web01.fireside.fm Sun, 24 May 2026 23:22:23 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Nvme” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/nvme Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -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 629: Host Naming Conventions https://www.bsdnow.tv/629 95debf62-27d2-44db-9362-3e6c9f6d1fd3 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more. 1:08:11 no <p>The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, 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://hackaday.com/2025/07/23/the-death-of-industrial-design-and-the-era-of-dull-electronics" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/host-naming-convention" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Host Naming Convention</a></p> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/symbian_forgotten_foss_phone_os/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://heitorpb.github.io/bla/timeout/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">TIL: timeout in Bash scripts</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/tech/NVMeOvertakingSATAForSSDs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://johnnydecimal.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">A system to organise your life</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> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <h2>- <a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/629/feedback/Nelson%20-%20books.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Nelson - Books</a> </h2> <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, industrial design, dull electronics, hostname, convention, bash, timeout, symbian, nvme, ssd, performance, capacity, organization The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.

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Headlines

The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics

Host Naming Convention

News Roundup

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities

A system to organise your life

Tarsnap

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Feedback/Questions

- Nelson - Books

]]> The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.

NOTES

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Headlines

The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics

Host Naming Convention

News Roundup

Open, free, and completely ignored: The strange afterlife of Symbian

TIL: timeout in Bash scripts

It seems like NVMe SSDs have overtaken SATA SSDs for high capacities

A system to organise your life

Tarsnap

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Feedback/Questions

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]]> 481: Fiery Crackers https://www.bsdnow.tv/481 f0df0143-84f7-40aa-9802-be21a870c0c1 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more. 47:54 no <p>FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, 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/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> <h3><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-07-2022-09/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/avoid-vendor-lock-in-with-minio-and-openzfs/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-10-18-FreeBSD-Firecracker.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://lowendbox.com/blog/how-much-faster-is-making-a-tar-archive-without-gzip/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/postgresql-from-packages-on-openbsd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PostgreSQL from packages on OpenBSD</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://dan.langille.org/2022/10/18/upgrading-an-nvme-zpool-from-222g-to-1tb-drives/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://unixsheikh.com/articles/dont-use-reddit-for-linux-or-bsd-related-questions.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PSA: Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions</a></h3> <hr> <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><p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/481/feedback/Hinnerk%20-%20vnet%20jails.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Hinnerk - vnet jails</a><br> Tom’s response example: <a href="https://adventurist.me/posts/00304" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://adventurist.me/posts/00304</a></p></li> <li><p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/481/feedback/Hugo%20-%20Apple%20M2.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Hugo - Apple M2</a></p></li> <li> <p><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/481/feedback/kevin%20-%20emacs%20backspace.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">kevin - emacs backspace</a><br> )</p> <hr> </li> <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> <hr> </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, filesystem, ports, packages, jails, interview, q3, third quarter, status report, minio, vendor lock-in, avoid, avoidance, firecracker, aws, tar, gzip, speedup, performance, postgres, nvme, reddit, linux, questions FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more.

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

Headlines

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022

Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS

Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform

News Roundup

How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?

PostgreSQL from packages on OpenBSD

Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives

PSA: Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions

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

Headlines

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report Third Quarter 2022

Avoid Infrastructure Vendor Lock-in by leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS

Announcing the FreeBSD/Firecracker platform

News Roundup

How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip?

PostgreSQL from packages on OpenBSD

Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives

PSA: Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions

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]]> 396: License to thrill https://www.bsdnow.tv/396 db1ced31-e2bc-41f2-baca-041c750229f4 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Description: FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, and more. 53:27 no <p>FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, 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/bsdnow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tarsnap</a></p> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-network-troubleshooting-understanding-network-performance/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting</a></h3> <p>&gt; FreeBSD has a full set of debugging features, and the network stack is able to report a ton of information. So much that it can be hard to figure out what is relevant and what is not.</p> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/the_state_of_freebsd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The State of FreeBSD</a></h3> <p>&gt; License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything</p> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210227232424" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon</a></h3> <p>&gt; With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported dhcpleased(8), DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases from servers, plus dhcpleasectl(8), a utility to control the daemon:</p> <hr> <h3><a href="https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/03/05/bhyve.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bhyve for Calamares Development</a></h3> <p>&gt; bhyve (pronounced “bee hive”) is a hypervisor for BSD systems (and Illumos / openSolaris). It is geared towards server workloads, but does support desktop-oriented operation as well. I spent some time wayyyy back in November wrestling with it in order to replace VirtualBox for Calamares testing on FreeBSD. The “golden hint” as far as I’m concerned came from Karen Bruner and now I have a functioning Calamares test-ground that is more useful than before.<br> “Calamares is a free and open-source independent and distro-agnostic system installer for Linux distributions.“</p> <hr> <h3><a href="https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-05-31-Some-new-FreeBSD-EC2-features.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id</a></h3> <p>&gt; As my regular readers will be aware, I've been working on and gradually improving FreeBSD/EC2 for many years. Recently I've added two new features, which are available in the weekly HEAD and 12-STABLE snapshots and will appear in releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.</p> <hr> <h3><a href="http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2021-February/018304.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Old Usenix pictures</a></h3> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <h3>[<a href="https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/%5D(CFP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/](CFP</a> is open until May 26th, 2021)</h3> <p>&gt; EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place September 16-19 2021 in Vienna, Austria or as an all-online event if COVID-19 developments dictate. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday.<br> The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on May 26th, 2021. Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 1st, 2021.</p> <hr> <h3>[<a href="https://campgnd.com/%5D(CFP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">https://campgnd.com/](CFP</a> is open until 2021-04-15)</h3> <p>campgndd will be held May 28th, 29th and 30th 2021, from wherever you happen to be.<br> We're looking for submissions on anything you're enthusiastic and excited about. If you enjoy it, the odds are we will too! You don't need to be an expert to propose anything.<br> Some example of things we are looking for are:<br> Talks<br> Walkthroughs<br> Music</p> <h3>From the Desk of Michael Lucas…</h3> <pre><code>New Release: Only Footnotes I’ve lost count of the number of people who have told me that they purchase my books only for the footnotes. That’s okay. I don’t care why people buy my books, only that they do buy them. Nevertheless, I am a businessman living under capitalism and feel compelled to respond to my market. Allow me to present my latest release: Only Footnotes, a handsome hardcover-only compilation of decades of footnotes. From the back cover: ----- Only Footnotes. Because that’s why you read his books. Academics hate footnotes. Michael W Lucas loves them. What he does with them wouldn’t pass academic muster, but that doesn’t mean the reader should skip them. The footnotes are the best part! Why not read only the footnotes, and skip all that other junk? After literal minutes of effort, Only Footnotes collects every single footnote from all of Lucas’ books to date.* Recycle those cumbersome treatises stuffed with irrelevant facts! No more flipping through pages and pages of actual technical knowledge looking for the offhand movie reference or half-formed joke. This slender, elegant volume contains everything the man ever passed off as his dubious, malformed “wisdom.” Smart books have footnotes. Smarter books are only footnotes. *plus additional annotations from the author. Because sometimes even a footnote needs a footnote. ---- With interior illustrations by OpenBSD’s akoshibe, this distinguished tome would make fine inspirational reading for a system administrator, network engineer, or anyone sentenced to a life in information technology. Available at all fine bookstores, and many mediocre ones! </code></pre> <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> <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> <p>Special Guest: Tom Jones.</p> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, trueos, trident, hardenedbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, operating system, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, interview, network, troubleshooting, dhcpleased, bhyve, calamares, efs, automount, ebsnvme-id, nvme, usenix, old pictures, book FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, and more.

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Headlines

FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting

FreeBSD has a full set of debugging features, and the network stack is able to report a ton of information. So much that it can be hard to figure out what is relevant and what is not.

The State of FreeBSD

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

News Roundup

dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon

With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported dhcpleased(8), DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases from servers, plus dhcpleasectl(8), a utility to control the daemon:

bhyve for Calamares Development

bhyve (pronounced “bee hive”) is a hypervisor for BSD systems (and Illumos / openSolaris). It is geared towards server workloads, but does support desktop-oriented operation as well. I spent some time wayyyy back in November wrestling with it in order to replace VirtualBox for Calamares testing on FreeBSD. The “golden hint” as far as I’m concerned came from Karen Bruner and now I have a functioning Calamares test-ground that is more useful than before.
“Calamares is a free and open-source independent and distro-agnostic system installer for Linux distributions.“

Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id

As my regular readers will be aware, I've been working on and gradually improving FreeBSD/EC2 for many years. Recently I've added two new features, which are available in the weekly HEAD and 12-STABLE snapshots and will appear in releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.

Old Usenix pictures

Beastie Bits

[https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/](CFP is open until May 26th, 2021)

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place September 16-19 2021 in Vienna, Austria or as an all-online event if COVID-19 developments dictate. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday.
The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on May 26th, 2021. Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 1st, 2021.

[https://campgnd.com/](CFP is open until 2021-04-15)

campgndd will be held May 28th, 29th and 30th 2021, from wherever you happen to be.
We're looking for submissions on anything you're enthusiastic and excited about. If you enjoy it, the odds are we will too! You don't need to be an expert to propose anything.
Some example of things we are looking for are:
Talks
Walkthroughs
Music

From the Desk of Michael Lucas…

New Release: Only Footnotes
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have told me that they purchase my books only for the footnotes. That’s okay. I don’t care why people buy my books, only that they do buy them. Nevertheless, I am a businessman living under capitalism and feel compelled to respond to my market.
Allow me to present my latest release: Only Footnotes, a handsome hardcover-only compilation of decades of footnotes. From the back cover:
-----
Only Footnotes. Because that’s why you read his books.
Academics hate footnotes. Michael W Lucas loves them. What he does with them wouldn’t pass academic muster, but that doesn’t mean the reader should skip them. The footnotes are the best part! Why not read only the footnotes, and skip all that other junk?
After literal minutes of effort, Only Footnotes collects every single footnote from all of Lucas’ books to date.* Recycle those cumbersome treatises stuffed with irrelevant facts! No more flipping through pages and pages of actual technical knowledge looking for the offhand movie reference or half-formed joke. This slender, elegant volume contains everything the man ever passed off as his dubious, malformed “wisdom.”
Smart books have footnotes. Smarter books are only footnotes.
*plus additional annotations from the author. Because sometimes even a footnote needs a footnote.
----
With interior illustrations by OpenBSD’s akoshibe, this distinguished tome would make fine inspirational reading for a system administrator, network engineer, or anyone sentenced to a life in information technology. Available at all fine bookstores, and many mediocre ones!

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

Special Guest: Tom Jones.

]]> FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, and more.

NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting

FreeBSD has a full set of debugging features, and the network stack is able to report a ton of information. So much that it can be hard to figure out what is relevant and what is not.

The State of FreeBSD

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

News Roundup

dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon

With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported dhcpleased(8), DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases from servers, plus dhcpleasectl(8), a utility to control the daemon:

bhyve for Calamares Development

bhyve (pronounced “bee hive”) is a hypervisor for BSD systems (and Illumos / openSolaris). It is geared towards server workloads, but does support desktop-oriented operation as well. I spent some time wayyyy back in November wrestling with it in order to replace VirtualBox for Calamares testing on FreeBSD. The “golden hint” as far as I’m concerned came from Karen Bruner and now I have a functioning Calamares test-ground that is more useful than before.
“Calamares is a free and open-source independent and distro-agnostic system installer for Linux distributions.“

Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id

As my regular readers will be aware, I've been working on and gradually improving FreeBSD/EC2 for many years. Recently I've added two new features, which are available in the weekly HEAD and 12-STABLE snapshots and will appear in releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.

Old Usenix pictures

Beastie Bits

[https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/](CFP is open until May 26th, 2021)

EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place September 16-19 2021 in Vienna, Austria or as an all-online event if COVID-19 developments dictate. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday.
The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on May 26th, 2021. Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 1st, 2021.

[https://campgnd.com/](CFP is open until 2021-04-15)

campgndd will be held May 28th, 29th and 30th 2021, from wherever you happen to be.
We're looking for submissions on anything you're enthusiastic and excited about. If you enjoy it, the odds are we will too! You don't need to be an expert to propose anything.
Some example of things we are looking for are:
Talks
Walkthroughs
Music

From the Desk of Michael Lucas…

New Release: Only Footnotes
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have told me that they purchase my books only for the footnotes. That’s okay. I don’t care why people buy my books, only that they do buy them. Nevertheless, I am a businessman living under capitalism and feel compelled to respond to my market.
Allow me to present my latest release: Only Footnotes, a handsome hardcover-only compilation of decades of footnotes. From the back cover:
-----
Only Footnotes. Because that’s why you read his books.
Academics hate footnotes. Michael W Lucas loves them. What he does with them wouldn’t pass academic muster, but that doesn’t mean the reader should skip them. The footnotes are the best part! Why not read only the footnotes, and skip all that other junk?
After literal minutes of effort, Only Footnotes collects every single footnote from all of Lucas’ books to date.* Recycle those cumbersome treatises stuffed with irrelevant facts! No more flipping through pages and pages of actual technical knowledge looking for the offhand movie reference or half-formed joke. This slender, elegant volume contains everything the man ever passed off as his dubious, malformed “wisdom.”
Smart books have footnotes. Smarter books are only footnotes.
*plus additional annotations from the author. Because sometimes even a footnote needs a footnote.
----
With interior illustrations by OpenBSD’s akoshibe, this distinguished tome would make fine inspirational reading for a system administrator, network engineer, or anyone sentenced to a life in information technology. Available at all fine bookstores, and many mediocre ones!

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

Special Guest: Tom Jones.

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