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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Oct 23, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
634: Why Self-Host?
Why Self-host?, Advanced ZFS Dataset Management, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Minimal pkgbase jails / chroots, WSL-For-FreeBSD, Yubico yubikey 5 nfc on FreeBSD, The Q3 2025 Issue of the FreeBSD Journal, and more
Oct 16, 2025 · 1 hr 6 min
633: Magical Systems Thinking
ZFS Features, Roadmap, and Innovations, Magical systems thinking, How VMware’s Debt-Fueled Acquisition Is Killing Open Source, OpenSSH 10.1 Released, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland on FreeBSD, Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS, Balkanization of the Internet, GhostBSD 25.02 adds 'Gershwin' desktop for a Mac-like twist, and more
Oct 9, 2025 · 52 min
632: Zipbomb defeated
zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more
Oct 2, 2025 · 35 min
630: Bhyve Management UI
FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more
Sep 25, 2025 · 36 min
631: Endorphin Rush
Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more
Sep 18, 2025 · 1 hr 8 min
629: Host Naming Conventions
The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
Sep 11, 2025 · 49 min
628: Product Hype
The Hype is the Product, Programmers Aren’t So Humble Anymore—Maybe Because Nobody Codes in Perl, Is OpenBSD 10x faster than Linux?, How to install FreeBSD on providers that don't support it with mfsBSD, SSHX, Zvault Status Update, and more
Sep 4, 2025 · 55 min
627: Catastrophic OpenZFS bug
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug, crawler plague and the fragility of the web, Classic CDE (Common Desktop Environment) coming to OpenBSD, Some notes on DMARC policy inheritance and a gotcha, GNAT (Ada) is in fact fully supported on illumos, Eighteen Years of Greytrapping, and more
Aug 28, 2025 · 56 min
626: USB webcam testing
FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more
Aug 21, 2025 · 50 min
625: Build Cluster Speedup
Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, DragonFly DRM updated, NetBSD on Raspberry Pi, Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD, Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes, One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode, New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds, and more
Aug 14, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min
624: OpenBSD Innovations
OpenBSD chflags vs. Log Tampering, How to Defend Against Aggressive Web Scrapers With Anubis on FreeBSD 14, OpenBSD Innovations, Full Ada programming toolchain NOW on FreeBSD, Compute GPUs can have odd failures under Linux (still), A handy collection of shell aliases from my bash startup, and more
Aug 7, 2025 · 1 hr
623: Two's interview
Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project.
Jul 31, 2025 · 55 min
622: Interview with Mark Phillips - Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation
This week Benedict interviews Mark Phillips , the Technical Marketing Manager at the FreeBSD Foundation, while they both are at a Hackathon in Germany.
Jul 24, 2025 · 50 min
621: Exaggerated Death Report
Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more
Jul 17, 2025 · 53 min
620: Postmortem for jemalloc
The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more
Jul 10, 2025 · 45 min
619: Happy Tooling
Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more
Jul 3, 2025 · 53 min
618: Funding BSD projects
A year of funded FreeBSD, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes, FFS optimizations with dirhash, j2k25 hackathon report from kn@, NetBSD welcomes Google Summer of Code contributors, and more
Jun 26, 2025 · 1 hr 3 min
617: FreeBSD 14.3
FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it, Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid, April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, UDP sockets instead of BPF in dhcpd(8), and more
Jun 19, 2025 · 47 min
616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview
This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.
Jun 12, 2025 · 44 min
615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked
How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, and more