627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug

BSD Now

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more

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Headlines

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

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The current (2025) crawler plague and the fragility of the web

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News Roundup

Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD

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Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha

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Despite thoughts to the contrary, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos

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Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?

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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.

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