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Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why BSDs? 2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth What are we excited for in tech in 2026? Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous The death of vmware and the possibilites for diversity that creates Capabilities arriving in FreeBSD main NetBSD on the WiiU and open hardware for retro computing Capabilities arriving with CheriIOT News Roundup Wireguard The FreeBSD Way Beastie Bits BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey Re: ZFS status on NetBSD Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Albin- Foss-North Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway! UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape WebZFS News Roundup OpenBGPD 9.0 released MidnightBSD 4.0 Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC TVPC update C&C Red Alert2 in your browser Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions rick - shout out.md Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Perl's decline was cultural News Roundup Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025) Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas... HardnedBSD News FreeBSD + Flua Json in Base Building from Source Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Dave - FreeBSD and Flua Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025? Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions - Gary - Storage Is Cheap Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? News Roundup We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train! Beastie Bits Running A PDP-8 From 1965 The library of time OPNsense 25.7.9 released - OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Martin - recordings Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again The usability of open source operating systems Phoenix AZ timezone issue The only existing copy of UNIX v4 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again The usability of open source operating systems Phoenix AZ timezone issue The only existing copy of UNIX v4 Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary News Roundup ZFS Boot Environments Explained Why I (still) love Linux rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug and YouTube Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Claudio - A Silent Reflection Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization News Roundup How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' dataset properties work Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up [TUHS] David C Brock of CHM: 2024 oral history with Ken Thompson + Doug McIlroy Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” Source and state limiters introduced in pf Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Göran - grafana Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI News Roundup Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit Some notes on OpenZFS's 'written' dataset property vi improvements on Dragonfly Big news for small /usr partitions Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Patrick - Feedback Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Signifier flotation devices Open Indiana Hipster Announcement Understanding Storage Performance Metrics News Roundup UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware FreeBSD tribal knowledge: minor version upgrades It's been 10 years since ZFS's 10th aniversary its integration into Solaris - A Reflection Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Time to update our /etc/hosts file... NOTES* This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Show updates Intro Ruben Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Thunderbolt on FreeBSD The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it) News Roundup zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs The hunt for a home network monitoring solution LibreSSL 4.2.0 Released OpenSSH 10.2 released Related to 10.x versions : Post-Quantum Cryptography Check your IP infos using nginx Experimenting with Compression (just given an overview, I dont exepect you to read the all three writeups fully) Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd Compression results Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Anton - Boxybsd Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.8 Released also (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822) and (https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679) Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS News Roundup [TUHS] Was artifacts, now ethernet I wish SSDs gave you CPU performance style metrics about their activity Migrate a KVM virtual machine to OmniOS bhyve Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions brad - bhyve Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD, Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD, The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why Self-host? Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks News Roundup Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots WSL-For-FreeBSD Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal is Now Available Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What the Future Brings – ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations Magical systems thinking The $69 Billion Domino Effect: How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, One Repository at a Time News Roundup OpenSSH 10.1 Released KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist Beastie Bits Adventures in porting a Wayland Compositor to NetBSD and OpenBSD by Jeff Frasca Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Kylen - CVEs Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines zipbomb defeated Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads News Roundup Open Source is one person Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD Back to the origins Google Summer of Code 2025 Reports: Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD Undeadly Bits j2k25 - OpenBSD Hackathon Japan 2025 OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5 OpenBSD enters 7.8-beta Full BSDCan 2025 video playlist(s) available OpenBGPD 8.9 released Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Brad - a few things Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS: Security, Encryption, and Delegation News Roundup Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough ClonOS Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5 Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior Call for testing - Samba 4.22 in 0mp's ports tree Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions -Vincent - Ollama on FreeBSD Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Secure Boot for FreeBSD The Fundamental Failure-Mode Theorem: Systems lie about their proper functioning News Roundup Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions -Steve - Interviews Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics Host Naming Convention News Roundup Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian TIL: timeout in Bash scripts It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities A system to organise your life Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions - Nelson - Books Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Hype is the Product Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl News Roundup Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD SSHX Zvault Status Update Undeadly Bits 4096 colours and flashing text on the console! Font caching no longer runs as root OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel