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

  • 230: Your questions, Part III

    January 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 56 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We provide you with updates to Spectre and Meltdown from various BSD projects, a review of TrueOS from Linux, how to set up FreeBSD on ThinkPad x240, and a whole bunch of beastie bits.

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    229: The Meltdown of Spectre

    January 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 48 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We review Meltdown and Spectre responses from various BSD projects, show you how to run CentOS with bhyve, GhostBSD 11.1 is out, and we look at the case against the fork syscall.

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    228: The Spectre of Meltdown

    January 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 51 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We review the information about Spectre & Meltdown thus far, we look at NetBSD memory sanitizer progress, Postgres on ZFS & show you a bit about NomadBSD.

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    227: The long core dump

    January 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 31 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We walk through dumping a PS4 kernel in only 6 days, tell you the news that NetBSD 7.1.1 has been released, details on how to run FreeBSD on a Thinkpad T470, and there’s progress in OpenBSD’s pledge.

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    226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List

    December 27th, 2017  |  2 hrs 7 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We read the FreeBSD Q3 status report, explore good and bad syscalls, list GOG Games for OpenBSD, and show you what devmatch can do.

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    225: The one true OS

    December 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 47 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH.

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    224: The Bus Factor

    December 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 40 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We try to answer what happens to an open source project after a developers death, we tell you about the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley, we have an update to the NetBSD Thread sanitizer, and show how to use use cabal on OpenBSD

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    223: Compile once, debug twice

    December 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 51 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap, and network manager control in OpenBSD

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    222: How Netflix works

    November 29th, 2017  |  2 hrs 7 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We take a look at two-faced Oracle, cover a FAMP installation, how Netflix works the complex stuff, and show you who the patron of yak shaving is.

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    221: BSD in Taiwan

    November 22nd, 2017  |  1 hr 56 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    Allan reports on his trip to BSD Taiwan, new versions of Lumina and GhostBSD are here, a bunch of OpenBSD p2k17 hackathon reports.

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    220: Opening ZFS in 2017

    November 15th, 2017  |  1 hr 54 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We have a first PS4 kernel exploit, the long awaited OpenZFS devsummit report by Allan, DragonflyBSD 5.0 is out, we show you vmadm to manage jails, and parallel processing with Unix tools.

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    219: We love the ARC

    November 8th, 2017  |  2 hrs 10 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    Papers we love: ARC by Bryan Cantrill, SSD caching adventures with ZFS, OpenBSD full disk encryption setup, and a Perl5 Slack Syslog BSD daemon.