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355: Man Page Origins

June 18th, 2020 | 40 mins 39 secs

bsd, dell, dell latitude, dell latitude 7390, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, latitude 7390, man pages, manpages, manual, manual pages, netbsd, openbsd, pfs, trident, trueos, tutorial, upgrade, upgrading, vax

Upgrading OpenBSD, Where do Unix man pages come from?, Help for NetBSD’s VAX port, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7390, PFS Tool changes in DragonflyBSD, and more.

354: ZFS safekeeps data

June 11th, 2020 | 35 mins 7 secs

amazon ec2, bsd, community survey, data safety, dragonflybsd, ec2, freebsd, freebsd community survey, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, pinebook, pinebook pro, pinebook pro 64, trident, trueos, tutorial

FreeBSD 11.4-RC 2 available, OpenBSD 6.7 on a PineBook Pro 64, How OpenZFS Keeps Your Data Safe, Bringing FreeBSD to EC2, FreeBSD 2020 Community Survey, and more.

353: ZFS on Ironwolf

June 4th, 2020 | 38 mins 31 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ironwolf, lenovo t480, microsoft, netbsd, openbsd, raid, scheduler, scheduling, surface go, sysadmin, system administration, system administrator, t480, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

Scheduling in NetBSD, ZFS vs. RAID on Ironwolf disks, OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go 2, FreeBSD for Linux sysadmins, FreeBSD on Lenovo T480, and more

A brief introduction to randomness, logs grinding netatalk to a halt, NetBSD core team changes, Using qemu guest agent on OpenBSD kvm/qemu guests, WireGuard patchset for OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.1 on a laptop, and more.

351: Heaven: OpenBSD 6.7

May 21st, 2020 | 49 mins 9 secs

backup, bsd, chown, disk, disk space, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, openbsd, quota, quotas, release, restore, roadmap, trident, truenas, truenas core, trueos, tutorial, wireguard

Backup and Restore on NetBSD, OpenBSD 6.7 available, Building a WireGuard Jail with FreeBSD's standard tools, who gets to chown things and quotas, influence TrueNAS CORE roadmap, and more.
Date: 2020-05-20

350: Speedy Bridges

May 14th, 2020 | 34 mins 40 secs

bsd, crash, crash dump, dev environment, dragonflybsd, encrypted, encryption, freebsd, hardenedbsd, interview, kernel development, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, unix

5x if_bridge Performance Improvement, How Unix Won, Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD, Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS, TrueNAS 11.3-U2 Available, and more.

349: Entropy Overhaul

May 7th, 2020 | 57 mins 33 secs

bsd, crash, crash dump, dev environment, dragonflybsd, encrypted, encryption, entropy, entropy overhaul, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kernel development, log host, netbsd, openbsd, sync, sync write, synchronous, syslog, syslog-ng, taskq, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix time, zvol

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy overhaul, Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment, and more.

348: BSD Community Collections

April 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 16 secs

ars technica, book sponsorship, bsd, collections, dragonflybsd, freebsd, furybsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, internals, interview, kde, memory allocator, memory allocator internals, netbsd, openbsd, secure memory allocator, solid state drive, ssd, tls, tls mastery, tls mastery book, trident, trueos, tutorial, xfce

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.

347: New Directions

April 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 50 secs

ars technica, bsd, curses, distro, distro review, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, plan 9, progress, q1, q1 2020, review, security, status, status report, thomas dickey, thomas e. dickey, trident, trueos, tutorial, ui, user interface

Rethinking OpenBSD security, FreeBSD 2020 Q1 status report, the notion of progress and user interfaces, Comments about Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses, making Unix a little more Plan9-like, Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD, and more.

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.

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