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684: Nerds 2.0 Oct 8, 2026 59:59 Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator. Notes on software quality What the Fuck Happened to Nerds News Roundup Add ACPI layer into vmd NetBSD 11 from scratch FreeBSD backup libraries such as b

683: GeFS (GeFUS) Oct 1, 2026 43:21 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeFS GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future NetBSD 9.5 has been released ekkoBSD 2.1 released News Roundup Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released Replacing security/pam-ssh-a

682: NAS NAS NAS Sep 24, 2026 39:06 Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more... Headlines [Two more BSD based NASes have appeared] BSDNAS The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort FreeCORE Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1 Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2

681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure Sep 17, 2026 1:00:11 Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Where Unix runs today (Dont get distracted by the game) WebZFS Updates The bugs are coming from inside the house NetBSD 11 Support News Roundup A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD Curly br

680: What FS? Sep 10, 2026 44:44 BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines BSD pt Deux Code that Built the Internet Interview JT on WebZFS TJ: I started by asking JT... Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can tr

679: It also goes to 11 Sep 3, 2026 1:02:35 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NetBSD 11 Release SR-IOV Is a first class feature News Roundup Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment OpenSSH 10.5 released FreeBSD Ate my RAM ThinkPad End Game Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure o

678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning Aug 27, 2026 47:37 Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling On AI News Roundup Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade Commodore is releasing a flip phone runni

677: Butler at your service Aug 20, 2026 1:10:49 Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines My Home Assistant Setup Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD Game of Trees 0.127 Released OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8) httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers LL

676: 10 print "goto 10" Aug 13, 2026 1:00:22 The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously. News Roundup BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD Google Summer

675: Going GPL Free Aug 6, 2026 39:28 FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Computer at the bottom of a canal FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free News Roundup FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber

674: Software development never changes Jul 30, 2026 1:00:40 Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken WebZFS Updates Beta Announcement Why wont my pool export zfs iostat - Pictures so you can get a better idea of how it works News Roundup Understanding the F

673: There's somebody at the door Jul 23, 2026 50:19 Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up. FreeBSD Foundationals: The Boot Process - From the Loader to Boot Environments

672: Kitchen Calculator Jul 16, 2026 47:00 Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unix Pipes Under Load: Streaming, Barriers, Backpressure, and Bottlenecks Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948 News Roundup Fr

671: Rage Against the Machine Jul 9, 2026 53:35 The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech ZFS vs Ceph: Do You Actually Need Ceph? News Roundup Detecting and removing dangerous secrets

670: Failure is not an Option Jul 2, 2026 58:29 How NASA built Artemis II's fault tolerent Computer, Jails vs LXC, Respsectfully getting a personal copy of a website, Opensense 26.1.9 and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer Jails vs LXC: What’s the Right Choice for Infrastructure? News Roundup FreeBSD 15.1-RELEA

669: Poudriere Speed Run Jun 25, 2026 37:09 inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Native inotify in FreeBSD News Roundup How changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time Follow on Giving poudriere a jump start Migrating mail servers fr

668: Wiring up the BSDs Jun 18, 2026 45:44 FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard Using Object Storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS News Roundup zfs – a helper script for labelling all those drives AI errno(2) values Th

667: Don't exceed by security boundary Jun 11, 2026 47:48 .NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Running .NET 10.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 How Klara and TrueNAS collaborated to fix one of ZFS's longest standing limitations News Roundup Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD

666: Everyone gets an LPE Jun 4, 2026 1:04:33 fatgid, why zfs is ideal for media production, the CTF scene is dead, private repo behind TLS, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines fatgid Why ZFS is the ideal filesystem for multi-user media production News Roundup The CTF scene is dead A Private pkg Repo Behind Mutual TLS This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for

665: 60 Puffies May 28, 2026 1:00:09 OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD News Roundup Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They R

664: No one misses SPARC May 21, 2026 1:02:50 The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It News Roundup Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2 Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver usin

663: Proxhyve May 14, 2026 1:01:51 Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went FreeBSD Quarterly Report The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Suppor

662: I need a hero May 7, 2026 51:48 Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS GhostBSD 26.1 News Roundup I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server

661: Break up Big Tech Apr 30, 2026 46:24 Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Breaking up with Big Tech Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii News Roundup Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not Java Sun SPOT

660: I just work here Apr 23, 2026 43:56 Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware News Roundup Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like I

659: Full traffic send Apr 16, 2026 1:08:04 Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs [Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウ

658: It’s the vibe of it Apr 9, 2026 1:00:02 FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View Every layer of review makes you 10x slower News Roundup The sto

657: Hibernation is a long sleep Apr 2, 2026 50:57 The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage News Roundup Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on

656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP Mar 26, 2026 1:10:44 Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths 2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerat

655: No Reboot Required Mar 19, 2026 1:00:55 Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Jails for NetBSD ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox News Roundup Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required Exploring Docker contai

654: Plasma Rage Mar 12, 2026 45:26 Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads News Roundup KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On. An old article with covering :

653: Butter makes everything better Mar 5, 2026 55:18 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment News Roundup Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root. https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/ OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust FreeBSD Jail Memory Metrics

652: Ghostly Graphics Feb 26, 2026 1:10:14 OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS. https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-fr

651: Spatially aware ZFS Feb 19, 2026 57:06 GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls News Roundup Xfce is great Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like M

650: Korn Chips Feb 12, 2026 57:21 AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity News Roundup FFS Backup FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mir

649: The Desk Review Feb 5, 2026 1:11:37 ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity The story of Propolice Desk reviews describe comment ask questions No reponses, no justications. [Tj's Desk](media/bsdnow649-tjs-desk.jpg) [Ruben's Desk](media/bsdnow64

648: Greytrapping for years Jan 29, 2026 1:04:38 FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Powering the Future of FreeBSD Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off? BSDCan Organisating committee Interview News Roundup How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a develo

647: Why BSDs? Jan 22, 2026 55:07 Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why BSDs? 2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth What are we excited for in tech in 2026? Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous The death of vmware and the possibilite

646: Unix v4 Jan 15, 2026 1:14:11 The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway! UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is ru

645: Unwrapping gifts Jan 8, 2026 42:04 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 Perl's decline was cultural News Roundup Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025) Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas... HardnedBSD News FreeBSD + Fl

644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? Jan 1, 2026 1:37:00 Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025? Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions - G

643: Unwrapping gifts Dec 25, 2025 1:08:59 Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? News Roundup We can't fund our way out of the free and open

642: Look Harder Dec 18, 2025 1:17:05 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by list

641: Open to Free Dec 11, 2025 55:29 FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary News Roundup ZFS Boot Environments

640: Cleaning up Hammer Dec 4, 2025 36:06 FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization News Roundup How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' data

639: Reproducible Builds Nov 27, 2025 1:00:14 Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI News Roundup Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disk

638: Hipsters want their distribution back Nov 20, 2025 1:08:14 New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Signifier flotation devices Open Indiana Hipster Announcement Understanding Storage Performance Metrics News Roundup UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A Mak

637: /etc/hosts Nov 13, 2025 1:07:48 Time to update our /etc/hosts file... NOTES* This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Show updates Intro Ruben 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 mentione

636: Thunder Bolts Nov 6, 2025 1:03:25 Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Thunderbolt on FreeBSD The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it) News Roundup zfs: setting compression and

635: Guess who's back? Oct 30, 2025 1:17:33 OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.8 Released also (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822) and (https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679) Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZF

634: Why Self-Host? Oct 23, 2025 1:01:38 Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD, Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD, The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why Self-host? Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and

633: Magical Systems Thinking Oct 16, 2025 1:06:46 ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to yo

632: Zipbomb defeated Oct 9, 2025 52:56 zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines zipbomb defeated Optimizing ZFS

630: Bhyve Management UI Oct 2, 2025 35:43 FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Fr

631: Endorphin Rush Sep 25, 2025 36:53 Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSD

629: Host Naming Conventions Sep 18, 2025 1:08:11 The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics Host Naming Convention News Roundup Open, free, and completely ignored: The s

628: Product Hype Sep 11, 2025 49:11 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Hype is the Product Programmers Aren’t So Humble

627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug Sep 4, 2025 55:41 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 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines An (almos

626: USB webcam testing Aug 28, 2025 56:10 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Journal April/May/June 2025 Edition BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Chuck Tuffli New

625: Build Cluster Speedup Aug 21, 2025 50:36 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 This episode of BSDNow is

624: OpenBSD Innovations Aug 14, 2025 1:01:16 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headline

623: Two's interview Aug 7, 2025 1:00:29 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. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project FreeBSD Summer 2025 Roundup: Your Guide

622: Interview with Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation Jul 31, 2025 55:10 This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interview Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation Personal website Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored

621: Exaggerated Death Report Jul 24, 2025 50:07 Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patr

620: Postmortem for jemalloc Jul 17, 2025 53:53 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 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

619: Happy Tooling Jul 10, 2025 45:57 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Disaster Recovery with ZFS:

618: Funding BSD projects Jul 3, 2025 53:59 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 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A year of funded FreeBSD ZFS Performa

617: FreeBSD 14.3 Jun 26, 2025 1:03:52 FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it, Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid, April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, UDP sockets instead of BPF in dhcpd(8), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD 14.3 released

616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview Jun 19, 2025 47:34 This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Guests Deb Goodkin Justin Gibbs Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel Spec

615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked Jun 12, 2025 44:02 How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon He

614: Upstream Contributions Matter Jun 5, 2025 1:03:54 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, a

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