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Open-Source Software Is in Crisis

A Brief History of Cyrix

News Roundup

Userland Disk I/O

OPNsense 24.7.9 released

GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

Keep your OmniOS server time synced

Beastie Bits

• "I'll take 2" - Solidigm introduces a 122TB Drive, the World’s Highest Capacity PCIe SSDs

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Feedback/Questions

• Ian - Thoughts

Producer Note

• Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that.
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Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years

5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong

News Roundup

The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected

OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off

bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?

Beastie Bits

• Game of Trees 0.104
• Networking for System Administrators
• Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit Day 1
• Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit Day 2

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Feedback/Questions

• Chris - Truenas
• Brendan - NextCloud

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From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration

FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

News Roundup

Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure

LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released

Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14

git: world - Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions

Beastie Bits

- How to Upgrade FreeBSD KDE 5 to KDE 6

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Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine

The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist

The Worst New Guys In History

News Roundup

FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison

Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos

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Feedback/Questions

• Brad - Detective work on zpool history
• Extrowerk - End of the world type stuff
• Mike - principle of least astonishment

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Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2

History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes

News Roundup

Wayland on OpenBSD

OpenBGPD 8.1 released

Shoot yourself in the foot

Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while

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Feedback/Questions

• Ian - about dozing off when listening

• Nixbytes - news on netbsd

• Phillip - Questions

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FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2023

Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023

News Roundup

How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD

A bit of Unix history on 'su -'

Some hints for splitting commits

Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam

In memoriam

In Memoriam: Hans Petter William Sirevåg Selasky

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Feedback/Questions

• Agbo - Using BSD for a business

• Chris - Desktop BSD systems

• Dane - Use another OS

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Tails of the M1 GPU

Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail

News Roundup

A brief interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan

Next steps toward mimmutable, from deraadt@

Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now

MWL Update

• Fediverse Servers, plus mac_portacl on FreeBSD
• Fifty Books. Thirty Years. What Next?
• Mailing List Freebies

Beastie Bits

• More #FreeBSD Power Saving Notes
• Hacker Stations
• The Cult of DD
• RavynOS
  • ravynOS (previously called airyxOS) is an open-source operating system based on FreeBSD, CMU Mach, and Apple open-source code that aims to be compatible with macOS applications and has no hardware restrictions.

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EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different)

Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails

News Roundup

The history of sending signals to Unix process groups

Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8)

Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022

Beastie Bits

-current has moved to 7.2
Several /sbin daemons are now dynamically-linked
Announcing the pkgsrc 2022Q3 branch

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Feedback/Questions

• Hans - datacenters and dust
• Tim - Boot issue
• aaron- dwm tiling ***
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Headlines

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3

A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD

News Roundup

A fresh look at FreeBSD

File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell

Video Playback on FreeBSD – Quick Guide

Beastie Bits

ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes
... interesting old-timey UNIXes ...
A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix! Legacy
Game of Trees 0.75 released

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Feedback/Questions

• Ken - HPR
• Kevin - FreeBSD and EMACS
• Nathan - Handbook contribution Question

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The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro

FreeBSD Periodic Scripts

News Roundup

The history (sort of) of service management in Unix

My journey from macOS to FreeBSD

A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other

Navidrome music server on FreeBSD

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Feedback/Questions

• Tyler - Is this enough for VMs
• Kevin - BSD from RAMdisk
• Malcolm - wired headset in FreeBSD

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My Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD

I was inspired by the April 2017 article in undeadly.org about getting OpenBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. My goal was to use a Raspberry Pi running OpenBSD to monitor the temperature in my garage from my home. My dog has his own little "apartment" inside the garage, so I want to keep an eye on the temperature. (I don't rely on this device. He sleeps inside the house whenever he wants.)

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EuroBSDcon 2021 Call for Papers

FreeBSD iostat

The state of toolchains in NetBSD

While FreeBSD and OpenBSD both switched to using LLVM/Clang as their base system compiler, NetBSD picked a different path and remained with GCC and binutils regardless of the license change to GPLv3. However, it doesn't mean that the NetBSD project endorses this license, and the NetBSD Foundation's has issued a statement about its position on the subject.

• NetBSD’s statement ***

News Roundup

Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8

I will explain how to limit bandwidth on OpenBSD using its firewall PF (Packet Filter) queuing capability. It is a very powerful feature but it may be hard to understand at first. What is very important to understand is that it's technically not possible to limit the bandwidth of the whole system, because once data is getting on your network interface, it's already there and got by your router, what is possible is to limit the upload rate to cap the download rate.

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FreeBSD's ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD

FreeBSD completed their ports migration from subversion to git. Prior to the official switch, we used the read-only mirror FreeBSD had at GitHub[1]. The new repo is at [2]. A cursory glance at the new repo will show that the commit hashes changed. This presents an issue with HardenedBSD's ports tree in our merge-based workflow.

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TrueNAS 12.0-U3 has been released

iXsystems is excited to announce TrueNAS 12.0-U3 was released today and marks an important milestone in the transition from FreeNAS to TrueNAS. TrueNAS 12.0 is now considered by iXsystems to be a higher quality release than FreeNAS 11.3-U5, our previous benchmark. The new TrueNAS documentation site has also reached a point where it has more content and capabilities than FreeNAS. TrueNAS 12.0 is ready for mission-critical enterprise deployments.

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Beastie Bits

• Joyent provides pkgsrc for MacOS X
• Archives of old Irix documentation
• FreeBSD Developer/Vendor Summit 2021 ***

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Feedback/Questions

• Andre - splitting zfs array
• Bruce - Command Change
• Dan - Annoyances with ZFS

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History of FreeBSD - Part 3: Early Days of FreeBSD

In this third part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we start tracing the early days of FreeBSD and the events that would eventually shape the project and the future of open source software.

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A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard

WireGuard is a new coming to OpenBSD 6.8 and it looks like a simple and efficient way to connect computers.
I own a few VPS (hello Vultr, hello OpenBSD.amsterdam) that tend to be connected through filtered public services and/or SSH tunnels. And that’s neither efficient nor easy to manage. Here comes the wg(4) era where all those peers will communicate with a bit more privacy and ease of management.

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News Roundup

Foundation Sponsors FreeBSD LLDB Improvements

With FreeBSD Foundation grant, Moritz Systems improved LLDB support for FreeBSD
The LLDB project builds on libraries provided by LLVM and Clang to provide a great modern debugger. It uses the Clang ASTs and the expression parser, LLVM JIT, LLVM disassembler, etc so that it provides an experience that “just works”. It is also blazing fast and more permissively licensed than GDB, the GNU Debugger.
LLDB is the default debugger in Xcode on macOS and supports debugging C, Objective-C, and C++ on the desktop and iOS devices and the simulator.

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Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD

In this article I will explain how to deploy your own Cryptpad instance with OpenBSD. Cryptpad is a web office suite featuring easy real time collaboration on documents. Cryptpad is written in JavaScript and the daemon acts as a web server.

Beastie Bits

• OPNsense 20.7.7 Released
• Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Webinar - Jan 20th @ noon Eastern / 17:00 UTC.
• BSD In Die Hard
• Managing jails with Ansible: a showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD
• BSD Hardware
• New WINE chapter in FreeBSD handbook ***

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Feedback/Questions

• scott- zfs question
• Bruce - copy paste on esxi

• Julian - an apology for Allan

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History of FreeBSD : Part 2 : BSDi and USL Lawsuits

In this second part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we continue to trace the pre-history of FreeBSD and the events that would eventually shape the project and the future of open source software.

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Building a Web Site on Google Compute Engine

Here's how I deployed a web site to the Google Cloud Platform. I used FreeBSD for good performance, stability, and minimal complexity. I set up HTTPS with free Let's Encrypt TLS certificates for both RSA and ECC. Then I adjusted the Apache configuration for a good score from the authoritative Qualys server analysis.

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News Roundup

Firewall ban-sharing across machines

As described in My infrastructure as of 2019, my machines are located in three different sites and are loosely coupled. Nonetheless, I wanted to set things up so that if an IP address is acting maliciously toward one machine, all my machines block that IP at once so the meanie won't get to try one machine after another.

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OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD

If you plan to use an OpenVPN tunnel to reach your default gateway, which would make the tun interface in the egress group, and use tun0 in your pf.conf which is loaded before OpenVPN starts?
Here are the few tips I use to solve the problems.

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Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers

Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is and covers
October 8, 2020
I've linked to the Single Unix Specification any number of times, for various versions of it (when I first linked to it, it was at issue 6, in 2006; it's now up to a 2018 edition). But I've never been quite clear what it covered and didn't cover, and how it related to POSIX and similar things. After yesterday's entry got me looking at the SuS site again, I decided to try to sort this out once and for all.

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Bye-bye, Apple

The days of Apple products are behind me. I had been developing on a Macbook for over twelve years, but now, I’ve switched to an ever trending setup: OpenBSD on a Thinkpad.
The new platform is a winner. Everything is clean, quick, and configurable. When I ps uaxww, I’m not hogging ‘gigs’ of RAM just to have things up and running. There’s no black magic that derails me at every turn. In short, my sanity has been long restored.

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Feedback/Questions

• Chris - small projects
• Jens - ZFS Question
  • One pool to rule them all
• Shroyer - Dotnet on FreeBSD for Jellyfin ***
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yubikey-agent on FreeBSD

Some time ago Filippo Valsorda wrote yubikey-agent, seamless SSH agent for YubiKeys. I really like YubiKeys and worked on the FreeBSD support for U2F in Chromium and pyu2f, getting yubikey-agent ported looked like an interesting project. It took some hacking to make it work but overall it wasn’t hard. Following is the roadmap on how to get it set up on FreeBSD. The actual details depend on your system (as you will see)

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Manage Kubernetes clusters from OpenBSD

This should work with OpenBSD 6.7. I write this while the source tree is locked for release, so even if I use -current this is as close as -current gets to -release
Update 2020-06-05: we now have a port for kubectl. So, at least in -current things get a bit easier.

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News Roundup

History of FreeBSD Part 1: Unix and BSD

FreeBSD, a free and open-source Unix-like operating system has been around since 1993. However, its origins are directly linked to that of BSD, and further back, those of Unix. During this History of FreeBSD series, we will talk about how Unix came to be, and how Berkeley’s Unix developed at Bell Labs.

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Running Jitsi-Meet in a FreeBSD Jail

Due to the situation with COVID-19 that also lead to people being confined to their homes in South Africa as well, we decided to provide a (freely usable of course) Jitsi Meet instance to the community being hosted in South Africa on our FreeBSD environment.
That way, communities in South Africa and beyond have a free alternative to the commercial conferencing solutions with sometimes dubious security and privacy histories and at the same time improved user experience due to the lower latency of local hosting.

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Command Line Bug Hunting in FreeBSD

FreeBSD uses bugzilla for tracking bugs, taking feature requests, regressions and issues in the Operating System. The web interface for bugzilla is okay, but if you want to do a lot of batch operations it is slow to deal with. We are planning to run a bugsquash on July 11th and that really needs some tooling to help any hackers that show up process the giant bug list we have.

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Beastie Bits

• Game of Github
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Feedback/Questions

• Florian : Lua for $HOME
• Kevin : FreeBSD Source Question

• Tom : HomeLabs

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FreeBSD 12.1

• Some of the highlights:

  • BearSSL has been imported to the base system.
  • The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt utilities and libc++ have been updated to version 8.0.1.
  • OpenSSL has been updated to version 1.1.1d.
  • Several userland utility updates.

• For a complete list of new features and known problems, please see the online release notes and errata list, available at: https://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/12.1R/relnotes.html

A History of UNIX before Berkeley: UNIX Evolution: 1975-1984.

Nobody needs to be told that UNIX is popular today. In this article we will show you a little of where it was yesterday and over the past decade. And, without meaning in the least to minimise the incredible contributions of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, we will bring to light many of the others who worked on early versions, and try to show where some of the key ideas came from, and how they got into the UNIX of today.

Our title says we are talking about UNIX evolution. Evolution means different things to different people. We use the term loosely, to describe the change over time among the many different UNIX variants in use both inside and outside Bell Labs. Ideas, code, and useful programs seem to have made their way back and forth - like mutant genes - among all the many UNIXes living in the phone company over the decade in question.

Part One looks at some of the major components of the current UNIX system - the text formatting tools, the compilers and program development tools, and so on. Most of the work described in Part One took place at Research'', a part of Bell Laboratories (now AT&T Bell Laboratories, then as nowthe Labs''), and the ancestral home of UNIX. In planned (but not written) later parts, we would have looked at some of the myriad versions of UNIX - there are far more than one might suspect. This includes a look at Columbus and USG and at Berkeley Unix. You'll begin to get a glimpse inside the history of the major streams of development of the system during that time.

News Roundup

My FreeBSD Development Setup

I do my FreeBSD development using git, tmux, vim and cscope.

I keep a FreeBSD fork on my github, I have forked https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd to https://github.com/adventureloop/freebsd

OPNsense 19.7.6 released

As we are experiencing the Suricata community first hand in Amsterdam we thought to release this version a bit earlier than planned. Included is the latest Suricata 5.0.0 release in the development version. That means later this November we will releasing version 5 to the production version as we finish up tweaking the integration and maybe pick up 5.0.1 as it becomes available.

LDAP TLS connectivity is now integrated into the system trust store, which ensures that all required root and intermediate certificates will be seen by the connection setup when they have been added to the authorities section. The same is true for trusting self-signed certificates. On top of this, IPsec now supports public key authentication as contributed by Pascal Mathis.

HardenedBSD November 2019 Status Report.

We at HardenedBSD have a lot of news to share. On 05 Nov 2019, Oliver Pinter resigned amicably from the project. All of us at HardenedBSD owe Oliver our gratitude and appreciation. This humble project, named by Oliver, was born out of his thesis work and the collaboration with Shawn Webb. Oliver created the HardenedBSD repo on GitHub in April 2013. The HardenedBSD Foundation was formed five years later to carry on this great work.

DNSSEC enabled in default unbound(8) configuration.

DNSSEC validation has been enabled in the default unbound.conf(5) in -current. The relevant commits were from Job Snijders (job@)

How to Install Shopware with NGINX and Let's Encrypt on FreeBSD 12

Shopware is the next generation of open source e-commerce software. Based on bleeding edge technologies like Symfony 3, Doctrine2 and Zend Framework Shopware comes as the perfect platform for your next e-commerce project. This tutorial will walk you through the Shopware Community Edition (CE) installation on FreeBSD 12 system by using NGINX as a web server.

• Requirements

Make sure your system meets the following minimum requirements:

• Linux-based operating system with NGINX or Apache 2.x (with mod_rewrite) web server installed.
• PHP 5.6.4 or higher with ctype, gd, curl, dom, hash, iconv, zip, json, mbstring, openssl, session, simplexml, xml, zlib, fileinfo, and pdo/mysql extensions. PHP 7.1 or above is strongly recommended.
• MySQL 5.5.0 or higher.
• Possibility to set up cron jobs.
• Minimum 4 GB available hard disk space.
• IonCube Loader version 5.0.0 or higher (optional).

How to Compile RainbowCrack on OpenBSD

Project RainbowCrack was originally Zhu Shuanglei's implementation, it's not clear to me if the project is still just his or if it's even been maintained for a while. His page seems to have been last updated in August 2007.

The Project RainbowCrack web page now has just binaries for Windows XP and Linux, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

Earlier versions were available as source code. The version 1.2 source code does not compile on OpenBSD, and in my experience it doesn't compile on Linux, either. It seems to date from 2004 at the earliest, and I think it makes some version-2.4 assumptions about Linux kernel headers.

• You might also look at ophcrack, a more modern tool, although it seems to be focused on cracking Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 password hashes

Feedback/Questions

• Reese - Amature radio info
• Chris - VPN
• Malcolm - NAT

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