Podcasts about FreeBSD

This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation. 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) Guests Deb Goodkin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/deb-goodkin-b282924a/) Justin Gibbs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gibbs-3974671/) 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) Special Guests: Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs.

How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We've Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, 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 How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/how-to-unlock-high-speed-wi-fi-on-freebsd-14/) What We've Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (https://klarasystems.com/articles/what-weve-learned-supporing-freebsd-production/) News Roundup rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia (https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/06/rsync-replaced-with-openrsync-on-macos-sequoia/) Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD (https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2025/03/16/framework.html) FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280 (https://adventurist.me/posts/00352) Backup MX with OpenSMTPD (https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/05/backup-mx-with-opensmtpd/) Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl (https://mwl.io/archives/24097) 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 No feedback this week. 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)

The Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb, Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter, LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work, Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time, erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection, Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi, 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 Hidden Costs of Stagnation: Why Running EOL Software is a Ticking Time Bomb (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-hidden-costs-of-stagnation-why-running-eol-software-is-a-ticking-time-bomb/) Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter (https://klarasystems.com/articles/maintaining-freebsd-commercial-product-why-upstream-contributions-matter/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup LLMs ('AI') are coming for our jobs whether or not they work (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/LLMsVersusOurJobs) Implement Anubis to give the bots a harder time (https://dan.langille.org/2025/05/03/implement-anubis-to-give-the-bots-a-harder-time/) erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250512100219) Just my memory here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for a IPv6 Wifi (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250208) Beastie Bits Some Interesting pieces of history Netnews History (https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/netnews-hist.pdf) History of Solaris (https://cse.unl.edu/~witty/class/csce351/howto/history_of_solaris.pdf) Nuclear Wall Charts (https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/search) [TUHS] The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.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 Paul - my setup (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/614/feedback/Paul%20-%20my%20setup.md) 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)

Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces, DragonFly BSD 6.4.2, FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart, For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions, Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do, PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files, How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments, 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 Isolating Containers with ZFS and Linux Namespaces (https://klarasystems.com/articles/isolating-containers-with-zfs-and-linux-namespaces/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) DragonFly BSD 6.4.2 (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/) FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart (https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/second_preview_zvault/) News Roundup For Upcoming PF Tutorials, We Welcome Your Questions (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/05/for-upcoming-pf-tutorials-we-welcome.html) Using ~/.ssh/authorized keys to decide what the incoming connection can do (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/) PDF bruteforce tool to recover locked files (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2025-03-09-test-pdf-passwords.html) How and why typical (SaaS) pricing is too high for university departments (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversityTypicalPricingTooHigh) 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 Nils - CFP (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/612/feedback/nils%20-%20CFP.md) 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)

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Intro How I know BSD Very minimal NetBSD usage I'm am leaving out Dragonfly BSD Previous episodes Several by Claudio Miranda and others - check the tags page. hpr3799 :: My home router history hpr3187 :: Ansible for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol hpr3168 :: FreeBSD Jails and iocage hpr2181 :: Install OpenBSD from Linux using Grub History and Overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Berkeley_Software_Distribution The history of the Berkeley Software Distribution began in the 1970s when University of California, Berkeley received a copy of Unix. Professors and students at the university began adding software to the operating system and released it as BSD to select universities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_BSD_operating_systems Comparisons to Linux Not better or worse, just different. BSD is a direct descendant of the original UNIX Not distributions - Separate projects with separate code bases. Permissive vs Copyleft One Project vs Kernel + User land Most Open Source software is available on BSD ports and packages Network Devices and DISKS will have different naming conventions. BE CAREFUL Distinctives FreeBSD Probably most widely used Base OS Commercial products Tightly integrated with ZFS Jails OS for Firewall appliances - PFSense and Opensense OpenBSD Focus on Code Correctness and Security Often First to develop new security methodologies - ASLR and Kernel relinking at boot Home of OpenSSH, ... Base includes Xorg and a minimal Window Manager The Best docs - man pages NetBSD Supports the most platforms pkgsrc can be used on any UNIX like. How I use BSD Home Router Recently migrated from FreeBSD to OpenBSD Better support for the cheap 2.5G network adapters in Ali express firewalls Workstations OpenBSD Dual boot laptop - missing some nice features - Vscode and BT audio OpenBSD for Banking NAS FreeBSD Was physical by migrated to Proxmox VM with direct attached drives Jails for some apps ZFS pools for storage My recommendations Router OpenBSD - Any BSD will work Opensense - similar experience to managing DD-WRT Thinkpads - OpenBSD Other laptops / PC - FreeBSD desktop focus derivative. ghost or midnight Servers/NAS FreeBSD ZFS Jails BSD is worth trying Dual booting is supported but can be tricky if unfamiliar. r Provide feedback on this episode.

I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, 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 I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection) Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/owning-the-stack-infrastructure-independence-with-freebsd-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Optimisation of parallel TCP input (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250508122430) Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term" (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/WorksNowVsWorksGenerally) Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade (https://www.ncartron.org/losing-one-of-my-evenings-after-an-openbsd-upgrade.html) What drive did I just remove from the system? (https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/21/what-drive-did-i-just-remove-from-the-system/) 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 Benjamin - Street PCs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/613/feedback/Benjamin%20-%20street%20pcs.md) 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)

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there's a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn't make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes […]

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there's a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn't make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes... Read More

GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal, Why You Can't Trust AI to Tune ZFS, Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files, What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025, FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations, Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems, FreeBSD as a Workstation, 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 GhostBSD: From Usability to Struggle and Renewal (https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/ghostbsd-from-usability-to-struggle-and-renewal/) Why You Can't Trust AI to Tune ZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-you-cant-trust-ai-to-tune-zfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Introducing bpflogd(8): capture packets via BPF to log files (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425074505) What I'd do as a College Freshman in 2025 (https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2025/04/what-id-do-as-college-freshman.html) FreeBSD and KDE Plasma generations (https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2025/03/02/kde5.html) Improvements to the FreeBSD CI/CD systems (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improvements-to-the-freebsd-ci-cd-systems/) FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://darknet.sytes.net/wordpress/index.php/2025/03/16/freebsd-as-a-workstation/) 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 Effie - FreeBSD as a Workstation (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/611/feedback/effie%20-%20freebsd%20as%20a%20workstation.md) 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)

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. Standard UNIX password manager Password management is one of those computing problems you probably don't think about often, because modern computing usually has an obvious default solution built-in. A website prompts you for a password, and your browser auto-fills it in for you. Problem solved. However, not all browsers make it very easy to get to your passwords store, which makes it complex to migrate passwords to a new system without also migrating the rest of your user profile, or to share certain passwords between different users. There are several good open source options that offer alternatives to the obvious defaults, but as a user of Linux and UNIX, I love a minimal and stable solution when one is available. The pass command is a password manager that uses GPG encryption to keep your passwords safe, and it features several system integrations so you can use it seamlessly with your web browser of choice. Install pass The pass command is provided by the PasswordStore project. You can install it from your software repository or ports collection. For example, on Fedora: $ sudo dnf install pass On Debian and similar: $ sudo apt install pass Because the word pass is common, the name of the package may vary, depending on your distribution and operating system. For example, pass is available on Slackware and FreeBSD as password-store. The pass command is open source, so the source code is available at git.zx2c4.com/password-store. Create a GPG key First, you must have a GPG key to use for encryption. You can use a key you already have, or create a new one just for your password store. To create a GPG key, use the gpg command along with the --gen-key option (if you already have a key you want to use for your password store, you can skip this step): $ gpg --gen-key Answer the prompts to generate a key. When prompted to provide values for Real name, Email, and Comment, you must provide a response for each one, even though GPG allows you to leave them empty. In my experience, pass fails to initialize when one of those values is empty. For example, here are my responses for purposes of this article: Real name: Tux Email: tux@example.com Comment: My first key This information is combined, in a different order, to create a unique GPG ID. You can see your GPG key ID at any time: $ gpg --list-secret-keys | grep uid uid: Tux (My first key) tux@example.com Other than that, it's safe to accept the default and recommended options for each prompt. In the end, you have a GPG key to serve as the master key for your password store. You must keep this key safe. Back it up, keep a copy of your GPG keyring on a secure device. Should you lose this key, you lose access to your password store. Initialize a password store Next, you must initialize a password store on your system. When you do, you create a hidden directory where your passwords are stored, and you define which GPG key to use to encrypt passwords. To initialize a password store, use the pass init command along with your unique GPG key ID. Using my example key: $ pass init "Tux (My first key) " You can define more than one GPG key to use with your password store, should you intend to share passwords with another user or on another system using a different GPG key. Add and edit passwords To add a password to your password store, use the pass insert command followed by the URL (or any string) you want pass to keep. $ pass insert example.org Enter the password at the prompt, and then again to confirm. Most websites require more than just a password, and so pass can manage additional data, like username, email, and any other field. To add extra data to a password file, use pass edit followed by the URL or string you saved the password as: $ pass edit example.org The first line of a password file must be the password itself. After that first line, however, you can add any additional data you want, in the format of the field name followed by a colon and then the value. For example, to save tux as the value of the username field on a website: myFakePassword123 username: tux Some websites use an email address instead of a username: myFakePassword123 email: tux@example.com A password file can contain any data you want, so you can also add important notes or one-time recovery codes, and anything else you might find useful: myFake;_;Password123 email: tux@example.com recovery email: tux@example.org recovery code: 03a5-1992-ee12-238c note: This is your personal account, use company SSO at work List passwords To see all passwords in your password store: $ pass list Password Store ├── example.com ├── example.org You can also search your password store: $ pass find bandcamp Search Terms: bandcamp └── www.bandcamp.com Integrating your password store Your password store is perfectly usable from a terminal, but that's not the only way to use it. Using extensions, you can use pass as your web browser's password manager. There are several different applications that provide a bridge between pass and your browser. Most are listed in the CompatibleClients section of passwordstore.org. I use PassFF, which provides a Firefox extension. For browsers based on Chromium, you can use Browserpass with the Browserpass extension. In both cases, the browser extension requires a "host application", or a background bridge service to allow your browser to access the encrypted data in your password store. For PassFF, download the install script: $ wget https://codeberg.org/PassFF/passff-host/releases/download/latest/install_host_app.sh Review the script to confirm that it's just installing the host application, and then run it: $ bash ./install_host_app.sh firefox Python 3 executable located at /usr/bin/python3 Pass executable located at /usr/bin/pass Installing Firefox host config Native messaging host for Firefox has been installed to /home/tux/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts. Install the browser extension, and then restart your browser. When you navigate to a URL with an file in your password store, a pass icon appears in the relevant fields. Click the icon to complete the form. Alternately, a pass icon appears in your browser's extension tray, providing a menu for direct interaction with many pass functions (such as copying data directly to your system clipboard, or auto-filling only a specific field, and so on.) Password management like UNIX The pass command is extensible, and there are some great add-ons for it. Here are some of my favourites: pass-otp: Add one-time password (OTP) functionality. pass-update: Add an easy workflow for updating passwords that you frequently change. pass-import: Import passwords from chrome, 1password, bitwarden, apple-keychain, gnome-keyring, keepass, lastpass, and many more (including pass itself, in the event you want to migrate a password store). The pass command and the password store system is a comfortably UNIX-like password management solution. It stores your passwords as text files in a format that doesn't even require you to have pass installed for access. As long as you have your GPG key, you can access and use the data in your password store. You own your data not only in the sense that it's local, but you have ownership of how you interact with it. You can sync your password stores between different machines using rsync or syncthing, or even backup the store to cloud storage. It's encrypted, and only you have the key.Provide feedback on this episode.

OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, 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 7.7 (https://OpenBSD.org/77.html) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-tools-part-2-replication/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/) Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250418114827) Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425082010) Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree (https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hardware-autoconfiguration) The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-2025-freebsd-community-survey-is-here/) 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 Brad - new users (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/610/feedback/brad%20-%20new%20users.md) 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)

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren't really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS   News/discussion Windows RDP […]

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren't really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with some early episodes Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS   News/discussion Windows RDP... Read More

Jonathan reviews the OrangePI RV2, Windows runs Arch btw, and Nvidia is deprecating CUDA for some old video cards. PewDiePie made a Linux video, Proton 10 enters Beta, and OSU's Open Source Labs has a funding crunch. For command line tips, Ken starts a series on the pw-cli, Jeff has some ricing tips with eww, and Jonathan talks about Open Source character recognition with ocrmypdf and pdftotext. You can find the show notes at https://bit.ly/3GxPRbY and enjoy! Host: Jonathan Bennett Co-Hosts: Ken McDonald and Jeff Massie Download or subscribe to Untitled Linux Show at https://twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show Want access to the ad-free video and exclusive features? Become a member of Club TWiT today! https://twit.tv/clubtwit Club TWiT members can discuss this episode and leave feedback in the Club TWiT Discord.

Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, 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 Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking (https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-advanced-networking/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/) News Roundup OpenZFS Cheat Sheet (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-cheat-sheet/) Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam/) SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive (https://jpmens.net/2025/03/25/authorizedkeyscommand-in-sshd/) How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ? (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250215) 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 Dave - Webstack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/tree/master/episodes/609/feedback) 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)

Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast! CHAOSScast – Episode 109 In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Georg Link is joined by Cali Dolfi, Senior Data Scientist at Red Hat, and Brittany Istenes, FINOS Ambassador. The discussion delves into the importance of measuring open source community health and the role of Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in ensuring software security and compliance. They talk about the rising threats in open source software, the need for standardizing SBOMs, and how organizations can leverage these tools to proactively manage risks and project health. Also, they touch on practical steps being taken at Red Hat and other organizations to address these challenges. Hit download now to hear more! [00:00:21] Our guests introduce themselves and their backgrounds. [00:01:55] Georg explains the rise of malicious packages (700%) and the risks of neglected open source components. [00:04:36] What is a SBOM? Brittany explains SBOMs as a list of all software components and libraries in each application and automation and tooling adoption is discussed. [00:06:08] Cali outlines the lack of consensus on SBOM fields and formats and advocates for including upstream repo links to assess project health. Brittany mentions companies being cautious about publicizing SBOMs due to IP concerns. [00:09:12] Georg gives a historical overview about SBOMs began as tools for license compliance and how SBOMs now cover more including cybersecurity, post U.S. Executive Order 14028 (May 2021). [00:15:51] Georg shares three pillars of SBOM strategy: License compliance, Security, and Project Health and how CHAOSS Metrics can be combined with SBOMs to move from reactive to proactive strategies. [00:16:59] Brittany emphasizes risk analysis and good design from project inception and proactive open source strategies save effort later. [00:18:43] Cali talks about using project health metrics and advocates for tracking maintainer activity, patch frequency, and project responsiveness. [00:21:28] Brittany stresses internal engineering education on project health and risk and developer smush understand what makes a project “healthy.” [00:22:55] Georg talks about how open source has evolved and details using CHAOSS metrics for risk assessment and CI/CD integration. [00:27:36] Cali shares Red Hat's efforts to define what makes a project vulnerable and how it's focused on detecting and sunsetting unmaintained dependencies. [00:31:37] Brittany emphasizes risk from version mismatches and misinterpreted CVEs and mentions a CHAOSS doc to read, “Metrics for OSS Viability” by Gary White. [00:34:17] We end with Georg sharing some upcoming events: CHAOSScon North America, June 26 and Open Source Summit North America, June 23-25. Value Adds (Picks) of the week: [00:36:08] Georg's pick is building a platform for his dog to look out the window. [00:37:06] Brittany's pick is spending time with Georg and Cali. [00:38:12] Cali's pick is her great support system since having ACL surgery. *Panelist: * Georg Link Guests: Cali Dolfi Brittany Istenes Links: CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project X (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) Georg Link Website (https://georg.link/) Britany Istenes LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-istenes-91b902152/) Brittany Istenes GitHub (https://github.com/BrittanyIstenes) Cali Dolfi LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/calidolfi/) State of the Software Supply Chain (Sonatype) (https://www.sonatype.com/state-of-the-software-supply-chain/introduction) CHAOSScast Podcast-Episode 103: GrimoireLab at FreeBSD (https://podcast.chaoss.community/103) CHAOSS Community: Metrics for OSS Viability by Gary White (https://chaoss.community/viability-metrics-what-its-made-of/) CHAOSScon North America 2025, Denver, CO, June 26 (https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2025-na/) Open Source Summit North America, Denver CO, June 23-25 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/) Fintech Open Source (FINOS) (https://www.finos.org/) Cyber Resilience Act (European Commission) (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act) Rising Threat: Understanding Software Supply Chain Cyberattacks And Protecting Against Them(Forbes) (https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/02/06/rising-threat-understanding-software-supply-chain-cyberattacks-and-protecting-against-them/) Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity (The White House) (https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/16/executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/) Types of Software Bill of Material (SBOM) Documents (https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/sbom-types-document-508c.pdf) OpenSSF Scorecard (https://openssf.org/projects/scorecard/) OSS Project Viability Starter (CHAOSS) (https://chaoss.community/kb/metrics-model-project-viability-starter/) Show Me What You Got: Turning SBOMs Into Actions- Georg Link & Brittany Istenes (https://lfms25.sched.com/event/1urWz) Special Guests: Brittany Istenes and Cali Dolfi.

Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, 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 World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/world-backup-day-2025-robust-reliable-backup-solutions-with-openzfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad (https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/) News Roundup Motivations (https://stevengharms.com/longform/my-first-freebsd/motivations/) Tinker Writer Deck (https://tinker.sh/) How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-determine-if-a-system-reboot-is-necessary/) Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/who_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. Feedback/Questions Ian - Personal Web Stack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/ian%20-%20personal%20stack.md) Brendan - Storage Backends (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/brendan%20-%20storage%20backends.md) 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)

Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn't appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Robust & Reliable Backup […]

Some Synology NAS products will require drives they sold you, doubt is cast on the CVE program, why some FreeBSD packages didn't appear when they should have, and backing up the keys for encrypted backups.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Robust & Reliable Backup... Read More

We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, 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 We should improve libzfs somewhat (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-12-we-should-improve-libzfs-somewhat/) Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark (https://klarasystems.com/articles/accurate-effective-storage-performance-benchmark/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD (https://dan.langille.org/2025/02/24/debugging-aids-for-pf-firewall-rules-on-freebsd/) OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/openbsd-and-thunderbolt-issue-on-thinkpad-t480s/) Signing Git Commits with an SSH key (https://jpmens.net/2025/02/26/signing-git-commits-with-an-ssh-key/) Pgrep (https://www.c0t0d0s0.org/blog/pgrep-z-r.html) LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.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 Felix - Bhyve and NVME (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/607/feedback/Felix%20-%20bhyve%20and%20nvme.md) 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)

FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD's 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, 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 13.5-RELEASE Now Available (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-March/000181.html) From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD's 7,000 Bug Backlog (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/) News Roundup zfs-2.3.1 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.1) Complications of funding an open source operating system (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/) Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/) First Use on GhostBSD (https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/first-use-on-ghostbsd/) Better Shell History Search (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/better_shell_history_search.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 Russell - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/606/feedback/russell%20-%20questions.md) 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)

FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, 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 FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/) Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/core-infrastructure-why-you-need-to-control-your-ntp/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/) Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/using-a-2013-mac-pro-as-a-freebsd-desktop.96805/) Some terminal frustrations (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/) Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp (https://bhoot.dev/2025/cp-dot-copies-everything/) You Should Use /tmp/ More (https://atthis.link/blog/2025/58671.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 Tyler - Toms request (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/605/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Toms%20request.md) 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)

The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk, Why ZFS reports less available space, We are destroying software, FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106, 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected, Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on, If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well, 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 Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk (https://filmmakermagazine.com/127295-joanne-mcneil-cyberpunk/) Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/ (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-zfs-reports-less-available-space-space-accounting-explained/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) We are destroying software (https://antirez.com/news/145) News Roundup FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.5-Beta-2) TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html) Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/InetdActivationWhyNot) If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well (https://svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-you-believe-in-artificial-intelligence-take-five-minutes-to-ask-it-about-stuff-you-know-well/) 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 Nelson - gcc puzzlement (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/604/feedback/Nelson%20-%20gcc%20puzzlement.md) 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)

OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots, The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, OPNsense 25.1, 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 RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-expansion-a-new-era-in-storage-flexibility/) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-part-1-zfs-snapshots-tools/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025-01-23-manage-openbsd-with-ssm/) TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) OPNsense 25.1 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=45460.msg227323) 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 feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, 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 I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went (https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-freebsd-as-a-desktop-heres-how-it-went/) Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets (http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm) News Roundup State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html) The first perfect computer (https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/) Find Name Wildcard Gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindNameWildcardGotcha) New Patreon Levels Level 1 - user memory (Tip Jar) @ $1 / month Show your support for the show Level 2 - virtual memory (Ad-Free Episodes) @ $5 / month Ad-free episodes Level 3 - kmem (VIP Patron) @ $10 / month Everything in higher memory levels & Your feedback and questions jump the queue and go in the next episode. Personal shout outs (with your consent) for recommending articles we cover. Level 4 - physical memory @ $20 / month What's included: Everything in higher memory levels & You can send in audio/video questions and we'll air your audio in the show feedback section (if the quality of your recording is decent) Behind-the-scenes content - Raw Video from Recording sessions with intro/outro discussion not included in the show Additional Content when we all make it 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 feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

The PC is Dead: It's Time to Make Computing Personal Again, The Biggest Unix Security Loophole, The monospace Web, What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means, Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9, Networking for System Administrators, 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 PC is Dead: It's Time to Make Computing Personal Again (https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again) The Biggest Unix Security Loophole (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf) News Roundup The monospace Web (https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/) What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDBridgeMacMovedMessage) Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9 (https://brunopacheco1.github.io/posts/installing-freebsd-on-hp-250-g9/) Networking for System Administrators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa) 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 feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Lead Asahi Developer stands down, moderators reminiscing about joining the podcast, Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD, FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time, OpenBGPD 8.8 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) Topics Hector Martin stands down as lead developer on Asahi Linux (https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/) No forward progress for Rust to be given first class status in the kernel Having to maintain a thousand plus patches against a fast moving upstream project (Linux Kernel) Dwindling funds What does this mean for sister projects like OpenBSD? 600th episode flash back When did you come across BSDNow? What are some of your highlights? Where are we going in the future...? What would we like to do for the show as hosts. Pie in the sky thinking and discussion. Round Up Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=173823317816570&w=2) As well, the NetBSD project is trying to bring up this board Conversation around the state of ARM64 SoC and options LibreSSL is not affected by the OpenSSL vulnerabilities (https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-openssl-vulnerability-found-by-apple-allows-mitm-attacks/) announced today. FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time (https://m4c.pl/blog/freebsd-audio-setup-bitperfect-equalizer-realtime/) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) 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 The Most Important Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/600/feedback/jt%20-%20the_most_important_question.md) 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)

Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS, Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025, Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl, The Death of Email Forwarding, Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD 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 Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/controlling-core-infrastructure-dns-server-setup/) Laptop Support and Usability Project Update: First Monthly Report & Community Initiatives (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/laptop-support-and-usability-project-update-first-monthly-report-community-initiatives/) News Roundup FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-at-fosdem-2025/) Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl (https://jpmens.net/2025/01/23/uploading-a-message-to-an-imap-server-using-curl/) The Death of Email Forwarding (https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-death-of-email-forwarding/) Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/cruising-a-vps-at-openbsd-amsterdam/) 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 feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance, OpenZFS 2.3.0 available, Updates on AsiaBSDcon, GhostBSD Desktop Conference, Recovering from external zroot, Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible, Stories I refuse to believe, date limit in UFS1 filesystem extended, 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 Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance (https://klarasystems.com/articles/considerations-benchmarking-network-storage-performance/) OpenZFS 2.3.0 available (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.0) News Roundup Updates on AsiaBSDCon 2025 - Cancelled - (https://lists.asiabsdcon.org/pipermail/announce/2025-January/000046.html) GhostBSD Desktop Conference (https://www.phoronix.com/news/BSD-Desktop-Conference-GhostBSD) Recovering from external zroot (https://adventurist.me/posts/00350) Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible (https://jpmens.net/2025/01/25/create-a-new-issue-in-a-github-repository/) Stories I refuse to believe (https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/stories-i-refuse-to-believe) Defer the January 19, 2038 date limit in UFS1 filesystems to February 7, 2106 (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=1111a44301da39d7b7459c784230e1405e8980f8) 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 Feedback - Nelson - Ada/GCC (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/598/feedback/Nelson%20Feedback.md) 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)

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. What Is The Indie Archive? I'm Hairy Larry and you're listening to the Plain Text Programs podcast. The Indie Archive is a archival solution for indie producers. Since most indie producers run on a shoestring budget it's important that the Indie Archive is inexpensive to install and run. It's especially important that monthly expenses are minimal because a reasonable expense most months will sometimes be more than an indie producer can afford during some months. The first major constraint is cost. So I'll be talking about prices a lot in this podcast and get more technical in future podcasts about The Indie Archive. Indie Archive is an archival system which is different than a backup system. If you don't have a backup system do that first. My backup system uses the same tools as Indie Archive, rsync and rsnapshot. My brother uses the online backup service Carbonite. There are many other options. A good backup system runs automatically to back up everything frequently and preserve version history. It's also good to have backups offsite. An archival system, like Indie Archive, keeps multiple redundant copies across several hard drives on several systems in multiple locations. An archival system also checks file integrity as protection against file corruption or user error. When you have a project you really never want to lose, like a finished novel, a music album, a video, or any other major effort that involves significant work, that's when you need an archival system. So The Indie Archive does not automatically backup your projects every day. That's what your backup system should do. The Indie Archive is an archival system where the producer of the content decides what needs to be archived and when it needs to be archived and then manually moves a directory containing the files onto the Indie Archive carefully preserving the file's metadata during the transfer. Then these files are propagated over at least 7 hard drives on 4 different systems in three locations. File integrity checks are run daily comparing the files and reporting discrepancies. Two of the systems are kept in the studio where the content is produced. I call them the primary and secondary systems. They have a boot drive and two data drives each. One of the systems is kept offsite at a nearby location. I call it the remote system. It also has a boot drive and two data drives. If you have a more distant location where you can put a second remotes system you can have remotenear and remotefar systems. Otherwise ... The final system is somewhere in the cloud provided by a professional data storage provider. It has a single copy of the data and usually some additional data retention. The provider makes the backups of this data. This is the part that might involve a monthly bill. So, depending on the size of your file set, it could be free or it could cost so much a month. There are a lot of options for cloud storage providers. But first I'm going to discuss the three systems, primary, secondary, and remote, and how they function. As far as the hardware goes the systems are the same. Now, I"m a Linix guy and I do all my production work on Linux so I'm using Linux. I want to test the system on several versions of Linux and with BSD. I'm not a Mac guy or a Windows guy so I won't be going there. The software is open source and the required programs run on all three platforms so I'll let a Mac or Windows programmer test The Indie Archive for their systems. My guess is that the Mac fork will be easier than the Windows fork because of the file metadata. It might even be possible to add Mac folders to The Indie Archive running Linux but I'll let someone who actually has a Mac figure that out. I don't think the same is true for Windows. Windows file metadata is different and so if you want to preserve the metadata you will probably have to install The Indie Archive on Windows systems. So, I'm developing and deploying on Linux and I will also test on BSD. So far I have tested Debian, Ununtu, FreeBSD, Midnight BSD, and Xubuntu and The Indie Archive works fine all of these operating systems. So, back to the hardware. Pretty much any older system that will support at least three sata drives will work. I'm using older business class desktops, Dell and HP. I pulled mine out of storage but they are very inexpensive to buy if you're not like me with a shed full of old computer stuff. I just bought a Small Form Factor HP Desktop on ebay for $30 including tax and shipping. To clarify, it's best if the primary system supports 4 sata drives. The secondary and remote systems do not need an optical drive so they should support three sata drives but they can be run on two sata drives if you boot from the primaryfile drive. I am currently testing a remote system with two sata drives running Midnight BSD. The Dell desktops made a big deal about being green. I am open to suggestions on what would be the best energy efficient systems for The Indie Archive, because of both the cost of electricity and the impact on the environment. There are three drives on each system, a boot drive and two data drives. The boot drives can be SSD or spinning hard drives and need to be big enough to hold the OS comfortably. The data drives need to be large enough to hold the files you want to archive and they should be high quality spinning drives, I use the multi terrabyte HGST drives and I am also looking at some Dell drives made by HGST. There will be a data drive and a snapshot drive on each system. If they are not the same size the snapshot drives should be larger. I am testing with 3 terrabyte data drives and 4 terrabyte snapshot drives. Besides the main data set that is being archived the snapshot drives also hold the version history of files that have been deleted or changed. So, that's why they should be the larger drive. So my primary system has a primaryfiles directory with a 3 terrabyte drive mounted to it and a primarysnapshots directory with a 4 terrabyte drive mounted to it. Same for the secondary and remote systems. Now, so far I only had to buy one drive but generally speaking the six data drives will be the major expense in assembling the systems. So a good bargain on six 4 terrabyte drives could be $120 used or $270 new. And this is the most expensive part. I install used HGST drives all the time and rarely have problems with them. I have worked for clients who won't buy used, only new. Since the file integrity checks should give early warning on a drive failure and since there is a seven drive redundancy on the data files, if I were buying drives for The Indie Archive I'd go with six used 4 terrabyte HGST drives for $120. There is no reason not to use drives all the same size as long as the snapshot drives are large enough. The size of data drives you need depends on the size of your projects and the time it takes to do a project. Look at your hard drives on your working systems. Think about what directories you would like to see in archival storage. What is the total size of these directories? Check how many gigabytes these projects have consumed in the last year. Think forward a few years. Assume you will use more disc space in the future than you are now. Do some quick arithmetic and make a decision. Like I said I only had to buy one drive so far because I'm weird and I had a bunch of 3 terrabyte drives available. If I had to buy drives I probably would have tried to start larger. I am sure that at some point in the not to distant future, when I am running The Indie Archive and not developing it, I will have to upgrade my drives. The primary system is the console for The Indie Archive. When you copy a project onto The Indie Archive the directory goes into the primaryfiles directory. From there it is propagated out to the primarysnapshots directory, the secondary system, the cloud storage (if you are using it), and eventually to the remote systems. All of the data propagation is done with rsync using the archive setting that is desigend to preserve the file metadata like owner, permissions, and date last modified. So I have been using rsync with the archive setting to move the files from the work system to a usb drive and from the usb drive to the primaryfiles folder. At first I thought I would use an optical disc to move the files but optical discs do not preserve file metadata. Also I had some weird results with a usb flash drive because it was formatted fat32. fat32 does not support Linux metadata so if you're going to move projects over on a flash drive or a usb external drive be sure to format to ext4. Another way to move projects over to the primaryfiles directory is with tar compression. This preserves metadata when the files are extracted so this might be easier and it works with optical drives. If your directory will fit on an optical drive this also gives you another backup on another media. If you have any suggestions on how to transfer projects while preserving the file metadata let me know. I know that there are network options available but I am hesitant to recommend them because if I can transfer files from a system to the primary sytem over the LAN than anyone can do the same. Or delete files. Or accidentally delete directories. I kind of want to keep tight control over access to the primary system. It kind of ruins the archival quality of The Indie Archive if anyone on the LAN can accidentally mess with it. So, I am open to dialogue on these issues. I'm kind of where I want it to be easy to add projects to The Indie Archive but not too easy, if you know what I mean. I feel like having to sit down at the primary system and enter a password should be the minimum amount of security required to access the primary system. The primary system also runs file integrity checks daily from a cron job. All of the propagation and file integrity scripts have to be run as root to preserve the metadata since only root can write a file that it doesn't own. The secondary system is the ssh server for The Indie Archive. The primary system logs onto the secondary system as root using ssh. Security is managed with public and private keys so entering a password is not required. After the keys are set up for both the primary and remote systems, password authentication is disabled for the ssh server so only those two systems can ssh into the secondary system. When the propagation script is run on the primary system rsnapshot is used to create a current version of the primaryfiles directory in the primarysnapshots directory. Then the primary system uses rsync over ssh to make a copy of the primaryfiles directory to the secondaryfiles directory. Then the primary system logs onto the secondary system as root and rsnapshot is used to create a current version of the secondaryfiles directory on the secondarysnapshots directory. Finally, if cloud storage is being used, the primary system uses gcloud rsync to make a copy of the primaryfiles directory to a google cloud storage bucket archive. I have this bucket set to 90 days soft delete. If you are using another type of cloud storage on Google, AWS, Mega, or other storage providers this command will have to be adjusted. The reason I chose the gcloud archive bucket is because of the storage cost per gigabyte. They have the cheapest cost per gigabyte that I found. This will keep the monthly bill low. Once a day the primary system runs the file integrity check from a cron job using rsync to compare the primaryfiles directory to the current version, alpha.0, in the primarysnapshots directory logging any discrepancies. It then does the same comparing primaryfiles to secondaryfiles and to the current version in the secondarysnapshots directory, logging discrepancies and notifying the maintainer of any discrepancies. Notification is done by email using curl and an SMTP provider. The remote system runs on it's own schedule, logging into the secondary system daily to copy data from secondaryfiles to remotefiles and then using rsnapshot to make a copy of remotefiles to the remotesnapshots directory. Since it's run on a daily schedule it uses rsnapshot with the standard daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups. The remote system also runs a daily file integrity check comparing remotefiles to the current version on remotesnapshots and comparing remotefiles to both data directories on the secondary system, again logging the results and notifying the maintainer of any discrepancies. If there is an outward facing static IP at the location with the primary and secondary systems then the remote system can use that static IP to ssh into the secondary system. If there is not a static IP then the remote system uses a DuckDNS subdomain to log onto the secondary system. Any system using the same router as the secondary system can run a cron job to update DuckDNS with the current IP address. Since a static IP is a monthly expense it's important that there's an alternative that does not require paying another bill. So the secondary system has the ssh server but it doesn't really do much. Both of the other systems connect to it and use it as the junction for data propagation and file integrity checks. So, as you can tell, there's a lot going on to make The Indie Archive work. Future podcasts will get down into the details and discuss some of the choices I had to make and why I made them. The funny thing about this project is that the actual code was the least amount of work. Figuring out exactly how rsync and rsnapshot work together was quite a bit of work. Configuration for both rsnapshot and ssh took a bit of head scratching. Then there were a few user id tricks I had to work through to make The Indie Archive usable. But, by far the most work was writing The Indie Archive installation document detailing each step of installing the software on three systems. It's been fun so far. If you have input I always appreciate the help. I get quite a bit of help on Mastodon. If you go to home.gamerplus.org you will find the script for this podcast with the Mastodon comment thread embedded in the post. This podcast is being read from a document that is a work in progress. Current versions of the What Is The Indie Archive document will be posted at codeberg when I'm ready to upload the project. Thanks for listening. https://www.theindiearchive.com/ Provide feedback on this episode.

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

It's week one of our FreeBSD challenge, and for one of us, that penalty Windows install looks uncomfortably close! Plus, Zach Mitchell joins us to update us on Planet Nix.

The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header, FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks, Generative AI is for the idea guys, Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones, FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD, The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else, 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 (due to excessive use of the F-bomb, perhaps we should somewhat censor it... You can do so in words... or I can use Tom's favorite Frequency tone to do it in post). You decide and let me know what you think would be funnier.) Also I'm hoping for some good commentary from you guys on this one. :P The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header (https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/) FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks (https://savagedlight.me/2014/03/07/freebsd-jail-host-with-multiple-local-networks/) News Roundup Generative AI is for the idea guys (https://rachsmith.com/ai-is-for-the-idea-guys/) Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/static-dual-stack-networking-on-omnios-solaris-zones/) FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241219080430) The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DNSCNAMEAndOthersWhyNot) Conference Bits BSD-NL (https://bsdnl.nl/) BSDCan (https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/) 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 feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast! CHAOSScast – Episode 103 In this episode of CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby welcomes guests Miguel Ángel Fernández, Ed Maste, and Moin Rahman to talk about FreeBSD's Project adoption of GrimoireLab as part of work commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency (https://www.sovereign.tech/). They discuss the FreeBSD Foundation's need to understand their extensive bug backlog and how they leveraged GrimoireLab to gain insights and optimize bug management. The conversation also covers the challenges of deploying GrimoireLab on FreeBSD, resulting enhancements in the GrimoireLab metrics, and the overall benefits seen in managing the FreeBSD project. Press download to hear more! [00:00:45] The guests introduce themselves and share their backgrounds. [00:03:00] Alice explains the adoption of GrimoireLab by the FreeBSD project, facilitated by Bitergia who Miguel works for, to enhance project metrics and dashboarding capabilities. [00:04:02] Ed details FreeBSD's history, it integrated approach to software distribution, and its licensing benefits. [00:05:50] Miguel describes Bitergia's role in providing analytics for open source projects through GrimoireLab and how it integrates data from various development platforms. [00:07:38] Ed discusses the FreeBSD project's need for better tools to manage its large bug backlog, prompting the adoption of GrimoireLab. [00:10:57] Alice and Miguel discuss the translation of specific project needs into functional dashboards within GrimoireLab. [00:15:38] Ed highlights the utility of the Backlog Management Index (BMI) dashboard, which helps assess the effectiveness of efforts to manage and reduce the bug backlog. [00:18:20] Moin speaks on the practical use of GrimoireLab during bug busting sessions, which helped identify and close outdates or irrelevant bugs. [00:20:14] Moin explains the challenges and solutions of deploying GrimoireLab on FreeBSD, emphasizing the importance of utilizing FreeBSD's native capabilities over Linux-based solutions. [00:24:26] Miguel mentions new features added to GrimoireLab, inspired by their collaboration with the FreeBSD project, improving metrics for bug management. [00:28:05] Ed provides insights into the patterns of bug response times and highlights the need for proactive management of bugs that are unlikely to be addressed, and Miguel shares his positive thoughts on the community responding to the bugs. Value Adds (Picks) of the week: [00:32:10] Alice's pick is taking a walk in the Black Forest in Germany. [00:32:38] Ed's pick is going downhill skiing and taking a trip to a larger ski resort in Ontario. [00:33:21] Miguel's pick is starting to learn to play the piano a few months ago with an online course and how rewarding it's been. [00:34:17] Moin's pick is joining the FreeBSD Foundation and the strong sense of purpose it has given him. Panelist: Alice Sowerby Guests: Miguel Ángel Fernández Ed Maste Moin Rahman Links: CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project X (https://twitter.com/chaossproj) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) Alice Sowerby LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-sowerby-ba692a13/?originalSubdomain=uk) Miguel Ángel Fernández LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mafesan/) Ed Maste LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmaste/?originalSubdomain=ca) Moin Rahman LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mmoinurrahman/) Sovereign Tech Agency (https://www.sovereign.tech/) Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/sovereign-tech-fund-to-invest-e686400-in-freebsd-infrastructure-modernization/) FreeBSD's GrimoireLab instance (https://grimoire.freebsd.org/) Documentation for FreeBSD's GrimoireLab instance (https://github.com/freebsd/grimoire) FreeBSD Project (https://www.freebsd.org/) FreeBSD Foundation (https://freebsdfoundation.org/) Bitergia (https://bitergia.com/) Bitergia-GrimoireLab (https://bitergia.com/blog/opensource/grimoirelab-to-measure-organizations-private-development/) Black Forest-Germany (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Forest) Special Guests: Ed Maste, Miguel Ángel Fernández Sánchez , and Moin Rahman.

We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.Sponsored By:Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:

We celebrate 600 episodes, announce a new show feature, and officially launch the FreeBSD challenge.

Ridding my home network of IP addresses, Tools for Identifying and Resolving Storage Bottlenecks, OpenBGPD 8.7 released, Let's port the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64, Modify an OmniOS service parameters, The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes, 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 Ridding my home network of IP addresses (https://gist.github.com/jmason/aabd9d3acc86d9098654e8559e93b707) Tools for Identifying and Resolving Storage Bottlenecks (https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-tracking-storage-performance-openzfs-bottlenecks/) News Roundup OpenBGPD 8.7 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241218195732) Let's port the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64 (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250112.html) Modify an OmniOS service parameters (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/modify-an-omnios-service-parameters/) The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EtcGlobHistory) 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 Nelson - TUHS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/596/feedback/nelson-tuhs.md) 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)

Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC, Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights, Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail, Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD, Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web, Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository, 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 Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC (https://klarasystems.com/articles/applying-the-arc-algorithm-to-the-arc/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/advancing-cloud-native-containers-on-freebsd-podman-testing-highlights/) News Roundup Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail (https://tumfatig.net/2024/running-web-browsers-in-freebsd-jail/) Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD (https://www.ncartron.org/fixing-pf-not-allowing-ipv6-traffic-on-freebsd.html) Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web) Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/) 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 Sam - EDR Support (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/595/feedback/Sam%20-%20EDR%20Support.md) 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)

March 5th 2005 at 3 PM in Copenhagen. That's the exact time and place Daniel Gustafsson's career took an unexpected turn, pivoting from operating systems to databases. At LinuxForum that day, Daniel had planned to meet up with the FreeBSD community, but a chance session about Postgres by Bruce Momjian completely blew his mind. By the time Daniel was on the train back to Malmö, he was already compiling Postgres. In this episode of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, Postgres major contributor and committer Daniel Gustafsson of Microsoft walks us through how he got his start as a developer and in Postgres—starting with his earliest computing memories of a hulking steel box in his family's living room in Sweden. Also part of Daniel's story: guitar tuning software. And curl!Links mentioned in this episode:Wikipedia: ABC 80Wikipedia: mSQLWikipedia: PCBoard BBS (bulletin board system) applicationConference back in 2010: CHAR(10) – Clustering, HA and Replication ConferenceWikipedia: IRIX operating systemInternet Archive Wayback Machine link: LinuxForum Conference Agenda from March 5, 2005 with Bruce Momjian's 3:00pm talk about Postgres Podcast: Solving every data problem in SQL with Dimitri Fontaine & Vik FearingConference: Nordic PGDay 2025 to happen Mar 18th in CopenhagenConference: All Things Open 2025 to happen Oct 12-14 in Raleigh NCConference: PGConf.dev 2025 to happen May 13-16 in Montreal, CanadaCFP: POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2025 CFP open until Feb 9 2025 (it's a virtual event)Slides from PGConfEU 2024 Talk: What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in v17 timeframeVideo of PGConf EU 2024 Talk: Analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe, by Claire GiordanoBook recommendation: The Dragon Book, a.k.a. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and ToolsBook recommendation: The Purple Book (or, Wizard Book), a.k.a. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)Book recommendation: The Practice of Programming by Kernighan & PikeCalendar invite: LIVE recording of Ep24 of Talking Postgres podcast to happen on Wed Feb 05, 2025 with guest Robert Haas

Security Audit of the Capsicum and bhyve Subsystems, ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel, NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board, Domain Naming, BSDCan 2025 CFP, The Internet Gopher from Minnesota, 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 Roundup Storage and Network Diagnostics (https://klarasystems.com/articles/winter_2024_roundup_storage_and_network_diagnostics/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Security Audit of the Capsicum and bhyve Subsystems (https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_Code_Audit_Capsicum_Bhyve_FreeBSD_Foundation.pdf) News Roundup ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOnLinuxVersusBlockIOLimits) NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board (https://simonevellei.com/blog/posts/netbsd-on-a-rock64-board/) Domain Naming (https://ambient.institute/domain-naming/) BSDCan 2025 CFP (https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/papers.html) The Internet Gopher from Minnesota (https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-internet-gopher-from-minnesota) 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 Brendan - MinIO (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/594/feedback/Brendan%20-%20minio.md) 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)

FreeBSD replaces sendmail with dma, Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO's Perspective, How I fell in love with OpenBSD, A GDC package for macOS/aarch64, Validate Your FreeBSD rc.conf, Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve, OPNsense 24.7.10 released, Printing With 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 FreeBSD replaces sendmail with dma (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd14-replaces-sendmail-with-dma/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO's Perspective (https://dzone.com/articles/why-we-use-freebsd-over-linux-a-ctos-perspective) News Roundup How I fell in love with OpenBSD (https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/how-i-fell-in-love-with-openbsd) A GDC package for macOS/aarch64 (https://briancallahan.net/blog/) Validate Your FreeBSD rc.conf (https://dev.to/scovl/validate-your-freebsd-rcconf-e94) Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve (https://abnml.com/blog/2024/11/26/replacing-proxmox-with-freebsd-and-bhyve/) OPNsense 24.7.10 released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=44413.0) Printing With FreeBSD (https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2024/11/freebsd_print/) 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 Christian - Deprecated vs Depreciated (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/593/feedback/Christian%20-%20Deprecated%20vs%20Depreciated.md) Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

ZFS Storage Fault Management, FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement, I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6, Spell checking in Vim, OpenBSD Memory Conflict Messages, The Biggest Shell Programs in the World, 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 ZFS Storage Fault Management (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-storage-fault-management-linux/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/announce/) News Roundup I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6 (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IPv6AndStillHavingNAT) Spell checking in Vim (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/spell-checking-in-vim/) OpenBSD Memory Conflict Messages (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/OpenBSDMemoryConflictMessages) The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Programs-in-the-World) Beastie Bits The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832 (https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5866/The-Connectivity-of-ThingsNetwork-Cultures-since) Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241130184249) -current now has more flexible performance policy (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241129093132) OpenBSD 5.1 on Sun Ultra 5 (https://eggflix.foolbazar.eu/w/fa211a4f-6984-4c03-a6d2-b8c329d9459d) 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 https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/592/feedback/Phillip%20-%20regressions.md 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)

In this special episode, we are interviewing ourselves with the questions that out audience asked us many moons ago. Stay tuned for some insights about hobbies, all things computers, projects, and a whole lot more. Have fun and happy holidays! 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) Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

For the Season 13 finale, Elixir Wizards Dan and Charles are joined by Spin42 Engineers Marc Lainez, Thibault Poncelet, and Loïc Vigneron to discuss their work retrofitting a 2007 VW Polo and creating an Open Vehicle Control System (OVCS). Using Elixir, Nerves, and Raspberry Pis, the team is reimagining vehicle technology to extend the lifespan of older cars and reduce waste—all while making the process approachable and open source. The Spin42 team shares the technical details behind OVCS and how they use Elixir and Nerves to interact with the CAN bus and build a Vehicle Management System (VMS) to coordinate various vehicle components. They dive into the challenges of reverse engineering CAN messages, designing a distributed architecture with Elixir processes, and ensuring safety with fail-safe modes and emergency shutoffs. Beyond the technical, the team discusses their motivation for the project—upgrading older vehicles with modern features to keep them on the road, building an open-source platform to share their findings with others, and above all-- to just have fun. They explore potential applications for OVCS in boats, construction equipment, and other vehicles, while reflecting on the hurdles of certifying the system for road use. If you've ever wondered how Elixir and Nerves can drive innovation beyond software, this episode is packed with insights into automotive computing, hardware development, and the collaborative potential of open-source projects. Topics Discussed in this Episode: Retrofitting a 2007 VW Polo with electric engines and modern tech Building an open-source Vehicle Control System (OVCS) using Elixir and Nerves Leveraging Elixir to interact with the CAN bus and parse proprietary messages Designing a Vehicle Management System (VMS) to coordinate vehicle components Developing custom hardware for CAN communication Creating a YAML-based DSL for CAN message and frame descriptions Building a distributed architecture using Elixir processes Ensuring safety with fail-safe modes and emergency shutoffs Using Flutter and Nerves to build a custom infotainment system Exploring autonomous driving features with a ROS2 bridge Developing remote control functionality with a Mavlink transmitter Testing OVCS features at scale with a Traxxas RC car (OVCS Mini) Challenges of certifying OVCS for road use and meeting regulatory requirements Encouraging community contributions to expand OVCS functionality Balancing open-source projects with contract work to sustain development The fun and fulfillment of experimenting with Elixir beyond traditional applications Links mentioned: https://www.spin42.com/ https://nerves-project.org/ Quadcopter https://github.com/Spin42/elicopter https://github.com/linux-can/can-utils https://docs.kernel.org/networking/can.html https://github.com/open-vehicle-control-system/cantastic https://github.com/commaai/opendbc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANbus#CANFD https://comma.ai/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANFD https://webkit.org/wpe/ https://docs.nvidia.com/jetson/archives/r35.4.1/DeveloperGuide/text/SD/WindowingSystems/WestonWayland.html https://buildroot.org/ https://vuejs.org/ https://flutter.dev/ https://github.com/smartrent/elixirflutterembedder https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/ The Rabbit Pickup https://www.hemmings.com/stories/value-guide-1980-83-volkswagen-pickup https://www.expresslrs.org/software/mavlink https://industrial-training-master.readthedocs.io/en/melodic/source/session7/ROS1-ROS2-bridge.html https://github.com/ros2/rcl https://github.com/open-vehicle-control-system/traxxas Contact Marc, Thibault, and Loïc: info@spin42.com Special Guests: Loïc Vigneron, Marc Lainez, and Thibault Poncelet.

In this episode, Benedict shows some of the tools he loves to use including Markdown (producing PDFs and other docs using Pandoc), AWK, and Graphviz. A lot of tutorials and getting-started links in this practical-oriented episode for you. 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 Markdown Guide (https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/) The Pandoc Website (https://pandoc.org) Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs (https://imaginarytext.ca/posts/2024/pandoc-typst-tutorial) Eisvogel LaTeX Pandoc template (https://github.com/enhuiz/eisvogel) News Roundup Awk in 20 Minutes (https://ferd.ca/awk-in-20-minutes.html) Awk by Example (https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/l-awk1/) W3 Schools Tutorials (https://www.w3schools.com) The dot Guide (https://graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf) Introduction to Graphviz (https://ncona.com/2020/06/create-diagrams-with-code-using-graphviz/) Browser-based Graphviz Editor SketchViz (https://sketchviz.com/) 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. Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

The Elixir Wizards welcome Jim Freeze, organizer of ElixirConf and creator of the Horizon library. Jim shares his journey from organizing Ruby conferences to founding and growing ElixirConf into the community cornerstone it is today. He reflects on the challenges of running a major conference, how COVID-19 shaped the event, and why the talks remain an evergreen resource for the Elixir ecosystem. We discuss Horizon, Jim's deployment library for Elixir and Phoenix applications with Postgres on FreeBSD. Driven by a need for simplicity and cost-effectiveness, Jim explains how Horizon minimizes external dependencies while delivering fault-tolerant and streamlined setups. He compares it to tools like Fly, Terraform, and Ansible, highlighting its low cognitive load and flexibility—key benefits for developers seeking more control over their deployment environments. Jim also unpacks the broader value of understanding and customizing your deployment stack rather than relying solely on managed services. He discusses the benefits of using FreeBSD, including its stability, security, and performance advantages, as well as its robust ZFS file system. Jim emphasizes the importance of coherent deployment workflows, community collaboration, and contributions to open-source projects like Horizon. He invites listeners to explore Horizon, share feedback, and own their deployments. Topics discussed in this episode: Jim Freeze's background organizing RubyConf and founding ElixirConf Reducing reliance on managed services and external dependencies Simplifying deployments with minimal tools and lower cognitive overhead The trade-offs of cutting-edge tools vs. stable, well-documented solutions The importance of customizing deployment tools to meet specific needs Addressing challenges with Tailwind compatibility Streamlining the FreeBSD installation process for Horizon users Community collaboration: contributing to open-source tools Jim's vision for Horizon: PKI support, hot standby features, and serverless potential Links mentioned Nine Minutes of Elixir (https://youtu.be/hht9s6nAAx8?si=ocrk1wQtGplSGL0B) https://www.youtube.com/@ElixirConf https://github.com/liveview-native https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx https://2024.elixirconf.com/ https://github.com/jfreeze/horizon https://hexdocs.pm/horizon/deploying-with-horizon.html#web-cluster-topology https://kamal-deploy.org/ https://fly.io/ https://aws.amazon.com/console/ https://www.digitalocean.com/ https://cloud.google.com/ https://www.cloudflare.com/ https://www.hetzner.com/ https://www.proxmox.com/en/ https://nginx.org/ https://github.com/openzfs/zfs Zettabyte File System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS https://www.postgresql.org/ https://www.terraform.io/ https://www.ansible.com/ https://docs.freebsd.org/ https://www.redhat.com/ https://ubuntu.com/ https://esbuild.github.io/ Listener's Survey: https://smr.tl/EWS13 Special Guest: Jim Freeze.

Open-Source Software Is in Crisis, A Brief History of Cyrix, Userland Disk I/O, OPNsense 24.7.9 released, GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available, Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering, Keep your OmniOS server time synced, 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 Is in Crisis (https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-source-crisis) A Brief History of Cyrix (https://www.abortretry.fail/p/a-brief-history-of-cyrix) News Roundup Userland Disk I/O (https://transactional.blog/how-to-learn/disk-io) OPNsense 24.7.9 released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=44133.0) GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available (https://ghostbsd.org/news/GhostBSD_24.10.1_Is_Now_Available) Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering (https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/29/why-pipes-get-stuck-buffering/) Keep your OmniOS server time synced (https://tumfatig.net/2024/keep-your-omnios-server-time-synced/) Beastie Bits "I'll take 2" - Solidigm introduces a 122TB Drive, the World's Highest Capacity PCIe SSDs (https://news.solidigm.com/en-WW/243441-solidigm-122tb-drive) 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 Ian - Thoughts (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/589/feedback/ian%20-%20toughts.md) Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

The US government tells people to use encrypted messaging, mandated MFA in healthcare raises a scary geopolitical question, QNAP bungles a firmware update, and securing access to self hosted applications with mTLS.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD   […]

Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD, What To Use Instead of PGP, The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus, I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6, Spell checking in Vim, Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old, 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 pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/deploying-pnfs-file-sharing-with-freebsd/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) What To Use Instead of PGP (https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/) The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus (https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-slow-evaporation-of-the-foss-surplus/) News Roundup FreeBSD 14 on the Desktop (https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/freebsd-14-on-the-desktop/) Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old (https://www.righto.com/2019/04/iconic-consoles-of-ibm-system360.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. 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)