Episode Archive
606 episodes of BSD Now since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2013.
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234: Code and Community
February 21st, 2018 | 1 hr 43 mins
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GSoC 2018 Projects announced, tutorial FreeBSD jails with iocage, new Code of Conduct for FreeBSD, libhijack, and fancy monitoring for OpenSMTPD
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233: High on ZFS
February 14th, 2018 | 1 hr 50 mins
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We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD’s history on EC2.
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232: FOSDEM 2018
February 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 35 mins
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We talk about our recent trip to FOSDEM, we discuss the pros and cons of permissive licensing, cover the installation of OpenBSD on a dedibox with full-disk encryption, the new Lumina guide repository, and we explain ZFS vs. OpenZFS.
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231: Unix Architecture Evolution
February 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 24 mins
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We cover an interview about Unix Architecture Evolution, another vBSDcon trip report, how to teach an old Unix about backspace, new NUMA support coming to FreeBSD, and stack pointer checking in OpenBSD.
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230: Your questions, Part III
January 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 56 mins
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We provide you with updates to Spectre and Meltdown from various BSD projects, a review of TrueOS from Linux, how to set up FreeBSD on ThinkPad x240, and a whole bunch of beastie bits.
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229: The Meltdown of Spectre
January 17th, 2018 | 1 hr 48 mins
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We review Meltdown and Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out, and we look at the case against the fork syscall.
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228: The Spectre of Meltdown
January 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 51 mins
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We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.
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227: The long core dump
January 3rd, 2018 | 1 hr 31 mins
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We walk through dumping a PS4 kernel in only 6 days, tell you the news that NetBSD 7.1.1 has been released, details on how to run FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T470, and there’s progress in OpenBSD’s pledge.
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226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List
December 27th, 2017 | 2 hrs 7 mins
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We read the FreeBSD Q3 status report, explore good and bad syscalls, list GOG Games for OpenBSD, and show you what devmatch can do.
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225: The one true OS
December 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 47 mins
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TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH.
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224: The Bus Factor
December 13th, 2017 | 1 hr 40 mins
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We try to answer what happens to an open source project after a developers death, we tell you about the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley, we have an update to the NetBSD Thread sanitizer, and show how to use use cabal on OpenBSD
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223: Compile once, debug twice
December 6th, 2017 | 1 hr 51 mins
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Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap, and network manager control in OpenBSD