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Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit, 20 year old bug that went to Mars, FreeBSD on Slimbook, LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support, Steam on OpenBSD, Cool but obscure X11 tools, 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 Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit (https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-freebsds-pkg-audit-to-investigate-known-security-issues/) The 20 year old bug that went to Mars (http://blog.securitymouse.com/2014/06/raising-lazarus-20-year-old-bug-that.html) It's rare that you come across a bug so subtle that it can last for two decades. But, that's exactly what has happened with the Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm. Initially written in 1994, Markus Oberhumer designed a sophisticated and extremely efficient compression algorithm so elegant and well architected that it outperforms zlib and bzip by four or five times their decompression speed. I was impressed to find out that his LZO algorit

UNIX Wars, What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3, FreeBSD 12.3 is here, TrueNAS 13 begins, what Unix pre-boot envs looked liked, run Unix on Microcontrollers with PDP-11 emulators 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 Wars – The Battle for Standards (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unix-wars-the-battle-for-standards/) What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter (https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/11/openbsd-part-3-that-packet-filter/) FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE Release Notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.3R/relnotes/) News Roundup TrueNAS 12.0-U7 is Released & TrueNAS 13.0 Begins (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-12-0-u7-is-released-truenas-13-0-begins/) A bit on what Unix system pre-boot environments used to look like (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixPreBootEnvironments) RUN UNIX ON MICROCONTROLLERS WITH

In this last episode of 2021, we interview Solene from OpenBSD. She’s blogging about her experiences with OpenBSD on dataswamp.org, the webzine she created, how she got involved and other topics. Enjoy and best wishes for 2022! 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) Interview - Solene Rapenne - solene+www@dataswamp.org (mailto:solene+www@dataswamp.org) / @solene@bsd.network (@solene@bsd.network (mastodon)) https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-26-old-computer-challenge-after.html Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Solène Rapenne.

In this special xmas episode we let the audience interview us using questions they sent us and we’ll answer now. Tom, Allan, JT, and I are all here, so stay tuned for some interesting answers to your questions. 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) Interview Allan - allanjude@freebsd.org (mailto:allanjude@freebsd.org) / Twitter : @allanjude (https://twitter.com/allanjude) Benedict - bcr@freebsd.org (mailto:bcr@freebsd.org) / Twitter : @bsdbcr (https://twitter.com/bsdbcr) Tom - thj@freebsd.org (mailto:thj@freebsd.org) / Twitter : @adventureloop (https://twitter.com/adventureloop) JT - jt@obs-sec.com (mailto:jt@obs-sec.com) / Twitter : @q5sys (https://twitter.com/q5sys) Tarsnap This week’s 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. *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want men

GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense, 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 21.11.24 ISO is now available (https://www.ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_21.11.24_iso_is_now_available) Why v7 matters so much (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/V7WhyItMattersSoMuch) News Roundup OpenBSD on the VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client (https://www.cambus.net/openbsd-on-the-via-eden-x2-powered-hp-t510-thin-client/) OctoPkg: A Great GUI Package Manager In FreeBSD (https://nudesystems.com/octopkg-a-great-gui-package-manager-in-freebsd/) Project Report: Add support for chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3) (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/project_report_add_support_for) How To Instal

HAMBug hybrid meeting, Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0, OpenZFS 3.0 introduced at Dev Summit, HardenedBSD Home Infrastructure Status, Running Awk in parallel, FreeBSD Announces Wayland 1.19.91, 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 HAMBug hybrid meeting (http://hambug.ca/) Hoping to squeeze in an in-person meeting incase the pandemic situation regresses *** ### Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/demystifying-openzfs-2-0/) Do you like the articles we post? We are looking for authors (or even just your ideas) to keep providing these high quality articles. Job Posting (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-jobs/2021-November/000003.html) *** ### OpenZFS 3.0 Introduced at Dev Summit (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-3-0-introduced-at-developer-summit/) *** ### OpenZFS vdev properties feature has been merged (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/11711) *** News

Why use OpenBSD part 2, FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4, Ending up liking GNOME, OPNsense 21.7.5 released, Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2, 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 every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 2: Why use OpenBSD? (https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/05/openbsd-part-2-why-use-openbsd/) Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture (https://klarasystems.com/articles/looking-towards-the-future-freebsd-on-the-risc-v-architecture/) News Roundup OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4 (https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-4.html) How I ended up liking GNOME (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-11-10-how-I-ended-liking-gnome.html) OPNsense 21.7.5 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-7-5-released/) Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in ec2 (https://beerdy.io/2021/10/jenkins-with-freebsd-agents-in-ec2/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of

Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk Encryption, Onwards with 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 Going From Recovery Mode to Normal Operations with OpenZFS Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System (https://klarasystems.com/articles/manipulating-a-pool-from-the-rescue-system/) Monitoring FreeBSD jails from the host (https://dan.langille.org/2021/10/31/monitoring-freebsd-jails-from-the-host/) News Roundup FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 3rd Quarter 2021 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2021-07-2021-09/) OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with Full-Disk Encryption (http://matecha.net/posts/openbsd-on-pi-4-with-full-disk-encryption/) Catchup 2021-11-03 (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20211103080052) Beastie Bits • [Manage Kubernetes cluster from FreeBSD with kub

FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD Audio, Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops, Thoughts on Spelling Fixes, 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 October 2021 Fundraising Update (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-october-2021-fundraising-update/) Advanced ZFS Snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/advanced-zfs-snapshots/) News Roundup Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-10-09-openbsd-wireguard-exit.html) MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative (https://www.makeuseof.com/midnightbsd-linux-desktop-alternative/) FreeBSD Audio (https://meka.rs/blog/2021/10/12/freebsd-audio/) Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops and Intel Speed Shift (6th Gen and Later) (https://www.neelc.org/posts/freebsd-spee

OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a whole lot of BSD bits, 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 every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started (https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/28/openbsd-part-1-how-it-all-started/) Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/explaining-top1-on-freebsd/) News Roundup Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-09-26-openbsd-power-usage.html) CultBSD (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cult-bsd/) Beastie Bits • [OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched](https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/hifive-unmatched.html) • [Advanced Documentation Retrieval on FreeBSD](https://adventurist.me/posts/00306) • [OpenBSD Webzine Issue 3 is out](https://webzine.puffy.

Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released, getting started with pot, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) If you like BSDNow, consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-developer-workstation-setup/) What I learned from Russian students: logging is important (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/russian_students_logging) News Roundup How BSD Authentication works (https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/how-bsd-authentication-works/) pfSense Software is 15 Today! (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-software-is-15-today) OPNsense® Business Edition 21.10 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-business-edition-21-10-released/) Getting started with pot (https://pot.pizzamig.dev/Getting/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow

A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines If you like BSDNow, consider supporting us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It (https://klarasystems.com/articles/what-makes-a-good-time-to-use-openzfs-slog-and-when-should-you-avoid-it/) OpenBSD 7.0 is out (https://www.openbsd.org/70.html) News Roundup OpenBSD and Wayland (https://www.sizeofvoid.org/posts/2021-09-26-openbsd-wayland-report/) Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210908084117) Beastie Bits PLAN 9 DESKTOP GUIDE (https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2019/plan9_desktop.html) libvirt and DragonFly (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/10/04/26234.html) EuroBSDCon 2021 videos are available (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articl

The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block (https://klarasystems.com/articles/risc-v-the-new-architecture-on-the-block/) If you want more RISC-V, check out JT's interview with Mark Himelstein the CTO of RISC-V International (https://www.opensourcevoices.org/20) *** ### OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU (https://www.cambus.net/openbsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/) *** ## News Roundup aka there’s been lots of releases recently so lets go through them: ### Lumina 1.6.1 (http://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-10-05/) ### opnsense 21.7.3 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-7-3-released/) ### LibreSSL patches (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbsd-errata-september-27-2021-libressl) ### OpenBGPD 7.2 (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=163239274430211&w=2) ### Midnight BSD 2.1.0 (https://www.midnightbsd.org/notes/) ### GhostBSD 21.09 ISO

J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines I got the J language working on OpenBSD (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210911.html) Rubenerd: Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys (https://rubenerd.com/my-first-prod-encrypted-openzfs-pool/) News Roundup What is FreeBSD, actually? Think again. (https://medium.com/@probonopd/what-is-freebsd-actually-think-again-200c2752d026) OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python (https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/09/15/) Beastie Bits • [Hibernate time reduced](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210831050932) • [(open)rsync gains include/exclude support](http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210830081715) • [Producer JT's latest ancient find that he needs help with](https://twitter.com/q5sys/status/1440105555754848257) • [D

FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!), auto lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD (https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/euro2021.pdf) Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack (https://klarasystems.com/articles/using-the-freebsd-rack-tcp-stack/) News Roundup pkgupdate, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-08-15-openbsd-pkgupdate.html) Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD (https://euroquis.nl//kde/2021/09/15/systemmonitor.html) TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!) (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/truenas-vs-freenas-and-why-you-should-upgrade/) Automatically lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-30-openbsd-x

We interview Dr. Brian Callahan about his language porting work for OpenBSD, teaching with BSDs and recruiting students into projects, research, and his work at NYC*BUG in this week’s episode of BSDnow. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Interview - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan - https://briancallahan.net/ (https://briancallahan.net/) / bcallah@bsdnetwork (https://mastodon.com/bcallah@bsdnetwork) Tarsnap 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. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Brian Callahan.

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 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Useless use of GNU (https://jmmv.dev/2021/08/useless-use-of-gnu.html) Meet the 2021 FreeBSD Google Summer of Code Students (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/meet-the-2021-freebsd-google-summer-of-code-students/) News Roundup Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ProgramsVsPortability) References this article: I’m not sure that UNIX won (https://rubenerd.com/im-not-sure-that-unix-won/) *** ### A new path: vm86-based venix emulator (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2021/08/a-new-path-vm86-based-venix-emulator.html) *** ### ZFS Is Mysteriously Eating My CPU (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2021-09-06/zfs-is-mysteriously-eating-my-cpu.html) *** ###

Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project update, NetBSD on the Apple M1, HardenedBSD August Status Report, FreeBSD Journal on Wireless and Desktop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout (https://klarasystems.com/articles/choosing-the-right-zfs-pool-layout/) Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too) (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html) News Roundup GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available (https://www.ghostbsd.org/ghostbsd_21.09.06_iso_now_available) Fair Internet bandwidth management on a network using OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-08-30-openbsd-qos-lan.html) NetBSD wifi router project update (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/wifi_project_status_u

Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Reviewing my first OpenBSD port, and what I'd do differently 10 years later (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210802.html) Install NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11 (https://raymii.org/s/articles/NetBSD_on_QEMU_Alpha.html) News Roundup FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install (https://hackaday.com/2021/08/10/freebsd-experiment-rethinks-the-os-install/) The switch to FreeBSD rc.d is coming (https://www.ghostbsd.org/rc_switch) Irix gets LLVM (https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3043.html) Tarsnap 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. Feedback/Questions Miceal - a few questions (https://github.com/BSD

In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more. NOTES Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwl@mwl.io (mailto:mwl@mwl.io) / @mwlauthor (https://twitter.com/mwlauthor) Cashflow for Creators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/biz-craft) Charity Auction Against Human Trafficking (https://mwl.io/archives/12526) This is the rfc about what to not do. (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9049) Tarsnap 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. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Special Guest: Michael W Lucas.