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

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

596: Globbing /etc 30.01.2025

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 and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Ridding my home network of IP addresses T...

595: Arc: the Triumph 23.01.2025

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 and the BSDN...

594: Name that Domain 16.01.2025

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 and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Roundup Storage and Network Diagnostics Security Audit of the Capsicum and...

593: rc.conf Validator 09.01.2025

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 and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD replaces sendma...

592: Wohoo, FreeBSD 14.2 02.01.2025

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 and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines ZFS Storage Fault Management FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement News Roundup I feel that NAT...

591: The Three Wise Men (hosts) 26.12.2024

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 and the BSDNow Patreon Producer Note Once we reach Episode 600, I will be backfilling out fireside...

590: Single, not sorry 19.12.2024

In this episode, Benedict shows some of the tools he loves to use including Markdown (producing PDFs and other docs using Pandoc), AWK, and Graphviz. A lot of tutorials and getting-started links in this practical-oriented episode for you. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Markdown Guide The Pandoc Website Using Pandoc and Typst to Produc...

589: The buffering pipe 12.12.2024

Open-Source Software Is in Crisis, A Brief History of Cyrix, Userland Disk I/O, OPNsense 24.7.9 released, GhostBSD 24.10.1 Is Now Available, Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering, Keep your OmniOS server time synced, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Open-Source Software Is in Crisis A Brief History of Cyrix News Roundup Userla...

588: PGP Alternatives 05.12.2024

Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD, What To Use Instead of PGP, The slow evaporation of the FOSS surplus, I feel that NAT is inevitable even with IPv6, Spell checking in Vim, Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Deploying pNFS file sharing with FreeBSD What To Use In...

587: New filesystems category 28.11.2024

FreeBSD Quarterly Report, Welcome to the new category: filesystems, BSD Misconceptions, Notes on the compatibility of crypted passwords across Unixes in late 2024, Automating ZFS Snapshots for Peace of Mind, A few nice things in OpenZFS 2.3, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Quarterly Report News Roundup Welcome to the new c...

586: Cloud Exit Savings 21.11.2024

Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten million over five years, 5 Reasons Why Your ZFS Storage Benchmarks Are Wrong, The history of inetd is more interesting than I expected, OpenBSD is Hard to Show Off, bhyve on FreeBSD and VM Live Migration – Quo vadis?, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Our Cloud Exit Savings will not top ten mi...

585: Infrastructure Administration Workstation 14.11.2024

From Proxmox to FreeBSD - Story of a Migration, FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS, Using a dedicated administration workstation for my infrastructure, LibreSSL 4.0.0 Released, Plasma6 and FreeBSD 14, Replace gnu diff, diff3, and sdiff with BSD versions, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines From Prox...

584: ZFS Copy Offloading 07.11.2024

New CIS® FreeBSD 14 Benchmark: Secure Your Systems with Expert-Guided Best Practices, Accelerating ZFS with Copy Offloading: BRT, The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops, Jailfox - Firefox in a Freebsd Jail, Make Your Own Read-Only Device With NetBSD, ex/vi/nvi editor: .exrc advanced, NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines New C...

583: A host of self-hosters 31.10.2024

Run Linux Containers on FreeBSD 14 with Podman, Open Source FreeBSD NAS: Maintenance Best Practices, Self-hosting Bitwarden / VaultWarden on FreeBSD, I most definitely should (self-host)!, My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures, Make Your Own CDN With OpenBSD Base and Just 2 Packages, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headli...

582: Introducing ZBM 24.10.2024

Why laptop support, why now: FreeBSD’s strategic move toward broader adoption, ZBM 101: Introduction to ZFSBootMenu, How I batch apply and save one-liners, Moving an Entire FreeBSD Installation to a New Host or VM in a Few Easy Steps, How to install "standard" TTF Microsoft fonts, We need more zero config tools, Reasons I still love the fish shell, You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now For The Daily Tas...

581: Releasing more BSDs 17.10.2024

Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD - Part 2, FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE Announcement, OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.6, acpidumping,Install snac2 on FreeBSD – An ActivityPub Instance for the Fediverse, Managing dotfiles with chezmoi, Podman testing on FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Debunking Common Myths About FreeB...

580: EuroBSDcon 2024 - Part 2 10.10.2024

Jason is still on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interviews Colin Percival Andrew Hewus Wolfgang Liam Proven 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. F...

579: EuroBSDcon 2024 03.10.2024

Jason is on location at EuroBSDcon getting interviews with those in the BSD Community. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interviews Vanja Cvelbar Stefano Marinelli Dave Cottlehuber Christos Margiolis 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 ne...

578: KVM, but Smol 26.09.2024

Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Jail, Why You Should Use FreeBSD, The web fun fact that domains can end in dots and canonicalization failures, Replacing postfix with dma + auth, modern unix tool list, Smol KVM, The Computers of Voyager NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Tips and Tricks: Limiting Process Priority in a FreeBSD Ja...

577: Multi-Threaded LZ4 19.09.2024

New Host Introduction 🤭, From Bridging to Routing With FreeBSD, Sovereign Tech Fund to Invest €686,400 in FreeBSD Infrastructure Modernization, The Dying Computer Museum, In practice, abstractions hide their underlying details, LZ4 Compression Algorithm Gets Multi-Threaded Update, Using Windows or Linux on FreeBSD's vm-bhyve, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and...

576: The Forever Workaround 12.09.2024

From Cloud Chaos to FreeBSD Efficiency, August 2024 Foundation Update, Email encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG, Workarounds are often forever (unless you work to make them otherwise), Remote Desktop using RDP and VNC, Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple, Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tar...

575: Missing BSD/Linux 05.09.2024

X Window System At 40, Lessons from Ancient File Systems, HardenedBSD July 2024 Status Report, FreeBSD's 'root on ZFS' is appealing, I Miss BSD/Linux, Simple automated deployments using git NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines X Window System At 40 Lessons from Ancient File Systems News Roundup HardenedBSD July 2024 Status Report FreeBSD's 'roo...

574: Hypervisor Determination 29.08.2024

Antithesis: Pioneering Deterministic Hypervisors with FreeBSD and Bhyve, Our slowly growing Unix monoculture, The six dumbest ideas in computer security (2005), Video Edition notes on OpenBSD, Full-featured email server running OpenBSD, ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Antithesi...

573: Kyua Graduation 22.08.2024

What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?, Human Scale Software vs Open Source, How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14, Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?, Backward compatibility has real costs even for settings, Kyua graduates, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines What Woul...

572: Where's my backup? 15.08.2024

OpenBSD Workstation for the People, Bridging Networks Across VPS With Wireguard and VXLAN on FreeBSD, Updating FreeBSD the Manual Way, Part of (computer) security is convincing people that it works, Where’s my backup?, Vi and Vim: A Brief Overview, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD Workstation for the People Bridging Network...

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