BSD Now

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.

629: Host Naming Conventions

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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics (https://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics) Host Naming Convention (https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/host-naming-convention) News Roundup Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian (https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/) TIL: timeout in Bash scripts (https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/) It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/NVMeOvertakingSATAForSSDs) A system to organise your life (https://johnnydecimal.com) 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 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/629/feedback/Nelson%20-%20books.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

09-18
01:08:11

628: Product Hype

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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Hype is the Product (https://rys.io/en/180.html) Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl (https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl) News Roundup Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? (https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux) How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02/install_freebsd_providers_mfsbsd/) SSHX (https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx) Zvault Status Update (https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/blob/main/posts/2025-07-13.md) Undeadly Bits 4096 colours and flashing text on the console! (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081315) Font caching no longer runs as root (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717061920) OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250818113047) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

09-11
49:11

627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-07-10-an-openzfs-bug-and-the-humans-that-made-it) The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/WebIsKindOfFragile) News Roundup Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250730080301) Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/DMARCPolicyInheritanceNotes) Despite thoughts to the contrary, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250817.html) Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

09-04
55:41

626: USB webcam testing

FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition (https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/networking-3/) BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2025-trip-report-chuck-tuffli/) News Roundup Call for testing: USB webcams (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250808083341) From Minecraft to Markets: Java Hiding in Plain Sight (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-minecraft-to-markets-java-hiding-in-plain-sight/) Recent new features in OpenSSH (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250802084523) NetBSD 11.0 release process underway (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process) Interview: Nico Cartron 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) Special Guest: Nico Cartron.

08-28
56:10

625: Build Cluster Speedup

Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, DragonFly DRM updated, NetBSD on Raspberry Pi, Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD, Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes, One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode, New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-freebsd-is-the-right-choice-for-embedded-devices/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/21/the_day_glusterfs_tried_to_kill_my_career/) News Roundup DragonFly DRM updated (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/07/31/dragonfly-drm-updated/) NetBSD on Raspberry Pi! (https://www.ncartron.org/netbsd-on-raspberry-pi.html) Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD (https://eugene-andrienko.com/en/it/2025/07/28/speed-up-suspend-resume-freebsd.html) Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSWritesAndZILIII) One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode! (https://www.ncartron.org/one-of-my-blog-articles-featured-on-the-bsd-now-podcast-episode.html) New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

08-21
50:36

624: OpenBSD Innovations

OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, OpenBSD Innovations, Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD, Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still), A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines When Root Meets Immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/) How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14 (https://herrbischoff.com/2025/07/how-to-defend-against-aggressive-web-scrapers-with-anubis-on-freebsd-14/) News Roundup OpenBSD Innovations (https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html) Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD (https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1m21t7o/ann_full_ada_programming_toolchain_now_on_freebsd/) Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ComputeGPUsStillFinicky) A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup (https://blog.petdance.com/2020/02/03/handy-collection-of-shell-aliases/) 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 Efraim - modernizing (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/624/feedback/Efraim%20-%20modernizing.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

08-14
01:01:16

623: Two's interview

Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-for-freebsd-project/) FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-guide-to-lock-in-free-infrastructure) Interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project. Interview thoughts from Benedict and Jason 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) Special Guest: David Gwynne.

08-07
01:00:29

622: Interview with Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation

This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Interview Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation (https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team) Personal website (https://probably.co.uk/) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) Special Guest: Mark Phillips.

07-31
55:10

621: Exaggerated Death Report

Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dmtargetcrypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Designing a Storage Pool: RAIDZ, Mirrors, and Hybrid Configurations (https://klarasystems.com/articles/designing-storage-pool-raidz-mirrors-hybrid-configurations/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-report-of-my-death-was-an-exaggeration/) News Roundup Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI: results and first impressions (https://mekboy.ru/post/bsd-uefi-arm64/) dmtargetcrypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation (https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commit/14e6c73d4c479e4ab26571490758da27da5cbbad) The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTerminalsNotImmediate) Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/07/yes-book-of-pf-4th-edition-is-coming.html) Periodical 20 — Localized Computing (https://www.chrbutler.com/2024-10-16) 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 -Aleksej - RockPro64 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/621/feedback/Aleksej%20-%20RockPro64.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

07-24
50:07

620: Postmortem for jemalloc

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/) ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-performance-tuning-optimizing-for-your-workload/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/MultiUserWebServerWildIdea) That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/that-grumpy-bsd-guy-short-reading-list.html) rsync's defaults are not always enough (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/31/sync/) jemalloc Postmortem (https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/) Beastie Bits IPv6 and proxying on DragonFly (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/06/25/ipv6-and-proxying-on-dragonfly/) BoxyBSD (https://boxybsd.com) Sysctltui (https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2025-05-29-sysctltui.html) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

07-17
53:53

619: Happy Tooling

Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide (https://klarasystems.com/articles/disaster-recovery-with-zfs-practical-guide/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) The best interfaces we never built (https://www.chrbutler.com/the-best-interfaces-we-never-built) News Roundup You Can Choose Tools That Make You Happy (https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy) I feel open source has turned into two worlds (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceTwoWorlds) UPDATE 2 – TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2024/04/20/truenas-core-versus-truenas-scale/#truenas-core-dead-long-live-zvault) You should start a computer club in the place that you live (https://startacomputer.club) 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 - syslogng issue (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/618/feedback/Brad%20-%20syslogng%20issue.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

07-10
45:57

618: Funding BSD projects

A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines A year of funded FreeBSD (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html) ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-performance-tuning-optimizing-for-your-workload/) News Roundup Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd-in-under-five-minutes/) FFS optimizations with dirhash (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/ffs-optimizations-dirhash/) j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250616082212) NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

07-03
53:59

617: FreeBSD 14.3

FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it, Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid, April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, UDP sockets instead of BPF in dhcpd(8), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 14.3 released (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.3R/announce/) Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware (https://klarasystems.com/articles/cost-efficient-storage-commodity-hardware/) News Roundup My website is ugly because I made it (https://goodinternetmagazine.com/my-website-is-ugly-because-i-made-it/) Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid (https://anil.recoil.org/notes/syncoid-sanoid-zfs) April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/april-2025-laptop-support-and-usability-project-update/) dhcpd(8): use UDP sockets instead of BPF (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250613111800) 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 No feedback this week. Send more... Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

06-26
01:03:52

616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview

This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Guests Deb Goodkin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-goodkin-b282924a/) Justin Gibbs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gibbs-3974671/) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) Special Guests: Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs.

06-19
47:34

615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked

How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/how-to-unlock-high-speed-wi-fi-on-freebsd-14/) What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (https://klarasystems.com/articles/what-weve-learned-supporing-freebsd-production/) News Roundup rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/) Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD (https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2025/03/16/framework.html) FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280 (https://adventurist.me/posts/00352) Backup MX with OpenSMTPD (https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/05/backup-mx-with-opensmtpd/) Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl (https://mwl.io/archives/24097) 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 No feedback this week. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

06-12
44:02

614: Upstream Contributions Matter

The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-stagnation-why-running-eol-software-is-a-ticking-time-bomb/) Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter (https://klarasystems.com/articles/maintaining-freebsd-commercial-product-why-upstream-contributions-matter/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/LLMsVersusOurJobs) Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time (https://dan.langille.org/2025/05/03/implement-anubis-to-give-the-bots-a-harder-time/) erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250512100219) Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250208) Beastie Bits Some Interesting pieces of history Netnews History (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf) History of Solaris (https://cse.unl.edu/~witty/class/csce351/howto/history_of_solaris.pdf) Nuclear Wall Charts (https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/search) [TUHS] The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html) 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 Paul - my setup (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/614/feedback/Paul%20-%20my%20setup.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

06-05
01:03:54

613: DragonflyBSD 6.4.2

Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart, For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions, Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do, PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files, How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces (https://klarasystems.com/articles/isolating-containers-with-zfs-and-linux-namespaces/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) DragonFly BSD 6.4.2 (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/) FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/second_preview_zvault/) News Roundup For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/for-upcoming-pf-tutorials-we-welcome.html) Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/) PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-03-09-test-pdf-passwords.html) How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversityTypicalPricingTooHigh) 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 Nils - CFP (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/612/feedback/nils%20-%20CFP.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

05-29
53:24

612: Zip Bomb Protection

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection) Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/owning-the-stack-infrastructure-independence-with-freebsd-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Optimisation of parallel TCP input (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250508122430) Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term" (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/WorksNowVsWorksGenerally) Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade (https://www.ncartron.org/losing-one-of-my-evenings-after-an-openbsd-upgrade.html) What drive did I just remove from the system? (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/21/what-drive-did-i-just-remove-from-the-system/) 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 Benjamin - Street PCs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/613/feedback/Benjamin%20-%20street%20pcs.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

05-22
37:33

611: Ghosty Things

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal (https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/ghostbsd-from-usability-to-struggle-and-renewal/) Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-you-cant-trust-ai-to-tune-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505) What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025 (https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-id-do-as-college-freshman.html) FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations (https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2025/03/02/kde5.html) Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improvements-to-the-freebsd-ci-cd-systems/) FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://darknet.sytes.net/wordpress/index.php/2025/03/16/freebsd-as-a-workstation/) 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 Effie - FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/611/feedback/effie%20-%20freebsd%20as%20a%20workstation.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

05-15
49:02

610: OpenBSD 7.7

OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenBSD 7.7 (https://OpenBSD.org/77.html) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-tools-part-2-replication/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/) Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250418114827) Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425082010) Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree (https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hardware-autoconfiguration) The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-2025-freebsd-community-survey-is-here/) 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 - new users (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/610/feedback/brad%20-%20new%20users.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

05-08
01:02:07

elrey741

23:18: TLS intercept

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elrey741

Chris - installing FreeBSD 13-current: use bhyve w/Linux vm to handle wifi card

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elrey741

1:07: encrypted crash dumps on freebsd: https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/74/

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elrey741

25:28: cbsd - https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd

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elrey741

43:45: links to videos it looks like they created a playlist so I figured I would include the link for people that want it. - vbsdcon 2019 playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL54iSRSPZwagDiph7xLTaDLBHHy6WAiXD - in kernel tls framing (eurobsdcon): https://youtu.be/p9fbofDUUr4 - dns over https (eurobsdcon): https://youtu.be/ZxTdEEuyxHU

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