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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.
629 Episodes
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The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
NOTES
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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)
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Feedback/Questions
- Nelson - Books (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/629/feedback/Nelson%20-%20books.md)
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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
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Special Guest: Nico Cartron.
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
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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)
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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
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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/)
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Feedback/Questions
Efraim - modernizing (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/624/feedback/Efraim%20-%20modernizing.md)
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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.
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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
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Special Guest: David Gwynne.
This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.
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Interview
Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation (https://freebsdfoundation.org/about-us/our-team)
Personal website (https://probably.co.uk/)
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Special Guest: Mark Phillips.
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
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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)
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Feedback/Questions
-Aleksej - RockPro64 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/621/feedback/Aleksej%20-%20RockPro64.md)
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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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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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)
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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
NOTES
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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/)
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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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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