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chris

8 years ago

We’re back from EuroBSDCon! This week we’ll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you’ve ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it’s actually really easy to get involved. We’ve also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference

NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find
At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display
As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference

FreeBSD’s Linux emulation ports rehaul

For a long time, FreeBSD’s emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system
If you’ve ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you’ll be stuck with all this extra junk
With some recent work, that’s been replaced with a recent CentOS release
This opens up the door for newer versions of Skype to run on FreeBSD, and maybe even Steam someday

pfSense 2.2-BETA

Big changes are coming in pfSense land, with their upcoming 2.2 release
We talked to the developer a while back about future plans, and now they’re finally out there
The 2.2 branch will be based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE (instead of 8.3) and include lots of performance fixes
It also includes some security updates, lots of package changes and updates and much more
You can check the full list of changes on their wiki

NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi

This article shows how you can install NetBSD on the ever-so-popular Raspberry Pi
As of right now, you’ll need to use a -CURRENT snapshot to do it
It also shows how to grow the filesystem to fill up an SD card, some pkgsrc basics and how to get some initial things set up
Can anyone find something that you can’t install NetBSD on?

Interview – Steve Wills – swills@freebsd.org / @swills

Mentoring new BSD developers

News Roundup

MidnightBSD 0.5 released

We don’t hear a whole lot about MidnightBSD, but they’ve just released version 0.5
It’s got a round of the latest FreeBSD security patches, driver updates and various small things
Maybe one of their developers could come on the show sometime and tell us more about the project

BSD Router Project 1.52 released

The newest update for the BSD Router Project is out
This version is based on a snapshot of 10-STABLE that’s very close to 10.1-RELEASE
It’s mostly a bugfix release, but includes some small changes and package updates

Configuring a DragonFly BSD desktop

We’ve done tutorials on how to set up a FreeBSD or OpenBSD desktop, but maybe you’re more interested in DragonFly
In this post from Justin Sherrill, you’ll learn some of the steps to do just that
He pulled out an old desktop machine, gave it a try and seems to be pleased with the results
It includes a few Xorg tips, and there are some comments about the possibility of making a GUI DragonFly installer

Building a mini-ITX pfSense box

Another week, another pfSense firewall build post
This time, the author is installing to a Jetway J7F2, a mini-ITX device with four LAN ports
He used to be a m0n0wall guy, but wanted to give the more modern pfSense a try
Lots of great pictures of the hardware, which we always love

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Slides from most of the EuroBSDCon talks are up, hopefully we’ll have the links to all the videos soon
We got lots of great interviews, so look forward to those in the coming months
The Book of PF’s third edition is now available to buy digitally, and physical copies will be available later this month
OpenBSD 5.6 preorders are up on their new store, openbsdstore.com – there’s also some other cool things there
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