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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 What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 (https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/whats-new-in-oracle-solaris-11-4-sru-87) Perl's decline was cultural (https://www.beatworm.co.uk/blog/computers/perls-decline-was-cultural-not-technical) News Roundup Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity (https://artemiesolomon.eu/blog/freebsd-experience/) Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025) (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurMixedDNSServers) Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas... (https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/moving-onthoughts-plans-and-ideas/) HardnedBSD News (https://groups.google.com/a/hardenedbsd.org/g/users/c/l-UivSvXK5c/m/6hX7SknqBAAJ) FreeBSD + Flua Json in Base (https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2025-03-01-json-in-base) Building from Source (https://people.freebsd.org/~dch/posts/2025-01-22-building-from-source/) 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 - FreeBSD and Flua (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/645/feedback/Dave%20-%20FreeBSD%20and%20Flua.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in? 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 What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 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 - Gary - Storage Is Cheap (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/644/feedback/Gary%20-%20Storage%20Is%20Cheap.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release. 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 Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-community-contributions-2025/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system? (https://hidde.blog/filtered-open-web/) News Roundup We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceFundingNotSolution) The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251212094310) Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back (https://dan.langille.org/2025/12/11/copying-everything-off-a-zpool-destroying-it-creating-a-new-one-and-copying-everything-back/) All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train! (https://vulcanridr.mataroa.blog/blog/all-aboard-the-150-release-train/) Beastie Bits Running A PDP-8 From 1965 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2r_GujSc6w) The library of time (https://libraryoftime.xyz) OPNsense 25.7.9 released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=49986.0) - OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=50052.0) 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 Martin - recordings (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/643/feedback/Martin%20-%20recording%20of%20bsdnow.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

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 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 Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? (https://klarasystems.com/articles/is-dwpd-still-useful-ssd-spec/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/moving-from-windows-to-freebsd-as-the-linux-chaos-alternative/) Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX (https://computerchronicles.blog/post/computer-chronicles-revisited-131-open-look-osf-motif-macintosh-iicx-aux/) - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSOurRareChecksumFailuresII) Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/) The usability of open source operating systems (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/11/24/0/) Phoenix AZ timezone issue (https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/JZTH2RBARV4YFNTNFAXBGOACAN65JPIX/) The only existing copy of UNIX v4 (https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/115505135441862982) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow) Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec? (https://klarasystems.com/articles/is-dwpd-still-useful-ssd-spec/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative (https://hackaday.com/2025/11/11/moving-from-windows-to-freebsd-as-the-linux-chaos-alternative/) Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX (https://computerchronicles.blog/post/computer-chronicles-revisited-131-open-look-osf-motif-macintosh-iicx-aux/) - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva News Roundup We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSOurRareChecksumFailuresII) Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again (https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/) The usability of open source operating systems (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/11/24/0/) Phoenix AZ timezone issue (https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/JZTH2RBARV4YFNTNFAXBGOACAN65JPIX/) The only existing copy of UNIX v4 (https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/115505135441862982) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, 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 Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/) and Release Notes (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/) We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove) - Submitted by listener Gary News Roundup ZFS Boot Environments Explained (https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/zfs-boot-environments-explained/) Why I (still) love Linux (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/24/why-i-still-love-linux/) rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team (https://github.com/BastilleBSD/rocinante) A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug (https://github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide-and-friends/blob/master/2025_11_24.md) and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srKYxF66A0c) 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 Claudio - A Silent Reflection (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/641/feedback/Claudio%20-%20Reflection.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)