About the show
Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros.
The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
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Episodes
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320: Codebase: Neck Deep
October 16th, 2019 | 56 mins 41 secs
bsd, case study, dragonflybsd, freebsd, fsck, google pixelbook, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ka9q, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pixelbook, portability, porting, quota, quota limits, startx, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zfs performance, zfs quota
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.