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BSD Now is a weekly video podcast created by three guys who love BSD. We cover the latest news andhave 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. You can find our complete list of episodes here.
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2017-05-25
Hi, Mr. Dexter. Also, we understand that Brad Davis thinks there should be more real news....
2015-08-08
We're quickly approaching our two-year anniversary, which will be on episode 105. To celebrate, we've created a unique t-shirt design, available for purchase until the end of August. Shirts will be shipped out around September 1st. Most of the proceeds will support the show, and specifically allow us to buy...
2015-01-17
We're thinking about adding a new segment to the show where we discuss a topic that the listeners suggest. It's meant to be informative like a tutorial, but more of a "free discussion" format. If you have any subjects you want us to explore, or even just a good name...
2014-11-26
We've got a fun idea for the holidays this year: just like we ask during the interviews, we want to hear how all the viewers and listeners first got into BSD. Email us your story, either written or a video version, and we'll read and play some of them for...
Episode 215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps
2017-10-11
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Serving 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance In the summer of 2015, the Netflix Open Connect CDN team decided to take on an ambitious project. The goal was to leverage the new 100GbE network interface technology just coming to...
Episode 214: The history of man, kind
2017-10-04
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines The Cost Of Open Sourcing Your Project Accusing a company of dumping their project as open source is probably misplaced its an expensive business no-one would do frivolously. If you see an active move to change software licensing...
Episode 213: The French CONnection
2017-09-27
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Recap of EuroBSDcon 2017 in Paris, France EuroBSDcon was held in Paris, France this year, which drew record numbers this year. With over 300 attendees, it was the largest BSD event I have ever attended, and I was encouraged by the higher than...
Episode 212: The Solaris Eclipse
2017-09-20
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines [vBSDCon] vBSDCon was held September 7 - 9th. We recorded this only a few days after getting home from this great event. Things started on Wednesday night, as attendees of the thursday developer summit arrived and broke into smallish groups for disorganized dinner...
Episode 211: It's HAMMER2 Time!
2017-09-13
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Can a BSD system replicate the performance of a Cisco router? Short Answer: No, but it might be good enough for what you need Traditionally routers were built with a tightly coupled data plane and control plane. Back in the 80s...
Episode 210: Your questions, part I
2017-09-06
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines A Reimplementation Of Netbsd Using a Microkernel Minix author Andy Tanenbaum writes in Part 1 of a-reimplementation-of-netbsd-using-a-microkernel Based on the MINIX 3 microkernel, we have constructed a system that to the user looks a great deal like NetBSD. It uses pkgsrc,...
Episode 209: Signals: gotta catch ‘em all
2017-08-30
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Trip Report: FreeBSD in China at COPU and LinuxCon This trip report is from Deb Goodkin, the Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation. She travelled to China in May 2017 to promote FreeBSD, meet with companies, and participate in discussions around Open...
Episode 208: Faces of Open Source
2017-08-23
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines LLVM, Clang and compiler-rt support enhancements In the last month I started with upstream of the code for sanitizers: the common layer and ubsan. I worked also on the elimination of unexpected failures in LLVM and Clang. I've managed to...
Episode 207: Bridge over the river Cam
2017-08-16
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCam recap The 2017 Cambridge DevSummit took place from 2-4 August 2017. The event took place over three days including a formal dinner at St John's College, and was attended by 55 registered developers and guests. Prior to the start of...
Episode 206: To hier is UNIX
2017-08-09
HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Lumina Desktop v1.3 released Notable Changes: New Utility: lumina-mediaplayer. Lumina Media Player is a graphic interface for the Qt QMediaPlayer Class, with Pandora internet radio streaming integration. Lumina Media Player supports many audio formats, including .ogg, .mp3, .mp4, .flac, and .wmv. It is also...
Episode 205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1
2017-08-02
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1 was released on July 26th You can download it as an ISO or USB image, a prebuilt VM Image (vmdk, vhd, qcow2, or raw), and it is available as a cloud image (Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine,...
Episode 204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD
2017-07-26
Direct Download:HD VideoMP3 AudioTorrent This episode was brought to you by Headlines Matt Ahrens answers questions about the “Scrub of Death” In working on the breakdown of that ZFS article last week, Matt Ahrens contacted me and provided some answers he has given to questions in the past, allowing me to answer them using...