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 21, 2018 · 1 hr 43 min
234: Code and Community
GSoC 2018 Projects announced, tutorial FreeBSD jails with iocage, new Code of Conduct for FreeBSD, libhijack, and fancy monitoring for OpenSMTPD
Feb 14, 2018 · 1 hr 50 min
233: High on ZFS
We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD’s history on EC2.
Feb 7, 2018 · 1 hr 35 min
232: FOSDEM 2018
We talk about our recent trip to FOSDEM, we discuss the pros and cons of permissive licensing, cover the installation of OpenBSD on a dedibox with full-disk encryption, the new Lumina guide repository, and we explain ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
Feb 1, 2018 · 1 hr 24 min
231: Unix Architecture Evolution
We cover an interview about Unix Architecture Evolution, another vBSDcon trip report, how to teach an old Unix about backspace, new NUMA support coming to FreeBSD, and stack pointer checking in OpenBSD.
Jan 24, 2018 · 1 hr 56 min
230: Your questions, Part III
We provide you with updates to Spectre and Meltdown from various BSD projects, a review of TrueOS from Linux, how to set up FreeBSD on ThinkPad x240, and a whole bunch of beastie bits.
Jan 17, 2018 · 1 hr 48 min
229: The Meltdown of Spectre
We review Meltdown and Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out, and we look at the case against the fork syscall.
Jan 10, 2018 · 1 hr 51 min
228: The Spectre of Meltdown
We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.
Jan 3, 2018 · 1 hr 31 min
227: The long core dump
We walk through dumping a PS4 kernel in only 6 days, tell you the news that NetBSD 7.1.1 has been released, details on how to run FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T470, and there’s progress in OpenBSD’s pledge.
Dec 27, 2017 · 2 hr 7 min
226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List
We read the FreeBSD Q3 status report, explore good and bad syscalls, list GOG Games for OpenBSD, and show you what devmatch can do.
Dec 20, 2017 · 1 hr 47 min
225: The one true OS
TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH.
Dec 13, 2017 · 1 hr 40 min
224: The Bus Factor
We try to answer what happens to an open source project after a developers death, we tell you about the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley, we have an update to the NetBSD Thread sanitizer, and show how to use use cabal on OpenBSD
Dec 6, 2017 · 1 hr 51 min
223: Compile once, debug twice
Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap, and network manager control in OpenBSD
Nov 29, 2017 · 2 hr 7 min
222: How Netflix works
We take a look at two-faced Oracle, cover a FAMP installation, how Netflix works the complex stuff, and show you who the patron of yak shaving is.
Nov 22, 2017 · 1 hr 56 min
221: BSD in Taiwan
Allan reports on his trip to BSD Taiwan, new versions of Lumina and GhostBSD are here, a bunch of OpenBSD p2k17 hackathon reports.
Nov 15, 2017 · 1 hr 54 min
220: Opening ZFS in 2017
We have a first PS4 kernel exploit, the long awaited OpenZFS devsummit report by Allan, DragonflyBSD 5.0 is out, we show you vmadm to manage jails, and parallel processing with Unix tools.
Nov 8, 2017 · 2 hr 10 min
219: We love the ARC
Papers we love: ARC by Bryan Cantrill, SSD caching adventures with ZFS, OpenBSD full disk encryption setup, and a Perl5 Slack Syslog BSD daemon.
Nov 1, 2017 · 1 hr 14 min
218: A KRACK in the WiFi
FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE is here, more EuroBSDcon travel notes, the KRACK attack, ZFS and DTrace on NetBSD, and pfsense 2.4.
Oct 25, 2017 · 1 hr 42 min
217: Your questions, part II
OpenBSD 6.2 is here, style arguments, a second round of viewer interview questions, how to set CPU affinity for FreeBSD jails, containers on FreeNAS & more!
Oct 18, 2017 · 1 hr 49 min
216: Software is storytelling
EuroBSDcon trip report, how to secure OpenBSD’s LDAP server, ZFS channel programs in FreeBSD HEAD and why software is storytelling.
Oct 11, 2017 · 1 hr 33 min
215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps
We look at how Netflix serves 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance, read through the 2nd quarter FreeBSD status report, show you a freebsd-update speedup via nginx reverse proxy, and customize your OpenBSD default shell.