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December 08, 2022484: Birth of stderr
Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Virtualization showdown – FreeBSD’s bhyve vs. Linux’s KVM
The Birth of Standard Error
News Roundup
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font
Curious Case of Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS
Call for testing on updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader code
FreeBSD on my workstation
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - Initial Setup
Joseph - openbsd and postgresql
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37 min
December 01, 2022483: ZFS Time Machine
Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report, Nushell : Introduction, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator
httm – The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method
News Roundup
NFS on NetBSD: server and client side
HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report
Nushell : Introduction
Beastie Bits
Unix Pipe Game
Slides - The “other” FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s from a single server
My FreeBSD Friday Lecture: The Writing Scholar’s Guide to FreeBSD
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Feedback/Questions
Dan - Response to Hans
Johnny - bhyve question
Manuel - EuroBSDcon social event
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51 min
November 24, 2022482: BSD XFCE Desktop
5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage Over Commercial Offerings
OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop
News Roundup
BSD-XFCE
Creating an Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS (optionally encrypted)
FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking (2022)
Beastie Bits
EuroBSDcon videos are now up
LibreSSL 3.6.1 released
Raspberry Pi 4 with FreeBSD 13-RELEASE: A Perfect Miniature Homelab
AsiaBSDcon 2023 CfP
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Feedback/Questions
John - Allan's meetup
Matthew - atime and a question
Valentin - Becoming a FreeBSD Developer
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40 min
November 17, 2022481: Fiery Crackers
FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022
Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS
Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform
News Roundup
How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?
PostgreSQL from packages on OpenBSD
Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives
PSA: Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions
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Feedback/Questions
Hinnerk - vnet jails
Tom’s response example: https://adventurist.me/posts/00304
Hugo - Apple M2
kevin - emacs backspace
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48 min
November 10, 2022480: OpenBSD 7.2
OpenBSD 7.2 and FuguIta have been released, Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team, how to get notified about FreeBSD updates, using unbound for ad blocking on OpenBSD, further memory protections on OpenBSD current, and more.
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.2 has been released
FuguIta 7.2 is out as well
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### Keeping FreeBSD Secure: Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team
News Roundup
Howto: be notified of FreeBSD upgrades, security updates and package updates at login
Ads blocking with OpenBSD unbound(8)
Further memory protections committed to -current
Beastie Bits
• [“OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Print/Ebook Bundle Preorder](https://mwl.io/archives/22352)
• [Klara is hiring a FreeBSD Kernel Developer](https://klarasystems.com/careers/freebsd-kernel-developer/)
• [FreeBSD 12.4-BETA1 Now Available](https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2022-October/000920.html)
• [Hunting kernel lock and interrupt latency](https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2022/10/30/msg028499.html)
• [EuroBSDcon 2022 videos available](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20221027232308)
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Feedback/Questions
Charles - BSD Now Bingo
Jake - FreeBSD Security defaults
Sam - FreeBSD and SSDs
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49 min
November 03, 2022479: OpenBSD Docker Host
EuroBSDcon 2022 as first BSD conference, Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails, Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8), history of sending signals to Unix process groups, Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different)
Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails
News Roundup
The history of sending signals to Unix process groups
Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)
Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022
Beastie Bits
-current has moved to 7.2
Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked
Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch
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Feedback/Questions
Hans - datacenters and dust
Tim - Boot issue
aaron- dwm tiling
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43 min
October 27, 2022478: Debunking sudo myths
Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new debugbreak command, 7 sudo myths debunked
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Headlines
Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way Forward?
Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation
News Roundup
How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie
Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
My new debugbreak command
7 sudo myths debunked
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Feedback/Questions
Andy - sharing and acls
Reptilicus Rex - boot environments
i3luefire - byhve issue
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47 min
October 20, 2022477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Mindshare: Analyzing Bsd Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja
Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD
News Roundup
A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update
Gems from the Man Page Trenches
Beastie Bits
The MIPS ThinkPad
Nix Gems
Running PalmOS without PalmOS
"OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems" draft done!
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - zfs and databases
Kevin - EMACS
Michal - virtual OSS
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47 min
October 13, 2022476: Warren Toomey interview
In this special episode, we interview Warren Toomey from the Unix Historical Society. We chat about his involvement in preserving old Unix systems and why that is important.
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Interview - Warren Toomey - [email protected]
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Special Guest: Warren Toomey.
45 min
October 06, 2022475: Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback on FreeBSD, and more.
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Headlines
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3
A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD
News Roundup
A fresh look at FreeBSD
File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell
Video Playback on FreeBSD – Quick Guide
Beastie Bits
ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes
... interesting old-timey UNIXes ...
A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix! Legacy
Game of Trees 0.75 released
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Feedback/Questions
Ken - HPR
Kevin - FreeBSD and EMACS
Nathan - Handbook contribution Question
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48 min

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