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Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, portable GELI, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS - Part 1 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/achieving-rpo-rto-objectives-with-zfs-part-1/) FreeBSD Foundation Q2 Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-q2-2021-status-update/) OpenBSD full Tor setup (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-07-25-openbsd-full-tor.html) News Roundup MyBee — FreeBSD OS and hypervisor bhyve as private cloud (https://habr.com/en/post/569226/) Expanding our FreeBSD home file server (https://rubenerd.com/expanding-our-freebsd-home-file-server/) OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop (https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework) Portable GELI (http://bijanebrahimi.github.io/blog/portable-geli.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of

OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Lets talk OpenZFS snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/lets-talk-openzfs-snapshots/) OpenSUSE in Bastille (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/opensuse_in_bastille/) News Roundup CUPS printing with netcat (https://retrohacker.substack.com/p/bye-cups-printing-with-netcat) Opnsense-21.1.8 (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-8-released/) pfSense® Plus Software Version 21.05.1 is Now Available (https://www.netgate.com/blog/pfsense-plus-software-version-21.05.1-is-now-available-for-upgrades) Beastie Bits • [MAC Inspired FreeBSD release](https://github.com/mszoek/airyx) • [Implement unprivileged chroot](https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a40cf4175c90142442d0c6515f6c83956336699b) • [InitWare: A systemd fork that runs on BSD](https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare) • [multics

Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init system poll, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server (https://figbert.com/posts/wrong-way-to-switch-server-os/) History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-net-1-and-net-2-a-path-to-freedom/) News Roundup Permissions Two Mistakes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/PermissionsTwoMistakes) Progress in support for the riscv64 platform (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210619161607) I2P Intro (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-20-i2p-intro.html) “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written? (https://mwl.io/archives/12105) What init system would you prefer to use under GhostBSD? (ht

OpenZFS 2.1 is out, FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls, IPFS OpenBSD, tips for running an online conference, fanless OpenBSD laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS 2.1 is out (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/a-deep-dive-into-openzfs-2-1s-new-distributed-raid-topology/) FreeBSD TCP Performance System Controls (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-tcp-performance-system-controls/) News Roundup IPFS OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-04-17-ipfs-openbsd.html) Tips for running an online conference (https://dan.langille.org/2021/07/23/tips-for-running-an-online-conference/) My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop (https://jcs.org/2021/07/19/desktop) 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 Bruce - Upgrading (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/414/feedba

Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD, AdvanceBSD thoughts 2/2, FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective, FPGA programming and DragonFly, Chimera Linux, EuroBSDcon 2021, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD (https://www.irvise.xyz/Projects%20&%20Engineering/updating-gcc-ada-pkgsrc.html) Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (2/2) (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/advancebsd-thoughts-on-a-not-for-profit-project-to-support-bsd-2-2/) News Roundup FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective (https://washbear.neocities.org/freebsd-netbsd-user.html) FPGA programming and DragonFly (https://mastodon.sdf.org/@yrabbit/106497663837700420) Chimera Linux - A Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVM (https://chimera-linux.org/) EuroBSDcon 2021 (https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/program/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Ta

FreeBSD Performance Observability, Advance!BSD thoughts 1/2, Lumina Desktop Maintainership Change, How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line, Like NetBSD DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Performance Observability (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-performance-observability/) Advance!BSD – thoughts on a not-for-profit project to support *BSD (1/2) (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/advancebsd-thoughts-on-a-not-for-profit-project-to-support-bsd-1-2/) News Roundup Maintainership Change :: Lumina Desktop Environment (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-06-23/) Study the past if you would define the Future (https://lumina-desktop.org/post/2021-07-01/) How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line (https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/) Following NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD Now Has "COVID" (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DragonFlyBSD-COVID) Tarsnap This weeks ep

Unix System Architecture Evolution, Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Strengths, how developers chose names, OPNsense 21.1.7 released, Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3), vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder, OpenBSD’s IATA airport code file, and more This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture (https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210618/index.html) • Full IEEE article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8704965 Deep Diving Into the Strengths of FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/deep-diving-into-the-strengths-of-freebsd/) Interesting read on how Developers choose Names (https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07487) News Roundup OPNsense 21.1.7 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-7-released/) Support for chdir(2) in posix_spawn(3) (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/support_for_chdir_2_in) vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder (https://github.com/punktDe/vagrant-freebsd-boxbuilder) OpenBSD has a file with 3-letter IATA airport codes (http

Open Source and Blogging Bubbles, Building Customized FreeBSD Images, Updating Minecraft in FreeBSD, Upgrading FreeBSD jails using mkjail, Dragonfly 6.0 Performance benchmark, OpenBSD Consumer Gateway Launch, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2021/the-oss-bubble-and-the-blogging-bubble/) Building Customized FreeBSD Images (https://klarasystems.com/articles/building-customized-freebsd-images/) News Roundup Updating to Minecraft 1.17 in FreeBSD (https://rubenerd.com/updating-to-minecraft-1-17-in-freebsd/) Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail (https://dan.langille.org/2021/05/31/upgrading-a-freebsd-12-2-jail-to-freebsd-13-using-mkjail/) DragonFlyBSD 6.0 Is Performing Very Well Against Ubuntu Linux, FreeBSD 13.0 (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=corei9-freebsd13-dfly6&num=1) An OpenBSD Consumer

DTrace network probes, next 50 years of shell programming, NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU, system CPU time in top, your filesystem as a dungeon, diving into toolchains, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines DTrace Network Probes (https://klarasystems.com/articles/dtrace-network-probes/) Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years (https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s06-greenberg.pdf) News Roundup NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU (https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-vortex86dx-cpu/) System CPU time – ‘sys’ time in top (https://blog.ycrash.io/2020/11/28/system-cpu-time-sys-time-in-top/) rpg-cli —your filesystem as a dungeon! (https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli) Diving into toolchains (https://www.cambus.net/diving-into-toolchains/) 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 • [Al

Report from virtual FreeBSD DevSummit 2021, another promising release by FreeBSD Based helloSystem, GearBSD, OpenBGPD release, Let’s Encrypt on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-developer-summit-2021/) helloSystem – FreeBSD Based OS Brings another Promising Release 0.5.0 (https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/06/hellosystem-0-5-0-release/) News Roundup GearBSD: a project to help automating your OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-06-01-gearbsd.html) OpenBGPD 7.0 released (https://bsdsec.net/articles/openbgpd-7-0-released) Simple use of Let's Encrypt on OpenBSD is pleasantly straightforward (as of 6.8) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/OpenBSDNiceLetsEncrypt) FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6 (https://rubenerd.com/freebsd-13-on-the-panasonic-cf-rz6/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow wa

Confining the omnipotent root, Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean, NomadBSD 130R is out, KDE Plasma Wayland on FreeBSD, Firefox under FreeBSD with Privacy, Using NetBSD’s pkgsrc everywhere, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Jails: Confining the omnipotent root (http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/sane2000-jail.pdf) A dramatic reading of portions of the paper: Papers We Love: FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones (https://paperswelove.org/2016/video/bryan-cantrill-jails-and-solaris-zones/) *** ### Using Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean (https://medium.com/chris-opperwall/using-jails-with-zfs-and-pf-on-digitalocean-b25b1da82e20) *** ## News Roundup ### NomadBSD 130R is out (https://www.itsfoss.net/nomadbsd-130r-is-now-available-to-download-based-on-freebsd-13-0/) *** ### KDE Plasma Wayland - a week in FreeBSD (https://euroquis.nl//kde/2021/05/09/wayland.html) *** ### Install Firefox under FreeBSD and Set it Up with Privacy (https://danschmid

Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail, FreeBSD Quarterly status report 2021Q1, NetBSD VM on bhyve (on TrueNAS), Interview with Michael Lucas, WireGuard Returns as Experimental Package in pfSense, CGI with Awk on OpenBSD httpd, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Gemini Capsule in a FreeBSD Jail (https://www.ecliptik.com/Gemini-Capsule-in-a-FreeBSD-Jail/) With the recent release of FreeBSD 13, I wanted to test it out on a spare RaspberryPi 3 that was part of my old Kubernetes cluster. In particular, FreeBSD Jails have always interested me, although I’ve never used them in practice. Over the years I’ve managed operating system virtualization through Solaris Zones and Docker containers, and Jails seem like and good middle ground between the two - easier to manage than zones and closer to the OS than Docker. I also want to run my own Gemini capsule locally to use some of the features that my other hosted capsules don’t have (like SCGI/CGI) and

NetBSD 9.2 released, DragonFly 6.0 is out, Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus, Preventing FreeBSD to kill PostgreSQL, Customizing Emacs for Git Commit Messages, Deleting old FreeBSD boot environments, Always be quitting, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines NetBSD 9.2 Released (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_9_2_released) DragonFly 6.0 is out! (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2021/05/10/25731.html) Release Notes (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release60/) *** ### EuroBSDCon 2021 will be online (https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/) *** ## News Roundup ### Home Network Monitoring using Prometheus (https://linux-bsd.github.io/post/monitoring/) > This blog post describes my setup for monitoring various devices on my home network suh as servers, laptops/desktops, networking gear etc. The setup and configuration is squarely geared towards small/medium sized network monitoring. A similar setup might work for large networks, but you will n

Allan, Benedict and Tom are MIA, so JT fills in with two friends. This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) CoHosts this week: • Ash Gokhale: https://twitter.com/xpi • Jeff Propes : CoHost of The Opinion Dominion (https://www.theopiniondominion.org) This weeks format follows the format of one of JT's other shows: The Opinion Dominion (https://www.theopiniondominion.org). Centralized vs Decentralized Management Ash’s draid article at Klara (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-draid-finally/) openbsd’s 50th release (https://twitter.com/openbsd/status/1388289402934333444) + Release Notes (https://www.openbsd.org/69.html) Beastie Bits • Interesting dtrace papers I found this week. The first is unfortunately paywalled by an industry journal but hopefully it’ll be publicly available soon. ◦ [Using Dtrace for Machine Learning Solutions in Malware Detection](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9225633) ◦ [Process Monitoring on Sequences of System

Why You Should Use BSD Licensing for Your Next Open Source Project or Product, Update on FreeBSD Foundation Investment in Linuxulator, OPNsense 21.1.5 released, FreeBSD meetings on the Desktop, Running FreeBSD jails with containerd 1.5, Markdown, DocBook, and the quest for semantic documentation on NetBSD.org, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Why You Should Use BSD Licensing for Your Next Open Source Project or Product (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-you-should-use-bsd-licensing-for-your-next-open-source-project-or-product/) The term “open source” has its origins in the context of software development, designating a specific approach to developing computer programs. Nowadays, however, it stands for a broad set of values – open source means open exchange, transparency, collaborative participation and development for the benefit of the entire community. Update on FreeBSD Foundation Investment in Linuxulator (https://freebsdfoun

It's time to say goodbye to the GPL, a new OCI Runtime for FreeBSD Jails, A bit of Xenix history, On Updating QEMU's bsd-user fork, FreeBSD 13 on a 12 year old laptop, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines It's time to say goodbye to the GPL (https://martin.kleppmann.com/2021/04/14/goodbye-gpl.html) The trigger for this post is the reinstating of Richard Stallman, a very problematic character, to the board of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). I am appalled by this move, and join others in the call for his removal. This occasion has caused me to reevaluate the position of the FSF in computing. It is the steward of the GNU project (a part of Linux distributions, loosely speaking), and of a family of software licenses centred around the GNU General Public License (GPL). These efforts are unfortunately tainted by Stallman’s behaviour. However, this is not what I actually want to talk about today. runj: a new OCI Runtime for FreeBSD Jails

Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD, EuroBSDcon 2021 Call for Papers, FreeBSD’s iostat, The state of toolchains in NetBSD, Bandwidth limiting on OpenBSD 6.8, FreeBSD's ports migration to git and its impact on HardenedBSD, TrueNAS 12.0-U3 has been released, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines My Dog's Garage Runs OpenBSD (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210415055717) I was inspired by the April 2017 article in undeadly.org about getting OpenBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. My goal was to use a Raspberry Pi running OpenBSD to monitor the temperature in my garage from my home. My dog has his own little "apartment" inside the garage, so I want to keep an eye on the temperature. (I don't rely on this device. He sleeps inside the house whenever he wants.) EuroBSDcon 2021 Call for Papers (https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/about/cfp/) FreeBSD iostat (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-iostat-a-quick-glance/) The state of toolchains in N

FreeBSD 13 is here, multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD, KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2, NetBSD GSoC report, a working D compiler on OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.0 R Annoucement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/announce/) • OpenZFS 2.0 (almost 2.1) is included in 13.0 • Removed support for previously-deprecated algorithms in geli(8). • The armv8crypto(4) driver now supports AES-GCM which is used by IPsec and kernel TLS. Enable multi-factor authentication on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2021-02-06-openbsd-2fa.html) In this article I will explain how to add a bit more security to your OpenBSD system by adding a requirement for user logging into the system, locally or by ssh. I will explain how to setup 2 factor authentication (2FA) using TOTP on OpenBSD News Roundup KDE on FreeBSD 2021o2 (https://euroquis.nl/kde/2021/03/26/freebsd2021o2.html) Gosh, second octant already! Well, let’s take a look at the

Comparing sandboxing techniques, Statement on FreeBSD development processes, customizing FreeBSD ports and packages, the quest for a comfortable NetBSD desktop, Nginx as a TCP/UDP relay, HardenedBSD March 2021 Status Report, Detailed Behaviors of Unix Signal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Comparing sandboxing techniques (https://www.omarpolo.com/post/gmid-sandbox.html) I had the opportunity to implement a sandbox and I'd like to write about the differences between the various sandboxing techniques available on three different operating systems: FreeBSD, Linux and OpenBSD. Statement on FreeBSD development processes (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2021-March/057127.html) In light of the recent commentary on FreeBSD's development practices, members of the Core team would like to issue the following statement. Customizing FreeBSD Ports and Packages (https://klarasystems.com/articles/customizing-freebsd-ports-and-p

FreeBSD 13.0 Full Desktop Experience, FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud, Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace, Inferno is open source as well, NetBSD hits donation milestone, grep returns (standard input) on FreeBSD, Random Programming Challenge, OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC) and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.0 – Full Desktop Experience (https://www.tubsta.com/2021/03/freebsd-13-0-full-desktop-experience/) With the release of FreeBSD 13.0 on the horizon, I wanted to see how it shapes up on my Lenovo T450 laptop. Previous major releases on this laptop, using it as a workstation, felt very rough around the edges but with 13, it feels like the developers got it right. FreeBSD on ARM64 in the Cloud (https://klarasystems.com/articles/the-next-level-freebsd-on-arm64-in-the-cloud/) Until the end of June, Amazon AWS is offering free ARM64 Graviton instances, learn how to try out FreeBSD to ARMv8 in the cloud Plan