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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61: IPSECond Wind
October 29th, 2014 | 1 hr 14 mins
5.6, aes, book of pf, bsd, chacha20, dragonflybsd, encryption, freebsd, freenas, gcm, guide, howto, ike, infosec, interview, ipsec, libressl, meetbsd, netbsd, netsec, openbsd, openhttpd, openiked, opensmtpd, owncloud, pcbsd, tutorial
This week on the show, we sat down with John-Mark Gurney to talk about modernizing FreeBSD's IPSEC stack. We'll learn what he's adding, what needed to be fixed and how we'll benefit from the changes. As always, answers to your emails and all of this week's news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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60: Don't Buy a Router
October 22nd, 2014 | 1 hr 8 mins
bhyve, bsd, bsd router project, bsdrp, devroom, dragonflybsd, firewall, fosdem, freebsd, freenas, gateway, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, nanobsd, nas4free, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pfsense, router, tutorial
This week on the show we're joined by Olivier Cochard-Labbé, the creator of both FreeNAS and the BSD Router Project! We'll be discussing what the BSD Router Project is, what it's for and where it's going. All this week's headlines and answers to viewer-submitted questions, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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59: BSDって聞いたことある？
October 15th, 2014 | 1 hr 20 mins
allbsd, asiabsdcon, bsd, conference, daichi goto, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, flashrd, freebsd, freenas, guide, hiroki sato, howto, interview, japan, japanese, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pfsense, tutorial, xdc2014, 佐藤広生, 後藤大地, 日本語
This week on the show we'll be talking with Hiroki Sato about the status of BSD in Japan. We also get to hear about how he got on the core team, and we just might find out why NetBSD is so popular over there! Answers to all your emails, the latest news, and even a brand new segment, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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58: Behind the Masq
October 8th, 2014 | 1 hr 15 mins
ad blocking, adblock plus, advertisements, arm, bsd, differences, dnsmasq, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, linux, linux vs bsd, malware, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pixelserv, tutorial, voxer, whatsapp
Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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57: The Daemon's Apprentice
October 1st, 2014 | 1 hr 30 mins
2014, bash, bsd, bsdrp, community, developers, devsummit, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, exploit, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, linux, mentoring, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, pfsense, ports, presentation, shellshock, steve wills, talk, tutorial
We're back from EuroBSDCon! This week we'll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you've ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it's actually really easy to get involved. We've also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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56: Beastly Infrastructure
September 24th, 2014 | 57 mins 5 secs
2014, bsd, cluster, datacenter, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, howto, infrastructure, internal, interview, jails, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, servers, ssh, tutorial, web
This week we're on the other side of the Atlantic, attending EuroBSDCon. For now, we've got an awesome interview with Peter Wemm about the FreeBSD web cluster and infrastructure. It's an inside look that you probably won't hear about anywhere else! We'll also get to a couple of your emails today, and be back next week with all the usual goodies, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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55: The Promised WLAN
September 17th, 2014 | 1 hr 19 mins
adrian chadd, aircrack-ng, apu, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, headless, interview, jails, kismet, libressl, monitor mode, netbsd, netgate, openbsd, openssl, packet injection, pcbsd, pfsense, qemu, remote, systemd, wifi, wireless, zfs
Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Adrian Chadd about all things wireless, his experience with FreeBSD on various laptop hardware and a whole lot more. As usual, we've got the latest news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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54: Luminary Environment
September 10th, 2014 | 1 hr 18 mins
banana pi, bsd, desktop environment, dragonflybsd, floating, freebsd, gnome3, graphical user interface, guide, howto, ids, interview, kde4, kde5, linux vs bsd, lumina, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, portroach, portscout, qt5, raspberry pi, suricata, systemd, tiling, tutorial, vax, vaxstation, window manager
This week on the show, it's all about Lumina. We'll be giving you a visual walkthrough of the new BSD-exclusive desktop environment, as well as chatting with the main developer. There's also answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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53: It's HAMMER Time
September 3rd, 2014 | 1 hr 18 mins
apache, bsd, cluster, dragonfly, dragonflybsd, dubstep, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hammer, hammer fs, hammerfs, howto, interview, ipsec, lumina, matthew dillon, netbsd, nginx, openbsd, openhttpd, party, pcbsd, pfsense, rave, rcctl, reyk floeter, tutorial, webserver, zfs
It's our one year anniversary episode, and we'll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver - why it was created and where it's going. After that, we'll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly's HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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52: Reverse Takeover
August 27th, 2014 | 1 hr 14 mins
address space layout randomization, aslr, bind, bsd, dns server, dragonflybsd, encryption, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, nginx, nsd, openbsd, os x, pcbsd, pfsense, pie, position-independent executables, reverse tunnel, shawn webb, ssh, time machine, tunnel, tutorial, unbound
Coming up this week, we'll be chatting with Shawn Webb about his recent work with ASLR and PIE in FreeBSD. After that, we'll be showing you how you can create a reverse SSH tunnel to a system behind a firewall... how sneaky. Answers to your emails plus the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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51: Engineering Nginx
August 20th, 2014 | 1 hr 27 mins
aircrack-ng, atheros, autofs, automounter, bsd, bsdcan, cloud computing, defcon, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hackathon, hosting solution, howto, httpd, https, interview, kismet, netbsd, nginx, openbsd, openssh, pcbsd, spamd, ssl, tls, tutorial, webserver, wifi, wireless, xinuos
Coming up on the show, we'll be showing you how to set up a secure, SSL-only webserver. There's also an interview with Eric Le Blan about community participation and FreeBSD's role in the commercial server space. All that and more, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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50: VPN, My Dear Watson
August 13th, 2014 | 1 hr 27 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, exploit mitigation, freebsd, freenas, freenas mini, guide, howto, interview, ixsystems, kansai, libressl, lzo, meetbsd, nas, netbsd, network attached storage, openbsd, openssl, openvpn, pcbsd, rump kernels, security, ssh, tls, tunnel, tutorial, vpn, vps, x11, xenocara, xorg, zfs
It's our 50th episode, and we're going to show you how to protect your internet traffic with a BSD-based VPN. We'll also be talking to Robert Watson, of the FreeBSD core team, about security research, exploit mitigation and a whole lot more. The latest news and answers to all of your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.