-CURRENT Events | BSD Now 9

chris

9 years ago

We\’ve got an interview with Henning Brauer about OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, a tutorial on how to follow the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches of FreeBSD, a recap of what happened at vBSDCon this year and.. As always, lots of news to cover, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Managed services using FreeBSD

New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD
Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more
Explains FreeBSD\’s role in commercial workloads on a massive scale
Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up

OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable
Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel
The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume
No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running \”installboot\” is all that\’s needed

More Dragonfly SMP speedups

Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements
Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test
The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour
Super technical details in the show notes, check \’em out

Getting to know portmgr

Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team
In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke
In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who\’s also the creator of redports.org)
Future segments will include the other members
Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff

BSD Now at the top of iTunes

BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes\’ technology podcast section
We\’re better than everyone else and Leo is fat

Interview – Henning Brauer – henning@openbsd.org / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

The BSDs have development branches you can follow
This guide shows the differences between FreeBSD -RELEASE, -STABLE and -CURRENT
Will do OpenBSD and NetBSD versions in the future, their methods are all pretty different

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid
Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD
Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it

PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone
A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages
AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more

Switching from Linux to BSD

Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it
Asks the community what some differences and advantages are
Good response from the community, worth reading if you\’re a Linux guy

Unattended OpenBSD installations

Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a \”response\” file
The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs
Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc
Still a work in progress

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