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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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683: GeFS (GeFUS)

683: GeFS (GeFUS)

2026-10-0143:21

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 [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
682: NAS NAS NAS

682: NAS NAS NAS

2026-09-2439:06

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 [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
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 [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
680: What FS?

680: What FS?

2026-09-1044:44

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. Feedback/Questions Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
679: It also goes to 11

679: It also goes to 11

2026-09-0301:02:35

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 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 [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel
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