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This week on BSDNow, we’re going to be hearing about Allan’s trip to EuroBSDCon, plus an Interview about “Bro on BSD”! Stay tuned, for your place to This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines EuroBSDCon 2016 Wrapup Ollivier Robert’s Photos from EuroBSDCon Get your BSDNow die-cut...

This week on BSDNow, Allan is currently at EuroBSDCon! However due to the magic of video (or time travel), you still get a new episode. (You’re Welcome!). Stay tuned This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Performance Improvements for FreeBSD Kernel Debugging “We previously ex...

This week on BSDNow! We’ve got Netflix + FreeBSD news to discuss, always a crowd pleaser, that plus EuroBSDCon is just around the corner. Stick around for your place This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale, with FreeBSD This blog pos...

This week on BSDNow, we’ll be talking to Diane Bruce about using it for Ham Radio Enthusiasts, the RPi3 and much more! That plus all the latest news from the week, This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines PC-BSD is now TrueOS If you’ve been watching this show the past few month...

This week on BSDNow, we have an interview with Richard Yao, who will be telling us about the experience and challenges of porting ZFS to Linux. That plus the latest news and feedback is coming your way, on your place This episode was brought to you by src="/images/2.png" alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> /> Headlines Registration for MeetBSD 2016 is now Open...

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from his UK trip and we’ll get to hear his thoughts on the developer summit. That plus all the This episode was brought to you by /> Headlines FreeBSD 11.0-RC1 Available FreeBSD is marching onwards to 11.0, and with it the first RC1 was released. In addition to the usual amd64 architectures, you may want to give it a whirl on your various ARM boards as well, a...

This week on BSDNow, Allen is away in the UK (For BSDCam), but we still have a full episode for you! Don’t miss our interview with This episode was brought to you by Headlines My two year journey to becoming an OS Developer A blog post by Ryan Zezeski about how he ended doing OS Development instead of working on application We have featured his posts before, including The illumos SYSCALL Handler I...

This week on BSDNow, we are taking a look at a few different tutorials, including running your very own RPi web-server. (Come-on, you This episode was brought to you by /> Headlines broken features aren't used This post from TedU talks about the difficulty of removing features from an operating system “One of the difficulties in removing a feature is identifying all the potential users. A featu...

This week on BSDNow, we have a variety of news to discuss, covering quite the spectrum of BSD. (Including a new DragonFly release!). This episode was brought to you by /> Headlines my int is too big “The NCC Group report describes the bugs, but not the history of the code.” “Several of them, as reported by NCC, involved similar integer truncation issues. Actually, they involved very similar mod...

This week on BSDNow, we have some big breaking news about another major switcher to FreeBSD, plus early information about the pending This episode was brought to you by /> Headlines Leo Laporte tries FreeBSD Leo Laporte, formerly of TechTV, and now of TWiT.tv, is switching to FreeBSD “The latest debacle over the "forced" upgrade to Windows 10 and Apple's increasingly locked-in ecosystem has got...

This week on BSDNow, we have all sorts of interesting news, including a Kernel Fuzzing audit done for OpenBSD, a much improved This episode was brought to you by /> Headlines Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernel Its patch Wednesday! (OR last Thursday if you were watching the mailing lists) Jesse Hertz and Tim Newsham (part of the NCC Group calling themselves project Triforce) have been working with...

Today on the show, we are going to be talking to Jim Brown (of BSD Cert Fame) about his home-brew sprinkler system… Wait for it… This episode was brought to you by Headlines Distrowatch reviews OpenBSD and PCBSD's live upgrade method Upgrading… The bane of any sysadmin! Distrowatch has recently done a write-up on the in-place upgrading of various distros / BSDs including PC-BSD and OpenBSD. Lets l...

Today on the show, we are going to be chatting with Michael Dexter about a variety of topics, but of course including bhyve! That plus This episode was brought to you by Headlines NetBSD Introduction We start off today’s episode with a great new NetBSD article! Siju Oommen George has written an article for BSDMag, which provides a great overview of NetBSD’s beginnings and what it is today. Of cour...

This week on the show, Allan and I are going to be showing you a very interesting interview we did talking about using FreeBSD to drive This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> src="/images/3.png" alt="Tarsnap - Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid" /> Headlines FreeBSD Core Team Election Core.9 has been elected, and will official...

On this episode of BSDNow, we will be talking to Glen Barber and Peter Wemm of the FreeBSD RE and Cluster Admin teams! That plus our This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> src="/images/3.png" alt="Tarsnap - Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid" /> Headlines 2016 FreeBSD Community Survey We often get comments from our listeners,...

Kris is on vacation this week, so allan flies solo, provides a recap of BSDCan & cover's a boatload of news including Microsoft This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCan Recap and Live Stream Videos OpenBSD BSDCan 2016 papers now available Allan’s slides and Paper Michael W Lucas presents Allan with a gift “FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZedFS” Highlighted Tweets: Groff Arrives at BSDCan...

It’s BSDCan time! Allan and I are both enjoying what is sure to be a super-busy week, but don’t think we’ve forgotten about This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> src="/images/3.png" alt="Tarsnap - Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid" /> Interview - Benno Rice - benno@freebsd.org / @jeamland Manager, OS & Networking at EMC...

It’s only one-week away from BSDCan, both Allan and I are excited to meet some of you in person! However, the show keeps on This episode was brought to you by Headlines dotSecurity 2016 - Theo de Raadt - Privilege Separation and Pledge Video Slides Interested in Privilege Separation and security in general? If so, then you are in for a treat, we have both the video and slides from Theo de Raadt at...

This week on BSDNow, we have an interview with Matthew Macy, who has some exciting news to share with us regarding the state of graphics This episode was brought to you by Headlines How the number of states affects pf’s performance of FreeBSD Our friend Olivier of FreeNAS and BSDRP fame has an interesting blog post this week detailing his unique issue with finding a firewall that can handle upward...

This week on the show, we have all the latest news and stories! Plus an interview with BSD developer Alfred Perlstein, that you This episode was brought to you by Headlines The May issus of BSDMag is now out GhostBSD Reusing OpenBSD's arc4random in multi-threaded user space programs Securing VPN's with GRE / Strongswan Installing XFCE 4.12 on NetBSD 7 Interview with Fernando Rodriguez, the co-foun...

This week on the show, we have all the latest news and stories! Plus we’ll be hearing more about OpnSense from the man himself, Ike! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Regarding Embargoes Our buddy TedU has a great thought piece today on the idea of “embargoes” for security advisories. This all stemmed from a recent incident with LibreSSL patches from embargoed OpenSSL vulns, that accide...

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back in down from Europe! We’ll get to hear some of his wrap-up and get caught up on the latest BSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Report This quarterly status report starts with a rather interesting introduction by Warren Block ASLR Porting CEPH to FreeBSD RCTL I/O Rate Limiting The Graphics Stack on FreeBSD (Haswell is in, work is pro...

This week, Allan is out of town, but since when has that ever stopped us from bringing you a new episode of BSDNow? We have news, This episode was brought to you by Headlines Unix's file durability problem Another article by Chris Siebenmann from the University of Toronto This time, the issue was a lost comment on his Python based blog which uses files on disk rather than a database After an unexp...

This week on the show, we will be talking to Benedict Reushling about his role with the FreeBSD foundation and the journey that took him This episode was brought to you by Headlines HardenedBSD introduces full PIE support PIE base for amd64 and i386 Only nine applications are not compiled as PIEs Tested PIE base on several amd64 systems, both virtualized and bare metal Hoped to be to enabled it fo...

This week on BSD Now, I’m out of town for the week, but we have a special unboxing video to share with you, that you won’t want to miss. That, plus the latest BSD news, is coming your way right now! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Example of a FreeBSD bug hunting session by a simple user Don’t be fooled, Olivier Cochard-Labbé is a bit more than just a FreeBSD user Original founder of...