BSD Now MP3

AsiaBSDcon review, Meltdown & Spectre Patches in FreeBSD stable, Interview with MidnightBSD founder, 8 months with TrueOS, the mysteries of GNU & BSD split

We’ll cover OpenBSD’s defensive approach to OS security, help you Understanding Syscall Conventions for Different Platforms, Mishandling SMTP Sender Verification, how the cd command works & the LUA boot loader coming to FreeBSD.

How the term open source was created, running FreeBSD on ThinkPad T530, Moving away from Windows, Unknown Giants, as well as OpenBSD & FreeDOS.

GSoC 2018 Projects announced, tutorial FreeBSD jails with iocage, new Code of Conduct for FreeBSD, libhijack & fancy monitoring for OpenSMTPD.

We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD’s history on EC2.

We talk about our recent trip to FOSDEM, we discuss the pros & cons of permissive licensing, cover the installation of OpenBSD on a dedibox with full-disk encryption, the new Lumina guide repository & we explain ZFS vs. OpenZFS.

We cover an interview about Unix Architecture Evolution, another vBSDcon trip report, how to teach an old Unix about backspace, new NUMA support coming to FreeBSD & stack pointer checking in OpenBSD.

We provide you with updates to Spectre & Meltdown from various BSD projects, a review of TrueOS from Linux, how to set up FreeBSD on ThinkPad x240 & a whole bunch of beastie bits.

We review Meltdown & Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out & we look at the case against the fork syscall.

We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.

We walk through dumping a PS4 kernel in only 6 days, tell you the news that NetBSD 7.1.1 has been released, details on how to run FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T470 & there’s progress in OpenBSD’s pledge.

We read the FreeBSD Q3 status report, explore good and bad syscalls, list GOG Games for OpenBSD & show you what devmatch can do.

TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap & Duo SSH.

We try to answer what happens to an open source project after a developers death, we tell you about the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley, we have an update to the NetBSD Thread sanitizer & show how to use cabal on OpenBSD.

Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap & network manager control in OpenBSD.