BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 214: The history of man, kind

    October 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins
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    The costs of open sourcing a project are explored, we discover why PS4 downloads are so slow, delve into the history of UNIX man pages, and more.

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    213: The French CONnection

    September 27th, 2017  |  1 hr 31 mins
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    We recap EuroBSDcon in Paris, tell the story behind a pf PR, and show you how to do screencasting with OpenBSD.

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    212: The Solaris Eclipse

    September 20th, 2017  |  1 hr 40 mins
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    We recap vBSDcon, give you the story behind a PF EN, reminisce in Solaris memories, and show you how to configure different DEs on FreeBSD.

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    211: It's HAMMER2 Time!

    September 13th, 2017  |  2 hrs 2 mins
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    We explore whether a BSD can replicate Cisco router performance; RETGUARD, OpenBSDs new exploit mitigation technology, Dragonfly’s HAMMER2 filesystem implementation & more!

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    210: Your questions, part I

    September 6th, 2017  |  1 hr 57 mins
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    In this episode, we take a look at the reimplementation of NetBSD using a Microkernel, check out what makes DHCP faster, and see what high-process count support for DragonflyBSD has to offer, and we answer the questions you’ve always wanted to ask us.

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    209: Signals: gotta catch ‘em all

    August 30th, 2017  |  1 hr 32 mins
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    We read a trip report about FreeBSD in China, look at how Unix deals with Signals, a stats collector in DragonFlyBSD & much more!

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    208: Faces of Open Source

    August 23rd, 2017  |  1 hr 24 mins
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    DragonflyBSD 4.8.1 has been released, we explore how the X11 clipboard works, and look at OpenBSD gaming resources.

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    207: Bridge over the river Cam

    August 16th, 2017  |  1 hr 43 mins
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    We recap our devsummit experiences at BSDCambridge, share why memcmp is more complicated than expected, explore Docker on FreeBSD, and we look at a retro terminal.

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    206: To hier is UNIX

    August 9th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins
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    Lumina Desktop 1.3 is out, we show you a Plasma 5 on FreeBSD tutorial, explore randomness, and more.

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    205: FreeBSD Turning it up to 11.1

    August 2nd, 2017  |  1 hr 13 mins
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    FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE is out, we look at building at BSD home router, how to be your own OpenBSD VPN provider, and find that glob matching can be simple and fast.

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    204: WWF - Wayland, Weston, and FreeBSD

    July 26th, 2017  |  1 hr 21 mins
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    In this episode, we clear up the myth about scrub of death, look at Wayland and Weston on FreeBSD, Intel QuickAssist is here, and we check out OpenSMTP on OpenBSD.

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    203: For the love of ZFS

    July 19th, 2017  |  1 hr 57 mins
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    This week on BSD Now, we clear up some ZFS FUD, show you how to write a NetBSD kernel module, and cover DragonflyBSD on the desktop.