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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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.
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49: The PC-BSD Tour
August 6th, 2014 | 1 hr 22 mins
bafug, bhyve, bsd, dragonflybsd, foundation, freebsd, gui, guide, howto, intel nuc, interview, libressl, libvirt, netbsd, netmap, nuc, openbsd, opensmtpd, openssl, pcbsd, presentation, recording, rss, ssl, talk, tls, tutorial
Coming up this week on the show, we've got something special for you! We'll be giving you an in-depth look at all of the graphical PC-BSD utilities. That's right, BSD doesn't have to be commandline-only anymore! There's also the usual round of answers to your emails and all the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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48: Liberating SSL
July 30th, 2014 | 59 mins 52 secs
arc4random, book, bsd, comparison, disks, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freebsd mastery, geom, guide, howto, httpd, interview, intrinsic functions, libressl, linux, mandoc, netbsd, openbsd, openhttpd, openssh, openssl, pcbsd, pkgng, portable, presentation, prng, relayd, rng, security, status report, storage, talk, tutorial, ufs, web server, zfs, zfsguru
Coming up in this week's episode, we'll be talking with one of OpenBSD's newest developers - Brent Cook - about the portable version of LibreSSL and how it's developed. We've also got some information about the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL you might not know. The latest news and your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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47: DES Challenge IV
July 23rd, 2014 | 1 hr 32 mins
aes, bsd, bsdcan, cheri, cryptography, dag-erling smørgrav, des, dragonflybsd, encryption, firewall, freebsd, guide, hackathon, howto, interview, ixsystems, libressl, linux, multithreading, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, packet filter, pcbsd, pf, prng, qemu, security, smp, tarsnap, tutorial, zfs
Coming up this week on the show! We've got an interview with Dag-Erling Smørgrav, the current security officer of FreeBSD, to discuss what exactly being in such an important position is like. The latest news, answers to your emails and even some LibreSSL drama, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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46: Network Iodometry
July 16th, 2014 | 1 hr 45 mins
2014, 9.3, bsd, bypass, bypassing, detection, dns, dragonfly bsd, encryption, eurobsdcon, firewall, freebsd, freenas, guide, howto, ids, interview, iodine, multithreaded, netbsd, openbsd, pc-bsd, pf, pkgng, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, portmgr, presentations, smp, ssh, talks, tunnel, tutorial, two factor authentication, vpn
We're back, and this week we'll be showing you how to tunnel out of a restrictive network using only DNS queries. We also sat down with Bryan Drewery, from the FreeBSD portmgr team, to talk all about their building cluster and some recent changes. All the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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45: ZFS War Stories
July 9th, 2014 | 46 mins 28 secs
array, bsd, bsdcam, dragonflybsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, hardware, high availability, howto, interview, iscsi, ixsystems, netbsd, open-zfs, openbsd, openzfs, pcbsd, raid, raid-z, tutorial, zfs, zpool
This week Allan is at BSDCam in the UK, so we'll be back with a regular episode next week. For now though, here's an interview with Josh Paetzel about some crazy experiences he's had with ZFS.
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44: Base ISO 100
July 2nd, 2014 | 1 hr 45 mins
applied, authenticated encryption, boringssl, bsd, bsdmag, cd, cdr, chacha, chacha20, database, decryption, dragonflybsd, dvd, encryption, firewall, freebsd, freenas, gcm, google, guide, hardened, hardening, horrible puns, howto, interview, iso, ixsystems, jenkins, kyua, libressl, magazine, multithreading, mysql, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, patch, pcbsd, performance, pf, pfsense, pkg_add, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, postgresql, pre-applied, salsa20, scalability, security, signify, smp, sql, ssl, stable, tarsnap, testing, tls, tutorial
This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait! This week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.