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

  • 206: To hier is UNIX

    August 9th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    Lumina Desktop 1.3 is out, we show you a Plasma 5 on FreeBSD tutorial, explore randomness, and more.

  • 205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1

    August 2nd, 2017  |  1 hr 13 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is out, we look at building at BSD home router, how to be your own OpenBSD VPN provider, and find that glob matching can be simple and fast.

  • 204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD

    July 26th, 2017  |  1 hr 21 mins
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    In this episode, we clear up the myth about scrub of death, look at Wayland and Weston on FreeBSD, Intel QuickAssist is here, and we check out OpenSMTP on OpenBSD.

  • 203: For the love of ZFS

    July 19th, 2017  |  1 hr 57 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    This week on BSD Now, we clear up some ZFS FUD, show you how to write a NetBSD kernel module, and cover DragonflyBSD on the desktop.

  • 202: Brokering Bind

    July 12th, 2017  |  1 hr 16 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    We look at an OpenBSD setup on a new laptop, revel in BSDCan trip reports, and visit daemons and friendly ninjas.

  • 201: Skip grep, use awk

    July 5th, 2017  |  2 hrs 23 mins
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    In which we interview a unicorn, FreeNAS 11.0 is out, show you how to run Nextcloud in a FreeBSD jail, and talk about the connection between oil changes and software patches.

  • 200: Getting Scrubbed to Death

    June 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 34 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    The NetBSD 8.0 release process is underway, we try to measure the weight of an electron, and look at stack clashing.

  • 199: Read the source, KARL

    June 21st, 2017  |  1 hr 22 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    FreeBSD 11.1-Beta1 is out, we discuss Kernel address randomized link (KARL), and explore the benefits of daily OpenBSD source code reading

  • 198: BSDNorth or You can’t handle the libtruth

    June 14th, 2017  |  2 hrs 14 mins
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    This episode gives you the full dose of BSDCan 2017 recap as well as a blog post on conference speaking advice.

  • 197: Relaying the good news

    June 7th, 2017  |  1 hr 43 mins
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    We’re at BSDCan, but we have an interview with Michael W. Lucas which you don’t want to miss.

  • 196: PostgreZFS

    May 31st, 2017  |  1 hr 46 mins
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    This week on BSD Now, we review the EuroBSDcon schedule, we explore the mysteries of Docker on OpenBSD, and show you how to run PostgreSQL on ZFS.

  • 195: I don’t WannaCry

    May 24th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

    A pledge of love to OpenBSD, combating ransomware like WannaCry with OpenZFS, and using PFsense to maximize your non-gigabit Internet connection