BSD Now

JT Pennington

Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

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674 episodes
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Feb 16, 2023 · 46 min
494: Unix workstation extinction
Mass extinction of UNIX workstations, Determine Who Can Log In to an SSH Server, Factors When Considering FreeBSD vs. Linux Packages, A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels, Harvesting the Noise While it’s Fresh, Bastille - The Jail Manager on FreeBSD, and more
Feb 9, 2023 · 42 min
493: Dotfile Management
Write Admin tools from Day One, Differentiating between Data Security and Data Integrity, 45 year-old Unix tool is finally getting an upgrade, OpenBSD 7.2 on an ODROID-HC4, Dotfiles Management, and more
Feb 2, 2023 · 38 min
492: Feeling for NetBSD
Writing your own operating system, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64, GCC uses Modula-2 and Rust, do they work on OpenBSD, Unix is dead; long live Unix, and more
Jan 26, 2023 · 42 min
491: Catch the Spammers
Dragonfly BSD 6.4 is out, Running OpenZFS – Choosing Between FreeBSD and Linux, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems ebook leaks, catching 71% spam, crazy unix shell prompts, Linux Binary Compatibility: Ubuntu on FreeBSD, Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022, and more
Jan 19, 2023 · 46 min
490: New Year’s Plan9’ing
FreeBSD Foundation’s Software Development review of 2022, what can we learn from Vintage Computing, OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022, a Decade of HardenedBSD, In Praise of Plan9, and more
Jan 12, 2023 · 36 min
489: Refreshing Perspective
FreeBSD vs. Linux – Networking, HDMI sound output through TV speakers on FreeBSD 13, Getting started with tmux, Samba Active Directory, OpenIKED 7.2 released, FreeBSD Plasma 5 GUI Install, DHCP server howto in German, and more
Jan 5, 2023 · 35 min
488: Old ping(8) bug
Finding a 24 year old bug in ping(8), The Role of Operating Systems in IOT, Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.4 is out, and more
Dec 29, 2022 · 34 min
487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2
This year end episode of BSDNow features a trip report to EuroBSDcon by Mr. BSD.tv, as well as an interview with FreeBSD committer John Baldwin. Happy New Year, 2023!
Dec 22, 2022 · 39 min
486: EuroBSDcon interviews
This special episode features two interviews we did at EuroBSDcon in Vienna this year. We talk with FreeBSD developers about how they got started, their current projects and more. Also, consider donating to your favorite BSD Foundation to keep the projects going.
Dec 15, 2022 · 43 min
485: FreeBSD Home Assistant
Tails of the M1 GPU, Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail, interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan, Next steps toward mimmutable, Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now, and more
Dec 8, 2022 · 36 min
484: Birth of stderr
Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more
Dec 1, 2022 · 50 min
483: ZFS Time Machine
Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report, Nushell : Introduction, and more
Nov 24, 2022 · 39 min
482: BSD XFCE Desktop
5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more.
Nov 17, 2022 · 47 min
481: Fiery Crackers
FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more.
Nov 10, 2022 · 48 min
480: OpenBSD 7.2
OpenBSD 7.2 and FuguIta have been released, Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team, how to get notified about FreeBSD updates, using unbound for ad blocking on OpenBSD, further memory protections on OpenBSD current, and more.
Nov 3, 2022 · 42 min
479: OpenBSD Docker Host
EuroBSDcon 2022 as first BSD conference, Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails, Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8), history of sending signals to Unix process groups, Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022, and more
Oct 27, 2022 · 46 min
478: Debunking sudo myths
Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new debugbreak command, 7 sudo myths debunked
Oct 20, 2022 · 46 min
477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures
Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more.
Oct 13, 2022 · 44 min
476: Warren Toomey interview
In this special episode, we interview Warren Toomey from the Unix Historical Society. We chat about his involvement in preserving old Unix systems and why that is important.
Oct 6, 2022 · 47 min
475: Prompt Injection Attacks
Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback on FreeBSD, and more.