web02.fireside.fm Fri, 29 May 2026 15:06:53 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Console” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/console Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -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 557: 17h per frame https://www.bsdnow.tv/557 e7b7b0ae-86ba-4f1e-849b-e46741b63ebd Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast', and more 46:52 no <p>Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial &amp; review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast', and more</p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong></p> <p>This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a> and the <a href="https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BSDNow Patreon</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <p><a href="https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://www.autodidacts.io/pinebook-pro-linux-bsd-laptop-review-tutorial/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial &amp; review</a></p> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <p><a href="https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240410185045" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/openbsd_75_disk_encryption/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://liliputing.com/version-2-0-of-the-book-8088-retro-mini-laptop-adds-vga-graphics-card-and-serial-ports/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Book 8088</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://tumfatig.net/2024/custom-prometheus-dashboards-using-console-templates/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/march-2024-partnerships-update/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/ray-tracing-made-possible-on-42-year-old-zx-spectrum-reasonably-fast-if-you-consider-17-hours-per-frame-to-be-reasonably-fast/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast'</a></p> <hr> <h2>Tarsnap</h2> <p>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.</p> <hr> <ul> <li><p>Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a></p></li> <li><p>Join us and other BSD Fans in our <a href="https://t.me/bsdnow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BSD Now Telegram channel</a></p></li> </ul> <hr> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, os, open source, foss, shell, cli, unix, tools, utility, berkeley, software, distribution, development, code, programming, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, storage, ports, packages, jails, interview, trillion dollar, resource, tinkering, manjaro, pinebook pro, OpenSMTPD, lock down, disk encryption, syscall limitation, book 8088, prometheus, console, partnerships, ray tracing, zx spectrum Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast', and more

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

Headlines

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review

News Roundup

OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

Book 8088

Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates

FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update

Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast'

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.

]]> Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast', and more

NOTES

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

Headlines

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review

News Roundup

OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released

OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations

Book 8088

Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates

FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update

Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast'

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.

]]> 368: Changing OS roles https://www.bsdnow.tv/368 4d186dc4-b8ee-4824-bfcc-3bacf18ba5da Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more. 48:32 no <p>Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more. </p> <p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br> This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.cambus.net/modernizing-the-openbsd-console/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Modernizing the OpenBSD Console</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>At the beginning were text mode consoles. Traditionally, *BSD and Linux on i386 and amd64 used text mode consoles which by default provided 25 rows of 80 columns, the "80x25 mode". This mode uses a 8x16 font stored in the VGA BIOS (which can be slightly different across vendors).<br> OpenBSD uses the wscons(4) console framework, inherited from NetBSD</p> <hr> </blockquote> <h3><a href="https://rubenerd.com/the-roles-of-oss-have-changed/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OS roles have changed</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>Though I do wonder sometimes, with just a slight tweak to history, how things might have been different. In another dimension somewhere, I’m using the latest BeOS-powered PowerPC laptop, and a shiny new Palm smartphone. Both of these represented the pinnacle of UI design in the 1990s, and still in the 2020s have yet to be surpassed. People call me an Apple fanboy, but I’d drop all of it in a second for that gear.</p> <hr> </blockquote> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/freebsd-cluster-with-pacemaker-and-corosync/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>I always missed ‘proper’ cluster software for FreeBSD systems. Recently I got to run several Pacemaker/Corosync based clusters on Linux systems. I thought how to make similar high availability solutions on FreeBSD and I was really shocked when I figured out that both Pacemaker and Corosync tools are available in the FreeBSD Ports and packages as net/pacemaker2 and net/corosync2 respectively.</p> <hr> </blockquote> <h3><a href="https://washbear.neocities.org/wine-sandbox.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>"Mainline pkgsrc" can't do strange multi-arch Wine builds yet, so a 32-bit sandbox seems like a reasonable way to use 32-bit Wine on amd64 without resorting to running real Windows in NVMM. We'll see if this was a viable alternative to re-reviewing the multi-arch support in pkgsrc-wip...<br> We're using sandboxctl, which is a neat tool for quickly shelling into a different NetBSD userspace. Maybe you also don't trust the Windows applications you're running too much - sandboxctl creates a chroot based on a fresh system image, and chroot on NetBSD is fairly bombproof.</p> <hr> </blockquote> <h3><a href="https://dataswamp.org/%7Esolene/2020-09-04-pkglocate-openbsd.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD</a></h3> <blockquote> <p>There is one very handy package on OpenBSD named pkglocatedb which provides the command pkglocate.<br> If you need to find a file or binary/program and you don’t know which package contains it, use pkglocate.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTShQIXSdqM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD for 1.5 Years: Confessions of a Linux Heretic</a></li> <li><a href="https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20200831192811" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD 6.8 Beta Tagged</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/09/08/24933.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Hammer2 and growth</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.thezdi.com/blog/2020/9/1/cve-2020-7460-freebsd-kernel-privilege-escalation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Understanding a FreeBSD kernel vulnerability</a> ***</li> </ul> <h3>Tarsnap</h3> <ul> <li>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.</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/368/feedback/Bruce%20-%207%20years.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Rob - 7 years</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/368/feedback/Kurt%20-%20Microserver.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Kurt - Microserver</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/368/feedback/Rob%20-%20Interviews.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Rob - Interviews</a></li> </ul> <hr> <ul> <li>Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to <a href="mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">feedback@bsdnow.tv</a> ***</li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, os, berkeley, software, distribution, zfs, zpool, dataset, interview, console, modernizing, modern, operating system, role, cluster, pacemaker, corosync, wine, 32-bit, 64-bit, sandbox, package manager Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more.

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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

At the beginning were text mode consoles. Traditionally, *BSD and Linux on i386 and amd64 used text mode consoles which by default provided 25 rows of 80 columns, the "80x25 mode". This mode uses a 8x16 font stored in the VGA BIOS (which can be slightly different across vendors).
OpenBSD uses the wscons(4) console framework, inherited from NetBSD

OS roles have changed

Though I do wonder sometimes, with just a slight tweak to history, how things might have been different. In another dimension somewhere, I’m using the latest BeOS-powered PowerPC laptop, and a shiny new Palm smartphone. Both of these represented the pinnacle of UI design in the 1990s, and still in the 2020s have yet to be surpassed. People call me an Apple fanboy, but I’d drop all of it in a second for that gear.

News Roundup

FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync

I always missed ‘proper’ cluster software for FreeBSD systems. Recently I got to run several Pacemaker/Corosync based clusters on Linux systems. I thought how to make similar high availability solutions on FreeBSD and I was really shocked when I figured out that both Pacemaker and Corosync tools are available in the FreeBSD Ports and packages as net/pacemaker2 and net/corosync2 respectively.

Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD

"Mainline pkgsrc" can't do strange multi-arch Wine builds yet, so a 32-bit sandbox seems like a reasonable way to use 32-bit Wine on amd64 without resorting to running real Windows in NVMM. We'll see if this was a viable alternative to re-reviewing the multi-arch support in pkgsrc-wip...
We're using sandboxctl, which is a neat tool for quickly shelling into a different NetBSD userspace. Maybe you also don't trust the Windows applications you're running too much - sandboxctl creates a chroot based on a fresh system image, and chroot on NetBSD is fairly bombproof.

Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD

There is one very handy package on OpenBSD named pkglocatedb which provides the command pkglocate.
If you need to find a file or binary/program and you don’t know which package contains it, use pkglocate.

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.

Feedback/Questions

  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv ***
]]> Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

At the beginning were text mode consoles. Traditionally, *BSD and Linux on i386 and amd64 used text mode consoles which by default provided 25 rows of 80 columns, the "80x25 mode". This mode uses a 8x16 font stored in the VGA BIOS (which can be slightly different across vendors).
OpenBSD uses the wscons(4) console framework, inherited from NetBSD

OS roles have changed

Though I do wonder sometimes, with just a slight tweak to history, how things might have been different. In another dimension somewhere, I’m using the latest BeOS-powered PowerPC laptop, and a shiny new Palm smartphone. Both of these represented the pinnacle of UI design in the 1990s, and still in the 2020s have yet to be surpassed. People call me an Apple fanboy, but I’d drop all of it in a second for that gear.

News Roundup

FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync

I always missed ‘proper’ cluster software for FreeBSD systems. Recently I got to run several Pacemaker/Corosync based clusters on Linux systems. I thought how to make similar high availability solutions on FreeBSD and I was really shocked when I figured out that both Pacemaker and Corosync tools are available in the FreeBSD Ports and packages as net/pacemaker2 and net/corosync2 respectively.

Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD

"Mainline pkgsrc" can't do strange multi-arch Wine builds yet, so a 32-bit sandbox seems like a reasonable way to use 32-bit Wine on amd64 without resorting to running real Windows in NVMM. We'll see if this was a viable alternative to re-reviewing the multi-arch support in pkgsrc-wip...
We're using sandboxctl, which is a neat tool for quickly shelling into a different NetBSD userspace. Maybe you also don't trust the Windows applications you're running too much - sandboxctl creates a chroot based on a fresh system image, and chroot on NetBSD is fairly bombproof.

Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD

There is one very handy package on OpenBSD named pkglocatedb which provides the command pkglocate.
If you need to find a file or binary/program and you don’t know which package contains it, use pkglocate.

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.

Feedback/Questions

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