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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Dec 23, 2021 · 58 min
434: It’s Quiz-mas time
In this special xmas episode we let the audience interview us using questions they sent us and we’ll answer now. Tom, Allan, JT, and I are all here, so stay tuned for some interesting answers to your questions.
Dec 16, 2021 · 29 min
433: GhostBSD of Christmas
GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense, and more
Dec 9, 2021 · 54 min
432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah
HAMBug hybrid meeting, Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0, OpenZFS 3.0 introduced at Dev Summit, HardenedBSD Home Infrastructure Status, Running Awk in parallel, FreeBSD Announces Wayland 1.19.91, and more
Dec 2, 2021 · 43 min
431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents
Why use OpenBSD part 2, FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4, Ending up liking GNOME, OPNsense 21.7.5 released, Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2, and more
Nov 25, 2021 · 45 min
430: OpenBSD Onwards
Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk Encryption, Onwards with OpenBSD, and more
Nov 18, 2021 · 39 min
429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots
FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD Audio, Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops, Thoughts on Spelling Fixes, and more.
Nov 11, 2021 · 54 min
428: Cult of BSD
OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a whole lot of BSD bits, and more.
Nov 4, 2021 · 43 min
427: Logging is important
Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released, getting started with pot, and more
Oct 28, 2021 · 59 min
426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero
A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more.
Oct 21, 2021 · 41 min
425: Releases galore
The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more.
Oct 14, 2021 · 49 min
424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge
J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python, and more.
Oct 7, 2021 · 51 min
423: RACK the Stack
FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!), auto lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock, and more
Sep 30, 2021 · 49 min
422: The Brian Callahan Interview
We interview Dr. Brian Callahan about his language porting work for OpenBSD, teaching with BSDs and recruiting students into projects, research, and his work at NYC*BUG in this week’s episode of BSDnow.
Sep 23, 2021 · 50 min
421: ZFS eats CPU
Useless use of GNU, Meet the 2021 FreeBSD GSoC Students, historical note on Unix portability, vm86-based venix emulator, ZFS Mysteriously Eating CPU, traceroute gets speed boost, and more
Sep 16, 2021 · 49 min
420: OpenBSD makes life better
Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout, changes in OpenBSD that make life better, GhostBSD 21.09.06 ISO's now available, Fair Internet bandwidth management with OpenBSD, NetBSD wifi router project update, NetBSD on the Apple M1, HardenedBSD August Status Report, FreeBSD Journal on Wireless and Desktop, and more.
Sep 9, 2021 · 51 min
419: Rethinking OS installs
Reviewing a first OpenBSD port, NetBSD 9.2 on a DEC Alpha CPU in QEMU with X11, FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks the OS Install, GhostBSD switching to FreeBSD rc.d, Irix gets LLVM, and more.
Sep 2, 2021 · 52 min
418: The greatest time in history to be a creator
In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects including Git sync murder, TLS Mastery, getting paid for creative work, writing tools and techniques, and more.
Aug 26, 2021 · 57 min
417: bhyve private cloud
Achieving RPO/RTO Objectives with ZFS pt 1, FreeBSD Foundation Q2 report, OpenBSD full Tor setup, MyBee - bhyve as private cloud, FreeBSD home fileserver expansion, OpenBSD on Framework Laptop, portable GELI, and more.
Aug 19, 2021 · 53 min
416: netcat printing
OpenZFS snapshots, OpenSUSE on Bastille, printing with netcat, new opnsense 21.1.8 released, new pfsense plus software available, and more.
Aug 12, 2021 · 54 min
415: Wrong OS Switch
Wrong Way to Switch Server OS, Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom, Permissions Two Mistakes, OpenBSD progress in supporting riscv64 platform, I2P intro, git sync murder is out, GhostBSD init system poll, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server History of FreeBSD Part 5: Net/1 and Net/2 – A Path to Freedom News Roundup Permissions Two Mistakes Progress in support for the riscv64 platform I2P Intro “$ git sync murder” is out, so: how many books have I written? What init system would you prefer to use under GhostBSD? 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 Brad - Replication Benedict writes after the show was over: The tool is called https://github.com/allanjude/zxfer Tom tweeted right after recording stopped: https://twitter.com/adventureloop/status/1420478529238622210 Caleb - Pronunciation of Gemini Dan - Writeup about a DO FreeBSD Droplet Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv ***