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Coming up this week, we've got something a little bit different for you. We'll be talking with Andrew Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. They've recently imported parts of NetBSD into their OS, and we'll find out how and why that came about. As always, all the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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The missing EuroBSDCon videos

• Some of the missing videos from EuroBSDCon 2014 we mentioned before have mysteriously appeared
• Jordan Hubbard, FreeBSD, looking forward to another 10 years
• Lourival Viera Neto, NPF scripting with Lua
• Kris Moore, Snapshots, replication and boot environments
• Andy Tanenbaum, A reimplementation of NetBSD based on a microkernel
• Kirk McKusick, An introduction to FreeBSD's implementation of ZFS
• Emannuel Dreyfus, FUSE and beyond, bridging filesystems
• John-Mark Gurney, Optimizing GELI performance
• Unfortunately, there are still about six talks missing… and no ETA ***

FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro (or two)

• We've got a couple posts about running FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro this week
• In the first one, the author talks a bit about trying to run Linux on his laptop for quite a while, going back and forth between it and something th