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:

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
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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.
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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
April 28, 2022452: The unknown hackers
The unknown hackers, Papers we love to read, Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed, OpenSSH 9.0 released, OS battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
The unknown hackers
Bill Jolitz passed away in March 2022
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FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read
News Roundup
FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed
OpenSSH 9.0 has been released
Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS
Beastie Bits
Celebrating 50 years of the Unix Operating System
Kickstarter Campaign Results
FreeBSD Virtualization Series
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
Jeff - ZFS checksum repair
Nelson - General Thanks
Sam - FOSS Power Support
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47min
April 21, 2022451: Tuning ZFS recordsize
Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8)
Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS
News Roundup
Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops
I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted
Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge
Beastie Bits
• [FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU](https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/)
• [HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/22/26800.html)
• [New US mirror for DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/09/26742.html)
• [HelloSystem 13.1 RC1](https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1-RC1)
• [Video introduction to OpenBSD 7.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUsE-3nSes)
• [Losses in the community](https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html)
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
Sam - BSD Laptops
Reese - Electric Groff
Alexandra - New to BSD
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1h 1min
April 14, 2022450: Unix Tool Writing
The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, and more.
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix
Hints for writing Unix Tools
News Roundup
Cron best practices
Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released
Taskwarrior to manage tasks
Beastie Bits
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
Andrew - virtualization
Brad - jails applications and interoperability
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59min

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