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350: Speedy Bridges

May 14th, 2020 | 34 mins 40 secs

bsd, crash, crash dump, dev environment, dragonflybsd, encrypted, encryption, freebsd, hardenedbsd, interview, kernel development, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, unix

5x if_bridge Performance Improvement, How Unix Won, Understanding VLAN Configuration on FreeBSD, Using bhyve PCI passthrough on OmniOS, TrueNAS 11.3-U2 Available, and more.

Encrypted Crash Dumps in FreeBSD, Time on Unix, Improve ZVOL sync write performance with a taskq, central log host with syslog-ng, NetBSD Entropy overhaul, Setting Up NetBSD Kernel Dev Environment, and more.

348: BSD Community Collections

April 30th, 2020 | 1 hr 16 secs

ars technica, book sponsorship, bsd, collections, dragonflybsd, freebsd, furybsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, internals, interview, kde, memory allocator, memory allocator internals, netbsd, openbsd, secure memory allocator, solid state drive, ssd, tls, tls mastery, tls mastery book, trident, trueos, tutorial, xfce

FuryBSD 2020Q2 Images Available, Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux, Ars technica reviews GhostBSD, “TLS Mastery” sponsorships open, BSD community show their various collections, a tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals, learn to stop worrying and love SSDs, and more.

347: New Directions

April 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 50 secs

ars technica, bsd, curses, distro, distro review, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, plan 9, progress, q1, q1 2020, review, security, status, status report, thomas dickey, thomas e. dickey, trident, trueos, tutorial, ui, user interface

Rethinking OpenBSD security, FreeBSD 2020 Q1 status report, the notion of progress and user interfaces, Comments about Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses, making Unix a little more Plan9-like, Not-actually Linux distro review: FreeBSD, and more.

346: Core File Tales

April 16th, 2020 | 55 mins 58 secs

bios, bios update, branch, branch support, bsd, bugs, caddy, core, core dump, core file, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hugo, hypervisor, interview, iowait, jails, lenovo, netbsd, openbsd, restic, self-hosted, thinkpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, x260

Tales from a core file, Lenovo X260 BIOS Update with OpenBSD, the problem of Unix iowait and multi-CPU machines, Hugo workflow using FreeBSD Jails, Caddy, Restic; extending NetBSD-7 branch support, a tale of two hypervisor bugs, and more.

345: Switchers to BSD

April 9th, 2020 | 47 mins 48 secs

bsd, community, dragonflybsd, feedback, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nextcloud, openbsd, risc, risc os, screen locking, trident, trueos, tutorial, x11

NetBSD 8.2 is available, NextCloud on OpenBSD, X11 screen locking, NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel, community feedback about switching to BSD, and more.

344: Grains of Salt

April 2nd, 2020 | 55 mins 39 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hierarchy, howto, ifconfig, interview, mirror, mirror rebalancing, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pipe, pipes, rebalancing, relayd, security, security headers, shell, speed up, terminal, text processing, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool, zsh

Shell text processing, data rebalancing on ZFS mirrors, Add Security Headers with OpenBSD relayd, ZFS filesystem hierarchy in ZFS pools, speeding up ZSH, How Unix pipes work, grow ZFS pools over time, the real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated, clear your terminal in style, and more.

343: FreeBSD, Corona: Fight!

March 26th, 2020 | 39 mins 4 secs

bsd, corona, corona virus, covid-19, dragonflybsd, folding at home, foldingathome, freebsd, furybsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pf, pf-badhost, trident, trueos, tutorial, vpn, wireguard, xfce

Fighting the Coronavirus with FreeBSD, Wireguard VPN Howto in OPNsense, NomadBSD 1.3.1 available, fresh GhostBSD 20.02, New FuryBSD XFCE and KDE images, pf-badhost 0.3 released, and more.

342: Layout the DVA

March 19th, 2020 | 47 mins 49 secs

active directory, bsd, coreboot, crypto, dragonflybsd, dva, dva layout, end of life, freebsd, full disk encryption, go, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, payload, pool, root, root account, tianocore, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

OpenBSD Full disk encryption with coreboot and tianocore, FreeBSD 12.0 EOL, ZFS DVA layout, OpenBSD’s Go situation, AD updates requires changes in TrueNAS and FreeNAS, full name of FreeBSD’s root account, and more.

341: U-NAS-ification

March 12th, 2020 | 51 mins 1 sec

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, gcc, go, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, power, power architecture, prometheus, trident, truenas, trueos, tutorial

FreeBSD on Power, DragonflyBSD 5.8 is here, Unifying FreeNAS/TrueNAS, OpenBSD vs. Prometheus and Go, gcc 4.2.1 removed from FreeBSD base, and more.

340: Check My Sums

March 5th, 2020 | 50 mins 39 secs

aarch64, bsd, central logging, checksum, checksumming, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, log host, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pinebook, pkgsrc, pool reshaping, resizing, shrinking, syslog, syslog-ng, throughput, throughput performance, tmpfs, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

Why ZFS is doing filesystem checksumming right, better TMPFS throughput performance on DragonFlyBSD, reshaping pools with ZFS, PKGSRC on Manjaro aarch64 Pinebook-pro, central log host with syslog-ng on FreeBSD, and more.

339: BSD Fundraising

February 27th, 2020 | 53 mins 56 secs

bsd, campaign wrapup, desktop, desktop bsd, dragonflybsd, fileserver, freebsd, fundraising goal, furybsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, netbsd 9.0, netbsd fundraising, nfs, omnios, openbsd, openbsd foundation, openssh, retrospective, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

Meet FuryBSD, NetBSD 9.0 has been released, OpenBSD Foundation 2019 campaign wrapup, a retrospective on OmniOS ZFS-based NFS fileservers, NetBSD Fundraising 2020 goal, OpenSSH 8.2 released, and more.

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