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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Aug 29, 2024 · 1 hr
574: Hypervisor Determination
Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve, Our slowly growing Unix monoculture, The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005), Video Edition notes on OpenBSD, Full-featured email server running OpenBSD, ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?, and more
Aug 22, 2024 · 54 min
573: Kyua Graduation
What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?, Human Scale Software vs Open Source, How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14, Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?, Backward compatibility has real costs even for settings, Kyua graduates, and more
Aug 15, 2024 · 1 hr
572: Where's my backup?
OpenBSD Workstation for the People, Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD, Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way, Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works, Where’s my backup?, Vi and Vim: A Brief Overview, and more
Aug 8, 2024 · 1 hr 9 min
571: Cloud Chaos
Navigating FreeBSD’s New Quarterly and Biennial Release Schedule, EuroBSDCon 2024 Schedule, From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, Local-to-anchors tables in PF rules, CloudBSD, and more
Aug 1, 2024 · 58 min
570: RIP dhclient
The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network, FreeBSD 14.1: What’s new, and how did we get here?, The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition), MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5, Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way), Reasons to use your shell's job control, RIP dhclient(8)
Jul 25, 2024 · 47 min
569: The ZFS Pi
Enhancing FreeBSD Stability With ZFS Pool Checkpoints, Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs, Initial playlist of 28 BSDCan Videos released, Installing FreeBSD 14 on Raspberry Pi 4B with ZFS root, A practical guide to VPNs, IPv6, routing domains and IPSEC, How to mount ISO or file disk images on OpenBSD, and more
Jul 18, 2024 · 54 min
568: regreSSHion
regreSSHion vulnerability, Improving and debugging FreeBSDs Intel wifi support, FreeBSD adds an implementation of the 9P filesystem, FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge, Why and how to run your own FreeBSD package cache, Game of Trees Hub, Why Does FreeBSD Default to Csh/Tcsh, and more
Jul 11, 2024 · 41 min
567: To the Core
SSH as a sudo replacement, Core.13 is Now In Office, Running GoToSocial on NetBSD, A DMD package for OpenIndiana, Adding more swap space to Omnios, OpenBSD adds initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day, and more
Jul 4, 2024 · 56 min
566: Open Source Excellence
A Journey Through 31 Years of Open Source Excellence, Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?, Upstreaming FreeBSD Code to the Linux Vector Packet Processor Project, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots With UFS, My Concern With Rust, or a Case for the BSD's, and more
Jun 27, 2024 · 51 min
565: Secure by default
NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro, OpenBSD extreme privacy setup, Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy', Posix.1 2024 is out, Blocking Access From or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and Pf, and more. Date: 2024.06.17
Jun 20, 2024 · 51 min
564: Computation Poems
Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report, What is Computer Science? ~1967, Computation Poems, Old Info, but still good -- HOWTO: Set up and configure security/sshguard-pf, observium-freebsd-install, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System, OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior, and more
Jun 13, 2024 · 49 min
563: 14.1
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, and more
Jun 6, 2024 · 1 hr 13 min
562: All by myself
My personal BSDCan Devsummit and Schedule, Syncthing, Paperless-ngx, neovim, Things we always remind ourselves while coding, and more.
May 30, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
561: Kicked off ARPANET
Why FreeBSD Continues to Innovate and Thrive, Why BSD, A BSD person tries Alpine Linux, This message does not exist, Demise of Nagle's algorithm, How Jerry Pournelle Got Kicked Off the ARPANET, and more
May 23, 2024 · 1 hr 1 min
560: Why not BSD
FreeBSD Status Report First Quarter 2024, Why not BSD, LibreSSL version 3.9.2 released, Running NetBSD on OmniOS using bhyve, X.Org on NetBSD, Unix version control lore: what, ident, How I search in 2024, sshd split into multiple binaries, and more
May 16, 2024 · 57 min
559: Rainy WiFi Days
An RNG that runs in your brain, Going Stateless, SmolBSD, The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining, Wayland, where are we in 2024?, Omnios pxe booting, OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files, and more
May 9, 2024 · 1 hr 31 min
558: Worlds of telnet
NetBSD 9.4, FreeBSD SSDF Attestation to Support Cybersecurity Compliance, The Lost Worlds of Telnet, alter file ownership and permissions with a feedback information, parallel raw IP input, OpenBSD routers on AliExpress mini PCs, FreeBSD for Devs. Plus a special interview with the organizers of BSDCAN 2024.
May 2, 2024 · 46 min
557: 17h per frame
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted, Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro: a crumbs-in-the-forest tutorial & review, OpenSMTPD 7.5.0p0 Released, OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations, Book 8088, Custom Prometheus dashboards using Console templates, FreeBSD Foundation March 2024 Partnerships Update, Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours p
Apr 25, 2024 · 53 min
556: Cozy OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a Cozy Operating System, Lichee Console 4A - RISC-V mini laptop, Lessons learned with XZ vulnerability, Techies vs spies: the xz backdoor debate, Not Not Porting 9front to Power64, One less Un\*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more
Apr 18, 2024 · 57 min
555: Poudriereing Apple Silicon
Kubernetes and back - Why I don't run distributed systems, NetApp’s strategic contributions to FreeBSD: a deep dive into upstreaming efforts, Make your own E-Mail server - Part 2 - Adding Webmail and More with Nextcloud, Poudriere on Apple Silicon, One less Un\*xy option for 32-bit PowerPC, and more