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We explore whether a BSD can replicate Cisco router performance; RETGUARD, OpenBSDs new exploit mitigation technology, Dragonfly’s HAMMER2 filesystem implementation & more! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Can a BSD system replicate the performance of a Cisco router? Short Answer: No, but it might be good enough for what you need Traditionally routers were built with a tightly coup...

In this episode, we take a look at the reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel, check out what makes DHCP faster, and see what high-process count support for DragonflyBSD has to offer, and we answer the questions you’ve always wanted to ask us. This episode was brought to you by Headlines A Reimplementation Of Netbsd Using a Microkernel Minix author Andy Tanenbaum writes in Part 1 of a-reim...

We read a trip report about FreeBSD in China, look at how Unix deals with Signals, a stats collector in DragonFlyBSD & much more! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Trip Report: FreeBSD in China at COPU and LinuxCon This trip report is from Deb Goodkin, the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation. She travelled to China in May 2017 to promote FreeBSD, meet with companies, and pa...

DragonflyBSD 4.8.1 has been released, we explore how the X11 clipboard works, and look at OpenBSD gaming resources. This episode was brought to you by Headlines LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements In the last month I started with upstream of the code for sanitizers: the common layer and ubsan. I worked also on the elimination of unexpected failures in LLVM and Clang. I've managed to a...

We recap our devsummit experiences at BSDCambridge, share why memcmp is more complicated than expected, explore Docker on FreeBSD, and we look at a retro terminal. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCam recap The 2017 Cambridge DevSummit took place from 2-4 August 2017. The event took place over three days including a formal dinner at St John's College, and was attended by 55 register...

Lumina Desktop 1.3 is out, we show you a Plasma 5 on FreeBSD tutorial, explore randomness, and more. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Lumina Desktop v1.3 released Notable Changes: New Utility: lumina-mediaplayer. Lumina Media Player is a graphic interface for the Qt QMediaPlayer Class, with Pandora internet radio streaming integration. Lumina Media Player supports many audio formats, i...

FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is out, we look at building at BSD home router, how to be your own OpenBSD VPN provider, and find that glob matching can be simple and fast. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1 was released on July 26th You can download it as an ISO or USB image, a prebuilt VM Image (vmdk, vhd, qcow2, or raw), and it is available as a cloud image (Ama...

In this episode, we clear up the myth about scrub of death, look at Wayland and Weston on FreeBSD, Intel QuickAssist is here, and we check out OpenSMTP on OpenBSD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Matt Ahrens answers questions about the “Scrub of Death” In working on the breakdown of that ZFS article last week, Matt Ahrens contacted me and provided some answers he has given to question...

This week on BSD Now, we clear up some ZFS FUD, show you how to write a NetBSD kernel module, and cover DragonflyBSD on the desktop. This episode was brought to you by Headlines ZFS is the best file system (for now) In my ongoing effort to fight misinformation and FUD about ZFS, I would like to go through this post in detail and share my thoughts on the current state and future of OpenZFS. The pos...

We look at an OpenBSD setup on a new laptop, revel in BSDCan trip reports, and visit daemons and friendly ninjas. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD and the modern laptop Peter Hansteen has a new blog post about OpenBSD on laptops: Did you think that OpenBSD is suitable only for firewalls and high-security servers? Think again. Here are my steps to transform a modern mid to high...

In which we interview a unicorn, FreeNAS 11.0 is out, show you how to run Nextcloud in a FreeBSD jail, and talk about the connection between oil changes and software patches. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here The FreeNAS blog informs us: After several FreeNAS Release Candidates, FreeNAS 11.0 was released today. This version brings new virtualization and object s...

The NetBSD 8.0 release process is underway, we try to measure the weight of an electron, and look at stack clashing. This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD 8.0 release process underway Soren Jacobsen writes on NetBSD-announce: If you've been reading source-changes@, you likely noticed the recent creation of the netbsd-8 branch. If you haven't been reading source-changes@, here's some...

FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 is out, we discuss Kernel address randomized link (KARL), and explore the benefits of daily OpenBSD source code reading This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 now available Glen Barber, of the FreeBSD release engineering team has announced that FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 is now available for the following architectures: 11.1-BETA1 amd64 GENERIC 11.1-BETA1 i386 G...

This episode gives you the full dose of BSDCan 2017 recap as well as a blog post on conference speaking advice. Headlines Pre-conference activities: Goat BoF, FreeBSD Foundation Board Meeting, and FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Meeting The FreeBSD Foundation has a new President as Justin Gibbs is busy this year with building a house, so George Neville-Neil took up the task to serve as President,...

We’re at BSDCan, but we have an interview with Michael W. Lucas which you don’t want to miss. This episode was brought to you by Headlines We are off to BSDCan but we have an interview and news roundup for you. Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor Books, conferences & how these two combine *** News Roundup In The Name Of Sane Email: Setting Up OpenBSD's spamd(8...

This week on BSD Now, we review the EuroBSDcon schedule, we explore the mysteries of Docker on OpenBSD, and show you how to run PostgreSQL on ZFS. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDcon 2017 - Talks & Schedule published The EuroBSDcon website was updated with the tutorial and talk schedule for the upcoming September conference in Paris, France. Tutorials on the 1st day: Kirk M...

A pledge of love to OpenBSD, combating ransomware like WannaCry with OpenZFS, and using PFsense to maximize your non-gigabit Internet connection This episode was brought to you by Headlines ino64 project committed to FreeBSD 12-CURRENT The ino64 project has been completed and merged into FreeBSD 12-CURRENT Extend the ino_t, dev_t, nlink_t types to 64-bit ints. Modify struct dirent layout to add d_...

This week on BSD Now we cover the latest FreeBSD Status Report, a plan for Open Source software development, centrally managing bhyve with Ansible, libvirt, and pkg-ssh, and a whole lot more. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Project Status Report (January to March 2017) While a few of these projects indicate they are a "plan B" or an "attempt III", many are still hewing to thei...

This week on BSD Now, Adrian Chadd on bringing up 802.11ac in FreeBSD, a PFsense and OpenVPN tutorial, and we talk about an interesting ZFS storage pool checkpoint project. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Bringing up 802.11ac on FreeBSD Adrian Chadd has a new blog post about his work to bring 802.11ac support to FreeBSD 802.11ac allows for speeds up to 500mbps and total bandwidth into...

This week we have a FreeBSD Foundation development update, tell you about sprinkling in the TrueOS project, Dynamic WDS & a whole lot more! This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenSSH Removes SSHv1 Support In a series of commits starting here and ending with this one , Damien Miller completed the removal of all support for the now-historic SSHv1 protocol from OpenSSH . The final commi...

We cover TrueOS/Lumina working to be less dependent on Linux, How the IllumOS network stack works, Throttling the password gropers & the 64 bit inode call for testing. This episode was brought to you by Headlines vBSDCon CFP closed April 29th EuroBSDCon CFP closes April 30th Developer Commentary: Philosophy, Evolution of TrueOS/Lumina, and Other Thoughts. Philosophy of Development No project i...

This week, we look forward with the latest OpenBSD release, look back with Dennis Ritchie’s paper on the evolution of Unix Time Sharing, have an Interview with Kris This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> OpenBSD 6.1 RELEASED Mailing list post We are pleased to announce the official rel...

This week on the show we interview Wendell from Level1Techs, cover Google Summer of Code on the different BSD projects, cover YubiKey usage, dive into how NICs work & This episode was brought to you by Headlines Google summer of code for BSDs FreeBSD FreeBSD's existing list of GSoC Ideas for potential students FreeBSD/Xen: import the grant-table bus_dma(9) handlers from OpenBSD Add support for...

Today on BSD Now, the latest Dragonfly BSD release, RaidZ performance, another OpenSSL Vulnerability, and more; all this week on BSD Now. This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines DragonFly BSD 4.8 is released Improved kernel performance This release further localizes cache line...

Catching up to BSD, news about the NetBSD project, a BSD Phone, and a bunch of OpenBSD and TrueOS News. This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines NetBSD 7.1 released This update represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as...