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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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.
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.