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From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, August 2024 Foundation Update, Email encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG, Workarounds are often forever (unless you work to make them otherwise), Remote Desktop using RDP and VNC, Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple, Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System, 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 From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/04/from-cloud-chaos-to-freebsd-efficiency/) August 2024 Foundation Update (https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/newsletter/august-2024-foundation-update/) News Roundup Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-08-14-automatic-emails-gpg-encryption-at-rest.html) Workarounds are often forever (unless you work to make them otherwise) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmi

X Window System At 40, Lessons from Ancient File Systems, HardenedBSD July 2024 Status Report, FreeBSD's 'root on ZFS' is appealing, I Miss BSD/Linux, Simple automated deployments using git 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 X Window System At 40 (https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-window-system-at-40.html) Lessons from Ancient File Systems (https://madcompiler.blogspot.com/2024/02/lessons-from-ancient-file-systems.html) News Roundup HardenedBSD July 2024 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2024-08-03/hardenedbsd-july-2024-status-report) FreeBSD's 'root on ZFS' default appeals to me for an odd reason (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDZFSRootAppeal) I Miss BSD/Linux (https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/05/i-miss-bsd-linux/) Simple automated deployments using git push (https://garrido.io/notes/simple-automated-deployments-git-push/) Beastie Bits EuroBSDCo

Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve, Our slowly growing Unix monoculture, The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005), Video Edition notes on OpenBSD, Full-featured email server running OpenBSD, ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?, 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 Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve (https://freebsdfoundation.org/antithesis-pioneering-deterministic-hypervisors-with-freebsd-and-bhyve/) Our slowly growing Unix monoculture (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurGrowingUnixMonoculture) News Roundup The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005) (http://ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/dumb/index.html) + HN Thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34513806) Video Edition notes on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/video-edition-notes

What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?, Human Scale Software vs Open Source, How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14, Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?, Backward compatibility has real costs even for settings, Kyua graduates, 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 Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? (https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to-recreate-bell) Human Scale Software vs Open Source (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/07/31/0/) News Roundup How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14 (https://group.miletic.net/en/blog/2024-06-14-how-to-run-visual-studio-vs-code-remote-over-ssh-on-freebsd-13-and-14) Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root? (https://dan.langille.org/2024/07/27/why-are-some-emails-from-charlie-root-and-others-are-from-root/)

OpenBSD Workstation for the People, Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD, Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way, Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works, Where’s my backup?, Vi and Vim: A Brief Overview, 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 Workstation for the People (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/) Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/15/bridging-networks-across-vps-wireguard-vxlan-freebsd/?utm_source=bsdweekly) News Roundup Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way (https://blog.feld.me/posts/2024/07/updating-freebsd-the-manual-way/) Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SecurityNeedsToConvince) Where’s my backup? (https://dan.langille.org/2024/07/16/wheres-my-backup/)

Navigating FreeBSD’s New Quarterly and Biennial Release Schedule, EuroBSDCon 2024 Schedule, From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, Local-to-anchors tables in PF rules, CloudBSD, 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 Navigating FreeBSD’s New Quarterly and Biennial Release Schedule (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/navigating-freebsds-new-quarterly-and-biennial-release-schedule/) https://mccd.space/posts/netbsd-review/ (https://mccd.space/posts/netbsd-review/) EuroBSDCon 2024 Schedule (https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2024/schedule/) News Roundup From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/04/from-cloud-chaos-to-freebsd-efficiency/) Enable local-to-anchors tables in PF rules (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240714154257) CloudBSD (https://cloudbsd.xyz/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only s

The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network, FreeBSD 14.1: What’s new, and how did we get here?, The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition), MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5, Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way), Reasons to use your shell's job control, RIP dhclient(8) 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 FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network (https://antranigv.am/posts/2024/06/freebsd-server-network-homelab/) FreeBSD 14.1: What’s new, and how did we get here? (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-14-1-whats-new-and-how-did-we-get-here/) News Roundup The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition) (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-24-old-computer-challenge-v4-announce.html) MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5 (https://axio.ms/projects/2024/06/16/MicroMac.html) Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way) (https://jcs.org/2024/05/29/x1u

Enhancing FreeBSD Stability With ZFS Pool Checkpoints, Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs, Initial playlist of 28 BSDCan Videos released, Installing FreeBSD 14 on Raspberry Pi 4B with ZFS root, A practical guide to VPNs, IPv6, routing domains and IPSEC, How to mount ISO or file disk images on 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 Enhancing FreeBSD Stability With ZFS Pool Checkpoints (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/07/01/enhancing-freebsd-stability-with-zfs-pool-checkpoints/) Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PlaintextNotGreatLogFormat) News Roundup Initial playlist of 28 BSDCan Videos released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240630100913) Installing FreeBSD 14 on Raspberry Pi 4B with ZFS root (https://axcella.com/blog/2024/02/03/installing-freebsd-14-on-raspberry-pi-4b-with-zfs-

regreSSHion vulnerability, Improving and debugging FreeBSDs Intel wifi support, FreeBSD adds an implementation of the 9P filesystem, FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge, Why and how to run your own FreeBSD package cache, Game of Trees Hub, Why Does FreeBSD Default to Csh/Tcsh, 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 regreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems (https://www.qualys.com/2024/07/01/cve-2024-6387/regresshion.txt) and OpenBSD 9.8 (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240701102851) Improving and debugging FreeBSDs Intel wifi support (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improving-and-debugging-freebsds-intel-wi-fi-support-cheng-cuis-key-role-in-the-iwlwifi-project/) FreeBSD adds an implementation of the 9P filesystem (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=e97ad33a89a78f55280b0485b3249ee9b907a718) News Roundup FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speed

SSH as a sudo replacement, Core.13 is Now In Office, Running GoToSocial on NetBSD, A DMD package for OpenIndiana, Adding more swap space to Omnios, OpenBSD adds initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day, 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 SSH as a sudo replacement (https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/06/13/ssh-as-a-sudo-replacement/) Core.13 is Now In Office (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-June/000136.html) News Roundup Running GoToSocial on NetBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/running-gotosocial-on-netbsd/) A DMD package for OpenIndiana (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240609.html) Adding more swap space to Omnios (https://neirac.srht.site/posts/omnios-add-swap.html) OpenBSD added initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240620105457) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow

A Journey Through 31 Years of Open Source Excellence, Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?, Upstreaming FreeBSD Code to the Linux Vector Packet Processor Project, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots With UFS, My Concern With Rust, or a Case for the BSD's, 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 Celebrating FreeBSD Day: A Journey Through 31 Years of Open Source Excellence (https://hamradio.my/2024/06/celebrating-freebsd-day-a-journey-through-31-years-of-open-source-excellence/) Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better? (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/06/10/proxmox-vs-freebsd-which-virtualization-host-performs-better/) News Roundup Upstreaming FreeBSD Code to the Linux Vector Packet Processor Project (https://thenewstack.io/upstreaming-the-linux-vector-packet-processor-vpp-to-freebsd/) FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots Wi

NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro, OpenBSD extreme privacy setup, Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy', Posix.1 2024 is out, Blocking Access From or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and Pf, and more. Date: 2024.06.17 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 NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro (https://www.idatum.net/netbsd-10-on-a-pinebook-pro-laptop.html) OpenBSD extreme privacy setup (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-06-08-openbsd-privacy-setup.html) News Roundup Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' (https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/version_256_systemd/) Posix.1 2024 is out (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555529) Blocking Access From or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and Pf (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/06/16/freebsd-blocking-country-access/) Beastie Bits BSD User Group Düsseldorf Juli 2024 (https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/bsd-user-group-dusse

Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report, What is Computer Science? ~1967, Computation Poems, Old Info, but still good -- HOWTO: Set up and configure security/sshguard-pf, observium-freebsd-install, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System, OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior, 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 Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/results-from-the-2024-freebsd-community-survey-report/) What is Computer Science? ~1967 (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~choset/whatiscs.html) News Roundup Computation Poems (https://nickm.com/poems/) Old Info, but still good -- HOWTO: Set up and configure security/sshguard-pf (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/howto-set-up-and-configure-security-sshguard-pf.39196/) observium-freebsd-install (https://github.com/pmhausen/observium-freebsd-

FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, 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 14.1-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.1R/announce/) News Roundup Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm (https://plexwave.org/blog/auto-dark-mode) dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240604085042&utm_source=bsdweekly) DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@ (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240606180535) Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance (https://www.ncartron.org/replacing-my-opnsense-gateway-hardware-by-a-protectli-appliance.html) How to al

My personal BSDCan Devsummit and Schedule, Syncthing, Paperless-ngx, neovim, Things we always remind ourselves while coding, 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 Devsummit 2024 Schedule (https://freebsdfoundation.org/news-and-events/event-calendar/may-2024-freebsd-developer-summit/) BSDCan 2024 Schedule (https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/1/timetable/?#20240531.detailed) News Roundup A list of things I was drawn deeper into, got excited about, and wanted to tell you more about. Syncthing (https://syncthing.net) Paperless-ngx (https://docs.paperless-ngx.com) FreeBSD ports man page (https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=paperless&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html) Neovim (https://neovim.io) List of popular plugins and themes (https://neovimcraft.com) Neovim for Newbs (by the Typecraft guy) (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li

Why FreeBSD Continues to Innovate and Thrive, Why BSD, A BSD person tries Alpine Linux, This message does not exist, Demise of Nagle's algorithm, How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET, 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 FreeBSD Continues to Innovate and Thrive (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/why-freebsd-continues-to-innovate-and-thrive/) Why BSD (https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/why-bsd/) News Roundup A BSD person tries Alpine Linux (https://rubenerd.com/a-bsd-pserson-trying-alpine-linux/) This message does not exist (https://www.kmjn.org/notes/message_existence.html) Demise of Nagle's algorithm (RFC 896 - Congestion Control) predicted via sysctl (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240514075024) How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET (https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/07/how-jerry-pournelle-got-kicked-off-the-arpanet.html) Tarsnap This weeks episod

FreeBSD Status Report First Quarter 2024, Why not BSD, LibreSSL version 3.9.2 released, Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, X.Org on NetBSD, Unix version control lore: what, ident, How I search in 2024, sshd split into multiple binaries, 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 Status Report First Quarter 2024 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2024-01-2024-03/) Why not BSD (https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/why-not-bsd/) + Sequel next week News Roundup LibreSSL version 3.9.2 released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240512115958) Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/running-netbsd-on-omnios-using-bhyve/) X.Org on NetBSD - the state of things (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/x_org_on_netbsd_the) Unix version control lore: what, ident (https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-13-what-ident.html) How I search in 2024 (https://vickiboykis.com/2024/0

An RNG that runs in your brain, Going Stateless, SmolBSD, The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining, Wayland, where are we in 2024?, Omnios pxe booting, OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files, 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 An RNG that runs in your brain (https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/randomness/) Going Stateless (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-20-workstation-going-stateless.html) News Roundup SmolBSD (https://smolbsd.org) The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining (https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/) Wayland, where are we in 2024? Any good for being the default? (https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/wayland-2024.html) Omnios pxe booting (https://neirac.srht.site/posts/ipxe_boot.html) OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-04-27-openbsd-wg-quick-converter.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was spo

NetBSD 9.4, FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance, The Lost Worlds of Telnet, alter file ownership and permissions with a feedback information, parallel raw IP input, OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs, FreeBSD for Devs. Plus a special interview with the organizers of BSDCAN 2024. 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 NetBSD 9.4 (https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-9/NetBSD-9.4.html) FreeBSD Foundation Delivers V1 of FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-delivers-v1-of-freebsd-ssdf-attestation-to-support-cybersecurity-compliance/) News Roundup The Lost Worlds of Telnet (https://thenewstack.io/the-lost-worlds-of-telnet/) How to alter file ownership and permissions with a feedback information (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2024/04/18/how-to-alter-file-ownership-and-permissions-with-a-feedb