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Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
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FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters
August/September Newsletter
News Roundup
All About the Whistle InterJet
FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.
Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag
SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
Beastie Bits
A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition
LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released
openssh-10.6 released
New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx
Brutal Unix
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Feedback/Questions
Sasha - bastille plugin
Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.
https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin
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! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...
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Headlines
A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.
Learnign at Scale
News Roundup
Thinkcenter m710q
IPFS Remote Pinning
Beastie Bits
ThinkPhone
lapocket
OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)
vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs
OpenBGPD 9.3 released
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Headlines
Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2
Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD
News Roundup
Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap
Notes on clarifying man pages
Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD.
[Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/)
Beastie Bits
OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"
Sylve Ansible Modules
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Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...
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Headlines
A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator.
Notes on software quality
What the Fuck Happened to Nerds
News Roundup
Add ACPI layer into vmd
NetBSD 11 from scratch
FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so
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Headlines
GeFS
GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview
Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future
NetBSD 9.5 has been released
ekkoBSD 2.1 released
News Roundup
Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication
OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released
Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent
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