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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

• IPv6 and proxying on DragonFly
• BoxyBSD
• Sysctltui

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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

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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Feedback/Questions

• Sam - BSD Laptops
• Reese - Electric Groff
• Alexandra - New to BSD

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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

• Daniel writes in
• Erik writes in
• SW writes in
• [Bostjan writes in[(http://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum)
• Samuel writes in ***

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