We\’ll be talking to renowned BSD author Michael Lucas about his latest opus, \”Sudo Mastery.\” Also, we\’ve heard your cries and we\’ll also finally be showing you how to build a BSD desktop system from the ground up. There\’s plenty of news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

OpenBSD 5.4 released

• The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
• People who bought the CD (this is where we show the CD) get the release very early, but now it\’s on the public FTP
• New platforms \”octeon\” and \”beagle\”
• Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
• Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features – check out the full release notes
• A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
• Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future

FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

• Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
• Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
• Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
• New \”pkg+http\” protocol identifier for SRV records
• If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it\’s easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
• If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
• What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?

DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

• SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it\’s time to branch
• Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
• Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
• We\’re hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release

FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

• Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
• At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
• The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).

Interview – Michael W. Lucas – mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

Sudo Mastery
+ Could you tell us a little about yourself, how you got involved with writing and specifically writing about BSD?
+ To set the record straight, is \”su-doh\” or \”su-du\” the correct pronunciation?
+ For the sake of completeness, what is sudo, where does it come from, what does it do?
+ Why did you write this book?
+ Is this mainly a security-focused book?
+ What\’s something interesting you learned about sudo while writing this that you didn\’t know?
+ What are some other BSD books you\’ve written?
+ What makes a \”good\” tech book, would you say?
+ Since you\’ve written about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, how do you personally use both of them?
+ Do the projects get any of the money from sales of the books?
+ Where\’s the best place for people to go to find out more about (and buy) your books?
+ We saw on Twitter you\’re going to be doing an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk for MUG?
+ Anything else you\’d like to mention?
+ Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes

Tutorial

Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

• The BSDs are known around the world as the server OSes of the gods
• They can each make a pretty nice desktop
• PCBSD gives you an out of the box, preconfigured desktop experience
• This guide is for manually setting one up and learning about the process

News Roundup

iXsystems FreeBSD party wrap-up chat

Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

• Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
• Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
• Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes

NYCBSDCon 2014

• After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 1, 2014
• Theme of \”The BSDs in Production\” this year
• Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer

FreeBSD newcons progress update

• This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
• Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
• More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki

Weekly PCBSD feature digest

• PBI 10 format is about ready and they\’ll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
• PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
• New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
• New PC-BSD Builder Scripts (https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd-build)
• New 9.2 ISO just out today

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