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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459: NetBSD Kernel benchmark
June 16th, 2022 | 54 mins 5 secs
backup, backups, benchmark, berkeley, bsd, compiler benchmark, compiling, dataset, diagnostics, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, graviton 3, guide, hardenedbsd, hardware detection, howto, interview, jails, kernel compile, netbsd, network management, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, packet filter, pf, ports, production use, release, shell, software, time machine, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use, Time Machine-like Backups on OpenBSD, FreeBSD on the Graviton 3, Compiling the NetBSD kernel as a benchmark, Network Management with the OpenBSD Packet Filter Toolset from BSDCan 2022, Hardware Detection & Diagnostics for New FreeBSD Users, and more
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458: Traceroute interpretation
June 9th, 2022 | 48 mins 41 secs
account, account locking, berkeley, bsd, cautionary tale, cloud, ctwm, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, fundamentals, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, locking, moreutils, mtr, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, overgrowth, packages, password groping, ports, protection, public cloud, release, shell, software, spamtraps, spamware, spf, spleen, traceroute, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, user account, zfs, zpool
Fundamentals of the FreeBSD Shell, Spammers in the Public Cloud, locking user accounts properly, overgrowth on NetBSD, moreutils, ctwm & spleen, interpreting a traceroute, and more
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457: The NetBSD Wheelbarrow
June 2nd, 2022 | 47 mins 3 secs
berkeley, bluetooth, bsd, buildtool, continuous integration, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, driver, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kde, netbsd, network basics, networking, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, playstation, ports, raidz1, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, wifi, zfs, zpool
Journey to ZFS RAIDZ1 on NetBSD, FreeBSD networking basics: WiFi and Bluetooth, smuggling code into the playstation via NetBSD driver hole, KDE FreeBSD CI, remembering buildtool, and more
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456: FreeBSD 13.1
May 26th, 2022 | 51 mins 19 secs
13.1, android, baikal, berkeley, bhyve, branch, branching, bsd, calendar, case filing, command line, contacts, convention, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, foss, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, microbhyve, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, psarc case, release, shell, software, sync, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD 13.1 is released, Unix command line conventions over time, Branching for NetBSD 10, Microbhyve, Own your Calendar and Contacts with OpenBSD, the PSARC case for ZFS, and more
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455: Ken Thompson Singularity
May 19th, 2022 | 45 mins 21 secs
berkeley, bsd, dataset, debugger, distribution, dragonflybsd, filesystem, freebsd, game, game development, gaming, godot, guide, hardenedbsd, hare compiler, howto, interview, jails, lldb, multiprocess support, netbsd, nuclear apocalypse, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, thinkpad t460s, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, and more.
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454: Compiling 50% faster
May 12th, 2022 | 48 mins 50 secs
berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, faster compile, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kernel compiling, nas, nas building, netbsd, network attached storage, open source, openbsd, openbsd 7.1, operating system, os, packages, ports, quick compile, randot, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, v openbsd, years of service, zfs, zpool
OpenBSD 7.1 is out, Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS Part 2, Let's try V on OpenBSD, Waiting for Randot, Compiling an OpenBSD kernel 50% faster, A Salute for 10+ years of service, and more
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453: TwinCat/BSD Hypervisor
May 5th, 2022 | 45 mins 13 secs
amazon, aws, beckhoff, berkeley, bsd, bsd hypervisor, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, driver, driver development, ec2, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, jails, kernel module, nas, netbsd, network attached storage, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, release, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, twincat, unix, write device driver, zfs, zpool
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS, Writing a device driver for Unix V6, EC2: What Colin Percival’s been up to, Beckhoff releases TwinCAT/BSD Hypervisor, Writing a NetBSD kernel module, and more.
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452: The unknown hackers
April 28th, 2022 | 46 mins 29 secs
bedroom, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, dual boot, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hackers, hardenedbsd, homelab, howto, interview, jails, netbsd, nixos, open source, openbsd, openssh, operating system, os, packages, papers, ports, release, shell, software, testbed, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
The unknown hackers, Papers we love to read, Dual Boot Homelab in The Bedroom by the bed testbed, OpenSSH 9.0 released, OS battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS, and more
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451: Tuning ZFS recordsize
April 21st, 2022 | 1 hr 45 secs
backups, berkeley, bsd, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, dump, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, intel, interview, laptop, mount, mounted, mounting, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, optimizing, os, packages, ports, power consumption, recordsize, release, shell, software, tcpdump, trident, trueos, tuning, tutorial, unix, wireless bridge, zfs, zpool
Full system backups with FFS snapshots, ZFS and dump(8), tuning recordsize in OpenZFS, Optimizing FreeBSD Power Consumption on Modern Intel Laptops, remember to check for ZFS filesystems being mounted, Use tcpdump to save wireless bridge, and more
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450: Unix Tool Writing
April 14th, 2022 | 58 mins 53 secs
berkeley, best practices, bsd, coding, cron, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, errors, filesystem, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, libressl, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, programming, release, shell, software, taskwarrior, tool writing, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, unix philosophy, zfs, zpool
The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, and more.
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449: Reproducible clean $HOME
April 7th, 2022 | 50 mins 17 secs
berkeley, bsd, clean home, dataset, distribution, dragonflybsd, dual booting, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, hellosystem, howto, impermanence, interview, jail, lazy approach, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, q4 status report, release, reproducible, rockpro64, server, shell, software, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, zfs, zpool
FreeBSD Status Report 4th Quarter 2021, Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence, Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server, helloSystem 0.7.0 is out, lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting, going to jail, and more.
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448: Controlling Resource Limits
March 31st, 2022 | 45 mins 22 secs
berkeley, bsd, cpu frequency scheduling, dataset, distribution, dns, dragonflybsd, freebsd, gsoc, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, open source, openbsd, operating system, os, packages, ports, rctl, release, resource limits, rsync, shell, software, summer of code, technical notes, trident, trueos, tutorial, unix, userland, zfs, zpool
Controlling Resource Limits with rctl in FreeBSD, It’s always DNS, Google Summer of Code in BSD Projects, Rsync Technical Notes - Q4 2021, Userland CPU frequency scheduling for OpenBSD, and more.