This week Allan is away at a ZFS conference, so it seems fitting that we have a great interview with Adam Leventhal where we get to discuss all kinds of ZFS & DTrace history. That plus the latest news and some items we couldn’t get to last week, so stay tuned, BSDNow is coming your way right now!
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Headlines
pfsense – 2.3 alpha snapshots available
- pfsense 2.3 Features and Changes
- The entire front end has been re-written
- Upgrade of base OS to FreeBSD 10-STABLE
- The PPTP server component has been removed,
- PBIs have been replaced with pkg
- PHP upgraded to 5.6
- The web interface has been converted to Bootstrap
BSDMag October 2015 out
- A Look at the New PC-BSD 10.2 – Kris Moore
- Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment 18 – Ken Moore
- A Secure Webserver on FreeBSD with Hiawatha – David Carlier
- Defeating CryptoLocker Attacks with ZFS – Michael Dexter
- Emerging Technology Has Increasingly Been a Force for Both Good and Evil – Rob Somerville
- Interviews with: Dru Lavigne, Luca Ferrari, Oleksandr Rybalko
OpnSense 15.7.14 Released
- Another update to OpnSense has landed!
- Some of the notable takeaways this time are that it isn’t a security update
- Major rework of the firewall rules sections including, rules, schedules, virtual ip, nat and aliases pages
- Latest BIND and Squid packages
- Improved configuration management, including fixes to importing an old config file. New location for configuration history / backups.
OpenBSD in Toyota Highlander – Images
- While looking through the ‘Software Information’ screen of a Toyota Highlander, Chad Dougherty of the ACM found a bunch of OpenBSD copyright notices
- At least one of which I recognize as OpenCrypto, because of the comment about “transforms”
- It is likely that the vehicle is running QNX, which contains various bits of BSD
- QNX: Third Party License Terms List version 2.17
- Some highlights
- Robert N. M. Watson (FreeBSD)
- TrustedBSD Project (FreeBSD)
- NetBSD Foundation
- NASA Ames Research Center (NetBSD)
- Damien Miller (OpenBSD)
- Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD)
- Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc.
- Bob Beck (OpenBSD)
- Christos Zoulas (NetBSD)
- Markus Friedl (OpenBSD)
- Henning Brauer (OpenBSD)
- Network Associates Technology, Inc. (FreeBSD)
- 100s of others
- OpenSSH seems to be included
- It also seems to contain tcpdump for some reason
Interview – Adam Leventhal – adam.leventhal@delphix.com / @ahl
- ZFS and DTrace
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