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December 23, 2021434: It’s Quiz-mas time
In this special xmas episode we let the audience interview us using questions they sent us and we’ll answer now. Tom, Allan, JT, and I are all here, so stay tuned for some interesting answers to your questions.
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Interview
Allan - [email protected] / Twitter : @allanjude
Benedict - [email protected] / Twitter : @bsdbcr
Tom - [email protected] / Twitter : @adventureloop
JT - [email protected] / Twitter : @q5sys
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59 min
December 16, 2021433: GhostBSD of Christmas
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense, and more
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Headlines
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available
Why v7 matters so much
News Roundup
OpenBSD on the VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client
OctoPkg: A Great GUI Package Manager In FreeBSD
Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3)
How To Install doas in FreeBSD 13
How to Access Your Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense
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Feedback/Questions
No feedback for this episode because no one sent any in. :(
I guess we’ve answered every BSD and Unix question that everyone has.
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30 min
December 09, 2021432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah
HAMBug hybrid meeting, Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0, OpenZFS 3.0 introduced at Dev Summit, HardenedBSD Home Infrastructure Status, Running Awk in parallel, FreeBSD Announces Wayland 1.19.91, and more
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Headlines
HAMBug hybrid meeting
Hoping to squeeze in an in-person meeting incase the pandemic situation regresses
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### Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0
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### OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Dev Summit
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### OpenZFS vdev properties feature has been merged
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News Roundup
October 2021 Home Infrastructure Status
Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
FreeBSD Announce wayland 1.19.91
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - running linux binaries under FreeBSD
Lars - Finding BSD Topics via search engine
Marc - Your views on this question on Reddit
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55 min
December 02, 2021431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents
Why use OpenBSD part 2, FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4, Ending up liking GNOME, OPNsense 21.7.5 released, Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2, and more
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Headlines
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 2: Why use OpenBSD?
Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture
News Roundup
OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4
How I ended up liking GNOME
OPNsense 21.7.5 released
Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in ec2
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Feedback/Questions
Andreas - ZFS and Trim
Hamza - swift on the BSDs
Kendall - how many mirror
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44 min
November 25, 2021430: OpenBSD Onwards
Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk Encryption, Onwards with OpenBSD, and more
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Headlines
Going From Recovery Mode to Normal Operations with OpenZFS Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System
Monitoring FreeBSD jails from the host
News Roundup
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 3rd Quarter 2021
OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption
Catchup 2021-11-03
Beastie Bits
• [Manage Kubernetes cluster from FreeBSD with kubectl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxJIXKtK7c)
• [amdgpu support in DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/11/08/26343.html)
• [Today is the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Edition of Unix...](https://twitter.com/bsdimp/status/1456019089466421248?s=20)
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Feedback/Questions
Efraim - response to IPFS and an overlay filesystem
Paul - FS Send question
sev - Freebsd & IPA
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46 min
November 18, 2021429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots
FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD Audio, Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops, Thoughts on Spelling Fixes, and more.
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Headlines
FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update
Advanced ZFS Snapshots
News Roundup
Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD
MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative
FreeBSD Audio
Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops and Intel Speed Shift (6th Gen and Later)
Some Thoughts on Spelling Fixes
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Feedback/Questions
Bens feedback to Benedict's feedback to Bens question about zpoolboy
hcddbz - Old Technical Books
jason - a jails question
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40 min
November 11, 2021428: Cult of BSD
OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a whole lot of BSD bits, and more.
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Headlines
What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started
Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD
News Roundup
Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD
CultBSD
Beastie Bits
• [OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched](https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/hifive-unmatched.html)
• [Advanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD](https://adventurist.me/posts/00306)
• [OpenBSD Webzine Issue 3 is out](https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-3.html)
• [How to connect and use Bluetooth headphones on FreeBSD](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/bluetooth-audio-how-to-connect-and-use-bluetooth-headphones-on-freebsd.82671/)
• [How To: Execute Firefox in a jail using iocage and ssh/jailme](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-execute-firefox-in-a-jail-using-iocage-and-ssh-jailme.53362/)
• [Understanding AWK](https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/)
• [“Domesticate Your Badgers” Kickstarter Opens](https://mwl.io/archives/13297)
• [Bootstrap an OPNsense development environment in Vagrant](https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-opnsense)
• [VLANs Bridges and LAG Interface best practice questions](https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/vlans-bridges-and-lag-interface-best-practice-questions.93275/)
• [A Console Desktop](https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2018/console_desktop.html)
• [CharmBUG Casual BSD Meetup and Games (Online)](https://www.meetup.com/CharmBUG/events/281822524)
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Feedback/Questions
Dan - ZFS question
Lars - Thanks for the interview
jesse - migrating data from old laptop
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55 min
November 04, 2021427: Logging is important
Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released, getting started with pot, and more
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Headlines
Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup
What I learned from Russian students: logging is important
News Roundup
How BSD Authentication works
pfSense Software is 15 Today!
OPNsense® Business Edition 21.10 released
Getting started with pot
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## Feedback/Questions
Benjamin - Question for Benedict
Nelson - Episode 419 correction
Peter - state machines
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44 min
October 28, 2021426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero
A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more.
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Headlines
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What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It
OpenBSD 7.0 is out
News Roundup
OpenBSD and Wayland
Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost
Beastie Bits
PLAN 9 DESKTOP GUIDE
libvirt and DragonFly
EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available
Issue#1 of OpenBSD Webzine
The Beastie has landed.
It’s 1998 and you are Sun Microsystems...
Reply link that's down
RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH
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Feedback/Questions
Dan - IPFS
Jack - IPFS
Johnny - AdvanceBSD
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October 21, 2021425: Releases galore
The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more.
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Headlines
RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block
If you want more RISC-V, check out JT's interview with Mark Himelstein the CTO of RISC-V International
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### OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU
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## News Roundup aka there’s been lots of releases recently so lets go through them:
### Lumina 1.6.1
### opnsense 21.7.3
### LibreSSL patches
### OpenBGPD 7.2
### Midnight BSD 2.1.0
### GhostBSD 21.09 ISO
### helloSystemv0.6
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Feedback/Questions
Brandon - FreeBSD question
Bruce - Fixing a weird Apache Bug
Dan - zfs question
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42 min

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