BSD Leftovers
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Michał Sapka ☛ My server is now a virtual machine
The SD card used UFS (default image for FreeBSD on Raspberry), so I lost it. But all my data, the sites and jails were stored on external thumb drive in a ZFS pool. This made the transition incredibly fast. First, I had to create a recursive (-r) snapshot of the root dataset. I found naming it fun funny.
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Peter 'CzP' Czanik ☛ EuroBSDcon 2024
EuroBSDcon was fantastic, as always :-) I talked to many interesting people during the four days about sudo and syslog-ng, and of course also about many other topics. I gave a sudo tutorial, and it went well, with some “students” already planning which features to implement at home. There were many good talks, including one from Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick, who was with the FreeBSD project right from the beginning, and worked on BSD even earlier. The weather was also good to us, so I could look around in Dublin for a bit.
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Ruben Schade ☛ My A-Z toolbox: bwm-ng
This is the second post in my A-Z Toolbox series, in which I’m listing tools I use down the alphabet for no logical reason.
The letter B has the excellent FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, and the bzip2 compression utility. But bwm-ng takes the proverbial cake for a a small tool that I’ve found indispensible more times than I can count.
The Bandwidth Monitor Next-Generation—cue Star Trek theme music—is a live network bandwidth monitor that runs on everything I care about, so FreeBSD, NetBSD, illumous, and various Penguins.
Here it is running on a relatively idle server: [...]
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The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD Now 578: KVM, but Smol
Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Jail, Why You Should Use FreeBSD, The web fun fact that domains can end in dots and canonicalization failures, Replacing postfix with dma + auth, modern unix tool list, Smol KVM, The Computers of Voyager