Tom Jones
Co-Host of BSD Now
Tom Jones is an Internet Researcher and FreeBSD developer that works on improving the core protocols that drive the Internet. He is a
contributor to open standards in the IETF and is enthusiastic about using FreeBSD as a platform to experiment with new networking ideas as they progress towards standardisation.
Tom Jones has hosted 127 Episodes.
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651: Spatially aware ZFS
February 19th, 2026 | 57 mins 6 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...
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650: Korn Chips
February 12th, 2026 | 57 mins 21 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.
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649: The Desk Review
February 5th, 2026 | 1 hr 11 mins
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more.
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648: Greytrapping for years
January 29th, 2026 | 1 hr 4 mins
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more.
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647: Why BSDs?
January 22nd, 2026 | 55 mins 7 secs
Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.
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644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?
January 1st, 2026 | 1 hr 37 mins
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
A holiday episode as the guys sit back and chat.
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641: Open to Free
December 11th, 2025 | 55 mins 29 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...
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640: Cleaning up Hammer
December 4th, 2025 | 36 mins 6 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...
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639: Reproducible Builds
November 27th, 2025 | 1 hr 14 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...
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636: Thunder Bolts
November 6th, 2025 | 1 hr 3 mins
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more...
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635: Guess who's back?
October 30th, 2025 | 1 hr 17 mins
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, zfs, zpool
OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more...
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632: Zipbomb defeated
October 9th, 2025 | 52 mins 56 secs
berkeley, bsd, cli, code, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, enhancing support, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, high-throughput, howto, interview, jails, nat64, netbsd, omada, open person, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimizing, origins, os, packages, ports, programming, release, router, sdn, shell, software, software defined network, storage, tools, trueos, tutorial, unix, utility, workload, zfs, zipbomb, zpool
zipbomb defeated, Optimizing ZFS for High-Throughput Storage Workloads, Open Source is one person, Omada SDN Controller on FreeBSD, Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD, Back to the origins, Enhancing Support for NAT64 Protocol Translation in NetBSD, and more