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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BSD Now episodes:

September 17, 2026681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure
Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Where Unix runs today
(Dont get distracted by the game)
WebZFS Updates
The bugs are coming from inside the house
NetBSD 11 Support
News Roundup
A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD
Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C
Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation
Beastie Bits
1978 Aussi Users Group Newsletter
Terminal UI and CLI for FreeBSD NFSv4 ACLs
Sounds of the IBM 1401
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
[Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?]
Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department.
Whats the best song about a former Australian colony?
Toto - Africa
Men at work - Down Under
For completeness:
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand)
Don McLean - American Pie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland)
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada)
[Reece - Webzfs]
Guys,
Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly?
Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it.
73..
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1h 1min
September 10, 2026680: What FS?
BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
BSD pt Deux
Code that Built the Internet
Interview JT on WebZFS
TJ: I started by asking JT...
Tarsnap
This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.
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45min
September 03, 2026679: It also goes to 11
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
NetBSD 11 Release
SR-IOV Is a first class feature
News Roundup
Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment
OpenSSH 10.5 released
FreeBSD Ate my RAM
ThinkPad End Game
Tarsnap
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1h 3min
August 27, 2026678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning
Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling
On AI
News Roundup
Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade
Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS!
Why a Flip Phone?
$399 - $640 preorder
BSD Make extravaganza
HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report
MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE
Tarsnap
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48min
August 20, 2026677: Butler at your service
Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more...
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
My Home Assistant Setup
Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates
WPA3 support coming to OpenBSD
Game of Trees 0.127 Released
OpenBSD relayd(8) adds ECDSA support with CA engine code from smtpd(8)
httpd(8) gains support for custom HTTP headers
LLVM toolchain coming to OpenBSD/sparc64
Call for testing: OpenBSD vmm(4)/vmd(8) fd-ification
News Roundup
Wine 11.14 Brings New WoW64 Mode to FreeBSD
I Built a FreeBSD Cloud to Use with FreeBSD
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
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Feedback/Questions
Tyler - IPv6 Question
Reese - WebZFS
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1h 11min
August 13, 2026676: 10 print "goto 10"
The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin
Please, Just Stop Ruining "10 PRINT". Seriously.
News Roundup
BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD
Google Summer of Code 2026 Reports: Testing Compat Linux: Syscall testing
The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA!
The Virtual OS Museum
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Marcus - Linuxulator vs Bhyve
- Reese - Feedback on episode 673
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1h 1min
August 06, 2026675: Going GPL Free
FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
The Computer at the bottom of a canal
FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free
News Roundup
FreeBSD Foundation Welcomes New Board Member: Dave Cottlehuber
Phaethon 1 - a 68010-based Unix machine
Add a new m68k port oriented towards home-brew m68k machines
Bringing Swift to the Apple II
Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Producer note : Ive been insanely busy this past week and I've fallen behind on a few things, including checking the show email. If you sent an email in and we havent covered it yet, we'll get caught back up soon. If yuo haven't sent in an email... shame on you. You should email us and ask us something.
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40min
July 30, 2026674: Software development never changes
Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is Broken
WebZFS Updates
Beta Announcement
Why wont my pool export
zfs iostat
- Pictures so you can get a better idea of how it works
News Roundup
Understanding the Foundation Board’s Role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem
Monitor your devices with LibreNMS on FreeBSD
Diskless Workstations Two Models
Tarsnap
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Feedback/Questions
Davi - BSDCan 2026 Follow up
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1h 1min
July 23, 2026673: There's somebody at the door
Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up.
FreeBSD Foundationals: The Boot Process - From the Loader to Boot Environments
News Roundup
FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop
GhostBSD - March 2026 Finance Report
Make your own Read-Only Device with NetBSD
NFS-problems I didn’t expect at all
Tarsnap
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51min
July 16, 2026672: Kitchen Calculator
Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more...
NOTES
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Headlines
Unix Pipes Under Load: Streaming, Barriers, Backpressure, and Bottlenecks
Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948
News Roundup
FreeBSD AI-assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project launch
Sometimes it actually is the network: a war story
FreeBSD Tribal Knowledge: Boot Enviroment Management
Beastie Bits
OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 released!
OpenBSD/amd64 kernel virtual address space is now 512GB
OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2) are developer-friendly, study finds
Tarsnap
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47min

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