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

  • 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.

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    218: A KRACK in the WiFi

    November 1st, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE is here, more EuroBSDcon travel notes, the KRACK attack, ZFS and DTrace on NetBSD, and pfsense 2.4.

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    217: Your questions, part II

    October 25th, 2017  |  1 hr 42 mins
    bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    OpenBSD 6.2 is here, style arguments, a second round of viewer interview questions, how to set CPU affinity for FreeBSD jails, containers on FreeNAS & more!

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    216: Software is storytelling

    October 18th, 2017  |  1 hr 49 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    EuroBSDcon trip report, how to secure OpenBSD’s LDAP server, ZFS channel programs in FreeBSD HEAD and why software is storytelling.

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    215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps

    October 11th, 2017  |  1 hr 33 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We look at how Netflix serves 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance, read through the 2nd quarter FreeBSD status report, show you a freebsd-update speedup via nginx reverse proxy, and customize your OpenBSD default shell.

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    214: The history of man, kind

    October 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    The costs of open sourcing a project are explored, we discover why PS4 downloads are so slow, delve into the history of UNIX man pages, and more.

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    213: The French CONnection

    September 27th, 2017  |  1 hr 31 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We recap EuroBSDcon in Paris, tell the story behind a pf PR, and show you how to do screencasting with OpenBSD.

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    212: The Solaris Eclipse

    September 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 40 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We recap vBSDcon, give you the story behind a PF EN, reminisce in Solaris memories, and show you how to configure different DEs on FreeBSD.