About the show
Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros.
The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.
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Episodes
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495: Limited Jail Time
February 23rd, 2023 | 30 mins 18 secs
berkeley, bsd, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, fourth quarter, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hello system, howto, interview, jails, limit, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, parallel port, ports, release, resource limits, resource use, shell, software, solbournes, space, status report, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Status Report Fourth Quarter 2022, How to limit a jail, the parallel port, Hello System 0.8, Solbournes in space, and more
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494: Unix workstation extinction
February 16th, 2023 | 46 mins 45 secs
bastille, berkeley, bsd, comparison, dataset, deciding, decision, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, factors, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail manager, jails, login, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, ssh, storage, trident, trueos, tunnel, tutorial, unix, visual guide, workstation, zfs, zpool
Mass extinction of UNIX workstations, Determine Who Can Log In to an SSH Server, Factors When Considering FreeBSD vs. Linux Packages, A Visual Guide to SSH Tunnels, Harvesting the Noise While it’s Fresh, Bastille - The Jail Manager on FreeBSD, and more
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493: Dotfile Management
February 9th, 2023 | 42 mins 29 secs
admin, berkeley, bsd, configuration file, data integrity, data security, dataset, development, distribution, dotfiles, dragonflybsd, filesystem, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, management, netbsd, odroid hc4, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, reebsd, release, shell, software, storage, tool, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Write Admin tools from Day One, Differentiating between Data Security and Data Integrity, 45 year-old Unix tool is finally getting an upgrade, OpenBSD 7.2 on an ODROID-HC4, Dotfiles Management, and more
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492: Feeling for NetBSD
February 2nd, 2023 | 38 mins 43 secs
amd64, architecture, berkeley, bsd, cd, ci, continuous integration, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, execute-only, filesystem, freebsd, gcc, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, modula-2, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, qa, quality assurance, release, rust, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Writing your own operating system, Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance Update, feeling for the NetBSD community, Testing wanted: execute-only on amd64, GCC uses Modula-2 and Rust, do they work on OpenBSD, Unix is dead; long live Unix, and more
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491: Catch the Spammers
January 26th, 2023 | 42 mins 18 secs
berkeley, binary compatibility, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, ebook, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, leaks, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, reproducible builds, shell, software, spam, spam trap, storage, summit, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix shell prompt, venice, zfs, zpool
Dragonfly BSD 6.4 is out, Running OpenZFS – Choosing Between FreeBSD and Linux, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems ebook leaks, catching 71% spam, crazy unix shell prompts, Linux Binary Compatibility: Ubuntu on FreeBSD, Reproducible Builds Summit Venice 2022, and more
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490: New Year’s Plan9’ing
January 19th, 2023 | 46 mins 13 secs
berkeley, bsd, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kde, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, plan9, ports, release, shell, software, status report, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, vintage computing, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Foundation’s Software Development review of 2022, what can we learn from Vintage Computing, OpenBSD KDE Status Report 2022, a Decade of HardenedBSD, In Praise of Plan9, and more
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489: Refreshing Perspective
January 12th, 2023 | 36 mins 11 secs
active directory, berkeley, bsd, dataset, dhcp server, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hdmi sound output, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, networking, open source, openbsd, openiked, operating system, os, packages, plasma 5 gui, ports, release, samba, shell, software, storage, tmux, trident, trueos, tutorial, tv speakers, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD vs. Linux – Networking, HDMI sound output through TV speakers on FreeBSD 13, Getting started with tmux, Samba Active Directory, OpenIKED 7.2 released, FreeBSD Plasma 5 GUI Install, DHCP server howto in German, and more
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488: Old ping(8) bug
January 5th, 2023 | 35 mins 25 secs
authentication gateway, berkeley, bsd, bug, dataset, debugging, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foundation, freebsd, fundraising, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, internet of things, interview, iot, jails, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ping, ports, release, shell, software, ssh, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Finding a 24 year old bug in ping(8), The Role of Operating Systems in IOT, Authentication gateway with SSH on OpenBSD, FreeBSD 12.4 is out, and more
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487: EuroBSDcon Interviews Pt. 2
December 29th, 2022 | 34 mins 19 secs
berkeley, bsd, bsd.tv, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, john baldwin, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trip report, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
This year end episode of BSDNow features a trip report to EuroBSDcon by Mr. BSD.tv, as well as an interview with FreeBSD committer John Baldwin. Happy New Year, 2023!
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486: EuroBSDcon interviews
December 22nd, 2022 | 39 mins 1 sec
berkeley, brooks davis, bsd, dataset, distribution, donate, donation, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, olivier cochard-labbe, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, year-end fundraising, zfs, zpool
This special episode features two interviews we did at EuroBSDcon in Vienna this year. We talk with FreeBSD developers about how they got started, their current projects and more. Also, consider donating to your favorite BSD Foundation to keep the projects going.
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485: FreeBSD Home Assistant
December 15th, 2022 | 43 mins 32 secs
apple, awk, berkeley, brian kernighan, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, graphics processing unit, guide, hardenedbsd, history, home assistant, howto, interview, jail, jails, m1 gpu, mimmutable, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Tails of the M1 GPU, Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail, interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan, Next steps toward mimmutable, Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now, and more
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484: Birth of stderr
December 8th, 2022 | 36 mins 26 secs
berkeley, bhyve, bootloader, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, font, free space, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kvm, m1, m2, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, random, release, shell, software, standard error, stderr, steam, storage, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, virtual, virtualization, vm, workstation, zfs, zpool
Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more