BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278

    December 27th, 2018  |  49 mins 39 secs
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    We sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more.

  • Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277

    December 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 16 mins
    bsd, certbot, donald knuth, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, letsencrypt, libressl, netbsd, nmap, openbsd, patent, trident, trueos, tutorial, yggdrasil

    The Open Source midlife crisis, Donald Knuth The Yoda of Silicon Valley, Certbot For OpenBSD's httpd, how to upgrade FreeBSD from 11 to 12, level up your nmap game, NetBSD desktop, and more.

  • Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276

    December 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, illumos, interview, ipsec, kleak, netbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, synth, trident, trueos, tutorial, vpn

    FreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more.

  • Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275

    December 9th, 2018  |  1 hr 24 mins
    bsd, capsicum, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gopher, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, linux vfio, netbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, pinebook, trident, trueos, tutorial

    DragonflyBSD 5.4 has been released, down the Gopher hole with OpenBSD, OpenBSD in stereo with VFIO, BSD/OS the best candidate for legally tested open source Unix, OpenBGPD adds diversity to the routing server landscape, and more.

  • Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274

    November 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 4 mins
    assembly language, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gaming, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    Assembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more.

  • Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273

    November 23rd, 2018  |  1 hr 14 mins
    bsd, cat, dragonflybsd, firewall, fosdem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hugo, iio, interview, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial, vulnerability, x.org

    Thoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review.

  • Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272

    November 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins
    18.10, bhyve, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, netcat, nvvm, openbsd, rc3, trident, trueos, tutorial, unveil

    Byproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and more.

  • Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271

    November 8th, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins
    ansible, bsd, dns, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, midnightbsd, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    MidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more.

  • Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270

    November 1st, 2018  |  1 hr 9 mins
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, keybase, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, openssl, trident, trueos, tutorial

    OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD.

  • Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269

    October 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 28 mins
    bsd, daemon, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress.

  • Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268

    October 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins
    2fa, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde yubikey, netbsd, netcat, openbsd, performance, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

    6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat demystified, and more.

  • Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267

    October 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins
    2fa, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde yubikey, netbsd, netcat, openbsd, performance, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

    We have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience.