BSD Now

100: Straight from the Src

July 29th, 2015  |  1 hr 13 mins

bsd, c2k15, delphix, dos, dragonflybsd, exploit, freebsd, guide, hackathon, howto, illumos, interview, joyent, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openssh, openzfs, pam, pcbsd, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, portability, smartos, solaris, tcp, tutorial, zfs

We've finally reached a hundred episodes, and this week we'll be talking to Sebastian Wiedenroth about pkgsrc. Though originally a NetBSD project, now it runs pretty much everywhere, and he even runs a conference about it!

77: Noah's L2ARC

February 18th, 2015  |  1 hr 26 mins

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, illumos, interview, libressl, m0n0wall, netbsd, omnios, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openzfs, opnsense, pcbsd, raid, rng, smartos, solaris, tutorial, zfs

This week on the show, we'll be chatting with Alex Reece and Matt Ahrens about what's new in the world of OpenZFS. After that, we're starting a new tutorial series on submitting your first patch. All the latest BSD news and answers to your emails, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

62: Gift from the Sun

November 5th, 2014  |  34 mins 8 secs

bsd, capsicum, dragonflybsd, freebsd, geli, geom, guide, howto, illumos, interview, ixsystems, jails, meetbsd, meetbsdca, netbsd, openbsd, openindiana, opensolaris, openzfs, oracle, pcbsd, solaris, sun, tutorial, zfs

We're away at MeetBSD this week, but we've still got a great show for you. We'll be joined by Pawel Dawidek, who's done quite a lot of things in FreeBSD over the years, including the initial ZFS port. We'll get to hear how that came about, what he's up to now and a whole lot more. We'll be back next week with a normal episode of BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

299: The NAS Fleet

May 22nd, 2019  |  52 mins 47 secs

aix, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, lldb, nas, netbsd, openbsd, qemu, trident, true command, trueos, tutorial, unleashed, v7

Running AIX on QEMU on Linux on Windows, your NAS fleet with TrueCommand, Unleashed 1.3 is available, LLDB: CPU register inspection support extension, V7 Unix programs often not written as expected, and more.

Episode 263: Encrypt That Pool | BSD Now 263

September 7th, 2018  |  1 hr 3 mins

asigra, bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, spectre, trident, trueos, tutorial, vmworld

Mitigating Spectre/Meltdown on HP Proliant servers, omniOS installation setup, debugging a memory corruption issue on OpenBSD, CfT for OpenZFS native encryption, Asigra TrueNAS backup appliance shown at VMworld, NetBSD 6 EoL, and more.

Episode 241: Bowling in the LimeLight | BSD Now 241

April 12th, 2018  |  2 hrs 1 min

Second round of ZFS improvements in FreeBSD, Postgres finds that non-FreeBSD/non-Illumos systems are corrupting data, interview with Kevin Bowling, BSDCan list of talks, and cryptographic right answers.

233: High on ZFS

February 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 50 mins

..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

We explain the physics behind ZFS, DTrace switching to the GPL, Emacs debugging, syncookies coming to PF & FreeBSD’s history on EC2.

214: The history of man, kind

October 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 30 mins

..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trueos, tutorial

The costs of open sourcing a project are explored, we discover why PS4 downloads are so slow, delve into the history of UNIX man pages, and more.

184: Tokyo Dreaming

March 8th, 2017  |  1 hr 34 mins

..., bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, pcbsd, tutorial

This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are in Tokyo for AsiaBSDCon, but not to worry, we have a full episode lined up and ready to go. Hackathon reports

295: Fun with funlinkat()

April 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 1 min

bsd, dragonflybsd, freebsd, guide, hardenedbsd, howto, interview, netbsd, openbsd, trident, trueos, tutorial

Introducing funlinkat(), an OpenBSD Router with AT&T U-Verse, using NetBSD on a raspberry pi, ZFS encryption is still under development, Rump kernel servers and clients tutorial, Snort on OpenBSD 6.4, and more.