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394: FreeBSD on Mars

March 18th, 2021 | 43 mins 31 secs

berkeley, bhyve, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guest, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, large data, mars, microscopy, mysql, netbsd, network stack, nextcloud, openbsd, operating system, os, release, rover, shell, software, state of the union, transaction, trident, truenas, trueos, tutorial, unix, vxworks, zfs, zpool

Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover, Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data, OpenBSD guest with bhyve - OmniOS, NextCloud on OpenBSD, MySQL Transactions - the physical side, TrueNAS 12.0-U2.1 is released, HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, and more

393: ZFS dRAID

March 11th, 2021 | 50 mins 40 secs

27 years old book, annotate, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, draid, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, just, lessons, make, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, pdf, phabricator, proxy, release, shell, signal, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Lessons learned from a 27 years old UNIX book, Finally dRAID, Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD, Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD, Things You Should Do Now, Just: More unixy than Make, and more

392: macOS inspired Desktop

March 4th, 2021 | 47 mins 26 secs

501c3, arm, benchmarks, berkeley, bsd, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, employment, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hellosystem, howto, interview, jails, job, kernel engineer, macos inspired, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, project coordinator, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks, FreeBSD Jails Deep Dive by Klara Systems, FreeBSD Foundation looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer & OSS Project Coordinator, macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS by helloSystem, A Trip into FreeBSD and more.

391: i386 tear shedding

February 25th, 2021 | 38 mins 55 secs

advantages, annotation, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, grafana, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, i386, interview, jail, kde, marvelous meerkat, netbsd, node-exporter, nomadbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, pdf, prometheus, proxy, release, shell, signal, software, touch screen, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, xargs, zfs, zpool

Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more.

390: Commercial Unix Killer

February 18th, 2021 | 55 mins 36 secs

berkeley, book, bsd, cluster, commercial unix, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, edgerouter, freebsd, glusterfs, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lenovo, linux, lite, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, setup, shell, software, thinkpad, tls, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, x1 nano, zfs, zpool

Did Linux kill Commercial Unix, three node GlusterFS setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen), NetBSD on EdgeRouter Lite, TLS Mastery first draft done

389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails

February 10th, 2021 | 41 mins 16 secs

bastille, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, exploration, exploring, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, mirror, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, pkg, plan 9, poudriere, release, shell, software, swap, tools, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vnet, zfs, zpool

A week with Plan 9, Exploring Swap on FreeBSD, how to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere, How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS, Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools, and more.

388: Must-have security tool

February 4th, 2021 | 49 mins 41 secs

2020, bastille, berkeley, bsd, dataset, display, distribution, dragonflybsd, etymology. command-line, fourth, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, persistence, port, quarter, quarterly, redirection, release, report, security, shell, software, status, tool, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wall display, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD Q4 2020 Status report, a must-have security tool from OpenBSD, Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence, FreeBSD Wall Display Computer, etymology of command-line tools, GhostBSD 21.01.15 Release Notes, and more.

387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio

January 28th, 2021 | 43 mins 11 secs

acm, association of computing machinery, berkeley, broadcasting, bsd, cabin fever, code vicious, coding, curl, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, obs, open broadcaster studio, openbsd, operating system, os, password, password manager, queue, release, self-hosting, shell, software, tip of the day, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

GNN's tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home, Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD, Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS, Dan's CURL tip of the Day, List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD, and more

386: Aye, 386!

January 21st, 2021 | 37 mins

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, firewall, firewalling, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, package source, pkgsrc, raspberry pi, release, rpi, shell, software, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vlan, vnet, zfs, zpool

Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more

385: Wireguard VPN mesh

January 14th, 2021 | 34 mins 28 secs

berkeley, bsd, cryptpad, dataset, debugger, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, lldb, llvm, mesh, netbsd, office suite, openbsd, operating system, os, release, shell, software, sponsor, sponsoring, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vpn, web, web office, wine, wireguard, zfs, zpool

Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more.

384: In memoriam

January 7th, 2021 | 35 mins

allen briggs, automated, berkeley, bsd, contributions, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, f7 plus, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, memorial, multi-volume, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs 2, operating system, os, ports, release, scholarship, shell, software, teclast, tracking, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more.

383: Scale the tail

December 31st, 2020 | 43 mins 12 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, migration, monitoring, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, release, remote process, remote process plugin, shell, software, tailscale, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achieved, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more

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