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:

September 30, 2021422: The Brian Callahan Interview
We interview Dr. Brian Callahan about his language porting work for OpenBSD, teaching with BSDs and recruiting students into projects, research, and his work at NYC*BUG in this week’s episode of BSDnow.
NOTES
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Interview - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan - https://briancallahan.net/ / bcallah@bsdnetwork
Tarsnap
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Special Guest: Brian Callahan.
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50min
September 23, 2021421: ZFS eats CPU
Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Useless use of GNU
Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students
News Roundup
Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes
References this article: I’m not sure that UNIX won
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### A new path: vm86-based venix emulator
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### ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU
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### traceroute(8) gets speed boost
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Feedback/Questions
Al - TransAtlantic Cables
Christopher - NVMe
JohnnyK - Vivaldi
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51min
September 16, 2021420: OpenBSD makes life better
Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project update, NetBSD on the Apple M1, HardenedBSD August Status Report, FreeBSD Journal on Wireless and Desktop, and more.
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap
Headlines
Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout
Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)
News Roundup
GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available
Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD
NetBSD wifi router project update
Bonus NetBSD Recent Developments: NetBSD on the Apple M1
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### HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report
### FreeBSD Journal July/August 2021: Desktop/Wireless
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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
James - backup question
Jonathon - certifications
Marty - RPG CLI
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50min
September 09, 2021419: Rethinking OS installs
Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more.
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap
Headlines
Reviewing my first OpenBSD port, and what I'd do differently 10 years later
Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11
News Roundup
FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install
The switch to FreeBSD rc.d is coming
Irix gets LLVM
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Miceal - a few questions
Nelson - dummynet
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52min
September 02, 2021418: The greatest time in history to be a creator
In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more.
NOTES
Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor
Cashflow for Creators
Charity Auction Against Human Trafficking
This is the rfc about what to not do.
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Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.
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53min
August 26, 2021417: bhyve private cloud
Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, portable GELI, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS - Part 1
FreeBSD Foundation Q2 Report
OpenBSD full Tor setup
News Roundup
MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud
Expanding our FreeBSD home file server
OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop
Portable GELI
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Chunky_pie - zfs question
Paul - several questions
chris - firewall question
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58min
August 19, 2021416: netcat printing
OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Lets talk OpenZFS snapshots
OpenSUSE in Bastille
News Roundup
CUPS printing with netcat
Opnsense-21.1.8
pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available
Beastie Bits
• [MAC Inspired FreeBSD release](https://github.com/mszoek/airyx)
• [Implement unprivileged chroot](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b)
• [InitWare: A systemd fork that runs on BSD](https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare)
• [multics gets a new release](https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page)
• [Open Source Voices interview with Tom Jones](https://www.opensourcevoices.org/17)
• [PDP 11/03 Engineering Drawings](https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1423092689084551171)
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Feedback/Questions
Oliver - zfs
anders - vms
jeff - byhve guests
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54min
August 12, 2021415: Wrong OS Switch
Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init system poll, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server
History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom
News Roundup
Permissions Two Mistakes
Progress in support for the riscv64 platform
I2P Intro
“$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written?
What init system would you prefer to use under GhostBSD?
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - Replication
Benedict writes after the show was over: The tool is called https://github.com/allanjude/zxfer
Tom tweeted right after recording stopped:
https://twitter.com/adventureloop/status/1420478529238622210
Caleb - Pronunciation of Gemini
Dan - Writeup about a DO FreeBSD Droplet
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55min
August 05, 2021414: Running online conferences
OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenZFS 2.1 is out
FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls
News Roundup
IPFS OpenBSD
Tips for running an online conference
My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Bruce - Upgrading
Chris - SMB Followup
dmilith - kTLS
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1h 4min
July 29, 2021413: BSD/Linux Chimera
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD, AdvanceBSD thoughts 2/2, FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective, FPGA programming and DragonFly, Chimera Linux, EuroBSDcon 2021, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD
Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (2/2)
News Roundup
FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective
FPGA programming and DragonFly
Chimera Linux - A Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM
EuroBSDcon 2021
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Charlie - several questions
Dan - kernel driver or module question
James - Apple M1
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47min

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