web02.fireside.fm Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:55:36 -0600 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Advantages” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/advantages Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400 Created 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. en-us episodic A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD JT Pennington Created 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. no berkeley,freebsd,openbsd,netbsd,dragonflybsd,trueos,trident,hardenedbsd,tutorial,howto,guide,bsd,interview JT Pennington feedback@bsdnow.tv 519: Telegram from BSDNow https://www.bsdnow.tv/519 5d5025dc-47c7-48f4-9da6-d5fee456b1de Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more. 37:25 no 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-3-advantages-to-running-freebsd-as-your-server-operating-system/) FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/) News Roundup Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-05-openbsd-sound-streaming.html) DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-June/028441.html) How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/03/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-for-scp-transfers/) Beastie Bits OpenSolaris 11.4 running in a VM (https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/14m90v2/oracle_solaris_114_running_in_a_virtual_machine/) Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/celebrating-30-years-of-freebsd-freebsd-journal-special-edition/) Some ways you can contribute to open source software without writing code (https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1673215499365384194?s=52&t=-_bfM_adaiX8Ri_3lN9OYw) ScreenCapture if you don't have a twitter account (https://i.imgur.com/5AlqBlO.png) 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. New BSD Now Telegram Channel We now have a new BSD Now Telegram channel that anyone can join. Conversations don’t have to just be about the show, anything BSD, Unix, or *nix in general is fair game. https://t.me/bsdnow Feedback/Questions Johnny - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Johnny%20-%20512.md) Matthew - 512 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/519/feedback/Matthew%20-%20512.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, cli, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, development, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, storage, ports, packages, jails, interview, advantages, server, release schedule, stream, streaming, desktop audio, DOD, KSOS, secure, bandwidth limit, scp, secure copy 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more.

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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System

FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule

News Roundup

Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices

DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report

How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers

Beastie Bits

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.

New BSD Now Telegram Channel

  • We now have a new BSD Now Telegram channel that anyone can join. Conversations don’t have to just be about the show, anything BSD, Unix, or *nix in general is fair game. https://t.me/bsdnow

Feedback/Questions

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]]> 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System

FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule

News Roundup

Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices

DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report

How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers

Beastie Bits

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.

New BSD Now Telegram Channel

  • We now have a new BSD Now Telegram channel that anyone can join. Conversations don’t have to just be about the show, anything BSD, Unix, or *nix in general is fair game. https://t.me/bsdnow

Feedback/Questions

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]]> 391: i386 tear shedding https://www.bsdnow.tv/391 3105d37c-fc28-49e0-983d-1ac767b72f76 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 03:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more. 38:55 no Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages (https://rubenerd.com/follow-up-about-freebsd-jail-advantages/) I’ll admit I ran a lot of justifications together into a single paragraph because I wanted to get to configuring the jails themselves. They’re also, by and large, not specific to FreeBSD’s flavour of containerisation, though I still think it’s easily the most elegant implementation. Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best one. History of FreeBSD part 4: TCP/IP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-part-4-bsd-and-tcp-ip/) How TCP/IP evolved and BSDs special contribution to the history of the Internet *** FreeBSD: Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana (https://blog.andreev.it/?p=5289) FreeBSD comes out of the box with three great tools for monitoring. If you need more info about how these tools work, please read the official documentation. I’ll explain the installation only and creating a simple dashboard. News Roundup Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/20210122/calibrate-your-touch-screen-on-openbsd/) I didn’t expected it but my refurbished T460s came with a touch-screen. It is recognized by default on OpenBSD and not well calibrated as-is. But that’s really simple to solve. Lets all shed a Tear for 386 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-January/002006.html) FreeBSD is designating i386 as a Tier 2 architecture starting with FreeBSD 13.0. The Project will continue to provide release images, binary updates, and pre-built packages for the 13.x branch. However, i386-specific issues (including SAs) may not be addressed in 13.x. The i386 platform will remain Tier 1 on FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x. OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-marvelous-meerkat-released/) For more than 6 years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing. NomadBSD 1.4-RC1 (https://nomadbsd.org/index.html#1.4-RC1) We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4. find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindWithoutXargsToday) I've been using Unix for long enough that 'find | xargs' is a reflex. When I started and for a long time afterward, xargs was your only choice for efficiently executing a command over a bunch of find results. OpenBSD KDE Status Report (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210124113220) OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing. After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine. What a monster! With my CPU power at home, I can build it 1-2 times a day which makes testing a little bit annoying and time intensive. 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 Karl - Firefox webcam audio solution (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Karl%20-%20Firefox%20webcam%20audio%20solution.md) Michal - openzfs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Michal%20-%20openzfs.md) Dave - bufferbloat (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Dave%20-%20bufferbloat.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, interview, jail, advantages, prometheus, grafana, node-exporter, touch screen, opnsense, marvelous meerkat, nomadbsd, i386, xargs, KDE, signal, proxy, pdf, annotation Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages

I’ll admit I ran a lot of justifications together into a single paragraph because I wanted to get to configuring the jails themselves. They’re also, by and large, not specific to FreeBSD’s flavour of containerisation, though I still think it’s easily the most elegant implementation. Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best one.

History of FreeBSD part 4: TCP/IP

  • How TCP/IP evolved and BSDs special contribution to the history of the Internet ***

FreeBSD: Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana

FreeBSD comes out of the box with three great tools for monitoring. If you need more info about how these tools work, please read the official documentation. I’ll explain the installation only and creating a simple dashboard.

News Roundup

Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD

I didn’t expected it but my refurbished T460s came with a touch-screen. It is recognized by default on OpenBSD and not well calibrated as-is. But that’s really simple to solve.

Lets all shed a Tear for 386

FreeBSD is designating i386 as a Tier 2 architecture starting with FreeBSD 13.0. The Project will continue to provide release images, binary updates, and pre-built packages for the 13.x branch. However, i386-specific issues (including SAs) may not be addressed in 13.x. The i386 platform will remain Tier 1 on FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x.

OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released

For more than 6 years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing.

NomadBSD 1.4-RC1

We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4.

find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes

I've been using Unix for long enough that 'find | xargs' is a reflex. When I started and for a long time afterward, xargs was your only choice for efficiently executing a command over a bunch of find results.

OpenBSD KDE Status Report

OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing.
After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine. What a monster! With my CPU power at home, I can build it 1-2 times a day which makes testing a little bit annoying and time intensive.

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

  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv ***
]]> Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages

I’ll admit I ran a lot of justifications together into a single paragraph because I wanted to get to configuring the jails themselves. They’re also, by and large, not specific to FreeBSD’s flavour of containerisation, though I still think it’s easily the most elegant implementation. Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best one.

History of FreeBSD part 4: TCP/IP

  • How TCP/IP evolved and BSDs special contribution to the history of the Internet ***

FreeBSD: Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana

FreeBSD comes out of the box with three great tools for monitoring. If you need more info about how these tools work, please read the official documentation. I’ll explain the installation only and creating a simple dashboard.

News Roundup

Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD

I didn’t expected it but my refurbished T460s came with a touch-screen. It is recognized by default on OpenBSD and not well calibrated as-is. But that’s really simple to solve.

Lets all shed a Tear for 386

FreeBSD is designating i386 as a Tier 2 architecture starting with FreeBSD 13.0. The Project will continue to provide release images, binary updates, and pre-built packages for the 13.x branch. However, i386-specific issues (including SAs) may not be addressed in 13.x. The i386 platform will remain Tier 1 on FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x.

OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released

For more than 6 years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing.

NomadBSD 1.4-RC1

We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4.

find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes

I've been using Unix for long enough that 'find | xargs' is a reflex. When I started and for a long time afterward, xargs was your only choice for efficiently executing a command over a bunch of find results.

OpenBSD KDE Status Report

OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing.
After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine. What a monster! With my CPU power at home, I can build it 1-2 times a day which makes testing a little bit annoying and time intensive.

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

  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv ***
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