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

  • 134: Marking up the Ports tree

    March 24th, 2016  |  2 hrs 5 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on the show, Allan and I have gotten a bit more sleep since AsiaBSDCon, which is excellent since there is a LOT of news to cover. That plus our interview with Ports SecTeam member Mark Felder. So keep it

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    133: The Tokyo Debrief

    March 16th, 2016  |  1 hr 16 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are back from AsiaBSDCon and we have an interview with Brad Davis about the new “Packaging Base” call-for-testing. We’ll be sharing our thoughts and stories on how the week

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    132: Scaling up with BSD

    March 8th, 2016  |  1 hr 4 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week, Allan and I are away at AsiaBSDCon! (If you aren’t there, you are missing out). We will be back with a live episode next week. However, we’ve been asked for Allan to tell us about ScaleEngine’s

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    131: BSD behind the chalkboard

    March 2nd, 2016  |  1 hr 41 mins
    dragonflybsd, freebsd, howto, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on the show, we have an interview with Jamie

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    130: Store all the Things | BSD Now 130

    February 24th, 2016  |  2 hrs 10 mins
    asiabsdcon, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, news, openbsd, pcbsd, podcast ..., storage, summit, tutorial, zfs

    This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from the Storage Summit in Silicon Valley! We are going to get his thoughts on how the conference went, plus bring you the latest ZFS info discussed. That plus the usual BSD news is

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    129: Synthesize all the Things!

    February 17th, 2016  |  1 hr 43 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    Coming up this week, we will be talking to John Marino about his work on the ports-mgmt utility “Synth” and the cross-pollination between DragonFly and FreeBSD. That plus the latest news and your email here on

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    128: The State of BSD

    February 10th, 2016  |  1 hr 30 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on BSDNow, we interview Nick Wolff about how FreeBSD is used across the State of Ohio and some of the specific technology used. That, plus the latest news is coming your way right now on BSDNow, the place to

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    127: DNS, Black Holes & Willem

    February 3rd, 2016  |  2 hrs 9 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    Today on the show, we welcome Allan back from FOSSDEM, and enjoy an interview with Willem about DNS and MTU Black Holes. That plus all the weeks news, keep it turned here to BSD

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    126: Illuminating the future on PC-BSD

    January 27th, 2016  |  1 hr 48 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on BSDNow, we are going to be talking to Ken Moore about the Lumina desktop environment, where it stands now & looking ahead. Then Allan turns the tables & interviews both Kris & Ken about new ongoings in PC-BSD land. Stay tuned, lots of exciting show is coming your way right now on BSDNow, the place to B...SD!

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    125: DevSummits, Core and the Baldwin

    January 20th, 2016  |  2 hrs 13 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on the show, we will be talking to FreeBSD developer and former core-team member John Baldwin about a variety of topics, including running a DevSummit, everything you needed or wanted to know. Coming up right now on BSDNow, the place to B...SD.

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    124: Get your engine(x) started!

    January 13th, 2016  |  1 hr 15 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on the show, we have a very full news roster to rundown, plus an oldie, but goodie with Igor of the nginx project. That plus all your questions and feedback,

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    123: ZFS in the trenches

    January 6th, 2016  |  2 hrs 1 min
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on BSDNow, we will be talking shop with Josh Paetzel of FreeNAS fame, hearing about his best do’s and do-nots of using ZFS in production. Also, a quick