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**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.

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687: Long Term Support Oct 29, 2026

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FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters

August/September Newsletter

News Roundup

All About the Whistle InterJet

FreeBSD pkg(8) Plugin to Create ZFS Boot Environment Before Each Package Install/Upgrade/Remove.

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

Beastie Bits

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Sasha - bastille plugin

Ahoy! I wanted to call your attention to this Bastille plugin that manages bhyve VMs inside of Jails, inspired by SmartOS's zones.

https://github.com/usenix17/bastille-vm-plugin

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686: Yell in your Shell Oct 22, 2026

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! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more...

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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy.

Learnign at Scale

News Roundup

Thinkcenter m710q

IPFS Remote Pinning

Beastie Bits

ThinkPhone

lapocket

OpenBSD gains new networking daemon - rtrd(8)

vmm(4)/vmd(8) gain support for multi-processor VMs

OpenBGPD 9.3 released

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685: Busy at the bar Oct 15, 2026

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Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2

Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD

News Roundup

Suricata, Jumbo Frames, and netmap

Notes on clarifying man pages

Podman is home-lab ready on FreeBSD.

[Flipper busy bar review](https://マリウス.com/flipper-busy-bar/)

Beastie Bits

OpenBSD -current is now "8.0-current"

Sylve Ansible Modules

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684: Nerds 2.0 Oct 08, 2026

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Telnet BBS on a Calculator, What happened to Nerds, NetBSD 11 from scratch and more...

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A True Telnet BBS On A Casio Calculator.

Notes on software quality

What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

News Roundup

Add ACPI layer into vmd

NetBSD 11 from scratch

FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so

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683: GeFS (GeFUS) Oct 01, 2026

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GeFS

GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview

Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future

NetBSD 9.5 has been released

ekkoBSD 2.1 released

News Roundup

Think about your goals and threat models for MFA authentication

OpenSMTPD 7.9.0p0 released

Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent

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682: NAS NAS NAS Sep 24, 2026

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Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more...

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[Two more BSD based NASes have appeared]

BSDNAS

FreeCORE

FreeBSD Foundation Intern Sourojeet Adhikari on Bringing ROCm to FreeBSD

News Roundup

ICEBP Finally Documented

Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag

OpenSSH 10.5

Why do I run FreeBSD for my home servers.

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Feedback/Questions

[Phil - Listener Feedback]

Hi, Thanks for a great podcast - last year I was wondering what bsd I'd try, moving away from Linux, I'd heard
Benedict and other hosts talking about most of the day to day software I use, so I wasn't worried about any of that
working, but what bsd to go for (I get very little free time these days so getting it right was important -
Benedict (i think) mentioned He was using FreeBSD - choice was made!
And it has been great - 3 or 4 logins later and I'm reading a motd message by Benedict himself! I need to learn
a few things, but these arethe things I expected would need a bit of reading - the handbook has mostly got me
there, plus google etc. 

I am happy with FreeBSD and with Linus recently going off on one about Welcoming AI, after allowing an unfinished
file system (bcashfs) into production, to name just 2 reasons for a change, I was thinking.. I don't know what
the FreeBSD developers are doing with AI, but it'll be considered and responsible - OMG I had to re-play the
last podcast a few times - They don't know yet????

Now I'm stuck!

I use FreeBSD for desktop & nas, I love pkg and poudriere. do any of the BSDs have (at least) a no vibecode/slop
policy and offer similar pkg/build systems?

Thanks
Phill

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681: UNIX still powering the worlds infrastructure Sep 17, 2026

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Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more...

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Where Unix runs today
(Dont get distracted by the game)

WebZFS Updates

News Roundup

A Basic Remote Filesystem for 2.11BSD

Curly braces: An evolution of UNIX and C

Sylve: FreeBSD bhyve Virtualization with Ansible Automation

Beastie Bits

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Feedback/Questions

[Jakob - Is this question too political for the show?]

Hoping you lads can help solve a debate at work in the IT department. 
Whats the best song about a former Australian colony?

Toto - Africa 
Men at work - Down Under

For completeness:

Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat (New Zealand)
Don McLean - American Pie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (Ireland)
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
Stan Rogers - Northwest Passage (Canada)

[Reece - Webzfs]

Guys,

Just following directions. Im interested in hearing more about it? Did you just say that because jt is a little shy if I remember correctly?

Thanks for another great show and taking the time to do it. 


73..

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680: What FS? Sep 10, 2026

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BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS

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BSD pt Deux

Code that Built the Internet

Interview JT on WebZFS

TJ: I started by asking JT...

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679: It also goes to 11 Sep 03, 2026

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NetBSD 11 Release

SR-IOV Is a first class feature

News Roundup

Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment

OpenSSH 10.5 released

FreeBSD Ate my RAM

ThinkPad End Game

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678: Ceiling Cat has another meaning Aug 27, 2026

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Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more...

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Headlines

How you wind up with switches above your office's false ceiling

On AI

News Roundup

Attempting to reproduce the missing etcmerge from 15.0 to 15.1 upgrade

Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS!

BSD Make extravaganza

HardenedBSD June / July 2026 Status Report

MidnightBSD 4.0.7 RELEASE

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