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370: Testing shutdown

October 1st, 2020 | 45 mins 12 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, git, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ldap, live image, login, login_ldap, mechanism, migration, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, shutdown, software, testing, trident, trueos, tutorial, video, workstation, zfs, zpool

The world’s first OpenZFS based live image, FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration video, FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020, testing the shutdown mechanism, login_ldap added to OpenBSD, and more

High Availability Router/Firewall Using OpenBSD, CARP, pfsync, and ifstated, Building the Development Version of Emacs on NetBSD, rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc, FreeBSD 11.3 EOL, OPNsense 20.7.1 Released, MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out, and more.

368: Changing OS roles

September 17th, 2020 | 48 mins 32 secs

32-bit, 64-bit, berkeley, bsd, cluster, console, corosync, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, modern, modernizing, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, pacemaker, package manager, role, sandbox, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, wine, zfs, zpool

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more.

367: Changing jail datasets

September 10th, 2020 | 45 mins 28 secs

berkeley, bsd, bug, bugfix, call for donations, dataset, distribution, donation, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, patch, sandbox, screen, software, status, status report, tmux, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch, Sandbox for FreeBSD, Changing from one dataset to another within a jail, You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS, HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations, and more.

366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

September 3rd, 2020 | 53 mins 2 secs

berkeley, bootloader, bsd, checkpoint, distribution, doc, documentation, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, libressl, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, sparc64, ssl, status, status update, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

OpenZFS with ZSTD lands in FreeBSD 13, LibreSSL doc status update, FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead), Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader, and more

365: Whole year round

August 27th, 2020 | 46 mins 54 secs

audio, backup, battery, battery life, berkeley, bsd, cli, command line, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hadoop, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kernel, kernel module, kyua, laptop, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, status, status command, test framework, testing, trident, trueos, tutorial, usb, zfs

FreeBSD USB Audio, Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users, Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around, CLI Tools 235x Faster than Hadoop, FreeBSD Laptop Battery Life Status Command, and more.

364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

August 20th, 2020 | 46 mins 58 secs

802.11ac, acceleration, berkeley, bsd, distribution, dragonflybsd, driver, ext2, ext3, ext4, filesystem, freebsd, gpu, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, qt, reboot, software, sync, syseventadm, trident, trueos, tutorial, webengine, wireless, zfs

FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more.

363: Traditional Unix toolchains

August 13th, 2020 | 34 mins 45 secs

berkeley, bsd, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, meltdown, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, quarterly status, software, status report, toolchain, traditional, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs

FreeBSD Q2 Quarterly Status report of 2020, Traditional Unix Toolchains, BastilleBSD 0.7 released, Finding meltdown on DragonflyBSD, and more

362: 2.11-BSD restoration

August 6th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins

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

Interview with Warner Losh about Unix history, the 2.11-BSD restoration project, the Unix heritage society, proper booting, and what devmatch is.

361: Function-based MicroVM

July 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins

2.11 bsd, berkeley, bsd, distribution, dragonflybsd, emulex, freebsd, function based microvm, guide, hardenedbsd, homelab, howto, interview, microvm, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, powerpc64, release, snapshots, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

Emulex: The Cheapest 10gbe for Your Homelab, In Search of 2.11BSD, as released, Fakecracker: NetBSD as a Function Based MicroVM, First powerpc64 snapshots available for OpenBSD, OPNsense 20.1.8 released, and more.

360: Full circle

July 23rd, 2020 | 42 mins 27 secs

berkeley, bsd, commit, core team, distribution, dragonflybsd, elected, election, freebsd, freebsd core team, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, i3, i3 nuc, intel, intel i3, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, packet filter, pf, pinebook, pinebook pro, software, table size, table size check, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

Chasing a bad commit, New FreeBSD Core Team elected, Getting Started with NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD on the Intel 10th Gen i3 NUC, pf table size check and change, and more.

359: Throwaway Browser

July 16th, 2020 | 43 mins 25 secs

bhyve, binary upgrades, browser, bsd, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guest, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, laptop, linux, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, operating system, os, pot, throw away, throw-away, trident, trueos, tutorial, virtualization, vm, zfs

Throw-Away Browser on FreeBSD With "pot" within 5 minutes, OmniOS as OpenBSD guest with bhyve, BSD vs Linux distro development, My FreeBSD Laptop Build, FreeBSD CURRENT Binary Upgrades, and more.

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