Episode Archive
358 episodes of BSD Now since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2013.
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331: Why Computers Suck
January 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 9 mins
3970x, bsd, bsdcan, computers, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, infrastructure, interview, learning, netbsd, openbsd, ryzen, threadripper, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix
How learning OpenBSD makes computers suck a little less, How Unix works, FreeBSD 12.1 Runs Well on Ryzen Threadripper 3970X, BSDCan CFP, HardenedBSD Infrastructure Goals, and more.
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330: Happy Holidays, All(an)
December 26th, 2019 | 1 hr 15 mins
authentication, bsd, digitalocean, dragonflybsd, droplet, e2k19, freebsd, freenas, guide, hackathon, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbsd, release candidate, trident, trueos, tutorial, vulnerabilities
Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD, NetBSD 9.0 RC1 is available, Running FreeNAS on a DigitalOcean droplet, NomadBSD 1.3 is here, at e2k19 nobody can hear you scream, and more.
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329: Lucas’ Arts
December 19th, 2019 | 51 mins 5 secs
books, bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, fiction, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lucas, michael w. lucas, netbsd, non-fiction, openbsd, publishing, self-publishing, snmp, snmp mastery, sudo, sudo mastery, trident, trueos, tutorial, writing
In this episode, we interview Michael W. Lucas about his latest book projects, including the upcoming SNMP Mastery book.
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328: EPYC Netflix Stack
December 12th, 2019 | 57 mins 43 secs
amd, amd epyc, arm, arm 12, aws, bsd, dragonflybsd, eyeballs, fido, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ipsec, lldb, netbsd, netflix, network stack, openbsd, openssh, optimized, performance, threading, trident, trueos, tunnel, tutorial, u2f, unwind, vpn
LLDB Threading support now ready, Multiple IPSec VPN tunnels with FreeBSD, Netflix Optimized FreeBSD's Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance, happy eyeballs with unwind(8), AWS got FreeBSD ARM 12, OpenSSH U2F/FIDO support, and more.
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327: ZFS Rename Repo
December 5th, 2019 | 1 hr 23 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, geom, gnop, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nop, openbsd, pkg_comp, quarterly status, report, sparc64, status report, sun, trident, trueos, tutorial, uo-to-date
We read FreeBSD’s third quarterly status report, OpenBSD on Sparc64, ZoL repo move to OpenZFS, GEOM NOP, keeping NetBSD up-to-date, and more.
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326: Certified BSD
November 28th, 2019 | 1 hr 6 secs
bsd, certification, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldb, llvm, netbsd, open source, open source unix, openbsd, openzfs, ports, threading, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial
LPI releases BSD Certification, openzfs trip report, Using FreeBSD with ports, LLDB threading support ready, Linux versus Open Source Unix, and more.
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325: Cracking Rainbows
November 21st, 2019 | 57 mins 40 secs
12.1, berkeley, bsd, compiling, dev, devel, development, dnssec, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, let’s encrypt, netbsd, nginx, openbsd, opnsense, rainbowcrack, setup, shopware, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unbound, unix
FreeBSD 12.1 is here, A history of Unix before Berkeley, FreeBSD development setup, HardenedBSD 2019 Status Report, DNSSEC, compiling RainbowCrack on OpenBSD, and more.
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324: Emergency Space Mode
November 14th, 2019 | 46 mins 30 secs
awk, batch, bsd, dhcpcd, dragonflybsd, emergency space mode, freebsd, guide, hammer 2, hardenedbsd, howto, icccm, interview, migrating drive, migrating zpool, migration, netbsd, openbsd, renaming, trident, trueos, tutorial, x11, zlib, zpool
Migrating drives and zpool between hosts, OpenBSD in 2019, Dragonfly’s new zlib and dhcpcd, Batch renaming images and resolution with awk, a rant on the X11 ICCCM selection system, hammer 2 emergency space mode, and more.
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323: OSI Burrito Guy
November 7th, 2019 | 49 mins 22 secs
7 layer, blacklistd, bolt, bsd, cms, code, dragonflybsd, fail2ban, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, https2, interview, lets encrypt, netbsd, nginx, npf, openbsd, osi, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix
The earliest Unix code, how to replace fail2ban with blacklistd, OpenBSD crossed 400k commits, how to install Bolt CMS on FreeBSD, optimized hammer2, appeasing the OSI 7-layer burrito guys, and more.
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322: Happy Birthday, Unix
October 31st, 2019 | 1 hr 7 mins
50 years unix, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, opnsense, pdp, pdp 7, release, ssh, sshuttle, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vpn, vpn over ssh
Unix is 50, Hunting down Ken's PDP-7, OpenBSD and OPNSense have new releases, Clarification on what GhostBSD is, sshuttle - VPN over SSH, and more.
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321: The Robot OS
October 23rd, 2019 | 55 mins 16 secs
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ken thompson, netbsd, openbsd, pdp 7, pdp-7, release, source code, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix at 50, unix code
An interview with Trenton Schulz about his early days with FreeBSD, Robot OS, Qt, and more.
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320: Codebase: Neck Deep
October 16th, 2019 | 56 mins 41 secs
bsd, case study, dragonflybsd, freebsd, fsck, google pixelbook, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ka9q, netbsd, openbsd, performance, pixelbook, portability, porting, quota, quota limits, startx, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zfs performance, zfs quota
FreeBSD on the Google Pixelbook, Porting NetBSD to the AMD x86-64, ZFS performance really does degrade as you approach quota limits, Fixing up KA9Q-unix, HAMMER2 and fsck for review, the return of startx(1) for non-root users, and more.