628: Product Hype

The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, 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 The Hype is the Product (https://rys.io/en/180.html) Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl (https://www.wired.com/story/programmers-arent-humble-anymore-nobody-codes-in-perl) News Roundup Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux? (https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/is-OpenBSD-10x-faster-than-Linux) How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/02/install_freebsd_providers_mfsbsd/) SSHX (https://github.com/ekzhang/sshx) Zvault Status Update (https://github.com/zvaultio/Community/blob/main/posts/2025-07-13.md) Undeadly Bits 4096 colours and flashing text on the console! (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250705081315) Font caching no longer runs as root (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250717061920) OpenSSH will now adapt IP QoS to actual sessions and traffic (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250818113047) 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)