LINUX Unplugged - Episodes Tagged with “Freebsd”

602: The BSD Humbling

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0800

Our FreeBSD Challenge comes to a close, and chances are one of us will be paying the Windows tax.

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📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
Planet Nix
Flox — Your dev environment, everywhere
The Launch 🚀 09: The Eagle has Landed
The Rules of the FreeBSD Challenge
libluksde — Library and tools to access LUKS Disk Encryption encrypted volumes
linuxulator-steam-utils — Linux Steam on FreeBSD
bhyve/Windows - FreeBSD Wiki
Chapter 12. Linux Binary Compatibility
doas - dedicated openbsd application subexecutor
doas mastery
Chapter 33. Firewalls
ardour « audio - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
jellyfin « multimedia - ports - FreeBSD ports tree
Hank wrote in about his testing with a Pi4
FreeBSD pi4 tweak — I got lucky - that was posted two days before I gave this a go. I installed on a 4GB Pi 4B.
Hank's BSD Notes — IMO should get a point just for figuring out how to configure NTP and time zone. Sheesh!
Mizutamari — User-friendly Wine front-end primarily for FreeBSD
Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
Games - GhostBSD Wiki
What’s Coming for Future Releases of GhostBSD? — We're making some important changes to how GhostBSD is built and released to provide a better, more stable experience for our users.
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Gene's Portable Screen
NetBSD Root on ZFS
Music Assistant — Music Assistant is a free, opensource Media library manager that connects to your streaming services and a wide range of connected speakers.
Pick: HedgeDoc — HedgeDoc lets you create real-time collaborative markdown notes.
Pick: Add Water — A utility app to easily install the Firefox GNOME Theme and automatically update it in the background. This theme keeps Firefox fashionable within the GNOME design ecosystem, and provides many helpful features to customize the interface to make browsing even more pleasant

601: Taming the Demons

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:00:00 -0800

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.

Special Guest: Zach Mitchell.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
LINUX Unplugged - 2025 FreeBSD Challenge Rules.md
Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit
FreeBSD 14.0 on aarch64 Raspberry Pi 4/400 - Download, Install & Configure
LinuxBoot: Booting FreeBSD from Linux
EuroBSDCon booting FreeBSD using Linux
Provisioning LinuxBoot Images for FreeBSD
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 1. Bootstrapping and Kernel Initialization
FreeBSD Handbook: Chapter 15. The FreeBSD Booting Process
How to Manage FreeBSD Boot Process?
LinuxBoot: let Linux do it!
LinuxBoot Introduction
LinuxBoot on GitHub
Annual Membership — Put your support on automatic with our annual plan, and get one month of membership for free!
Planet Nix — March 6th-7th, 2025 in Pasadena, CA
Zach Mitchell
LINUX Unplugged 554: SCaLEing Nix
LINUX Unplugged 538: Surprisingly Smooth Transition
LFNW2025 - April 25 - 27, 2025 • Bellingham Technical College
Pick: GarminDB — Download and parse data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin watch, FitBit CSV, and MS Health CSV files into and analyze data in Sqlite serverless databases with Jupyter notebooks.

544: Half the Bits, Double the Pain

Jupiter Broadcasting — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:45:00 -0800

This challenge gets ugly as we slowly realize we've just become zombie slayers.

We load Linux on three barely alive systems, and it takes a turn we didn't expect.

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💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries.
📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM — Fountain 1.0 is out with a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts.
Linux 6.7 Set For Release With Bcachefs File-System, Intel Meteor Lake Graphics In Good Shape - Phoronix
32-Bit Challenge Details
HP Mini 110-4100CA Netbook
Intel Atom Processor N2600 Specifications
Crunchbangplusplus — Debian Based Minimal Linux Distro
CBPP/cbpp: #!++ - GitHub
FreeBSD Handbook | Chapter 5. The X Window System
Guide to FreeBSD Desktop Distributions – FreeBSD Foundation
MidnightBSD — MidnightBSD is a BSD-derived operating system developed with desktop users in mind. It includes all the software you'd expect for your daily tasks — email, web browsing, word processing, gaming, and much more.
MidnightBSD - Linux® Binary Compatibility
GhostBSD | A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
Intel T2300
Announcing - First NixCon North America! — Date: March 14th and 15th
Southern California Linux Expo 19
LinuxFest Northwest 2024: Call for Speakers @ Sessionize.com — We invite you to submit your proposal to speak at LFNW2024!
LMDE — LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.
nohang: A sophisticated low memory handler for Linux — nohang is earlyoom on steroids and has many useful features
zram — Pages written to these disks are compressed and stored in memory itself. These disks allow very fast I/O and compression provides good amounts of memory savings.
PSI — This helps users understand the resource pressure their workloads are under, which allows them to rootcause and fix throughput and latency problems caused by overcommitting, underprovisioning, suboptimal job placement in a grid, as well as anticipate major disruptions like OOM.
pressure stall information
nohang-desktop.conf
nheko: Desktop client for Matrix using Qt and C++20. — The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for Matrix that feels more like a mainstream chat app (Element, Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
PROMO 2024 - $3 off a month forever
Is a 32 bit machine still usable in 2024? — Luckily, someone had JUST donated this perfectly working Dell Latitude D820, running Windows XP. They were in college actually trying to use this for their school work, but couldn’t even access many of the websites they needed because it was so out of date. I gave her a much newer 64 bit machine in trade.
How I Automated All the Things - Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Fritzing - Everlanders Automate the World!
PICK: Linux Terminal Tools - Terminal Trove — Terminal Trove curates and showcases all things in the terminal such as command line interface tools (CLI), text mode interface tools (TUI), developer tools and more no matter what platform or medium.
SliTaz GNU/Linux (en) — SliTaz is a secure and high performance operating system using the Linux Kernel and GNU software.
tulir/gomuks — A terminal based Matrix client written in Go.
The Mutt E-Mail Client
Links home page — Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows.

416: Server Meltdown

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:00:00 -0700

We try to pull off a show while recovering from an epic server crash. Then we build the ultimate remote Linux desktop—in the cloud!

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Live Starlink Satellite Map
Salt Lake City Meetup
Denver Meetup Meetup
Framework Laptop review: pick your ports — In other words, upgradability is the reason to buy the Framework laptop.
Latest Framework Laptop DIY Edition/Linux topics — Setup guides, advice, troubleshooting, and more, for those of us who use Linux-based Operating Systems on our Framework Laptops.
Which Linux distribution do you want to use on your Framework Laptop?
[Video] A COMPLETELY Upgradeable Laptop?
Framework: The Touchpad and Fingerprint Reader — If you’re a Linux user, we’ve got you covered too! Our firmware lead Kieran submitted a patch to libfprint, and support is making its way into various distributions to be able to work automatically.
FreeBSD Working On A New Installer, Updates To Their Linux Compatibility Layer — A variety of improvements to FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer for running Linux binaries on FreeBSD.
Gaming sessions on Steam Deck are run via gamescope, a Wayland compositor — This also suggests that SteamOS 3.0 requires Vulkan, and specifically support for async compute.
Element raises $30M to boost Matrix — Element, the startup founded by the team who created Matrix, just raised $30M of Series B funding in order to further accelerate Matrix development and improve Element, the flagship Matrix app.
Webtop — Alpine and Ubuntu based containers containing full desktop environments in officially supported flavors accessible via any modern web browser.
LinuxServer.io: Meet Webtops A Linux Desktop Environment In Your Browser — A lot of different Docker GUI solutions exist today, but what we always found is they were just missing some common sense stuff.
Webtop - Running Linux Desktop inside a Container in the Browser
JingOS — Future Mobile OS based on Linux
Chris Fisher on Twitter — I joined the @latenightlinux boys to cover my @syncthing setup that just hit the two-year mark, and we chat a little @teamsilverblue, the problem of OSS grifting, and more.
JB Telegram
PIck: docker-wine — Docker image that includes Wine and Winetricks for running Windows applications on Linux and macOS

398: Back in the Freedom Dimension

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:30:00 -0700

We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service.

Plus our reaction to RMS's return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more!

Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Danielle Foré.

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Microsoft Said to Discuss Discord Bid for Over $10 Billion — “Microsoft possibly acquiring Discord makes a lot of sense as it continues to reshape its gaming business more toward software and services”.
[Video] Richard Stallman is Back
edw · elementary Developer Weekend — This conference is our way of reaching out to app developers, sharing the knowledge we’ve all collected over the years, and providing a space to ask questions and provide feedback.
Ubuntu Touch OTA-16 Release — Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, our sixteenth stable update to the system!
Linux Action News 181
Forthcoming OpenSSL release — OpenSSL 1.1.1k is a security-fix release. The highest severity issue fixed in this release is HIGH.
Initial Support For The Rust Language Lands In Linux-Next — While no fully-baked Rust kernel driver is ready yet, the initial merge to Linux-Next does include an example kernel module written in Rust.
Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux — Torvalds thinks "Rust's primary first target seems to be drivers, simply because that's where you find just a lot of different possible targets, and you have these individual parts of the kernel that are fairly small and independent. That may not be a very interesting target to some people, but it's the obvious one."
Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust [LWN.net]
Diversity, Flexibility, and Linux: Prioritizing Generous Transfer | Linode
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Hoppy — Hoppy provides a unique public IPv4 and IPv6 address to each of your devices, allowing connectivity without limitations. If you are behind a restrictive ISP, constantly on the move, or self-hosting services, Hoppy is for you. All major platforms are supported.
ngrok — Secure introspectable tunnels to localhost.
Gist: Assign public ipv6 to wireguard clients
WireGuard Routing and Port Forwarding
Gist: Forward all traffic to server over WireGuard VPN
Expose server behind NAT with WireGuard and a VPS
How To Forward Ports through a Linux Gateway with Iptables
FORWARD and NAT Rules
Pick: dsnet — Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker: key generation + address allocation.
How to set up a wireguard VPN in minutes with dsnet
Feedback: Raspberry Pi POCKIT
Project POCKIT — PocKit is a computer made for the real, physical world. On top of its powerful, versatile Core, you can attach BLOCKS - any number of any kind - to suit your application.
Video: A small, plug-and-play Linux computer — Project POCKIT
GNOME 40’s Best New Features
FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree

359: Death of the Mac

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:45:00 -0700

Why we think Apple just handed market share to Desktop Linux, and why you can kiss running Linux on the Mac goodbye forever.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Neal Gompa.

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Generating cooking recipes using TensorFlow and a LSTM Recurrent Neural Network
ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world
Ampere donates Arm64 server hardware to Debian to fortify the Arm ecosystem
Google’s Bringing Its Apple AirDrop Rival to Linux, Windows, and Mac
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Apple is switching Macs to its own processors starting later this year
Tim Cook says first Mac with Apple Silicon shipping to consumers by end of this year
r/linux: How will Apple’s ARM announcement affecting Linux going forward?
r/linux: Let’s suppose Apple goes ARM, MS follows its footsteps and does the same. What will happen to Linux then? Will we go back to “unlocking bootloaders”?
Jared Domínguez on Twitter — Today’s cynical take: Apple supporting Linux VMs is a way to make devs feel good with minimal effort (offload the work to Parallels/BSD community) while allowing Apple to deprecate their already super stale Unix userland. macOS itself will become less accessible.
unsilence: Console Interface and Library to remove silent parts of a media file 🔈

357: The Little Distro That Could

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:00:00 -0700

The lightweight distro that stole our hearts, the four of us each try out a different contender and come away with what we think will be the leanest and meanest distribution for your PC.

Special Guests: Drew DeVore and Jill Bryant Ryniker.

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347: Arm is Here

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:30:00 -0700

We discover a few simple Raspberry Pi tricks that unlock incredible performance and make us re-think the capabilities of Arm systems.

Plus we celebrate Wireguard finally landing in Linux, catch up on feedback, and check out the new Manjaro laptop.

Special Guests: Brent Gervais and Philip Muller.

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331: apt install arch-linux

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:30:00 -0800

We're myth-busting this week as we take a perfectly functioning production server and switch it to Arch. Is this rolling distro too dangerous to run in production, or can the right approach unlock the perfect server? We try it so you don't have to.

Plus some big community news, feedback, and more.

Special Guest: Brent Gervais.

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Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux
Microsoft Teams is the first Office app for Linux | VentureBeat
Black Friday Sale is almost done!
NVIDIA Looks To Have Some Sort Of Open-Source Driver Announcement For 2020
WireGuard VPN is a step closer to mainstream adoption
How to setup your own VPN server using WireGuard on Ubuntu
Chris Noticed his Manjaro mirrors were REALLY slow this AM
Christmas Student Contest! | The Mad Botter — We are running a contest for High-School students to win a System76 Thelio Linux PC on us. To qualify you must be a US high-school student with your parents permission to participate and write a small FOSS project and publish it on GitHub.
Perfect Plasma Setup - From Basic to Brilliant - YouTube
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WireGuard
Snapper
pacupg
snap-pac: Pacman hooks that use snapper to create pre/post btrfs snapshots like openSUSE’s YaST
Docker + systemd-network Surprise - Bootloader Blog
Docker - ArchWiki
A reliable fix to Docker not keeping it’s IPV4 address on Arch - VADOSWARE
ubuntu - Docker service starts before ZFS - Server Fault
grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots in the grub menu
Feedback: Arch Update Catch-Up Tips

306: Flipping FreeNAS for Fedora

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:15:00 -0700

We attempt something you never should, we live flip our FreeNAS ZFS install to a Fedora server.

Plus a REALLY weird PC, and our command line picks.

Special Guests: Alan Pope, Brent Gervais, Martin Wimpress, and Neal Gompa.

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Netflix Uncovers TCP Bugs Within The Linux & FreeBSD Kernels - Phoronix — As Netflix's first security bulletin for 2019, they warned of TCP-based remote denial of service vulnerabilities affecting both Linux and FreeBSD. These vulnerabilities are rated "critical" but already being corrected within the latest Git code.
Initial Benchmarks Of Microsoft's WSL2 - Phoronix — Since the release of WSL2 as a Windows 10 Insider Preview update this week, we've been putting the new Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 under some benchmarks compared to WSL1 and bare metal Linux. While WSL2 has improved the I/O performance thanks to the new Hyper-V-based virtualization approach employed by WSL2, the performance has regressed in other areas for running Linux binaries on Windows 10.
The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows - Docker Engineering Blog — ith WSL 2 integration, you will still experience the same seamless integration with Windows, but Linux programs running inside WSL will also be able to do the same. This has a huge impact for developers working on projects targeting a Linux environment, or with a build process tailored for Linux. No need for maintaining both Linux and Windows build scripts anymore! As an example, a developer at Docker can now work on the Linux Docker daemon on Windows, using the same set of tools and scripts as a developer on a Linux machine
Check Out the Snap Store's New Distro Install Pages - OMG! Ubuntu! — In an effort to improve the experience for users wishing to install Snap apps on non-Ubuntu distributions, the Snapcraft team have launched distro-specific store pages for Snap apps.
Call for testing: chromium-browser deb to snap transition - Desktop - Ubuntu Community Hub — The chromium browser has been available as a deb package for all supported Ubuntu releases and as a snap since version 60, and the time has come to start transitioning away from the debs.
Atari VCS goes on $250 pre-order with Linux running on Ryzen R1000 — Atari has opened $250 pre-orders for its Atari VCS retro game console, which will run Linux on the new AMD Ryzen R1000 SoC. Indiegogo backers are set for a December release while new orders will be fulfilled in Mar. 2020.
A EALLY Weird PC… - System76 Thelio Review — There’s more than one company that makes its own operating system and hardware, and today, we’re taking a look at System76’s Thelio, an open source design you can build yourself.
Fedora · zfsonlinux/zfs Wiki — Only DKMS style packages can be provided for Fedora from the official zfsonlinux.org repository. This is because Fedora is a fast moving distribution which does not provide a stable kABI. These packages track the official ZFS on Linux tags and are updated as new versions are released.
Replacing a failed drive in ZFS on FreeBSD – Dan Langille's Other Diary — One of my new hard 3TB drives was acting up. I removed it and sent it off to be replaced. In the meantime, I received some 5TB drives and I added one of them into the existing vdev of the zpool.
Sharing ZFS Datasets Via NFS | Programster's Blog — The great thing about ZFS is that it is very easy to split your "pool" into as many datasets as you like. Each dataset is treated like its own filesystem, with its own rules and settings, which means with regards to sharing over NFS, that you can share more securely as client's will not be able to reach out of the bounds of that dataset/filesystem that you decided to share.
How to easily configure WireGuard - Stavros' Stuff — At its core, all WireGuard does is create an interface from one computer to another. It doesn’t really let you access other computers on either end of the network, or forward all your traffic through the VPN server, or anything like that. It just connects two computers, directly, quickly and securely.
Use Public Key Authentication with SSH — Password authentication is the default method most SSH (Secure Shell) clients use to authenticate with remote servers, but it suffers from potential security vulnerabilities, like brute-force login attempts. An alternative to password authentication is public key authentication, in which you generate and store on your computer a pair of cryptographic keys and then configure your server to recognize and accept your keys
rga: ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz, etc. - phiresky's blog — rga is a line-oriented search tool that allows you to look for a regex in a multitude of file types. rga wraps the awesome ripgrep and enables it to search in pdf, docx, sqlite, jpg, zip, tar.*, movie subtitles (mkv, mp4), etc.
pindexis/marker: The terminal command palette — Marker is a command palette for the terminal. It lets you bookmark commands (or commands templates) and easily retreive them with the help of a real-time fuzzy matcher.

Episode 262: Tribes of Init

Jupiter Broadcasting — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:15:00 -0700

The FreeBSD community shares the hard lessons learned from systemd, we play some great clips from a recent event.

Plus our work-arounds for Dropbox dropping support for anything but vanilla ext4, the return of an old friend, and a ton of community news and updates.

Special Guests: Eric Hendricks and Martin Wimpress.

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Episode 256: Peering Into the Future

Jupiter Broadcasting — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 05:15:00 -0700

A major Internet monopoly might just be on the edge of cracking thanks to free software, a bit of initiative, and a lot of gumption. We'll follow up on a major experiment we kicked off last week.

Plus SUSE is sold again, Linux on the Nintendo Switch just got way better, Mint has a new release, we look at elementary OS Juno's first beta, and we cover a ton of community news.

Special Guest: Eric Hendricks.

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