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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. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

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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. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

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Episodes
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610: OpenBSD 7.7

5/8/2025
OpenBSD 7.7, ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication, Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good, Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel, Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon, Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree, The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenBSD 7.7 (https://OpenBSD.org/77.html) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 2: Replication (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-tools-part-2-replication/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good (https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/) Graphed and measured: running TCP input in parallel (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250418114827) Introducing an OpenBSD LLDP daemon (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250425082010) Hardware discovery: ACPI & Device Tree (https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/hardware-autoconfiguration) The 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey is Here (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/the-2025-freebsd-community-survey-is-here/) 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 Brad - new users (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/610/feedback/brad%20-%20new%20users.md) 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)

Duration:01:02:07

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609: Toe-Dipping in Amsterdam

5/1/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking (https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-advanced-networking/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/04/07/launching-bssg-my-journey-from-dynamic-cms-to-bash-static-site-generator/) News Roundup OpenZFS Cheat Sheet (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-cheat-sheet/) Dipping my toes in OpenBSD, in Amsterdam (https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/dipping-my-toes-in-openbsd-in-amsterdam/) SSH keys from a command: sshd's AuthorizedKeysCommand directive (https://jpmens.net/2025/03/25/authorizedkeyscommand-in-sshd/) How to move bhyve VM and Jail container from one host to another host ? (https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250215) 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 Dave - Webstack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/tree/master/episodes/609/feedback) 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)

Duration:00:54:47

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608: Reboot required

4/24/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines World Backup Day 2025: Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/world-backup-day-2025-robust-reliable-backup-solutions-with-openzfs/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad (https://pilledtexts.com/why-i-use-a-17-year-old-thinkpad/) News Roundup Motivations (https://stevengharms.com/longform/my-first-freebsd/motivations/) Tinker Writer Deck (https://tinker.sh/) How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-determine-if-a-system-reboot-is-necessary/) Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender (https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/03/who_me/) 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 Ian - Personal Web Stack (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/ian%20-%20personal%20stack.md) Brendan - Storage Backends (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/608/feedback/brendan%20-%20storage%20backends.md) 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)

Duration:00:48:31

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607: Sign those commits

4/17/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines We should improve libzfs somewhat (https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-12-we-should-improve-libzfs-somewhat/) Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark (https://klarasystems.com/articles/accurate-effective-storage-performance-benchmark/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD (https://dan.langille.org/2025/02/24/debugging-aids-for-pf-firewall-rules-on-freebsd/) OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/openbsd-and-thunderbolt-issue-on-thinkpad-t480s/) Signing Git Commits with an SSH key (https://jpmens.net/2025/02/26/signing-git-commits-with-an-ssh-key/) Pgrep (https://www.c0t0d0s0.org/blog/pgrep-z-r.html) LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs (https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html) 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 Felix - Bhyve and NVME (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/607/feedback/Felix%20-%20bhyve%20and%20nvme.md) 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)

Duration:00:56:27

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606: Tackling 7k bugs

4/10/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13.5-RELEASE Now Available (https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2025-March/000181.html) From Chaos to Clarity: How We Tackled FreeBSD’s 7,000 Bug Backlog (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-chaos-to-clarity-how-we-tackled-freebsds-7000-bug-backlog/) News Roundup zfs-2.3.1 (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.1) Complications of funding an open source operating system (https://posixcafe.org/blogs/2025/03/11/0/) Why Choose to Use the BSDs in 2025 (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/) First Use on GhostBSD (https://technophobeconfessions.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/first-use-on-ghostbsd/) Better Shell History Search (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/better_shell_history_search.html) 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 Russell - Questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/606/feedback/russell%20-%20questions.md) 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)

Duration:01:11:18

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605: Fediverse Weather Service

4/3/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands (https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/) Core Infrastructure: Why You Need to Control Your NTP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/core-infrastructure-why-you-need-to-control-your-ntp/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Automatic Display switch for OpenBSD laptop (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/automatic-display-switch-for-openbsd-laptop/) Using a 2013 Mac Pro as a FreeBSD Desktop (https://forums.FreeBSD.org/threads/using-a-2013-mac-pro-as-a-freebsd-desktop.96805/) Some terminal frustrations (https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/) Copying all files of a directory, including hidden ones, with cp (https://bhoot.dev/2025/cp-dot-copies-everything/) You Should Use /tmp/ More (https://atthis.link/blog/2025/58671.html) 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 Tyler - Toms request (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/605/feedback/Tyler%20-%20Toms%20request.md) 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)

Duration:00:58:43

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604: Future looks back

3/27/2025
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 (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The Future Looking Back At Us: Joanne McNeil on Cyberpunk (https://filmmakermagazine.com/127295-joanne-mcneil-cyberpunk/) Why ZFS reports less available space space accounting explained/ (https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-zfs-reports-less-available-space-space-accounting-explained/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) We are destroying software (https://antirez.com/news/145) News Roundup FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106 (https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-13.5-Beta-2) TUHS: 1972 UNIX V2 "Beta" Resurrected (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031420.html) Some thoughts on why 'inetd activation' didn't catch on (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/InetdActivationWhyNot) If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well (https://svpow.com/2025/02/14/if-you-believe-in-artificial-intelligence-take-five-minutes-to-ask-it-about-stuff-you-know-well/) 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 Nelson - gcc puzzlement (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/604/feedback/Nelson%20-%20gcc%20puzzlement.md) 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)

Duration:00:49:09

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603: Expanding the RAID-Z

3/20/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines OpenZFS RAID-Z Expansion: A New Era in Storage Flexibility (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/openzfs-raid-z-expansion-a-new-era-in-storage-flexibility/) ZFS Orchestration Tools – Part 1: Snapshots (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-orchestration-part-1-zfs-snapshots-tools/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) News Roundup Manage OpenBSD with AWS Systems Manager (https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025-01-23-manage-openbsd-with-ssm/) TUHS:The Case of UNIX vs. The UNIX System (https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2025-February/031403.html) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) OPNsense 25.1 (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=45460.msg227323) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:36:24

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602: Wildcard Gotchas

3/13/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines I Tried FreeBSD as a Desktop in 2025. Here's How It Went (https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-freebsd-as-a-desktop-heres-how-it-went/) Cray 1 Supercomputer Performance Comparisons With Home Computers Phones and Tablets (http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20Performance%20Comparisons%20With%20Home%20Computers%20Phones%20and%20Tablets.htm) News Roundup State of virtualizing the BSDs on Apple Silicon (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250222.html) The first perfect computer (https://celso.io/posts/2025/01/26/the-first-perfect-computer/) Find Name Wildcard Gotcha (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindNameWildcardGotcha) New Patreon Levels Level 1 - user memory (Tip Jar) @ $1 / month Show your support for the show Level 2 - virtual memory (Ad-Free Episodes) @ $5 / month 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 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:57:11

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601: The Monospace Web

3/6/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again (https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again) The Biggest Unix Security Loophole (https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/Bell_Labs/ReedsShellHoles.pdf) News Roundup The monospace Web (https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/) What a FreeBSD kernel message about your bridge means (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FreeBSDBridgeMacMovedMessage) Installing FreeBSD on a HP 250 G9 (https://brunopacheco1.github.io/posts/installing-freebsd-on-hp-250-g9/) Networking for System Administrators (https://mwl.io/nonfiction/networking#n4sa) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:47:56

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600: The big 600

2/27/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Topics Hector Martin stands down as lead developer on Asahi Linux (https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/) 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 (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-arm&m=173823317816570&w=2) 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 (https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-openssl-vulnerability-found-by-apple-allows-mitm-attacks/) announced today. FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time (https://m4c.pl/blog/freebsd-audio-setup-bitperfect-equalizer-realtime/) OpenBGPD 8.8 released (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250207192657) 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 The Most Important Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/600/feedback/jt%20-%20the_most_important_question.md) 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)

Duration:01:14:34

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599: Core Infrastructure Control

2/20/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Controlling Your Core Infrastructure: DNS (https://klarasystems.com/articles/controlling-core-infrastructure-dns-server-setup/) Laptop Support and Usability Project Update: First Monthly Report & Community Initiatives (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/laptop-support-and-usability-project-update-first-monthly-report-community-initiatives/) News Roundup FreeBSD at FOSDEM 2025 (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-at-fosdem-2025/) Uploading a message to an IMAP server using curl (https://jpmens.net/2025/01/23/uploading-a-message-to-an-imap-server-using-curl/) The Death of Email Forwarding (https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/01/29/the-death-of-email-forwarding/) Cruising a VPS at OpenBSD Amsterdam (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/cruising-a-vps-at-openbsd-amsterdam/) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:01:01:20

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598: UFS1 up-to-date

2/13/2025
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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Key Considerations for Benchmarking Network Storage Performance (https://klarasystems.com/articles/considerations-benchmarking-network-storage-performance/) OpenZFS 2.3.0 available (https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.0) News Roundup Updates on AsiaBSDCon 2025 - Cancelled - (https://lists.asiabsdcon.org/pipermail/announce/2025-January/000046.html) GhostBSD Desktop Conference (https://www.phoronix.com/news/BSD-Desktop-Conference-GhostBSD) Recovering from external zroot (https://adventurist.me/posts/00350) Create a new issue in a Github repository with Ansible (https://jpmens.net/2025/01/25/create-a-new-issue-in-a-github-repository/) Stories I refuse to believe (https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/stories-i-refuse-to-believe) Defer the January 19, 2038 date limit in UFS1 filesystems to February 7, 2106 (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=1111a44301da39d7b7459c784230e1405e8980f8) 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 Feedback - Nelson - Ada/GCC (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/598/feedback/Nelson%20Feedback.md) 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)

Duration:01:05:44

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597: OpenBSD FRAME sockets

2/6/2025
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 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) 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 (https://www.5snb.club/posts/2023/do-not-stab/) FreeBSD jail host with multiple local networks (https://savagedlight.me/2014/03/07/freebsd-jail-host-with-multiple-local-networks/) News Roundup Generative AI is for the idea guys (https://rachsmith.com/ai-is-for-the-idea-guys/) Static dual stack networking on OmniOS Solaris Zones (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/static-dual-stack-networking-on-omnios-solaris-zones/) FRAME sockets added to OpenBSD (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241219080430) The problem with combining DNS CNAME records and anything else (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DNSCNAMEAndOthersWhyNot) Conference Bits BSD-NL (https://bsdnl.nl/) BSDCan (https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/) 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 (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel (https://t.me/bsdnow)

Duration:00:51:02

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596: Globbing /etc

1/30/2025
Ridding my home network of IP addresses, Tools for Identifying and Resolving Storage Bottlenecks, OpenBGPD 8.7 released, Let's port the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64, Modify an OmniOS service parameters, The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Ridding my home network of IP addresses (https://gist.github.com/jmason/aabd9d3acc86d9098654e8559e93b707) Tools for Identifying and Resolving Storage Bottlenecks (https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-tracking-storage-performance-openzfs-bottlenecks/) News Roundup OpenBGPD 8.7 released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241218195732) Let's port the GNAT Ada compiler to macOS/aarch64 (https://briancallahan.net/blog/20250112.html) Modify an OmniOS service parameters (https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/modify-an-omnios-service-parameters/) The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EtcGlobHistory) 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 Nelson - TUHS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/596/feedback/nelson-tuhs.md) 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)

Duration:00:51:41

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595: Arc: the Triumph

1/23/2025
Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC, Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights, Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail, Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD, Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web, Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC (https://klarasystems.com/articles/applying-the-arc-algorithm-to-the-arc/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/advancing-cloud-native-containers-on-freebsd-podman-testing-highlights/) News Roundup Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail (https://tumfatig.net/2024/running-web-browsers-in-freebsd-jail/) Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD (https://www.ncartron.org/fixing-pf-not-allowing-ipv6-traffic-on-freebsd.html) Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web (https://spectrum.ieee.org/minitel-the-online-world-france-built-before-the-web) Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (https://cacm.acm.org/research/why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/) 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 Sam - EDR Support (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/595/feedback/Sam%20-%20EDR%20Support.md) 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)

Duration:01:48:23

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594: Name that Domain

1/16/2025
Security Audit of the Capsicum and bhyve Subsystems, ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel, NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board, Domain Naming, BSDCan 2025 CFP, The Internet Gopher from Minnesota, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines Roundup Storage and Network Diagnostics (https://klarasystems.com/articles/winter_2024_roundup_storage_and_network_diagnostics/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Security Audit of the Capsicum and bhyve Subsystems (https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024_Code_Audit_Capsicum_Bhyve_FreeBSD_Foundation.pdf) News Roundup ZFS on Linux and block IO limits show some limits of being out of the kernel (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ZFSOnLinuxVersusBlockIOLimits) NetBSD on a ROCK64 Board (https://simonevellei.com/blog/posts/netbsd-on-a-rock64-board/) Domain Naming (https://ambient.institute/domain-naming/) BSDCan 2025 CFP (https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/papers.html) The Internet Gopher from Minnesota (https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-internet-gopher-from-minnesota) 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 Brendan - MinIO (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/594/feedback/Brendan%20-%20minio.md) 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)

Duration:01:10:39

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593: rc.conf Validator

1/9/2025
FreeBSD replaces sendmail with dma, Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO’s Perspective, How I fell in love with OpenBSD, A GDC package for macOS/aarch64, Validate Your FreeBSD rc.conf, Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve, OPNsense 24.7.10 released, Printing With FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD replaces sendmail with dma (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd14-replaces-sendmail-with-dma/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) Why We Use FreeBSD Over Linux: A CTO’s Perspective (https://dzone.com/articles/why-we-use-freebsd-over-linux-a-ctos-perspective) News Roundup How I fell in love with OpenBSD (https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/how-i-fell-in-love-with-openbsd) A GDC package for macOS/aarch64 (https://briancallahan.net/blog/) Validate Your FreeBSD rc.conf (https://dev.to/scovl/validate-your-freebsd-rcconf-e94) Replacing Proxmox with FreeBSD and Bhyve (https://abnml.com/blog/2024/11/26/replacing-proxmox-with-freebsd-and-bhyve/) OPNsense 24.7.10 released (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=44413.0) Printing With FreeBSD (https://blog.smithfamily.org.uk/posts/2024/11/freebsd_print/) 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 Christian - Deprecated vs Depreciated (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/593/feedback/Christian%20-%20Deprecated%20vs%20Depreciated.md) Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

Duration:00:57:47

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592: Wohoo, FreeBSD 14.2

1/2/2025
ZFS Storage Fault Management, FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement, I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6, Spell checking in Vim, OpenBSD Memory Conflict Messages, The Biggest Shell Programs in the World, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Headlines ZFS Storage Fault Management (https://klarasystems.com/articles/zfs-storage-fault-management-linux/?utm_source=BSD%20Now&utm_medium=Podcast) FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.2R/announce/) News Roundup I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6 (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IPv6AndStillHavingNAT) Spell checking in Vim (https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/spell-checking-in-vim/) OpenBSD Memory Conflict Messages (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/OpenBSDMemoryConflictMessages) The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/The-Biggest-Shell-Programs-in-the-World) Beastie Bits The Connectivity of Things: Network Cultures since 1832 (https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5866/The-Connectivity-of-ThingsNetwork-Cultures-since) Initial list of 21 EuroBSDcon 2024 videos released (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241130184249) -current now has more flexible performance policy (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241129093132) OpenBSD 5.1 on Sun Ultra 5 (https://eggflix.foolbazar.eu/w/fa211a4f-6984-4c03-a6d2-b8c329d9459d) 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 https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/592/feedback/Phillip%20-%20regressions.md 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)

Duration:01:01:36

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591: The Three Wise Men (hosts)

12/25/2024
In this special episode, we are interviewing ourselves with the questions that out audience asked us many moons ago. Stay tuned for some insights about hobbies, all things computers, projects, and a whole lot more. Have fun and happy holidays! NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) and the BSDNow Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/bsdnow) Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside website with the older episodes (before 283), depending on how your podcast feed service works, you may get a bunch of new notifications of episodes. Sadly there's nothing I can do about that, but I wanted everyone to be aware that. Also once we hit 600, we will be announcing some new Patreon Perks and new ways you can engage and get involved with the show. More to come in the upcoming weeks as we finalize those plans amongst the team. 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)

Duration:01:11:48