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OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases pt 2, MNT Reform – almost a year on, Why do I know shell, and how can you, Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to, dsynth in DragonFly, Navigating around in shell, 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 OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases – Part 2: File Serving and SANs (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-storage-best-practices-and-use-cases-part-2-file-serving-and-sans/) My MNT Reform – almost a year on (https://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=3215) News Roundup Why do I know shell, and how can you? (https://jmmv.dev/2023/11/why-do-i-know-shell-and-how-can-you.html) Authenticate the SSH servers you are connecting to (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-08-05-sshfp-dns-entries.html) dsynth in DragonFly (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2023/11/30/dsynth-in-dragonfly/) Navigating around in shell (https://blog.meain.io/2023/na

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases, EuroBSDcon trip report, Disks from the Perspective of a File System, Creating Jails using flavours in pot, OpenIKED 7.3 released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released, FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds, 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 OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases - Part 1: Snapshots and Backups (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-storage-best-practices-and-use-cases-part-1-snapshots-and-backups/) EuroBSDCon 2023 report (1/2) – arrival & tutorial days (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/eurobsdcon-2023-report-1-2-arrival-tutorial-days/) EuroBSDCon 2023 report (2/2) – Main conference, social event & conclusion (https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2023/10/15/eurobsdcon-2023-report-2-2-main-conference-social-event-conclusion/) News Roundup Disks from the Perspective of a File System (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.11

FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), 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 (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/) • [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking-FreeBSD-14-breakage.html) • [Vermaden’s FreeBSD 14 valuable news] (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/valuable-freebsd-14-0-release-updates) News Roundup Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD (https://www.ncartron.org/reading-your-rss-feed-on-freebsd.html) Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-08-19-pdftk-guide.html) clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231113160314&utm_source=bsdweekly) NetBSD Security Advisory 2

Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos 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 Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2023/10/25/migrating-from-an-old-linux-server-to-a-new-freebsd-machine/) The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist (https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/02/diagrams.html) The Worst New Guys In History (https://blog.vito.nyc/posts/on-programming/) News Roundup FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison (https://justanerds.site/freebsd-jails-vs-docker/) Installing Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230703.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup y

FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released 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 Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture (https://klarasystems.com/articles/looking-towards-the-future-freebsd-on-the-risc-v-architecture/) A bit of XENIX history (http://seefigure1.com/2014/04/15/xenixtime.html) News Roundup Official packages (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-pkgbase/2023-October/000221.html) recover lost text by coredumping firefox (https://j3s.sh/thought/recover-lost-text-by-coredumping-firefox.html) FuguIta 7.4 has been released (https://fuguita.org/?FuguIta/7.4&utm_source=bsdweekly) LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231103065952) OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released

2^18 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, 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 2^18 dollars to open source (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-10-25-2%5E18-dollars-to-open-source.html) Special Thanks to Colin for supporting BSD Now for over 10 years! *** ### EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report – Bojan Novković (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/eurobsdcon-2023-trip-report-bojan-novkovic/) *** ### FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian) (https://markmcb.com/freebsd/vs_linux/) *** News Roundup Introduction to sysclean8 (https://www.osnews.com/story/137266/introduction-to-sysclean8-on-openbsd/) Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-10-18-syncthing-discov

OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, 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 7.4 (https://www.openbsd.org/74.html) Making Software Last Forever (https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2023-05-25-making_software_last_forever) News Roundup DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions (https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2023-October/922780.html) HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-10-10/hardenedbsd-september-2023-status-report) NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod (https://imil.net/blog/posts/2023/netbsd-as-a-k8s-pod/) Firefox hardening with Arkenfox (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-24-harden-firefox-with-arkenfox.html) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSD

Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), 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 Implementing a system call for OpenBSD (https://poolp.org/posts/2023-07-05/implementing-a-system-call-for-openbsd/) Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-email-services-on-openbsd/) The First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server (https://herrbischoff.com/2022/12/the-first-5-minutes-on-a-new-freebsd-server/) News Roundup OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201 (https://triapul.cz/automa/old-computer-rescue-x201/) [CFT] sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230704094238) How to send syslog messages using command-li

Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and 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 Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System: Benefits & Considerations (https://www.javacodegeeks.com/2023/09/adopting-freebsd-as-your-open-source-operating-system-benefits-considerations.html) How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/how_hard_is_it_to_adapt_a_memory_allocator_to_cheri.html) News Roundup [Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD)[https://github.com/verm/freebsd-stable-diffusion) Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosting-pixelfed-on-openbsd/) Creating a Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS (https://dan.

If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting the right type of certificate, Jenny’s Daily Drivers, 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 If you can use Open Source you can build hardware (https://redeem-tomorrow.com/if-you-can-use-open-source-you-can-build-hardware) Good performance is not just big O (https://jmmv.dev/2023/09/performance-is-not-big-o.html) News Roundup How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-09-08-openbsd-how-to-pledge-a-program.html) Proof You Should Not Run My Code (https://mwl.io/archives/23082) 3D printing on OpenBSD? Yes, that’s a thing! (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230914075444) Getting the right type of certificate (https://dan.langille.org/2023/09/09/gett

Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14, 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 Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Solutions for Business Flexibility and Cost-Effectiveness (https://klarasystems.com/articles/unlocking-infrastructure-sovereignty-harnessing-the-power-of-open-source-solutions/) Recap of first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/recap-of-first-meeting-of-the-freebsd-enterprise-working-group/) News Roundup HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2023-09-01/hardenedbsd-august-2023-status-report) • [HardenedBSD 14-STABLE Now Available](https://hardenedbsd.org/article/sh

Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, 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 DNS is still hard to learn (https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/07/28/why-is-dns-still-hard-to-learn/) Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/LetterFromRitchie.pdf) News Roundup ZFS Replication tools (https://evilham.com/en/blog/2023-ZFS-replication-tools/) Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB (https://rubenerd.com/between-isa-and-pci-we-had-vlb/) Old Computer Challenge v3: postmortem (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-17-old-computer-challenge-v3-part2.html) Beastie Bits • [Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator](https://decuser.github.io/unix/research-unix/v7/vi

Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements, that old netbsd server, 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 Do one thing and do it well (https://medium.com/source-and-buggy/do-one-thing-and-do-it-well-886b11a5d21) Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-24-childproof-retrogaming-station.html) and a rereview of (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-04-old-computer-challenge-v3.html) News Roundup Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1 (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-10-old-computer-challenge-v3-part1.html) It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code (https://edw519.posthaven.com/it-takes-6-days-to-change-1-line-of-code) Rejected GitHub Profile Achiev

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, 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 On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge (https://samoburja.com/on-the-loss-and-preservation-of-knowledge/) Unix Recovery Legend (https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html) News Roundup Useful Unix commands for data science (https://gregreda.com/2013/07/15/unix-commands-for-data-science/) Why we like Tarsnap = Transparency : Tarsnap outage post-mortem (https://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-announce/msg00050.html) OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 (https://box.matto.nl/openbsd-73-on-a-twenty-year-old-ibm-thinkpad-r31.html) Beastie Bits Quick and dirty IMAP(-UW) server (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/quick-and-dirty-imap-uw-server.89877/) JEN

The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI 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 Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature (https://theody.net/elements.html) The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace (https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html) News Roundup Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-23-7-released/) [ILLUMOS GETS A NEW C COMPILER](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230705.html ) FIXING THINKPAD X1 WIFI ON FREEBSD (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/fixing-thinkpad-x1-wifi-on-freebsd/) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure onlin

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, 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 Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/top-ten-reasons-to-upgrade-to-freebsd-13-2/) History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes (https://ciq.com/blog/history-never-repeats-but-sometimes-it-rhymes/) News Roundup Wayland on OpenBSD (https://xenocara.org/Wayland_on_OpenBSD.html) OpenBGPD 8.1 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230713110230) Shoot yourself in the foot (https://g-w1.github.io/blog/observation/2023/07/08/shoot-yourself-in-the-foot.html) Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20230724224011) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was s

FreeBSD Status Report Q2 2023, Klara Systems Recommended Summer Reads 2023, install Kanboard on OpenBSD howto, A bit of Unix history on 'su -', hints for splitting commits, Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam, 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 Second Quarter 2023 (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2023-04-2023-06/) Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023 (https://klarasystems.com/articles/our-2023-recommended-summer-reads-freebsd-and-linux/) News Roundup How to install Kanboard on OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-07-07-kanboard-on-openbsd.html) A bit of Unix history on 'su -' (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SuDashHistory) Some hints for splitting commits (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2023/07/some-hints-for-splitting-commits.html) Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam (https://michal.sapka.me/2023/moved-to-openbsd/) In memoriam In Memoriam: Han

4 Months of BSD, Self Hosted Calendar and address Book, Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs, Self-hosted git page, Bastille template example, Restrict nginx Access by Geographical Location 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 4 Months of BSD (https://danterobinson.dev/BSD/4MonthsofBSD) Self Hosted Calendar and address Book (https://www.tumfatig.net/2023/self-hosted-calendar-and-addressbook-services-on-openbsd/) News Roundup Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-06-22-opensmtpd-block-attempts.html) Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor) (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-11-23-git-host/) Bastille template example (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2022/01/03/bastille-template-examples-adguardhome/) Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD (https://herrbischoff.com/2021/05/nginx-how-

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, 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 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-3-advantages-to-running-freebsd-as-your-server-operating-system/) FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/) News Roundup Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2023-05-05-openbsd-sound-streaming.html) DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2023-June/028441.html) How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/03/how-to-limit-bandwidth-usage-for-scp-transfers/) Beastie Bits Op

A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edition Zero, how to be a -10x engineer, 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 Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples (https://thevaluable.dev/problem_solving_guide_software_developer) Making 20% time work (https://begriffs.com/posts/2016-01-29-making-twenty-percent-time-work.html) News Roundup Long live netbooks! (https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2022-09-10-netbooks/) OpenBSD Router on Sg105w (https://evolving-architecture.eu/openbsd-router-sg105w/) FreeBSD: How to Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server (https://herrbischoff.com/2023/04/freebsd-how-to-set-up-a-simple-and-actually-working-wireguard-server/) How to be a -10x Engineer (https://taylor.to