web02.fireside.fm Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:26:43 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Feedback” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/feedback Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -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 563: 14.1 https://www.bsdnow.tv/563 6f802912-a29d-4285-ac35-22bd8efcebeb Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, and more 49:05 no FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, 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 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/announce/) News Roundup Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm (https://plexwave.org/blog/auto-dark-mode) dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240604085042&utm_source=bsdweekly) DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@ (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240606180535) Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance (https://www.ncartron.org/replacing-my-opnsense-gateway-hardware-by-a-protectli-appliance.html) How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2024/04/18/how-to-alter-file-ownership-and-permissions-with-a-feedback-information/) 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 Sad News (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/563/feedback/sad_news.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) 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, 14.1, announcement, automatic, dark-mode, dwm, dhcp6leased, DHCPv6-PD, OPNsense, gateway, Protectli, feedback, chown, chmod FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, and more

NOTES

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

Headlines

FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement

News Roundup

Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm

dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current

DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@

Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance

How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information

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

]]> FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, and more

NOTES

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

Headlines

FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement

News Roundup

Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm

dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current

DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@

Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance

How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information

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

]]> 345: Switchers to BSD https://www.bsdnow.tv/345 c46952e4-8ea3-4506-b4eb-54f2870547ee Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington 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. 47:48 no 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. Headlines NetBSD 8.2 is available! (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_8_2_is_available) The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available. This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this point, and other fixes deemed important for stability. Some highlights include: x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs x86: Hyper-V Gen.2 VM framebuffer support httpd(8): fixed various security issues ixg(4): various fixes / improvements x86 efiboot: add tftp support, fix issues on machines with many memory segments, improve graphics mode logic to work on more machines. Various kernel memory info leaks fixes Update expat to 2.2.8 Fix ryzen USB issues and support xHCI version 3.10. Accept root device specification as NAME=label. Add multiboot 2 support to x86 bootloaders. Fix for CVE-2019-9506: 'Key Negotiation of Bluetooth' attack. nouveau: limit the supported devices and fix firmware loading. radeon: fix loading of the TAHITI VCE firmware. named(8): stop using obsolete dnssec-lookaside. NextCloud on OpenBSD (https://h3artbl33d.nl/2020-nextcloud.html) NextCloud and OpenBSD are complementary to one another. NextCloud is an awesome, secure and private alternative for proprietary platforms, whereas OpenBSD forms the most secure and solid foundation to serve it on. Setting it up in the best way isn’t hard, especially using this step by step tutorial. Preface Back when this tutorial was initially written, things were different. The OpenBSD port relied on PHP 5.6 and there were no package updates. But the port improved (hats off, Gonzalo!) and package updates were introduced to the -stable branch (hats off, Solene!). A rewrite of this tutorial was long overdue. Right now, it is written for 6.6 -stable and will be updated once 6.7 is released. If you have any questions or desire some help, feel free to reach out. News Roundup X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach (http://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2020/01/x11-screen-locking-a-secure-and-modular-approach.html) For years I’ve been using XScreenSaver as a default, but I recently learned about xsecurelock and re-evaluated my screen-saving requirements NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel (http://www.update.uu.se/~micken/ronetbsd.html) I have been experimenting with running two systems at the same time on the RK3399 SoC. It all begun when I figured out how to switch to the A72 cpu for RISC OS. When the switch was done, the A53 cpu just continued to execute code. OK I thought why not give it something to do! My first step was to run some small programs. It worked! + Thanks to Tom Jones for the pointer to this article Several weeks ago we covered a story about switching from Linux to BSD. Benedict and JT asked for community feedback as to their thoughts on the matter. Allan was out that week, so this will give him an opportunity to chime in with his thoughts as well. Jamie - Dumping Linux for BSD (http://dpaste.com/0CH1YXQ#wrap) Matt - BSD Packaging (http://dpaste.com/2N68YPJ#wrap) Brad - Linux vs BS (http://dpaste.com/2SF9V38#wrap) MJ - Linux vs BSD Feedback (http://dpaste.com/0Z2ZT4V#wrap) Ben - Feedback for JT (http://dpaste.com/0B3M85X) Henrik - Why you should migrate everything to BSD (http://dpaste.com/3F36EQE#wrap) Beastie Bits ssh-copy-id now included (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/04/06/24367.html) OPNsense 20.1.3 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-1-3-released/) A Collection of prebuilt BSD Cloud Images (https://bsd-cloud-image.org/) Instant terminal sharing (https://tmate.io/) Feedback/Questions Ales - Manually verify signature files for pkg package (http://dpaste.com/1EBWTK5#wrap) Shody - Yubikey (http://dpaste.com/340PM9Q#wrap) Mike - Site for hashes from old disks (http://dpaste.com/13W9SF0) Answer: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19FmLs0jXxLkxAr0zwgdrXQd1qhbwvNHH6NvolvXKWTM/edit?usp=sharing Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Your browser does not support the HTML5 video tag. freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, nextcloud, x11, screen locking, risc, risc os, community, feedback 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.

Headlines

NetBSD 8.2 is available!

The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available.

This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this point, and other fixes deemed important for stability.

  • Some highlights include:
    • x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs
    • x86: Hyper-V Gen.2 VM framebuffer support
    • httpd(8): fixed various security issues
    • ixg(4): various fixes / improvements
    • x86 efiboot: add tftp support, fix issues on machines with many memory segments, improve graphics mode logic to work on more machines.
    • Various kernel memory info leaks fixes
    • Update expat to 2.2.8
    • Fix ryzen USB issues and support xHCI version 3.10.
    • Accept root device specification as NAME=label.
    • Add multiboot 2 support to x86 bootloaders.
    • Fix for CVE-2019-9506: 'Key Negotiation of Bluetooth' attack.
    • nouveau: limit the supported devices and fix firmware loading.
    • radeon: fix loading of the TAHITI VCE firmware.
    • named(8): stop using obsolete dnssec-lookaside.

NextCloud on OpenBSD

NextCloud and OpenBSD are complementary to one another. NextCloud is an awesome, secure and private alternative for proprietary platforms, whereas OpenBSD forms the most secure and solid foundation to serve it on. Setting it up in the best way isn’t hard, especially using this step by step tutorial.

  • Preface

Back when this tutorial was initially written, things were different. The OpenBSD port relied on PHP 5.6 and there were no package updates. But the port improved (hats off, Gonzalo!) and package updates were introduced to the -stable branch (hats off, Solene!).

A rewrite of this tutorial was long overdue. Right now, it is written for 6.6 -stable and will be updated once 6.7 is released. If you have any questions or desire some help, feel free to reach out.

News Roundup

X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach

For years I’ve been using XScreenSaver as a default, but I recently learned about xsecurelock and re-evaluated my screen-saving requirements

NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel

I have been experimenting with running two systems at the same time on the RK3399 SoC.
It all begun when I figured out how to switch to the A72 cpu for RISC OS. When the switch was done, the A53 cpu just continued to execute code.
OK I thought why not give it something to do!
My first step was to run some small programs.
It worked!

  • Thanks to Tom Jones for the pointer to this article

Several weeks ago we covered a story about switching from Linux to BSD. Benedict and JT asked for community feedback as to their thoughts on the matter. Allan was out that week, so this will give him an opportunity to chime in with his thoughts as well.

Beastie Bits

Feedback/Questions

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

Headlines

NetBSD 8.2 is available!

The third release in the NetBSD-8 is now available.

This release includes all the security fixes in NetBSD-8 up until this point, and other fixes deemed important for stability.

  • Some highlights include:
    • x86: fixed regression in booting old CPUs
    • x86: Hyper-V Gen.2 VM framebuffer support
    • httpd(8): fixed various security issues
    • ixg(4): various fixes / improvements
    • x86 efiboot: add tftp support, fix issues on machines with many memory segments, improve graphics mode logic to work on more machines.
    • Various kernel memory info leaks fixes
    • Update expat to 2.2.8
    • Fix ryzen USB issues and support xHCI version 3.10.
    • Accept root device specification as NAME=label.
    • Add multiboot 2 support to x86 bootloaders.
    • Fix for CVE-2019-9506: 'Key Negotiation of Bluetooth' attack.
    • nouveau: limit the supported devices and fix firmware loading.
    • radeon: fix loading of the TAHITI VCE firmware.
    • named(8): stop using obsolete dnssec-lookaside.

NextCloud on OpenBSD

NextCloud and OpenBSD are complementary to one another. NextCloud is an awesome, secure and private alternative for proprietary platforms, whereas OpenBSD forms the most secure and solid foundation to serve it on. Setting it up in the best way isn’t hard, especially using this step by step tutorial.

  • Preface

Back when this tutorial was initially written, things were different. The OpenBSD port relied on PHP 5.6 and there were no package updates. But the port improved (hats off, Gonzalo!) and package updates were introduced to the -stable branch (hats off, Solene!).

A rewrite of this tutorial was long overdue. Right now, it is written for 6.6 -stable and will be updated once 6.7 is released. If you have any questions or desire some help, feel free to reach out.

News Roundup

X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach

For years I’ve been using XScreenSaver as a default, but I recently learned about xsecurelock and re-evaluated my screen-saving requirements

NetBSD and RISC OS running parallel

I have been experimenting with running two systems at the same time on the RK3399 SoC.
It all begun when I figured out how to switch to the A72 cpu for RISC OS. When the switch was done, the A53 cpu just continued to execute code.
OK I thought why not give it something to do!
My first step was to run some small programs.
It worked!

  • Thanks to Tom Jones for the pointer to this article

Several weeks ago we covered a story about switching from Linux to BSD. Benedict and JT asked for community feedback as to their thoughts on the matter. Allan was out that week, so this will give him an opportunity to chime in with his thoughts as well.

Beastie Bits

Feedback/Questions

  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
]]> 37: BSDCanned Goods https://www.bsdnow.tv/37 3519165b-e16c-49e5-9148-ad92396b617e Wed, 14 May 2014 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 2:07:56 no This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by <a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source"></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid"></a> Presentation - Matthew Ahrens - matt@mahrens.org (mailto:matt@mahrens.org) / @mahrens1 (https://twitter.com/mahrens1) OpenZFS discussion Feedback/Questions Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2kGZUlxjg) Darin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s23j9RHsIx) Steve writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21dMlBAhM) Pascal writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20IyvdSmR) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, zfs, openzfs, feedback, emails, questions, support, bsdcan, ottawa, conference, convention This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open SourceTarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid

Presentation - Matthew Ahrens - matt@mahrens.org / @mahrens1

OpenZFS discussion

Feedback/Questions

]]> This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open SourceTarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid

Presentation - Matthew Ahrens - matt@mahrens.org / @mahrens1

OpenZFS discussion

Feedback/Questions

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