web02.fireside.fm Sat, 30 May 2026 02:33:05 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Useless” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/useless Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -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 421: ZFS eats CPU https://www.bsdnow.tv/421 626e101a-a6c2-43ce-ad87-018474d78971 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 03:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more 50:42 no <p>Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, 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://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Useless use of GNU</a></h3> <hr> <h3><a href="https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/meet-the-2021-freebsd-google-summer-of-code-students/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/%7Ecks/space/blog/unix/ProgramsVsPortability" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes</a></h3> <ul> <li>References this article: <a href="https://rubenerd.com/im-not-sure-that-unix-won/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">I’m not sure that UNIX won</a> *** ### <a href="http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-new-path-vm86-based-venix-emulator.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">A new path: vm86-based venix emulator</a> *** ### <a href="http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU</a> *** ### <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210903094704" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">traceroute(8) gets speed boost</a> ***</li> </ul> <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/421/feedback/Al%20-%20TransAtlantic%20Cables.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Al - TransAtlantic Cables</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/421/feedback/Christopher%20-%20NVMe.md" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Christopher - NVMe</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">JohnnyK - Vivaldi</a> ***</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> 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, gnu, useless, google summer of code, students, portability, unix history, vm86, venix, emulator, cpu use, cpu usage, traceroute Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more

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Useless use of GNU

Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students

News Roundup

Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes

Tarsnap

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This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap

Headlines

Useless use of GNU

Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students

News Roundup

Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes

Tarsnap

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