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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