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  • 664: No one misses SPARC

    The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more...

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    Headlines

    NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement

    Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It

    News Roundup

    Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2

    Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and FreeBSD

    Universities And In house Tech

    Beating my head on OpenVPN

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      • 1 hr 3 min
      • 663: Proxhyve

        Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more...

        NOTES

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        Headlines

        I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went

        FreeBSD Quarterly Report

        The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support Project

        News Roundup

        Migrating ZFS filesystems from one zpool to another – same host

        Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU

        OpneSSL 4.0

        Other schedulers? Illumos?

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        • 1 hr 2 min
        • 662: I need a hero

          Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...

          NOTES

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          Headlines

          Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

          Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS

          GhostBSD 26.1

          News Roundup

          I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server

          My Journey to the BSDs

          The unseen hero of OpenBSD

          Beastie Bits
          • BSD Can Schedule up
          • OpenBSD Campaign 2025
          • OpenBSD Campaign 2026
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            • 52 min
            • 661: Break up Big Tech

              Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more...

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              Headlines

              Breaking up with Big Tech

              Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii

              News Roundup

              Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250

              Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not

              Java Sun SPOTs

              I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point

              Beastie Bits
              • OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh
              • Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary
              • A quick and easy Guide to Tmux
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                Producer Note, If you have emailed in and you havent heard back and we havent covered your message, email again. Our email is flooded with spam and I might have missed your message.

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                • 47 min
                • 660: I just work here

                  Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more...

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                  Headlines
                  From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

                  The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware

                  News Roundup

                  Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like Isolation with User Friendly Operations

                  OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

                  OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released

                  I'm just the Barista

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                  Tim - Are OCI Images useful for Freebsd.md
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                  • 44 min
                  • 659: Full traffic send

                    Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe...

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                    Headlines

                    Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

                    Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs

                    [Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/)

                    News Roundup

                    PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

                    Nobody said there was math on this exam!

                    The web is bearable with RSS

                    The Pipe

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                    • 1 hr 9 min
                    • 658: It’s the vibe of it

                      FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more.

                      NOTES

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                      Headlines

                      FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View

                      Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

                      News Roundup

                      The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

                      Jailrun

                      + jailrun github

                      FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code

                      Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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                      • 1 hr 1 min
                      • 657: Hibernation is a long sleep

                        The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more...

                        NOTES

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                        Headlines

                        The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

                        News Roundup

                        Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15

                        FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup

                        Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI

                        SYN attack

                        • Syn attack follow up
                        • Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems

                          Beastie Bits
                          • OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta
                          • - Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops
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                            • 51 min
                            • 656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP

                              Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more...

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                              Headlines

                              Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths

                              2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died

                              Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

                              News Roundup

                              PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

                              OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

                              Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

                              FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

                              Beastie Bits
                              • BSDCan reg is now open
                              • An Oral History of Unix
                              • Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)
                              • Patched FreeBSD AMIs
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                                • 1 hr 11 min
                                • 655: No Reboot Required

                                  Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more...

                                  NOTES

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                                  Headlines

                                  Jails for NetBSD

                                  ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

                                  News Roundup

                                  Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required

                                  Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

                                  Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

                                  After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

                                  Beastie Bits
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                                  Feedback/Questions

                                  Emelio - openbsd

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                                  • 1 hr 1 min

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