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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86: Business as Usual
April 22nd, 2015 | 1 hr 44 mins
binpatch-ng, broadwell, bsd, business, consulting, dragonflybsd, enterprise, freebsd, freenas, guide, howto, interview, it, m:tier, mtier, nas4free, netbsd, netflix, openbsd, openup, packages, pcbsd, stable, support, tls, tutorial
Coming up this time on the show, we'll be chatting with Antoine Jacoutot about how M:Tier uses BSD in their business. After that, we'll be discussing the different release models across the BSDs, and which style we like the most. As always, answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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85: PIE in the Sky
April 15th, 2015 | 1 hr 20 mins
alix, apu, aslr, binary, bsd, clang, dragonflybsd, dynamic, freebsd, fuzzing, guide, hammer2, howto, interview, linking, llvm, netbsd, openbsd, opnsense, oracle, pcbsd, pcengines, pf, pie, position-independent executable, security, solaris, static, tutorial, zfs
This time on the show, we'll be talking with Pascal Stumpf about static PIE in the upcoming OpenBSD release. He'll tell us what types of attacks it prevents, and why it's such a big deal. We've also got answers to questions from you in the audience and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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84: pkg remove freebsd-update
April 8th, 2015 | 1 hr 14 mins
asiabsdcon, bsd, dom0, domu, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freebsd-update, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, packaging base, pcbsd, pkg, pkgng, poudriere, presentation, tutorial, xen
On this week's mini-episode, we'll be talking with Baptiste Daroussin about packaging the FreeBSD base system with pkgng. Is this the best way going forward, or are we getting dangerously close to being Linux-like? We'll find out, and also get to a couple of your emails while we're at it, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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83: woN DSB
April 1st, 2015 | 1 hr 4 mins
april fools, asiabsdcon, backups, bsd, cloud, dragonflybsd, dropbox, eurobsdcon, foundation, freebsd, fretbsd, guide, howto, httpd, interview, netbsd, newsletter, openbsd, owncloud, pcbsd, prank, tutorial
Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Kamila Součková, a Google intern. She's been working on the FreeBSD pager daemon, and also tells us about her initial experiences trying out BSD and going to a conference. As always, all the week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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82: SSL in the Wild
March 25th, 2015 | 1 hr 28 mins
2015, bsd, dragonflybsd, emacs, eurobsdcon, freak attack, freebsd, gource, guide, hardkernel, heartbleed, howto, interview, libressl, mg, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, pcbsd, pkgng, ports, poudriere, tls, tutorial
Coming up this week, we'll be chatting with Bernard Spil about wider adoption of LibreSSL in other communities. He's been doing a lot of work with FreeBSD ports specifically, but also working with upstream projects. As usual, all this weeks news and answers to your questions, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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81: Puffy in a Box
March 18th, 2015 | 1 hr 26 mins
2015, asiabsdcon, autofs, bsd, calyptix, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gateway, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, openiked, opnsense, pcbsd, pfsense, router, smb, tor, tutorial, vpn
We're back from AsiaBSDCon! This week on the show, we'll be talking to Lawrence Teo about how Calyptix uses OpenBSD in their line of commercial routers. They're getting BSD in the hands of Windows admins who don't even realize it. We also have all this week's news and answer to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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80: The PC-BSD Tour II
March 11th, 2015 | 1 hr 20 mins
2015, anniversary, asiabsdcon, boot environments, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freebsd foundation, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pkgng, president, tour, tutorial, walkthrough, zfs
We're away at AsiaBSDCon this week, but we've still got a packed episode for you. First up is a sequel to the "PC-BSD tour" segment from a while back, highlighting how ZFS boot environments work. After that, Justin Gibbs joins us to talk about the FreeBSD foundation's 15th anniversary. We'll return next week with a normal episode of BSD Now - which is of course, the place to B.. SD.
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79: Just Add QEMU
March 4th, 2015 | 1 hr 24 mins
arm, asiabsdcon 2015, browser, bsd, dragonflybsd, exploit, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, mips, netbsd, openbsd, packages, pcbsd, poudriere, qemu, scale13x, tails, tor, tutorial, w^m
Coming up this time on the show, we'll be talking to Sean Bruno. He's been using poudriere and QEMU to cross compile binary packages, and has some interesting stories to tell about it. We've also got answers to viewer-submitted questions and all this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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78: From the Foundation (Part 2)
February 25th, 2015 | 1 hr 9 mins
bsd, charity, core infrastructure initiative, donations, dragonflybsd, freebsd, funding, gsoc, guide, hackathon, howto, interview, lenovo, linux foundation, netbsd, openbsd, openbsd foundation, openssh, opnsense, pcbsd, relayd, soekris, superfish, tutorial
This week we continue our two-part series on the activities of various BSD foundations. Ken Westerback joins us today to talk all about the OpenBSD foundation and what it is they do. We've also got answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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77: Noah's L2ARC
February 18th, 2015 | 1 hr 26 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, illumos, interview, libressl, m0n0wall, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openzfs, opnsense, pcbsd, raid, rng, smartos, solaris, tutorial, zfs
This week on the show, we'll be chatting with Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about what's new in the world of OpenZFS. After that, we're starting a new tutorial series on submitting your first patch. All the latest BSD news and answers to your emails, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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76: Time for a Change
February 11th, 2015 | 1 hr 29 mins
afl-fuzz, bhws, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, ike, interview, ipsec, netbsd, ntimed, ntp, ntpd, openbsd, openiked, openntpd, opensmtpd, openvpn, pcbsd, ssh, stratum, time keeping, tor, tunneling, tutorial
This week, we'll be talking to Henning Brauer about OpenNTPD and its recently revived portable version. After that, we'll be discussing different ways to securely tunnel your traffic: specifically OpenVPN, IPSEC, SSH and Tor. All that and the latest news, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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75: From the Foundation (Part 1)
February 4th, 2015 | 1 hr 25 mins
banana pi, bsd, donations, dovecot, dragonflybsd, ed25519, foundation, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, libressl, mail server, netbsd, openbsd, opensmtpd, opnsense, pcbsd, spamassassin, ssh, t400, tutorial
This week on the show, we'll be starting a two-part series detailing the activities of various BSD foundations. Ed Maste from the FreeBSD foundation will be joining us this time, and we'll talk about what all they've been up to lately. All this week's news and answers to viewer-submitted questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.