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.
688: Eighty
OpenBSD 8.0, vmd(8), WebZFS has reached BETA3, HardenedBSD updates and more...
NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon
Headlines
Biggest ZFS Misconfigurations and How to Fix Them: Part 1
OpenBSD 8.0 Released undeadly article
dlg@ highlights - vmd(8) multi-cpu support for guests, How OpenBSD handles MTU vs MRU on interfaces through PPPoE work and vmd(8) gets network checksum offload support for guests
brynet@ highlights - Clang/LVM 22 the default, SPARC64 switches to Clang, DRM uplift to Linux 6.18.53, vmm/vmd(8) SMP to 64vCPU per guest, accelerated swap using CPU AES and lots more
News Roundup
HardenedBSD 08-09/2026 Status Report
Mocka - a desktop built from scratch for GhostBSD
SmartOS: The illumos Way of Thinking About Servers
Beastie Bits
- NetBSD smashes funding goal for 2026, set $50K, currently at $124K
- dbupdate added to -current and backported to 7.9 and 8.0
- emulators/wine (re)entering OpenBSD Ports
Tarsnap
This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.
Feedback/Questions
- Reese - Casio BBS ``` Team,
I really enjoyed the Casio BBS article. I might build one. I am an amateur radio operator and I love doing cw and using my scolding iron.
Thanks
Reese
---
- Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [feedback@bsdnow.tv](mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)
- Join us and other BSD Fans in our [BSD Now Telegram channel](https://t.me/bsdnow)
---