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
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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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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Headlines
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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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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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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Headlines
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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Headlines
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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Headlines
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....
FreeBSD 15 release, moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD, ZFS Boot Environments explained, and more...
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Welcome to the world FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Announcement and Release Notes
We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for Firewalls - Submitted by listener Gary
News Roundup
...FreeBSD is an OCI runtime, ZFS Disaster Recovery, Cleaning up Hammer, and some historical information, and more...
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Headlines
FreeBSD Officially Supported in OCI Runtime Specification v1.3
ZFS Enabled Disaster Recovery for Virtualization
News Roundup
Reproducible builds, Highly available ZFS Pools, Self Hosting on a Framework Laptop, and more...
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Headlines
FreeBSD now builds reproducibly and without root privilege
How to Set Up a Highly Available ZFS Pool Using Mirroring and iSCSI
News Roundup
Self hosting 10TB in S3 on a framework laptop + disks
New Open Indiana Release, Understanding Storage Performance, a Unix OS for the TI99, FreeBSD Tribal knowledge, and more...
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Open Indiana Hipster Announcement
Understanding Storage Performance Metrics
News Roundup
UNIX99, a UNIX-like OS for the TI-99/4A
Time to update our /etc/hosts file...
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Show updates
Intro Ruben
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Thunderbolt on FreeBSD, ZFS on Illumos and Linux and FreeBSD, ZFS Compression, Home networking monitoring, LibreSSH and OpenSSH releases and more...
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The broad state of ZFS on Illumos, Linux, and FreeBSD (as I understand it)
News Roundup
OpenBSD 7.8, Building Enterprise Storage with Proxmox, SSD performance, Virtual Machines and more...
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Headlines
OpenBSD 7.8 Released also (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251022025822) and (https://bsd.network/@brynet/115403567146395679)
Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS
News Roun...
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