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4 Months of BSD

Self Hosted Calendar and address Book

News Roundup

Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs

Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor)

Bastille template example

Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD

Beastie Bits

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• Chris - ARM
• Matthew - Groups

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Nextcloud + OpenBSD = <3

FreeBSD History Series - Understanding the Origins of DTrace

News Roundup

Bastille Templates for FreeBSD Jails

Initial support for guided disk encryption in the installer

Dynamic host configuration, please

BSDCan 2023 Tutorial: OpenBSD Storage Management

Jan/Feb 2023 Column Out in the FreeBSD Journal

loader: Add support for booting from a ZFS snapshot

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The mass extinction of UNIX workstations

whoarethey: Determine Who Can Log In to an SSH Server

News Roundup

FreeBSD vs. Linux 5 Factors When Considering FreeBSD vs. Linux: Packages

A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

Harvesting the Noise While it’s Fresh, Revisited

Bastille - The Jail Manager on FreeBSD

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Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development

Crypto Ancienne 2.0 now brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS)

News Roundup

How efficient can cat(1) be?

Technique significantly boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell

• [binpa.sh](http://binpa.sh/)

Running FreeBSD VNET Jails on AWS EC2 with Bastille

Beastie Bits

Game of Trees 0.74 released
OpenBSD -current has moved to 7.2-beta
A Unix Command Line Crash Course
BSD.DOG vimrc
FreeBSD Speedruns

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FreeBSD Foundation 2021 in Review

• Software Development
• Year End Fundraising Report
• Infrastructure Support
• Advocacy
• FreeBSD 2022 CfP

DragonFlyBSD 6.2.1 is out

News Roundup

Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 is out

Toolchain Adventures

The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7

Bastille Template: AdGuard Home

Setting up ZSH on FreeBSD

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Feedback/Questions

• Producers Note:  We did get some Christmas AMA questions in after we recorded that episode (since we recorded it early) but don't worry, I’ve made a note of them and we’ll save them for our next AMA episode. 

• Patrick - Volume
• Reptilicus Rex - FreeBSD Docs Team
• michael - question

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Lets talk OpenZFS snapshots

OpenSUSE in Bastille

News Roundup

CUPS printing with netcat

Opnsense-21.1.8

pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available

Beastie Bits

• [MAC Inspired FreeBSD release](https://github.com/mszoek/airyx)
• [Implement unprivileged chroot](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b)
• [InitWare: A systemd fork that runs on BSD](https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare)
• [multics gets a new release](https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Main_Page)
• [Open Source Voices interview with Tom Jones](https://www.opensourcevoices.org/17)
• [PDP 11/03 Engineering Drawings](https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1423092689084551171)

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• Oliver - zfs
• anders - vms
• jeff - byhve guests

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A Week With Plan 9

I spent the first week of 2021 learning an OS called Plan 9 from Bell Labs. This is a fringe Operating System, long abandoned by it’s original authors. It's also responsible for a great deal of inspiration elsewhere. If you’ve used the Go language, /proc, UTF-8 or Docker, you’ve used Plan 9-designed features. This issue dives into Operating System internals and some moderately hard computer science topics. If that sort of thing isn’t your bag you might want to skip ahead. Normal service will resume shortly.

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Exploring Swap on FreeBSD

On modern Unix-like systems such as FreeBSD, “swapping” refers to the activity of paging out the contents of memory to a disk and then paging it back in on demand. The page-out activity occurs in response to a lack of free memory in the system: the kernel tries to identify pages of memory that probably will not be accessed in the near future, and copies their contents to a disk for safekeeping until they are needed again. When an application attempts to access memory that has been swapped out, it blocks while the kernel fetches that saved memory from the swap disk, and then resumes execution as if nothing had happened.

News Roundup

How to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere

This a short how-to for creating a FreeBSD pkg mirror using BastilleBSD and Poudriere.

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How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS

How do I install, set up and configure a FreeBSD 12 jail with VNET on ZFS? How can I create FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with /etc/jail.conf to run OpenVPN, Apache, Wireguard and other Internet-facing services securely on my BSD box?
FreeBSD jail is nothing but operating system-level virtualization that allows partitioning a FreeBSD based Unix server. Such systems have their root user and access rights. Jails can use network subsystem virtualization infrastructure or share an existing network. FreeBSD jails are a powerful way to increase security. Usually, you create jail per services such as an Nginx/Apache webserver with PHP/Perl/Python app, WireGuard/OpeNVPN server, MariaDB/PgSQL server, and more. This page shows how to configure a FreeBSD Jail with vnet and ZFZ on FreeBSD 12.x.

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Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools

Docker has stormed into software development in recent years. While the concepts behind it are powerful and useful, similar tools have been used in systems for decades. FreeBSD’s jails in one of those tools which build upon even older chroot(2) To put it shortly, with these tools, you can make a safe environment separated from the rest of the system.

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• Chris - USB BSD variant
• Jacob - host wifi through a jail
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FreeBSD quarterly status report for Q4 2020

Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool!

Pf-badhost is a very practical, robust, stable and lightweight security script for network servers.
It's compatible with BSD based operating systems such as {Open,Free,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and MacOS. It prevents potentially-bad IP addresses that could possibly attack your servers (and waste your bandwidth and fill your logfiles), by blocking all those IPs contacting your server, and therefore it makes your server network/resources lighter and the logs of important services running on your server become simpler, more readable and efficient.

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News Roundup

Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence

Bastille supports redirecting (rdr) ports from the host system into target containers. This port redirection is commonly used when running Internet services such as web servers, dns servers, email and many others. Any service you want to make public outside of your cluster will likely require port redirection (with some exceptions, see below).

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FreeBSD Wall Display Computer

I've recently added a wall mounted 30" monitor for Grafana in my home. I can highly recommend doing the same, especially in a world where more work from home is becoming the norm.

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The etymology of command-line tools

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GhostBSD 21.01.15 Release Notes

I am happy to announce the availability of the new ISO 21.01.15. This new ISO comes with a clean-up of packages that include removing LibreOffice and Telegram from the default selection. We did this to bring the zfs RW live file systems to run without problem on 4GB of ram machine. We also removed the UFS full disk option from the installer. Users can still use custom partitions to setup UFS partition, but we discourage it. We also fixed the Next button's restriction in the custom partition related to some bug that people reported. We also fix the missing default locale setup and added the default setup for Linux Steam, not to forget this ISO includes kernel, userland and numerous application updates.

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