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Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD In this article we are going to look at and integrate two network isolation technologies, V...

Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines History of FreeBSD - Part 3: Early Days of FreeBSD In this third part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we start tracing the...

Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship Allen Briggs was one of the earliest members of the NetBSD community, pursuing his...

FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achieved, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved Moritz Systems have been contracted by the FreeBSD Foundation to modernize the LLDB debugger’s sup...

We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of BSDNow. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Interview - Allan Jude - [ Allan.jude@gmail.com ]( Allan.jude@gmail.com ) / @allanjude Interview - Benedict Reusch...

The Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines The Origin of the Shell CTSS was developed during 1963 and 64. I was at MIT on the computer center staff at that time. After having written dozens of c...

We read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines 3rd Quarter FreeBSD Report The call for submissions for the 4th Quarter is out OpenZFS 2.0 This Monday, ZFS on Linux lead developer Brian Behlendorf published the OpenZFS 2.0.0...

Adventures in Freebernetes, tracing kernel functions, The better way of building FreeBSD networks, New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings, LibreSSL update in DragonFly, Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Adventures in Freebernetes: bhyve My Guest Part 2 of experiments in FreeBSD and Kubernetes: Creating your first guest Tr...

Interview with Michael W. Lucas: SNMP and TLS book, cashflow for creators, book sale and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Interview with Michael W. Lucas SNMP Book The Networknomicon Sponsor the TLS Book Cashflow for creators Book sale Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust y...

History of FreeBD: BSDi and USL Lawsuits, Building a Website on Google Compute Engine, Firewall ban-sharing across machines, OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD, Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is, Switching from Apple to a Thinkpad for development, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines History of FreeBSD : Part 2 : BSDi and USL Lawsuits In t...

FreeBSD 12.2 is available, ZFS Webinar, Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, how the OpenBSD -stable packages are built, OPNsense 20.7.4 released, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD 12.2 Release The release notes for FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 12-STABLE development line. This docu...

bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor, udf information leak, being a vim user instead of classic vi, FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB, OpenBSD Laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor FreeBSD has had varying degrees of support as a hypervisor host throughout its history...

OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old tarsnap backups, Michael W. Lucas’ book sale, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines OpenBSD 6.8 Released Oct 18, 2020. (OpenBSD's 25th anniversary) NetBSD 9.1 Released The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce Net...

We have an interview with Kyle Evans for you this week. We talk about his grep project, lua and flua in base, as well as bectl, being on the core team and a whole lot of other stuff. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Interview - Kyle Evans - kevans@freebsd.org / @kaevans91 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online b...

Wayland on BSD, My BSD sucks less than yours, Even on SSDs, ongoing activity can slow down ZFS scrubs drastically, OpenBSD on the Desktop, simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Wayland on BSD After I posted about the new default window manager in NetBSD I got a few questions, including "when is NetBSD switching fr...

New Project: zedfs.com, TrueNAS CORE Ready for Deployment, IPC in FreeBSD 11: Performance Analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines My New Project: zedfs.com Have you ever had an idea that keeps coming back to you over and over again? For a week? For a month? I know that feeling. My new project was born from this fee...

The world’s first OpenZFS based live image, FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration video, FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020, testing the shutdown mechanism, login_ldap added to OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FuryBSD 2020-Q3 The world’s first OpenZFS based live image FuryBSD is a tool to test drive stock FreeBSD desktop images in read write mode to...

High Availability Router/Firewall Using OpenBSD, CARP, pfsync, and ifstated, Building the Development Version of Emacs on NetBSD, rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc, FreeBSD 11.3 EOL, OPNsense 20.7.1 Released, MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines High Availability Router/Firewall Using OpenBSD, CARP, pfsync, and ifstated I have been run...

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Modernizing the OpenBSD Console At the beginning were text mode consoles. Traditionally, *BSD and Linux on i386 and amd64 used text...

A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch, Sandbox for FreeBSD, Changing from one dataset to another within a jail, You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS, HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch Larry Wall posted patch 1.3 to mod.sources on May 8, 1985. A number of versions followed over...

OpenZFS with ZSTD lands in FreeBSD 13, LibreSSL doc status update, FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead), Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines OpenZFS with ZSTD land in FreeBSD 13 ZStandard Compression for OpenZFS > The primary benefit is maintaining a completely shared code base with the community allowing FreeB...

FreeBSD USB Audio, Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users, Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around, CLI Tools 235x Faster than Hadoop, FreeBSD Laptop Battery Life Status Command, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD USB Audio I recently got a Behringer UMC22 sound card for video conferencing and DJing. This page documents what I’ve learned...

FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration FreeBSD has a handful of Qt WebEngine-based browsers. Falkon, and Otter-Browser,...

FreeBSD Q2 Quarterly Status report of 2020, Traditional Unix Toolchains, BastilleBSD 0.7 released, Finding meltdown on DragonflyBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Report This report will be covering FreeBSD related projects between April and June, and covers a diverse set of topics ranging from kernel updates over userland and ports,...

Interview with Warner Losh about Unix history, the 2.11-BSD restoration project, the Unix heritage society, proper booting, and what devmatch is. Interview - Warner Losh - imp@freebsd.org / @bsdimp BSD 2.11 restoration project 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 que...