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

  • 302: Contention Reduction

    June 12th, 2019  |  1 hr 9 mins
    argon2, bsd, clang, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, fedora, fnaify, freebsd, gaming, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hummingboard, lazyboi, linux, markov, netbsd, openbsd, szjaller, trident, trueos, tutorial, ufs, vmctl, wine, zfs

    DragonFlyBSD's kernel optimizations pay off, differences between OpenBSD and Linux, NetBSD 2019 Google Summer of Code project list, Reducing that contention, fnaify 1.3 released, vmctl(8): CLI syntax changes, and things that Linux distributions should not do when packaging.

  • 301: GPU Passthrough

    June 5th, 2019  |  45 mins 34 secs
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, p3, pfsense, trident, trueos, tutorial

    GPU passthrough on bhyve, confusion with used/free disk space on ZFS, OmniOS Community Edition, pfSense 2.4.4 Release p3, NetBSD 8.1 RC1, FreeNAS as your Server OS, and more.

  • 300: The Big Three

    May 30th, 2019  |  1 hr 14 mins
    bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, firmware, freebsd, freenas, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openindiana, trident, trueos, tutorial, wireguard, zfs

    FreeBSD 11.3-beta 1 is out, BSDCan 2019 recap, OpenIndiana 2019.04 is out, Overview of ZFS Pools in FreeNAS, why open source firmware is important for security, a new Opnsense release, wireguard on OpenBSD, and more.

  • 299: The NAS Fleet

    May 22nd, 2019  |  52 mins 47 secs
    aix, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldb, nas, netbsd, openbsd, qemu, trident, true command, trueos, tutorial, unleashed, v7

    Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.

  • 298: BSD On The Road

    May 15th, 2019  |  52 mins 22 secs
    bsd, dragonflybsd, dtrace, ext2, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbsd, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, unleashed, vmm

    36 year old UFS bug fixed, a BSD for the road, automatic upgrades with OpenBSD, DTrace ext2fs support in FreeBSD, Dedicated SSH tunnel user, upgrading VMM VMs to OpenBSD 6.5, and more.

  • 297: Dragonfly In The Wild

    May 9th, 2019  |  40 mins 16 secs
    bsd, dragonflybsd, forwarding, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, iocell, netbsd, openbsd, solaris, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, zol

    FreeBSD ZFS vs. ZoL performance, Dragonfly 5.4.2 has been release, containing web services with iocell, Solaris 11.4 SRU8, Problem with SSH Agent forwarding, OpenBSD 6.4 to 6.5 upgrade guide, and more.

  • 296: It’s Alive: OpenBSD 6.5

    May 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min
    bsd, dns, dragonflybsd, ed, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, libressl, michael lucas, netbsd, openbsd, pkgsrc, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

    OpenBSD 6.5 has been released, mount ZFS datasets anywhere, help test upcoming NetBSD 9 branch, LibreSSL 2.9.1 is available, Bail Bond Denied Edition of FreeBSD Mastery: Jails, and one reason ed(1) was a good editor back in the days in this week’s episode.

  • 295: Fun with funlinkat()

    April 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    Introducing funlinkat(), an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse, using NetBSD on a raspberry pi, ZFS encryption is still under development, Rump kernel servers and clients tutorial, Snort on OpenBSD 6.4, and more.

  • 294: The SSH Tarpit

    April 18th, 2019  |  57 mins 3 secs
    ansible, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, nmake, openbsd, plan9, rdist, solobsd, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, wireguard

    A PI-powered Plan 9 cluster, an SSH tarpit, rdist for when Ansible is too much, falling in love with OpenBSD again, how I created my first FreeBSD port, the Tilde Institute of OpenBSD education and more.

  • 293: Booking Jails

    April 11th, 2019  |  1 hr 16 mins
    books, bsd, bsdcan, dragonflybsd, ezjail, freebsd, gelato, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, iocage, jails, netbsd, openbsd, sponsoring, sudo, trident, trueos, tutorial, user group, writing

    This week we have a special episode with a Michael W. Lucas interview about his latest jail book that’s been released. We’re talking all things jails, writing, book sponsoring, the upcoming BSDCan 2019 conference, and more.

  • 292: AsiaBSDcon 2019 Recap

    April 4th, 2019  |  1 hr 30 mins
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    FreeBSD Q4 2018 status report, the GhostBSD alternative, the coolest 90s laptop, OpenSSH 8.0 with quantum computing resistant keys exchange, project trident: 18.12-U8 is here, and more.

  • 291: Storage Changes Software

    March 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 12 mins
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

    Storage changing software, what makes Unix special, what you need may be “pipeline +Unix commands”, running a bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL, the ultimate guide to memorable tech talks, light-weight contexts, and more.