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
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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Porting MacOS to the Nintendo Wii
News Roundup
Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250
Postgres is Your Friend. ORM is Not
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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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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-...
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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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-ins...
GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...
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GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD
ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls
News Roundup
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AT&T's $2000 shell, ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity, FFS Backups, FreeBSD Home Nas, and more.
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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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Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
Desk reviews
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No reponses, no justications.
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[Ruben's Desk](me...
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
Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more.
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2025: A Year of Advocacy, Community, and Growth
What are we excited for in tech in 2026?
- Almost Completley Open riscv32 silicon with BaoChip and Xous
- The death of vmware and the possibilites for...
The Unix v4 recovery, webzfs, openbgpd 9.0, MidnightBSD 4.0, and more...
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University of Utah team discovers rare computer relic
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
UNIX V4 Tape from University of Utah
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again
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What’s New in Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87
News Roundup
Why I’m Trading My Linux for FreeBSD A Return to Simplicity
Our mixed assortment of DNS server software (as of December 2025)
Moving on...Thoughts, plans, and ideas...
F...
Holidays 2025 - What you been do'in?
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What tech did we enjoy playing with or found interesting in 2025?
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Feedback/Questions
Upwrapping OpenZFS gifs, Propolice the OpenBSD Stack Protector, refreshing zpools, and the FreeBSD 15.0 release.
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Unwrapping ZFS: Gifts from the Open Source Community
Who wins when we filter the open web through an opaque system?
News Roundup
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Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?
Moving From Windows To FreeBSD As The Linux Chaos Alternative
Computer Chronicles Revisited 131 - Open Look, OSF/Motif, Macintosh IIcx and A/UX - Submitted by listener S.M....
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