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BSD Now

Allan Jude

A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD

  • 1 hour 9 seconds
    665: 60 Puffies

    OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more...

    NOTES

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

    Headlines

    OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly

    Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD

    News Roundup

    Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They Run NetBSD So They Can Not

    Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

    FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 Intel

    January 2026 Finance Report

    Beastie Bits

    • The DragonFly site has a recently-updated page describing how DPorts is assembled and the process to contribute.
    • TUHS - Unix use of VAX protection modes
    • Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory

    - The Duke and the Beastie - Improving OpenJDK support for FreeBSD

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    28 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    664: No one misses SPARC

    The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more...

    NOTES

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

    Headlines

    NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement

    Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It

    News Roundup

    Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2

    Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and FreeBSD

    Universities And In house Tech

    Beating my head on OpenVPN

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    • Paul - Feedback
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    21 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    663: Proxhyve

    Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went

    FreeBSD Quarterly Report

    The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support Project

    News Roundup

    Migrating ZFS filesystems from one zpool to another – same host

    Haiku Isn’t Just For X86 Anymore, Boots On ARM In QEMU

    OpneSSL 4.0

    Other schedulers? Illumos?

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    14 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 51 minutes 48 seconds
    662: I need a hero

    Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now

    Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS

    GhostBSD 26.1

    News Roundup

    I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server

    My Journey to the BSDs

    The unseen hero of OpenBSD

    Beastie Bits

    • BSD Can Schedule up
    • OpenBSD Campaign 2025
    • OpenBSD Campaign 2026

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    7 May 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 46 minutes 24 seconds
    661: Break up Big Tech

    Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    Breaking up with Big Tech

    Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii

    News Roundup

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250

    Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not

    Java Sun SPOTs

    I like to use Soviet control panels as a starting point

    Beastie Bits

    • OSHintosh - an open source 68000 Macintosh
    • Time to update 2.11BSD: biggest patch ever landed before 35th anniversary
    • A quick and easy Guide to Tmux

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    Producer Note, If you have emailed in and you havent heard back and we havent covered your message, email again. Our email is flooded with spam and I might have missed your message.

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    30 April 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 43 minutes 56 seconds
    660: I just work here

    Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab

    The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware

    News Roundup

    Cells for NetBSD – Kernel Enforced Jail Like Isolation with User Friendly Operations

    OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

    OpenSSH 10.3/10.3p1 released

    I'm just the Barista

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    Tim - Are OCI Images useful for Freebsd.md

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    23 April 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    659: Full traffic send

    Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years

    Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs

    [Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/)

    News Roundup

    PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

    Nobody said there was math on this exam!

    The web is bearable with RSS

    The Pipe

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    16 April 2026, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 2 seconds
    658: It’s the vibe of it

    FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more.

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View

    Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

    News Roundup

    The story of OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 series processors

    Jailrun

    + jailrun github

    FreeBSD Users: We Need to Talk About Claude Code

    Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

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    9 April 2026, 2:00 pm
  • 50 minutes 57 seconds
    657: Hibernation is a long sleep

    The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage

    News Roundup

    Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15

    FreeBSD 15.0 Linuxulator with CUDA Setup

    Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense Firewall Configuration Migration/Conversion CLI

    SYN attack

    • Syn attack follow up

    Netbase is Port of NetBSD Utilities to Another UNIX Like Operating Systems

    Beastie Bits

    • OpenBSD -current moves to 7.9-beta

    - Delayed hibernation comes to OpenBSD/amd64 laptops

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    2 April 2026, 3:00 pm
  • 1 hour 10 minutes
    656: Honey, I shrunk the PDP

    Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more...

    NOTES

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    Headlines

    Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths

    2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
    Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    News Roundup

    PiDP-11/70 Build Workshop

    OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story

    Terminals Should Generate 256 Color Palette

    FreeBSD tribal knowledge: Changes to snapshot strategy

    Beastie Bits

    • BSDCan reg is now open
    • An Oral History of Unix
    • Major update to drm(4) code in OpenBSD-current (to linux 6.18.16)
    • Patched FreeBSD AMIs

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    26 March 2026, 9:00 pm
  • 1 hour 55 seconds
    655: No Reboot Required

    Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more...

    NOTES

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

    Headlines

    Jails for NetBSD

    ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

    News Roundup

    Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required

    Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD

    Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

    After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems

    Beastie Bits

    -

    -

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    Feedback/Questions

    Emelio - openbsd

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    19 March 2026, 2:00 pm
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