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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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.
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43: Package Design
June 25th, 2014 | 1 hr 26 mins
2014, aslr, boringssl, bsd, bsd-cloudinit, bsdday, building, bulgaria, bypassing, cloud computing, cluster, dragonflybsd, eff, eurobsdcon, evasion, exit node, firewall, freebsd, freenas, geoblock, glusterfs, guide, how to upgrade, howto, interview, ip ban, ixsystems, libressl, marc espie, nas, nas4free, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, openstack, packages, pcbsd, pf, phk, pie, pkg_add, ports, poul-henning kamp, presentation, rdomains, rebuild, relays, schedule, security, slides, talks, tarsnap, tor, tor challenge, tor nodes, tutorial, update, upgrades
It's a big show this week! We'll be interviewing Marc Espie about OpenBSD's package system and build cluster. Also, we've been asked many times "how do I keep my BSD box up to date?" Well, today's tutorial should finally answer that. Answers to all your emails and this week's headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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42: Devious Methods
June 18th, 2014 | 1 hr 24 mins
9.3, aslr, bcallah is a noob, beta, bsd, bsd router project, bsdcan, chaining, cowsay, delphix, devio.us, devious, dragonflybsd, firewall, foundation, free, freebsd, guide, hangout, hopping, hosting, howto, interview, ixsystems, jump host, linux, linux vs bsd, m0n0wall, matt ahrens, netbsd, netgate, openbsd, openssh, openstack, pcbsd, pfsense, pie, release, report, router, security, shell, shell provider, slackware, ssh, switching, tarsnap, tor, tunnel, tutorial, university, vpn, vps, zfs, zpool
Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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41: Commit This Bit
June 11th, 2014 | 1 hr 7 mins
2014, 9.3, 9.3-release, advocacy, applied, bsd, bsdcan, bsdtalk, bug tracker, bugzilla, cdr, commit bit, delphix, documentation, dragonflybsd, dvd, freebsd, freenas, gnats, guide, howto, hybridcluster, interview, iso, libressl, license, matthew ahrens, netbsd, openbsd, openssl, openzfs, patches, pcbsd, pfsense, presentation, release, security, send-pr, sendbug, stable, talk, tutorial, vulnerability, zfs
This week in the big show, we'll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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40: AirPorts & Packages
June 4th, 2014 | 1 hr 13 mins
2014, absolute freebsd, beyond security, books, bsd, bsd vs linux, bsdcan, carp, code review, dragonflybsd, failover, firewalls, flightaware, freebsd, freenas, geom, guide, high availability, howto, interview, ipfw, ixsystems, jails, karl lehenbauer, keynote, kyua, libressl, linux, load balancing, netbsd, openbsd, owncloud, pcbsd, pf, plex, plex media server, plugins, tarsnap, tutorial, ufs, webcast, zfs
On this week's episode, we'll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD's ports and package system. There's also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware. Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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39: The Friendly Sandbox
May 28th, 2014 | 1 hr 2 mins
application, bsd, bsdcan, bsdmag, bsdtalk, capsicum, casper, casperd, chroot, dns, dnscrypt, dnscurve, dnssec, dragonflybsd, encryption, exploit, freebsd, gateway, guide, howto, interview, isolated, isolation, jails, journal, libressl, lookups, netbsd, openbsd, opendns, pcbsd, presentation, recordings, sandbox, security, ssh, talk, the friendly ghost, tunnel, tutorial, video, virtual machine, vpn, vps
This time on the show we'll be talking with Jon Anderson about Capsicum and Casper to securely sandbox processes. After that, our tutorial will show you how to encrypt all your DNS lookups, either on a single system or for your whole network. News, emails and all the usual fun, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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38: A BUG's Life
May 21st, 2014 | 1 hr 28 mins
11.0, 3rd edition, binary, bsd, bsd user group, bug, cobug, colorado, community, compile, conference, cron, dragonflybsd, encrypted, financial report, foundation, freebsd, full disk encryption, guide, honeypot, howto, interview, kippo, libressl, lug, monitoring, nas, netbsd, network attached storage, new york, nycbsdcon, nycbug, openbsd, openssl, packages, pcbsd, periodic, pf, pkgsrc, ports, presentation, routing domains, script kiddies, signing, source, ssh, the book of pf, third edition, tutorial, unix users group, users group, uug
We're back from BSDCan! This week on the show we'll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We'll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own! After that, we've got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD's package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.