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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.

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Description:

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.

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Language:

English


Episodes

535: Untitled Episode

11/30/2023
FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(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 (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/) • [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html) • [Vermaden’s FreeBSD 14 valuable news] (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/valuable-freebsd-14-0-release-updates) News Roundup Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD (https://www.ncartron.org/reading-your-rss-feed-on-freebsd.html) Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-08-19-pdftk-guide.html) clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231113160314&utm_source=bsdweekly) NetBSD Security Advisory 2023-007: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8) (https://bsdsec.net/articles/netbsd-security-advisory-2023-007-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-ftpd-8) 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 - zpool disk allocation questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/535/feedback/Brad%20-%20zpool%20disk%20allocation%20questions.md) Kevin - shell question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/535/feedback/Kevin%20-%20shell%20question.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)

Duration:00:56:38

534: Narrow Waisted Internet

11/23/2023
Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos 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 Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/10/25/migrating-from-an-old-linux-server-to-a-new-freebsd-machine/) The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist (https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html) The Worst New Guys In History (https://blog.vito.nyc/posts/on-programming/) News Roundup FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison (https://justanerds.site/freebsd-jails-vs-docker/) Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230703.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 Brad - Detective work on zpool history (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/534/feedback/Brad%20-%20Detective%20work%20on%20zpool%20history.md) Extrowerk - End of the world type stuff (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/534/feedback/Extrowerk%20-%20End%20of%20the%20world%20type%20stuff.md) Mike - principle of least astonishment (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/534/feedback/Mike%20-%20principle%20of%20least%20astonishment.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)

Duration:01:03:00

533: Package the Base

11/16/2023
FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released 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 Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture (https://klarasystems.com/articles/looking-towards-the-future-freebsd-on-the-risc-v-architecture/) A bit of XENIX history (http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html) News Roundup Official packages (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2023-October/000221.html) recover lost text by coredumping firefox (https://j3s.sh/thought/recover-lost-text-by-coredumping-firefox.html) FuguIta 7.4 has been released (https://fuguita.org/?FuguIta/7.4&utm_source=bsdweekly) LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231103065952) OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231026121132) Conference News AsiaBSDCon 2024 (https://2024.asiabsdcon.org) BSDCan 2024 (https://www.bsdcan.org) EuroBSDCon 2024 (https://2024.eurobsdcon.org) 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)

Duration:00:44:11

532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship

11/9/2023
2^18 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, 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 2^18 dollars to open source (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-10-25-2%5E18-dollars-to-open-source.html) Special Thanks to Colin for supporting BSD Now for over 10 years! *** ### EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report – Bojan Novković (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2023-trip-report-bojan-novkovic/) *** ### FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian) (https://markmcb.com/freebsd/vs_linux/) *** News Roundup Introduction to sysclean8 (https://www.osnews.com/story/137266/introduction-to-sysclean8-on-openbsd/) Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-10-18-syncthing-discovery-server.html) My FreeBSD years: 2000-2005 (https://www.cambus.net/my-freebsd-years-2000-2005/) Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/using-openbsd-relayd8-as-an-application-layer-gateway/) Beastie Bits How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2023/09/11/how-to-send-syslog-messages-using-command-line-utilities/) A Practical Guide of GNU grep With Examples (https://thevaluable.dev/grep-cli-guide-examples/) FreeBSD Container VM for Podman (https://github.com/davidchisnall/container-vm-scripts) User Certbot to create SSL certificates on FreeBSD (https://www.sharpwriting.net/project/use-certbot-to-create-ssl-certificates-on-freebsd/) OpenBSD's built-in memory leak detection (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231024064619) OpenBSD Webzine Issue #15 (https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-15.html) FreeBSD OpenSSL 3.0 ported (https://github.com/FreeBSD/freebsd-ports/commit/d5ec2e12f399b7813994564b77a0915821a0ac42) Harden FreeBSD Script (https://github.com/wravoc/harden-freebsd) Something odd happened... (https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/111257154132788711) 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)

Duration:00:54:25

531: Everlasting Software

11/2/2023
OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, 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 7.4 (https://www.openbsd.org/74.html) Making Software Last Forever (https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2023-05-25-making_software_last_forever) News Roundup DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions (https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2023-October/922780.html) HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-10-10/hardenedbsd-september-2023-status-report) NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod (https://imil.net/blog/posts/2023/netbsd-as-a-k8s-pod/) Firefox hardening with Arkenfox (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-24-harden-firefox-with-arkenfox.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 A Random Listener - Other Podcasts (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/531/feedback/A%20Random%20Listener%20-%20Other%20Podcasts.md) Dante - Thanks (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/531/feedback/Dante%20-%20Thanks.md) Lars - WEI DRM (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/531/feedback/Lars%20-%20WEI%20DRM.md) YKLA - transcripts (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/531/feedback/YKLA%20-%20transcripts.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)

Duration:01:02:52

530: Old Computer Rescue

10/26/2023
Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), 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 Implementing a system call for OpenBSD (https://poolp.org/posts/2023-07-05/implementing-a-system-call-for-openbsd/) Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-email-services-on-openbsd/) The First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server (https://herrbischoff.com/2022/12/the-first-5-minutes-on-a-new-freebsd-server/) News Roundup OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201 (https://triapul.cz/automa/old-computer-rescue-x201/) [CFT] sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230704094238) How to send syslog messages using command-line utilities (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2023/09/11/how-to-send-syslog-messages-using-command-line-utilities/) Keeping my email sorted (the hard way) (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-10-19-email-setup/) 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 - Links (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/530/feedback/Albin%20-%20Links.md) Douglas - Best practices (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/530/feedback/Douglas%20-%20Best%20practices.md) Patrick - Ideas Feedback (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/530/feedback/Patrick%20-%20Ideas%20Feedback.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)

Duration:00:54:15

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse

10/19/2023
Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS, 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 Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System: Benefits & Considerations (https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2023/09/adopting-freebsd-as-your-open-source-operating-system-benefits-considerations.html) How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/how_hard_is_it_to_adapt_a_memory_allocator_to_cheri.html) News Roundup [Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD)[https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion) Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosting-pixelfed-on-openbsd/) Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (https://dan.langille.org/2023/09/28/creating-a-time-capsule-instance-using-samba-freebsd-and-zfs/) Beastie Bits • [OpenZFS on Twitter](https://x.com/openzfs/status/1704212154558324827?s=12&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw) • [EuroBSDcon 2023, Portugal](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLskKNopggjc7s6nAMxKF0tAO77ZIowZdx&cbrd=1) • [The lost history if Emoticons](https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1704006098909352016?s=12&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw) • [Solving the same problem](https://blog.fredrb.com/2023/09/08/same-problem-multiple-times/) • [http://vihart.com/fifty-fizzbuzzes/](50 Fizz buzzes) 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 Eric - German Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/529/feedback/Eric%20-%20German%20Question.md) John Baldwin - Ep 520 question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/529/feedback/John%20Baldwin%20-%20Ep%20520%20question.md) Pat - 3d Printing (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/529/feedback/Pat%20-%203d%20Printing.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)

Duration:01:02:06

528: Pledge the Program

10/12/2023
If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting the right type of certificate, Jenny’s Daily Drivers, 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 If you can use Open Source you can build hardware (https://redeem-tomorrow.com/if-you-can-use-open-source-you-can-build-hardware) Good performance is not just big O (https://jmmv.dev/2023/09/performance-is-not-big-o.html) News Roundup How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-08-openbsd-how-to-pledge-a-program.html) Proof You Should Not Run My Code (https://mwl.io/archives/23082) 3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing! (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230914075444) Getting the right type of certificate (https://dan.langille.org/2023/09/09/getting-the-right-type-of-certificate/) Jenny’s Daily Drivers (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/01/jennys-daily-drivers-freebsd-13-2/) 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)

Duration:00:53:39

527: Reports are in

10/5/2023
Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14, 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 Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unlocking-infrastructure-sovereignty-harnessing-the-power-of-open-source-solutions/) Recap of first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-first-meeting-of-the-freebsd-enterprise-working-group/) News Roundup HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-09-01/hardenedbsd-august-2023-status-report) • [HardenedBSD 14-STABLE Now Available](https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-09-11/hardenedbsd-14-stable-now-available) August 2023 donation report (http://ghostbsd.org/news/August_2023_donation_report) • [Late on the announcement but... GhostBSD 23.06.01 ISO is now available](http://ghostbsd.org/23.06.01_iso_is_now_available) MidnightBSD 3.1 Released (https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-3.1) OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14 is out (https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-14.html) Beastie Bits • [ZFS for Dummies](https://ikrima.dev/dev-notes/homelab/zfs-for-dummies/) • [The Switch runs FreeBSD](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/5xbe5a/the_switch_runs_freebsd_making_it_nintendos_first/) • [KDE on OpenBSD](https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=169391479324962) • [(Kubernetes v1.28.0) for illumos, FreeBSD and OpenBSD](https://medium.com/@norlin.t/by-the-way-planternetes-kubernetes-v1-28-0-for-illumos-freebsd-and-openbsd-5d57026d6a25) • [Video: C Programming on System 6 - VCF Midwest, Wi-Fi DA](https://jcs.org/2023/09/20/vcfmw) 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)

Duration:01:00:43

526: ZFS Replication Tools

9/28/2023
Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, 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 DNS is still hard to learn (https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/) Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/LetterFromRitchie.pdf) News Roundup ZFS Replication tools (https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/) Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB (https://rubenerd.com/between-isa-and-pci-we-had-vlb/) Old Computer Challenge v3: postmortem (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-17-old-computer-challenge-v3-part2.html) Beastie Bits • [Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator](https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/videos/2023/07/14/installing-and-using-research-unix-v7-in-open-simh-video.html) • [Cheat Sheets](https://github.com/cheat/cheatsheets/tree/master) • [Introducing BSD Cafe](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/15rt7em/introducing_the_bsdcafe/) • [Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230829051257) 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 Daniel - Fav episode (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/526/feedback/Daniel%20-%20Fav%20episode.md) Sam - Fav episode (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/526/feedback/Sam%20-%20Fav%20episode.md) Question from JT - to Tom and Benedict, what has your fav episode been? *** 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)

Duration:00:46:49

525: Old NetBSD Server

9/21/2023
Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements, that old netbsd server, 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 Do one thing and do it well (https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/do-one-thing-and-do-it-well-886b11a5d21) Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-24-childproof-retrogaming-station.html) and a rereview of (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html) News Roundup Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1 (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-10-old-computer-challenge-v3-part1.html) It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code) Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements (https://github.com/Flet/rejected-github-profile-achievements) That old netbsd server (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/08/27/that-old-netbsd-server-running-since-2010/) 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 Felix - questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Felix%20-%20questions.md) Francis - Episode 511 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Francis%20-%20Episode%20511.md) Ian - CDN (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/525/feedback/Ian%20-%20CDN.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)

Duration:00:44:19

524: Legendary Unix Recovery

9/14/2023
On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, 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 On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge (https://samoburja.com/on-the-loss-and-preservation-of-knowledge/) Unix Recovery Legend (https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html) News Roundup Useful Unix commands for data science (https://gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science/) Why we like Tarsnap = Transparency : Tarsnap outage post-mortem (https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00050.html) OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 (https://box.matto.nl/openbsd-73-on-a-twenty-year-old-ibm-thinkpad-r31.html) Beastie Bits Quick and dirty IMAP(-UW) server (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/quick-and-dirty-imap-uw-server.89877/) JENNY’S DAILY DRIVERS: FREEBSD 13.2 (https://hackaday.com/2023/08/01/jennys-daily-drivers-freebsd-13-2/) Elvish (https://elv.sh/) xroach (https://infosec.exchange/@paco/110772422266480371) Did hell freeze over? (https://soc.feditime.com/notice/AXo6xXlSrfdfjNPdRI) 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 - Bell Labs Memoranda (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/Nelson%20-%20Bell%20Labs%20Memoranda.md) patrick - audio switching (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/patrick%20-%20audio%20switching.md) tim - appjail (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/523/feedback/tim%20-%20appjail.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:57:42

523: Literally Unix

9/7/2023
The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, 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 Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature (https://theody.net/elements.html) The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace (https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html) News Roundup Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-23-7-released/) [ILLUMOS GETS A NEW C COMPILER](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230705.html ) FIXING THINKPAD X1 WIFI ON FREEBSD (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/fixing-thinkpad-x1-wifi-on-freebsd/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:40:11

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting

8/31/2023
Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, 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 Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/top-ten-reasons-to-upgrade-to-freebsd-13-2/) History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes (https://ciq.com/blog/history-never-repeats-but-sometimes-it-rhymes/) News Roundup Wayland on OpenBSD (https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html) OpenBGPD 8.1 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230713110230) Shoot yourself in the foot (https://g-w1.github.io/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot.html) Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) 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 Ian - about dozing off when listening (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Ian%20-%20about%20dozing%20off%20when%20listening.md) Nixbytes - news on netbsd (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Nixbytes%20%20-%20news%20on%20netbsd.md) Phillip - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/522/feedback/Phillip%20-%20Questions.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) ***

Duration:00:48:26

521: BSD Summer Reading

8/24/2023
FreeBSD Status Report Q2 2023, Klara Systems Recommended Summer Reads 2023, install Kanboard on OpenBSD howto, A bit of Unix history on 'su -', hints for splitting commits, Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam, 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 Status Report Second Quarter 2023 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/) Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/our-2023-recommended-summer-reads-freebsd-and-linux/) News Roundup How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-07-kanboard-on-openbsd.html) A bit of Unix history on 'su -' (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuDashHistory) Some hints for splitting commits (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2023/07/some-hints-for-splitting-commits.html) Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/moved-to-openbsd/) In memoriam In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/in-memoriam-hans-petter-william-sirevag-selasky.89697/#post-616627) 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 Agbo - Using BSD for a business (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Agbo%20-%20Using%20BSD%20for%20a%20business.md) Chris - Desktop BSD systems (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Chris%20-%20Desktop%20BSD%20systems.md) Dane - Use another OS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/521/feedback/Dane%20-%20Use%20another%20OS.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:57:00

520: 4 months BSD

8/17/2023
4 Months of BSD, Self Hosted Calendar and address Book, Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs, Self-hosted git page, Bastille template example, Restrict nginx Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD, 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 4 Months of BSD (https://danterobinson.dev/BSD/4MonthsofBSD) Self Hosted Calendar and address Book (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-calendar-and-addressbook-services-on-openbsd/) News Roundup Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-22-opensmtpd-block-attempts.html) Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor) (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-11-23-git-host/) Bastille template example (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2022/01/03/bastille-template-examples-adguardhome/) Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD (https://herrbischoff.com/2021/05/nginx-how-to-restrict-access-by-geographical-location-on-freebsd/) 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 Chris - ARM (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/520/feedback/Chris%20-%20arm.md) Matthew - Groups (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/520/feedback/matthew%20-%20groups.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:43:26

519: Telegram from BSDNow

8/10/2023
3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, 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 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-3-advantages-to-running-freebsd-as-your-server-operating-system/) FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/) News Roundup Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-05-openbsd-sound-streaming.html) DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-June/028441.html) How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/03/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-for-scp-transfers/) Beastie Bits OpenSolaris 11.4 running in a VM (https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/14m90v2/oracle_solaris_114_running_in_a_virtual_machine/) Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/celebrating-30-years-of-freebsd-freebsd-journal-special-edition/) Some ways you can contribute to open source software without writing code (https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1673215499365384194?s=52&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw) ScreenCapture if you don't have a twitter account (https://i.imgur.com/5AlqBlO.png) 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. New BSD Now Telegram Channel We now have a new BSD Now Telegram channel that anyone can join. Conversations don’t have to just be about the show, anything BSD, Unix, or *nix in general is fair game. https://t.me/bsdnow Feedback/Questions Johnny - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Johnny%20-%20512.md) Matthew - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Matthew%20-%20512.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)

Duration:00:37:25

518: Unix Edition Zero

8/3/2023
A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edition Zero, how to be a -10x engineer, 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 Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples (https://thevaluable.dev/problem_solving_guide_software_developer) Making 20% time work (https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-01-29-making-twenty-percent-time-work.html) News Roundup Long live netbooks! (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-09-10-netbooks/) OpenBSD Router on Sg105w (https://evolving-architecture.eu/openbsd-router-sg105w/) FreeBSD: How to Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/04/freebsd-how-to-set-up-a-simple-and-actually-working-wireguard-server/) How to be a -10x Engineer (https://taylor.town/-10x) Unix Edition Zero (http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v0/) Beastie Bits Game of Trees 0.90 released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230624054334) ZFSp (https://github.com/alcarithemad/zfsp) 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) ***

Duration:00:56:42

517: Huge pfsync rewrite

7/27/2023
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27 Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite, OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not), 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 Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide - Part 2 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-linux-and-freebsd-firewalls-part-2/) 27 Years with the Perfect OS (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/freebsd-the-perfect-os/) News Roundup Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices (https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-bsd-openssh-server-best-practices.html) Huge pfsync rewrite (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=168732121711177&w=2) OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 released (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@opensmtpd.org/msg05909.html) Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not) (https://sohcahtoa.org.uk/openbsd.html) QuicSSH (https://github.com/moul/quicssh) 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) ***

Duration:00:46:49

516: Computer Time Origins

7/20/2023
Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, 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 Linux vs. FreeBSD : Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide : Part 1 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-linux-and-freebsd-firewalls/) Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN (https://www.nginx.com/blog/why-netflix-chose-nginx-as-the-heart-of-its-cdn/) News Roundup FreeBSD: Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares (https://ozgurkazancci.com/freebsd-protect-your-web-server-against-php-shells-and-malwares/) HowTo: Installing and running Gitlab (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/howto-installing-and-running-gitlab.89436/) Beastie Bits • [World built in 36 hours on a Pentium 4!](https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/13undl9/world_built_in_36_hours_on_a_pentium_4/) • [Fart init](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html](https://x61.sh/log/2023/05/23052023153621-fart-init.html) • [Organized Freebies](https://mwl.io/archives/22832) • [OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p0 released](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230617111340) • [shutdown/reboot now require membership of group _shutdown](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230620064255) • [Where does my computer get the time from?](https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.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 sam - fav episodes (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/515/feedback/sam%20-%20fav%20episodes.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***

Duration:00:46:07