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688: Eighty

OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1 OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more News Roundup WebZFS has reached Beta3 HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers Beastie Bits NetBSD smashes funding goal for 2026, set $50K, currently at $124K dbupdate added to -current and backported to 7.9 and 8.0 emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD Ports 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 Reese - Casio BBS ``` Team, I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron. Thanks Reese --- - 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) ---

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OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more...

NOTES

This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1


OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article

dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests

brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more


News Roundup

WebZFS has reached Beta3


HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report


Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD


SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers



Beastie Bits


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

  • Reese - Casio BBS ``` Team,

I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron.

Thanks
Reese



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- Join us and other BSD Fans in our [BSD Now Telegram channel](https://t.me/bsdnow)

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