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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

382: BSDNow Q&A 2020

December 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of BSDNow.

381: Shell origins

December 17th, 2020 | 41 mins 57 secs

arisblubsd, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, midnightbsd 2.0, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense 20.7.5, origin, os, plan 9, release, report, shell, software, status, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

The Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more.

380: Early ZFS-mas

December 10th, 2020 | 43 mins 59 secs

berkeley, bsd, check hash, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, openzfs 2.0, operating system, os, os108-9.1, release, report, shell, software, status, third quarter 2020, trident, trueos, tutorial, ufs, unix, xfce, zfs, zpool

We read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more.

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