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614: Upstream Contributions Matter
The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-stagnation-why-running-eol-software-is-a-ticking-time-bomb/) Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter (https://klarasystems.com/articles/maintaining-freebsd-commercial-product-why-upstream-contributions-matter/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/LLMsVersusOurJobs) Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time (https://dan.langille.org/2025/05/03/implement-anubis-to-give-the-bots-a-harder-time/) erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250512100219) Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250208) Beastie Bits Some Interesting pieces of history Netnews History (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf) History of Solaris (https://cse.unl.edu/~witty/class/csce351/howto/history_of_solaris.pdf) Nuclear Wall Charts (https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/search) [TUHS] The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html) 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 Paul - my setup (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/614/feedback/Paul%20-%20my%20setup.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
613: DragonflyBSD 6.4.2
Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart, For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions, Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do, PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files, How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces (https://klarasystems.com/articles/isolating-containers-with-zfs-and-linux-namespaces/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) DragonFly BSD 6.4.2 (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/) FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/second_preview_zvault/) News Roundup For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/for-upcoming-pf-tutorials-we-welcome.html) Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/) PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-03-09-test-pdf-passwords.html) How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversityTypicalPricingTooHigh) 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 Nils - CFP (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/612/feedback/nils%20-%20CFP.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
612: Zip Bomb Protection
I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection) Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/owning-the-stack-infrastructure-independence-with-freebsd-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Optimisation of parallel TCP input (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250508122430) Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term" (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/WorksNowVsWorksGenerally) Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade (https://www.ncartron.org/losing-one-of-my-evenings-after-an-openbsd-upgrade.html) What drive did I just remove from the system? (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/21/what-drive-did-i-just-remove-from-the-system/) 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 Benjamin - Street PCs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/613/feedback/Benjamin%20-%20street%20pcs.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
611: Ghosty Things
GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal (https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/ghostbsd-from-usability-to-struggle-and-renewal/) Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-you-cant-trust-ai-to-tune-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505) What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025 (https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-id-do-as-college-freshman.html) FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations (https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2025/03/02/kde5.html) Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improvements-to-the-freebsd-ci-cd-systems/) FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://darknet.sytes.net/wordpress/index.php/2025/03/16/freebsd-as-a-workstation/) 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 Effie - FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/611/feedback/effie%20-%20freebsd%20as%20a%20workstation.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
610: OpenBSD 7.7
OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenBSD 7.7 (https://OpenBSD.org/77.html) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-tools-part-2-replication/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/) Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250418114827) Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425082010) Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree (https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hardware-autoconfiguration) The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-2025-freebsd-community-survey-is-here/) 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 Brad - new users (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/610/feedback/brad%20-%20new%20users.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam
Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking (https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-advanced-networking/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/) News Roundup OpenZFS Cheat Sheet (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-cheat-sheet/) Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam/) SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive (https://jpmens.net/2025/03/25/authorizedkeyscommand-in-sshd/) How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ? (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250215) 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 Dave - Webstack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/tree/master/episodes/609/feedback) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
608: Reboot required
Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/world-backup-day-2025-robust-reliable-backup-solutions-with-openzfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad (https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/) News Roundup Motivations (https://stevengharms.com/longform/my-first-freebsd/motivations/) Tinker Writer Deck (https://tinker.sh/) How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-determine-if-a-system-reboot-is-necessary/) Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/who_me/) 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 Ian - Personal Web Stack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/ian%20-%20personal%20stack.md) Brendan - Storage Backends (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/brendan%20-%20storage%20backends.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
607: Sign those commits
We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines We should improve libzfs somewhat (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-12-we-should-improve-libzfs-somewhat/) Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark (https://klarasystems.com/articles/accurate-effective-storage-performance-benchmark/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD (https://dan.langille.org/2025/02/24/debugging-aids-for-pf-firewall-rules-on-freebsd/) OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/openbsd-and-thunderbolt-issue-on-thinkpad-t480s/) Signing Git Commits with an SSH key (https://jpmens.net/2025/02/26/signing-git-commits-with-an-ssh-key/) Pgrep (https://www.c0t0d0s0.org/blog/pgrep-z-r.html) LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html) 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 Felix - Bhyve and NVME (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/607/feedback/Felix%20-%20bhyve%20and%20nvme.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
606: Tackling 7k bugs
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-March/000181.html) From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/) News Roundup zfs-2.3.1 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.1) Complications of funding an open source operating system (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/) Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/) First Use on GhostBSD (https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/first-use-on-ghostbsd/) Better Shell History Search (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/better_shell_history_search.html) 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 Russell - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/606/feedback/russell%20-%20questions.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
605: Fediverse Weather Service
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/) Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/core-infrastructure-why-you-need-to-control-your-ntp/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/) Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/using-a-2013-mac-pro-as-a-freebsd-desktop.96805/) Some terminal frustrations (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/) Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp (https://bhoot.dev/2025/cp-dot-copies-everything/) You Should Use /tmp/ More (https://atthis.link/blog/2025/58671.html) 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 - Toms request (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/605/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Toms%20request.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
604: Future looks back
The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk, Why ZFS reports less available space, We are destroying software, FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106, 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected, Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on, If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk (https://filmmakermagazine.com/127295-joanne-mcneil-cyberpunk/) Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/ (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-zfs-reports-less-available-space-space-accounting-explained/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) We are destroying software (https://antirez.com/news/145) News Roundup FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.5-Beta-2) TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html) Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/InetdActivationWhyNot) If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well (https://svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-you-believe-in-artificial-intelligence-take-five-minutes-to-ask-it-about-stuff-you-know-well/) 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 Nelson - gcc puzzlement (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/604/feedback/Nelson%20-%20gcc%20puzzlement.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
603: Expanding the RAID-Z
OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots, The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, OPNsense 25.1, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-expansion-a-new-era-in-storage-flexibility/) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-part-1-zfs-snapshots-tools/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025-01-23-manage-openbsd-with-ssm/) TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) OPNsense 25.1 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=45460.msg227323) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
602: Wildcard Gotchas
I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went (https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-freebsd-as-a-desktop-heres-how-it-went/) Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets (http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm) News Roundup State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html) The first perfect computer (https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/) Find Name Wildcard Gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindNameWildcardGotcha) New Patreon Levels Level 1 - user memory (Tip Jar) @ $1 / month Show your support for the show Level 2 - virtual memory (Ad-Free Episodes) @ $5 / month Ad-free episodes Level 3 - kmem (VIP Patron) @ $10 / month Everything in higher memory levels & Your feedback and questions jump the queue and go in the next episode. Personal shout outs (with your consent) for recommending articles we cover. Level 4 - physical memory @ $20 / month What's included: Everything in higher memory levels & You can send in audio/video questions and we'll air your audio in the show feedback section (if the quality of your recording is decent) Behind-the-scenes content - Raw Video from Recording sessions with intro/outro discussion not included in the show Additional Content when we all make it 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
601: The Monospace Web
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again, The Biggest Unix Security Loophole, The monospace Web, What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means, Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9, Networking for System Administrators, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again (https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again) The Biggest Unix Security Loophole (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf) News Roundup The monospace Web (https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/) What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDBridgeMacMovedMessage) Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9 (https://brunopacheco1.github.io/posts/installing-freebsd-on-hp-250-g9/) Networking for System Administrators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)
600: The big 600
Lead Asahi Developer stands down, moderators reminiscing about joining the podcast, Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD, FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Topics Hector Martin stands down as lead developer on Asahi Linux (https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/) No forward progress for Rust to be given first class status in the kernel Having to maintain a thousand plus patches against a fast moving upstream project (Linux Kernel) Dwindling funds What does this mean for sister projects like OpenBSD? 600th episode flash back When did you come across BSDNow? What are some of your highlights? Where are we going in the future...? What would we like to do for the show as hosts. Pie in the sky thinking and discussion. Round Up Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=173823317816570&w=2) As well, the NetBSD project is trying to bring up this board Conversation around the state of ARM64 SoC and options LibreSSL is not affected by the OpenSSL vulnerabilities (https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-openssl-vulnerability-found-by-apple-allows-mitm-attacks/) announced today. FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time (https://m4c.pl/blog/freebsd-audio-setup-bitperfect-equalizer-realtime/) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) 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 The Most Important Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/600/feedback/jt%20-%20the_most_important_question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)