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322: Happy Birthday, Unix

October 31st, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins

50 years unix, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, opnsense, pdp, pdp 7, release, ssh, sshuttle, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vpn, vpn over ssh

Unix is 50, Hunting down Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNSense have new releases, Clarification on what GhostBSD is, sshuttle - VPN over SSH, and more.

321: The Robot OS

October 23rd, 2019 | 55 mins 16 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ken thompson, netbsd, openbsd, pdp 7, pdp-7, release, source code, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix at 50, unix code

An interview with Trenton Schulz about his early days with FreeBSD, Robot OS, Qt, and more.

FreeBSD on the Google Pixelbook, Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64, ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits, Fixing up KA9Q-unix, HAMMER2 and fsck for review, the return of startx(1) for non-root users, and more.

319: Lack Rack, Jack

October 9th, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins

assembly, assembly programming, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, ikea, lsblk, netbsd, omnios, omnios lts, openbsd, programming, programming tutorial, project trident, rack, server rack, trident, trueos, tutorial, untitled 1interview, zfs

Causing ZFS corruption for fun, NetBSD Assembly Programming Tutorial, The IKEA Lack Rack for Servers, a new OmniOS Community Edition LTS has been published, List Block Devices on FreeBSD lsblk(8) Style, Project Trident 19.10 available, and more.

318: The TrueNAS Library

October 2nd, 2019 | 46 mins 40 secs

amd, benchmark, bsd, digital archives, digital library, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, obscure tools, openbsd, presidential archive, presidential library, project trident, ryzen, ryzen 7, ryzen 7 3700x, trident, trip report, truenas, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix artifacts, vbsdcon, x11

DragonFlyBSD vs. FreeBSD vs. Linux benchmark on Ryzen 7, JFK Presidential Library chooses TrueNAS for digital archives, FreeBSD 12.1-beta is available, cool but obscure X11 tools, vBSDcon trip report, Project Trident 12-U7 is available, a couple new Unix artifacts, and more.

317: Bots Building Jails

September 26th, 2019 | 52 mins 36 secs

amateur packet radio, amateur radio, bsd, buildbot, dovecot, dragonflybsd, file system check, filesystem, freebsd, fsck, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, mail, mailserver, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtp, packet radio, rspamd, startx, trident, trueos, tutorial

Setting up buildbot in FreeBSD jails, Set up a mail server with OpenSMTPD, Dovecot and Rspamd, OpenBSD amateur packet radio with HamBSD, DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 gets fsck, return of startx for users.

316: git commit FreeBSD

September 18th, 2019 | 1 hr 5 mins

ada, bsd, core team, cost savings, dragonflybsd, freebsd, game launcher, gdb, git, git transition, guide, hardenedbsd, homura, howto, interview, llvm, llvm sanitizers, netbsd, openbsd, regression test, sanitizers, trident, trueos, tutorial, windows game

NetBSD LLVM sanitizers and GDB regression test suite, Ada—The Language of Cost Savings, Homura - a Windows Games Launcher for FreeBSD, FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transition to Git, OpenBSD 6.6 Beta tagged, Project Trident 12-U5 update now available, and more.

315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

September 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 16 mins

bsd, configuration, configure, dragonflybsd, fan-less, fanless, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hg, hg server, howto, humungus, infinitybook, interview, netbsd, network dump, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial, tuxedo, tuxedo infinitybook, vbsdcon 2019

vBSDcon 2019 recap, Unix at 50, OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook, humungus - an hg server, how to configure a network dump in FreeBSD, and more.

314: Swap that Space

September 4th, 2019 | 48 mins 28 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, dsynth, freebsd, gsoc, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, servers, steam, streaming, swap, swap space, trident, trueos, tutorial, virtual memory, vm, workstation

Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space, Dsynth details on Dragonfly, Instant Workstation on FreeBSD, new servers new tech, Experimenting with streaming setups on NetBSD, NetBSD’s progress towards Steam support thanks to GSoC, and more.

313: In-Kernel TLS

August 29th, 2019 | 55 mins 12 secs

boot environment, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, install, installation, interview, kernel tls, ktls, macbook, netbsd, openbsd, project trident, thinkpad, tls, trident, trueos, tutorial, vbsdcon, x1 carbon

OpenBSD on 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, how to install FreeBSD on a MacBook, Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS), Boot Environments on DragonflyBSD, Project Trident Updates, vBSDcon schedule, and more.

312: Why Package Managers

August 21st, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, evaluation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, package manager, philosophy, pinebook pro, porting, process, syzkaller, touchpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, wine

The UNIX Philosophy in 2019, why use package managers, touchpad interrupted, Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD second evaluation report, Enhancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, all about the Pinebook Pro, killing a process and all of its descendants, fast software the best software, and more.

311: Conference Gear Breakdown

August 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 13 mins

bsd, conference, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gadgets, gear, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kernel, netbsd, openbsd, spellchecker, tale, tools, trident, triforceafl, trueos, tutorial, utilities, vulnerability, xargs

NetBSD 9.0 release process has started, xargs, a tale of two spellcheckers, Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Exploiting a no-name freebsd kernel vulnerability, and more.

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