Bsd Now

Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The journey to ZFS raidz1 with different sized disks (On NetBSD) (Wheelbarrow optional) (http://netbsd0.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-journey-to-zfs-raidz1-with.html) FreeBSD Networking Basics: WiFi and Bluetooth (https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd-project/resources/networking-basics-wifi-and-bluetooth/) News Roundup Playstation: Hole in NetBSD driver could allow code smuggling (https://www.kiratas.com/playstation-hole-in-netbsd-driver-could-allow-code-smuggling-2/) Archive link if the page is down (no images) (https://web.archive.org/web/20220519162432/https://www.kiratas.com/playstation-hole-in-netbsd-driver-could-allow-code-smuggling-2/) Original Announcment (https://ha

FreeBSD 13.1 is released, Unix command line conventions over time, Branching for NetBSD 10, Microbhyve, Own your Calendar and Contacts with OpenBSD, the PSARC case for ZFS, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.1 Release is available (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/announce/) Unix command line conventions over time (https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/05/07/unix-cli/) News Roundup Branching for NetBSD 10 (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2022/05/02/msg042278.html) Microbyhve (https://github.com/cbsd/microbhyve) Own Your Calendar & Contacts With OpenBSD, Baïkal, and FOSS Android (https://baak6.com/baikal-openbsd-fossdroid/) Twenty years ago today, Jeff filed the PSARC case for the ZFS filesystem (https://twitter.com/mmusante/status/1518947283626246145?t=tzR6KeMx2mhjJfeoOqrHIw&s=03) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, t

OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse (https://confuzeus.com/shorts/openbsd-nuclear-apocalypse/) Multiprocess support for LLDB (https://www.moritz.systems/blog/multiprocess-support-for-lldb/) News Roundup I ported the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220427.html) Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-04-28-writing-a-game-with-godot.html) FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/freebsd-13-on-thinkpad-t460s/) Beastie Bits Open Source Voices interview with Deb Goodkin (https://www.opensourcevoices.org/29) Tachyum Successfully Runs FreeBSD in Prodigy Ecosy

OpenBSD 7.1 is out, Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2, Let's try V on OpenBSD, Waiting for Randot, Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster, A Salute for 10+ years of service, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenBSD 7.1 is out (https://www.openbsd.org/71.html) Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/part-2-tuning-your-freebsd-configuration-for-your-nas/) News Roundup Let's try V on OpenBSD (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220426.html) Waiting for Randot (or: nia and maya were right and I was wrong) (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2021/01/11/msg001100.html) Compiling an openbsd kernel 50% faster (https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/compiling-an-openbsd-kernel-50-faster) A Salute for 10+ years of service (http://aboutbsd.net/?page_id=26661) https://archive.ph/JL5hf (if the site is down) Tarsnap This weeks e

Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-your-own-freebsd-based-nas-with-zfs/) Writing a device driver for Unix V6 (https://mveg.es/posts/writing-a-device-driver-for-unix-v6/) News Roundup FreeBSD/EC2: What I've been up to (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2022-03-29-FreeBSD-EC2-report.html) Beckhoff has released its TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor (https://www.automationworld.com/control/article/22144694/beckhoff-hypervisor-enables-virtual-machines-for-control-applications) Writing a NetBSD kernel module (https://saurvs.github.io/post/writing-netbsd-kern-mod/) Benedicts Git Finds Projects Run anything (like full blown GTK apps) und

The unknown hackers, Papers we love to read, Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed, OpenSSH 9.0 released, OS battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The unknown hackers (https://www.salon.com/2000/05/17/386bsd/) Bill Jolitz passed away in March 2022 (https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-April/025643.html) *** FreeBSD Documentation: Papers We Love To Read (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-documentation-papers-we-love-to-read/) News Roundup FreeBSD/Ubuntu Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed (https://adventurist.me/posts/00307) OpenSSH 9.0 has been released (https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-9.0) Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs NixOS (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-04-18-openbsd-vs-nixos.html) Beastie Bits Celebrating 50 years of the Unix Operating System (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/u4t25c/cele

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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8) (https://www.unitedbsd.com/d/705-full-system-backups-with-ffs-snapshots-zfs-and-dump8) Tuning Recordsize in OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/tuning-recordsize-in-openzfs/) News Roundup Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops (https://www.neelc.org/posts/optimize-freebsd-for-intel-tigerlake/) I need to remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSCheckForMounted) Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge (https://adventurist.me/posts/0027) Beastie Bits • [FreeBSD on the Vort

The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-philosophy-a-quick-look-at-the-ideas-that-made-unix/) Hints for writing Unix Tools (https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html) News Roundup Cron best practices (https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/cron-best-practices/) Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/FilesystemsThreeErrorTypes) LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220318065203) Taskwarrior to manage tasks (https://adventurist.me/posts/0165) Beastie Bits Tarsn

FreeBSD Status Report 4th Quarter 2021, Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence, Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server, helloSystem 0.7.0 is out, lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting, going to jail, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 4th Quarter 2021 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-10-2021-12/) Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-03-15-openbsd-impermanence.html) News Roundup Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server) helloSystem 0.7.0 is out (https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/r0.7.0) My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting (https://rubenerd.com/my-lazy-approach-to-freebsd-dual-booting/) Going to jail (https://opekkt.tech/docs/vps_migration/going2jail/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was spons

Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/controlling-resource-limits-with-rctl-in-freebsd/) It's DNS. Of course it's DNS, it's always DNS. (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DNSVariabilityProblems) News Roundup GSOC • [Work with FreeBSD in Google Summer of Code](https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/work-with-freebsd-in-google-summer-of-code/) • [The NetBSD Foundation is a mentoring organization at Google Summer of Code 2022](https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_netbsd_foundation_is_a) Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021 (https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2021-q4-rsync.net_technotes.html) Userland CPU frequ

FreeBSD Foundation Proposals, UNIX: On the Path to BSD, Fujitsu ends its mainframe and Unix services, Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator, new OpenBSD Webzine is out, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Project Proposal Overview (https://freebsdfoundation.org/get-involved/project-proposal-overview/) UNIX: On the Path to BSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-on-the-path-to-bsd/) News Roundup Fujitsu is ending its mainframe and Unix services (https://www.techradar.com/in/news/fujitsu-is-ending-its-mainframe-and-unix-services) TUTORIAL: Install burpsuite on FreeBSD using Linuxulator (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/tutorial-install-burpsuite-on-freebsd-using-linuxulator.84310/) OpenBSD Webzine (https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-7.html) Beastie Bits • A Trio if OPNsense releases: ◦ [21.7.8](https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-7-8-released/) ◦ [21.10.3](https://

Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction (https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/restoring-a-tadpole-sparcbook-3-part-1-introduction) The FreeBSD Boot Process (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-freebsd-boot-process/) News Roundup Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD (https://jcs.org/2022/02/16/ioctl) Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu (https://rubenerd.com/why-my-game-pc-also-runs-freebsd/) DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My! (https://mwl.io/archives/14708) Beastie Bits • [LibreSSL 3.5.0 development branch released](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220301063844) • [OpenSSH updated to 8.9](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=202203010634

Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro (https://tomscii.sig7.se/2022/02/Guide-to-OpenBSD-on-the-PinebookPro) FreeBSD Periodic Scripts (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-periodic-scripts/) News Roundup The history (sort of) of service management in Unix (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ServiceManagementHistory) My journey from macOS to FreeBSD (https://www.boucek.me/blog/from-mac-to-freebsd/) A nice story about Unix processes "infecting" each other (https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/02/09/nice/) Navidrome music server on FreeBSD (https://web.archive.org/web/20220101220446/https://www.danschmid.m

The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501713) Modern inetd in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/modern-inetd-in-freebsd/) News Roundup The reason Unix has the argv[0] issue (and API) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/Argv0IsEasy) Retrocomputing can be more than games (https://rubenerd.com/retrocomputing-is-more-than-games/) You should read Section 8 of the Unix User's Manual (https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/09/section_8_unix_user_manual/) Beastie Bits • [New 'Reckless guide to OpenBSD' published](https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220214061716) • [GhostBSD Online Meetup](http://g

Certifying an OS Unix compliant, 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report, Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD, file hashes updated for NetBSD 8.1, Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD, Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix-compliant-certified) 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-freebsd-foundation-impact-report/) News Roundup Play Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD (https://danschmid.me/article/play-netflix-disney-and-other-widevine-content-on-freebsd) Note: two files changed and hashes/signatures updated for NetBSD 8.1 (https://bsdsec.net/articles/note-two-files-changed-and-hashes-signatures-updated-for-netbsd-8-1) Playing with C

The Birth of Unix, Help request for three big Lumina items, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report, OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" released, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Birth of Unix (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-birth-of-unix/) Help requested for three big items for Lumina (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2022-02-08/) News Roundup FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2022/freebsd-13-on-thinkpad-t460s/) HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2022-01-30/hardenedbsd-january-2022-status-report) OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-22-1-released/) Beastie Bits The early days of Unix at Bell Labs - Brian Kernighan (LCA 2022 Online) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E) BastilleBSD User Survey (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLS

Migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD, Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD, LibBSDDialog, FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2022/01/24/why-were-migrating-many-of-our-servers-from-linux-to-freebsd/) Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/cluster-provisioning-with-nomad-and-pot-on-freebsd/) News Roundup LibBSDDialog (https://alfonsosiciliano.gitlab.io/posts/2022-01-16-libbsddialog.html) FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET (https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2022/01/15/freebsd-13-0-base-jails-with-zfs-and-vnet/) Beastie Bits OpenBSD on the Pinephone (https://www.exoticsilicon.com/crystal/pinephone_openbsd) FreeBSD SSH Hardening (https://gist.github.com/koobs/e01cf8869484a0956

GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to install Gnome on OpenBSD, The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines GhostBSD 22.01 is available (https://www.ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_22.01.12_iso_is_now_available) Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/packet-scheduling-with-dummynet-and-freebsd/) News Roundup Inside zone installation (https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2022/01/inside-zone-installation.html) Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant (https://randomnixfix.wordpress.com/2021/10/23/why-the-freebsd-desktop-and-my-linux-rant/) How to install Gnome on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-05-07-openbsd-gnome.html) The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch" (https:/

ACM: It takes a community, Don’t use discord for OSS projects, Unix in a browser tab, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 available, Omni OS CE v11 is out, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines It takes a community - ACM (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3501361) PSA: Dont use Discord for Open Source Projects Jeffrey Paul - Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects (https://sneak.berlin/20200220/discord-is-not-an-acceptable-choice-for-free-software-projects/) Drew deVault - Dont use Discord for FOSS (https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/28/Dont-use-Discord-for-FOSS.html) News Roundup Unix in your Browser Tab (https://browsix.org/) OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 is here (https://www.openindiana.org/2021/12/05/openindiana-hipster-2021-10-is-here/) Omni OS CE v11 r151040 is out (https://github.com/omniosorg/omnios-build/blob/r151040/doc/ReleaseNotes.md) Beastie Bits Deb from th

FreeBSD Foundation reviews 2021 activities, DragonflyBSD 6.2.1 is here, Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 available, toolchain adventures, The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7, Bastille Template: AdGuard Home, setting up ZSH on FreeBSD and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Foundation 2021 in Review Software Development (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-software-development/) Year End Fundraising Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-year-end-fundraising-report/) Infrastructure Support (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-infrastructure-support/) Advocacy (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2021-in-review-advocacy/) FreeBSD 2022 CfP (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-2022-call-for-proposals/) DragonFlyBSD 6.2.1 is out (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release62/) News Roundup Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 is out (https://lumina-desktop.org/post