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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Nov 29, 2018 · 1 hr 4 min
Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274
Assembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more.
Nov 23, 2018 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273
Thoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review.
Nov 15, 2018 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272
Byproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and more.
Nov 8, 2018 · 1 hr 8 min
Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271
MidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more.
Nov 1, 2018 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270
OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD.
Oct 24, 2018 · 1 hr 28 min
Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269
FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress.
Oct 17, 2018 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268
6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat demystified, and more.
Oct 10, 2018 · 1 hr 7 min
Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267
We have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience.
Oct 3, 2018 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266
Running OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, vermaden’s FreeBSD story, thoughts on OpenBSD on the desktop, history of file type info in Unix dirs, Multiboot a Pinebook KDE neon image, and more.
Sep 27, 2018 · 1 hr 41 min
Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265
We report from our experiences at EuroBSDcon, disenchant software, LLVM 7.0.0 has been released, Thinkpad BIOS update options, HardenedBSD Foundation announced, and ZFS send vs. rsync.
Sep 20, 2018 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264
FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD benchmarks on AMD’s Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2 has been released, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, why ed is not a good editor today, tell your BSD story, and more.
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263
Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS backup appliance shown at VMworld, NetBSD 6 EoL, and more.
Sep 6, 2018 · 1 hr 13 min
Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262
OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation August Update, What’s taking so long with Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code.
Aug 30, 2018 · 1 hr 49 min
Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261
Insight into TrueOS and Trident, stop evildoers with pf-badhost, Flashback to FreeBSDcon ‘99, OpenBSD’s measures against TLBleed, play Morrowind on OpenBSD in 5 steps, DragonflyBSD developers shocked at Threadripper performance, and more.
Aug 23, 2018 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260
Trip reports from the Essen Hackathon and BSDCam, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS performance benchmarks on a FreeBSD server, how to port your OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about traceability, Remote Access console to an RPi3 running FreeBSD, and more.
Aug 16, 2018 · 1 hr 47 min
Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259
The strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, EuroBSDcon 2018 talks and schedule, OpenBSD on G4 iBook, PAM template user, ZFS file server, and reflections on one year of OpenBSD use.
Aug 8, 2018 · 1 hr 27 min
Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258
FreeBSD Foundation July Newsletter, a bunch of BSDCan trip reports, HardenedBSD Foundation status, FreeBSD and OSPFd, ZFS disk structure overview, and more Spectre mitigations in OpenBSD.
Aug 2, 2018 · 1 hr 23 min
Episode 257: Great NetBSD 8 | BSD Now 257
NetBSD 8.0 available, FreeBSD on Scaleway’s ARM64 VPS, encrypted backups with OpenBSD, Dragonfly server storage upgrade, zpool checkpoints, g2k18 hackathon reports, and more.
Jul 25, 2018 · 1 hr 44 min
Episode 256: Because Computers | BSD Now 2^8
FreeBSD ULE vs. Linux CFS, OpenBSD on Tuxedo InfinityBook, how zfs diff reports filenames efficiently, why choose FreeBSD over Linux, PS4 double free exploit, OpenBSD’s wifi autojoin, and FreeBSD jails the hard way.
Jul 18, 2018 · 1 hr 20 min
Episode 255: What Are You Pointing At | BSD Now 255
What ZFS blockpointers are, zero-day rewards offered, KDE on FreeBSD status, new FreeBSD core team, NetBSD WiFi refresh, poor man’s CI, and the power of Ctrl+T.