BSD Now

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

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

  • 519: Telegram from BSDNow

    August 10th, 2023  |  37 mins 25 secs
    advantages, bandwidth limit, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, desktop audio, development, distribution, dod, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, ksos, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, release schedule, scp, secure, secure copy, server, shell, software, storage, stream, streaming, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more.

  • 518: Unix Edition Zero

    August 3rd, 2023  |  56 mins 42 secs
    -10x engineer, 20 percent, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, edition zero, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, long live, netbooks, netbsd, open source, openbsd, openbsd router, operating system, os, packages, ports, problem-solving, release, server, sg105w, shell, software, storage, time, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wireguard, zfs, zpool

    A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edition Zero, how to be a -10x engineer, and more

  • 517: Huge pfsync rewrite

    July 27th, 2023  |  46 mins 49 secs
    27 years, berkeley, bsd, cli, comparison, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, laptop, netbsd, open source, openbsd, opensmtpd, operating system, os, packages, perfect os, pfsync, ports, release, security practices, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27 Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite, OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not), and more

  • 516: Computer Time Origins

    July 20th, 2023  |  46 mins 7 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cdn, cli, comparison, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, firewalls, freebsd, gitlab, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, malware, netbsd, netflix, nginx, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, php shell, ports, release, shell, software, storage, system clock, time, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, web server, zfs, zpool

    Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, and more

  • 515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf

    July 13th, 2023  |  40 mins 15 secs
    berkeley, bsd, chatgpt, chromium, cli, computer scientist, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, ghostbsd 23.06.01, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, linux, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, opnsense 23.1.9, os, os wars, packages, packet filter, pf.conf, ports, release, shell, software, storage, story telling, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, visual studio code, vscode, zfs, zpool

    FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories, ChatGPT was asked to write a pf.conf to spec, GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available, OPNsense 23.1.9 released, Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD, and more

  • 514: Infecting Public Keys

    July 6th, 2023  |  48 mins 30 secs
    backdoor, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, man pages, netbsd, nushell, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, public key, ransomware, release, rollback, shell, shell script, signal propagation, snapshot, software, storage, sudo, systems engineer, thinkpad, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware, I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages, I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer", Writing shell scripts in Nushell, Sudo and signal propagation, infecting SSH Public Keys with backdoors, OpenBSD Thinkpad, and more

  • 513: New Host Interview

    June 29th, 2023  |  53 mins 24 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, dropping privileges, dtrace, dynamic tracing, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, libressl, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, process tracing, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vdev types, zfs, zpool

    We have a new show host, Understanding ZFS vdev Types, Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges, Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3, new Libressl, Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12, and more

  • 512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat

    June 22nd, 2023  |  40 mins 35 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    Recorded at BSDCan 2023

  • 511: Against Innovation

    June 15th, 2023  |  50 mins 54 secs
    berkeley, bookmarks, bsd, cli, clusters, dataset, dav, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, high performance computing, howto, hpc, httpd, innovation, interview, jails, laptop, mips, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, plex, ports, proxmox, release, root, self-hosted, shell, software, storage, sun ray, terraform, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wol, zfs, zpool

    Sun Ray laptops, MIPS and getting root on them, OpenZFS for HPC Clusters, Self-Hosted Bookmarks using DAV and httpd on OpenBSD, Terraform + Proxmox + OpenBSD = <3, WOL Plex Server, Against innovation, and more

  • 510: The BSD Slabtop

    June 8th, 2023  |  46 mins 40 secs
    asiabsdcon, audio, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, desktop, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, gnome, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, slabtop, software, storage, stream, thinkpad, trident, trip report, trueos, ttyload, tutorial, unix, x201, zfs, zpool

    AsiaBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, Converting My X201 ThinkPad into a Slabtop, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices, The Gnome and Its "Secret Place", ttyload, and more

  • 509: Dot File Naming

    June 1st, 2023  |  41 mins 14 secs
    berkeley, bsd, caldav, carddav, cheatsheet, cli, dataset, decoder, development, distribution, dmi, dot file, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, gpart, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, rob pike, shell, software, storage, storage appliance, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual machine, vm, zfs, zpool

    Leveraging OpenZFS to Build Your Own Storage Appliance, Install OpenBSD as a VM, Set up your own CalDAV and CardDAV servers on OpenBSD, display basic computer information using DMI table decoder, Gpart CheatSheet, Rob Pike on the Origin of Unix Dot File Names, and more

  • 508: Foundational Proceedings

    May 25th, 2023  |  41 mins 5 secs
    annual general meeting, berkeley, bsd, cli, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, emacs, environment, filesystem, foundation, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, scale20x, shell, software, solution, storage, storage solution, team members, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial, university, unix, xterm, zfs, zpool

    FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Team Members, OpenZFS the Ideal Storage Solution for University Environments, SCaLE20X Conference Report, 916 days of Emacs, XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought, NetBSD Annual General Meeting 2023, and more