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
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98: Our Code is Your Code
July 15th, 2015 | 1 hr 13 mins
aarch64, arm64, bsd, bsd license, bsdcan, business, c720, chromebook, copyfree, copyleft, copyright, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gpl, guide, howto, interview, litebsd, mit, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tcpdump, tutorial, xinuos
Coming up this time on the show, we'll be talking with the CTO of Xinuos, David Meyer, about their adoption of FreeBSD. We also discuss the BSD license model for businesses and the benefits of contributing changes back.
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97: Big Network, SmallWall
July 8th, 2015 | 1 hr 18 mins
alix, apu, bsd, containers, docker, dragonflybsd, edgerouter, encryption, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, lite, m0n0wall, mini-itx, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pcbsd, pcengines, pfsense, replication, router, smallwall, soekris, tutorial, zfs
Coming up this time on the show, we'll be chatting with Lee Sharp. He's recently revived the m0n0wall codebase, now known as SmallWall, and we'll find out what the future holds for this new addition to the BSD family. Answers to your emails and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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96: Lost Technology
July 1st, 2015 | 1 hr 13 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, embedded, file, freebsd, guide, howto, httpd, interview, japanese, leap second, multithreading, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, openzfs, osc, pcbsd, pf, smp, solaris, tutorial, users group, zfs
Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Jun Ebihara about some lesser-known CPU architectures in NetBSD. He'll tell us what makes these old (and often forgotten) machines so interesting. As usual, we've also got answers to your emails and all this week's news on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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95: Bitrot Group Therapy
June 24th, 2015 | 1 hr 15 mins
7.0, afl, bitrot, bsd, bsdcan 2015, dovecot, dragonflybsd, ecommerce, freebsd, fuzzing, groupon, guide, howto, httpd, interview, mandoc, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, pcbsd, pkgng, tutorial, zfs, zpool
This time on the show, we'll be talking some ZFS with Sean Chittenden. He's been using it on FreeBSD at Groupon, and has some interesting stories about how it's saved his data. Answers to your emails and all of this week's headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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94: Builder's Insurance
June 17th, 2015 | 1 hr 25 mins
aslr, bhyve, bsd, bsdcan, distributed, dpb, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, m0n0wall, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, packages, pbulk, pcbsd, pf, pfsense, ports, poudriere, smallwall, tutorial, xhyve, zfs
This week on the show, we'll be chatting with Marc Espie. He's recently added some additional security measures to dpb, OpenBSD's package building tool, and we'll find out why they're so important. We've also got all this week's news, answers to your emails and even a BSDCan wrap-up, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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93: Stacked in Our Favor
June 10th, 2015 | 1 hr 8 mins
bsd, bsdcan, capsicum, casper, chroot, containers, docker, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, network stack, openbsd, pcbsd, performance, privsep, systrace, tutorial
We're at BSDCan this week, but fear not! We've got a great interview with Sepherosa Ziehau, a DragonFly developer, about their network stack. After that, we'll be discussing different methods of containment and privilege separation. Assuming no polar bears eat us, we'll be back next week with more BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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92: BSD After Midnight
June 3rd, 2015 | 1 hr 7 mins
bsd, bsdcan, docker, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hammerfs, howto, interview, launchd, midnightbsd, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, patrol read, pcbsd, powershell, tutorial, zocker
Coming up this week, we'll be chatting with Lucas Holt, founder of MidnightBSD. It's a slightly lesser-known fork of FreeBSD, with a focus on easy desktop use. We'll find out what's different about it and why it was created. Answers to your emails and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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91: Vox Populi
May 27th, 2015 | 1 hr 12 mins
bsd, clang, cryptography, dm-crypt, dragonflybsd, freebsd, fsf, guide, hammer fs, howto, interview, lfnw, linuxfest northwest, llvm, luks, nagoya, netbsd, openbsd, openmp, osc, pcbsd, rms, tutorial
This week on the show, we've got something pretty different. We went to a Linux convention and asked various people if they've ever tried BSD and what they know about it. Stay tuned for that, all this week's news and, of course, answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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90: ZFS Armistice
May 20th, 2015 | 1 hr 13 mins
arm, bsd, bsdrp, capsicum, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, landshut, nas4free, netbsd, openbsd, openntpd, openzfs, pcbsd, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, rfc7539, systrace, tutorial, zfs, zfsonlinux, zpool
This time on the show, we'll be chatting with Jed Reynolds about ZFS. He's been using it extensively on a certain other OS, and we can both learn a bit about the other side's implementation. Answers to your questions and all this week's news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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89: Exclusive Disjunction
May 13th, 2015 | 1 hr 3 mins
2015, aslr, bitrig, bsd, dragonflybsd, edgerouter lite, exploit mitigation, freebsd, gcc, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, pcbsd, pie, presentations, security, ssp, stack smashing, talks, tutorial, vbsdcon, verisign, w^x
This week on the show, we'll be talking to Mike Larkin about various memory protections in OpenBSD. We'll cover recent WX improvements, SSP, ASLR, PIE and all kinds of acronyms! We've also got a bunch of news and answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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88: Below the Clouds
May 6th, 2015 | 1 hr 34 mins
5.7, browser bundle, bsd, capsicum, cloudabi, diversity, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gateway, guide, howto, interview, ipfw, libressl, netbsd, openbsd, openhrc, openntpd, opensmtpd, openssh, opnsense, pcbsd, router, tor, tor-bsd, tutorial, workpad z50
This time on the show, we'll be talking with Ed Schouten about CloudABI. It's a new application binary interface with a strong focus on isolation and restricted capabilities. As always, all this week's BSD news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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87: On the List
April 29th, 2015 | 1 hr 21 mins
aslr, bhyve, blacklistd, bsd, coreclr, dragonflybsd, duovero, efi, file, freebsd, gsoc, guide, gumstix, howto, interview, midnightbsd, netbsd, openbsd, pae, pcbsd, rdp, tutorial, w^x, windows
Coming up this time on the show, we'll be speaking with Christos Zoulas, a NetBSD security officer. He's got a new project called blacklistd, with some interesting possibilities for stopping bruteforce attacks. We've also got answers to your emails and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.