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Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Useless use of GNU Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students News Roundup Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable...

Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project update, NetBSD on the Apple M1, HardenedBSD August Status Report, FreeBSD Journal on Wireless and Desktop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Choosing The Right ZFS...

Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Reviewing my first OpenBSD port, and what I'd do differently 10 years later Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11 News Roundup Fr...

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more. NOTES Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwl@mwl.io / @mwlauthor Cashflow for Creators Charity Auction Against Human Trafficking This is the rfc about what to not do. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponso...

Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, portable GELI, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS - Part 1 FreeBSD Foundation Q2 Report OpenBSD full Tor setup News Roundup M...

OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Lets talk OpenZFS snapshots OpenSUSE in Bastille News Roundup CUPS printing with netcat Opnsense-21.1.8 pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available Beastie Bits • [MAC Inspired Fre...

Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init system poll, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedo...

OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines OpenZFS 2.1 is out FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls News Roundup IPFS OpenBSD Tips for running an online conference My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDN...

Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD, AdvanceBSD thoughts 2/2, FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective, FPGA programming and DragonFly, Chimera Linux, EuroBSDcon 2021, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD Advance! BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (2/2) News Roundup FreeBSD from a NetBSD...

FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance! BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD Performance Observability Advance! BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (1/2) News Roundup Maintainership C...

Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, OpenBSD’s IATA airport code file, and more This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture • Full IEEE article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/docume...

Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was Building Customized FreeBSD Images News...

DTrace network probes, next 50 years of shell programming, NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, system CPU time in top, your filesystem as a dungeon, diving into toolchains, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines DTrace Network Probes Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years News Roundup NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU System CPU time – ‘sys’ time in top rpg-cli —your...

Report from virtual FreeBSD DevSummit 2021, another promising release by FreeBSD Based helloSystem, GearBSD, OpenBGPD release, Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit helloSystem – FreeBSD Based OS Brings another Promising Release 0.5.0 News Roundup GearBSD: a projec...

Confining the omnipotent root, Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean, NomadBSD 130R is out, KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD, Firefox under FreeBSD with Privacy, Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Jails: Confining the omnipotent root A dramatic reading of portions of the paper: Papers We Love: FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones...

Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package in pfSense, CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a...

NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages, Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments, Always be quitting, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines NetBSD 9.2 Released DragonFly 6.0 is out! Release Notes *** ### EuroBSDCon 2021 will be online *...

Allan, Benedict and Tom are MIA, so JT fills in with two friends. This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap CoHosts this week: • Ash Gokhale: https://twitter.com/xpi • Jeff Propes : CoHost of The Opinion Dominion This weeks format follows the format of one of JT's other shows: The Opinion Dominion . Centralized vs Decentralized Management Ash’s draid article at Klara openbsd’s 50th relea...

Why You Should Use BSD Licensing for Your Next Open Source Project or Product, Update on FreeBSD Foundation Investment in Linuxulator, OPNsense 21.1.5 released, FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop, Running FreeBSD jails with containerd 1.5, Markdown, DocBook, and the quest for semantic documentation on NetBSD.org, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Why You Sh...

It's time to say goodbye to the GPL, a new OCI Runtime for FreeBSD Jails, A bit of Xenix history, On Updating QEMU's bsd-user fork, FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines It's time to say goodbye to the GPL The trigger for this post is the reinstating of Richard Stallman, a very problematic character, to the board of the Fr...

Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD, EuroBSDcon 2021 Call for Papers, FreeBSD’s iostat, The state of toolchains in NetBSD, Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8, FreeBSD's ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD, TrueNAS 12.0-U3 has been released, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines My Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD I was inspired by the April 2017 article in un...

FreeBSD 13 is here, multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD, KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2, NetBSD GSoC report, a working D compiler on OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD 13.0 R Annoucement • OpenZFS 2.0 (almost 2.1) is included in 13.0 • Removed support for previously-deprecated algorithms in geli(8). • The armv8crypto(4) driver now supports AES-G...

Comparing sandboxing techniques, Statement on FreeBSD development processes, customizing FreeBSD ports and packages, the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop, Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay, HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report, Detailed Behaviors of Unix Signal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Comparing sandboxing techniques I had the opportunity to implem...

FreeBSD 13.0 Full Desktop Experience, FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud, Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace, Inferno is open source as well, NetBSD hits donation milestone, grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD, Random Programming Challenge, OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop...

Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel, OpenBSD/loongson on the Lemote Fuloong, how ZFS on Linux brings up pools and filesystems at boot under systemd, LLDB: FreeBSD Legacy Process Plugin Removed, FreshBSD 2021, gmid, Danschmid’s Poudriere Guide in english, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Customizing the FreeBSD Kernel Learn more about customizing the build of...