# Berkeley Suffering Distribution

URL: /show/linux-unplugged/666/
> Who survived the install, who made it to the desktop, and who learned the hard way that one little mistake will blow up the entire BSD box.

- Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/)
- Episode: 666
- Date: 2026-05-10
- Hosts: brent, chris, wes
- Duration: 01:17:15
- Audio: https://rss.art19.com/episodes/fdb5620c-a792-48ce-8546-32d340ab0890.mp3


Transcripts: [text/vtt](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/d77fcd39-ce71-4509-b25b-b6694a8bb00d.vtt) [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.jupiterbroadcasting.com/transcripts/lup/d77fcd39-ce71-4509-b25b-b6694a8bb00d.srt)


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### Episode Links

* [💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike](https://strike.me/ "💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike")
* [📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM](https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov "📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM")
* [LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root](https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/ "LinuxFest Northwest 2026 - Back to Root") — April 24-26, 2026 - Bellingham, Washington
* [Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX](https://2026.texaslinuxfest.org/ "Texas Linux Festival 2026 - November 6-7, 2026 Austin, TX")
* [Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026](https://pretalx.com/txlf2026/cfp "Texas Linux Fest 2026 - Call for Papers deadline July 1, 2026")
* [Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability](https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag "Dirty Frag, a new Copy.Fail like vulnerability") — The Dirty Frag vulnerability class, first discovered and reported by Hyunwoo Kim, can obtain root privileges on major Linux distributions by chaining the xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43284) and the RxRPC Page-Cache Write (CVE-2026-43500) vulnerabilities.
* [How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal](https://access.redhat.com/solutions/7142250 "How to mitigate the "Dirty Frag" CVE-2026-43284 in OpenShift 4 - Red Hat Customer Portal")
* [Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/blog/dirty-frag-linux-vulnerability-fixes-available "Dirty Frag Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability mitigations - Ubuntu")
* [Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide](https://tuxcare.com/blog/dirty-frag-explained-linux-root-exploit-mitigation-patching-guide/ "Dirty Frag Explained: Linux Root Exploit, Mitigation & Patching Guide")
* [LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules](https://linuxunplugged.com/bsd "LINUX Unplugged 666 - The BSD Challenge Rules")
* [Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report](https://www.ministryofmayhem.space/posts/bsdptdeux/ "Magnolia Mayhem's BSD Challenge Report") — It’s still got that old cowboy feel to it.
* [Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab](https://gitlab.com/pewp/sinchfat "Magnolia's Sinchflat - GitLab") — Anyway, Pinchflat now has a FreeBSD-first competitor.
* [FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project](https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop "FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project") — The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Improvements project aims to deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.
* [nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel](https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd# "nixbsd: An unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel")
* [Brent's nixbsd config](https://paste.docs.lol/reader/DisobligeAbattoirs "Brent's nixbsd config")
* [NomadBSD](https://nomadbsd.org/ "NomadBSD") — Persistent live USB flash drives, based on FreeBSD. Together with automatic hardware detection and setup, it is configured to be used as a desktop system that works out of the box, but can also be used for data recovery, for educational purposes, or to test FreeBSD's hardware compatibility.
* [GhostBSD](https://www.ghostbsd.org/ "GhostBSD") — A simple, elegant desktop BSD Operating System
* [gershwin-desktop](https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-desktop "gershwin-desktop") — Desktop Environment based on GNUstep welcoming to switchers
* [gershwin-on-freebsd live iso](https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-on-freebsd/releases/tag/continuous "gershwin-on-freebsd live iso")
* [gershwin-on-debian live iso](https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-on-debian/releases/tag/continuous "gershwin-on-debian live iso")
* [gershwin-on-arch live iso](https://github.com/gershwin-desktop/gershwin-on-arch/releases/tag/continuous "gershwin-on-arch live iso")
* [Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation](https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/netflix-case-study/ "Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Foundation")
* [Pick: kiji-proxy](https://github.com/dataiku/kiji-proxy "Pick: kiji-proxy") — An intelligent privacy layer for AI APIs. Kiji automatically detects and masks personally identifiable information (PII) in requests to AI services, ensuring your sensitive data never leaves your control.
* [Pick: Portbook](https://github.com/a-grasso/portbook "Pick: Portbook") — Local Rust web dashboard that auto-discovers and labels HTTP dev services running on localhost ports — with live SSE updates, project-root detection, and live/error/dead classification.
* [Pick: Sylve](https://sylve.io/ "Pick: Sylve") — Sylve is a lightweight, open-source management platform for FreeBSD. It combines Bhyve virtual machines, FreeBSD Jails, and ZFS storage into a modern web interface designed to deliver a streamlined, Proxmox-like experience tailored for FreeBSD environments.
* [AlchemillaHQ/Sylve](https://github.com/AlchemillaHQ/Sylve "AlchemillaHQ/Sylve") — Lightweight GUI for managing Bhyve, Jails, ZFS, networking, and more on FreeBSD
* [FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve](https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/sylve/ "FreshPorts: sysutils/sylve")