web01.fireside.fm Fri, 29 May 2026 11:02:32 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Tuning” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/tuning Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -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 620: Postmortem for jemalloc https://www.bsdnow.tv/620 5750c48e-f7ce-4af7-a722-55d35ebd2366 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more 53:53 no <p>The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, 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> <hr> <p><a href="https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-performance-tuning-optimizing-for-your-workload/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&amp;utm_medium=Podcast" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload</a></p> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <p><a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/web/MultiUserWebServerWildIdea" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/that-grumpy-bsd-guy-short-reading-list.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/31/sync/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">rsync's defaults are not always enough</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jemalloc Postmortem</a></p> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/06/25/ipv6-and-proxying-on-dragonfly/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">IPv6 and proxying on DragonFly</a></li> <li><a href="https://boxybsd.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BoxyBSD</a></li> <li><a href="https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2025-05-29-sysctltui.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sysctltui</a></li> </ul> <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> <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, Performance, tuning, optimizing, workload, multi-user web server, reading list, rsync, jemalloc, Postmortem The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more

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The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)

That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List

rsync's defaults are not always enough

jemalloc Postmortem

Beastie Bits

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Headlines

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment)

That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List

rsync's defaults are not always enough

jemalloc Postmortem

Beastie Bits

Tarsnap

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]]> 618: Funding BSD projects https://www.bsdnow.tv/618 4f1ff264-7f3d-4a92-8972-310e7fb9c640 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more 53:59 no <p>A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, 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://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">A year of funded FreeBSD</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-performance-tuning-optimizing-for-your-workload/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload</a></p> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <p><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd-in-under-five-minutes/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/ffs-optimizations-dirhash/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FFS optimizations with dirhash</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250616082212" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more</a></p> <hr> <p><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/gsoc2025_welcome_contributors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors</a></p> <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> <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, funding, performance, tuning, optimizing workload, trying freebsd, ffs optimizations, dirhash, hackathon report, installer, battery, summer of code, contributors, contributions, projects A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more

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Headlines

A year of funded FreeBSD

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes

FFS optimizations with dirhash

j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more

NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors

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Headlines

A year of funded FreeBSD

ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload

News Roundup

Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes

FFS optimizations with dirhash

j2k25 hackathon report from kn@: installer, low battery, and more

NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors

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]]> 451: Tuning ZFS recordsize https://www.bsdnow.tv/451 e05f4b5e-9285-42ae-87ba-151ec71f80b7 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, and more 1:00:45 no <p>Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, 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.unitedbsd.com/d/705-full-system-backups-with-ffs-snapshots-zfs-and-dump8" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8)</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-recordsize-in-openzfs/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.neelc.org/posts/optimize-freebsd-for-intel-tigerlake/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSCheckForMounted" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://adventurist.me/posts/0027" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge</a></h3> <hr> <h2>Beastie Bits</h2> <pre><code>• [FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU](https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/) • [HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/22/26800.html) • [New US mirror for DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/09/26742.html) • [HelloSystem 13.1 RC1](https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1-RC1) • [Video introduction to OpenBSD 7.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUsE-3nSes) • [Losses in the community](https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html) </code></pre> <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><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Sam%20-%20BSD%20Laptops.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sam - BSD Laptops</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Reese%20-%20Electric%20Groff.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Reese - Electric Groff</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/451/feedback/Alexandra%20-%20New%20to%20BSD.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Alexandra - New to BSD</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, open source, shell, unix, os, berkeley, software, distribution, release, zfs, zpool, dataset, interview, ports, packages, backups, dump, tuning, recordsize, optimizing, power consumption, intel, laptop, mount, mounting, mounted, tcpdump, wireless bridge Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, and more

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Headlines

Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8)

Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS

News Roundup

Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops

I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted

Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge

Beastie Bits

• [FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU](https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/)
• [HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/22/26800.html)
• [New US mirror for DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/09/26742.html)
• [HelloSystem 13.1 RC1](https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1-RC1)
• [Video introduction to OpenBSD 7.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUsE-3nSes)
• [Losses in the community](https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html)

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]]> Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, and more

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

Headlines

Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8)

Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS

News Roundup

Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops

I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted

Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge

Beastie Bits

• [FreeBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU](https://www.cambus.net/freebsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/)
• [HAMMER2 vs USB stick pulls](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/22/26800.html)
• [New US mirror for DragonFly](https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2022/03/09/26742.html)
• [HelloSystem 13.1 RC1](https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/experimental-13.1-RC1)
• [Video introduction to OpenBSD 7.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeUsE-3nSes)
• [Losses in the community](https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html)

Tarsnap

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]]> 19: The Installfest https://www.bsdnow.tv/19 6e52e1f8-72f4-4ef7-be58-b8d78ab97072 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 1:21:01 no <p>We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.</p> <h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2> <p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source"></a></p> <hr> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-December/044009.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure</a></h3> <ul> <li>A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available</li> <li>Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place</li> <li>Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM</li> <li>More details <a href="http://julipedia.meroh.net/2013/12/introducing-freebsd-test-suite.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">available here</a></li> <li>Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=138845902916897&amp;w=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD gets signify</a></h3> <ul> <li>At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!</li> <li>For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything</li> <li>A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around</li> <li>More details in <a href="http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">a blog post</a> from the guy who committed it</li> <li>Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.ca/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-isabell-long.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Faces of FreeBSD</a></h3> <ul> <li>This time they interview Isabell Long</li> <li>She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network</li> <li>In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation</li> <li>"The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/12/31/msg019107.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched</a></h3> <ul> <li>The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out</li> <li>13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!</li> <li>Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement</li> <li>pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD</li> <li>See <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_20-collecting_shells" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">our interview</a> with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&amp;m=138610199311393&amp;w=2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine</a></h3> <ul> <li>Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2</li> <li>Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)</li> <li>Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option</li> <li>It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work</li> <li>Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***</li> </ul> <h2>The Installfest</h2> <p>We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:</p> <ul> <li>FreeBSD 10.0</li> <li>OpenBSD 5.4</li> <li>NetBSD 6.1.2</li> <li>DragonflyBSD 3.6</li> <li>PCBSD 10.0 ***</li> </ul> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="http://ctors.net/2013/12/30/openbsd_wireless_access_point" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Building an OpenBSD wireless access point</a></h3> <ul> <li>A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router</li> <li>Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless</li> <li>Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1919" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0</a></h3> <ul> <li>Blog entry from our buddy <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Michael Lucas</a></li> <li>For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10</li> <li>Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware</li> <li>He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail</li> <li>It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-about-openbsd/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD</a></h3> <ul> <li>Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day</li> <li>To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down"</li> <li>Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD</li> <li>Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3> <ul> <li>10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested</li> <li>New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next</li> <li>Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2uns1hMml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Daniel writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2MeJNCCiu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Erik writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21fBXkP2K" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">SW writes in</a></li> <li>[Bostjan writes in[(<a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20FU9wUO5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Samuel writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, contest, pillow, giveaway, competition, sweepstakes, router, tuning, performance, dnscrypt, dnscurve, opendns, pkgsrc, testing, megacore, ixsystems, signify, signed packages, sets, mitm, gce, google compute engine, access point, jails, installfest, installer, sysinstall, bsdinstall, pc-sysinstall We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Headlines

FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure

  • A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
  • Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
  • Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
  • More details available here
  • Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***

OpenBSD gets signify

  • At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
  • For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
  • A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around
  • More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
  • Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***

Faces of FreeBSD

  • This time they interview Isabell Long
  • She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
  • In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
  • "The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

  • The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
  • 13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
  • Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
  • pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
  • See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***

OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine

  • Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2
  • Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
  • Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option
  • It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
  • Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***

The Installfest

We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:

  • FreeBSD 10.0
  • OpenBSD 5.4
  • NetBSD 6.1.2
  • DragonflyBSD 3.6
  • PCBSD 10.0 ***

News Roundup

Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

  • A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router
  • Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless
  • Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute ***

FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

  • Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas
  • For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10
  • Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware
  • He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail
  • It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." ***

Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

  • Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day
  • To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down"
  • Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD
  • Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • 10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested
  • New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next
  • Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Headlines

FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure

  • A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
  • Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
  • Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
  • More details available here
  • Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***

OpenBSD gets signify

  • At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
  • For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
  • A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around
  • More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
  • Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***

Faces of FreeBSD

  • This time they interview Isabell Long
  • She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
  • In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
  • "The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

  • The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
  • 13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
  • Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
  • pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
  • See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***

OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine

  • Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2
  • Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
  • Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option
  • It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
  • Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***

The Installfest

We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:

  • FreeBSD 10.0
  • OpenBSD 5.4
  • NetBSD 6.1.2
  • DragonflyBSD 3.6
  • PCBSD 10.0 ***

News Roundup

Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

  • A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router
  • Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless
  • Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute ***

FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

  • Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas
  • For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10
  • Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware
  • He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail
  • It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." ***

Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

  • Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day
  • To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down"
  • Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD
  • Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • 10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested
  • New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next
  • Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 17: The Gift of Giving https://www.bsdnow.tv/17 c51be78b-bd80-4b82-ac8c-4c8a6a8a1116 Wed, 25 Dec 2013 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials. 18:46 no <p>Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials.</p> <h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2> <p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source"></a></p> <hr> <h2>Interview - Scott Long - <a href="mailto:scottl@freebsd.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scottl@freebsd.org</a></h2> <p>FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics</p> <hr> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, netflix, yahoo, scott long, scottl, release engineering, cdn, openconnect, high performance, ssd, raid, gigabit, tuning Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org

FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics

]]> Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org

FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics

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