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

486: EuroBSDcon interviews 22.12.2022

This special episode features two interviews we did at EuroBSDcon in Vienna this year. We talk with FreeBSD developers about how they got started, their current projects and more. Also, consider donating to your favorite BSD Foundation to keep the projects going. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Help the OpenBSD Foundation Reach Its 2022 Funding Goal...

485: FreeBSD Home Assistant 15.12.2022

Tails of the M1 GPU, Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail, interview with AWK creator Dr. Brian Kernighan, Next steps toward mimmutable, Unix's (technical) history is mostly old now, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Tails of the M1 GPU Getting Home Assistant running in a FreeBSD 13.1 jail News Roundup A brief inter...

484: Birth of stderr 08.12.2022

Virtualization showdown, The Birth of Standard Error, why Steam started picking a random font, Maintaining Sufficient Free Space with ZFS, updated Apple M1/M2 bootloader, code, FreeBSD on my workstation, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Virtualization showdown – FreeBSD’s bhyve vs. Linux’s KVM The Birth of Standard Error News Round...

483: ZFS Time Machine 01.12.2022

Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report, Nushell : Introduction, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator h...

482: BSD XFCE Desktop 24.11.2022

5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage, OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop, BSD XFCE, Alpine Linux VM on bhyve - with root on ZFS, FreeBSD Jail Quick Setup with Networking, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines 5 Key Reasons to Consider Open Source Storage Over Commercial Offerings OpenBSD Minimalist Desktop News Roundup BSD-XFCE Creati...

481: Fiery Crackers 17.11.2022

FreeBSD Q3 2022 status report, Leveraging MinIO and OpenZFS to avoid vendor lock in, FreeBSD on Firecracker platform, How Much Faster Is Making A Tar Archive Without Gzip, Postgres from packages on OpenBSD, Upgrading an NVMe zpool from 222G to 1TB drives, Don't use Reddit for Linux or BSD related questions, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon...

480: OpenBSD 7.2 10.11.2022

OpenBSD 7.2 and FuguIta have been released, Learn the Whys and Hows with the FreeBSD Sec Team, how to get notified about FreeBSD updates, using unbound for ad blocking on OpenBSD, further memory protections on OpenBSD current, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines OpenBSD 7.2 has been released FuguIta 7.2 is out as well *** ### Keeping...

479: OpenBSD Docker Host 03.11.2022

EuroBSDcon 2022 as first BSD conference, Red Hat’s OpenShift vs FreeBSD Jails, Running a Docker Host under OpenBSD using vmd(8), history of sending signals to Unix process groups, Toolchains adventures - Q3 2022, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines EuroBSDCon 2022, my first BSD conference (and how they are different) Red Hat’s OpenShi...

478: Debunking sudo myths 27.10.2022

Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new debugbreak command, 7 sudo myths debunked NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Open Source in Enterprise Environments - Where Are We Now and What Is Our Way...

477: Uninitialized Memory Disclosures 20.10.2022

Analyzing BSD Kernels for Uninitialized Memory Disclosures Using Binary Ninja, Sharing Dual-Licensed Drivers between Linux and FreeBSD, favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools, How to trigger services restart after OpenBSD update, Gems from the Man Page Trenches, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Mindshare: Analyzing...

476: Warren Toomey interview 13.10.2022

In this special episode, we interview Warren Toomey from the Unix Historical Society. We chat about his involvement in preserving old Unix systems and why that is important. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Interview - Warren Toomey - wkt@tuhs.org Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdno...

475: Prompt Injection Attacks 06.10.2022

Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the History of Package Management on FreeBSD, A fresh look at FreeBSD, File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell, Quick Guide about Video Playback on FreeBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3 A Quick Look at the History of Package Management on Free...

474: EuroBSDcon 2022 29.09.2022

Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud, A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends, EuroBSDcon 2022 recap, OpenBSD Mastery: Filesystems” Status Report, OpenBGPD 7.6 Released, immutable userland mappings, Portable OpenSSH commits now SSH-signed, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud The Things Spammers Believe - A...

473: Rusty Kernel Modules 22.09.2022

Writing FreeBSD kernel modules in Rust, Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE, Linux subsystem for FreeBSD, FreeBSD Journal: Science, Systems, and FreeBSD, NetBSD improves Amiga support, OpenBSD on Scaleway Elastic Metal, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Writing FreeBSD Kernel modules in Rust Details behind the FreeBSD aio LPE News Ro...

472: Consistent Exit Code 15.09.2022

FreeBSD on the Framework Laptop, Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux, why OpenBSD’s documentation is so good, configure dma for mail delivery in jails on internet hosts, introducing muxfs, RAID1C boot support, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD on the Framework laptop Win32 is the only stable ABI on Linux News Roundup Why i...

471: De-Penguinization 08.09.2022

Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD, BSD for Linux users, r2k22 Hackathon Report on rpki-client, Configuring OpenIKED, De-Penguin Me, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Ten Things To Do After Installing FreeBSD News Roundup hpr3655 :: BSD for Linux users r2k22 Hackathon Report: Job Snijders (job@) on rpki-client and more Confi...

470: 0mp interview 01.09.2022

In this special episode, we are interviewing Mateusz Piotrowski about his various roles in the FreeBSD project, his ports work, and a few other interesting things he’s involved with. Enjoy this interview episode, we’ll be back with a regular episode next week. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Interview - Mateusz Piotrowski - 0mp@freebsd.org...

469: Ctrl-C Reset 25.08.2022

FreeBSD Q2 2022 Status Report, FreeBSD in Science, fastest yes(1) in the west, Why Programmers Can’t "Reset" Programs With Ctrl-C, Run Slack in FreeBSD’s Linuxulator, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Q2 2022 Status Report FreeBSD in Science News Roundup Fastest yes(1) in the west Ctrl-C: Why Programmers Can’t "Reset" Progr...

468: Apples and CHERI 18.08.2022

Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond, NetBSD 9.3 released, OPNsense 22.7 available, CHERI-based computer runs KDE for the first time, Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac, and more Notes This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Advocating for FreeBSD in 2022 and Beyond NetBSD 9.3 released News Roundup OPNsense 22.7 release...

467: Minecraft on NetBSD 11.08.2022

Installing BSDs on Cubieboard1, Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd, NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server, A Little Story About the yes Unix Command, Shell History: Unix, OpenBGPD 7.5 released, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Installing BSDs on Cubieboard1 Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, an...

466: cat(1)’s efficiency 04.08.2022

Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development, bringing TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things, How efficient can cat(1) be, boost the speed of Unix shell programs, Running FreeBSD VNET Jails on AWS EC2 with Bastille, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Contributing to Open Source Beyond Software Development Crypto Ancienne 2...

465: Deep Space Debugging 28.07.2022

Debugging Lisp in Deep Space, 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD & AsciiDoc, Deleting old snapshots on FreeBSD, Full multiprocess support in lldb-server, Basic fix between pf tables and macros, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space 0 Dependency Websites with OpenBSD & AsciiD...

464: Compiling with kefir 21.07.2022

From 0 to bhyve on FreeBSD, Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Specific Knowledge, OpenBSD Webzine: ISSUE #10, HardenedBSD June 2022 Status Report, two new C compilers: chibicc and kefir in OpenBSD, SSD TRIM in NetBSD HEAD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines From 0 to Bhyve on FreeBSD 13.1 Analyze OpenBSD’s Kernel with Domain-Speci...

463: The 1.0 Legend 14.07.2022

Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD, Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking, Audio on FreeBSD – Quick Guide, FreeBSD’s Legend starts at 1.0, Hacker News running by FreeBSD, TrueNAS 13, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Differences between base and ports LLVM in OpenBSD Using Netgraph for FreeBSD’s bhyve Networking Ne...

462: OpenBSD Sales Pitch 07.07.2022

The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system, selling OpenBSD as a salesperson, Speeding up autoconf with caching, Allowing non-root execution of a jailed application, Configure login(1) and sshd(8) for YubiKey on OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system How I wou...

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