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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS GhostBSD 26.1 News Roundup I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server My Journey to the BSDs The unseen hero of OpenBSD Beastie Bits BSD Can Schedule up OpenBSD Campaign 2025 OpenBSD Campaign 2026 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

Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Breaking up with Big Tech Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii News Roundup Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not Java Sun SPOTs I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point Beastie Bits OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary A quick and easy Guide to Tmux 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 Producer Note, If you have emailed in and you havent heard back and we havent covered your message, email again. Our email is flooded with spam and I might have missed your message. 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

Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware News Roundup Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like Isolation with User Friendly Operations OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released I'm just the Barista 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 Tim - Are OCI Images useful for Freebsd.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

Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs [Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/) News Roundup PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier Nobody said there was math on this exam! The web is bearable with RSS The Pipe 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 and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View Every layer of review makes you 10x slower News Roundup The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors Jailrun + jailrun github FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD 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

The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage News Roundup Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15 FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI SYN attack Syn attack follow up Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems Beastie Bits OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta - Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops 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

Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated News Roundup PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy Beastie Bits BSDCan reg is now open An Oral History of Unix Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16) Patched FreeBSD AMIs 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

Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Jails for NetBSD ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox News Roundup Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems Beastie Bits - - 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 Emelio - openbsd 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

Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads News Roundup KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On. An old article with covering : Running and administrating a 2.11 BSD system Booting NetBSD from a wedge, the hard way Beastie Bits The NetBSD Foundation will participate in Google Summer of Code 2026! Solaris 11.4 SRU90: Preserve Boot Environments zfs-2.4.1 Hardening OPNsense: Using Q-Feeds to Block Malicious 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 Gary - A nice blog 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 ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment News Roundup Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root. https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/ OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust FreeBSD Jail Memory Metrics Tcl: The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language How to Setup WireGuard on OpenBSD: The Ultimate Self-Hosted VPN Guide (2026) 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

OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS. https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-freebsd-based-os-inspired-by-macos/ News Roundup [Default GhostBSD to XLibre](https://github.com/ghostbsd/ghostbsd-build/pull/259] Addressing XLibre Change and GhostBSD Future Bhyve Prometheus Exporter for Sylve on FreeBSD. Linux GNU C Library Fixes Security Issue Present Since 1996 Beastie Bits NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available! The Book of PF, 4th Edition is now available December 2025 Finance Report LLDB improvements on FreeBSD Any desire for OnmiOS/Illumos Support : Now's your chance to convince me 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

GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls News Roundup Xfce is great Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic The scariest boot loader code OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor 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 Matt - Audio Levels Interviews can be troublesome because there's only so much we can do with multiple guests with multiple feeds, and mulitple audio conditions. We can try to normalize but sometimes it's just not easy to do without editing taking an entire day.. 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

AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity News Roundup FFS Backup FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) 8 more parts! Beastie Bits The BSD Proposal UNIX Magic Poster Haiku OS Pulls In Updated Drivers From FreeBSD 15 FreeBSD 15.0 VNET Jails Call for NetBSD testing 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 - Links 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 Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity The story of Propolice Desk reviews describe comment ask questions No reponses, no justications. [Tj's Desk](media/bsdnow649-tjs-desk.jpg) [Ruben's Desk](media/bsdnow649-rubens-desk.jpg) News Roundup FreeBSD vs. Slackware: Which super stable OS is right for you? Prometheus, Let's Encrypt, and making sure all our TLS certificates are monitored Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!? 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's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Powering the Future of FreeBSD Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? BSDCan Organisating committee Interview News Roundup How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner BSD PF versus Linux nftables for firewalls for us 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

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