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EPISODE · Jan 22, 2026 · 55 MIN

647: Why BSDs?

from BSD Now · host JT Pennington

Why use BSD, 2025, the year of advocacy, community and growth, RiscV silicon, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon Headlines Why BSDs? 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 diversity that creates Capabilities arriving in FreeBSD main NetBSD on the WiiU and open hardware for retro computing Capabilities arriving with CheriIOT News Roundup Wireguard The FreeBSD Way Beastie Bits BastilleBSD 2025 User Survey Re: ZFS status on NetBSD 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 Albin- Foss-North Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to [email protected] Join us and other BSD Fans in our BSD Now Telegram channel

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