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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How many episodes does BSD Now have?

The podcast currently has 624 episodes available.

BSD Now episodes:

April 10, 2025606: Tackling 7k bugs
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available, From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog, zfs-2.3.1, Complications of funding an open source operating system, Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025, First Use on GhostBSD, Better Shell History Search, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available
From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog
News Roundup
zfs-2.3.1
Complications of funding an open source operating system
Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025
First Use on GhostBSD
Better Shell History Search
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Russell - Questions
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1h 12min
April 03, 2025605: Fediverse Weather Service
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands, Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP, Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop, Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop, Some terminal frustrations, Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp, You Should Use /tmp/ More, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP
News Roundup
Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop
Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop
Some terminal frustrations
Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp
You Should Use /tmp/ More
Tarsnap
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Tyler - Toms request
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59min
March 27, 2025604: Future looks back
The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk, Why ZFS reports less available space, We are destroying software, FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106, 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected, Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on, If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk
Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/
We are destroying software
News Roundup
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106
TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected
Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on
If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
Tarsnap
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Nelson - gcc puzzlement
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50min
March 20, 2025603: Expanding the RAID-Z
OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots, The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, OPNsense 25.1, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility
ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots
News Roundup
Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager
TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System
OpenBGPD 8.8 released
OPNsense 25.1
Tarsnap
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37min
March 13, 2025602: Wildcard Gotchas
I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went, Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets, The first perfect computer, Find Name Wildcard Gotcha, and more
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Headlines
I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went
Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets
News Roundup
State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon
The first perfect computer
Find Name Wildcard Gotcha
New Patreon Levels
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Show your support for the show
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Ad-free episodes
Level 3 - kmem (VIP Patron) @ $10 / month
Everything in higher memory levels &
Your feedback and questions jump the queue and go in the next episode.
Personal shout outs (with your consent) for recommending articles we cover.
Level 4 - physical memory @ $20 / month
What's included:
Everything in higher memory levels &
You can send in audio/video questions and we'll air your audio in the show feedback section (if the quality of your recording is decent)
Behind-the-scenes content - Raw Video from Recording sessions with intro/outro discussion not included in the show
Additional Content when we all make it
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58min
March 06, 2025601: The Monospace Web
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again, The Biggest Unix Security Loophole, The monospace Web, What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means, Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9, Networking for System Administrators, and more.
NOTES
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Headlines
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
The Biggest Unix Security Loophole
News Roundup
The monospace Web
What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means
Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9
Networking for System Administrators
Tarsnap
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48min
February 27, 2025600: The big 600
Lead Asahi Developer stands down, moderators reminiscing about joining the podcast, Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in OpenBSD, FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time, OpenBGPD 8.8 released, and more
NOTES
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Topics
Hector Martin stands down as lead developer on Asahi Linux
No forward progress for Rust to be given first class status in the kernel
Having to maintain a thousand plus patches against a fast moving upstream
project (Linux Kernel)
Dwindling funds
What does this mean for sister projects like OpenBSD?
600th episode flash back
When did you come across BSDNow?
What are some of your highlights?
Where are we going in the future...?
What would we like to do for the show as hosts. Pie in the sky thinking and discussion.
Round Up
Support for the Radxa Orian O6 board in
OpenBSD
As well, the NetBSD project is trying to bring up this board
Conversation around the state of ARM64 SoC and options
LibreSSL is not affected by the OpenSSL
vulnerabilities
announced today.
FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer,
real-time
OpenBGPD 8.8
released
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
The Most Important Question
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1h 15min
February 20, 2025599: Core Infrastructure Control
Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS, Laptop Support and Usability Project Update, FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025, Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl, The Death of Email Forwarding, Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS
Laptop Support and Usability Project Update: First Monthly Report & Community Initiatives
News Roundup
FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025
Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl
The Death of Email Forwarding
Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam
Tarsnap
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1h 2min
February 13, 2025598: UFS1 up-to-date
Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance, OpenZFS 2.3.0 available, Updates on AsiaBSDcon, GhostBSD Desktop Conference, Recovering from external zroot, Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible, Stories I refuse to believe, date limit in UFS1 filesystem extended, and more
NOTES
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Headlines
Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance
OpenZFS 2.3.0 available
News Roundup
Updates on AsiaBSDCon 2025 - Cancelled -
GhostBSD Desktop Conference
Recovering from external zroot
Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible
Stories I refuse to believe
Defer the January 19, 2038 date limit in UFS1 filesystems to February 7, 2106
Tarsnap
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Feedback - Nelson - Ada/GCC
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1h 6min
February 06, 2025597: OpenBSD FRAME sockets
The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header, FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks, Generative AI is for the idea guys, Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones, FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD, The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else, and more
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Headlines
(due to excessive use of the F-bomb, perhaps we should somewhat censor it... You can do so in words... or I can use Tom's favorite Frequency tone to do it in post). You decide and let me know what you think would be funnier.)
Also I'm hoping for some good commentary from you guys on this one. :P
The Do-Not-Stab flag in the HTTP Header
FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks
News Roundup
Generative AI is for the idea guys
Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones
FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD
The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else
Conference Bits
BSD-NL
BSDCan
Tarsnap
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52min

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