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346: Core File Tales

April 16th, 2020 | 55 mins 58 secs

bios, bios update, branch, branch support, bsd, bugs, caddy, core, core dump, core file, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hugo, hypervisor, interview, iowait, jails, lenovo, netbsd, openbsd, restic, self-hosted, thinkpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, x260

Tales from a core file, Lenovo X260 BIOS Update with OpenBSD, the problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines, Hugo workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic; extending NetBSD-7 branch support, a tale of two hypervisor bugs, and more.

345: Switchers to BSD

April 9th, 2020 | 47 mins 48 secs

bsd, community, dragonflybsd, feedback, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nextcloud, openbsd, risc, risc os, screen locking, trident, trueos, tutorial, x11

NetBSD 8.2 is available, NextCloud on OpenBSD, X11 screen locking, NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel, community feedback about switching to BSD, and more.

344: Grains of Salt

April 2nd, 2020 | 55 mins 39 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hierarchy, howto, ifconfig, interview, mirror, mirror rebalancing, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pipe, pipes, rebalancing, relayd, security, security headers, shell, speed up, terminal, text processing, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool, zsh

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up ZSH, How Unix pipes work, grow ZFS pools over time, the real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated, clear your terminal in style, and more.

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

March 26th, 2020 | 39 mins 4 secs

bsd, corona, corona virus, covid-19, dragonflybsd, folding at home, foldingathome, freebsd, furybsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pf, pf-badhost, trident, trueos, tutorial, vpn, wireguard, xfce

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more.

342: Layout the DVA

March 19th, 2020 | 47 mins 49 secs

active directory, bsd, coreboot, crypto, dragonflybsd, dva, dva layout, end of life, freebsd, full disk encryption, go, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, payload, pool, root, root account, tianocore, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, full name of FreeBSD’s root account, and more.

341: U-NAS-ification

March 12th, 2020 | 51 mins 1 sec

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, gcc, go, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, power, power architecture, prometheus, trident, truenas, trueos, tutorial

FreeBSD on Power, DragonflyBSD 5.8 is here, Unifying FreeNAS/TrueNAS, OpenBSD vs. Prometheus and Go, gcc 4.2.1 removed from FreeBSD base, and more.

340: Check My Sums

March 5th, 2020 | 50 mins 39 secs

aarch64, bsd, central logging, checksum, checksumming, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, log host, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pinebook, pkgsrc, pool reshaping, resizing, shrinking, syslog, syslog-ng, throughput, throughput performance, tmpfs, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro aarch64 Pinebook-pro, central log host with syslog-ng on FreeBSD, and more.

339: BSD Fundraising

February 27th, 2020 | 53 mins 56 secs

bsd, campaign wrapup, desktop, desktop bsd, dragonflybsd, fileserver, freebsd, fundraising goal, furybsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, netbsd 9.0, netbsd fundraising, nfs, omnios, openbsd, openbsd foundation, openssh, retrospective, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

Meet FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0 has been released, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup, a retrospective on OmniOS ZFS-based NFS fileservers, NetBSD Fundraising 2020 goal, OpenSSH 8.2 released, and more.

338: iocage in Jail

February 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins

bsd, dataset, de, desktop environment, distrowatch, dragonflybsd, freebsd, furybsd, grant, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, i386, interview, iocage, jail, kde, lldb, netbsd, openbsd, review, travel grant, trident, trueos, tutorial, wpa_supplicant, zfs

Distrowatch reviews FuryBSD, LLDB on i386 for NetBSD, wpa_supplicant as lower-class citizen, KDE on FreeBSD updates, Travel Grant for BSDCan open, ZFS dataset for testing iocage within a jail, and more.

337: Kubernetes on bhyve

February 13th, 2020 | 1 hr 19 mins

bhyve, bsd, dragonflybsd, file server, fileserver, foss, freebsd, full time open source, guide, happyness, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, k8s, keen kingfisher, kubernetes, netbsd, netbsd 10, openbsd, opnsense, stress, trident, trueos, tutorial

Happinesses and stresses of full-time FOSS work, building a FreeBSD fileserver, Kubernetes on FreeBSD bhyve, NetBSD 9 RC1 available, OPNSense 20.1 is here, HardenedBSD’s idealistic future, and more.

336: Archived Knowledge

February 6th, 2020 | 57 mins 57 secs

archives, bsd, dragonflybsd, firewall, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, knowledge, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, router, status, status report, tor, tor onion service node, trident, trueos, tutorial

Linux couldn’t duplicate OpenBSD, FreeBSD Q4 status report, OPNsense 19.7.9 released, archives retain and pass on knowledge, HardenedBSD Tor Onion Service v3 Nodes, and more.

335: FreeBSD Down Under

January 30th, 2020 | 53 mins 54 secs

australia, bsd, conference, containers, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hyperbola, interview, llvm, migrate, migration, netbsd, openbsd, ptrace, trident, trueos, tutorial

Hyperbola Developer interview, why you should migrate from Linux to BSD, FreeBSD is an amazing OS, improving the ptrace(2) API in LLVM 10, First FreeBSD conference in Australia, and a guide to containers on FreeNAS.

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