Tom Jones
Co-Host of BSD Now
Tom Jones is an Internet Researcher and FreeBSD developer that works on improving the core protocols that drive the Internet. He is a
contributor to open standards in the IETF and is enthusiastic about using FreeBSD as a platform to experiment with new networking ideas as they progress towards standardisation.
Tom Jones has hosted 115 Episodes.
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630: Bhyve Management UI
October 2nd, 2025 | 35 mins 43 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, clonos, cluster, code, data safety, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, gpu passthrough, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, management, netbsd, ollama, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, raspberry pi 5, release, rpi5, samba 4.22, shell, software, status report, storage, sylve, systemd dhcp release, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Foundation Q2 2025 Status Update, Keeping Data Safe with OpenZFS, Ollama on FreeBSD Using GPU Passthrough, ClonOS, Preliminary support for Raspberry Pi 5, Sylve: Manage bhyve VMs and Clusters on FreeBSD, Preventing Systemd DHCP RELEASE Behavior, Call for testing - Samba 4.22, and more
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631: Endorphin Rush
September 25th, 2025 | 36 mins 53 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, clonos, cluster, code, data safety, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, gpu passthrough, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, management, netbsd, ollama, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, raspberry pi 5, release, rpi5, samba 4.22, shell, software, status report, storage, sylve, systemd dhcp release, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
Secure Boot for FreeBSD, Systems lie about their proper functioning, Teching the tech and rushing the endorphins, Passing a Device Into A FreeBSD Jail With A Stable Name, ZFS snapshots aren't as immutable as I thought, due to snapshot metadata, Let's write a peephole optimizer for QBE's arm64 backend, Migrate a Peertube instance from Debian to FreeBSD, and more
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629: Host Naming Conventions
September 18th, 2025 | 1 hr 8 mins
bash, berkeley, bsd, capacity, cli, code, convention, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, dull electronics, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hostname, howto, industrial design, interview, jails, netbsd, nvme, open source, openbsd, operating system, organization, os, packages, performance, ports, programming, release, shell, software, ssd, storage, symbian, timeout, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
The Death of Industrial Design, Host naming Convensions, Symbian reflections, bash timeouts, nvme vs ssds, a system to organize your life, and more.
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626: USB webcam testing
August 28th, 2025 | 56 mins 10 secs
802.11g, berkeley, bsd, bsdcan trip report, call for testing, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, freebsd journal, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, java, netbsd, open source, openbsd, openbsd webcams, openssh features, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, release process underway, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, usb, utility, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Journal Summer 2025 Edition, Java hiding in plain sight, BSDCan 2025 Trip report, Call for testing OpenBSD webcams, recent new features in OpenSSH, Improved 802.11g AP compatibility check, and more
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625: Build Cluster Speedup
August 21st, 2025 | 50 mins 36 secs
autobuilds, berkeley, bsd, build cluster, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, drm updates, embedded devices, fast, faster, featured, featuring, filesystem, foss, freebsd, glusterfs, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, performance, ports, programming, raspberry pi, release, resume, shell, software, speed up, storage, suspend, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zil, zpool
Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices, The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career, DragonFly DRM updated, NetBSD on Raspberry Pi, Speed up suspend/resume for FreeBSD, Revisiting ZFS's ZIL, separate log devices, and writes, One of my blog articles featured on the BSD Now podcast episode, New build cluster speeds up daily autobuilds, and more
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621: Exaggerated Death Report
July 24th, 2025 | 50 mins 7 secs
arm64 uefi, berkeley, book of pf, bsd, cli, code, dataset, death, design, designing, development, distribution, dm_target_crypt_ng, dragonflybsd, exaggeration, filesystem, foss, fourth edition, freebsd, generic installation, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, localized computing, netbsd, next generation, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, periodical, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, terminals, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, x window system, zfs, zpool
Designing a Storage Pool, The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration, Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI, dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation, The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals, The Book of PF 4th Edition Is Coming Soon, Periodical 20 Localized Computing, and more
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620: Postmortem for jemalloc
July 17th, 2025 | 53 mins 53 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, jemalloc, multi-user web server, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimizing, os, packages, performance, ports, postmortem, programming, reading list, release, rsync, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tuning, tutorial, unix, utility, workload, zfs, zpool
The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist, ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload, what would a multi-user web server look like, That Grumpy BSD Guy: A Short Reading List, rsync's defaults are not always enough, jemalloc Postmortem, and more
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619: Happy Tooling
July 10th, 2025 | 45 mins 57 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, computer club, dataset, development, disaster recovery, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, happy, hardenedbsd, howto, interface, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, two worlds, unix, utility, zfs, zpool, zvault
Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide, The best interfaces we never built, Choose Tools That Make You Happy, open source has turned into two worlds, TrueNAS CORE is Dead – Long Live zVault, You should start a computer club in the place that you live, and more
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616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview
June 19th, 2025 | 47 mins 34 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, filesystem, foss, foundation, freebsd, interview, jails, open source, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation.
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615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked
June 12th, 2025 | 44 mins 2 secs
berkeley, bsd, caddy, cli, code, dataset, dell latitude 7280, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, framework 13, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, high speed wifi, howto, interview, jails, mac_portacl, macos sequoia, netbsd, networking, open source, openbsd, openrsync, opensmtpd, operating system, os, packages, ports, production use, programming, quic, release, reverse proxy, rsync, shell, software, storage, support, supporting, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, wireless, zfs, zpool
How to unlock high speed Wi-Fi on FreeBSD 14, What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production, rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia, Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD, FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7280, Backup MX with OpenSMTPD, Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl, and more
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612: Zip Bomb Protection
May 22nd, 2025 | 37 mins 33 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, drive removal, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, infrastructure independence, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimisation, os, packages, parallel tcp input, ports, programming, protect, protection, release, shell, software, stack ownership, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, upgrade, utility, works for now, works long-term, zfs, zip bomb, zpool
I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server, Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS, Optimisation of parallel TCP input, Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term", Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade, What drive did I just remove from the system?, and more
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609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam
May 1st, 2025 | 54 mins 47 secs
advanced networking, authorizedkeyscommand, bash static site generator, berkeley, bhyve migration, bsd, bssg, cheat sheet, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, dynamic cms, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, netgraph, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, secure shell, shell, software, ssh, sshd, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, vm migration, zfs, zpool
Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more