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625: Build Cluster Speedup

August 21st, 2025 | 50 mins 36 secs

autobuilds, berkeley, bsd, build cluster, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, drm updates, embedded devices, fast, faster, featured, featuring, filesystem, foss, freebsd, glusterfs, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, performance, ports, programming, raspberry pi, release, resume, shell, software, speed up, storage, suspend, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zil, zpool

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

624: OpenBSD Innovations

August 14th, 2025 | 1 hr 1 min

ada toolchain, anubis, bash, berkeley, bsd, chflags, cli, code, collection, compute gpus, dataset, defend, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, innovations, interview, jails, log tampering, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, shell aliases, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, web scrapers, zfs, zpool

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

623: Two's interview

August 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 29 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

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.

622: Interview with Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation

July 31st, 2025 | 55 mins 10 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.

621: Exaggerated Death Report

July 24th, 2025 | 50 mins 7 secs

arm64 uefi, berkeley, book of pf, bsd, cli, code, dataset, death, design, designing, development, distribution, dm_target_crypt_ng, dragonflybsd, exaggeration, filesystem, foss, fourth edition, freebsd, generic installation, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, localized computing, netbsd, next generation, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, periodical, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, terminals, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, x window system, zfs, zpool

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

620: Postmortem for jemalloc

July 17th, 2025 | 53 mins 53 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, jemalloc, multi-user web server, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimizing, os, packages, performance, ports, postmortem, programming, reading list, release, rsync, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tuning, tutorial, unix, utility, workload, zfs, zpool

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

619: Happy Tooling

July 10th, 2025 | 45 mins 57 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, code, computer club, dataset, development, disaster recovery, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, happy, hardenedbsd, howto, interface, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, two worlds, unix, utility, zfs, zpool, zvault

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

618: Funding BSD projects

July 3rd, 2025 | 53 mins 59 secs

battery, berkeley, bsd, cli, code, contributions, contributors, dataset, development, dirhash, distribution, dragonflybsd, ffs optimizations, filesystem, foss, freebsd, funding, guide, hackathon report, hardenedbsd, howto, installer, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimizing workload, os, packages, performance, ports, programming, projects, release, shell, software, storage, summer of code, tools, trueos, trying freebsd, tuning, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

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

617: FreeBSD 14.3

June 26th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins

14.3, berkeley, bpd, bsd, cli, code, commodity hardware, dataset, development, dhcpd, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, laptop support, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, reliable storage, report, sanoid, semi distributed filesystem, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, udp sockets, ugly website, unix, usability project, utility, zfs, zpool

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

616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview

June 19th, 2025 | 47 mins 34 secs

berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, filesystem, foss, foundation, freebsd, interview, jails, open source, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.

615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked

June 12th, 2025 | 44 mins 2 secs

berkeley, bsd, caddy, cli, code, dataset, dell latitude 7280, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, framework 13, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, high speed wifi, howto, interview, jails, mac_portacl, macos sequoia, netbsd, networking, open source, openbsd, openrsync, opensmtpd, operating system, os, packages, ports, production use, programming, quic, release, reverse proxy, rsync, shell, software, storage, support, supporting, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, wireless, zfs, zpool

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

614: Upstream Contributions Matter

June 5th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins

anubis, berkeley, bot protection, bots, bsd, cli, code, collection, commercial product, configuration, contributions matter, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, erspan, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hidden costs, howto, interview, ipv6 wifi, jails, jobs, llm, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, stagnation, storage, time bomb, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, upstream, utility, zfs, zpool

The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, and more

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