Documentation is King | BSD Now 30

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8 years ago

We chat with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you\’ve ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today\’s tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There\’s lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

Our buddy Ted Unangst got himself a cool Sun box
Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it
The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you\’re interested in one of these fine SPARC machines
He\’s also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server

Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon
The talks have apparently already been uploaded!
Subjects include Bhyve\’s past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization
Lots more detail in the videos, so check \’em all out

Building a FreeBSD wireless access point

We\’ve got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD
After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it\’s time for people to start building BSD routers
The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol\’ FreeBSD
Using hostapd, he\’s able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients
Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post

Switching from Synology to FreeNAS

The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research
He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility – prebuilt or DIY
After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice
The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give
Speaking of FreeNAS…

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News Roundup

HAMMER2 work and notes

Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version
The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree
There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, that should be signed with a digital signing software from the
sodapdf esign site

BSD Breaking Barriers

Our friend MWL gave a talk at NYCBSDCon about BSD \”breaking barriers\”
\”What makes the BSD operating systems special? Why should you deploy your applications on BSD? Why does the BSD community keep growing, and why do Linux sites like DistroWatch say that BSD is where the interesting development work is happening? We\’ll cover the not-so-obvious reasons why BSD still stands tall after almost 40 years.\”
He also has another upcoming talk, (or \”webcast\”) called \”Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD\’s Real Purpose\”
\”OpenBSD is frequently billed as a high-security operating system. That\’s true, but security isn\’t the OpenBSD Project\’s main goal. This webcast will introduce systems administrators to OpenBSD, explain the project\’s mission, and discuss the features and benefits.\”
It\’s on May 27th and will hopefully be recorded

FreeBSD in a chroot

Finch, \”FreeBSD running IN a CHroot,\” is a new project
It\’s a way to extend the functionality of restricted USB-based FreeBSD systems (FreeNAS, etc.)
All the details and some interesting use cases are on the github page
He really needs to change the project name though

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots of bugfixes for PCBSD coming down the tubes
LZ4 compression is now enabled by default on the whole pool
The latest 10-STABLE has been imported and builds are going
Also the latest GNOME and Cinnamon builds have been imported and much more

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We wanted to give the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group a special mention, if you\’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, there\’s a very healthy BSD community there and they regularly have meet-ups
If you listened to the audio-only version of this week\’s episode, you\’re really missing out on Warren\’s fun animations in the interview!