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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast', 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 Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted (https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-source-software-the-nine-trillion-resource-companies-take-for-granted) Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review (https://www.autodidacts.io/pinebook-pro-linux-bsd-

OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System, Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop, Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability, Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate, Not Not Porting 9front to Power64, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, 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 a Cozy Operating System (https://btxx.org/posts/OpenBSD_is_a_Cozy_Operating_System/) Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop (https://3.14.by/en/read/RISC-V-Sipeed-Lichee-Console-4A-Alibaba-T-Head-TH1520-review) News Roundup Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-03-30-lessons-learned-xz-vuln.html) Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate (https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor) Not Not Porting 9front to Power64 (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/04/03/0/) One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC (http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2024/02/one-less-u

Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems, NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts, Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud, Poudriere on Apple Silicon, One less Un*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, 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 Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems (https://www.davd.io/posts/2024-03-20-kubernetes-and-back-why-i-dont-run-distributed-systems/) NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/netapps-strategic-contributions-to-freebsd-a-deep-dive-into-upstreaming-efforts/) News Roundup Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/21/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-adding-nextcloud-part2/) Poudriere on Apple Sili

The XZ Backdoor, NetBSD 10.0, iX announces that they will put out a release of TrueNAS 13.3, State of the Terminal, LibreSSL 3.8.4 and 3.9.1 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 People have no doubt heard of this by now, but are not aware of the BSD side of things since its mostly been Linux getting all the news. It'd be nice if we could give a summary of the issue and then address how it does/doesn't affect the BSDs. The XZ Backdoor (https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor) NetBSD's statement (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/statement_on_backdoor_in_xz) FreeBSD's statement (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-security/2024-March/000248.html) OpenBSD? NetBSD 10.0 (https://netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.0.html) News Roundup iX announces that they will put out a release of TrueNAS 13.3 (https://www.truenas.com/blog/truenas-core-13-3-p

Using Git offline, Make your own E-mail server, quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development, Configuring openzfs for nvme databases, Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide part 1, Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev, 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 Git offline (https://www.gibbard.me/using_git_offline/) Make your own E-Mail server - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included - Part 1 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/03/08/make-your-own-email-server-freebsd-opensmptd-rspamd-dovecot-part1/) News Roundup quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2024-03-04-quiz-rapid-openzfs-development/) Configuring openzfs for nvme databases (https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases) Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide; Part One (https://antranigv.am/posts/2024/02/omnios-mirror-one/) Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2

Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi, TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD, SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop, Sparkbook Teardown, SSH over HTTPS, Keycloak Identity and Access Management on FreeBSD, Ford Aerospace and BSD 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 HOWTO: Setup diskless booting of Raspberry Pi (running RPi OS) via TFTP & NFSv4 from a FreeBSD ZFS server (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/howto-setup-diskless-booting-of-raspberry-pi-running-rpi-os-via-tftp-nfsv4-from-a-freebsd-zfs-server.92717/) TrueNAS abandons FreeBSD (https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/truenas_abandons_freebsd/) + No one needs to panic, we're aware of plans that have already been in the works. But more on that later. News Roundup SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop (https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/sparcbook3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop/) Sparkbook Teardown (https://jasoneckert.github.io

This week on the show, The story of SSH getting port 22, GGC using Clang, AuxRunner, Stabweek, Using a Kensington SlimBladePro 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 The story of getting SSH port 22 (https://www.ssh.com/academy/ssh/port#the-story-of-getting-ssh-port-22) Can GCC use Clang as its assembler? (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240122.html) News Roundup AUXrunner: a macOS QEMU-based app for running A/UX (https://mendelson.org/auxrunner.html) Stabweek (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2024-February/005657.html) Using the Kensington SlimBlade Pro TrackBall with OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/using-the-kensington-slimblade-pro-trackball-with-openbsd/) Running 9front on an emulated SGI Indy via MAME (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2024/01/01/0/) Beastie Bits Huffman Codes – How Do They Work? (https://two-wrongs.com/huffman-codes-how-do-they

This week on the show, you're not too late to develop the future, netmap on czgbe, OpenZFS 2.2.3, SSH Brute Forcing, some unknown OpenBSD Features, Release notes for the latest Omni OS, 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 When the Power Macintosh ran NetWare (featuring Wormhole and Cyberpunk) (https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/12/when-power-macintosh-ran-netware.html) You are not too late (https://kk.org/thetechnium/you-are-not-late/) News Roundup netmap on cxgbe interfaces (https://adventurist.me/posts/00318) OpenZFS 2.2.3 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.2.3) A recent abrupt change in Internet SSH brute force attacks against us (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSHBruteForceAttacksAbruptlyDown) Some OpenBSD features that aren't widely known (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-02-20-rarely-known-openbsd-features.html) Release Notes for OmniOS v

FreeBSD Foundation Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, How FreeBSD Employs Ampere Arm64 Servers in the Data Center, FreeBSD Yubikey authentication, that time I almost added Tetris to htop, 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 Statement on the European Union Cyber Resiliency Act (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-foundation-statement-on-the-european-union-cyber-resiliency-act/?utm_source=bsdweekly) DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s (https://git.sr.ht/~tomh/dragonflybsd-on-a-laptop/tree/master/item/README.md) News Roundup Ampere in the Wild: How FreeBSD Employs Ampere Arm64 Servers in the Data Center (https://amperecomputing.com/blogs/ampere-in-the-wild) FreeBSD Yubikey authentication (https://gist.github.com/daemonhorn/bdd77a7bc0ff5842e5a31d999b96e1f1) That time I almost added Tetris to htop (https://h

FreeBSD Status Report Q4 2023, In Memorium of the NTP inventor, Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS, AI-free blog, Hard disk LEDs and Noisy Machines, SSH based comment system, NetBSD 10 RC.4 is available, 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 Fourth Quarter 2023 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-10-2023-12/) In Memoriam : Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/) News Roundup Migrate a FreeBSD bhyve virtual machine to OmniOS (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/migrate-a-freebsd-bhyve-virtual-machine-to-omnios/?utm_source=bsdweekly) This blog is AI free (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-01-18-no-ai.html) Hard disk LEDs and Noisy Machines (https://jmmv.dev/2023/12/hard-disk-leds-and-nois

Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT, A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples, Early computer art by Barbara Nessim, Don't prefill config files, Trapping Spambots Based on Target Domain Only, You cannot cURL under pressure, 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 Overcoming imposter syndrome in IT (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-01-10-dealing-with-imposter-syndrome.html) A Practical Guide to GNU sed With Examples (https://thevaluable.dev/sed-cli-practical-guide-examples/) News Roundup Early computer art by Barbara Nessim (1984) (https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2023/11/09/early-computer-art-by-barbara-nessim/) Don't prefill config files (https://www.makeworld.space/2024/02/no_prefill_config.html) A Simpler Life: Trapping Spambots Based on Target Domain Only (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-simpler-life-trapping-spambots-based.html) You cannot cURL under pressure (https://blog.

Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD, Please, don’t force me to log in, Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics, Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens, What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?, Beginning of the year Laugh 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 Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/debunking-common-myths-about-freebsd/) Please, don’t force me to log in (https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/) News Roundup Exploring FreeBSD service(8) basics (https://rubenerd.com/basics-of-freebsd-services/) Failed Product Designs: A Laptop with Seven Screens The Expanscape Aurora 7 (https://www.core77.com/posts/127288/Failed-Product-Designs-A-Laptop-with-Seven-Screens) “What’s a Permissive License – and Why Should I Care?” (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/whats-a-permissive-license-and-why-should-i-care/) Beginning of

ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep, Stop Blogging and start documenting, 2023 in Review: Infrastructure, NovaCustom NV41 laptop review, OpenBSD Video Audio Screen Recording, HDMI Audio sound patches into GhostBSD source code, DSA removal from OpenSSH, NetBSD/evbppc 10.99.10 on the Nintendo Wii, NetBSD/amd64 current performance patch 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 ZFS High Availability with Asynchronous Replication and zrep (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-high-availability-with-asynchronous-replication-and-zrep/) Stop Blogging and start documenting (https://callfortesting.org/stopblogging/) News Roundup 2023 in Review: Infrastructure (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/2023-in-review-infrastructure/) NovaCustom NV41 laptop review (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-01-03-laptop-review-novacustom-nv41.html) OpenBSD Video Audio Screen Recording (https://rs

GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions, The Geeks way of checking what the outside weather is like, Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail, DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s, Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS, Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS 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 GPL 3: The Controversial Licensing Model and Potential Solutions (https://klarasystems.com/articles/gpl-3-the-controversial-licensing-model-and-potential-solutions/) The Geeks way of checking what the outside wheather is like (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/the_geeks_way_of_checking) News Roundup Alpine on a FreeBSD Jail (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/01/18/installing-alpine-linux-on-a-freebsd-jail/) DragonFly BSD on a Thinkpad T480s (https://git.sr.ht/~tomh/dragonflybsd-on-a-laptop/tree/master/item/README.md) Dealing with USB Storage devices on OmniOS (https:/

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs, 2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement, Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snapshot directory?, OpenBSD workstation hardening, KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current, MidnightBSD 3.1.3 release 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 OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases Part 3: Databases and VMs (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-storage-best-practices-and-use-cases-part-3-databases-and-vms/) 2023 in Review: Continuous Integration and Workflow Improvement (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/continuous-integration-and-workflow-improvement/) News Roundup Running OpenBSD on OmniOS using bhyve (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/running-openbsd-on-omnios-using-bhyve/) FreeBSD jailed ZFS datasets – how do I find the .zfs/snap

8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024, System Design for Advanced Beginners, 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective, Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10*RC1, FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6, Ctrl+Alt Museum 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 8 Open Source Trends to Keep an Eye Out for in 2024 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/8-open-source-trends-to-keep-an-eye-out-for-in-2024/) System Design for Advanced Beginners (https://robertheaton.com/2020/04/06/systems-design-for-advanced-beginners/) News Roundup 2024 plans and 2023 retrospective (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-01-09-plans-for-2024.html) Upgrading from NetBSD 5.1 to 10_RC1 (https://www.idatum.net/upgrading-from-netbsd-51-to-10_rc1.html) FreeBSD has a new C compiler: Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20240101.html) Ctrl+Alt Museum (https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM

Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14, HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report, How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop, A sneak Peak, Programming FreeBSD Reading Process Information, Why Unix kernels have grown caches for directory entries 'name caches', Always learning, Always Teaching 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 Security, Performance, and Interoperability; Introducing FreeBSD 14 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/security-performance-and-interoperability-introducing-freebsd-14/) HardenedBSD November 2023 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-12-01/hardenedbsd-november-2023-status-report) News Roundup How to create a FreeBSD Jail hosting a remote desktop (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/12/13/how-to-create-a-freebsd-jail-hosting-xrdp-and-xfce-remote-access-desktop/) A sneak Peak (https://freebsdfoundation.org/b

Terrapin Attack, SSH Hardening with ssh-audit, MidnightBSD 3.1.2, syscall(2) removed from -current, 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here 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 Terrapin Attack (https://terrapin-attack.com) OpenSSH 9.6 is out (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231219122431) OpenBSD Patches (https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.4/common/011_ssh.patch.sig) FreeBSD Patches (https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-23:19.openssh.asc) If anyone is aware of NetBSD Patches, please send them into the show so I can update the show notes SSH Hardening with ssh-audit (https://thoughts.greyh.at/posts/ssh-audit/) News Roundup MidnightBSD 3.1.2 (https://bsdsec.net/articles/midnightbsd-security-midnightbsd-3-1-2) syscall(2) removed from -current (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231213062827) 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here (https://freebs

In this special holiday episode, we, the BSDNow hosts, get together to answer questions that listeners have sent us over time. We give you updates on our gear, books we read, favorite places, and a whole lot more. Enjoy! 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) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs, FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0, Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Netgate Releases pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1, SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right, Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage, 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 DAK and the Golden Age of Gadget Catalogs (https://cabel.com/2023/11/06/dak-and-the-golden-age-of-gadget-catalogs/) FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade to 14.0 – properly detailed and (hopefully) correct way (https://ozgurkazancci.com/freebsd-13-2-upgrade-to-14-0-proper-and-correct-way/) News Roundup Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/running-openbsd-on-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w/) Netgate Releases pfSense CE Software Version 2.7.1 (https://www.netgate.com/blog/netgate-releases-pfsense-ce-software-version-2.7.1) SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right (https://jmmv.dev/2023/11/s