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

  • 20: Bhyve Mind

    January 15th, 2014  |  1 hr 23 mins
    automatic install, bhyve, bsd, chromebook, dom0, domu, dragonflybsd, edgebsd, freebsd, freenas, guide, howto, hypervisor, installation, interview, neel natu, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, peter grehan, presentation, pxe, pxeboot, spider in a box, spiderinabox, tutorial, type 2, virtualization, vm, xen

    It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 19: The Installfest

    January 8th, 2014  |  1 hr 21 mins
    access point, bsd, bsdinstall, competition, contest, dnscrypt, dnscurve, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gce, giveaway, google compute engine, guide, howto, installer, installfest, interview, ixsystems, jails, megacore, mitm, netbsd, openbsd, opendns, pc-sysinstall, pcbsd, performance, pillow, pkgsrc, router, sets, signed packages, signify, sweepstakes, sysinstall, testing, tuning, tutorial

    We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 18: Eclipsing Binaries

    January 1st, 2014  |  1 hr 10 mins
    bapt, binary, binary star, bsd, bsdmag, dragonflybsd, firewall, freebsd, freebsd-update, guide, hangout, howto, interview, linux bsd differences, netbsd, openbsd, openbsd-binary-upgrade, packages, patches, pcbsd, pf, pfsense, pkg_add, pkgng, portmgr, ports, signed, switching from linux to bsd, tmpfs, tutorial, update, upgrade

    Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We're back with the first show of 2014, and we've got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we'll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 17: The Gift of Giving

    December 25th, 2013  |  18 mins 46 secs
    bsd, cdn, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gigabit, guide, high performance, howto, interview, netbsd, netflix, openbsd, openconnect, pcbsd, raid, release engineering, scott long, scottl, ssd, tuning, tutorial, yahoo

    Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials.

  • 16: Cryptocrystalline

    December 18th, 2013  |  1 hr 50 mins
    aes, arm, base64, bcrypt, bsd, chacha20, cipher, crypto, damien miller, decode, djm, dragonfly bsd, dsa, ecc, ecdsa, ed25519, encode, encrypted install, encryption, fde, foundation, freebsd, freebsd journal, full disk encryption, guide, hash, hmac, howto, installation, interview, ixsystems, keys, mac, md5, mindrot, netbsd, newsletter, office hours, openbsd, openssh, openvpn, openzfs, passphrase, password, pcbsd, poly1305, rc4, rsa, salt, security, sftp, sha256, ssh, ssl, tap, tun, tunnel, tutorial, unencrypted, vpn, vps

    This time on the show, we'll be showing you how to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller - one of the lead developers of OpenSSH - about some recent crypto changes in the project. If you're into data security, today's the show for you. The latest news and all your burning questions answered, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 15: Kickin' NAS

    December 11th, 2013  |  1 hr 48 mins
    9.2.0, bcrypt, bsd, cto, dragonflybsd, encryption, freebsd, freenas, frontend, guide, howto, interface, interview, ixsystems, josh paetzel, jpaetzel, linux, linux foundation, nas, netbsd, network attached storage, openbsd, opensmtpd, openssh, pcbsd, portmgr, ports, switching from linux to bsd, tutorial, ui, walkthrough, web, zfs, zpool

    This time on the show, we'll be looking at the new version of FreeNAS, a BSD-based network attached storage solution, as well as talking to Josh Paetzel - one of the key developers of FreeNAS. Actually, he's on the FreeBSD release engineering team too, and does quite a lot for the project. We've got answers to your viewer-submitted questions and plenty of news to cover, so get ready for some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 14: Zettabytes for Days

    December 4th, 2013  |  1 hr 18 mins
    1.2, bsd, chacha20, cipher, delphix, devsummit, dragonflybsd, encryption, freebsd, george wilson, guide, howto, illumos, interview, itworld, linux, mac, mirror, netbsd, openbsd, opensolaris, openssh, openzfs, pcbsd, pkg, pkgng, poly1305, raidz, raidz2, raidz3, rc4, security, solaris, ssh, switch, tutorial, zfs, zfsonlinux, zol, zpool

    This week is the long-awaited episode you've been asking for! We'll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project's recent developments. We have answers to your feedback emails and there are some great news items to get caught up on too, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

  • 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