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:

May 01, 2025609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam
Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam, SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive, How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking
Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator
News Roundup
OpenZFS Cheat Sheet
Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam
SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive
How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ?
Tarsnap
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Dave - Webstack
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55min
April 24, 2025608: Reboot required
Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS
Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad
News Roundup
Motivations
Tinker Writer Deck
How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check
Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender
Tarsnap
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Ian - Personal Web Stack
Brendan - Storage Backends
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49min
April 17, 2025607: Sign those commits
We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
We should improve libzfs somewhat
Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark
News Roundup
Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD
OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s
Signing Git Commits with an SSH key
Pgrep
LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
Tarsnap
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Felix - Bhyve and NVME
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57min
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
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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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Feedback/Questions
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
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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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Feedback/Questions
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
NOTES
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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
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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

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