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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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Signup to Generate a PitchCreated 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.
BSD Now is hosted by JT Pennington. The show has published 686 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "687: Long Term Support" (29 October 2026, 57 minutes), "686: Yell in your Shell" (22 October 2026, 41 minutes), and "685: Busy at the bar" (15 October 2026, 62 minutes).
BSD Now publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 686 episodes.
Booking probability for BSD Now is 39%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. BSD Now requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. BSD Now's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for BSD Now are IT Services & Software Development and Software. BSD Now has a news audience.
JT Pennington hosts BSD Now, a news podcast with 686 episodes published.
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NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD Release Cycles and Enterprise Requirements: Why LTS Matters August/September Newsletter News Roundup All About the...
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! marks in shell, learning at scale, Thinkcenters and BSD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy...
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NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Code That Built the Internet: The Impact of BSD, Part 2 Overview of a Aoostar WRT Pro on BSD News Roundup Suricata, Jumbo...
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NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines GeFS GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview Ori Bernstein - GEFS: The File Shredder of the Future NetBSD 9.5 has been released...
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Multiple new BSD Bases NASes have appeared, FreeBSD intern bringing ROCm to FreeBSD, OpenSSH 10.5, and more... Headlines [Two more BSD based NASes have appeared] BSDNAS The developers seem to work for a Hungarian ISP...
Where Unix runs today, Webzfs updates, A remote filesystem for 2.11 BSD, Sylve, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Where Unix runs today (Dont get...
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BSD Part Deux, Code that built the internet, and an interview about WebZFS NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines BSD pt Deux Code that Built the Internet Interview JT...
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NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines NetBSD 11 Release SR-IOV Is a first class feature News Roundup Grafana dashboards are a marvel of the modern web environment...
Switches in your ceiling, AI affecting interest in things, Commodore Phone and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines How you wind up with switches above your...
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Home Assistant Setup, OpenBSD Updates, Wine 11.14, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines My Home Assistant Setup Huge!!! OpenBSD Updates WPA3 support...
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The Future of the FreeBSD Kernel LLDB Plugin, Stop Ruining "10 PRINT", BoxyBSD Returns to FreeBSD, The Apple Lisa inside an FPGA, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow...
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FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow...
Scrub Design, WebZFS Updates, The Foundations role in the FreeBSD Ecosystem, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines If Scrubs Hurt, Your ZFS Design Is...
Leaving Port 22 open to the internet, FreeBSD Foundationals, GhostBSD Finance Report, Making your own read-only device with NetBSD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow...
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Unix Pipes under Load, Powering up a IBM Calculator from 1948, FreeBSD AI assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines...
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech, ZFS vs Cep, Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the...
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inotify in FreeBSD, how changes to poudriere.conf affect the build time, Migrating mail servers from exim to OpenSMTPD, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon...
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FreeBSD to OpenBSD Wireguard, Object storage with OpenZFS and SeaweedFS, a zfs script for labeling drives, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines FreeBSD...
.NET on FreeBSD 15, Klara and TrueNAS fixing dedup, dhcpcd and unbound in FreeBSD Jails, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Running .NET 10.0 on...
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fatgid, why zfs is ideal for media production, the CTF scene is dead, private repo behind TLS, and more... NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines fatgid Why ZFS is the...
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