About the show
Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros.
The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
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Episodes
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392: macOS inspired Desktop
March 4th, 2021 | 47 mins 26 secs
501c3, arm, benchmarks, berkeley, bsd, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, employment, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hellosystem, howto, interview, jails, job, kernel engineer, macos inspired, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, project coordinator, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks, FreeBSD Jails Deep Dive by Klara Systems, FreeBSD Foundation looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer & OSS Project Coordinator, macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS by helloSystem, A Trip into FreeBSD and more.
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391: i386 tear shedding
February 25th, 2021 | 38 mins 55 secs
advantages, annotation, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, grafana, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, i386, interview, jail, kde, marvelous meerkat, netbsd, node-exporter, nomadbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, pdf, prometheus, proxy, release, shell, signal, software, touch screen, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, xargs, zfs, zpool
Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more.
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390: Commercial Unix Killer
February 18th, 2021 | 55 mins 36 secs
berkeley, book, bsd, cluster, commercial unix, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, edgerouter, freebsd, glusterfs, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lenovo, linux, lite, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, setup, shell, software, thinkpad, tls, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, x1 nano, zfs, zpool
Did Linux kill Commercial Unix, three node GlusterFS setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen), NetBSD on EdgeRouter Lite, TLS Mastery first draft done
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389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails
February 10th, 2021 | 41 mins 16 secs
bastille, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, exploration, exploring, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, mirror, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, pkg, plan 9, poudriere, release, shell, software, swap, tools, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vnet, zfs, zpool
A week with Plan 9, Exploring Swap on FreeBSD, how to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere, How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS, Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools, and more.
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388: Must-have security tool
February 4th, 2021 | 49 mins 41 secs
2020, bastille, berkeley, bsd, dataset, display, distribution, dragonflybsd, etymology. command-line, fourth, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, persistence, port, quarter, quarterly, redirection, release, report, security, shell, software, status, tool, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wall display, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Q4 2020 Status report, a must-have security tool from OpenBSD, Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence, FreeBSD Wall Display Computer, etymology of command-line tools, GhostBSD 21.01.15 Release Notes, and more.
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387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio
January 28th, 2021 | 43 mins 11 secs
acm, association of computing machinery, berkeley, broadcasting, bsd, cabin fever, code vicious, coding, curl, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, obs, open broadcaster studio, openbsd, operating system, os, password, password manager, queue, release, self-hosting, shell, software, tip of the day, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
GNN's tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home, Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD, Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS, Dan's CURL tip of the Day, List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD, and more
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386: Aye, 386!
January 21st, 2021 | 37 mins
berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, firewall, firewalling, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, package source, pkgsrc, raspberry pi, release, rpi, shell, software, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vlan, vnet, zfs, zpool
Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more
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385: Wireguard VPN mesh
January 14th, 2021 | 34 mins 28 secs
berkeley, bsd, cryptpad, dataset, debugger, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, history, howto, interview, lldb, llvm, mesh, netbsd, office suite, openbsd, operating system, os, release, shell, software, sponsor, sponsoring, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vpn, web, web office, wine, wireguard, zfs, zpool
Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more.
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384: In memoriam
January 7th, 2021 | 35 mins
allen briggs, automated, berkeley, bsd, contributions, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, f7 plus, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, memorial, multi-volume, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs 2, operating system, os, ports, release, scholarship, shell, software, teclast, tracking, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more.
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383: Scale the tail
December 31st, 2020 | 43 mins 12 secs
berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, migration, monitoring, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, release, remote process, remote process plugin, shell, software, tailscale, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achieved, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more
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382: BSDNow Q&A 2020
December 24th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of BSDNow.
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381: Shell origins
December 17th, 2020 | 41 mins 57 secs
arisblubsd, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, midnightbsd 2.0, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense 20.7.5, origin, os, plan 9, release, report, shell, software, status, status report, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
The Origin of the Shell, Return to Plan 9, ArisbluBSD: Why a new BSD?, OPNsense 20.7.5 released, Midnight BSD 2.0 Release Status, HardenedBSD November 2020 Status Report, and more.