BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

349 episodes of BSD Now since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2013.

  • 382: BSDNow Q&A 2020

    December 24th, 2020  |  1 hr 6 mins
    berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of BSDNow.

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    381: Shell origins

    December 17th, 2020  |  41 mins 57 secs
    arisblubsd, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, midnightbsd 2.0, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense 20.7.5, origin, os, plan 9, release, report, shell, software, status, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    The Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more.

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    380: Early ZFS-mas

    December 10th, 2020  |  43 mins 59 secs
    berkeley, bsd, check hash, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, openzfs 2.0, operating system, os, os108-9.1, release, report, shell, software, status, third quarter 2020, trident, trueos, tutorial, ufs, unix, xfce, zfs, zpool

    We read FreeBSD’s 3rd quarter status report, OpenZFS 2.0, adding check-hash checks in UFS filesystem, OpenSSL 3.0 /dev/crypto issues on FreeBSD, and more.

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    379: bhyve my guest

    December 3rd, 2020  |  37 mins 19 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cdbug, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, libressl, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, plan 9, quarterly reports, release, report, scli, shell, signal-cli, software, status, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual meetings, zfs, zpool

    Adventures in Freebernetes, tracing kernel functions, The better way of building FreeBSD networks, New beginnings: CDBUG virtual meetings, LibreSSL update in DragonFly, Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD, and more.

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    378: Networknomicon

    November 26th, 2020  |  56 mins 20 secs
    berkeley, book sale, books, bsd, cashflow, creators, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, michael w. lucas, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, sale, shell, snmp, software, tls, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    Interview with Michael W. Lucas: SNMP and TLS book, cashflow for creators, book sale and more.

  • 377: Firewall ban-sharing

    November 19th, 2020  |  48 mins 7 secs
    ban-sharing, berkeley, bsd, bsdi, dataset, default gateway, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, firewall, freebsd, gce, google compute engine, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openvpn, operating system, os, shell, software, switching, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix specification, usl, website building, zfs, zpool

    History of FreeBD: BSDi and USL Lawsuits, Building a Website on Google Compute Engine, Firewall ban-sharing across machines, OpenVPN as default gateway on OpenBSD, Sorting out what the Single Unix Specification is, Switching from Apple to a Thinkpad for development, and more

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    376: Build stable packages

    November 12th, 2020  |  46 mins 20 secs
    12.2, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, package building, packages, release, shell, software, stable, syzkaller, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, webinar, zfs, zpool

    FreeBSD 12.2 is available, ZFS Webinar, Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, how the OpenBSD -stable packages are built, OPNsense 20.7.4 released, and more

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    375: Virtually everything

    November 5th, 2020  |  44 mins 48 secs
    arm, berkeley, bhyve, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, esxi, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hypervisor, information leak, interview, laptop, lldb, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, remote process plugin, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, udf, udf driver, unix, vi, vim, virtual hardware, zfs, zpool

    bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor, udf information leak, being a vim user instead of classic vi, FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB, OpenBSD Laptop, and more.

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    374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

    October 29th, 2020  |  54 mins 40 secs
    25th anniversary, backup, bastillebsd, berkeley, book, book sale, books, bsd, container, container management, dataset, devsummit, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, operating system, os, release, report, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old tarsnap backups, Michael W. Lucas’ book sale, and more.

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    373: Kyle Evans Interview

    October 22nd, 2020  |  33 mins 33 secs
    bectl, berkeley, bsd, bsd grep, certctl, core team, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, flua, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kyle evans, lua, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    We have an interview with Kyle Evans for you this week. We talk about his grep project, lua and flua in base, as well as bectl, being on the core team and a whole lot of other stuff.

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    372: Slow SSD scrubs

    October 15th, 2020  |  48 mins 4 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cwm, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, scrub, shell, software, ssd, status, status bar, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wayland, zfs, zpool

    Wayland on BSD, My BSD sucks less than yours, Even on SSDs, ongoing activity can slow down ZFS scrubs drastically, OpenBSD on the Desktop, simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm, and more.

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    371: Wildcards running wild

    October 8th, 2020  |  41 mins 17 secs
    berkeley, bsd, communication, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interprocess, interview, ipc, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, performance, performance analysis, software, trident, truenas, truenas core, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix wars, wildcards, zfs, zpool

    New Project: zedfs.com, TrueNAS CORE Ready for Deployment, IPC in FreeBSD 11: Performance Analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and more