BSD Now

By JT Pennington

Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as... more

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BSD Now episodes:

November 30, 2023535: Untitled Episode
FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), and more
NOTES
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Headlines
FreeBSD 14
• [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html)
• [Vermaden’s FreeBSD 14 valuable news] (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/valuable-freebsd-14-0-release-updates)
News Roundup
Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD
Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk
clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16
NetBSD Security Advisory 2023-007: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8)
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - zpool disk allocation questions
Kevin - shell question
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57min
November 23, 2023534: Narrow Waisted Internet
Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos
NOTES
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Headlines
Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine
The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist
The Worst New Guys In History
News Roundup
FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison
Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - Detective work on zpool history
Extrowerk - End of the world type stuff
Mike - principle of least astonishment
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1h 3min
November 16, 2023533: Package the Base
FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture
A bit of XENIX history
News Roundup
Official packages
recover lost text by coredumping firefox
FuguIta 7.4 has been released
LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released
OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released
Conference News
AsiaBSDCon 2024
BSDCan 2024
EuroBSDCon 2024
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45min
November 09, 2023532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship
218 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
218 dollars to open source
Special Thanks to Colin for supporting BSD Now for over 10 years!
***
### EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report – Bojan Novković
***
### FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian)
***
News Roundup
Introduction to sysclean8
Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD
My FreeBSD years: 2000-2005
Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway
Beastie Bits
How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities
A Practical Guide of GNU grep With Examples
FreeBSD Container VM for Podman
User Certbot to create SSL certificates on FreeBSD
OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection
OpenBSD Webzine Issue #15
FreeBSD OpenSSL 3.0 ported
Harden FreeBSD Script
Something odd happened...
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55min
November 02, 2023531: Everlasting Software
OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.4
Making Software Last Forever
News Roundup
DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions
HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report
NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod
Firefox hardening with Arkenfox
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
A Random Listener - Other Podcasts
Dante - Thanks
Lars - WEI DRM
YKLA - transcripts
***
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1h 3min
October 26, 2023530: Old Computer Rescue
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD
Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD
The First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server
News Roundup
OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201
[CFT] sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs
How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities
Keeping my email sorted (the hard way)
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Feedback/Questions
Albin - Links
Douglas - Best practices
Patrick - Ideas Feedback
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55min
October 19, 2023529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse
Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System: Benefits & Considerations
How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI
News Roundup
[Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD)[https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion)
Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD
Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS
Beastie Bits
• [OpenZFS on Twitter](https://x.com/openzfs/status/1704212154558324827?s=12&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw)
• [EuroBSDcon 2023, Portugal](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc7s6nAMxKF0tAO77ZIowZdx&cbrd=1)
• [The lost history if Emoticons](https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1704006098909352016?s=12&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw)
• [Solving the same problem](https://blog.fredrb.com/2023/09/08/same-problem-multiple-times/)
• [http://vihart.com/fifty-fizzbuzzes/](50 Fizz buzzes)
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Feedback/Questions
Eric - German Question
John Baldwin - Ep 520 question
Pat - 3d Printing
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1h 3min
October 12, 2023528: Pledge the Program
If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting the right type of certificate, Jenny’s Daily Drivers, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
If you can use Open Source you can build hardware
Good performance is not just big O
News Roundup
How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD
Proof You Should Not Run My Code
3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing!
Getting the right type of certificate
Jenny’s Daily Drivers
Tarsnap
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54min
October 05, 2023527: Reports are in
Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness
Recap of first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group
News Roundup
HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report
• [HardenedBSD 14-STABLE Now Available](https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-09-11/hardenedbsd-14-stable-now-available)
August 2023 donation report
• [Late on the announcement but... GhostBSD 23.06.01 ISO is now available](http://ghostbsd.org/23.06.01_iso_is_now_available)
MidnightBSD 3.1 Released
OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14 is out
Beastie Bits
• [ZFS for Dummies](https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/homelab/zfs-for-dummies/)
• [The Switch runs FreeBSD](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5xbe5a/the_switch_runs_freebsd_making_it_nintendos_first/)
• [KDE on OpenBSD](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=169391479324962)
• [(Kubernetes v1.28.0) for illumos, FreeBSD and OpenBSD](https://medium.com/@norlin.t/by-the-way-planternetes-kubernetes-v1-28-0-for-illumos-freebsd-and-openbsd-5d57026d6a25)
• [Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest, Wi-Fi DA](https://jcs.org/2023/09/20/vcfmw)
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1h 1min
September 28, 2023526: ZFS Replication Tools
Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, and more
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Headlines
Why DNS is still hard to learn
Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away”
News Roundup
ZFS Replication tools
Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB
Old Computer Challenge v3: postmortem
Beastie Bits
• [Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator](https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-video.html)
• [Cheat Sheets](https://github.com/cheat/cheatsheets/tree/master)
• [Introducing BSD Cafe](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/15rt7em/introducing_the_bsdcafe/)
• [Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230829051257)
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Feedback/Questions
Daniel - Fav episode
Sam - Fav episode
Question from JT - to Tom and Benedict, what has your fav episode been?
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