JT Pennington

BSD Now

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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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JT Pennington

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www.bsdnow.tv

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

446: Debugging ioctl problems 17.03.2022

Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3, The FreeBSD Boot Process, Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD, Why my game PC runs FreeBSD and Kubuntu, DNSSEC, Badgers, and Orcs, Oh My, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Restoring a Tadpole SPARCbook 3 Part 1: Introduction The FreeBSD Boot Process News Roundup Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenB...

445: Journey to BSD 10.03.2022

Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The complete idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro FreeBSD Periodic Scripts N...

444: Historic Developments 03.03.2022

The History of Berkeley DB, modern inetd in FreeBSD, the Unix argv[0] issue, retrocomputing can be more than games, read section 8 of the Unix users manual, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB Modern inetd in FreeBSD News Roundup The reason Unix has the argv...

443: Certified Unix Compliant 24.02.2022

Certifying an OS Unix compliant, 2021 FreeBSD Foundation Impact Report, Netflix, Disney, and other widevine content on FreeBSD, file hashes updated for NetBSD 8.1, Playing with CD-RWs on FreeBSD, Why "process substitution" is a late feature in Unix shells, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What goes into making an OS to be Unix com...

442: Birthing Unix 17.02.2022

The Birth of Unix, Help request for three big Lumina items, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, HardenedBSD January 2022 Status Report, OPNsense 22.1 "Observant Owl" released, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Birth of Unix Help requested for three big items for Lumina News Roundup FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s HardenedBSD January 202...

441: Migration to BSD 10.02.2022

Migrating our servers from Linux to FreeBSD, Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD, LibBSDDialog, FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD Cluster provisioning with Nomad and Pot on FreeBSD News Roundup LibBSDDialog Free...

440: BSD Inside Zone 03.02.2022

GhostBSD 22.01 is available, Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD, Inside zone installation, Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant, How to install Gnome on OpenBSD, The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch", and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GhostBSD 22.01 is available Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and...

439: Browser Tab Unix 27.01.2022

ACM: It takes a community, Don’t use discord for OSS projects, Unix in a browser tab, OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.10 available, Omni OS CE v11 is out, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines It takes a community - ACM PSA: Dont use Discord for Open Source Projects Jeffrey Paul - Discord Is Not An Acceptable Choice For Free Software Projects...

438: Toolchain Adventures 20.01.2022

FreeBSD Foundation reviews 2021 activities, DragonflyBSD 6.2.1 is here, Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 available, toolchain adventures, The OpenBSD BASED Challenge Day 7, Bastille Template: AdGuard Home, setting up ZSH on FreeBSD and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Foundation 2021 in Review Software Development Year End Fundraising Rep...

437: Audit that package 13.01.2022

Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit, 20 year old bug that went to Mars, FreeBSD on Slimbook, LLDB FreeBSD kernel core dump support, Steam on OpenBSD, Cool but obscure X11 tools, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Using FreeBSD’s pkg-audit The 20 year old bug that went to Mars It's rare that you come across a bug so subtle that it can last for...

436: Unix Standards Battle 06.01.2022

UNIX Wars, What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3, FreeBSD 12.3 is here, TrueNAS 13 begins, what Unix pre-boot envs looked liked, run Unix on Microcontrollers with PDP-11 emulators and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines UNIX Wars – The Battle for Standards What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That pa...

435: Year End Interview 30.12.2021

In this last episode of 2021, we interview Solene from OpenBSD. She’s blogging about her experiences with OpenBSD on dataswamp.org, the webzine she created, how she got involved and other topics. Enjoy and best wishes for 2022! NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interview - Solene Rapenne - solene+www@dataswamp.org / [@ solene@bsd.network ](@ solene@bs...

434: It’s Quiz-mas time 23.12.2021

In this special xmas episode we let the audience interview us using questions they sent us and we’ll answer now. Tom, Allan, JT, and I are all here, so stay tuned for some interesting answers to your questions. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interview Allan - allanjude@freebsd.org / Twitter : @allanjude Benedict - bcr@freebsd.org / Twitter : @bsdbc...

433: GhostBSD of Christmas 16.12.2021

GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO available, why v7 matters so much, OpenBSD on VIA Eden X2 powered HP t510 Thin Client, OctoPkg GUI Package Manager, chdir(2) support in posix_spawn(3), install doas on FreeBSD, Access Modem's Web Interface with OPNsense, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GhostBSD 21.11.24 ISO is now available Why v7 matters so...

432: Introducing OpenZFS 3.0 - Yeah 09.12.2021

HAMBug hybrid meeting, Demystifying OpenZFS 2.0, OpenZFS 3.0 introduced at Dev Summit, HardenedBSD Home Infrastructure Status, Running Awk in parallel, FreeBSD Announces Wayland 1.19.91, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines HAMBug hybrid meeting Hoping to squeeze in an in-person meeting incase the pandemic situation regresses *** ### D...

431: FreeBSD EC2 Agents 02.12.2021

Why use OpenBSD part 2, FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, OpenBSD Webzine Issue 4, Ending up liking GNOME, OPNsense 21.7.5 released, Jenkins with FreeBSD Agents in EC2, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 2: Why use OpenBSD? Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Archi...

430: OpenBSD Onwards 25.11.2021

Manipulate a ZFS pool from Rescue System, FreeBSD 3rd Quarter Report, Monitoring FreeBSD jails form the host, OpenBSD on RPI4 with Full Disk Encryption, Onwards with OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Going From Recovery Mode to Normal Operations with OpenZFS Manipulating a Pool from the Rescue System Monitoring FreeBSD jail...

429: Advanced ZFS Snapshots 18.11.2021

FreeBSD Foundation October Fundraising Update, Advanced ZFS Snapshots, Full WireGuard setup with OpenBSD, MidnightBSD a Linux Alternative, FreeBSD Audio, Tuning Power Consumption on FreeBSD Laptops, Thoughts on Spelling Fixes, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Foundation October 2021 Fundraising Update Advanced ZFS Snapshot...

428: Cult of BSD 11.11.2021

OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started, Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD, Measuring power efficiency of a CPU frequency scheduler on OpenBSD, CultBSD, a whole lot of BSD bits, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 1: How it all started Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD News Roundup Measuring pow...

427: Logging is important 04.11.2021

Build Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation, logging is important, how BSD authentication works, pfSense turns 15 years old, OPNsense Business Edition 21.10 released, getting started with pot, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap If you like BSDNow, consider supporting us on Patreon Headlines Building Your FreeBSD Developer Workstation Setup What I learned from Russian s...

426: OpenBSD 7.0 Hero 28.10.2021

A Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog, OpenBSD 7.0 is out, OpenBSD and Wayland, UVM faults yield significant performance boost, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines If you like BSDNow, consider supporting us on Patreon What Makes a Good Time to Use OpenZFS Slog and When Should You Avoid It OpenBSD 7.0 is out News Roundup OpenBSD and Wayland Unlocking UVM faults y...

425: Releases galore 21.10.2021

The New Architecture on the Block, OpenBSD on Vortex86DX CPU, lots of new releases, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines RISC-V: The New Architecture on the Block If you want more RISC-V, check out JT's interview with Mark Himelstein the CTO of RISC-V International *** ### OpenBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU *** ## News Roundup aka there’s been lots of releases r...

424: Unveiling OpenBSD’s pledge 14.10.2021

J language working on OpenBSD, Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools, What is FreeBSD, actually?, OpenBSD's pledge and unveil from Python, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines I got the J language working on OpenBSD Rubenerd: Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys News Roundup What is FreeBSD, actually? Think again. OpenBS...

423: RACK the Stack 07.10.2021

FreeBSD serves Netflix Video at 400Gb/s, Using the RACK TCP stack, an OpenBSD script to update packages fast, Plasma System Monitor and FreeBSD, TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!), auto lock screen on OpenBSD using xidle and xlock, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Headlines Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD Using the FreeBSD RACK TCP Stack...

422: The Brian Callahan Interview 30.09.2021

We interview Dr. Brian Callahan about his language porting work for OpenBSD, teaching with BSDs and recruiting students into projects, research, and his work at NYC*BUG in this week’s episode of BSDnow. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap Interview - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan - https://briancallahan.net/ / bcallah@bsdnetwork Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored...

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