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334: Distrowatch Running FreeBSD

January 23rd, 2020 | 48 mins 7 secs

argon2, blocking, bsd, distrowatch, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hashing scheme, howto, i386, iked, interview, lldb, memory, memory-hard, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial, upgrading, zfs

Upgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1, Distrowatch switching to FreeBSD, Torvalds says don’t run ZFS, iked(8) removed automatic IPv6 blocking, working towards LLDB on i386, and memory-hard Argon2 hashing scheme in NetBSD.

333: Unix Keyboard Joy

January 16th, 2020 | 40 mins 29 secs

amazon, arm, arm 12, bsd, digital ocean, dragonflybsd, ec2, foundation, freebsd, freebsd foundation, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, keyboard, keyboards, netbsd, openbsd, pkgsrc, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wireguard

Your Impact on FreeBSD in 2019, Wireguard on OpenBSD Router, Amazon now has FreeBSD/ARM 12, pkgsrc-2019Q4, The Joys of UNIX Keyboards, OpenBSD on Digital Ocean, and more.

332: The BSD Hyperbole

January 9th, 2020 | 45 mins 12 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, drm, fido, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hyperbolabsd, i915, in-kernel nat, interview, ipfw, lldb, nat, netbsd, openbsd, threading, trident, trueos, tutorial, u2f, wayland, webrtc

Announcing HyperbolaBSD, IPFW In-Kernel NAT setup on FreeBSD, Wayland and WebRTC enabled for NetBSD 9/Linux, LLDB Threading support ready for mainline, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support in base, Dragonfly drm/i915: Update, and more.

331: Why Computers Suck

January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 9 mins

3970x, bsd, bsdcan, computers, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, infrastructure, interview, learning, netbsd, openbsd, ryzen, threadripper, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix

How learning OpenBSD makes computers suck a little less, How Unix works, FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Well on Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, BSDCan CFP, HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals, and more.

330: Happy Holidays, All(an)

December 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins

authentication, bsd, digitalocean, dragonflybsd, droplet, e2k19, freebsd, freenas, guide, hackathon, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbsd, release candidate, trident, trueos, tutorial, vulnerabilities

Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 is available, Running FreeNAS on a DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3 is here, at e2k19 nobody can hear you scream, and more.

329: Lucas’ Arts

December 19th, 2019 | 51 mins 5 secs

books, bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, fiction, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lucas, michael w. lucas, netbsd, non-fiction, openbsd, publishing, self-publishing, snmp, snmp mastery, sudo, sudo mastery, trident, trueos, tutorial, writing

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book.

328: EPYC Netflix Stack

December 12th, 2019 | 57 mins 43 secs

amd, amd epyc, arm, arm 12, aws, bsd, dragonflybsd, eyeballs, fido, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ipsec, lldb, netbsd, netflix, network stack, openbsd, openssh, optimized, performance, threading, trident, trueos, tunnel, tutorial, u2f, unwind, vpn

LLDB Threading support now ready, Multiple IPSec VPN tunnels with FreeBSD, Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance, happy eyeballs with unwind(8), AWS got FreeBSD ARM 12, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support, and more.

327: ZFS Rename Repo

December 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 23 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, geom, gnop, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nop, openbsd, pkg_comp, quarterly status, report, sparc64, status report, sun, trident, trueos, tutorial, uo-to-date

We read FreeBSD’s third quarterly status report, OpenBSD on Sparc64, ZoL repo move to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, keeping NetBSD up-to-date, and more.

326: Certified BSD

November 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 secs

bsd, certification, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldb, llvm, netbsd, open source, open source unix, openbsd, openzfs, ports, threading, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial

LPI releases BSD Certification, openzfs trip report, Using FreeBSD with ports, LLDB threading support ready, Linux versus Open Source Unix, and more.

325: Cracking Rainbows

November 21st, 2019 | 57 mins 40 secs

12.1, berkeley, bsd, compiling, dev, devel, development, dnssec, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, let’s encrypt, netbsd, nginx, openbsd, opnsense, rainbowcrack, setup, shopware, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unbound, unix

FreeBSD 12.1 is here, A history of Unix before Berkeley, FreeBSD development setup, HardenedBSD 2019 Status Report, DNSSEC, compiling RainbowCrack on OpenBSD, and more.

324: Emergency Space Mode

November 14th, 2019 | 46 mins 30 secs

awk, batch, bsd, dhcpcd, dragonflybsd, emergency space mode, freebsd, guide, hammer 2, hardenedbsd, howto, icccm, interview, migrating drive, migrating zpool, migration, netbsd, openbsd, renaming, trident, trueos, tutorial, x11, zlib, zpool

Migrating drives and zpool between hosts, OpenBSD in 2019, Dragonfly’s new zlib and dhcpcd, Batch renaming images and resolution with awk, a rant on the X11 ICCCM selection system, hammer 2 emergency space mode, and more.

323: OSI Burrito Guy

November 7th, 2019 | 49 mins 22 secs

7 layer, blacklistd, bolt, bsd, cms, code, dragonflybsd, fail2ban, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, https2, interview, lets encrypt, netbsd, nginx, npf, openbsd, osi, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix

The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, appeasing the OSI 7-layer burrito guys, and more.

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