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310: My New Free NAS

August 7th, 2019 | 48 mins 9 secs

arc, audio, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, mini, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

OPNsense 19.7.1 is out, ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size, Hammer2 is now default, NetBSD audio – an application perspective, new FreeNAS Mini, and more.

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

July 31st, 2019 | 48 mins 24 secs

bandwidth, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, graph, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, realtime, send, telnet, terminal, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

DragonFlyBSD Project colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a chapter from the FBI’s history with OpenBSD, an OpenSSH vulnerability, and more.

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

July 24th, 2019 | 44 mins 25 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, drm, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldp, mumble, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pdp-7, trident, trueos, tutorial, umurmur, voip, watchpoints, zfs, zpool

Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released, implementing DRM ioctl support for NetBSD, High quality/low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD, the PDP-7 where Unix began, LLDB watchpoints, and more.

307: Twitching with OpenBSD

July 18th, 2019 | 50 mins 59 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, dump, dumping, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hex, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, streaming, trident, trueos, tutorial, twitch, workstation

FreeBSD 11.3 has been released, OpenBSD workstation, write your own fuzzer for the NetBSD kernel, Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, streaming to twitch using OpenBSD, 3 different ways of dumping hex contents of a file, and more.

306: Comparing Hammers

July 11th, 2019 | 38 mins 21 secs

am5x86, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, g4, guide, hammer, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, mac, netbsd, netflix, openbsd, streaming, trident, trueos, tutorial

Am5x86 based retro UNIX build log, setting up services in a FreeNAS Jail, first taste of DragonflyBSD, streaming Netflix on NetBSD, NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini, Hammer vs Hammer2, and more.

305: Changing face of Unix

July 3rd, 2019 | 56 mins 9 secs

bsd, doas, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, risc-v, sdf32, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix50, wine, x windows, x11

Website protection with OPNsense, FreeBSD Support Pull Request for ZFS-on-Linux, How much has Unix changed, Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage, the death watch for X11 has started, and more.

304: Prospering with Vulkan

June 27th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, drm, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, openzfs, trident, trueos, tutorial, vm, vulkan, zfs

DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, ZFS vs OpenZFS, and more.

303: OpenZFS in Ports

June 19th, 2019 | 52 mins 33 secs

awesomewm, blacklistd, bsd, compat32, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, npf, openbsd, openzfs, raidz, trident, trueos, tutorial, vim, xsave, zfs

OpenZFS-kmod port available, using blacklistd with NPF as fail2ban replacement, ZFS raidz expansion alpha preview 1, audio VU-meter increases CO2 footprint rant, XSAVE and compat32 kernel work for LLDB, where icons for modern X applications come from, and more.

302: Contention Reduction

June 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 9 mins

argon2, bsd, clang, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, fedora, fnaify, freebsd, gaming, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hummingboard, lazyboi, linux, markov, netbsd, openbsd, szjaller, trident, trueos, tutorial, ufs, vmctl, wine, zfs

DragonFlyBSD's kernel optimizations pay off, differences between OpenBSD and Linux, NetBSD 2019 Google Summer of Code project list, Reducing that contention, fnaify 1.3 released, vmctl(8): CLI syntax changes, and things that Linux distributions should not do when packaging.

301: GPU Passthrough

June 5th, 2019 | 45 mins 34 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, p3, pfsense, trident, trueos, tutorial

GPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more.

300: The Big Three

May 30th, 2019 | 1 hr 14 mins

bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, firmware, freebsd, freenas, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openindiana, trident, trueos, tutorial, wireguard, zfs

FreeBSD 11.3-beta 1 is out, BSDCan 2019 recap, OpenIndiana 2019.04 is out, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, why open source firmware is important for security, a new Opnsense release, wireguard on OpenBSD, and more.

299: The NAS Fleet

May 22nd, 2019 | 52 mins 47 secs

aix, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldb, nas, netbsd, openbsd, qemu, trident, true command, trueos, tutorial, unleashed, v7

Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.

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