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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 a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros.
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- 3 days ago49 min
688: Eighty
OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1 OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more News Roundup WebZFS has reached Beta3 HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers Beastie Bits NetBSD smashes funding goal for 2026, set $50K, currently at $124K dbupdate added to -current and backported to 7.9 and 8.0 emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD Ports 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. Feedback/Questions Reese - Casio BBS ``` Team, I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron. Thanks Reese --- - Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [feedback@bsdnow.tv](mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) - Join us and other BSD Fans in our [BSD Now Telegram channel](https://t.me/bsdnow) ---
- 1 weeks ago56 min
687: Long Term Support
NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters August/September Newsletter News Roundup All About the Whistle InterJet FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove. Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag SSH certificates: the better SSH experience Beastie Bits A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition LibreSSL 4.2.2 and 4.3.3 released openssh-10.6 released New laptops and OpenBSD: HP Envy 17-DA0013dx Brutal Unix 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. Feedback/Questions Sasha - bastille plugin Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones. https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- 2 weeks ago40 min
686: Yell in your Shell
! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. Learnign at Scale News Roundup Thinkcenter m710q IPFS Remote Pinning Beastie Bits ThinkPhone lapocket OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8) vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs OpenBGPD 9.3 released 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. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- 3 weeks ago1h 2m
685: Busy at the bar
NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2 Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD News Roundup Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap Notes on clarifying man pages Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD. [Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/) Beastie Bits OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current" Sylve Ansible Modules 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. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- Oct 8, 202659 min
684: Nerds 2.0
Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator. Notes on software quality What the Fuck Happened to Nerds News Roundup Add ACPI layer into vmd NetBSD 11 from scratch FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so 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. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- Oct 1, 202643 min
683: GeFS (GeFUS)
NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeFS GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future NetBSD 9.5 has been released ekkoBSD 2.1 released News Roundup Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent 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. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- Sep 24, 202639 min
682: NAS NAS NAS
Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more... Headlines [Two more BSD based NASes have appeared] BSDNAS The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP They're building on top of zVault's fork for some of the effort FreeCORE Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #1 Developer admits to vibecoding - Statement #2 FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD News Roundup ICEBP Finally Documented Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag OpenSSH 10.5 Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers. 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. Feedback/Questions [Phil - Listener Feedback] Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important - Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made! And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me there, plus google etc. I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the last podcast a few times - They don't know yet???? Now I'm stuck! I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop policy and offer similar pkg/build systems? Thanks Phill Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
- Sep 17, 20261h 0m
681: 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 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. 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.. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
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