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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...

This week on the show, we will be interviewing GNN of the FreeBSD project to talk about the new TeachBSD initiative. That plus the latest BSD headlines, all coming your way right now! This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE Announcement FreeBSD 10.3 has landed, with extended support until April 30, 2018 This is likely to be the last extended support release, as starting w...

This week on the show, we interview author Michael W Lucas to discuss his new book in the FreeBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD 5.9 Released early Finished ahead of schedule! OpenBSD 5.9 has officially landed We’ve been covering some of the ongoing changes as they landed in the tree, but with the official release it’s time to bring you the final list of the new hotness which...

This week on the show, Allan and I have gotten a bit more sleep since AsiaBSDCon, which is excellent since there is a LOT of news to cover. That plus our interview with Ports SecTeam member Mark Felder. So keep it This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeNAS 9.10 Released OS: The base OS version for FreeNAS 9.10 is now FreeBSD 10.3-RC3, bringing in a huge number of OS-related bug fixes, pe...

This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are back from AsiaBSDCon and we have an interview with Brad Davis about the new “Packaging Base” call-for-testing. We’ll be sharing our thoughts and stories on how the week This episode was brought to you by Headlines AsiaBSDCon 2016 - Wrap-up FreeBSD gets Haswell graphics support in time for 11.0-RELEASE The moment that many have been waiting for has finally arriv...

This week, Allan and I are away at AsiaBSDCon! (If you aren’t there, you are missing out). We will be back with a live episode next week. However, we’ve been asked for Allan to tell us about ScaleEngine’s This episode was brought to you by Interview - Allan Jude - allanjude@freebsd.org / @allanjude Spotlight on ScaleEngine *** Beastie Bits NetBSD on an RPi Zero DragonFly tips for printing with CUP...

This week on the show, we have an interview with Jamie This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCan 2016 List of Talks We are all looking forward to BSDCan Make sure you arrive in time for the Goat BoF, the evening of Tuesday June 7th at the Royal Oak, just up the street from the university residence There will also be a ZFS BoF during lunch of one of the conference days, be sure to grab yo...

This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from the Storage Summit in Silicon Valley! We are going to get his thoughts on how the conference went, plus bring you the latest ZFS info discussed. That plus the usual BSD news is This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD website operators urged to fix mind-alteringly bad bug We start off a bit light-hearted this week, with the important, breaking ne...

Coming up this week, we will be talking to John Marino about his work on the ports-mgmt utility “Synth” and the cross-pollination between DragonFly and FreeBSD. That plus the latest news and your email here on This episode was brought to you by Headlines glibc and the BSDs You have likely already heard about CVE-2015-7547 “A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the libresolv library pe...

This week on BSDNow, we interview Nick Wolff about how FreeBSD is used across the State of Ohio and some of the specific technology used. That, plus the latest news is coming your way right now on BSDNow, the place to This episode was brought to you by title="DigitalOcean"> src="/images/3.png" alt="Tarsnap - Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid" /> Headlines Doc like an Egyptian: Managing p...

Today on the show, we welcome Allan back from FOSSDEM, and enjoy an interview with Willem about DNS and MTU Black Holes. That plus all the weeks news, keep it turned here to BSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report It is that time of year again, reviewing the progress of the FreeBSD project over the last quarter of 2015 There are a huge number of projects th...

This week on BSDNow, we are going to be talking to Ken Moore about the Lumina desktop environment, where it stands now & looking ahead. Then Allan turns the tables & interviews both Kris & Ken about new ongoings in PC-BSD land. Stay tuned, lots of exciting show is coming your way right now on BSDNow, the place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Linuxvoice reviews s...

This week on the show, we will be talking to FreeBSD developer and former core-team member John Baldwin about a variety of topics, including running a DevSummit, everything you needed or wanted to know. Coming up right now on BSDNow, the place to B...SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD server retired after almost 19 years We’ve heard stories about this kind of thing before, th...

This week on the show, we have a very full news roster to rundown, plus an oldie, but goodie with Igor of the nginx project. That plus all your questions and feedback, iX Systems Mission Complete Submit your story of how you accomplished a mission with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or iXsystems hardware, and you could win monthly prizes, and have your story featured in the FreeBSDJournal! *** FreeNAS Logo Des...

This week on BSDNow, we will be talking shop with Josh Paetzel of FreeNAS fame, hearing about his best do’s and do-nots of using ZFS in production. Also, a quick iX Systems Mission Complete Submit your story of how you accomplished a mission with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or iXsystems hardware, and you could win monthly prizes, and have your story featured in the FreeBSD Journal! *** FreeNAS Logo Design C...

This week on the show, we will be interviewing Alex Rosenberg, to This episode was brought to you by iX Systems Mission Complete Submit your story of how you accomplished a mission with FreeBSD, FreeNAS, or iXsystems hardware, and you could win monthly prizes, and have your story featured in the FreeBSD Journal! *** Headlines Life with an OpenBSD Laptop: A UNIX-lover's tale of migrating away from...