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682: NAS NAS NAS
Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more... Headlines [Two more BSD based NASes have appeared] BSDNAS The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort FreeCORE Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1 Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2 FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD News Roundup ICEBP Finally Documented Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag OpenSSH 10.5 Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions [Phil - Listener Feedback] Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important - Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made! And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me there, plus google etc. I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the last podcast a few times - They don't know yet???? Now I'm stuck! I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop policy and offer similar pkg/build systems? Thanks Phill Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure
Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Where Unix runs today (Dont get distracted by the game) WebZFS Updates The bugs are coming from inside the house NetBSD 11 Support News Roundup A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation Beastie Bits 1978 Aussi Users Group Newsletter Terminal UI and CLI for FreeBSD NFSv4 ACLs Sounds of the IBM 1401 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions [Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?] Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department. Whats the best song about a former Australian colony? Toto - Africa Men at work - Down Under For completeness: Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand) Don McLean - American Pie U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland) Gorillaz - Hong Kong Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada) [Reece - Webzfs] Guys, Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly? Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it. 73.. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
680: What FS?
BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines BSD pt Deux Code that Built the Internet Interview JT on WebZFS TJ: I started by asking JT... Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
679: It also goes to 11
NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NetBSD 11 Release SR-IOV Is a first class feature News Roundup Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment OpenSSH 10.5 released FreeBSD Ate my RAM ThinkPad End Game Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning
Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling On AI News Roundup Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS! Why a Flip Phone? $399 - $640 preorder BSD Make extravaganza HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
677: Butler at your service
Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines My Home Assistant Setup Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD Game of Trees 0.127 Released OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8) httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64 Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification News Roundup Wine 11.14 Brings New WoW64 Mode to FreeBSD I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Tyler - IPv6 Question Reese - WebZFS Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
676: 10 print "goto 10"
The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously. News Roundup BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA! The Virtual OS Museum Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Marcus - Linuxulator vs Bhyve - Reese - Feedback on episode 673 Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
675: Going GPL Free
FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Computer at the bottom of a canal FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free News Roundup FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber Phaethon 1 - a 68010-based Unix machine Add a new m68k port oriented towards home-brew m68k machines Bringing Swift to the Apple II Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Producer note : Ive been insanely busy this past week and I've fallen behind on a few things, including checking the show email. If you sent an email in and we havent covered it yet, we'll get caught back up soon. If yuo haven't sent in an email... shame on you. You should email us and ask us something. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
674: Software development never changes
Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken WebZFS Updates Beta Announcement Why wont my pool export zfs iostat - Pictures so you can get a better idea of how it works News Roundup Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD Diskless Workstations Two Models Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Davi - BSDCan 2026 Follow up Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
673: There's somebody at the door
Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. FreeBSD Foundationals: The Boot Process - From the Loader to Boot Environments News Roundup FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop GhostBSD - March 2026 Finance Report Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD NFS-problems I didn’t expect at all Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
672: Kitchen Calculator
Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unix Pipes Under Load: Streaming, Barriers, Backpressure, and Bottlenecks Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 News Roundup FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch Sometimes it actually is the network: a war story FreeBSD Tribal Knowledge: Boot Enviroment Management Beastie Bits OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 released! OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2) are developer-friendly, study finds Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
671: Rage Against the Machine
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need Ceph? News Roundup Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does FreeBSD sh for MacOS syslogd(8) privileged and non-privileged parts now separate binaries Getting Victoria Logs running on FreeBSD Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
670: Failure is not an Option
How NASA built Artemis II's fault tolerent Computer, Jails vs LXC, Respsectfully getting a personal copy of a website, Opensense 26.1.9 and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer Jails vs LXC: What’s the Right Choice for Infrastructure? News Roundup FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE Announcement Release Notes Notes on respectfully getting a personal copy of a website's contents OPNsense 26.1.9 released Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose The status of OpenSSL 4.0 support in syslog-ng Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
669: Poudriere Speed Run
inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Native inotify in FreeBSD News Roundup How changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time Follow on Giving poudriere a jump start Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD (smtpd) is fun and useful Orion PDA Recap of the April 2026 Frankfurt Area FreeBSD Hackathon – Sven Ruediger Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
668: Wiring up the BSDs
FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS News Roundup zfs – a helper script for labelling all those drives AI errno(2) values The vi Family Creating a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller on FreeBSD Beastie Bits Let's find out how to get predictable IPv6 addresses assigned to OpenBSD VMs Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Davi - BSDCan 2026 Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel