BSD Now

JT Pennington
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BSD Now

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.

  1. 1D AGO

    605: 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 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 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

    59 min

  2. MAR 27

    604: 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 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 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

    49 min

  3. MAR 20

    603: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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

    36 min

  4. MAR 13

    602: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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 Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

    57 min

  5. MAR 6

    601: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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

    48 min

  6. FEB 27

    600: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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 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

    1h 15m

  7. FEB 20

    599: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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

    1h 1m

  8. FEB 13

    598: 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 This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon 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 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 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

    1h 6m
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About

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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  • Creator
    JT Pennington
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2025
  • Episodes
    605
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 JT Pennington
  • Show Website
    BSD Now

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