BSD Now

A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD

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

  • 573: Kyua Graduation

    August 22nd, 2024  |  54 mins 18 secs
    backward compatibility, bell labs, berkeley, bsd, charlie root, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, email, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, human scale software, interview, jails, kyua, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, recreate, release, remote, shell, software, ssh, storage, test framework, testing, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, visual studio code, zfs, zpool

    What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?, Human Scale Software vs Open Source, How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14, Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?, Backward compatibility has real costs even for settings, Kyua graduates, and more

  • 572: Where's my backup?

    August 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 14 secs
    backup, berkeley, bridging networks, bsd, cli, code, computer security, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, for the people, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, manual update, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, overview, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, updating, utility, vi, vim, vps, vxlan, wireguard, workstation, zfs, zpool

    OpenBSD Workstation for the People, Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD, Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way, Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works, Where’s my backup?, Vi and Vim: A Brief Overview, and more

  • 571: Cloud Chaos

    August 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 9 mins
    40 years, berkeley, bsd, chaos, cli, cloud, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, efficiency, eurobsdcon schedule, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interactive, interview, jails, local-to-anchors, navigating, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, pf rules, ports, programming, quarterly release, release, release schedule, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, x window, zfs, zpool

    Navigating FreeBSD’s New Quarterly and Biennial Release Schedule, EuroBSDCon 2024 Schedule, From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, Local-to-anchors tables in PF rules, CloudBSD, and more

  • 570: RIP dhclient

    August 1st, 2024  |  58 mins 46 secs

    The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network, FreeBSD 14.1: What’s new, and how did we get here?, The Old Computer Challenge v4 (Olympics edition), MicroMac, a Macintosh for under £5, Adding a USB Port to the ThinkPad X1 Nano (the Hard Way), Reasons to use your shell's job control, RIP dhclient(8)

  • 569: The ZFS Pi

    July 25th, 2024  |  47 mins 37 secs
    berkeley, bsd, bsdcan 2024, checkpoints, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, enhancing, file disk images, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ipsec, ipv6, iso, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, plaintext, playlist, ports, practical, programming, raspberry pi, release, routing domains, shell, software, stability, storage, system logs, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, videos, vpn, zfs, zfs root, zpool

    Enhancing FreeBSD Stability With ZFS Pool Checkpoints, Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs, Initial playlist of 28 BSDCan Videos released, Installing FreeBSD 14 on Raspberry Pi 4B with ZFS root, A practical guide to VPNs, IPv6, routing domains and IPSEC, How to mount ISO or file disk images on OpenBSD, and more

  • 568: regreSSHion

    July 18th, 2024  |  54 mins 10 secs
    9p filesystem, 9pfs, berkeley, bsd, challenge, cli, code, csh, dataset, debugging, default, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, game of trees hub, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, improving, intel wifi, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, package cache, packages, ports, programming, regresshion, release, shell, software, ssh, storage, support, tcsh, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, vulnerability, zero to desktop, zfs, zpool

    regreSSHion vulnerability, Improving and debugging FreeBSDs Intel wifi support, FreeBSD adds an implementation of the 9P filesystem, FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge, Why and how to run your own FreeBSD package cache, Game of Trees Hub, Why Does FreeBSD Default to Csh/Tcsh, and more

  • 567: To the Core

    July 11th, 2024  |  41 mins 57 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cli, code, core.13, dataset, development, distribution, dmd, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, gotosocial, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, omnios, open source, openbsd, openindiana, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, qualcomm, release, replacement, shell, snapdragon elite x, software, ssh, storage, sudo, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

    SSH as a sudo replacement, Core.13 is Now In Office, Running GoToSocial on NetBSD, A DMD package for OpenIndiana, Adding more swap space to Omnios, OpenBSD adds initial support for Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X after 1 day, and more

  • 566: Open Source Excellence

    July 4th, 2024  |  56 mins 4 secs
    berkeley, bsd, case for the bsds, celebrating, cli, code, concern, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, freebsd day, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, linux vector packet processor, netbsd, open source, open source excellence, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, proxmox, release, rust, shell, snapshots, software, storage, tips and tricks, tools, trueos, tutorial, ufs, unix, upstream, utility, virtualization, zfs, zpool

    A Journey Through 31 Years of Open Source Excellence, Proxmox vs FreeBSD: Which Virtualization Host Performs Better?, Upstreaming FreeBSD Code to the Linux Vector Packet Processor Project, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Creating Snapshots With UFS, My Concern With Rust, or a Case for the BSD's, and more

  • 565: Secure by default

    June 27th, 2024  |  51 mins 29 secs
    berkeley, blocking access, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, extreme privacy setup, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, less unix philosophy, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, penalize undesirable behavior, pf, pinebook pro, ports, posix, programming, release, shell, software, storage, systemd, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

    NetBSD 10 on a Pinebook Pro, OpenBSD extreme privacy setup, Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy', Posix.1 2024 is out, Blocking Access From or to Specific Countries Using FreeBSD and Pf, and more.
    Date: 2024.06.17

  • 564: Computation Poems

    June 20th, 2024  |  51 mins 36 secs
    behavior, berkeley, bsd, cli, code, community, computation, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, native read-only root filesystem, netbsd, observium, open source, openbsd, openssh, operating system, os, packages, penalize, poem, ports, programming, release, report, result, shell, software, sshguard-pf, storage, survey, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

    Results from the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey Report, What is Computer Science? ~1967, Computation Poems, Old Info, but still good -- HOWTO: Set up and configure security/sshguard-pf, observium-freebsd-install, FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Native Read-Only Root File System, OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior, and more

  • 563: 14.1

    June 13th, 2024  |  49 mins 5 secs
    14.1, announcement, automatic, berkeley, bsd, chmod, chown, cli, code, dark-mode, dataset, development, dhcp6leased, dhcpv6-pd, distribution, dragonflybsd, dwm, feedback, filesystem, foss, freebsd, gateway, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, packages, ports, programming, protectli, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

    FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE Announcement, Automatic dark mode with OpenBSD and dwm, dhcp6leased(8) imported to -current, DHCPv6-PD - First steps by florian@, Replacing my OPNsense gateway hardware by a Protectli appliance, How to alter file owernship and permissions with a feedback information, and more

  • 562: All by myself

    June 6th, 2024  |  1 hr 13 mins
    berkeley, bsd, bsdcan, cli, code, coding, dataset, development, devsummit, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, neovim, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, paperless-ngx, ports, programming, release, reminder, schedule, shell, software, storage, syncthing, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool

    My personal BSDCan Devsummit and Schedule, Syncthing, Paperless-ngx, neovim, Things we always remind ourselves while coding, and more.