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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.
The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
620 Episodes
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - syslogng issue (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/618/feedback/Brad%20-%20syslogng%20issue.md)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.
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Guests
Deb Goodkin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-goodkin-b282924a/)
Justin Gibbs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gibbs-3974671/)
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Special Guests: Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs.
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
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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)
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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
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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)
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Feedback/Questions
Paul - my setup (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/614/feedback/Paul%20-%20my%20setup.md)
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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
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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)
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Feedback/Questions
Nils - CFP (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/612/feedback/nils%20-%20CFP.md)
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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
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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/)
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Feedback/Questions
Benjamin - Street PCs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/613/feedback/Benjamin%20-%20street%20pcs.md)
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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/)
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Feedback/Questions
Brad - new users (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/610/feedback/brad%20-%20new%20users.md)
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Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more
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Headlines
Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking (https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-advanced-networking/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/)
News Roundup
OpenZFS Cheat Sheet (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-cheat-sheet/)
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam/)
SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive (https://jpmens.net/2025/03/25/authorizedkeyscommand-in-sshd/)
How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ? (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250215)
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Feedback/Questions
Dave - Webstack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/tree/master/episodes/609/feedback)
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Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more
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Headlines
World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/world-backup-day-2025-robust-reliable-backup-solutions-with-openzfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad (https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/)
News Roundup
Motivations (https://stevengharms.com/longform/my-first-freebsd/motivations/)
Tinker Writer Deck (https://tinker.sh/)
How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-determine-if-a-system-reboot-is-necessary/)
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/who_me/)
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Feedback/Questions
Ian - Personal Web Stack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/ian%20-%20personal%20stack.md)
Brendan - Storage Backends (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/brendan%20-%20storage%20backends.md)
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We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more
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Headlines
We should improve libzfs somewhat (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-12-we-should-improve-libzfs-somewhat/)
Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark (https://klarasystems.com/articles/accurate-effective-storage-performance-benchmark/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
News Roundup
Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD (https://dan.langille.org/2025/02/24/debugging-aids-for-pf-firewall-rules-on-freebsd/)
OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/openbsd-and-thunderbolt-issue-on-thinkpad-t480s/)
Signing Git Commits with an SSH key (https://jpmens.net/2025/02/26/signing-git-commits-with-an-ssh-key/)
Pgrep (https://www.c0t0d0s0.org/blog/pgrep-z-r.html)
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html)
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Feedback/Questions
Felix - Bhyve and NVME (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/607/feedback/Felix%20-%20bhyve%20and%20nvme.md)
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FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more
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Headlines
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-March/000181.html)
From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/)
News Roundup
zfs-2.3.1 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.1)
Complications of funding an open source operating system (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/)
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/)
First Use on GhostBSD (https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/first-use-on-ghostbsd/)
Better Shell History Search (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/better_shell_history_search.html)
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Russell - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/606/feedback/russell%20-%20questions.md)
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FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more
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Headlines
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/)
Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/core-infrastructure-why-you-need-to-control-your-ntp/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
News Roundup
Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/)
Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/using-a-2013-mac-pro-as-a-freebsd-desktop.96805/)
Some terminal frustrations (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/)
Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp (https://bhoot.dev/2025/cp-dot-copies-everything/)
You Should Use /tmp/ More (https://atthis.link/blog/2025/58671.html)
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Tyler - Toms request (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/605/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Toms%20request.md)
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The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk, Why ZFS reports less available space, We are destroying software, FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106, 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected, Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on, If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well, and more
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Headlines
The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk (https://filmmakermagazine.com/127295-joanne-mcneil-cyberpunk/)
Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/ (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-zfs-reports-less-available-space-space-accounting-explained/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
We are destroying software (https://antirez.com/news/145)
News Roundup
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.5-Beta-2)
TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html)
Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/InetdActivationWhyNot)
If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well (https://svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-you-believe-in-artificial-intelligence-take-five-minutes-to-ask-it-about-stuff-you-know-well/)
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Nelson - gcc puzzlement (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/604/feedback/Nelson%20-%20gcc%20puzzlement.md)
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OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots, The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, OPNsense 25.1, and more
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Headlines
OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-expansion-a-new-era-in-storage-flexibility/)
ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-part-1-zfs-snapshots-tools/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast)
News Roundup
Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025-01-23-manage-openbsd-with-ssm/)
TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html)
OpenBGPD 8.8 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657)
OPNsense 25.1 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=45460.msg227323)
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I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more
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I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went (https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-freebsd-as-a-desktop-heres-how-it-went/)
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets (http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm)
News Roundup
State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html)
The first perfect computer (https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/)
Find Name Wildcard Gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindNameWildcardGotcha)
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The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again, The Biggest Unix Security Loophole, The monospace Web, What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means, Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9, Networking for System Administrators, and more.
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Headlines
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again (https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again)
The Biggest Unix Security Loophole (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf)
News Roundup
The monospace Web (https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/)
What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDBridgeMacMovedMessage)
Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9 (https://brunopacheco1.github.io/posts/installing-freebsd-on-hp-250-g9/)
Networking for System Administrators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa)
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23:18: TLS intercept
Chris - installing FreeBSD 13-current: use bhyve w/Linux vm to handle wifi card
1:07: encrypted crash dumps on freebsd: https://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/74/
25:28: cbsd - https://github.com/cbsd/cbsd
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
21:00: what are the other 6 books that he had to write? It would be awesome if he (Michael W. Lucas) could list recommendations for other books to read, below the description or something, so people know how books are correlated. If people want to read it without reading the other books ok, but for those who don't know how they correlate (i.e. me 😅). it would be nice if I can read through them in order, so you don't get frustrated not knowing what is getting discussed and have to stop to reading and read another whole book to grasp the concept.
14:00: good to know about ZFS limitations. hopefully will be fixed in OpenZFS eventually.
1:3:48: good explanation about FIBs in routing tables
1:11:14 - pf for multi jails