Doing It de Raadt Way | BSD Now 6

chris

9 years ago

We chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, and we\’ll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail. Then we get you caught up on all the latest news.

All that and more, this week on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

HAMMER2 GSOC improvements merged

A student from the Google Summer of Code\’s patches were committed to upstream Dragonfly
It focuses mainly on compression and updating the I/O infrastructure to work with compression
The ability to boot from HAMMER2 volumes was also added
Check the show notes for a full list of additions and improvements
We\’ll have someone on the show to talk about HAMMER FS in the future

OSNews starts a \”BSD family\” segment

An OSNews reader decided to share some info about the BSDs
He\’s writing a three-part series covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
Pretty good info for Linux switchers

pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch announcement

pkgsrc is similar to the ports concept, but for 21 different OSes
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.
13184 total packages for AMD64
If there\’s any interest, we\’ll try to get a pkgsrc tutorial written in the future

PCBSD 9.2 released

Shortly after the official FreeBSD 9.2 release, PCBSD follows up
Highlights include bootable ZFS boot environments, a rewritten life-preserver utility for backups, improved pkgng support, updated appcafe, major improvements to warden, a GUI pkgng management system, filesystem-based encryption for home directories and much more

Interview – Theo de Raadt – deraadt@openbsd.org

Tutorial

Jailed VNC sessions

VNC lets you run GUI applications remotely and detach from them like tmux
Running it in a jail provides another layer of security
Can be used for isolated web browser instances and lots of other things
If you don\’t know how to set up a jail, fear not – we\’ve already got a jail tutorial in the works

The place to B…SD

vBSDCon October 25-27th
- At the Dulles Hyatt in Virginia
- Hybrid unconference, good mix of formal and informal
Speakers include: Baptiste Daroussin, Devin Teske, Scott Long, Luigi Rizzo, and David Chisnall
iXsystems hosts FreeBSD Anniversary party – November 2nd
Celebrating FreeBSD’s 20th anniversary
Saturday, November 2nd at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
Same location as the 10th anniversary party
Notable FreeBSD figures will contribute words of wisdom on the past, present, and future of FreeBSD

News Roundup

Curve25519 patch for OpenSSH

Because of recent NSA news, someone implemented an alternative key exchange mechanism
It uses Curve25519 instead of the traditional Diffie-Hellman
Comes from the developer of libssh and is already implemented there

FreeBSD 10-ALPHA5 is out

Includes the big removal of BIND
More GNU stuff removed
Bhyve and XEN improvements
Some LLVM fixes

M:Tier offering \”Long Time Support\” for OpenBSD ports

Starting with 5.4, M:Tier will be offering a subscription for LTS support, in addition to their free 6 month version
OpenBSD releases are only supported for 1 year normally (5.2 becomes unsupported when 5.4 comes out, etc.)
This model makes it easier to keep your ports patched for security in a corporate environment

Ohio Linuxfest talks uploaded

The OLF 2013 talks have been uploaded
Includes Kirk Mckusick\’s keynote about building an open source community and Ken Moore\’s talk about lots of new PCBSD stuff

Theo\’s absence and other updates

In an uncharacteristic manner, Theo started a thread on misc@ instead of finishing it
For the last year, he\’s not been as involved in OpenBSD development as he should be
He\’s been busy with setting up an Internet Exchange in Calgary
Also mentions some troubles with an imposter Twitter account (which is now suspended)

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