Episode Archive
320 episodes of BSD Now since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2013.
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Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269
October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
bsd, daemon, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress.
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Episode 268: Netcat Demystified | BSD Now 268
October 17th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
2fa, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde yubikey, netbsd, netcat, openbsd, performance, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs
6 metrics for zpool performance, 2FA with ssh on OpenBSD, ZFS maintaining file type information in dirs, everything old is new again, netcat demystified, and more.
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Episode 267: Absolute FreeBSD | BSD Now 267
October 10th, 2018 | 1 hr 7 mins
2fa, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde yubikey, netbsd, netcat, openbsd, performance, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs
We have a long interview with fiction and non-fiction author Michael W. Lucas for you this week as well as questions from the audience.
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Episode 266: File Type History | BSD Now 266
October 3rd, 2018 | 1 hr 15 mins
bhyve, bsd, desktop, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde neon, netbsd, openbsd, pinebook, ryzen, trident, trueos, tutorial
Running OpenBSD/NetBSD on FreeBSD using grub2-bhyve, vermaden’s FreeBSD story, thoughts on OpenBSD on the desktop, history of file type info in Unix dirs, Multiboot a Pinebook KDE neon image, and more.
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Episode 265: Software Disenchantment | BSD Now 265
September 27th, 2018 | 1 hr 41 mins
bios, bsd, bsd conference, conference, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, llvm, netbsd, openbsd, thinkpad, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial, zfs rsync
We report from our experiences at EuroBSDcon, disenchant software, LLVM 7.0.0 has been released, Thinkpad BIOS update options, HardenedBSD Foundation announced, and ZFS send vs. rsync.
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Episode 264: Optimized-out | BSD Now 264
September 20th, 2018 | 1 hr 11 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD benchmarks on AMD’s Threadripper, NetBSD 7.2 has been released, optimized out DTrace kernel symbols, stuck UEFI bootloaders, why ed is not a good editor today, tell your BSD story, and more.
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Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263
September 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
asigra, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, spectre, trident, trueos, tutorial, vmworld
Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS backup appliance shown at VMworld, NetBSD 6 EoL, and more.
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Episode 262: OpenBSD Surfacing | BSD Now 262
September 6th, 2018 | 1 hr 13 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
OpenBSD on Microsoft Surface Go, FreeBSD Foundation August Update, What’s taking so long with Project Trident, pkgsrc config file versioning, and MacOS remnants in ZFS code.
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Episode 261: FreeBSDcon Flashback | BSD Now 261
August 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 49 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, foreshadow, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hyperthreading, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pf-badhost, t1tf, threadripper, tlbleed, trident, trueos, tutorial, x11
Insight into TrueOS and Trident, stop evildoers with pf-badhost, Flashback to FreeBSDcon ‘99, OpenBSD’s measures against TLBleed, play Morrowind on OpenBSD in 5 steps, DragonflyBSD developers shocked at Threadripper performance, and more.
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Episode 260: Hacking Tour of Europe | BSD Now 260
August 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 20 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, encryption, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, performance, raspberry pi, remote access, rpi3, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs
Trip reports from the Essen Hackathon and BSDCam, CfT: ZFS native encryption and UFS trim consolidation, ZFS performance benchmarks on a FreeBSD server, how to port your OS to EC2, Vint Cerf about traceability, Remote Access console to an RPi3 running FreeBSD, and more.
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Episode 259: Long Live Unix | BSD Now 259
August 16th, 2018 | 1 hr 47 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pam, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs
The strange birth and long life of Unix, FreeBSD jail with a single public IP, EuroBSDcon 2018 talks and schedule, OpenBSD on G4 iBook, PAM template user, ZFS file server, and reflections on one year of OpenBSD use.
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Episode 258: OS Foundations | BSD Now 258
August 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 27 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, ospfd, spectre, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs
FreeBSD Foundation July Newsletter, a bunch of BSDCan trip reports, HardenedBSD Foundation status, FreeBSD and OSPFd, ZFS disk structure overview, and more Spectre mitigations in OpenBSD.