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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
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Glenn - Toms Home Lab
I_am_chunky_pie - unix tool writing
Mike - Making Routers
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49 min
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
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Ben - Backing Up
Ethan - Thanks
Maxi - question about note taking
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46 min
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
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Jeff - ZFS checksum repair
Nelson - General Thanks
Sam - FOSS Power Support
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47 min
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
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Sam - BSD Laptops
Reese - Electric Groff
Alexandra - New to BSD
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1 hr 1 min
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
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Andrew - virtualization
Brad - jails applications and interoperability
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59 min
April 07, 2022449: Reproducible clean $HOME
FreeBSD Status Report 4th Quarter 2021, Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence, Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server, helloSystem 0.7.0 is out, lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting, going to jail, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 4th Quarter 2021
Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence
News Roundup
Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server
helloSystem 0.7.0 is out
My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting
Going to jail
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
• No Feedback emails this week, so instead we can have “Story Time with Allan” and he can regale us with an entertaining BSD story.
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51 min
March 31, 2022448: Controlling Resource Limits
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD
It's DNS. Of course it's DNS, it's always DNS.
News Roundup
GSOC
• [Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code](https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-in-google-summer-of-code/)
• [The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_netbsd_foundation_is_a)
Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021
Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD
Beastie Bits
Unofficial HardenedBSD liveCD
The eurobsdcon 2022 CFP is open
Testing parallel forwarding
OpenBSD iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support
OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems
FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Eric - periodic notifications
Kevin - no question
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46 min
March 24, 2022447: Path to BSD
FreeBSD Foundation Proposals, UNIX: On the Path to BSD, Fujitsu ends its mainframe and Unix services, Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator, new OpenBSD Webzine is out, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Project Proposal Overview
UNIX: On the Path to BSD
News Roundup
Fujitsu is ending its mainframe and Unix services
TUTORIAL: Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator
OpenBSD Webzine
Beastie Bits
A Trio if OPNsense releases:
21.7.8
21.10.3
22.1.1
FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life
DragonFly as a KVM guest
RIP Lorinda Cherry
Precursor: From Boot to Root
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Feedback/Questions
No Feedback emails this week, so instead Tom can regale us with an entertaining BSD story.
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54 min
March 17, 2022446: Debugging ioctl problems
Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction
The FreeBSD Boot Process
News Roundup
Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD
Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu
DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My!
Beastie Bits
• [LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220301063844)
• [OpenSSH updated to 8.9](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220301063428)
• [Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220221060700)
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Jonathan - X-Wing and Tie Fighter
Joshontech - pool options
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49 min
March 10, 2022445: Journey to BSD
Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro
FreeBSD Periodic Scripts
News Roundup
The history (sort of) of service management in Unix
My journey from macOS to FreeBSD
A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other
Navidrome music server on FreeBSD
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Tyler - Is this enough for VMs
Kevin - BSD from RAMdisk
Malcolm - wired headset in FreeBSD
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48 min

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