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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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.
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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.