BSD Now

A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD

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

  • 13: Bridging the Gap

    November 27th, 2013  |  1 hr 8 mins
    amazon, anoncvs, bsd, bsd router project, cron, current, cvs, dragonflybsd, ec2, email alerts, errata, firewall, founder, freebsd, guide, high performance, howto, interview, jhk, jordan hubbard, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, patches, pcbsd, pfsense, portmgr, puffy, release, router, script, stable, tunneling, tutorial

    This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.

  • 12: Collecting SSHells

    November 20th, 2013  |  1 hr 8 mins
    2013, amitai schlair, asiabsdcon, bsd, dev, developer, devsummit, donations, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2013, foundation, freebsd, fundraiser, gnu, guide, howto, interview, launch, linux, michael w lucas, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, orbis os, orbisos, pbulk, pcbsd, pkgsrc, playstation, playstation4, presentation, ps4, schmonz, screen, sony, ssh, summit, talk, tetris, tmux, tutorial

    This week we'll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD's future plans and much more. After that, if you've ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today's tutorial has got you covered. We'll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 11: The Gateway Drug

    November 13th, 2013  |  1 hr 49 mins
    6.4, aes gcm, automatic, bsd, bsd router project, building, dragonfly, dragonfly digest, dragonflybsd, filesystem in userspace, firewall, freebsd, fuse, gateway, guide, hammer fs, howto, interview, kernel panic, netbsd, network, openbsd, openssh, openssl, pcbsd, portmgr, router, server, small home office, soho, tbrp, tutorial

    This time on the show, we sit down to chat with Justin Sherrill of the DragonflyBSD project about their new 3.6 release. Later on, we'll be showing you a huge tutorial that's been baking for over a month - how to build an OpenBSD router that'll destroy any consumer router on the market! There's lots of news to get caught up on as well, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 10: Year of the BSD Desktop

    November 6th, 2013  |  1 hr 32 mins
  • 9: CURRENT Events

    October 30th, 2013  |  1 hr 16 mins
  • 8: A Brief Introduction

    October 23rd, 2013  |  1 hr 21 mins

    This week, we chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 7: Go Directly to Jail(8)

    October 16th, 2013  |  1 hr 16 mins

    On this week's show, you'll be getting the full jail treatment. We'll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp - the guy who actually invented them! There's lots of interesting news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 6: Doing It de Raadt Way

    October 9th, 2013  |  51 mins 42 secs

    On this week's episode we'll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail, we sit down and chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt and, as always, get you caught up on all the latest news. All that and more, this week on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 5: Stacks of Cache

    October 2nd, 2013  |  1 hr 3 mins

    After returning from a successful EuroBSDCon in Malta, we're back to get you caught up on all the latest news! We've got stories, interviews and a special treat for OpenBSD fans later in the show. All that and more on this week's BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.

  • 4: Teskeing the Possibilities

    September 25th, 2013  |  36 mins 22 secs

    This week we’re at EuroBSDCon, so we’ve just got an interview for you today. BSD Now will be back next week with a normal episode and lots of stories from the conference. We’ll also try to get some more interviews there. For today, though, we talk to Devin Teske about his work with bsdinstall, bsdconfig and all the other interesting things he’s been up to lately.

  • 3: MX with TTX

    September 18th, 2013  |  1 hr 1 min

    We follow up last week's poudriere tutorial with a segment about using pkgng, we talk with the developers of OpenSMTPD about running a mail server OpenBSD-style, answer YOUR questions and, of course, discuss all the latest news. All that and more on BSD Now! The place to B... SD.

  • 2: Engineering and Powder Kegs

    September 11th, 2013  |  1 hr 40 mins

    After a wildly successful debut episode, BSD Now is BACK to talk with Glen Barber from the FreeBSD Release team, show you how to build your own binary package repository and discuss the latest BSD news!