OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System, Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop, Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability, Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate, Not Not Porting 9front to Power64, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more

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Headlines

OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System

Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop

News Roundup

Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability

Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate

Not Not Porting 9front to Power64

One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC

Beastie Bits

• 20 years since...
• Jails PDFs
• NixOS BSD
• rigg - run indie games on OpenBSD
• pkgsrc 2024Q1
• PackMule
• AcephalOS - A new FreeBSD image build tool

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Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems, NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts, Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud, Poudriere on Apple Silicon, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more

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Headlines

Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems

NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts

News Roundup

Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud

Poudriere on Apple Silicon

One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC

Beastie Bits

• Powering up the future: the new FreeBSD cluster in Chicago
• Dragonflybsd 6.5 Snapshot Release on Acer Nitro AN515-51/58-XXX Series Laptops

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The XZ Backdoor, NetBSD 10.0, iX announces that they will put out a release of TrueNAS 13.3, State of the Terminal, LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released and more

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Headlines

People have no doubt heard of this by now, but are not aware of the BSD side of
things since its mostly been Linux getting all the news. It'd be nice if we
could give a summary of the issue and then address how it does/doesn't affect
the BSDs.
The XZ Backdoor

• NetBSD's statement
• FreeBSD's statement
• OpenBSD?

NetBSD 10.0

News Roundup

iX announces that they will put out a release of TrueNAS 13.3

• A community fork has been announced

State of the Terminal

LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 released

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Feedback/Questions

• Derek via feedback has asked for some discussion around this NetBSD security advisory
  -- Advisory Link

• Ben - Nextcloud Installation

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Using Git offline, Make your own E-mail server, quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development, Configuring openzfs for nvme databases, Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide part 1, Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev, and more...

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Headlines

Using Git offline

Make your own E-Mail server - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included - Part 1

News Roundup

quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development

Configuring openzfs for nvme databases

Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide; Part One

Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev 1.2a

Terminal Latency

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Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi, TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD, SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop, Sparkbook Teardown, SSH over HTTPS, Keycloak Identity and Access Management on FreeBSD, Ford Aerospace and BSD Unix, and more

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Headlines

HOWTO: Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi (running RPi OS) via TFTP & NFSv4 from a FreeBSD ZFS server

TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD

• No one needs to panic, we're aware of plans that have already been in the works. But more on that later.

News Roundup

SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop
Sparkbook Teardown
Author Comment

SSH over HTTPS

Keycloak Identity and Access Management on FreeBSD

Ford Aerospace and BSD Unix.

Beastie Bits

• OpenBGPD 8.4 released
• Solene games Context: https://bsd.network/@solene/112115442072927484
• How I backup

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This week on the show, The story of SSH getting port 22, GGC using Clang, AuxRunner, Stabweek, Using a Kensington SlimBladePro on OpenBSD, and more...

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Headlines

The story of getting SSH port 22

Can GCC use Clang as its assembler?

News Roundup

AUXrunner: a macOS QEMU-based app for running A/UX

Stabweek

Using the Kensington SlimBlade Pro TrackBall with OpenBSD

Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME

Beastie Bits

Huffman Codes – How Do They Work?
NetBSD 10.0_RC5
New code for SIGILL faults help identify misbranches
New Illumos telegram channel
The Jan Feb issues of the FreeBSD Journal is here

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This week on the show, you're not too late to develop the future, netmap on czgbe, OpenZFS 2.2.3, SSH Brute Forcing, some unknown OpenBSD Features, Release notes for the latest Omni OS, and more...

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Headlines

When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare (featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk)

You are not too late

News Roundup

netmap on cxgbe interfaces

OpenZFS 2.2.3

A recent abrupt change in Internet SSH brute force attacks against us

Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known

Release Notes for OmniOS v11 r151048

The Making of RP2040 Doom

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Feedback/Questions

• Brendan - Log Files

• Mischa - EuroBSDcon

• Sebastiano - Sed

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FreeBSD Foundation Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, How FreeBSD
Employs Ampere Arm64 Servers in the Data Center, FreeBSD Yubikey authentication, that time I almost added Tetris to htop, and more

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Headlines

FreeBSD Foundation Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act

DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s

News Roundup

Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere Arm64 Servers in the Data Center

FreeBSD Yubikey authentication

That time I almost added Tetris to htop

Beastie Bits

Mail Software Projects for You
At long last: the MWL Title Index
FreeBSD on a RPi

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FreeBSD Status Report Q4 2023, In Memorium of the NTP inventor, Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS, AI-free blog, Hard disk LEDs and Noisy Machines, SSH based comment system, NetBSD 10 RC.4 is available, and more

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Headlines

FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2023

In Memoriam : Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

News Roundup

Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS

This blog is AI free

Hard disk LEDs and Noisy Machines

SSH based comment system

NetBSD 10 RC.4 is available

Beastie Bits

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Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT, A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples, Early computer art by Barbara Nessim, Don't prefill config files, Trapping Spambots Based on Target Domain Only, You cannot cURL under pressure, and more

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Headlines

Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT

A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples

News Roundup

Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984)

Don't prefill config files

A Simpler Life: Trapping Spambots Based on Target Domain Only

You cannot cURL under pressure

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Feedback/Questions

Marcus - Linux Compat Layer

Daniel - FreeBSD Nostalgia

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Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD, Please, don’t force me to log in, Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics, Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens, What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?, Beginning of the year Laugh

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Headlines

Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD

Please, don’t force me to log in

News Roundup

Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics

Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens
The Expanscape Aurora 7

“What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?”

Beginning of the year Laugh

Beastie Bits

NetBSD 10: Thirty Years, Still Going Strong!
Dracula theme using bash shell
pinsyscalls(2) working in anger
First bits of a Haiku compatibility layer for NetBSD

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