BSD Now
328 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 86 ratingsCreated 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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Episodes
315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019
September 12, 2019 05:45 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBvBSDcon 2019 recap, Unix at 50, OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook, humungus - an hg server, how to configure a network dump in FreeBSD, and more. Headlines vBSDcon Recap Allan and Benedict attended vBSDcon 2019, which ended last week. It was held again at the Hyatt Regency Reston and the main conference was organized by Dan Langille of BSDCan fame.The two day conference was preceded by a one day FreeBSD hackathon, where FreeBSD developers had the chance to work on patches and PRs. In th...
314: Swap that Space
September 05, 2019 00:00 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBUnix virtual memory when you have no swap space, Dsynth details on Dragonfly, Instant Workstation on FreeBSD, new servers new tech, Experimenting with streaming setups on NetBSD, NetBSD’s progress towards Steam support thanks to GSoC, and more. Headlines What has to happen with Unix virtual memory when you have no swap space (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/NoSwapConsequence) Recently, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote on the Linux kernel mailing list about a Linux problem under memory p...
313: In-Kernel TLS
August 29, 2019 04:30 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBOpenBSD on 7th gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon, how to install FreeBSD on a MacBook, Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS), Boot Environments on DragonflyBSD, Project Trident Updates, vBSDcon schedule, and more. Headlines OpenBSD on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Gen (https://jcs.org/2019/08/14/x1c7) Another year, another ThinkPad X1 Carbon, this time with a Dolby Atmos sound system and a smaller battery. The seventh generation X1 Carbon isn't much different than the fifth and sixth generations. I opted ...
312: Why Package Managers
August 22, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 49.5 MBThe UNIX Philosophy in 2019, why use package managers, touchpad interrupted, Porting wine to amd64 on NetBSD second evaluation report, Enhancing Syzkaller Support for NetBSD, all about the Pinebook Pro, killing a process and all of its descendants, fast software the best software, and more. Headlines The UNIX Philosophy in 2019 (https://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2019/6/1_Entry_1.html) Today, Linux and open source rules the world, and the UNIX philosophy is widely considere...
311: Conference Gear Breakdown
August 15, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MBNetBSD 9.0 release process has started, xargs, a tale of two spellcheckers, Adapting TriforceAFL for NetBSD, Exploiting a no-name freebsd kernel vulnerability, and more. Headlines NetBSD 9.0 release process has started (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2019/07/31/msg000301.html) If you have been following source-changes, you may have noticed the creation of the netbsd-9 branch! It has some really exciting items that we worked on: + New AArch64 architecture support: + Symmetric a...
310: My New Free NAS
August 08, 2019 03:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBOPNsense 19.7.1 is out, ZFS on Linux still has annoying issues with ARC size, Hammer2 is now default, NetBSD audio – an application perspective, new FreeNAS Mini, and more. Headlines OPNsense 19.7.1 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-19-7-1-released/) We do not wish to keep you from enjoying your summer time, but this is a recommended security update enriched with reliability fixes for the new 19.7 series. Of special note are performance improvements as well as a fix for a longstanding NAT befo...
Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix
August 01, 2019 03:45 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBDragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a chapter from the FBI’s history with OpenBSD and an OpenSSH vuln, and more. Headlines DragonFlyBSD Project Update - colo upgrade, future trends (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2019-July/358226.html) For the last week I've been testing out a replacement for Monster, our 48-core opteron server. The project will be removing Monster f...
308: Mumbling with OpenBSD
July 25, 2019 03:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBReplacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool, OPNsense 19.7 RC1 released, implementing DRM ioctl support for NetBSD, High quality/low latency VOIP server with umurmur/Mumble on OpenBSD, the PDP-7 where Unix began, LLDB watchpoints, and more. Headlines Replacing a (silently) failing disk in a ZFS pool (https://imil.net/blog/2019/07/02/Replacing-a-silently-failing-disk-in-a-ZFS-pool/) Maybe I can’t read, but I have the feeling that official documentations explain every single corner case f...
307: Twitching with OpenBSD
July 18, 2019 14:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBFreeBSD 11.3 has been released, OpenBSD workstation, write your own fuzzer for the NetBSD kernel, Exploiting FreeBSD-SA-19:02.fd, streaming to twitch using OpenBSD, 3 different ways of dumping hex contents of a file, and more. Headlines FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.3R/announce.html) The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE. This is the fourth release of the stable/11 branch. Some of the highl...
306: Comparing Hammers
July 11, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBAm5x86 based retro UNIX build log, setting up services in a FreeNAS Jail, first taste of DragonflyBSD, streaming Netflix on NetBSD, NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini, Hammer vs Hammer2, and more. Headlines Polprog's Am5x86 based retro UNIX build log (https://polprog.net/blog/486/) I have recently acquired an Am5x86 computer, in a surprisingly good condition. This is an ongoing project, check this page often for updates! I began by connecting a front panel. The panel came from a different chassis...
305: Changing face of Unix
July 04, 2019 02:00 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBWebsite protection with OPNsense, FreeBSD Support Pull Request for ZFS-on-Linux, How much has Unix changed, Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, FreeBSD Enterprise 1 PB Storage, the death watch for X11 has started, and more. Headlines Website protection with OPNsense (https://medium.com/@jccwbb/website-protection-with-opnsense-3586a529d487) with nginx plugin OPNsense become a strong full featured Web Application Firewall (WAF) The OPNsense security platform can help you to protect your network an...
304: Prospering with Vulkan
June 27, 2019 07:45 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBDragonflyBSD 5.6 is out, OpenBSD Vulkan Support, bad utmp implementations in glibc and FreeBSD, OpenSSH protects itself against Side Channel attacks, ZFS vs OpenZFS, and more. Headlines DragonflyBSD 5.6 is out (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release56) Version 5.6.0 released 17 June 2019 Version 5.6.1 released 19 June 2019 (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2019/06/19/23091.html) Big-ticket items Improved VM Informal test results showing the changes from 5.4 to 5.6 are available. Reduce stalls in...
303: OpenZFS in Ports
June 20, 2019 02:30 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBOpenZFS-kmod port available, using blacklistd with NPF as fail2ban replacement, ZFS raidz expansion alpha preview 1, audio VU-meter increases CO2 footprint rant, XSAVE and compat32 kernel work for LLDB, where icons for modern X applications come from, and more. Headlines ZFSonFreeBSD ports renamed OpenZFS (https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/openzfs-kmod) The ZFS on FreeBSD project has renamed the userland and kernel ports from zol and zol-kmod to openzfs and openzfs-kmod The new versions fro...
302: Contention Reduction
June 13, 2019 03:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MBDragonFlyBSD's kernel optimizations pay off, differences between OpenBSD and Linux, NetBSD 2019 Google Summer of Code project list, Reducing that contention, fnaify 1.3 released, vmctl(8): CLI syntax changes, and things that Linux distributions should not do when packaging. Headlines DragonFlyBSD's Kernel Optimizations Are Paying Off (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=dragonfly-55-threadripper&num=1) DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon has been working on a big VM rew...
301: GPU Passthrough
June 06, 2019 03:15 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBGPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more. Headlines GPU Passthrough Reported Working on Bhyve Normally we cover news focused on KVM and sometimes Xen, but something very special has happened with their younger cousin in the BSD world, Bhyve. For those that don’t know, Bhyve (pronounced bee-hive) is the native hypervisor in FreeBSD. It has many powerful feat...
300: The Big Three
May 30, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBFreeBSD 11.3-beta 1 is out, BSDCan 2019 recap, OpenIndiana 2019.04 is out, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, why open source firmware is important for security, a new Opnsense release, wireguard on OpenBSD, and more. Headlines FreeBSD 11.3-b1 is out BSDCan 2019 Recap We’re back from BSDCan and it was a packed week as always. It started with bhyvecon on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Benedict spent the whole day in productive meetings: annual FreeBSD Foundation board meeting and FreeBSD Journal edi...
299: The NAS Fleet
May 22, 2019 18:00 - 52 minutes - 30.7 MBRunning AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more. Headlines Running AiX on QEMU on Linux on Windows YES it’s real! I’m using the Linux subsystem on Windows, as it’s easier to build this Qemu tree from source. I’m using Debian, but these steps will work on other systems that use Debian as a base. first thing first, you need to get...
298: BSD On The Road
May 16, 2019 03:00 - 52 minutes - 30.5 MB36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, upgrading VMM VMs to OpenBSD 6.5, and more. Headlines 36+ year old bug in FFS/UFS discovered and patched This update eliminates a kernel stack disclosure bug in UFS/FFS directory entries that is caused by uninitialized directory entry padding written to the disk. When the directory entry is written to disk, it is written as a full 32bit entry, and t...
297: Dragonfly In The Wild
May 09, 2019 04:00 - 40 minutes - 23.5 MBFreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL performance, Dragonfly 5.4.2 has been release, containing web services with iocell, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, Problem with SSH Agent forwarding, OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5 upgrade guide, and more. Headlines FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL Performance, Ubuntu ZFS On Linux Reference With iX Systems having released new images of FreeBSD reworked with their ZFS On Linux code that is in development to ultimately replace their existing FreeBSD ZFS support derived from the code originally found in the I...
296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5
May 03, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 35.7 MBOpenBSD 6.5 has been released, mount ZFS datasets anywhere, help test upcoming NetBSD 9 branch, LibreSSL 2.9.1 is available, Bail Bond Denied Edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, and one reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days in this week’s episode. Headlines OpenBSD 6.5 Released Changelog Mirrors 6.5 Includes OpenSMTPD 6.5.0 LibreSSL 2.9.1 OpenSSH 8.0 Mandoc 1.14.5 Xenocara LLVM/Clang 7.0.1 (+ patches) GCC 4.2.1 (+ patches) and 3.3.6 (+ patches) Many pre-built packages fo...
295: Fun with funlinkat()
April 25, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour - 35.4 MBIntroducing funlinkat(), an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse, using NetBSD on a raspberry pi, ZFS encryption is still under development, Rump kernel servers and clients tutorial, Snort on OpenBSD 6.4, and more. Headlines Introducing funlinkat It turns out, every file you have ever deleted on a unix machine was probably susceptible to a race condition One of the first syscalls which was created in Unix-like systems is unlink. In FreeBSD this syscall is number 10 (source) and in Linux, the ...
294: The SSH Tarpit
April 18, 2019 16:00 - 57 minutes - 33.1 MBA PI-powered Plan 9 cluster, an SSH tarpit, rdist for when Ansible is too much, falling in love with OpenBSD again, how I created my first FreeBSD port, the Tilde Institute of OpenBSD education and more. Headlines A Pi-Powered Plan 9 Cluster Plan 9 from Bell Labs comes from the same stable as the UNIX operating system, which of course Linux was designed after, and Apple’s OS X runs on top of a certified UNIX operating system. Just like UNIX, Plan 9 was developed as a research O/S — a vehic...
293: Booking Jails
April 11, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBThis week we have a special episode with a Michael W. Lucas interview about his latest jail book that’s been released. We’re talking all things jails, writing, book sponsoring, the upcoming BSDCan 2019 conference, and more. ###Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor FreeBSD Mastery: Jails BR: Welcome back to the show and congratulations on your latest book. How many books did you have to write before you could start on FreeBSD Mastery: Jails? AJ: How much research did you ...
292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap
April 04, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MBFreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project trident: 18.12-U8 is here, and more. ##Headlines ###AsiaBSDcon 2019 recap Both Allan and I attended AsiaBSDcon 2019 in Tokyo in mid march. After a couple of days of Tokyo sightseeing and tasting the local food, the conference started with tutorials. Benedict gave his tutorial about “BSD-based Systems Monitoring with Icinga2 and OpenSSH”, whil...
291: Storage Changes Software
March 28, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBStorage changing software, what makes Unix special, what you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands”, running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, the ultimate guide to memorable tech talks, light-weight contexts, and more. ##Headlines ###Tracking a storage issue led to software change Early last year we completed a massive migration that moved our customers’ hosting data off of a legacy datacenter (that we called FR-SD2) onto several new datacenters (that we call FR-SD3, FR-SD5, and FR-SD6) wi...
290: Timestamped Notes
March 21, 2019 14:00 - 50 minutes - 28.8 MBFreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX, looking at NetBSD as an OpenBSD user, taking time-stamped notes in vim, OpenBSD 6.5 has been tagged, FreeBSD and NetBSD in GSoC 2019, SecBSD: an UNIX-like OS for Hackers, and more. ##Headlines ###ARM’d and dangerous: FreeBSD on Cavium ThunderX (aarch64) While I don’t remember for how many years I’ve had an interest in CPU architectures that could be an alternative to AMD64, I know pretty well when I started proposing to test 64-bit ARM at work. It was shortly af...
289: Microkernel Failure
March 14, 2019 23:00 - 1 hour - 35.1 MBA kernel of failure, IPv6 fragmentation vulnerability in OpenBSD’s pf, a guide to the terminal, using a Yubikey for SSH public key authentication, FreeBSD desktop series, and more. ##Headlines ###A Kernel Of Failure - How IBM bet big on the microkernel being the next big thing in operating systems back in the ’90s—and spent billions with little to show for it. Today in Tedium: In the early 1990s, we had no idea where the computer industry was going, what the next generation would look li...
288: Turing Complete Sed
March 07, 2019 15:00 - 59 minutes - 34 MBSoftware will never fix Spectre-type bugs, a proof that sed is Turing complete, managed jails using Bastille, new version of netdata, using grep with /dev/null, using GMail with mutt, and more. ##Headlines ###Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs Spectre is here to stay: An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution Researchers from Google investigating the scope and impact of the Spectre attack have published a paper asserting that Spectre-like vuln...
287: rc.d in NetBSD
February 28, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBDesign and Implementation of NetBSD’s rc.d system, first impressions of Project Trident 18.12, PXE booting a FreeBSD disk image, middle mouse button pasting, NetBSD gains hardware accelerated virtualization, and more. ##Headlines ###The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system Abstract In this paper I cover the design and implementation of the rc.d system start-up mechanism in NetBSD 1.5, which replaced the monolithic /etc/rc start-up file inherited from 4.4BSD. Topics covered ...
286: Old Machine Revival
February 21, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour - 45.3 MBAdding glue to a desktop environment, flashing the BIOS on a PC Engine, revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer, An OpenBSD WindowMaker desktop, RealTime data compression, the love for pipes, and more. ##Headlines ###Adding Glue To a Desktop Environment In this article we will put some light on a lot of tools used in the world of Unix desktop environment customization, particularly regarding wmctrl, wmutils, xev, xtruss, xwininfo, xprop, xdotools, xdo, sxhkd, xbindkeys, speckey...
285: BSD Strategy
February 14, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 40 MBStrategic thinking to keep FreeBSD relevant, reflecting on the soul of a new machine, 10GbE Benchmarks On Nine Linux Distros and FreeBSD, NetBSD integrating LLVM sanitizers in base, FreeNAS 11.2 distrowatch review, and more. ##Headlines ###Strategic thinking, or what I think what we need to do to keep FreeBSD relevant Since I participate in the FreeBSD project there are from time to time some voices which say FreeBSD is dead, Linux is the way to go. Most of the time those voices are trolls...
284: FOSDEM 2019
February 07, 2019 16:00 - 59 minutes - 34.2 MBWe recap FOSDEM 2019, FreeBSD Foundation January update, OPNsense 19.1 released, the hardware-assisted virtualization challenge, ZFS and GPL terror, ClonOS 19.01-RELEASE, and more. Headlines FOSDEM 2019 Recap Allan and I were at FOSDEM 2019 in Brussels, Belgium over the weekend. On the Friday before, we held a FreeBSD Devsummit in a hotel conference room, with 25 people attending. We talked about various topics of interest to the project. You can find the notes on the wiki page. Saturday...
283: Graphical Interface-View
January 31, 2019 16:00 - 46 minutes - 26.9 MBWe’re at FOSDEM 2019 this week having fun. We’d never leave you in a lurch, so we have recorded an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team for you. Enjoy. ##Interview - Niclas Zeising - [email protected] / @niclaszeising Interview topic: FreeBSD Graphics Stack BR: Welcome Niclas. Since this is your first time on BSDNow, can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you started with Unix/BSD? AJ: What made you start working in the FreeBSD graphics stack? BR: What is t...
282: Open the Rsync
January 24, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 35.3 MBProject Trident 18.12 released, Spotifyd on NetBSD, OPNsense 18.7.10 is available, Ultra EPYC AMD Powered Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, OpenRsync, LLD porting to NetBSD, and more. ##Headlines ###AsiaBSDCon 2019 Call for Papers You have until Jan 30th to submit Full paper requirement is relaxed a bit this year (this year ONLY!) due to the short submission window. You don’t need all 10-12 pages, but it is still preferred. Send a message to [email protected] with your proposal. Could be ...
281: EPYC Server Battle
January 17, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBSCP client vulnerabilities, BSDs vs Linux benchmarks on a Tyan EPYC Server, fame for the Unix inventors, Die IPv4, GhostBSD 18.12 released, Unix in pictures, and more. ##Headlines ###scp client multiple vulnerabilities Overview SCP clients from multiple vendors are susceptible to a malicious scp server performing unauthorized changes to target directory and/or client output manipulation. Description Many scp clients fail to verify if the objects returned by the scp server match those ...
Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280
January 10, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 30.2 MBA EULA in FOSS clothing, NetBSD with more LLVM support, Thoughts on FreeBSD 12.0, FreeBSD Performance against Windows and Linux on Xeon, Microsoft shipping NetBSD, and more. Headlines A EULA in FOSS clothing? There was a tremendous amount of reaction to and discussion about my blog entry on the midlife crisis in open source. As part of this discussion on HN, Jay Kreps of Confluent took the time to write a detailed response — which he shortly thereafter elevated into a blog entry. Let me be ...
Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279
January 03, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour - 53.6 MBThe future of ZFS in FreeBSD, we pick highlights from the FreeBSD quarterly status report, flying with the raven, modern KDE on FreeBSD, many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2, GOG installers on NetBSD, and more. Headlines The future of ZFS in FreeBSD The sources for FreeBSD’s ZFS support are currently taken directly from Illumos with local ifdefs to support the peculiarities of FreeBSD where the Solaris Portability Layer (SPL) shims fall short. FreeBSD has regularly pulled changes from Illumos ...
Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278
December 27, 2018 09:00 - 49 minutes - 28.6 MBWe sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more. ##Interview - Kirk McKusick - [email protected] 25 years of FreeBSD How Kirk got started in BSD, at the very beginning Predicting the Future How the code and community grew The leadership of the project, and how it changed over time UFS over the years (reading disks from 1982 in 2018) Conferences...
Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277
December 24, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBThe Open Source midlife crisis, Donald Knuth The Yoda of Silicon Valley, Certbot For OpenBSD's httpd, how to upgrade FreeBSD from 11 to 12, level up your nmap game, NetBSD desktop, and more. ##Headlines Open Source Confronts its midlife crisis Midlife is tough: the idealism of youth has faded, as has inevitably some of its fitness and vigor. At the same time, the responsibilities of adulthood have grown. Making things more challenging, while you are navigating the turbulence of teenagers, ...
Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276
December 13, 2018 09:15 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBFreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more. ##Headlines FreeBSD 12.0 is available After a long release cycle, the wait is over: FreeBSD 12.0 is now officially available. We’ve picked a few interesting things to cover in the show, make sure to read the full Release Notes Userland: Group permissions on /dev/acpi have been changed to allow users in the operator GID to invoke acpiconf(8) to suspend...
Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275
December 09, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MBDragonflyBSD 5.4 has been released, down the Gopher hole with OpenBSD, OpenBSD in stereo with VFIO, BSD/OS the best candidate for legally tested open source Unix, OpenBGPD adds diversity to the routing server landscape, and more. Headlines DragonflyBSD 5.4 released DragonFly version 5.4 brings a new system compiler in GCC 8, improved NUMA support, a large of number network and virtual machine driver updates, and updates to video support. This release is 64-bit only, as with previous releases...
Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274
November 29, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 37 MBAssembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more. ##Headlines Assembly language on OpenBSD amd64+arm64 This is a short introduction to assembly language programming on OpenBSD/amd64+arm64. Because of security features in the kernel, I have had to rethink a series of tutorials covering Aarch64 assembly language on OpenBSD, and therefore this will serve as a placeholder-cum-reminder. O...
Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273
November 23, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review. ##Headlines Some thoughts on NetBSD 8.0 NetBSD is a highly portable operating system which can be run on dozens of different hardware architectures. The operating system’s clean and minimal design allow it to be run in all sorts of environments, ranging from embedded devices, to servers, to workstations. While the ba...
Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272
November 15, 2018 18:00 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBByproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and more. ##Headlines ###The byproducts of reading OpenBSD netcat code When I took part in a training last year, I heard about netcat for the first time. During that class, the tutor showed some hacks and tricks of using netcat which appealed to me and motivated me to learn the gu...
Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271
November 08, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 39.1 MBMidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more. ##Headlines MidnightBSD 1.0 now available I’m happy to announce the availability of MidnightBSD 1.0 for amd64 and i386. Over the years, many ambitious goals were set for our 1.0 release. As it approached, it was clear we wouldn’t be able to accomplish all of them. This release is more of a natur...
Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270
November 01, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 39.7 MBOpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD. ##Headlines OpenBSD 6.4 released See a detailed log of changes between the 6.3 and 6.4 releases. See the information on the FTP page for a list of mirror machines. Have a look at the 6.4 errata page for a list of bugs and workarounds. signify(1) pubkeys for this release: base: RWQq6Xm...
Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269
October 24, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 50.7 MBFreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress. ##Headlines FreeBSD Foundation Update, September 2018 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dear FreeBSD Community Member, It is hard to believe that September is over. The Foundation team had a busy month promoting FreeBSD all over the globe, bug fixing in preparation for 12.0, and setting plans in motion to kick off our ...
Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268
October 17, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 38.7 MB6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat demystified, and more. ##Headlines Six Metrics for Measuring ZFS Pool Performance Part 1 The layout of a ZFS storage pool has a significant impact on system performance under various workloads. Given the importance of picking the right configuration for your workload and the fact that making changes to an in-use ZFS pool is far from trivial, it is imp...
Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267
October 10, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 38.9 MBWe have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience. ##Headlines Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor BR: [Welcome Back] AJ: What have you been doing since last we talked to you [ed, ssh, and af3e] BR: Tell us more about AF3e AJ: How did the first Absolute FreeBSD come about? BR: Do you have anything special planned for MeetBSD? AJ: What are you working on now? [FM:Jails...
Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266
October 03, 2018 17:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBRunning OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, vermaden’s FreeBSD story, thoughts on OpenBSD on the desktop, history of file type info in Unix dirs, Multiboot a Pinebook KDE neon image, and more. ##Headlines OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve When I was writing a blog post about the process title, I needed a couple of virtual machines with OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Ubuntu. Before that day I mainly used FreeBSD and Windows with bhyve. I spent some time trying to set up an OpenBSD ...