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The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway! UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again A...

NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Perl's decline was cultural News Roundup Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025) Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas... HardnedBSD News FreeBSD + Flua Json in Base Building from S...

Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025? Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions - Gary - Storage Is Ch...

Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? News Roundup We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance p...

NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News R...

FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary News Roundup ZFS Boot Environments Explained Why I (s...

FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization News Roundup How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' dataset properties wor...

Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI News Roundup Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks Crucial FreeBSD To...

New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Signifier flotation devices Open Indiana Hipster Announcement Understanding Storage Performance Metrics News Roundup UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A Making the veb(4) virtual Eth...

Time to update our /etc/hosts file... NOTES * This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Show updates Intro Ruben Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to...

Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Thunderbolt on FreeBSD The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it) News Roundup zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs The...

OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.8 Released also ( https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822 ) and ( https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679 ) Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS News Round...

Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD, Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD, The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why Self-host? Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks News R...

ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsna...

zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines zipbomb defeated Optimizing ZFS for High-Through...

FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Foundat...

Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brou...

The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics Host Naming Convention News Roundup Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of...

The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Hype is the Product Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe B...

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines An (almost) catastroph...

FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli News Roundup Call fo...

Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, DragonFly DRM updated, NetBSD on Raspberry Pi, Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD, Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes, One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode, New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to...

OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, OpenBSD Innovations, Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD, Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still), A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines When Root...

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide to Lock-In Free...

This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interview Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation Personal website Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at T...