BSD Now
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.
Episodes
.NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more...
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Headlines
Running .NET 10.0 on FreeBSD 15.0
How Klara and TrueNAS collaborated to fix one of ZFS's longest standing limitations
News Roundup
dhcpd and unbound in FreeBSD jails
fatgid, why zfs is ideal for media production, the CTF scene is dead, private repo behind TLS, and more...
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Why ZFS is the ideal filesystem for multi-user media production
News Roundup
A Private pkg Repo Behind Mutual TLS
OpenBSD 7.9, Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD, GhostBSD Finance report, Solaris 11.4 updates, and more...
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.9 60th Edition has been released and Reported over on Undeadly
Cleaning Up Critical Infrastructure in FreeBSD
News Roundup
Apple Wants to Kill Your Time Capsule but They Run NetBSD So They ...
The NetBSD/FreeBSD Merge announcement, the rise and fall of SPARC, GhoseBSD 26.2 and more...
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NetBSD/FreeBSD will not merge, November 1993 announcement
Rise and Fall of SPARC: Why No One Misses It
News Roundup
Help needed testing GhostBSD 26.2
Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and ...
Switching from Proxmox to Sylve, FreeBSD Quarterly report, FreeBSD's laptop program, Migrating ZFS, Haiku and OpenSSL news, and more...
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I Switched from Proxmox to Its FreeBSD Counterpart on My Home Server – Here is How it Went
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support Project
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Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now, Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS, GhostBSD 26.1, and more...
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Headlines
Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now
Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS
News Roundup
I connected a phone to my FreeBSD server
Breaking up Big Tech, Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii, OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250, Postgres is your friend and more...
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Headlines
Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii
News Roundup
Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250
Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not
Proxmox to FreeBSD, Hidden values of CPU-Intensive Compression, Cells for NetBSD, OpenBSD 7.8 on RPIs, and more...
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From Proxmox to FreeBSD and Sylve in Our Office Lab
The Hidden Value of CPU-Intensive Compression on Modern Hardware
News Roundup
Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and mroe...
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Headlines
Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years
Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs
[Hold on to Your Hardware](https://マリウス.com/hold-on-to-your-hardw...
FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence, Reviews make you 10x slower, OpenBSD on a Motorola 88000, Jailrun, and more.
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Headlines
FreeBSD and OpenZFS in the Quest for Technical Independence: A Storage Architect’s View
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
News Roundup
The Real Cost of Technology Dependence, FreeBSD 15 Linuxator with CUDA, Bidirectional OPNsense/pfSense, Netbase, a SYN attack, and more...
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The Real Cost of Technology Dependence: Building Independence with Open-Source Storage
News Roundup
Building Hierarchical Jails (Podman x Native Jail) on FreeBSD 15
Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence, The day Telnet died, PiDP 11/70, OpenBSD on SGI and more...
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Headlines
Designing OpenZFS Storage for Independence: Pool Architecture, Failure Domains, and Migration Paths
2026-01-14: The Day the telnet Died
Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
News Ro...
Jails for NetBSD, ARC and L2ARC sizing for Proxmox, Anatomy of bsd.rd, Docker Containers on FreeBSD, Running Time Machine inside a FreeBSD Jail, and more...
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Headlines
ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox
News Roundup
Lab: Anatomy of bsd.rd — No Reboot Required
Pool and Vdev topology for promox, KDE Plasma is not forcing systemd, Running a 2.11 BSD system, Booting NetBSD from a wedge and more...
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Headlines
Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads
News Roundup
KDE Plasma 6.6 is Not Forcing systemd(1) but Arguments Rage On.
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Headlines
ZFS vs BTRFS Architects features and stability
RHEL on ZFS Root: An Unholy Experiment
News Roundup
Slackware on Encrypted ZFS Root.
https://tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/
OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust
OpenZFS monitoring, hellosystems 0.8, GhostBSD and XLibre, Bhyve Exporters and 30 year old LibC issues.
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Headlines
OpenZFS Monitoring and Observability: What to Track and Why It Matters
helloSystem 0.8 Released FreeBSD Based OS Inspired by macOS.
https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/hellosystem-08-released-freebsd-based-os-inspired-by-...
GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...
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Headlines
GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD
ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls
News Roundup
Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic
AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.
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Headlines
One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
News Roundup
ZFS Scrubs and Data integrity, Propolice, FreeBSD vs Slackware and more.
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Headlines
Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
Desk reviews
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[Ruben's Desk](media/bsdnow649-rub...
FreeBSD's Future, 18 years of greytrapping, PF vs Linux firewalls, and more.
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Powering the Future of FreeBSD
Eighteen Years of Greytrapping - Is the Weirdness Finally Paying Off?
BSDCan Organisating committee Interview
News Roundup
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for...
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