BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

617 episodes of BSD Now since the first episode, which aired on September 4th, 2013.

  • Episode 245: ZFS User Conf 2018 | BSD Now 245

    May 10th, 2018  |  1 hr 24 mins
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    Allan’s recap of the ZFS User conference, first impressions of OmniOS by a BSD user, Nextcloud 13 setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on a fanless desktop computer, an intro to HardenedBSD, and DragonFlyBSD getting some SMP improvements.

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    Episode 244: C is a Lie | BSD Now 244

    May 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins

    Arcan and OpenBSD, running OpenBSD 6.3 on RPI 3, why C is not a low-level language, HardenedBSD switching back to OpenSSL, how the Internet was almost broken, EuroBSDcon CfP is out, and the BSDCan 2018 schedule is available.

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    Episode 243: Understanding The Scheduler | BSD Now 243

    April 25th, 2018  |  1 hr 25 mins
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    OpenBSD 6.3 and DragonflyBSD 5.2 are released, bug fix for disappearing files in OpenZFS on Linux (and only Linux), understanding the FreeBSD CPU scheduler, NetBSD on RPI3, thoughts on being a committer for 20 years, and 5 reasons to use FreeBSD in 2018.

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    Episode 242: Linux Takes The Fastpath | BSD Now 242

    April 18th, 2018  |  1 hr 23 mins
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    TrueOS Stable 18.03 released, a look at F-stack, the secret to an open source business model, intro to jails and jail networking, FreeBSD Foundation March update, and the ipsec Errata.

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    Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241

    April 12th, 2018  |  2 hrs 1 min

    Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers.

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    Episode 240: TCP Blackbox Recording | BSD Now 240

    April 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 39 mins
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    New ZFS features landing in FreeBSD, MAP_STACK for OpenBSD, how to write safer C code with Clang’s address sanitizer, Michael W. Lucas on sponsor gifts, TCP blackbox recorder, and Dell disk system hacking.

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    Episode 239: The Return To ptrace | BSD Now 239

    March 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 32 mins
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    OpenBSD firewalling Windows 10, NetBSD’s return to ptrace, TCP Alternative Backoff, the BSD Poetic license, and AsiaBSDcon 2018 videos available.

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    238: VLAN-Zezes-ki in Hardware

    March 21st, 2018  |  2 hrs 3 mins
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    Looking at Lumina Desktop 2.0, 2 months of KPTI development in SmartOS, OpenBSD email service, an interview with Ryan Zezeski, NomadBSD released, and John Carmack's programming retreat with OpenBSD.

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    237: AsiaBSDcon 2018

    March 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 39 mins
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    AsiaBSDcon review, Meltdown and Spectre Patches in FreeBSD stable, Interview with MidnightBSD founder, 8 months with TrueOS, mysteries of GNU and BSD split

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    236: How a cd works

    March 7th, 2018  |  2 hrs 1 min
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    We’ll cover OpenBSD’s defensive approach to OS security, help you Understanding Syscall Conventions for Different Platforms, Mishandling SMTP Sender Verification, how the cd command works, and the LUA boot loader coming to FreeBSD.

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    235: I C you BSD

    February 28th, 2018  |  2 hrs 5 mins
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    How the term open source was created, running FreeBSD on ThinkPad T530, Moving away from Windows, Unknown Giants, as well as OpenBSD and FreeDOS.

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    234: Code and Community

    February 21st, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins
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    GSoC 2018 Projects announced, tutorial FreeBSD jails with iocage, new Code of Conduct for FreeBSD, libhijack, and fancy monitoring for OpenSMTPD