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490: New Year’s Plan9’ing

January 19th, 2023 | 46 mins 13 secs

berkeley, bsd, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kde, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, plan9, ports, release, shell, software, status report, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vintage computing, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD Foundation’s Software Development review of 2022, what can we learn from Vintage Computing, OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022, a Decade of HardenedBSD, In Praise of Plan9, and more

FreeBSD vs. Linux – Networking, HDMI sound output through TV speakers on FreeBSD 13, Getting started with tmux, Samba Active Directory, OpenIKED 7.2 released, FreeBSD Plasma 5 GUI Install, DHCP server howto in German, and more

488: Old ping(8) bug

January 5th, 2023 | 35 mins 25 secs

authentication gateway, berkeley, bsd, bug, dataset, debugging, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foundation, freebsd, fundraising, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, internet of things, interview, iot, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ping, ports, release, shell, software, ssh, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Finding a 24 year old bug in ping(8), The Role of Operating Systems in IOT, Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.4 is out, and more

487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2

December 29th, 2022 | 34 mins 19 secs

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

This year end episode of BSDNow features a trip report to EuroBSDcon by Mr. BSD.tv, as well as an interview with FreeBSD committer John Baldwin. Happy New Year, 2023!

486: EuroBSDcon interviews

December 22nd, 2022 | 39 mins 1 sec

berkeley, brooks davis, bsd, dataset, distribution, donate, donation, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, olivier cochard-labbe, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, year-end fundraising, zfs, zpool

This special episode features two interviews we did at EuroBSDcon in Vienna this year. We talk with FreeBSD developers about how they got started, their current projects and more. Also, consider donating to your favorite BSD Foundation to keep the projects going.

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant

December 15th, 2022 | 43 mins 32 secs

apple, awk, berkeley, brian kernighan, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, graphics processing unit, guide, hardenedbsd, history, home assistant, howto, interview, jail, jails, m1 gpu, mimmutable, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

Tails of the M1 GPU, Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail, interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan, Next steps toward mimmutable, Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now, and more

484: Birth of stderr

December 8th, 2022 | 36 mins 26 secs

berkeley, bhyve, bootloader, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, font, free space, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kvm, m1, m2, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, random, release, shell, software, standard error, stderr, steam, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual, virtualization, vm, workstation, zfs, zpool

Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more

483: ZFS Time Machine

December 1st, 2022 | 50 mins 46 secs

berkeley, bsd, client, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, emulator, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, httm, interview, jails, netbsd, nfs, nushell, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, research unix, server, shell, simh pdp-11, software, time machine, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, version 6, zfs, zpool

Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report, Nushell : Introduction, and more

482: BSD XFCE Desktop

November 24th, 2022 | 39 mins 20 secs

alpine linux, berkeley, bsd, considerations, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, minimalist, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, quick setup, reason, release, root on zfs, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, xfce, zfs, zpool

5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more.

481: Fiery Crackers

November 17th, 2022 | 47 mins 54 secs

avoid, avoidance, aws, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, firecracker, freebsd, guide, gzip, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, linux, minio, netbsd, nvme, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, performance, ports, postgres, q3, questions, reddit, release, shell, software, speedup, status report, tar, third quarter, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vendor lock-in, zfs, zpool

FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more.

480: OpenBSD 7.2

November 10th, 2022 | 48 mins 55 secs

ad blocker, ad blocking, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, fuguita, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, memory protection, memory protections, netbsd, notifications, notify, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, secteam, security team, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unbound, unix, zfs, zpool

OpenBSD 7.2 and FuguIta have been released, Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team, how to get notified about FreeBSD updates, using unbound for ad blocking on OpenBSD, further memory protections on OpenBSD current, and more.

479: OpenBSD Docker Host

November 3rd, 2022 | 42 mins 3 secs

berkeley, bsd, conference, dataset, distribution, docker, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, openshift, operating system, os, packages, ports, process groups, processes, release, shell, signal, signals, software, toolchain, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vmd, zfs, zpool

EuroBSDcon 2022 as first BSD conference, Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails, Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8), history of sending signals to Unix process groups, Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022, and more

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