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315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019

September 12th, 2019 | 1 hr 16 mins

bsd, configuration, configure, dragonflybsd, fan-less, fanless, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hg, hg server, howto, humungus, infinitybook, interview, netbsd, network dump, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial, tuxedo, tuxedo infinitybook, vbsdcon 2019

vBSDcon 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.

Unix 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.

313: In-Kernel TLS

August 29th, 2019 | 55 mins 12 secs

boot environment, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, install, installation, interview, kernel tls, ktls, macbook, netbsd, openbsd, project trident, thinkpad, tls, trident, trueos, tutorial, vbsdcon, x1 carbon

OpenBSD 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.

312: Why Package Managers

August 21st, 2019 | 1 hr 12 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, evaluation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, package manager, philosophy, pinebook pro, porting, process, syzkaller, touchpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, wine

The 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.

311: Conference Gear Breakdown

August 15th, 2019 | 1 hr 13 mins

bsd, conference, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gadgets, gear, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kernel, netbsd, openbsd, spellchecker, tale, tools, trident, triforceafl, trueos, tutorial, utilities, vulnerability, xargs

NetBSD 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.

310: My New Free NAS

August 7th, 2019 | 48 mins 9 secs

arc, audio, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, mini, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

OPNsense 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.

Episode 309: Get Your Telnet Fix

July 31st, 2019 | 48 mins 24 secs

bandwidth, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, graph, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, realtime, send, telnet, terminal, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

DragonFlyBSD Project colo upgrade, future trends, resuming ZFS send, realtime bandwidth terminal graph visualization, fixing telnet fixes, a chapter from the FBI’s history with OpenBSD, an OpenSSH vulnerability, and more.

308: Mumbling with OpenBSD

July 24th, 2019 | 44 mins 25 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, drm, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldp, mumble, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pdp-7, trident, trueos, tutorial, umurmur, voip, watchpoints, zfs, zpool

Replacing 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.

307: Twitching with OpenBSD

July 18th, 2019 | 50 mins 59 secs

bsd, dragonflybsd, dump, dumping, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hex, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, streaming, trident, trueos, tutorial, twitch, workstation

FreeBSD 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.

306: Comparing Hammers

July 11th, 2019 | 38 mins 21 secs

am5x86, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, g4, guide, hammer, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, mac, netbsd, netflix, openbsd, streaming, trident, trueos, tutorial

Am5x86 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.

305: Changing face of Unix

July 3rd, 2019 | 56 mins 9 secs

bsd, doas, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, risc-v, sdf32, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix50, wine, x windows, x11

Website 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.

304: Prospering with Vulkan

June 27th, 2019 | 1 hr 3 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, drm, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, openzfs, trident, trueos, tutorial, vm, vulkan, zfs

DragonflyBSD 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.

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