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514: Infecting Public Keys

July 6th, 2023 | 48 mins 30 secs

backdoor, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, man pages, netbsd, nushell, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, public key, ransomware, release, rollback, shell, shell script, signal propagation, snapshot, software, storage, sudo, systems engineer, thinkpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware, I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages, I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer", Writing shell scripts in Nushell, Sudo and signal propagation, infecting SSH Public Keys with backdoors, OpenBSD Thinkpad, and more

513: New Host Interview

June 29th, 2023 | 53 mins 24 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, dropping privileges, dtrace, dynamic tracing, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, libressl, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, process tracing, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vdev types, zfs, zpool

We have a new show host, Understanding ZFS vdev Types, Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges, Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3, new Libressl, Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12, and more

512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat

June 22nd, 2023 | 40 mins 35 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Recorded at BSDCan 2023

511: Against Innovation

June 15th, 2023 | 50 mins 54 secs

berkeley, bookmarks, bsd, cli, clusters, dataset, dav, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, high performance computing, howto, hpc, httpd, innovation, interview, jails, laptop, mips, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, plex, ports, proxmox, release, root, self-hosted, shell, software, storage, sun ray, terraform, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wol, zfs, zpool

Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them, OpenZFS for HPC Clusters, Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD, Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3, WOL Plex Server, Against innovation, and more

510: The BSD Slabtop

June 8th, 2023 | 46 mins 40 secs

asiabsdcon, audio, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, desktop, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, gnome, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, slabtop, software, storage, stream, thinkpad, trident, trip report, trueos, ttyload, tutorial, unix, x201, zfs, zpool

AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices, The Gnome and Its "Secret Place", ttyload, and more

509: Dot File Naming

June 1st, 2023 | 41 mins 14 secs

berkeley, bsd, caldav, carddav, cheatsheet, cli, dataset, decoder, development, distribution, dmi, dot file, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, gpart, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, rob pike, shell, software, storage, storage appliance, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual machine, vm, zfs, zpool

Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance, Install OpenBSD as a VM, Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD, display basic computer information using DMI table decoder, Gpart CheatSheet, Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names, and more

508: Foundational Proceedings

May 25th, 2023 | 41 mins 5 secs

annual general meeting, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, emacs, environment, filesystem, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, scale20x, shell, software, solution, storage, storage solution, team members, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial, university, unix, xterm, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members, OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments, SCaLE20X Conference Report, 916 days of Emacs, XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought, NetBSD Annual General Meeting 2023, and more

507: Michael W. Lucas Interview

May 18th, 2023 | 58 mins 41 secs

author, berkeley, book, bsd, chatgpt, cli, conferences, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, events, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, mail server, michael w. lucas, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, writing, zfs, zpool

Author Michael W. Lucas joins us in this interview to talk about his latest book projects. Find out what he’s up to regarding mail servers, conferences, his views on ChatGPT, and more.

506: A greener BSD

May 11th, 2023 | 32 mins 4 secs

berkeley, bsd, bsdcan, cli, comparison, converter, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, green computing, guide, hardenedbsd, hello systems, howto, interview, inverter, jails, netbsd, nut, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, status report q1 2023, storage, storage solution, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions, FreeBSD Q1 Status Report, Hello Systems 0.8.1 Release, OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with NUT, Tips for Running a Greener FreeBSD, BSDCAN Registration open

505: BSD Desktop Setup

May 4th, 2023 | 29 mins 26 secs

berkeley, booking, bsd, burger books, cinnamon desktop, cli, datacenter, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, energy efficiency, filesystem, freebsd, from scratch, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, xmonad, zfs, zpool

OpenBSD 7.3 released, Accelerating Datacenter Energy Efficiency by Leveraging FreeBSD as Your Server OS, install Cinnamon as a Desktop environment, xmonad FreeBSD set up from scratch, Burgr books in your terminal, and more

504: Release the BSD

April 27th, 2023 | 36 mins 6 secs

agent, authentication, berkeley, block size, bsd, cli, connection, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, dtrace, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, identity, interview, iscsi, jails, midnightbsd, netbsd, nfs, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, public key, release, shell, software, ssh, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual server, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD 13.2 Release, Using DTrace to find block sizes of ZFS, NFS, and iSCSI, Midnight BSD 3.0.1, Closing a stale SSH connection, How to automatically add identity to the SSH authentication agent, Pros and Cons of FreeBSD for virtual Servers, and more

503: Fast Unix Commands

April 20th, 2023 | 36 mins 54 secs

awk, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, fascination, fast commands, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, namespaces, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimization, os, packages, plan 9, ports, release, shell, software, ssh host certificates, storage, success story, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

ZFS Optimization Success Stories, Linux Namespaces Are a Poor Man's Plan 9 Namespaces, better support for SSH host certificates, Fast Unix Commands, Fascination with AWK, and more

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