BSD Now

A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD

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

  • 375: Virtually everything

    November 5th, 2020  |  44 mins 48 secs
    arm, berkeley, bhyve, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, esxi, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hypervisor, information leak, interview, laptop, lldb, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, remote process plugin, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, udf, udf driver, unix, vi, vim, virtual hardware, zfs, zpool

    bhyve - The FreeBSD Hypervisor, udf information leak, being a vim user instead of classic vi, FreeBSD on ESXi ARM Fling: Fixing Virtual Hardware, new FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin in LLDB, OpenBSD Laptop, and more.

  • 374: OpenBSD’s 25th anniversary

    October 29th, 2020  |  54 mins 40 secs
    25th anniversary, backup, bastillebsd, berkeley, book, book sale, books, bsd, container, container management, dataset, devsummit, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, openzfs, operating system, os, release, report, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    OpenBSD 6.8 has been released, NetBSD 9.1 is out, OpenZFS devsummit report, BastilleBSD’s native container management for FreeBSD, cleaning up old tarsnap backups, Michael W. Lucas’ book sale, and more.

  • 373: Kyle Evans Interview

    October 22nd, 2020  |  33 mins 33 secs
    bectl, berkeley, bsd, bsd grep, certctl, core team, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, flua, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kyle evans, lua, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool

    We have an interview with Kyle Evans for you this week. We talk about his grep project, lua and flua in base, as well as bectl, being on the core team and a whole lot of other stuff.

  • 372: Slow SSD scrubs

    October 15th, 2020  |  48 mins 4 secs
    berkeley, bsd, cwm, dataset, desktop, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, scrub, shell, software, ssd, status, status bar, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wayland, zfs, zpool

    Wayland on BSD, My BSD sucks less than yours, Even on SSDs, ongoing activity can slow down ZFS scrubs drastically, OpenBSD on the Desktop, simple shell status bar for OpenBSD and cwm, and more.

  • 371: Wildcards running wild

    October 8th, 2020  |  41 mins 17 secs
    berkeley, bsd, communication, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interprocess, interview, ipc, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, performance, performance analysis, software, trident, truenas, truenas core, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix wars, wildcards, zfs, zpool

    New Project: zedfs.com, TrueNAS CORE Ready for Deployment, IPC in FreeBSD 11: Performance Analysis, Unix Wildcards Gone Wild, Unix Wars, and more

  • 370: Testing shutdown

    October 1st, 2020  |  45 mins 12 secs
    berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, git, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, ldap, live image, login, login_ldap, mechanism, migration, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, shutdown, software, testing, trident, trueos, tutorial, video, workstation, zfs, zpool

    The world’s first OpenZFS based live image, FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration video, FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020, testing the shutdown mechanism, login_ldap added to OpenBSD, and more

  • 369: Where rc.d belongs

    September 24th, 2020  |  44 mins 9 secs
    berkeley, bsd, carp, dataset, development, distribution, dragonflybsd, emacs, end of life, etc, freebsd, guide, ha, hardenedbsd, high availability, howto, ifstated, interview, libexec, midnightbsd, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, opnsense, os, pfsync, rc.d, release, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

    High Availability Router/Firewall Using OpenBSD, CARP, pfsync, and ifstated, Building the Development Version of Emacs on NetBSD, rc.d belongs in libexec, not etc, FreeBSD 11.3 EOL, OPNsense 20.7.1 Released, MidnightBSD 1.2.7 out, and more.

  • 368: Changing OS roles

    September 17th, 2020  |  48 mins 32 secs
    32-bit, 64-bit, berkeley, bsd, cluster, console, corosync, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, modern, modernizing, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, pacemaker, package manager, role, sandbox, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, wine, zfs, zpool

    Modernizing the OpenBSD Console, OS roles have changed, FreeBSD Cluster with Pacemaker and Corosync, Wine in a 32-bit sandbox on 64-bit NetBSD, Find package which provides a file in OpenBSD, and more.

  • 367: Changing jail datasets

    September 10th, 2020  |  45 mins 28 secs
    berkeley, bsd, bug, bugfix, call for donations, dataset, distribution, donation, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, patch, sandbox, screen, software, status, status report, tmux, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs

    A 35 Year Old Bug in Patch, Sandbox for FreeBSD, Changing from one dataset to another within a jail, You don’t need tmux or screen for ZFS, HardenedBSD August 2020 Status Report and Call for Donations, and more.

  • 366: Bootloader zpool checkpoints

    September 3rd, 2020  |  53 mins 2 secs
    berkeley, bootloader, bsd, checkpoint, distribution, doc, documentation, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, libressl, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, sparc64, ssl, status, status update, trident, trueos, tutorial, zfs, zpool

    OpenZFS with ZSTD lands in FreeBSD 13, LibreSSL doc status update, FreeBSD on SPARC64 (is dead), Bringing zpool checkpoints to a FreeBSD bootloader, and more

  • 365: Whole year round

    August 27th, 2020  |  46 mins 54 secs
    audio, backup, battery, battery life, berkeley, bsd, cli, command line, distribution, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hadoop, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kernel, kernel module, kyua, laptop, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, software, status, status command, test framework, testing, trident, trueos, tutorial, usb, zfs

    FreeBSD USB Audio, Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users, Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around, CLI Tools 235x Faster than Hadoop, FreeBSD Laptop Battery Life Status Command, and more.

  • 364: FreeBSD Wireless Grind

    August 20th, 2020  |  46 mins 58 secs
    802.11ac, acceleration, berkeley, bsd, distribution, dragonflybsd, driver, ext2, ext3, ext4, filesystem, freebsd, gpu, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, operating system, os, qt, reboot, software, sync, syseventadm, trident, trueos, tutorial, webengine, wireless, zfs

    FreeBSD Qt WebEngine GPU Acceleration, the grind of FreeBSD’s wireless stack, thoughts on overlooking Illumos's syseventadm, when Unix learned to reboot, New EXT2/3/4 File-System driver in DragonflyBSD, and more.