BSD Now vs. BSDTalk | BSD Now 27

chris

8 years ago

The long-awaited meetup is finally happening on today\’s show. We\’re going to be interviewing the original BSD podcaster, Will Backman, to discuss what he\’s been up to and what the future of BSD advocacy looks like. After that, we\’ll be showing you how to track (and even cross-compile!) the -CURRENT branch of NetBSD. We\’ve got answers to user-submitted questions and the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD and OpenBSD in GSOC2014

The Google Summer of Code is a way to encourage students to write code for open source projects and make some money
Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD were accepted, and we\’d love for anyone listening to check out their GSOC pages
The FreeBSD wiki has a list of things that they\’d be interested in someone helping out with
OpenBSD\’s want list was also posted
DragonflyBSD and NetBSD were sadly not accepted this year

Yes, you too can be an evil network overlord

A new blog post about monitoring your network using only free tools
OpenBSD is a great fit, and has all the stuff you need in the base system or via packages
It talks about the pflow pseudo-interface, its capabilities and relation to NetFlow (also goes well with pf)
There\’s also details about flowd and nfsen, more great tools to make network monitoring easy
If you\’re listening, Peter… stop ignoring our emails and come on the show! We know you\’re watching!

BSDMag\’s February issue is out

The theme is \”configuring basic services on OpenBSD 5.4\”
There\’s also an interview with Peter Hansteen
Topics also include locking down SSH, a GIMP lesson, user/group management, and…
Linux and Solaris articles? Why??

Changes in bcrypt

Not specific to any OS, but the OpenBSD team is updating their bcrypt implementation
There is a bug in bcrypt when hashing long passwords – other OSes need to update theirs too! (FreeBSD already has)
\”The length is stored in an unsigned char type, which will overflow and wrap at 256. Although we consider the existence of affected hashes very rare, in order to differentiate hashes generated before and after the fix, we are introducing a new minor \’b\’.\”
As long as you upgrade your OpenBSD system in order (without skipping versions) you should be ok going forward
Lots of specifics in the email, check the full post

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Interview – Will Backman – bitgeist@yahoo.com / @bsdtalk

The BSDTalk podcast, BSD advocacy, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking and cross-compiling -CURRENT (NetBSD)

News Roundup

X11 no longer needs root

Xorg has long since required root privileges to run the main server
With recent work from the OpenBSD team, now everything (even KMS) can run as a regular user
Now you can set the \”machdep.allowaperture\” sysctl to 0 and still use a GUI

OpenSSH 6.6 CFT

Shortly after the huge 6.5 release, we get a routine bugfix update
Test it out on as many systems as you can
Check the mailing list for the full bug list

Creating an OpenBSD USB drive

Since OpenBSD doesn\’t distribute any official USB images, here are some instructions on how to do it
Step by step guide on how you can make your very own
However, there\’s some recent emails that suggest official USB images may be coming soon… oh wait

PCBSD weekly digest

New PBI updates that allow separate ports from /usr/local
You need to rebuild pbi-manager if you want to try it out
Updates and changes to Life Preserver, App Cafe, PCDM

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