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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...

This week on BSDNow, reports from AsiaBSDcon, TrueOS and FreeBSD news, Optimizing IllumOS Kernel, your questions and more. This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines AsiaBSDcon Reports and Reviews AsiaBSDcon schedule Schedule and slides from the 4th bhyvecon Michael Dexter’s trip...

This is a very special BSD Now! New exciting changes are coming to the show and we’re gonna cover them, so stick around or you’ll miss it! Interview – Kris Moore – kris@trueos.org / @pcbsdKris TrueOS founder, FreeNAS developer, BSD Now co-host Benedict Reuschling – bcr@freebsd.org / @bsdbcr FreeBSD commiter & FreeBSD Foundation Vice President, BSD Now co-host Send questions, comments, show ide...

This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are in Tokyo for AsiaBSDCon, but not to worry, we have a full episode lined up and ready to go. Hackathon reports This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines OpenBSD A2k17 hackathon reports a2k17 hackathon report: Patrick Wildt on the arm64 port a2...

This week on BSDNow, we have “Weird Unix Things”, “Is it getting Steamy in here?” and an Interview about BSD Sockets API. (Those This episode was brought to you by Headlines playonbsd with TrueOS: It’s Getting Steamy in Here and I’ve Had Too Much Wine We’ve done a couple of tutorials in the past on using Steam and Wine with PC-BSD, but now with the addition of playonbsd to the AppCafe library, you...

This week on the show, we’ve got FreeBSD quarterly Status reports to discuss, OpenBSD changes to the installer, EC2 and IPv6 and more. Stay This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD changes of note 6 OpenBSD can now be cross built with clang. Work on this continues Build ld.so with -fno-builtin because otherwise clang would optimize the local versions of functions like _dl_memset into a...

This week on BSDNow we have a cantrill special to bring you! All three interviews back to back in their original glory, you won’t want to miss This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> – Show Notes: – FOSDEM 2017 BSD Dev Room Videos href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/86662/ubuntu-sl...

This week on BSDNow, I’m out of town but we have a great interview with Ken Moore (My brother) about the latest in BSD desktop computing and This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Interview - Ken Moore - ken@trueos.org TrueOS, Lumina, Sys Admin, The BSD Desktop Ecosystem KM: Thank you...

This week on BSDNow, we’re going to be leading off with the latest news about Wayland and Xorg support on FreeBSD, then a look at OpenBSD ARM64 This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Wayland is now in the FreeBSD Ports tree This commit brings Wayland, the new windowing system...

This week on BSD Now, we will be discussing a wide variety of topics including Routers, Run-Controls, the “Rule” of silence and some This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Ports no longer build on EOL FreeBSD versions The FreeBSD ports tree has been updated to automatically f...

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got Wifi galore, a new iocage and some RPi3 news and guides to share. Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines WiFi: 11n hostap mode added to athn(4) driver, testers wanted “OpenBSD as WiFi access points look set t...

Another exciting week on BSDNow, we are queued up with LLVM / Linking news, a look at NetBSD’s scheduler, This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Headlines FreeBSD Kernel and World, and many Ports, can now be linked with lld “With this change applied I can link the entirety of the FreeBSD/amd64 base system (userla...

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got all sorts of post-holiday goodies to share. New OpenSSL APIs, Dtrace, OpenBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof As many of you will already be aware, the OpenSSL 1.1.0 release intentionally introduced significant API changes from the previous release. In summary, a large number of data structures that wer...

A look back at 2016 This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Links ZFS in the trenches | BSD Now 123 href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/99991/one-small-step-for-drm-one-giant-leap-for-bsd-bsd-now-143/">One small step for DRM, one giant leap for BSD | BSD Now 143 href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/101...

This week on the show, we’ve got some great stories to bring you, a look at the odder side of UNIX history This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Headlines syspatch in testing state Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot@ openbsd has posted a call for testing for OpenBSD’s new syspatch tool “syspatch(8), a "binary" patch sys...

This week on BSDNow, we have a very special guest joining us to tell us a tale of the early days in BSD history. That plus some new OpenSSH goodness, shell scripting utilities and much more. Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> Headlines Call For Testing: OpenSSH 7.4 Getting ready to head into...