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Episode 254: Bare the OS | BSD Now 254

July 12th, 2018  |  1 hr 31 mins

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Control flow integrity with HardenedBSD, fixing bufferbloat with OpenBSD’s pf, Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD, MeetBSD CfP, crypto simplified interface, twitter gems, interesting BSD commits, and more.

Episode 253: Silence of the Fans | BSD Now 253

July 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 26 mins

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Fanless server setup with FreeBSD, NetBSD on pinebooks, another BSDCan trip report, transparent network audio, MirBSD's Korn Shell on Plan9, static site generators on OpenBSD, and more.

Episode 252: Goes to 11.2 | BSD Now 252

June 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 34 mins

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FreeBSD 11.2 has been released, setting up an MTA behind Tor, running pfsense on DigitalOcean, one year of C, using OpenBGPD to announce VM networks, the power to serve, and a BSDCan trip report.

Episode 251: Crypto HAMMER | BSD Now 251

June 21st, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins

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DragonflyBSD’s hammer1 encrypted master/slave setup, second part of our BSDCan recap, NomadBSD 1.1-RC1 available, OpenBSD adds an LDAP client to base, FreeBSD gets pNFS support, Intel FPU Speculation Vulnerability confirmed, and what some Unix command names mean.

Episode 250: BSDCan 2018 Recap | BSD Now 250

June 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 41 mins

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TrueOS becoming a downstream fork with Trident, our BSDCan 2018 recap, HardenedBSD Foundation founding efforts, VPN with OpenIKED on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on a System76 Galago Pro, and hardware accelerated crypto on Octeons.

Episode 249: Router On A Stick | BSD Now 249

June 6th, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

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OpenZFS and DTrace updates in NetBSD, NetBSD network security stack audit, Performance of MySQL on ZFS, OpenSMTP results from p2k18, legacy Windows backup to FreeNAS, ZFS block size importance, and NetBSD as router on a stick.

Episode 248: Show Me The Mooney | BSD Now 248

May 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 44 mins

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DragonflyBSD release 5.2.1 is here, BPF kernel exploit writeup, Remote Debugging the running OpenBSD kernel, interview with Patrick Mooney, FreeBSD buildbot setup in a jail, dumping your USB, and 5 years of gaming on FreeBSD.

Episode 247: Interning for FreeBSD | BSD Now 247

May 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins

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FreeBSD internship learnings, exciting developments coming to FreeBSD, running FreeNAS on DigitalOcean, Network Manager control for OpenBSD, OpenZFS User Conference Videos are here and batch editing files with ed.

Episode 246: Properly Coordinated Disclosure | BSD Now 246

May 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins

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How Intel docs were misinterpreted by almost any OS, a look at the mininet SDN emulator, do’s and don’ts for FreeBSD, OpenBSD community going gold, ed mastery is a must read, and the distributed object store minio on FreeBSD.

Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245

May 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 24 mins

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Allan’s recap of the ZFS User conference, first impressions of OmniOS by a BSD user, Nextcloud 13 setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on a fanless desktop computer, an intro to HardenedBSD, and DragonFlyBSD getting some SMP improvements.

Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244

May 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

Arcan and OpenBSD, running OpenBSD 6.3 on RPI 3, why C is not a low-level language, HardenedBSD switching back to OpenSSL, how the Internet was almost broken, EuroBSDcon CfP is out, and the BSDCan 2018 schedule is available.

Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243

April 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

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OpenBSD 6.3 and DragonflyBSD 5.2 are released, bug fix for disappearing files in OpenZFS on Linux (and only Linux), understanding the FreeBSD CPU scheduler, NetBSD on RPI3, thoughts on being a committer for 20 years, and 5 reasons to use FreeBSD in 2018.