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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.
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Bruce - Upgrading
Chris - SMB Followup
dmilith - kTLS
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1 hr 4 min
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.
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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
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Feedback/Questions
Charlie - several questions
Dan - kernel driver or module question
James - Apple M1
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47 min
July 22, 2021412: Command-line secrets
FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance!BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more.
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Headlines
FreeBSD Performance Observability
Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (1/2)
News Roundup
Maintainership Change :: Lumina Desktop Environment
Study the past if you would define the Future
How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID"
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Feedback/Questions
Jim - freebsd kde
michal - zfs question
tim - lumina and snapshots
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51 min
July 15, 2021411: FreeBSD Deep Dive
Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, OpenBSD’s IATA airport code file, and more
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Headlines
The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture
• Full IEEE article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8704965
Deep Diving Into the Strengths of FreeBSD
Interesting read on how Developers choose Names
News Roundup
OPNsense 21.1.7 released
Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3)
vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder
OpenBSD has a file with 3-letter IATA airport codes
Beastie Bits
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Feedback/Questions
lyubo - ipfw question
michael - a netbsd story
sven - a dogs garage
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47 min
July 08, 2021410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway
Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more.
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Headlines
The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
Building Customized FreeBSD Images
News Roundup
Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD
Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail
DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Very Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0
An OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch
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Feedback/Questions
CY - bearssl
Marc - that tarsnap ad
nycbug
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42 min
July 01, 2021409: The Filesystem Dungeon
DTrace network probes, next 50 years of shell programming, NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, system CPU time in top, your filesystem as a dungeon, diving into toolchains, and more
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Headlines
DTrace Network Probes
Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
News Roundup
NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU
System CPU time – ‘sys’ time in top
rpg-cli —your filesystem as a dungeon!
Diving into toolchains
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Feedback/Questions
• [Alfred - Advice](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/Alfred%20-%20Advice)
• [CY - Portable Patch Util](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/CY%20-%20Portable%20Patch%20Util)
• [Denis - State of ZFS Ecosystem](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/Denis%20-%20State%20of%20ZFS%20Ecosystem)
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53 min
June 24, 2021408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021
Report from virtual FreeBSD DevSummit 2021, another promising release by FreeBSD Based helloSystem, GearBSD, OpenBGPD release, Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note, and more
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Headlines
2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit
helloSystem – FreeBSD Based OS Brings another Promising Release 0.5.0
News Roundup
GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD
OpenBGPD 7.0 released
Simple use of Let's Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8)
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
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Feedback/Questions
• [Paul - ZFS Questions](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/Paul%20-%20ZFS%20Questions)
• [Rafael - relic](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/Rafael%20-%20relic)
• [matthew - sendfile and ktls](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/matthew%20-%20sendfile%20and%20ktls)
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58 min
June 17, 2021407: The jail Detail
Confining the omnipotent root, Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean, NomadBSD 130R is out, KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD, Firefox under FreeBSD with Privacy, Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere, and more.
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Headlines
Jails: Confining the omnipotent root
A dramatic reading of portions of the paper: Papers We Love: FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones
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Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean
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## News Roundup
### NomadBSD 130R is out
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### KDE Plasma Wayland - a week in FreeBSD
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### Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy
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Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can
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Feedback/Questions
Malcolm - restoring a single file
Nathan - wireless support
bluefire - zfs special vdev
Push to next show with Allan
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46 min
June 10, 2021406: Jailed Gemini Capsule
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package in pfSense, CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd, and more.
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Headlines
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail
With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a spare RaspberryPi 3 that was part of my old Kubernetes cluster.
In particular, FreeBSD Jails have always interested me, although I’ve never used them in practice. Over the years I’ve managed operating system virtualization through Solaris Zones and Docker containers, and Jails seem like and good middle ground between the two - easier to manage than zones and closer to the OS than Docker.
I also want to run my own Gemini capsule locally to use some of the features that my other hosted capsules don’t have (like SCGI/CGI) and setting up a capsule in a Jail is a good way to learn both at the same time.
FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1
News Roundup
NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS)
My new NAS at home is running TrueNAS Core. So far, it has been excellent, however I struggled a bit setting up a NetBSD VM on it. Part of the problem is that a lot of the docs and how-tos I found are stale, and the information in it no longer applies.
TrueNAS Core allows running VMs using bhyve, which is FreeBSD’s hypervisor. NetBSD is not an officially supported OS, at least according to the guest OS chooser in the TrueNAS web UI :) But since the release of NetBSD 9 a while ago, things have become far simpler than they used to be – with one caveat (see below).
Interview with Michael Lucas *BSD, Unix, IT and other books author
Michael Lucas is a famous IT book author. Perhaps best know for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Unix book series. He worked as a system administrator for many years and has now become a full-time book writer. Lately, I did a quick Q and A with Michael about his journey as a professional book author and his daily workflow for writing books.
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pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package
CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd
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Feedback/Questionsing
Adam - system state during upgrade
paul - BSD grep
sub - feedback
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55 min
June 03, 2021405: OOM Killer Feature
NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages, Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments, Always be quitting, and more
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Headlines
NetBSD 9.2 Released
DragonFly 6.0 is out!
Release Notes
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### EuroBSDCon 2021 will be online
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## News Roundup
### Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus
> This blog post describes my setup for monitoring various devices on my home network suh as servers, laptops/desktops, networking gear etc. The setup and configuration is squarely geared towards small/medium sized network monitoring. A similar setup might work for large networks, but you will need to plan your compute/storage/bandwidth capacities accordingly. I’m running all the monitoring software on FreeBSD, but you can run it on your choice of OS. Just make sure to install the packages using your OS’s package manager.
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### Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL (aka OOM Killer prevention)
> There are a lot of interesting articles on how to prevent the Out of Memory Killer (OOM killer in short) on Linux to ruin your day, or better your night. One particularly well done explanation about how the OOM Killer works, and how to help PostgreSQL to survive, is, in my humble opinion, the one from Percona Blog.
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### Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages
>I do a lot of commits to the FreeBSD project and elsewhere. It would be nice if I could setup emacs in a custom way for each commit message that I'm editing.
> Fortunately, GNU Emacs provides a nice way to do just that. While I likely could do some of these things with git commit hooks, I find this to be a little nicer.
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### Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments
> I like boot environments (BE) on FreeBSD. They were especially handy when building the AWS host for FreshPorts, since I had no serial console. I would create a BE saving the current status, then make some changes. I’d mark the current BE as boot once, so I could boot back in the known good BE. Worst case, I could mount the storage onto a rescue EC2 instance and adjust the bootfs value of the zpool.
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Always be quitting
A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job. But act as if you might leave on short notice. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities.
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Feedback/Questions
Christopher - zfs question
Chris - two questions
Vas - zpools and moving to FreeBSD 13
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58 min

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