BSD Now

By JT Pennington

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... more

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The podcast currently has 664 episodes available.

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January 15, 2026646: Unix v4
The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...
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Headlines
University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
WebZFS
News Roundup
OpenBGPD 9.0 released
MidnightBSD 4.0
Let's run FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
Figuring out how I want to set up the TVPC
TVPC update
C&C Red Alert2 in your browser
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Feedback/Questions
rick - shout out.md
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1h 15min
January 08, 2026645: Unwrapping gifts
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Headlines
What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87
Perl's decline was cultural
News Roundup
Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity
Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025)
Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas...
HardnedBSD News
FreeBSD + Flua
Json in Base
Building from Source
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Dave - FreeBSD and Flua
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43min
January 01, 2026644: Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?
Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?
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Headlines
What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025?
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Feedback/Questions
- Gary - Storage Is Cheap
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1h 37min
December 25, 2025643: Unwrapping gifts
Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.
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Headlines
Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community
Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
News Roundup
We can't fund our way out of the free and open source maintenance problem
The story of Propolice, the OpenBSD stack protector
Copying everything off a zpool, destroying it, creating a new one, and copying everything back
All aboard the 15.0-RELEASE train!
Beastie Bits
Running A PDP-8 From 1965
The library of time
OPNsense 25.7.9 released
- OPNsense 25.10.1 business edition released
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Martin - recordings
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1h 9min
December 18, 2025642: Look Harder
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Headlines
NOTES
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Headlines
Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative
Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva
News Roundup
We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
The usability of open source operating systems
Phoenix AZ timezone issue
The only existing copy of UNIX v4
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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative
Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M. Oliva
News Roundup
We haven't seen ZFS checksum failures for a couple of years
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again
The usability of open source operating systems
Phoenix AZ timezone issue
The only existing copy of UNIX v4
Tarsnap
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1h 18min
December 11, 2025641: Open to Free
FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...
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Headlines
Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes
We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary
News Roundup
ZFS Boot Environments Explained
Why I (still) love Linux
rocinante - A configuration management tool by the BastilleBSD team
A Grown-up ZFS Data Corruption Bug and YouTube
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Claudio - A Silent Reflection
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56min
December 04, 2025640: Cleaning up Hammer
FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...
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Headlines
FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3
ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization
News Roundup
How I think OpenZFS's 'written' and 'written@' dataset properties work
Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up
[TUHS] David C Brock of CHM: 2024 oral history with Ken Thompson + Doug McIlroy
Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI”
Source and state limiters introduced in pf
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Göran - grafana
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37min
November 27, 2025639: Reproducible Builds
Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...
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Headlines
FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege
How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI
News Roundup
Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks
Crucial FreeBSD Toolkit
Some notes on OpenZFS's 'written' dataset property
vi improvements on Dragonfly
Big news for small /usr partitions
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Feedback/Questions
Patrick - Feedback
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1h 1min
November 20, 2025638: Hipsters want their distribution back
New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more...
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Headlines
Signifier flotation devices
Open Indiana Hipster Announcement
Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
News Roundup
UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A
Making the veb(4) virtual Ethernet bridge VLAN aware
FreeBSD tribal knowledge: minor version upgrades
It's been 10 years since ZFS's 10th aniversary its integration into Solaris - A Reflection
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1h 9min
November 13, 2025637: /etc/hosts
Time to update our /etc/hosts file...
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Show updates
Intro Ruben
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1h 8min

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