BSD Now Episode 386: Aye, 386!
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more! Episode show...
FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (Oct – Dec 2020)
FreeBSD News The FreeBSD Project has published it quarterly list of accomplishments in the Q4 2020 Status Report from a wide range of contributions including volunteers, vendors, and work sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. Highlights include the publication of the...
BSD Now Episode 385: Wireguard VPN mesh
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more. Episode show...
Exploring Swap on FreeBSD
Mark Johnston answers all of your questions about swap on FreeBSD in this blog post hosted by Klara Systems, including an explanation of the laundry queue. "The laundry queue is managed by a dedicated thread, the laundry thread, which is responsible for deciding when...
How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS
Vivek Gite of nixCraft asks and answers the question, "How do I install, set up and configure a FreeBSD 12 jail with VNET on ZFS? How can I create FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with /etc/jail.conf to run OpenVPN, Apache, WireGuard and other Internet-facing services securely on...
BSD Now Episode 384: In memoriam
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2.0 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more....
BSD Now Episode 383: Scale the tail
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan, discuss the FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achievement, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more! Episode show...
helloSystem: The “Less is More” FreeBSD Desktop
helloSystem is a FreeBSD desktop OS that focuses on simplicity, elegance, and usability. It boots quickly and provides a responsive desktop experience with a mere 20 running processes. helloSystem draws on the Lumina and FuryBSD desktop projects for its archive and...
BSD Now Episode 382: Q&A 2020
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan, plus Producer JT answer your questions! Episode show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/382
BSD Now Episode 381: Shell origins
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan explore the Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more. Episode show...
TrueNAS SCALE 20.12-ALPHA Released
The TrueNAS Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the release the next Alpha version of TrueNAS SCALE! SCALE is the newest member of the TrueNAS family. When complete, SCALE will have all major TrueNAS CORE storage and sharing features and web interface...
BSD Now Episode 380: Early ZFS-mas
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more. Episode show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/380
FreeBSD Git Transition Underway
The FreeBSD Git Transition Team is on schedule to complete the project's transition from SVN to Git by December 22nd, 2020. The CURRENT branch has been available via Git for several months and DOCS was transitioned in December. The 11 and 12-STABLE branches will be...
TrueNAS CORE 12.0-U1 Showcases FreeBSD 12.2 and OpenZFS 2.0
The first Update to TrueNAS CORE 12.0 has arrived and delivers not only the best FreeNAS version to date but also the best FreeBSD and OpenZFS versions to date.
BSD Now Episode 379: bhyve my guest
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan explore Freebernetes, tracing kernel functions, The better way of building FreeBSD networks, New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings, LibreSSL update in DragonFly, Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD, and more. Press play...
BSD Now Episode 378: Networknomicon
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan interview Michael W. Lucas about his new SNMP and TLS books, cashflow for creators, his book sale and more. Press play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/378
Support the FreeBSD Foundation on Giving Tuesday!
The FreeBSD Foundation is kicking off its prime giving season on one of the biggest giving days of the year, Giving Tuesday. Now in its 9th year, Giving Tuesday is a global day of giving that brings together diverse communities to foster generosity . The Foundation is...
BSD Link Roundup 11.24
Here are some BSD related posts, releases, discussions, questions, and security notices for the past month. Peace to BSD! Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C via University of Rochester ZFS Essentials article series via open-e On the use of a life via...
BSD Now Episode 377: Firewall ban-sharing
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the history of FreeBSD: BSDi and USL lawsuits, building a website with Google Compute Engine, Firewall ban-sharing, OpenVPN default gateway for OpenBSD, Single Unix Specification, Switching from Apple to...
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[How-To] Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader by oshogbo
User oshogbo shows us how to bring zpool checkpoints to the FreeBSD operating system bootloader. What that means is, when you start up your FreeBSD system, you will see a checkpoint of your ZFS pool, before your operating system even loads. Check out the link below...
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