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 a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
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419: Rethinking OS installs
Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Reviewing my first OpenBSD port, and what I'd do differently 10 years later (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210802.html) Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11 (https://raymii.org/s/articles/NetBSD_on_QEMU_Alpha.html) News Roundup FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/10/freebsd-experiment-rethinks-the-os-install/) The switch to FreeBSD rc.d is coming (https://www.ghostbsd.org/rc_switch) Irix gets LLVM (https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3043.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 Miceal - a few questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/419/feedback/Miceal%20-%20a%20few%20questions.md) Nelson - dummynet (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/419/feedback/Nelson%20-%20dummynet.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
418: The greatest time in history to be a creator
In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more. NOTES Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwl@mwl.io (mailto:mwl@mwl.io) / @mwlauthor (https://twitter.com/mwlauthor) Cashflow for Creators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/biz-craft) Charity Auction Against Human Trafficking (https://mwl.io/archives/12526) This is the rfc about what to not do. (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9049) 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) Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.
417: bhyve private cloud
Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, portable GELI, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS - Part 1 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/achieving-rpo-rto-objectives-with-zfs-part-1/) FreeBSD Foundation Q2 Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q2-2021-status-update/) OpenBSD full Tor setup (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-25-openbsd-full-tor.html) News Roundup MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud (https://habr.com/en/post/569226/) Expanding our FreeBSD home file server (https://rubenerd.com/expanding-our-freebsd-home-file-server/) OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop (https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework) Portable GELI (http://bijanebrahimi.github.io/blog/portable-geli.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 Chunky_pie - zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/417/feedback/Chunky_pie%20-%20zfs%20question.md) Paul - several questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/417/feedback/Paul%20-%20several%20questions.md) chris - firewall question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/417/feedback/chris%20-%20firewall%20question.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
416: netcat printing
OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Lets talk OpenZFS snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/lets-talk-openzfs-snapshots/) OpenSUSE in Bastille (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/opensuse_in_bastille/) News Roundup CUPS printing with netcat (https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat) Opnsense-21.1.8 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-8-released/) pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-21.05.1-is-now-available-for-upgrades) Beastie Bits • [MAC Inspired FreeBSD release](https://github.com/mszoek/airyx) • [Implement unprivileged chroot](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b) • [InitWare: A systemd fork that runs on BSD](https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare) • [multics gets a new release](https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page) • [Open Source Voices interview with Tom Jones](https://www.opensourcevoices.org/17) • [PDP 11/03 Engineering Drawings](https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1423092689084551171) 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 Oliver - zfs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/416/feedback/Olvier%20-%20zfs.md) anders - vms (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/416/feedback/anders%20-%20vms.md) jeff - byhve guests (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/416/feedback/jeff%20-%20byhve%20guests.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
415: Wrong OS Switch
Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init system poll, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server (https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/) History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-net-1-and-net-2-a-path-to-freedom/) News Roundup Permissions Two Mistakes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/PermissionsTwoMistakes) Progress in support for the riscv64 platform (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210619161607) I2P Intro (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-20-i2p-intro.html) “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written? (https://mwl.io/archives/12105) What init system would you prefer to use under GhostBSD? (https://www.ghostbsd.org/what_init_system_pool) 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 - Replication (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/415/feedback/Brad%20-%20Replication.md) Benedict writes after the show was over: The tool is called https://github.com/allanjude/zxfer Tom tweeted right after recording stopped: https://twitter.com/adventureloop/status/1420478529238622210 Caleb - Pronunciation of Gemini (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/415/feedback/Caleb%20-%20Pronounciation%20of%20Gemini.md) Dan - Writeup about a DO FreeBSD Droplet (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/415/feedback/Dan%20-%20Writeup%20about%20a%20DO%20FreeBSD%20Droplet.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
414: Running online conferences
OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS 2.1 is out (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/a-deep-dive-into-openzfs-2-1s-new-distributed-raid-topology/) FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-tcp-performance-system-controls/) News Roundup IPFS OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-04-17-ipfs-openbsd.html) Tips for running an online conference (https://dan.langille.org/2021/07/23/tips-for-running-an-online-conference/) My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (https://jcs.org/2021/07/19/desktop) 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 Bruce - Upgrading (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/414/feedback/Bruce%20-%20Upgrading.md) Chris - SMB Followup (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/414/feedback/Chris%20-%20SMB%20Followup.md) dmilith - kTLS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/414/feedback/dmilith%20-%20kTLS.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
413: BSD/Linux Chimera
Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD, AdvanceBSD thoughts 2/2, FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective, FPGA programming and DragonFly, Chimera Linux, EuroBSDcon 2021, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD (https://www.irvise.xyz/Projects%20&%20Engineering/updating-gcc-ada-pkgsrc.html) Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (2/2) (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/advancebsd-thoughts-on-a-not-for-profit-project-to-support-bsd-2-2/) News Roundup FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective (https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user.html) FPGA programming and DragonFly (https://mastodon.sdf.org/@yrabbit/106497663837700420) Chimera Linux - A Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM (https://chimera-linux.org/) EuroBSDcon 2021 (https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/program/) 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 Charlie - several questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/413/feedback/Charlie%20-%20several%20questions.md) Dan - kernel driver or module question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/413/feedback/Dan%20-%20kernel%20driver%20or%20module%20question.md) James - Apple M1 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/413/feedback/James%20-%20Apple%20M1.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
412: Command-line secrets
FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance!BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Performance Observability (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-performance-observability/) Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (1/2) (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/advancebsd-thoughts-on-a-not-for-profit-project-to-support-bsd-1-2/) News Roundup Maintainership Change :: Lumina Desktop Environment (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-06-23/) Study the past if you would define the Future (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-07-01/) How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line (https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/) Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID" (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-COVID) 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 Jim - freebsd kde (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/Jim%20-%20freebsd%20kde.md) michal - zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/michal%20-%20zfs%20question.md) tim - lumina and snapshots (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/412/feedback/tim%20-%20lumina%20and%20snapshots.md) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
411: FreeBSD Deep Dive
Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, OpenBSD’s IATA airport code file, and more This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture (https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210618/index.html) • Full IEEE article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8704965 Deep Diving Into the Strengths of FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/deep-diving-into-the-strengths-of-freebsd/) Interesting read on how Developers choose Names (https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487) News Roundup OPNsense 21.1.7 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-7-released/) Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3) (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_chdir_2_in) vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder (https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder) OpenBSD has a file with 3-letter IATA airport codes (https://twitter.com/jpmens/status/1408825989174546434?s=28) 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 lyubo - ipfw question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/411/feedback/lyubo%20-%20ipfw%20question.md) michael - a netbsd story (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/411/feedback/michael%20-%20a%20netbsd%20story.md) sven - a dogs garage (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/411/feedback/sven%20-%20a%20dogs%20garage.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
410: OpenBSD Consumer Gateway
Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/) Building Customized FreeBSD Images (https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-customized-freebsd-images/) News Roundup Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD (https://rubenerd.com/updating-to-minecraft-1-17-in-freebsd/) Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail (https://dan.langille.org/2021/05/31/upgrading-a-freebsd-12-2-jail-to-freebsd-13-using-mkjail/) DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Very Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0 (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=corei9-freebsd13-dfly6&num=1) An OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg178573.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 CY - bearssl (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/410/feedback/CY%20-%20bearssl.md) Marc - that tarsnap ad (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/410/feedback/Marc%20-%20that%20tarsnap%20ad.md) nycbug (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/410/feedback/nycbug.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
409: The Filesystem Dungeon
DTrace network probes, next 50 years of shell programming, NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, system CPU time in top, your filesystem as a dungeon, diving into toolchains, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines DTrace Network Probes (https://klarasystems.com/articles/dtrace-network-probes/) Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years (https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s06-greenberg.pdf) News Roundup NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU (https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/) System CPU time – ‘sys’ time in top (https://blog.ycrash.io/2020/11/28/system-cpu-time-sys-time-in-top/) rpg-cli —your filesystem as a dungeon! (https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli) Diving into toolchains (https://www.cambus.net/diving-into-toolchains/) 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 • [Alfred - Advice](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/Alfred%20-%20Advice) • [CY - Portable Patch Util](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/CY%20-%20Portable%20Patch%20Util) • [Denis - State of ZFS Ecosystem](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/409/feedback/Denis%20-%20State%20of%20ZFS%20Ecosystem) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
408: FreeBSD DevSummit 2021
Report from virtual FreeBSD DevSummit 2021, another promising release by FreeBSD Based helloSystem, GearBSD, OpenBGPD release, Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-developer-summit-2021/) helloSystem – FreeBSD Based OS Brings another Promising Release 0.5.0 (https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/06/hellosystem-0-5-0-release/) News Roundup GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-01-gearbsd.html) OpenBGPD 7.0 released (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-7-0-released) Simple use of Let's Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/OpenBSDNiceLetsEncrypt) FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6 (https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-13-on-the-panasonic-cf-rz6/) 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 - ZFS Questions](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/Paul%20-%20ZFS%20Questions) • [Rafael - relic](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/Rafael%20-%20relic) • [matthew - sendfile and ktls](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/408/feedback/matthew%20-%20sendfile%20and%20ktls) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
407: The jail Detail
Confining the omnipotent root, Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean, NomadBSD 130R is out, KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD, Firefox under FreeBSD with Privacy, Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Jails: Confining the omnipotent root (http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/sane2000-jail.pdf) A dramatic reading of portions of the paper: Papers We Love: FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones (https://paperswelove.org/2016/video/bryan-cantrill-jails-and-solaris-zones/) *** ### Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean (https://medium.com/chris-opperwall/using-jails-with-zfs-and-pf-on-digitalocean-b25b1da82e20) *** ## News Roundup ### NomadBSD 130R is out (https://www.itsfoss.net/nomadbsd-130r-is-now-available-to-download-based-on-freebsd-13-0/) *** ### KDE Plasma Wayland - a week in FreeBSD (https://euroquis.nl//kde/2021/05/09/wayland.html) *** ### Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy (https://danschmid.de/en/blog/install-firefox-under-freebsd-and-set-it-up-with-privacy) *** Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere I can (https://rubenerd.com/using-netbsds-pkgsrc-everywhere-i-can/) *** 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 Malcolm - restoring a single file (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/407/feedback/Malcolm%20-%20restoring%20a%20single%20file) Nathan - wireless support (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/407/feedback/Nathan%20-%20wireless%20support) bluefire - zfs special vdev (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/407/feedback/bluefire%20-%20zfs%20special%20vdev) Push to next show with Allan Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
406: Jailed Gemini Capsule
Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package in pfSense, CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail (https://www.ecliptik.com/Gemini-Capsule-in-a-FreeBSD-Jail/) With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a spare RaspberryPi 3 that was part of my old Kubernetes cluster. In particular, FreeBSD Jails have always interested me, although I’ve never used them in practice. Over the years I’ve managed operating system virtualization through Solaris Zones and Docker containers, and Jails seem like and good middle ground between the two - easier to manage than zones and closer to the OS than Docker. I also want to run my own Gemini capsule locally to use some of the features that my other hosted capsules don’t have (like SCGI/CGI) and setting up a capsule in a Jail is a good way to learn both at the same time. FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-May/002033.html) News Roundup NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS) (https://bentsukun.ch/posts/bhyve-netbsd/) My new NAS at home is running TrueNAS Core. So far, it has been excellent, however I struggled a bit setting up a NetBSD VM on it. Part of the problem is that a lot of the docs and how-tos I found are stale, and the information in it no longer applies. TrueNAS Core allows running VMs using bhyve, which is FreeBSD’s hypervisor. NetBSD is not an officially supported OS, at least according to the guest OS chooser in the TrueNAS web UI :) But since the release of NetBSD 9 a while ago, things have become far simpler than they used to be – with one caveat (see below). Interview with Michael Lucas *BSD, Unix, IT and other books author (https://www.cyberciti.biz/interview/michael-lucas-bsd-unix-it-and-other-books-author/) Michael Lucas is a famous IT book author. Perhaps best know for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Unix book series. He worked as a system administrator for many years and has now become a full-time book writer. Lately, I did a quick Q and A with Michael about his journey as a professional book author and his daily workflow for writing books. + pfSense – WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-wireguard-returns-as-an-experimental-package.html) CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd (https://box.matto.nl/cgi-with-awk-on-openbsd-httpd.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/Questionsing Adam - system state during upgrade (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/406/feedback/Adam%20-%20system%20state%20during%20upgrade) paul - BSD grep (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/406/feedback/paul%20-%20BSD%20grep) sub - feedback (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/406/feedback/sub%20-%20feedback) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
405: OOM Killer Feature
NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages, Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments, Always be quitting, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines NetBSD 9.2 Released (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_2_released) DragonFly 6.0 is out! (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/05/10/25731.html) Release Notes (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release60/) *** ### EuroBSDCon 2021 will be online (https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/) *** ## News Roundup ### Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus (https://linux-bsd.github.io/post/monitoring/) > This blog post describes my setup for monitoring various devices on my home network suh as servers, laptops/desktops, networking gear etc. The setup and configuration is squarely geared towards small/medium sized network monitoring. A similar setup might work for large networks, but you will need to plan your compute/storage/bandwidth capacities accordingly. I’m running all the monitoring software on FreeBSD, but you can run it on your choice of OS. Just make sure to install the packages using your OS’s package manager. *** ### Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL (aka OOM Killer prevention) (https://fluca1978.github.io/2021/04/02/OOMKillerFreeBSD.html) > There are a lot of interesting articles on how to prevent the Out of Memory Killer (OOM killer in short) on Linux to ruin your day, or better your night. One particularly well done explanation about how the OOM Killer works, and how to help PostgreSQL to survive, is, in my humble opinion, the one from Percona Blog. *** ### Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/04/customizing-emacs-for-git-commit.html) >I do a lot of commits to the FreeBSD project and elsewhere. It would be nice if I could setup emacs in a custom way for each commit message that I'm editing. > Fortunately, GNU Emacs provides a nice way to do just that. While I likely could do some of these things with git commit hooks, I find this to be a little nicer. *** ### Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments (https://dan.langille.org/2021/04/15/deleting-old-freebsd-boot-environments/) > I like boot environments (BE) on FreeBSD. They were especially handy when building the AWS host for FreshPorts, since I had no serial console. I would create a BE saving the current status, then make some changes. I’d mark the current BE as boot once, so I could boot back in the known good BE. Worst case, I could mount the storage onto a rescue EC2 instance and adjust the bootfs value of the zpool. *** Always be quitting (https://jmmv.dev/2021/04/always-be-quitting.html) A good philosophy to live by at work is to “always be quitting”. No, don’t be constantly thinking of leaving your job. But act as if you might leave on short notice. Counterintuitively, this will make you a better engineer and open up growth opportunities. 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 Christopher - zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/405/feedback/Christopher%20-%20zfs%20question) Chris - two questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/405/feedback/Chris%20-%20two%20questions) Vas - zpools and moving to FreeBSD 13 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/405/feedback/Vas%20-%20zpools%20and%20moving%20to%20FreeBSD%2013) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***