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

  • 110: - Firmware Fights

    October 7th, 2015  |  1 hr 36 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on BSDNow, we get to hear all of Allans post EuroBSDCon wrap-up and a great interview with Benno Rice from Isilon. We got to discuss some of the pain of doing major forklift upgrades, and why your business should track -CURRENT.

  • 109: Impish BSD

    September 30th, 2015  |  55 mins 12 secs
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week, we have a great interview with Warner Losh of the FreeBSD project! We will be discussing everything from automatic kernel module loading, IO scheduling and of course NanoBSD.

  • 108: ServeUp BSD

    September 23rd, 2015  |  1 hr 18 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week on the show, Allan is heading to Sweden, but we have a great interview with Andrew Pantyukhin to bring you. We will be discussing everything from contributions to FreeBSD, which technologies worked best in the datacenter, config management and more.

  • 107: In their midst

    September 16th, 2015  |  1 hr 26 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

    This week, we are going to be talking with Aaron Poffenberger, who has much to share about his first-hand experience in infiltrating Linux conferences with BSD-goodness.

  • 106: Multipath TCP

    September 9th, 2015  |  1 hr 7 mins
    ..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, multipath, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tcp, tutorial

    This week, we have Nigel Williams here to bring us all sorts of info about Multipath TCP, what it is, how it works and the ongoing effort to bring it into FreeBSD. All that and of course the latest BSD news coming your way, right now!

  • 105: Virginia BSD Assembly

    September 2nd, 2015  |  1 hr 6 mins
    asiabsdcon, bhyve, bsd, bsdcan, conference, darwin, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, howto, hypervisor, interview, launchd, libressl, mach, meetbsd, multipath, netbsd, nextbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tame, tcp, tutorial, vbsdcon, verisign, vmm

    It's already our two-year anniversary! This time on the show, we'll be chatting with Scott Courtney, vice president of infrastructure engineering at Verisign, about this year's vBSDCon. What's it have to offer in an already-crowded BSD conference space? We'll find out.

  • 104: Beverly Hills 25519

    August 26th, 2015  |  1 hr 20 mins
    aes, bafug, bsd, cbc, chacha20, chacha20-poly1305, cryptography, curve25519, dragonflybsd, ed25519, edgerouter lite, erl, freebsd, gcm, guide, hmac, howto, interview, md5, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, openssl, pcbsd, tame, tutorial

    Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking with Damien Miller of the OpenSSH team. Their 7.0 release has some major changes, including phasing out older crypto and changing one of the defaults that might surprise you.

  • 103: Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens

    August 19th, 2015  |  2 hrs 27 secs
    bsd, dragonflybsd, dtrace, freebsd, guide, howto, illumos, interview, joyent, multipath, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, opensolaris, pcbsd, performance, pkgsrc, solaris, tcp, tutorial, zfs

    Allan's away at BSDCam this week, but we've still got an exciting episode for you. We sat down with Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent, to talk about a wide variety of topics: dtrace, ZFS, pkgsrc, containers and much more. This is easily our longest interview to date!

  • 102: May Contain ZFS

    August 12th, 2015  |  1 hr 8 mins
    authentication, bhyve, bsd, containers, docker, dragonflybsd, ezjail, freebsd, gateway, guide, howto, interview, iocage, ipsec, jails, libressl, lxc, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, router, tutorial, uefi, vpn

    This week on the show, we'll be talking with Peter Toth. He's got a jail management system called "iocage" that's been getting pretty popular recently. Have we finally found a replacement for ezjail? We'll see how it stacks up.

  • 101: I'll Fix Everything

    August 5th, 2015  |  1 hr 33 mins
    backups, bsd, bsdcan, c2k15, cii, dragonflybsd, firewall, freebsd, gateway, guide, hackathon, howto, interview, netbsd, octeon, offsite, openbsd, pcbsd, pf, quakecon, reddit, server, tutorial, valleyview, zfs

    Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Adrian Chadd about an infamous reddit thread he made. With a title like "what would you like to see in FreeBSD?" and hundreds of responses, well, we've got a lot to cover...

  • 100: Straight from the Src

    July 29th, 2015  |  1 hr 13 mins
    bsd, c2k15, delphix, dos, dragonflybsd, exploit, freebsd, guide, hackathon, howto, illumos, interview, joyent, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openssh, openzfs, pam, pcbsd, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, portability, smartos, solaris, tcp, tutorial, zfs

    We've finally reached a hundred episodes, and this week we'll be talking to Sebastian Wiedenroth about pkgsrc. Though originally a NetBSD project, now it runs pretty much everywhere, and he even runs a conference about it!

  • 99: BSD Gnow

    July 22nd, 2015  |  1 hr 19 mins
    bsd, capsicum, doas, docker, dragonflybsd, ezjail, flashrd, freebsd, gnome, gnome shell, gnome3, guide, howto, interview, iocage, nanobsd, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, puns i will regret forever, resflash, sudo, tame, tutorial

    This week we'll be talking with Ryan Lortie and Baptiste Daroussin about GNOME on BSD. Upstream development is finally treating the BSDs as a first class citizen, so we'll hear about how the recent porting efforts have been since.