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40: AirPorts & Packages

June 4th, 2014 | 1 hr 13 mins

2014, absolute freebsd, beyond security, books, bsd, bsd vs linux, bsdcan, carp, code review, dragonflybsd, failover, firewalls, flightaware, freebsd, freenas, geom, guide, high availability, howto, interview, ipfw, ixsystems, jails, karl lehenbauer, keynote, kyua, libressl, linux, load balancing, netbsd, openbsd, owncloud, pcbsd, pf, plex, plex media server, plugins, tarsnap, tutorial, ufs, webcast, zfs

On this week's episode, we'll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD's ports and package system. There's also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware. Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

39: The Friendly Sandbox

May 28th, 2014 | 1 hr 2 mins

application, bsd, bsdcan, bsdmag, bsdtalk, capsicum, casper, casperd, chroot, dns, dnscrypt, dnscurve, dnssec, dragonflybsd, encryption, exploit, freebsd, gateway, guide, howto, interview, isolated, isolation, jails, journal, libressl, lookups, netbsd, openbsd, opendns, pcbsd, presentation, recordings, sandbox, security, ssh, talk, the friendly ghost, tunnel, tutorial, video, virtual machine, vpn, vps

This time on the show we'll be talking with Jon Anderson about Capsicum and Casper to securely sandbox processes. After that, our tutorial will show you how to encrypt all your DNS lookups, either on a single system or for your whole network. News, emails and all the usual fun, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

38: A BUG's Life

May 21st, 2014 | 1 hr 28 mins

11.0, 3rd edition, binary, bsd, bsd user group, bug, cobug, colorado, community, compile, conference, cron, dragonflybsd, encrypted, financial report, foundation, freebsd, full disk encryption, guide, honeypot, howto, interview, kippo, libressl, lug, monitoring, nas, netbsd, network attached storage, new york, nycbsdcon, nycbug, openbsd, openssl, packages, pcbsd, periodic, pf, pkgsrc, ports, presentation, routing domains, script kiddies, signing, source, ssh, the book of pf, third edition, tutorial, unix users group, users group, uug

We're back from BSDCan! This week on the show we'll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We'll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own! After that, we've got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD's package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

37: BSDCanned Goods

May 14th, 2014 | 2 hrs 7 mins

bsd, bsdcan, conference, convention, dragonflybsd, emails, feedback, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, ottawa, pcbsd, questions, support, tutorial, zfs

This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

36: Let's Get RAID

May 7th, 2014 | 1 hr 30 mins

5.5, aslr, bioctl, bsd, cd set, clang, core, core team, david chisnall, demo, disks, dragonflybsd, ffs, filesystem, freebsd, gcc, gmirror, gnome, gnome3, graid, gstripe, guide, hackathon, howto, i regret this already, interview, llvm, marcusports, mirror, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, pcbsd, pf, pie, ports, raid, raid-z, raid0, raid1, raid5, raidz, redundancy, router, signify, stripe, the worst pun i've done so far, theraven, tour, tutorial, ufs, zfs

This week on the show we'll be showing you how to set up RAID arrays in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. There's also an interview with David Chisnall - of the FreeBSD core team - about the switch to Clang and a lot more. As usual, we'll be dropping the latest news and answering your emails, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

35: Puffy Firewall

April 30th, 2014 | 1 hr 19 mins

3rd, book of pf, bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, firewall, fork, freebsd, guide, hackathon, howto, interview, ipfilter, ipfw, iptables, libressl, m2k14, netbsd, no starch press, nostarch, npf, openbsd, openssl, packet filter, pcbsd, peter hansteen, peter n.m. hansteen, pf, pfsense, pitrh, presentation, router, security, third edition, tutorial

We're back again! On this week's packed show, we've got one of the biggest tutorials we've done in a while. It's an in-depth look at PF, OpenBSD's firewall, with some practical examples and different use cases. We'll also be talking to Peter Hansteen about the new edition of "The Book of PF." Of course, we've got news and answers to your emails too, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

34: It's Gonna Get NASty

April 23rd, 2014 | 22 mins 39 secs

bsd, development, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, howto, interview, ixsystems, jails, john hixson, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, plugins, tutorial

This week, Allan's at a conference so we've got a short episode for you. We sat down with John Hixson to discuss FreeNAS development and all their future plans. The show will be back next week with a normal episode.

33: Certified Package Delivery

April 16th, 2014 | 1 hr 20 mins

0day, bsd, bsd certification, bsdcan, bsdcertification, conference, cve, distributed ports builder, dpb, dragonflybsd, exam, exploit, foundation, freebsd, guide, heartbeat, heartbleed, hole, howto, interview, ixsystems, jim brown, journal, marc espie, mitigation, netbsd, netflix, nycbsdcon, openbsd, openssh, openssl, package builds, pcbsd, poudriere, presentations, recording, ssl, talks, tarsnap, test, theo de raadt, tls, tutorial, zero day

This week, we sit down with Jim Brown from the BSD Certification group to talk about the BSD exams. Following that, we'll be showing you how to build OpenBSD binary packages in bulk, a la poudriere. There's a boatload of news and we've got answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

32: PXE Dust

April 9th, 2014 | 1 hr 16 mins

arm, aslr, autoinstall, branch, bsd, bsdcan, desktop, documentation, dragonflybsd, dru lavigne, freebsd, freenas, games, guide, handbook, howto, interview, linux, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pie, pkgng, pkgsrc, ports, printed, pxe, pxeboot, security, sprints, stable, tutorial

This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's the place to B.. SD.

31: Edgy BSD Users

April 1st, 2014 | 1 hr 9 mins

april fools, arch, bsd, centos, copyleft, copyright, cpu, debian, desktop, dragonflybsd, edgebsd, fosdem, freebsd, gentoo, gnome, gnome-shell, gnome3, gnu, gpl, guide, howto, interview, ixsystems, license, linux, mips, netbsd, on linux, openbsd, pcbsd, playstation 2, presentation, ps2, richard stallman, rms, security, sony, talk, tutorial, ubuntu, worst puns, xfce, zfs, zfsonlinux, zol, zpool

This week we'll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we'll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now - the place to Lin.. ux.

30: Documentation is King

March 26th, 2014 | 1 hr 22 mins

2014, access point, asiabsdcon, bhyve, bhyvecon, bsd, cs24-c, datacenter, dell, doceng, documentation, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foundation, freebsd, freenas, fs, guide, hammer, hammer2, hammerfs, howto, igor, interview, ixsystems, lists, mail, mailing lists, man pages, manpages, megaport, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pfsense, rack, router, rtfm, rump kernels, server, sun, synology, t5120, tutorial, wap, wireless

Finally hit 30 episodes! Today we'll be chatting with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

29: P.E.F.S.

March 19th, 2014 | 1 hr 54 mins

2014, 2fa, asiabsdcon, asiabsdcon2014, authentication, bsd, certificate, disk, dpb, dragonflybsd, encryption, fde, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, pcbsd, pefs, presentation, recording, talk, tutorial, two factor, video, yubikey

We're back from AsiaBSDCon! This week we'll be chatting with Gleb Kurtsou about some a filesystem-level encryption utility called PEFS. After that, we'll give you a step by step guide on how to actually use it. There's also the usual round of your questions and we've got a lot of news to catch up on, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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