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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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  • Oct 4, 2017 · 1 hr 30 min

    214: The history of man, kind

    The costs of open sourcing a project are explored, we discover why PS4 downloads are so slow, delve into the history of UNIX man pages, and more.

  • Sep 27, 2017 · 1 hr 31 min

    213: The French CONnection

    We recap EuroBSDcon in Paris, tell the story behind a pf PR, and show you how to do screencasting with OpenBSD.

  • Sep 20, 2017 · 1 hr 40 min

    212: The Solaris Eclipse

    We recap vBSDcon, give you the story behind a PF EN, reminisce in Solaris memories, and show you how to configure different DEs on FreeBSD.

  • Sep 13, 2017 · 2 hr 2 min

    211: It's HAMMER2 Time!

    We explore whether a BSD can replicate Cisco router performance; RETGUARD, OpenBSDs new exploit mitigation technology, Dragonfly’s HAMMER2 filesystem implementation & more!

  • Sep 6, 2017 · 1 hr 57 min

    210: Your questions, part I

    In this episode, we take a look at the reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel, check out what makes DHCP faster, and see what high-process count support for DragonflyBSD has to offer, and we answer the questions you’ve always wanted to ask us.

  • Aug 30, 2017 · 1 hr 32 min

    209: Signals: gotta catch ‘em all

    We read a trip report about FreeBSD in China, look at how Unix deals with Signals, a stats collector in DragonFlyBSD & much more!

  • Aug 23, 2017 · 1 hr 24 min

    208: Faces of Open Source

    DragonflyBSD 4.8.1 has been released, we explore how the X11 clipboard works, and look at OpenBSD gaming resources.

  • Aug 16, 2017 · 1 hr 43 min

    207: Bridge over the river Cam

    We recap our devsummit experiences at BSDCambridge, share why memcmp is more complicated than expected, explore Docker on FreeBSD, and we look at a retro terminal.

  • Aug 9, 2017 · 1 hr 30 min

    206: To hier is UNIX

    Lumina Desktop 1.3 is out, we show you a Plasma 5 on FreeBSD tutorial, explore randomness, and more.

  • Aug 2, 2017 · 1 hr 13 min

    205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1

    FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is out, we look at building at BSD home router, how to be your own OpenBSD VPN provider, and find that glob matching can be simple and fast.

  • Jul 26, 2017 · 1 hr 21 min

    204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD

    In this episode, we clear up the myth about scrub of death, look at Wayland and Weston on FreeBSD, Intel QuickAssist is here, and we check out OpenSMTP on OpenBSD.

  • Jul 19, 2017 · 1 hr 57 min

    203: For the love of ZFS

    This week on BSD Now, we clear up some ZFS FUD, show you how to write a NetBSD kernel module, and cover DragonflyBSD on the desktop.

  • Jul 12, 2017 · 1 hr 16 min

    202: Brokering Bind

    We look at an OpenBSD setup on a new laptop, revel in BSDCan trip reports, and visit daemons and friendly ninjas.

  • Jul 5, 2017 · 2 hr 23 min

    201: Skip grep, use awk

    In which we interview a unicorn, FreeNAS 11.0 is out, show you how to run Nextcloud in a FreeBSD jail, and talk about the connection between oil changes and software patches.

  • Jun 28, 2017 · 1 hr 34 min

    200: Getting Scrubbed to Death

    The NetBSD 8.0 release process is underway, we try to measure the weight of an electron, and look at stack clashing.

  • Jun 21, 2017 · 1 hr 22 min

    199: Read the source, KARL

    FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 is out, we discuss Kernel address randomized link (KARL), and explore the benefits of daily OpenBSD source code reading

  • Jun 7, 2017 · 1 hr 43 min

    197: Relaying the good news

    We’re at BSDCan, but we have an interview with Michael W. Lucas which you don’t want to miss.

  • May 31, 2017 · 1 hr 46 min

    196: PostgreZFS

    This week on BSD Now, we review the EuroBSDcon schedule, we explore the mysteries of Docker on OpenBSD, and show you how to run PostgreSQL on ZFS.

  • May 24, 2017 · 1 hr 15 min

    195: I don’t WannaCry

    A pledge of love to OpenBSD, combating ransomware like WannaCry with OpenZFS, and using PFsense to maximize your non-gigabit Internet connection