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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March 12 · 45 min
654: Plasma Rage
Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more...
March 5 · 55 min
653: Butter makes everything better
ZFS vs BTRFS, RHEL on ZFS Root, Slackware on Encrypted ZFS root, OpenIndiana Package management, FreeBSD Jail metrics and more...
February 26 · 1 hr 10 min
652: Ghostly Graphics
OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues.
February 19 · 57 min
651: Spatially aware ZFS
GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...
February 12 · 57 min
650: Korn Chips
AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.
February 5 · 1 hr 11 min
649: The Desk Review
ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more.
January 29 · 1 hr 4 min
648: Greytrapping for years
FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more.
January 22 · 55 min
647: Why BSDs?
Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.
January 15 · 1 hr 14 min
646: Unix v4
The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...
January 8 · 42 min
645: Unwrapping gifts
A new Oracle Solaris has been released, the decline of Perl, DNS serves, future plans, and more...
January 1 · 1 hr 37 min
644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?
A holiday episode as the guys sit back and chat.
Dec 25, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
643: Unwrapping gifts
Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.
Dec 18, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
642: Look Harder
DWPD, Moving from Windows to FreeBSD, Computer Chronicles revisited, ZFs checksums, and more ...
Dec 11, 2025 · 55 min
641: Open to Free
FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...
Dec 4, 2025 · 36 min
640: Cleaning up Hammer
FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...
Nov 27, 2025 · 1 hr
639: Reproducible Builds
Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...
Nov 20, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
638: Hipsters want their distribution back
New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more...
Nov 13, 2025 · 1 hr 7 min
637: /etc/hosts
Time to update our /etc/hosts file...
Nov 6, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
636: Thunder Bolts
Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more...
Oct 30, 2025 · 1 hr 17 min
635: Guess who's back?
OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more...