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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News

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www.bsdnow.tv

Latest episode

Oct 22, 2026

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Episodes

186: The Fast And the Firewall: Tokyo Drift 22.03.2017

This week on BSDNow, reports from AsiaBSDcon, TrueOS and FreeBSD news, Optimizing IllumOS Kernel, your questions and more. This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines AsiaBSDcon Reports and Reviews AsiaBSDcon schedule Schedule and slides from the 4th bhyvecon Michael Dexter’s trip...

185: Exit Interview 16.03.2017

This is a very special BSD Now! New exciting changes are coming to the show and we’re gonna cover them, so stick around or you’ll miss it! Interview – Kris Moore – kris@trueos.org / @pcbsdKris TrueOS founder, FreeNAS developer, BSD Now co-host Benedict Reuschling – bcr@freebsd.org / @bsdbcr FreeBSD commiter & FreeBSD Foundation Vice President, BSD Now co-host Send questions, comments, show ide...

184: Tokyo Dreaming 08.03.2017

This week on BSDNow, Allan and I are in Tokyo for AsiaBSDCon, but not to worry, we have a full episode lined up and ready to go. Hackathon reports This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines OpenBSD A2k17 hackathon reports a2k17 hackathon report: Patrick Wildt on the arm64 port a2...

183: Getting Steamy Here 01.03.2017

This week on BSDNow, we have “Weird Unix Things”, “Is it getting Steamy in here?” and an Interview about BSD Sockets API. (Those This episode was brought to you by Headlines playonbsd with TrueOS: It’s Getting Steamy in Here and I’ve Had Too Much Wine We’ve done a couple of tutorials in the past on using Steam and Wine with PC-BSD, but now with the addition of playonbsd to the AppCafe library, you...

182: Bloaty McBloatface 22.02.2017

This week on the show, we’ve got FreeBSD quarterly Status reports to discuss, OpenBSD changes to the installer, EC2 and IPv6 and more. Stay This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD changes of note 6 OpenBSD can now be cross built with clang. Work on this continues Build ld.so with -fno-builtin because otherwise clang would optimize the local versions of functions like _dl_memset into a...

181: The Cantrillogy (Not special edition) 15.02.2017

This week on BSDNow we have a cantrill special to bring you! All three interviews back to back in their original glory, you won’t want to miss This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> – Show Notes: – FOSDEM 2017 BSD Dev Room Videos href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/86662/ubuntu-sl...

180: Illuminating the desktop 08.02.2017

This week on BSDNow, I’m out of town but we have a great interview with Ken Moore (My brother) about the latest in BSD desktop computing and This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Interview - Ken Moore - ken@trueos.org TrueOS, Lumina, Sys Admin, The BSD Desktop Ecosystem KM: Thank you...

179: The Wayland Machine 01.02.2017

This week on BSDNow, we’re going to be leading off with the latest news about Wayland and Xorg support on FreeBSD, then a look at OpenBSD ARM64 This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Wayland is now in the FreeBSD Ports tree This commit brings Wayland, the new windowing system...

178: Enjoy the Silence 25.01.2017

This week on BSD Now, we will be discussing a wide variety of topics including Routers, Run-Controls, the “Rule” of silence and some This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines Ports no longer build on EOL FreeBSD versions The FreeBSD ports tree has been updated to automatically f...

177: Getting Pi on my Wifi 18.01.2017

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got Wifi galore, a new iocage and some RPi3 news and guides to share. Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines WiFi: 11n hostap mode added to athn(4) driver, testers wanted “OpenBSD as WiFi access points look set t...

176: Linking your world 11.01.2017

Another exciting week on BSDNow, we are queued up with LLVM / Linking news, a look at NetBSD’s scheduler, This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Headlines FreeBSD Kernel and World, and many Ports, can now be linked with lld “With this change applied I can link the entirety of the FreeBSD/amd64 base system (userla...

175: How the Dtrace saved Christmas 04.01.2017

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got all sorts of post-holiday goodies to share. New OpenSSL APIs, Dtrace, OpenBSD This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenSSL 1.1 API migration path, or the lack thereof As many of you will already be aware, the OpenSSL 1.1.0 release intentionally introduced significant API changes from the previous release. In summary, a large number of data structures that wer...

174: 2016 Highlights 29.12.2016

A look back at 2016 This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Links ZFS in the trenches | BSD Now 123 href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/99991/one-small-step-for-drm-one-giant-leap-for-bsd-bsd-now-143/">One small step for DRM, one giant leap for BSD | BSD Now 143 href="http://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/101...

173: Carry on my Wayland son 21.12.2016

This week on the show, we’ve got some great stories to bring you, a look at the odder side of UNIX history This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> title="Tarsnap"> Headlines syspatch in testing state Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot@ openbsd has posted a call for testing for OpenBSD’s new syspatch tool “syspatch(8), a "binary" patch sys...

172: A tale of BSD from yore 14.12.2016

This week on BSDNow, we have a very special guest joining us to tell us a tale of the early days in BSD history. That plus some new OpenSSH goodness, shell scripting utilities and much more. Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> Headlines Call For Testing: OpenSSH 7.4 Getting ready to head into...

171: The APU - BSD Style! 07.12.2016

Today on the show, we’ve got a look at running OpenBSD on a APU, some BSD in your Android, managing your own FreeBSD cloud service with ansible and much more. Keep it turned on your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 A detailed walkthrough of building an OpenBSD firewall on a PC Engines APU2 It starts with a breakdown of the parts that were pur...

170: Sandboxing Cohabitation 30.11.2016

This week on the show, we’ve got some new info on the talks from EuroBSDCon, a look at sharing a single ZFS pool between Linux and BSD, Sandboxing and much more! Stay tuned for your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> Headlines EuroBSDcon 2016 Presentation Slides Due to circumstances beyond the control of the org...

169: Scheduling your NetBSD 23.11.2016

On today’s episode, we are loaded and ready to go. Lots of OpenBSD news, a look at LetsEncrypt usage, the NetBSD scheduler (oh my) and much more. Keep it tuned to your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Production ready Ted Unangst brings us a piece on what it means to be Production Ready He tells the story of a project he worked on that picked a framework that was “prod...

168: The Post Show Show 16.11.2016

This week on BSDNow. Allan and I are back from MeetBSD! A good time was had by all, lots to discuss, so let’s jump right into it on your place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by Headlines Build a FreeBSD 11.0-release Openstack Image with bsd-cloudinit We are going to prepare a FreeBSD image for Openstack deployment. We do this by creating a FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE instance, installing it a...

167: Playing the Long Game 09.11.2016

This week on BSDNow, Allan & Kris are out at MeetBSD, but we never forget our loyal listeners. We have a great interview Allan did with Scott Long of Netflix & FreeBSD fame, as well as your questions on the place to B...SD! This episode was brought to you by alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org FreeBSD & Netfl...

166: Pass that UNIX Pipe 02.11.2016

This week on the show, we’re loaded up with great stories ranging from System call fuzzing, a history of UNIX Pipes, speeding up MySQL imports and more. Stay tuned, BSDNow is coming your way right now. This episode was brought to you by Headlines System call fuzzing of OpenBSD amd64 using TriforceAFL (i.e. AFL and QEMU) The NCCGroup did a series of fuzz testing against the OpenBSD syscall interfac...

165: Vote4BSD 26.10.2016

This week on BSDNow, we’ve got voting news for you (No not that election), a closer look at This episode was brought to you by src="/images/2.png" alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines ARIN 38 involvement, vote! Isaac (.Ike) Levy, one of our interview guests from earlier this year, is running for a s...

164: Virtualized COW / PI? 19.10.2016

This week on the show, we’ve got all sorts of goodies to discuss. Starting with, vmm, vkernels, raspberry pi and much more! Some iX folks are visiting from out of This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines vmm enabled VMM, the OpenBSD hypervisor, has been imported into current It...

163: Return of the Cantrill 12.10.2016

The wait is over, 11.0 of FreeBSD has (officially) launched. We’ll have coverage of this, plus a couple looks back at UNIX history, and a crowd-favorite guest today. This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE Now Available FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is now official...

162: The Foundation of NetBSD 05.10.2016

This week on the show, we’ll be talking to Petra about the NetBSD foundation, about how they operate and assist NetBSD behind the scenes. That plus lots of news This episode was brought to you by href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"> href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"> Headlines What is new on EC2 for FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE “FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE is just ar...

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