BSD Now – Details, episodes & analysis

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 EuroBSDCon 2024 (https://2024.eurobsdcon.org) Ebook of “Run Your Own Mail Server” off to early backers (https://mwl.io/archives/23731) Interactive UNIX (https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/interactive-unix) 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 Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

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-on-openbsd/) Full-featured email server running OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2024-07-24-openbsd-email-server-setup.html) Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix? (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-July/030407.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 574 - extrowerk - dumb ideas in computer security (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/574/feedback/extrowerk%20-%20dumb%20ideas%20in%20computer%20security.md) 574 - Ep 569: on deprecation and support (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/574/feedback/Ep%20569%3A%20on%20deprecation%20and%20support) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

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-dusseldorf-bsd-nrw/events/301557512/) Another cool UNIX workstation, that was never released (https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1dd60re/another_cool_unix_workstation_that_was_never/) 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 Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback 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 Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3 (https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/) A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/a-quick-look-at-the-history-of-package-management-on-freebsd/) News Roundup A fresh look at FreeBSD (https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/86277.html) File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell (https://thevaluable.dev/file-management-tools-linux-shell/) Video Playback on FreeBSD – Quick Guide (https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/video-playback-on-freebsd-quick-guide/) Beastie Bits ps(1) gains support for tree-like display of processes (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902085038) ... interesting old-timey UNIXes ... (https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-September/026393.html) A retro style online SSH client to play Nethack (https://nethack.glitch.me/?retro=true) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix! Legacy (http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf) Game of Trees 0.75 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220910120430) 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 Ken - HPR (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/475/feedback/Ken%20-%20HPR.md) Kevin - FreeBSD and EMACS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/475/feedback/Kevin%20-%20FreeBSD%20and%20EMACS.md) Nathan - Handbook contribution Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/475/feedback/Nathan%20-%20Handbook%20contribution%20Question.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ***

Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud, A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends, EuroBSDcon 2022 recap, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report, OpenBGPD 7.6 Released, immutable userland mappings, Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed, 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 Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud (https://klarasystems.com/articles/deploying-freebsd-on-oracle-cloud/) The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html) EuroBSDcon 2022 (https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/eurobsdcon2022/) News Roundup “OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report (https://mwl.io/archives/22031) OpenBGPD 7.6 Released (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220916051806) OpenBSD may soon gain further memory protections: immutable userland mappings (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902100648) Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220902045137) 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 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

Writing FreeBSD kernel modules in Rust, Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE, Linux subsystem for FreeBSD, FreeBSD Journal: Science, Systems, and FreeBSD, NetBSD improves Amiga support, OpenBSD on Scaleway Elastic Metal, 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 Writing FreeBSD Kernel modules in Rust (https://research.nccgroup.com/2022/08/31/writing-freebsd-kernel-modules-in-rust/) Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE (https://accessvector.net/2022/freebsd-aio-lpe) News Roundup Linux Subsystem for FreeBSD (https://medium.com/nttlabs/linux-subsystem-for-freebsd-500b9a88fda4) FreeBSD Journal: Science, Systems, and FreeBSD (https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/03ae2705ab4362602a6bb90c5b9628c595d8b4fa.2.pdf) NetBSD improves its support for the Commodore Amiga (https://thenewstrace.com/netbsd-an-operating-system-that-is-serious-about-being-cross-platform-now-improves-its-support-for-the-commodore-amiga-1985/243892/) Installing OpenBSD on Scaleway Elastic Metal (https://www.senzilla.io/blog/2022/08/10/installing-openbsd-scaleway-elastic-metal/) Beastie Bits /usr/games removed from the default $PATH (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220810120423) How to install and configure mDNSResponder (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/how-to-install-and-configure-mdnsresponder.70713/) How to use consistent exit codes in shell scripts (https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2022/08/12/how-to-use-consistent-exit-codes-in-shell-scripts) 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 [TheHolm - zfs question)[https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/469/feedback/TheHolm%20-%20zfs%20question.md] *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ***

FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop, Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux, why OpenBSD’s documentation is so good, configure dma for mail delivery in jails on internet hosts, introducing muxfs, RAID1C boot support, 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 on the Framework laptop (https://xyinn.org/md/freebsd/framework_laptop) Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux (https://blog.hiler.eu/win32-the-only-stable-abi/) News Roundup Why is the OpenBSD documentation so good? (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-18-why-openbsd-documentation-is-good.html) How I configure dma for mail delivery in jails on my internet hosts (https://dan.langille.org/2022/08/15/how-i-configure-dma-for-mail-delivery-in-jails-on-my-internet-hosts/) Introducing muxfs (https://sdadams.org/blog/introducing-muxfs/) RAID 1C boot support added (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220813110021) 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 [Oliver - shell tip)[https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/469/feedback/Oliver%20-%20shell%20tip.md] Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ***

Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD, BSD for Linux users, r2k22 Hackathon Report on rpki-client, Configuring OpenIKED, De-Penguin Me, 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 Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2022/07/14/ten-things-to-do-after-installing-freebsd/) News Roundup hpr3655 :: BSD for Linux users (http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3655) r2k22 Hackathon Report: Job Snijders (job@) on rpki-client and more (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220701171631) Configuring OpenIKED (https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Iked.Configure) De-Penguin Me (https://depenguin.me/) 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 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])

In this special episode, we are interviewing Mateusz Piotrowski about his various roles in the FreeBSD project, his ports work, and a few other interesting things he’s involved with. Enjoy this interview episode, we’ll be back with a regular episode next week. 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 Interview - Mateusz Piotrowski - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) / @0mpts (https://twitter.com/0mpts) Interview + BR: Welcome Mateusz. Can you tell our audience a bit about yourself and how you got started with Unix/BSD? + TJ: What can we blame you for (prior/current work, planned projects)? + BR: You served as the first doceng secretary and joined the FreeBSD core team in this term. What interested you in these roles and what do you want to accomplish in this term? + TJ: You are also busy with maintaining some FreeBSD ports. What ports are those? + BR: Can you tell us a bit about your thesis work? + TJ: What does open source work mean for you? + BR: Do you have a cool Unix/BSD tip for us? + TJ: Is there anything else that you'd like to mention before we let you go? 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 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) *** Special Guest: Mateusz Piotrowski.

FreeBSD Q2 2022 Status Report, FreeBSD in Science, fastest yes(1) in the west, Why Programmers Can’t "Reset" Programs With Ctrl-C, Run Slack in FreeBSD’s Linuxulator, 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 Q2 2022 Status Report (https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2022-04-2022-06/) FreeBSD in Science (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-post-freebsd-in-science/) News Roundup Fastest yes(1) in the west (https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/199528/fastest-yes-in-the-west/199622#199622) Ctrl-C: Why Programmers Can’t "Reset" Programs With Ctrl-C, but Used to Be Able To, and Why They Should Be Able to Again (https://kevinlawler.com/ctrl-c) Run Slack in FreeBSD’s Linuxulator (https://meka.rs/blog/2022/07/01/freebsd-linuxulator/) 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 [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) ***