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78: From the Foundation (Part 2)

February 25th, 2015 | 1 hr 9 mins

bsd, charity, core infrastructure initiative, donations, dragonflybsd, freebsd, funding, gsoc, guide, hackathon, howto, interview, lenovo, linux foundation, netbsd, openbsd, openbsd foundation, openssh, opnsense, pcbsd, relayd, soekris, superfish, tutorial

This week we continue our two-part series on the activities of various BSD foundations. Ken Westerback joins us today to talk all about the OpenBSD foundation and what it is they do. We've also got answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

77: Noah's L2ARC

February 18th, 2015 | 1 hr 26 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, illumos, interview, libressl, m0n0wall, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openzfs, opnsense, pcbsd, raid, rng, smartos, solaris, tutorial, zfs

This week on the show, we'll be chatting with Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about what's new in the world of OpenZFS. After that, we're starting a new tutorial series on submitting your first patch. All the latest BSD news and answers to your emails, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

76: Time for a Change

February 11th, 2015 | 1 hr 29 mins

afl-fuzz, bhws, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, ike, interview, ipsec, netbsd, ntimed, ntp, ntpd, openbsd, openiked, openntpd, opensmtpd, openvpn, pcbsd, ssh, stratum, time keeping, tor, tunneling, tutorial

This week, we'll be talking to Henning Brauer about OpenNTPD and its recently revived portable version. After that, we'll be discussing different ways to securely tunnel your traffic: specifically OpenVPN, IPSEC, SSH and Tor. All that and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

75: From the Foundation (Part 1)

February 4th, 2015 | 1 hr 25 mins

banana pi, bsd, donations, dovecot, dragonflybsd, ed25519, foundation, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, libressl, mail server, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, opnsense, pcbsd, spamassassin, ssh, t400, tutorial

This week on the show, we'll be starting a two-part series detailing the activities of various BSD foundations. Ed Maste from the FreeBSD foundation will be joining us this time, and we'll talk about what all they've been up to lately. All this week's news and answers to viewer-submitted questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

74: That Sly MINIX

January 28th, 2015 | 1 hr 16 mins

afl, american fuzzy lop, bsd, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, fuzzing, guide, hammer fs, hammerfs, howto, interview, minix, minix3, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, pcbsd, pkgsrc, slider, tutorial, userland

Coming up this week, we've got something a little bit different for you. We'll be talking with Andrew Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. They've recently imported parts of NetBSD into their OS, and we'll find out how and why that came about. As always, all the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

73: Pipe Dreams

January 21st, 2015 | 1 hr 31 mins

bhyve, bsd, commandline, cryptography, david maxwell, digitalocean, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, libressl, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, pcbsd, pf, pipecut, router, shell, tutorial

This week on the show we'll be chatting with David Maxwell, a former NetBSD security officer. He's got an interesting project called Pipecut that takes a whole new approach to the commandline. We've also got answers to viewer-submitted questions and all this week's headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

72: Common *Sense Approach

January 14th, 2015 | 1 hr 20 mins

alix, apu, bsd, deciso, dragonflybsd, firewall, fork, freebsd, gateway, interview, ipfw, m0n0wall, netbsd, netgate, openbsd, opnsense, owncloud, pcbsd, pcengines, pfsense, php, portage, router, soekris, vpn

This week on the show, we'll be talking to Jos Schellevis about OPNsense, a new firewall project that was forked from pfSense. We'll learn some of the backstory and see what they've got planned for the future. We've also got all this week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

71: System Disaster

January 7th, 2015 | 1 hr 6 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, google summer of code, gpl, gsoc, guide, hammer, howto, interview, launchd, license, macports, netbsd, ntp, openbsd, openntpd, opnsense, pcbsd, pfsense, systembsd, systemd, tutorial, zfs

This time on the show, we'll be talking to Ian Sutton about his new BSD compatibility wrappers for various systemd dependencies. Don't worry, systemd is not being ported to BSD! We're still safe! We've also got all the week's news and answers to your emails, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

70: Daemons in the North

December 31st, 2014 | 1 hr 24 mins

bsd, bsdcan, call for papers, conference, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, ntimed, ntp, openbsd, openntpd, openssh, pcbsd, pie, presentation, static, talk, tutorial, vxlan

It's our last episode of 2014, and we'll be chatting with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSDCan conference. We'll find out what's planned and what sorts of presentations they're looking for. As usual, answers to viewer-submitted questions and all the week's news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

69: Under the Ports Tree

December 24th, 2014 | 1 hr 12 mins

advocacy, bsd, christmas, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, europe, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, language barriers, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial, women in technology

It's a special holiday episode! We asked you guys in the audience to send in the tale of how you first got into BSD, and we're going to share those with everyone today. We'll also be playing two bonus mini-interviews, so get comfy by the fire and listen to some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

68: Just the Essentials

December 17th, 2014 | 1 hr 26 mins

asiabsdcon, book, bsd, disks, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freebsd mastery, guide, howto, interview, michael lucas, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, operatingsystems.io, pcbsd, review, steam, storage essentials, tutorial, ufs, zfs

Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Michael Lucas about his newest BSD book, "FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials." It's got lots of great information about the disk subsystems, GEOM, filesystems, you name it. We've also got the usual round of news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

67: Must Be Rigged

December 10th, 2014 | 1 hr 20 mins

bitrig, bsd, clang, dragonflybsd, fork, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, llvm, md5, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, poudriere, rand, random, sha512, srand, systemd, tutorial, virtualization

Coming up this week on the show, we've got an interview with Patrick Wildt, one of the developers of Bitrig. We'll find out all the details of their OpenBSD fork, what makes it different and what their plans are going forward. We've also got all the week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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