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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Episode 280: FOSS Clothing | BSD Now 280
January 10th, 2019 | 52 mins 23 secs
bsd, ccc, danger, dragonflybsd, eula, freebsd, github, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, llvm, microsoft, netbsd, nsa, openbsd, sidekick, ssh, trident, trueos, tutorial, xscreensaver
A EULA in FOSS clothing, NetBSD with more LLVM support, Thoughts on FreeBSD 12.0, FreeBSD Performance against Windows and Linux on Xeon, Microsoft shipping NetBSD, and more.
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Episode 279: Future of ZFS | BSD Now 279
January 3rd, 2019 | 1 hr 33 mins
bryan cantrill, bsd, dragonflybsd, ec2, freebsd, gog, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, kde, netbsd, openbsd, raven, ravenports, rop gadgets, trident, trueos, tutorial
The future of ZFS in FreeBSD, we pick highlights from the FreeBSD quarterly status report, flying with the raven, modern KDE on FreeBSD, many ways to launch FreeBSD in EC2, GOG installers on NetBSD, and more.
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Episode 278: The Real McCoy | BSD Now 278
December 27th, 2018 | 49 mins 39 secs
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
We sat down at BSDCan 2018 to interview Kirk McKusick about various topics ranging about the early years of Berkeley Unix, his continuing work on UFS, the governance of FreeBSD, and more.
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Episode 277: Nmap Level Up | BSD Now 277
December 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 16 mins
bsd, certbot, donald knuth, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, letsencrypt, libressl, netbsd, nmap, openbsd, patent, trident, trueos, tutorial, yggdrasil
The Open Source midlife crisis, Donald Knuth The Yoda of Silicon Valley, Certbot For OpenBSD's httpd, how to upgrade FreeBSD from 11 to 12, level up your nmap game, NetBSD desktop, and more.
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Episode 276: Ho, Ho, Ho - 12.0 | BSD Now 276
December 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 10 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, illumos, interview, ipsec, kleak, netbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, synth, trident, trueos, tutorial, vpn
FreeBSD 12.0 is finally here, partly-cloudy IPsec VPN, KLEAK with NetBSD, How to create synth repos, GhostBSD author interview, and more.
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Episode 275: OpenBSD in Stereo | BSD Now 275
December 9th, 2018 | 1 hr 24 mins
bsd, capsicum, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gopher, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, linux vfio, netbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, pinebook, trident, trueos, tutorial
DragonflyBSD 5.4 has been released, down the Gopher hole with OpenBSD, OpenBSD in stereo with VFIO, BSD/OS the best candidate for legally tested open source Unix, OpenBGPD adds diversity to the routing server landscape, and more.
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Episode 274: Language: Assembly | BSD Now 274
November 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 4 mins
assembly language, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gaming, guide, hammer2, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
Assembly language on OpenBSD, using bhyve for FreeBSD development, FreeBSD Gaming, FreeBSD for Thanksgiving, no space left on Dragonfly’s hammer2, and more.
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Episode 273: A Thoughtful Episode | BSD Now 273
November 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 14 mins
bsd, cat, dragonflybsd, firewall, fosdem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, hugo, iio, interview, netbsd, nomadbsd, openbgpd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial, vulnerability, x.org
Thoughts on NetBSD 8.0, Monitoring love for a GigaBit OpenBSD firewall, cat’s source history, X.org root permission bug, thoughts on OpenBSD as a desktop, and NomadBSD review.
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Episode 272: Detain the bhyve | BSD Now 272
November 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
18.10, bhyve, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jail, netbsd, netcat, nvvm, openbsd, rc3, trident, trueos, tutorial, unveil
Byproducts of reading OpenBSD’s netcat code, learnings from porting your own projects to FreeBSD, OpenBSD’s unveil(), NetBSD’s Virtual Machine Monitor, what 'dependency' means in Unix init systems, jailing bhyve, and more.
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Episode 271: Automatic Drive Tests | BSD Now 271
November 8th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
ansible, bsd, dns, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, midnightbsd, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
MidnightBSD 1.0 released, MeetBSD review, EuroBSDcon trip reports, DNS over TLS in FreeBSD 12, Upgrading OpenBSD with Ansible, how to use smartd to run tests on your drives automatically, and more.
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Episode 270: Ghostly Releases | BSD Now 270
November 1st, 2018 | 1 hr 9 mins
bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, keybase, netbsd, openbsd, openssh, openssl, trident, trueos, tutorial
OpenBSD 6.4 released, GhostBSD RC2 released, MeetBSD - the ultimate hallway track, DragonflyBSD desktop on a Thinkpad, Porting keybase to NetBSD, OpenSSH 7.9, and draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag in FreeBSD.
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Episode 269: Tiny Daemon Lib | BSD Now 269
October 24th, 2018 | 1 hr 28 mins
bsd, daemon, dragonflybsd, eurobsdcon, freebsd, ghostbsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial
FreeBSD Foundation September Update, tiny C lib for programming Unix daemons, EuroBSDcon trip reports, GhostBSD tested on real hardware, and a BSD auth module for duress.