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October 14, 2021424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge
J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python, and more.
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Headlines
I got the J language working on OpenBSD
Rubenerd: Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys
News Roundup
What is FreeBSD, actually? Think again.
OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python
Beastie Bits
• [Hibernate time reduced](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210831050932)
• [(open)rsync gains include/exclude support](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210830081715)
• [Producer JT's latest ancient find that he needs help with](https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1440105555754848257)
• [Doas comes to MidnightBSD](https://github.com/slicer69/doas)
• [FreeBSD SSH Hardening](https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a095605404cd0051eb11)
• [OpenBSD 6.8 and you](https://home.nuug.no/~peter/openbsd_and_you/#1)
• [By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210910074941)
• [FreeBSD 11.4 end-of-life](https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-September/002060.html)
• [sched_ule(4): Improve long-term load balancer](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e745d729be60a47b49eb19c02a6864a747fb2744)
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50 min
October 07, 2021423: RACK the Stack
FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!), auto lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock, and more.
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Headlines
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD
Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack
News Roundup
pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast
Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD
TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
Automatically lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock
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Feedback/Questions
Ben - LightDM with Slick-Greeter.md
Dave - Cloned Interface.md
MJ Rodriguez - Sony.md
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52 min
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.
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Interview - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan - https://briancallahan.net/ / bcallah@bsdnetwork
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Special Guest: Brian Callahan.
50 min
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
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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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51 min
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.
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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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Feedback/Questions
James - backup question
Jonathon - certifications
Marty - RPG CLI
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50 min
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.
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Miceal - a few questions
Nelson - dummynet
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52 min
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.
53 min
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.
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Chunky_pie - zfs question
Paul - several questions
chris - firewall question
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58 min
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.
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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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54 min
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
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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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55 min

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