BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall List

    December 27th, 2017  |  2 hrs 7 mins
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    We read the FreeBSD Q3 status report, explore good and bad syscalls, list GOG Games for OpenBSD, and show you what devmatch can do.

  • 225: The one true OS

    December 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 47 mins
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    TrueOS stable 17.12 is out, we have an OpenBSD workstation guide for you, learnings from the PDP-11, FreeBSD 2017 Releng recap and Duo SSH.

  • 224: The Bus Factor

    December 13th, 2017  |  1 hr 40 mins
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    We try to answer what happens to an open source project after a developers death, we tell you about the last bootstrapped tech company in Silicon Valley, we have an update to the NetBSD Thread sanitizer, and show how to use use cabal on OpenBSD

  • 223: Compile once, debug twice

    December 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 51 mins
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    Picking a compiler for debuggability, how to port Rust apps to FreeBSD, what the point of Docker is on FreeBSD/Solaris, another EuroBSDcon recap, and network manager control in OpenBSD

  • 222: How Netflix works

    November 29th, 2017  |  2 hrs 7 mins
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    We take a look at two-faced Oracle, cover a FAMP installation, how Netflix works the complex stuff, and show you who the patron of yak shaving is.

  • 221: BSD in Taiwan

    November 22nd, 2017  |  1 hr 56 mins
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    Allan reports on his trip to BSD Taiwan, new versions of Lumina and GhostBSD are here, a bunch of OpenBSD p2k17 hackathon reports.

  • 220: Opening ZFS in 2017

    November 15th, 2017  |  1 hr 54 mins
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    We have a first PS4 kernel exploit, the long awaited OpenZFS devsummit report by Allan, DragonflyBSD 5.0 is out, we show you vmadm to manage jails, and parallel processing with Unix tools.

  • 219: We love the ARC

    November 8th, 2017  |  2 hrs 10 mins
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    Papers we love: ARC by Bryan Cantrill, SSD caching adventures with ZFS, OpenBSD full disk encryption setup, and a Perl5 Slack Syslog BSD daemon.

  • 218: A KRACK in the WiFi

    November 1st, 2017  |  1 hr 14 mins
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    FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE is here, more EuroBSDcon travel notes, the KRACK attack, ZFS and DTrace on NetBSD, and pfsense 2.4.

  • 217: Your questions, part II

    October 25th, 2017  |  1 hr 42 mins
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    OpenBSD 6.2 is here, style arguments, a second round of viewer interview questions, how to set CPU affinity for FreeBSD jails, containers on FreeNAS & more!

  • 216: Software is storytelling

    October 18th, 2017  |  1 hr 49 mins
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    EuroBSDcon trip report, how to secure OpenBSD’s LDAP server, ZFS channel programs in FreeBSD HEAD and why software is storytelling.

  • 215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100 Gbps

    October 11th, 2017  |  1 hr 33 mins
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    We look at how Netflix serves 100 Gbps from an Open Connect Appliance, read through the 2nd quarter FreeBSD status report, show you a freebsd-update speedup via nginx reverse proxy, and customize your OpenBSD default shell.