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Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD, Please, don’t force me to log in, Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics, Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens, What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?, Beginning of the year Laugh NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD Please, don’t force me to lo...

ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep, Stop Blogging and start documenting, 2023 in Review: Infrastructure, NovaCustom NV41 laptop review, OpenBSD Video Audio Screen Recording, HDMI Audio sound patches into GhostBSD source code, DSA removal from OpenSSH, NetBSD/evbppc 10.99.10 on the Nintendo Wii, NetBSD/amd64 current performance patch NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought...

GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions, The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GPL 3: The Cont...

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs, 2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement, Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snapshot directory?, OpenBSD workstation hardening, KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current, MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought...

8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024, System Design for Advanced Beginners, 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective, Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10*RC1, FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6, Ctrl+Alt Museum NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024 System Design for...

Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14, HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report, How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop, A sneak Peak, Programming FreeBSD Reading Process Information, Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries 'name caches', Always learning, Always Teaching NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the B...

Terrapin Attack, SSH Hardening with ssh-audit, MidnightBSD 3.1.2, syscall(2) removed from -current, 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Terrapin Attack OpenSSH 9.6 is out OpenBSD Patches FreeBSD Patches If anyone is aware of NetBSD Patches, please send them into the show so I can update the show notes SSH...

In this special holiday episode, we, the BSDNow hosts, get together to answer questions that listeners have sent us over time. We give you updates on our gear, books we read, favorite places, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback...

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs, FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0, Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Netgate Releases pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1, SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right, Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs Fre...

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases pt 2, MNT Reform – almost a year on, Why do I know shell, and how can you, Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to, dsynth in DragonFly, Navigating around in shell, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases – Part 2: File Serving and SANs My...

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases, EuroBSDcon trip report, Disks from the Perspective of a File System, Creating Jails using flavours in pot, OpenIKED 7.3 released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released, FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases - Part 1:...

FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD 14 • [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking...

Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine The Internet Was Designed With...

FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture A bit of XENIX history News Round...

2 18 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 2 18 dollars to open source Special Thanks to Colin f...

OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.4 Making Software Last Forever News Roundup DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based re...

Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Implementing a system call fo...

Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System: Benefits &amp...

If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting the right type of certificate, Jenny’s Daily Drivers, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines If you can use Open Source you can build hardware...

Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Sol...

Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why DNS is still hard to learn Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” News Roundup ZFS Repl...

Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements, that old netbsd server, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Do one thing and do it well Turning a 15 years old laptop in...

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge Unix Recovery Legend News Roundup Useful Unix commands for data science Why...

The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace...

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes News Roun...