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

Podcast website

www.bsdnow.tv

Latest episode

Oct 22, 2026

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Episodes

536: Pot-flavored Jails 07.12.2023

OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases, EuroBSDcon trip report, Disks from the Perspective of a File System, Creating Jails using flavours in pot, OpenIKED 7.3 released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p1 Released, FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS Storage Best Practices and Use Cases - Part 1:...

535: Untitled Episode 30.11.2023

FreeBSD 14 has been released, Reading your RSS feed on FreeBSD, Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk, clang(1)/llvm updated to version 16 in OpenBSD, NetBSD Security Advisory: multiple vulnerabilities in ftpd(8), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD 14 • [Quick update](https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2023-11-21-late-breaking...

534: Narrow Waisted Internet 23.11.2023

Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine, The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist, The Worst New Guys In History, FreeBSD Jails vs. Docker: A Comparison, Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 on Illumos NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Migrating from an Old Linux Server to a New FreeBSD Machine The Internet Was Designed With...

533: Package the Base 16.11.2023

FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture, A bit of XENIX history, pkgbase: Official packages, recover lost text by coredumping firefox, FuguIta 7.4 has been released, LibreSSL 3.8.2 Released, OpenSMTPD 7.4.0p0 Released NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Looking Towards the Future: FreeBSD on the RISC-V Architecture A bit of XENIX history News Round...

532: 2^18 dollars sponsorship 09.11.2023

2 18 dollars to open source, EuroBSDCon 2023 Trip Report, FreeBSD vs Linux (Debian), Introduction to sysclean8, Run your own Syncthing discovery server on OpenBSD, FreeBSD years: 2000-2005, Using OpenBSD relayd(8) as an Application Layer Gateway, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 2 18 dollars to open source Special Thanks to Colin f...

531: Everlasting Software 02.11.2023

OpenBSD 7.4, Making Software Last Forever, DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based restrictions, HardenedBSD September 2023 Status Report, NetBSD as a Kubernetes Pod, Firefox hardening with Arkenfox, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.4 Making Software Last Forever News Roundup DragonFlyBSD Per-process capability-based re...

530: Old Computer Rescue 26.10.2023

Implementing a system call for OpenBSD, Self-Hosted Email services on OpenBSD, First 5 Minutes on a New FreeBSD Server, OLD COMPUTER RESCUE - X201, sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs, send syslog messages using command-line utilities, Keeping email sorted (the hard way), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Implementing a system call fo...

529: Adapt, adopt, diffuse 19.10.2023

Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System, How Hard is it to Adapt a Memory Allocator to CHERI, Running Stable Diffusion on FreeBSD, Self-hosting Pixelfed on OpenBSD, Time Capsule instance using Samba, FreeBSD, and ZFS, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Adopting FreeBSD as Your Open Source Operating System: Benefits &amp...

528: Pledge the Program 12.10.2023

If you can use Open Source you can build hardware, Good performance is not just big O, Proof You Should Not Run MWL Code, How to add pledge to a program in OpenBSD, 3D printing on OpenBSD, Getting the right type of certificate, Jenny’s Daily Drivers, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines If you can use Open Source you can build hardware...

527: Reports are in 05.10.2023

Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty, first meeting of the FreeBSD Enterprise Working Group, HardenedBSD August 2023 Status Report, GhostBSD August 2023 donation report, MidnightBSD 3.1 Released, OpenBSD Webzine ISSUE #14, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Unlocking Infrastructure Sovereignty: Harnessing the Power of Open Source Sol...

526: ZFS Replication Tools 28.09.2023

Why DNS is still hard to learn, Unix support 50 years ago, ZFS Replication tools, Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB, Old Computer Challenge v3, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why DNS is still hard to learn Unix support 50 years ago: “your only source of information is a 2-man operation an ocean away” News Roundup ZFS Repl...

525: Old NetBSD Server 21.09.2023

Do one thing and do it well, Turning a 15 years old laptop into a children proof retrogaming station, Old Computer Challenge v3: day 1, It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code, Rejected GitHub Profile Achievements, that old netbsd server, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Do one thing and do it well Turning a 15 years old laptop in...

524: Legendary Unix Recovery 14.09.2023

On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge, Unix Recovery Legend, Useful Unix commands for data science, Tarsnap outage post-mortem, OpenBSD 7.3 on a twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines On the Loss and Preservation of Knowledge Unix Recovery Legend News Roundup Useful Unix commands for data science Why...

523: Literally Unix 07.09.2023

The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature, The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace, Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed, OPNsense 23.7 released, illumos gets a new C compiler, fixing Thinkpad X1 WIFI on FreeBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace...

522: Zenbleed Foot Shooting 31.08.2023

Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2, History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes, Wayland on OpenBSD, OpenBGPD 8.1 released, Shoot yourself in the foot, Zenbleed: aka: The new fun for a while, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2 History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes News Roun...

521: BSD Summer Reading 24.08.2023

FreeBSD Status Report Q2 2023, Klara Systems Recommended Summer Reads 2023, install Kanboard on OpenBSD howto, A bit of Unix history on 'su -', hints for splitting commits, Live from OpenBSD in Amsterdam, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Status Report Second Quarter 2023 Our 2023 Recommended Summer Reads 2023 News Roundup H...

520: 4 months BSD 17.08.2023

4 Months of BSD, Self Hosted Calendar and address Book, Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs, Self-hosted git page, Bastille template example, Restrict nginx Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 4 Months of BSD Self Hosted Calendar and address Book News Roundup Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP...

519: Telegram from BSDNow 10.08.2023

3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server OS, FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule, Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio, DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual, How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System FreeBSD 14 Release Schedu...

518: Unix Edition Zero 03.08.2023

A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples, making 20% time work, Long Live Netbooks, OpenBSD Router on Sg105w, Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server, Unix Edition Zero, how to be a -10x engineer, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples...

517: Huge pfsync rewrite 27.07.2023

Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Comparison Part 2, 27 Years with the Perfect OS, Top 20 OpenSSH Server Best Security Practices, Huge pfsync rewrite, OpenSMTPD 7.3.0p1 release, Running OpenBSD 7.3 on your laptop is really hard (not), and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide - Part 2 27 Years with...

516: Computer Time Origins 20.07.2023

Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls Part 1, Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of Its CDN, Protect your web servers against PHP shells and malwares, Installing and running Gitlab howto, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Linux vs. FreeBSD : Linux and FreeBSD Firewalls – The Ultimate Guide : Part 1 Why Netflix Chose NGINX as the Heart of It...

515: ChatGPT writing pf.conf 13.07.2023

FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Without OS Wars, The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories, ChatGPT was asked to write a pf.conf to spec, GhostBSD 23.06.1 is now available, OPNsense 23.1.9 released, Running VSCode in Chromium on OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Linux vs. FreeBSD : FreeBSD or Linux – A Choice Withou...

514: Infecting Public Keys 06.07.2023

OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware, I Didn’t Learn Unix By Reading All The Manpages, I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer", Writing shell scripts in Nushell, Sudo and signal propagation, infecting SSH Public Keys with backdoors, OpenBSD Thinkpad, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenZFS, Your Data and t...

513: New Host Interview 29.06.2023

We have a new show host, Understanding ZFS vdev Types, Don't abuse su for dropping user privileges, Dynamic Tracing on OpenBSD 7.3, new Libressl, Manual Jails on FreeBSD 12, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Host Introductions - Jason Tubnor - https://www.tubsta.com / @tubsta / @Tubsta@soc.feditime.com Headlines Understanding ZFS vdev Types D...

512: BSDNow Live! 9 bits of BSDNow - Just speak into the goat 22.06.2023

Recorded at BSDCan 2023 NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines BSDNow - The early years BSDNow - Production Process News Roundup FreeBSD Devsummit BSDCan Beastie Bits How you can help the show! 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 nee...

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