBSD 7.1 on PINE64 RockPro64
News Roundup
Live Webinar: Open-source Virtualization: Getting started with bhyve
Hosted by Jim Salter and Allan Jude
Live July 12th at 13:00 ET
Available on-demand a few days later
The True Minimalistic Window Manager Does Not Exist
OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport
HardenedBSD May 2022 Status Report
DragonFlyBSD 6.2.2 out
Changelog
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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
Norbert - question
Paulo - network question
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38min
June 16, 2022459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark
Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use, Time Machine-like Backups on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on the Graviton 3, Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark, Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset from BSDCan 2022, Hardware Detection & Diagnostics for New FreeBSD Users, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use
Time Machine like Backups on OpenBSD
News Roundup
FreeBSD on the Graviton 3
Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark
Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset from BSDCan 2022
Hardware Detection & Diagnostics for New FreeBSD Users & PCs
Beastie Bits
• [NetBSD - Announcing Google Summer of Code 2022 projects](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/announcing_google_summer_of_code3)
• [Welcome FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Participants](https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/welcome-freebsd-google-summer-of-code-participants/)
• [Network from Scratch](https://www.networksfromscratch.com)
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.
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected]
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55min
June 09, 2022458: Traceroute interpretation
Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell, Spammers in the Public Cloud, locking user accounts properly, overgrowth on NetBSD, moreutils, ctwm & spleen, interpreting a traceroute, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell
Spammers in the Public Cloud, Protected by SPF; Intensified Password Groping Still Ongoing; Spamware Hawked to Spamtraps
News Roundup
A cautionary tale about locking Linux & FreeBSD user accounts
Overgrowth runs on NetBSD
moreutils
NetBSD, CTWM, and Spleen
How to properly interpret a traceroute or mtr
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
Lets talk a bit about some of the events happening this year, BSDCan in virtual this weekend, emfcamp is this weekend too and in person, MCH is this summer and eurobsdcon is in september. How were the postgres conferences benedict?
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49min
June 02, 2022457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow
Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
The journey to ZFS raidz1 with different sized disks (On NetBSD) (Wheelbarrow optional)
FreeBSD Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth
News Roundup
Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling
Archive link if the page is down (no images)
Original Announcment
German Article
KDE-FreeBSD CI
Remembering Buildtool
Beastie Bits
By the Way... Kubernetes for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Games Directory
Candlelit Console patch set to the framebuffer console
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
Dan - A couple things
Paul - BSD Business Justifications
Todd - Feedback to prior feedback
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48min
May 26, 2022456: FreeBSD 13.1
FreeBSD 13.1 is released, Unix command line conventions over time, Branching for NetBSD 10, Microbhyve, Own your Calendar and Contacts with OpenBSD, the PSARC case for ZFS, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
FreeBSD 13.1 Release is available
Unix command line conventions over time
News Roundup
Branching for NetBSD 10
Microbyhve
Own Your Calendar & Contacts With OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android
Twenty years ago today, Jeff filed the PSARC case for the ZFS filesystem
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
Scott - FreeBSD and supercomputing
Nick - Thanks and some shout outs
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52min
May 19, 2022455: Ken Thompson Singularity
OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, and more.
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse
Multiprocess support for LLDB
News Roundup
I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD
Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot
FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s
Beastie Bits
Open Source Voices interview with Deb Goodkin
Tachyum Successfully Runs FreeBSD in Prodigy Ecosystem, Expands Open-Source OS Support
MidnightBSD Minor Update 2.1.7
LibreSSL 3.5.2 Released
OpenBGPD 7.3 is out
Playing the game Bottomless on OpenBSD
Windows Central: OpenBSD already has a version for Apple Silicon
OpenBSD Webzine #9 is out
In the "Everone makes mistakes catagory" : I forgot to enable compression on ZFS
"Ken Thompson is a singularity" ~Brian Kernighan
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
Ben - Securing FreeBSD
Dave - BSD certifications
Sam - maintaining a port
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46min
May 12, 2022454: Compiling 50% faster
OpenBSD 7.1 is out, Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2, Let's try V on OpenBSD, Waiting for Randot, Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster, A Salute for 10+ years of service, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
OpenBSD 7.1 is out
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2
News Roundup
Let's try V on OpenBSD
Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong)
Compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster
A Salute for 10+ years of service https://archive.ph/JL5hf (if the site is down)
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
Glenn - Toms Home Lab
I_am_chunky_pie - unix tool writing
Mike - Making Routers
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49min
May 05, 2022453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more.
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS
Writing a device driver for Unix V6
News Roundup
FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to
Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor
Writing a NetBSD kernel module
Benedicts Git Finds
Projects
Run anything (like full blown GTK apps) under Capsicum
Twitter client for UEFI
n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems
Gists and Articles
Step-by-step instructions on installing the latest NVIDIA drivers on FreeBSD 13.0 and above
FreeBSD SSH Hardening
GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems
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
Ben - Backing Up
Ethan - Thanks
Maxi - question about note taking
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46min

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