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...
![[How-To] Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader by oshogbo](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/bsdinstall-newboot-loader-menu-1.png)
[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...
![[How-To] FreeBSD on the NanoPi NEOLTS by Adventurist](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Opera-Snapshot_2020-11-13_164346_adventurist.me_.png)
[How-To] FreeBSD on the NanoPi NEOLTS by Adventurist
User Adventurist documented his NanoPi NEOLTS set up running the FreeBSD operating system. NanoPi is a tiny, pocket-sized ARM computer similar to a Raspberry Pi. Check out the link below for the full set of instructions. We need to: Get the latest GENERICSD card image...
![[How-To] Install a Wireguard VPN client in a FreeBSD jail by nixCraft](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Opera-Snapshot_2020-11-13_163600_www.cyberciti.biz_-103103_1080x675.png)
[How-To] Install a Wireguard VPN client in a FreeBSD jail by nixCraft
User Vivek Gite walks us through setting up Wireguard in a FreeBSD jail. Wireguard is an open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) communication protocol, designed to keep your browsing safe and secure. Step 1 – Update FreeBSD Run the following pkg command: # pkg...
BSD Now Episode 376: Build stable packages
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan & Benedict discuss FreeBSD 12.2, ZFS webinar, Syzaller for NetBSD, OpenBSD-stable packages, OPNsense 20.7.4, and some others. Hit play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/376
![[How-To] FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Opera-Snapshot_2020-11-13_161928_honeyguide.eu_.png)
[How-To] FreeBSD Virtual Data Centre with Potluck: DevOps & Infrastructure as Code
This guide by user Stephan Lichtenauer will show you how to set up a FreeBSD virtual data centre with Potluck. Potluck is a container database for FreeBSD, similar to Dockerhub. This is a three part tutorial, walking you through basic setup, Consul, Nomad, and test...
BSD Now Episode 375: Virtually everything
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss bhyve hypervisor, udf info leak, vim instead of classic vi, ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, LLDB FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin, OpenBSD on laptop, and some others. Press play below to tune in:...
![[How-To] Using a webcam on FreeBSD in web browsers by David Schachter](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Opera-Snapshot_2020-11-13_155146_www.davidschlachter.com_.png)
[How-To] Using a webcam on FreeBSD in web browsers by David Schachter
This short tutorial by user David Schlachter will show you how to set up your webcam to work with web browsers on the FreeBSD operating system, namely Chrome/Chromium or Firefox. See the link below for the full set of instructions (it's very short) First,...
BSD Now Episode 374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan & Benedict discuss OpenBSD 6.8, NetBSD 9.1, OpenZFS devsummit, BastilleBSD native container management, old tarsnap backup cleaning, Michael W Lucas book sale, and some more. Click play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes:...
![[How-To] Install FreeBSD by Internet Society](https://www.freebsdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/Opera-Snapshot_2020-11-13_151334_www.internetsociety.org_-214700_1080x675.png)
[How-To] Install FreeBSD by Internet Society
This tutorial by Internet Society will show you how to install FreeBSD in a VirtualBox environment. VirtualBox is a powerful, open-source virtualization tool that can run many different operating systems in a virtual environment. This module is a part of a...
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available
The developers of FreeBSD have finally made available version 12.2-RELEASE. Notable changes include updates to the wireless networking stack, ice(4) driver, jail(8) updated to allow Linux jail environment, OpenSSL and OpenSSH updates, clang, llvm, and much much more....
BSD Now Episode 373: Kyle Evans Interview
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan interview Kyle Evans and discus his grep project, flua and lua in base, bectl, the Core Team and some other things. Click play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/373
FreeBSD Core Team 10 in Review by FreeBSD Foundation
The FreeBSD Foundation recently introduced the Core Team 11 to take over projects such as Git migration, Code of Conduct update, the Working Group structure, and several other initiatives. Welcome to the new members, in addition to the returning members. Congrats to...
OPNsense® 20.7.4 “Legendary Lion” is now available
The developers of OPNsense have made available version 20.7.4 of their Legendary Lion release. Notable changes include switch web GUI address fix, use fault button, auth user changed, replace gateway widget, firewall support for network exclusions, NAT rules, ui,...
BSD Now Episode 372: Slow SSD Scrubs
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss Wayland on BSD, someone's BSD that sucks less than yours, SSDs and ZFS scrubs slowing down, OpenBSD, shell status bar for cwm and OpenBSD, and some others. Press play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes:...
TrueNAS 12.0-RELEASE is now available
The developers if TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS) have made available version 12.0-RELEASE! TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise are now ready for production deployments. The merger of FreeNAS and TrueNAS into a unified software image is officially complete and is a...
BSD Now Episode 371: Wildcards running wild
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan & Benedict discuss zedfs, TrueNAS CORE, IPC in FreeBSD 11 - performance analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and some others. Click play below to tune in: BSDNow.TV show notes: https://www.bsdnow.tv/371
BSD Link Roundup 10.23
Some BSD related news, articles, and discussions you may have missed out on. Enjoy and happy BSD-ing! OpenZFS Support Merged Into Mainline FreeBSD via Phoronix OpenZFS 2.0-RC3 Released With Bug Fixes, Intel QAT Support For Newer Kernels via PhoronixFreeBSD 11.3...
BSD Now Episode 370: Testing shutdown
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Benedict & Allan discuss the first ever OpenZFS based live image in the entire world, FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration, FreeBSD Instant-workstation, shutdown mechanism testing, login_ldap added to OpenBSD, and some more. BSDNow.TV...
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