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451: Tuning ZFS recordsize
Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, 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 Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8) (https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/705-full-system-backups-with-ffs-snapshots-zfs-and-dump8) Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-recordsize-in-openzfs/) News Roundup Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops (https://www.neelc.org/posts/optimize-freebsd-for-intel-tigerlake/) I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSCheckForMounted) Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge (https://adventurist.me/posts/0027) Beastie Bits • [FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU](https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/) • [HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/22/26800.html) • [New US mirror for DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/09/26742.html) • [HelloSystem 13.1 RC1](https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1-RC1) • [Video introduction to OpenBSD 7.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUsE-3nSes) • [Losses in the community](https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.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 Sam - BSD Laptops (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Sam%20-%20BSD%20Laptops.md) Reese - Electric Groff (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Reese%20-%20Electric%20Groff.md) Alexandra - New to BSD (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Alexandra%20-%20New%20to%20BSD.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
450: Unix Tool Writing
The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, 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 Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-philosophy-a-quick-look-at-the-ideas-that-made-unix/) Hints for writing Unix Tools (https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html) News Roundup Cron best practices (https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/cron-best-practices/) Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/FilesystemsThreeErrorTypes) LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220318065203) Taskwarrior to manage tasks (https://adventurist.me/posts/0165) Beastie Bits 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 Andrew - virtualization (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/450/feedback/Andrew%20-%20virtualization.md) Brad - jails applications and interoperability (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/450/feedback/brad%20-%20jails%20applications%20and%20interoperability.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
449: Reproducible clean $HOME
FreeBSD Status Report 4th Quarter 2021, Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence, Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server, helloSystem 0.7.0 is out, lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting, going to jail, 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 Quarterly Status Report 4th Quarter 2021 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-10-2021-12/) Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-03-15-openbsd-impermanence.html) News Roundup Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server) helloSystem 0.7.0 is out (https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/r0.7.0) My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting (https://rubenerd.com/my-lazy-approach-to-freebsd-dual-booting/) Going to jail (https://opekkt.tech/docs/vps_migration/going2jail/) 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 • No Feedback emails this week, so instead we can have “Story Time with Allan” and he can regale us with an entertaining BSD story. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
448: Controlling Resource Limits
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD, 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 Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/controlling-resource-limits-with-rctl-in-freebsd/) It's DNS. Of course it's DNS, it's always DNS. (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DNSVariabilityProblems) News Roundup GSOC • [Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code](https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-in-google-summer-of-code/) • [The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_netbsd_foundation_is_a) Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021 (https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2021-q4-rsync.net_technotes.html) Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD (https://tildegit.org/solene/obsdfreqd) Beastie Bits Unofficial HardenedBSD liveCD (https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/QUTUJfm30Dg/m/0VNKUeVhHgAJ) The eurobsdcon 2022 CFP is open (https://2022.eurobsdcon.org/the-call-for-talk-and-presentation-proposals-for-eurobsdcon-2022-is-now-open/) Testing parallel forwarding (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220319123157) OpenBSD iwx(4) gains 11ac 80MHz channel support (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220315070043) OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple M1 systems (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220320115932) FreeBSD on the CubieBoard2 (https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-cubieboard2/) 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 Eric - periodic notifications (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/448/feedback/Eric%20-%20periodic%20notifications.md) Kevin - no question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/448/feedback/Kevin%20-%20no%20question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
447: Path to BSD
FreeBSD Foundation Proposals, UNIX: On the Path to BSD, Fujitsu ends its mainframe and Unix services, Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator, new OpenBSD Webzine is out, 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 Project Proposal Overview (https://freebsdfoundation.org/get-involved/project-proposal-overview/) UNIX: On the Path to BSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-on-the-path-to-bsd/) News Roundup Fujitsu is ending its mainframe and Unix services (https://www.techradar.com/in/news/fujitsu-is-ending-its-mainframe-and-unix-services) TUTORIAL: Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/tutorial-install-burpsuite-on-freebsd-using-linuxulator.84310/) OpenBSD Webzine (https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-7.html) Beastie Bits A Trio if OPNsense releases: 21.7.8 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-7-8-released/) 21.10.3 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-business-edition-21-10-3-released/) 22.1.1 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-22-1-1-released-2) FreeBSD 12.2 end-of-life (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2022-March/000018.html) DragonFly as a KVM guest (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToKvmGuest/) RIP Lorinda Cherry (https://lwn.net/ml/tuhs/CAKH6PiVi+JoxDG7ACMG5G+qnTkxTMsohGx6Wq3UNVkogO4N0Vg@mail.gmail.com/) Precursor: From Boot to Root (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6336) *** 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 No Feedback emails this week, so instead Tom can regale us with an entertaining BSD story. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
446: Debugging ioctl problems
Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My, 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 Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction (https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-tadpole-sparcbook-3-part-1-introduction) The FreeBSD Boot Process (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-freebsd-boot-process/) News Roundup Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD (https://jcs.org/2022/02/16/ioctl) Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu (https://rubenerd.com/why-my-game-pc-also-runs-freebsd/) DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My! (https://mwl.io/archives/14708) Beastie Bits • [LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220301063844) • [OpenSSH updated to 8.9](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220301063428) • [Recent developments in OpenBSD, 2022-02-21 summary](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220221060700) 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 Jonathan - X-Wing and Tie Fighter (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/446/Jonathan%20-%20X-Wing%20and%20Tie%20Fighter.md) Joshontech - pool options (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/446/joshontech%20-%20pool%20options.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
445: Journey to BSD
Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, 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 complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro (https://tomscii.sig7.se/2022/02/Guide-to-OpenBSD-on-the-PinebookPro) FreeBSD Periodic Scripts (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-periodic-scripts/) News Roundup The history (sort of) of service management in Unix (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ServiceManagementHistory) My journey from macOS to FreeBSD (https://www.boucek.me/blog/from-mac-to-freebsd/) A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/02/09/nice/) Navidrome music server on FreeBSD (https://web.archive.org/web/20220101220446/https://www.danschmid.me/article/install-navidrome-music-server-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 Tyler - Is this enough for VMs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/444/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Is%20this%20enough%20for%20VMs.md) Kevin - BSD from RAMdisk (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/445/feedback/Kevin%20-%20BSD%20from%20RAMdisk.md) Malcolm - wired headset in FreeBSD (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/445/feedback/Malcolm%20-%20wired%20headset%20in%20FreeBSD.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
444: Historic Developments
The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, 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 A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501713) Modern inetd in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/modern-inetd-in-freebsd/) News Roundup The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/Argv0IsEasy) Retrocomputing can be more than games (https://rubenerd.com/retrocomputing-is-more-than-games/) You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/09/section_8_unix_user_manual/) Beastie Bits New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220214061716) GhostBSD Online Meetup (http://ghostbsd.org/node/243) HAMBug online meeting, March 8th @ 18:30 ET (http://hambug.ca/) HardenedBSD 12-STABLE support will be dropped in May 2022 (https://twitter.com/HardenedBSD/status/1492249763193970689) Option options for getopt (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/02/16/26684.html) New Tarsnap version is out (https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00046.html) pfSense Plus version 22.01 and pfSense CE version 2.6.0 Software are Now Available (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-22.01-and-ce-2.6.0-are-now-available) 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 Karst - replacing disks (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/444/feedback/Karst%20-%20replacing%20disks.md) TheHolm - zfs and booting (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/444/feedback/TheHolm%20-%20zfs%20and%20booting.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)
443: Certified Unix Compliant
Certifying an OS Unix compliant, 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report, Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD, file hashes updated for NetBSD 8.1, Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD, Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells, 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 What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified) 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-freebsd-foundation-impact-report/) News Roundup Play Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD (https://danschmid.de/article/play-netflix-disney-and-other-widevine-content-on-freebsd) Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1 (https://bsdsec.net/articles/note-two-files-changed-and-hashes-signatures-updated-for-netbsd-8-1) Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD (https://rubenerd.com/playing-with-cd-rws-on-freebsd/) Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProcessSubstitutionWhyLate) 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 Marty - shell communities (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/443/feedback/Marty%20-%20shell%20communities.md) Nate - Helping Mike Out (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/443/feedback/Nate%20-%20Helping%20Mike%20Out.md) Tom - convincing others to switch (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/443/feedback/Tom%20-%20convincing%20others%20to%20switch.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
442: Birthing Unix
The Birth of Unix, Help request for three big Lumina items, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report, OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" 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) Headlines The Birth of Unix (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-birth-of-unix/) Help requested for three big items for Lumina (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2022-02-08/) News Roundup FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/freebsd-13-on-thinkpad-t460s/) HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2022-01-30/hardenedbsd-january-2022-status-report) OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-22-1-released/) Beastie Bits The early days of Unix at Bell Labs - Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E) BastilleBSD User Survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddMMIFW9mHMnpMjMQZfFVCubVywmCXZHI7lqE2tS4k503uPw/viewform) Smallest desktop of the day with BSD: Raspberry Pi 400 (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/sgk5y0/smallest_desktop_of_the_day_with_bsd_raspberry_pi/) Reminder BSDCan 2022 - online only (https://lists.bsdcan.org/pipermail/bsdcan-announce/2022-January/000191.html) Joshua Stein Video: Q&A (https://jcs.org/2022/01/14/q&a) DNSSEC Mastery, second edition, creeping out (https://mwl.io/archives/14427) *** ###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 Alec - Playstation FreeBSD-Linux question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/442/feedback/Alec%20-%20Playstation%20FreeBSD-Linux%20question.md) Nelson - Interesting Interview (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/442/feedback/Nelson%20-%20Interesting%20Interview.md) Oscar - Omni OS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/442/feedback/Oscar%20-%20Omni%20OS.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
441: Migration to BSD
Migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD, Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD, LibBSDDialog, FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET, 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 Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/) Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/cluster-provisioning-with-nomad-and-pot-on-freebsd/) News Roundup LibBSDDialog (https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2022-01-16-libbsddialog.html) FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET (https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/freebsd-13-0-base-jails-with-zfs-and-vnet/) Beastie Bits OpenBSD on the Pinephone (https://www.exoticsilicon.com/crystal/pinephone_openbsd) FreeBSD SSH Hardening (https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a095605404cd0051eb11) Making the ZFS file system (https://changelog.com/podcast/475) A Linux Users Experience Switching To OpenBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTOfcu1e0w) Add Nix, a purely functional package manager to FreeBSD (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=550026) ioztat is a storage load analysis tool for OpenZFS (https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/ioztat) *** ###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 Scott - esxi (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/441/feedback/Scott%20-%20esxi.md) The Holm - noob question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/441/feedback/The%20Holm%20-%20noob%20question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
440: BSD Inside Zone
GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to install Gnome on OpenBSD, The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch", 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 22.01 is available (https://www.ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_22.01.12_iso_is_now_available) Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/packet-scheduling-with-dummynet-and-freebsd/) News Roundup Inside zone installation (https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2022/01/inside-zone-installation.html) Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant (https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebsd-desktop-and-my-linux-rant/) How to install Gnome on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-05-07-openbsd-gnome.html) The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch" (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/VFSImportance) 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 - A Plug (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/440/feedback/Paul%20-%20A%20Plug.md) Rollniak - Bhyve Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/440/feedback/Rollniak%20-%20Bhyve%20Questions.md) Russell - pf pointers (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/440/feedback/Russell%20-%20pf%20pointers.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
439: Browser Tab Unix
ACM: It takes a community, Don’t use discord for OSS projects, Unix in a browser tab, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 available, Omni OS CE v11 is out, 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 It takes a community - ACM (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501361) PSA: Dont use Discord for Open Source Projects Jeffrey Paul - Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects (https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/) Drew deVault - Dont use Discord for FOSS (https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html) News Roundup Unix in your Browser Tab (https://browsix.org/) OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 is here (https://www.openindiana.org/2021/12/05/openindiana-hipster-2021-10-is-here/) Omni OS CE v11 r151040 is out (https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151040/doc/ReleaseNotes.md) Beastie Bits Deb from the FreeBSD Foundation on FLOSS Weekly (https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/662?autostart=false) Jailfox - BastilleBSD template to bootstrap Firefox. (https://github.com/ddowse/jailfox) FreeBSD Journal Nov/Dec 2021 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/past-issues/storage-2/) First call through the 3ESS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUUsAK21f20) OpenBSD for minimalists (https://github.com/krzysztofengineer/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 Dale - two zfs questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/439/feedback/Dale%20-%20two%20zfs%20questions.md) Johnny - home question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/439/feedback/Johnny%20-%20home%20question.md) Mike - GhostBSD in a VM (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/439/feedback/Mike%20-%20GhostBSD%20in%20a%20VM.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
438: Toolchain Adventures
FreeBSD Foundation reviews 2021 activities, DragonflyBSD 6.2.1 is here, Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 available, toolchain adventures, The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7, Bastille Template: AdGuard Home, setting up ZSH on FreeBSD 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 Foundation 2021 in Review Software Development (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-software-development/) Year End Fundraising Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-year-end-fundraising-report/) Infrastructure Support (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-infrastructure-support/) Advocacy (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-advocacy/) FreeBSD 2022 CfP (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-2022-call-for-proposals/) DragonFlyBSD 6.2.1 is out (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release62/) News Roundup Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 is out (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-12-25/) Toolchain Adventures (https://www.cambus.net/toolchains-adventures-q4-2021/) The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7 (https://write.as/adventures-in-bsd/) Bastille Template: AdGuard Home (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2022/01/03/bastille-template-examples-adguardhome/) Setting up ZSH on FreeBSD (https://www.danschmid.me/article/setting-up-zsh-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 • Producers Note: We did get some Christmas AMA questions in after we recorded that episode (since we recorded it early) but don't worry, I’ve made a note of them and we’ll save them for our next AMA episode. Patrick - Volume (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/438/feedback/Patrick%20-%20Volume.md) Reptilicus Rex - FreeBSD Docs Team (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/438/feedback/Reptilicus%20Rex%20-%20FreeBSD%20Docs%20Team.md) michael - question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/438/feedback/michael%20-%20question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
437: Audit that package
Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit, 20 year old bug that went to Mars, FreeBSD on Slimbook, LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support, Steam on OpenBSD, Cool but obscure X11 tools, 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 Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit (https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-freebsds-pkg-audit-to-investigate-known-security-issues/) The 20 year old bug that went to Mars (http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html) It's rare that you come across a bug so subtle that it can last for two decades. But, that's exactly what has happened with the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm. Initially written in 1994, Markus Oberhumer designed a sophisticated and extremely efficient compression algorithm so elegant and well architected that it outperforms zlib and bzip by four or five times their decompression speed. I was impressed to find out that his LZO algorithm has gone to the planet Mars on NASA devices multiple times! Most recently, LZO has touched down on the red planet within the Mars Curiosity Rover, which just celebrated its first martian anniversary on Tuesday. In the past few years, LZO has gained traction in file systems as well. LZO can be used in the Linux kernel within btrfs, squashfs, jffs2, and ubifs. A recent variant of the algorithm, LZ4, is used for compression in ZFS for Solaris, Illumos, and FreeBSD. With its popularity increasing, Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer has been rewritten by many engineering firms for both closed and open systems. These rewrites, however, have always been based on Oberhumer's core open source implementation. As a result, they all inherited a subtle integer overflow. Even LZ4 has the same exact bug, but changed very slightly. Because the LZO algorithm is considered a library function, each specific implementation must be evaluated for risk, regardless of whether the algorithm used has been patched. Why? We are talking about code that has existed in the wild for two decades. The scope of this algorithm touches everything from embedded microcontrollers on the Mars Rover, mainframe operating systems, modern day desktops, and mobile phones. Engineers that have used LZO must evaluate the use case to identify whether or not the implementation is vulnerable, and in what format. News Roundup FreeBSD on Slimbook -- 14 months of updates (https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2021/12/11/slimbook.html) LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support (https://www.moritz.systems/blog/lldb-freebsd-kernel-core-dump-support/) Steam on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-12-01-openbsd-steam.html) Beastie Bits • [OpenSSH Agent Restriction](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211220061017) • [OpenBSD’s Clang upgraded to version 13](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211220060327) • [Cool, but obscure X11 tools](http://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)