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Best Of LAS 2014 | LAS 344

chris — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:06:34 +0000

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We take a look back at the history of the Linux Action Show along with the audience and pick out some of our best moments plus a few bits of JB News.

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SeaGL & OLF Roundup | LINUX Unplugged 64

chris — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:58:43 +0000

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Our interviews from SeaGL 2014, a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source. Special guest Angela Fisher joins us to discuss getting women involved with Linux and technology general.

Plus our fun stories from Ohio LinuxFest 2014, a few closing thoughts, your feedback & much more!

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SeaGL 2014

SeaGL: https://seagl.org
Presentations (Video or Audio only): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm0HuuKPWBglv-qPC8kkUw
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Pogo Linux: https://pogolinux.com
Ada Initiative: https://adainitiative.org/
Libreoffice: https://libreoffice.org
FreeGeek Seattle: https://freegeekseattle.org
Seattle Meshnet: https://www.seattlemesh.net/
Seattle Attic Community Workshop: https://www.seattleattic.com/
Emily Dunham:
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https://osuosl.org/

“I’d recommend https://usfirst.org to any middle school or high school students who want to get involved with robotics.”

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The Daemon’s Apprentice | BSD Now 57

chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:54:25 +0000

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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
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Beastly Infrastructure | BSD Now 56

chris — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:52:48 +0000

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This week we’re on the other side of the Atlantic, attending EuroBSDCon. For now, we’ve got an awesome interview with Peter Wemm about the FreeBSD web cluster and infrastructure. It’s an inside look that you probably won’t hear about anywhere else! We’ll also get to a couple of your emails today, and be back next week with all the usual goodies, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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The FreeBSD web cluster and infrastructure

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OSCON Interview Roundup | LAS 323

chris — Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:19:50 +0000

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We’re back from OSCON 2014 with some great interviews with Christian Heilmann from the Mozilla Developer Evangelist, Karen Sandler from the Software Freedom Conservancy, and Chris DiBona the director of open source at Google.

Plus the UK Government adopts ODF, CoreOS gets a huge boost and a new release, making your Linux installers faster and easier than ever….

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OSCON 2014:

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About: OSCON 2014 – O’Reilly Conferences, July 20 – 24, 2014, Portland, OR

Now in its 16th year:

OSCON is where all of the pieces come together: developers, innovators, businesspeople, and investors. In the early days, this trailblazing O’Reilly event was focused on changing mainstream business thinking and practices; today OSCON is about real-world practices and how to successfully implement open source in your workflow or projects. While the open source community has always been viewed as building the future—that future is here, and it’s everywhere you look.

Christian Heilmann (codepo8) on Twitter

Mozilla Developer Evangelist – all things open web, HTML5, writing and working together. #nofilter

Christian Heilmann

Karen Sandler – Software Freedom Conservancy

Karen M. Sandler is Executive Director of Conservancy. She was previously the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. In partnership with the GNOME Foundation, Karen co-organizes the award winning Outreach Program for
Women. Prior to taking up this position, Karen was General Counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC). She continues to do pro bono legal work with SFLC, the GNOME Foundation and QuestionCopyright.Org.

Donations – Software Freedom Conservancy

Chris DiBona (cdibona) on Twitter

Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches on Google Code. In his former work on Google’s public sector software, he looked after Google Moderator and the polling locations API and election results.

Before joining Google, he was an editor at Slashdot and co-founded Damage Studios. DiBona has a B.S. in computer science from George Mason University and a M.S. in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He also co-edited Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution and Open Sources 2.0.

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Desktop Ap Pick

Attic – Deduplicating Archiver

Attic: Deduplicating archiver that can mount your offsite encrypted backups over ssh

Submitted by kleptoz in the LAS Subreddit

Attic is a secure backup program for Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Attic is designed for efficient data storage where only new or modified data is stored.
Features

Space efficient storage Variable block size deduplication is used to reduce the number of bytes stored by detecting redundant data. Each file is split into a number of variable length chunks and only chunks that have never been seen before are compressed and added to the repository.

Optional data encryption All data can be protected using 256-bit AES encryption and data integrity and authenticity is verified using HMAC-SHA256. Off-site backups Attic can store data on any remote host accessible over SSH as long as Attic is installed. Backups mountable as filesystems Backup archives are mountable as userspace filesystems for easy backup verification and restores.

Weekly Spotlight

ZM-VE300-B

VE300 supports Virtual ODD which can be used as CD-ROM, DVD, and Blu-ray Drive for convenient booting.

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GOG.com Now Supports Linux!

So, one of the most popular site feature requests on our community wishlist is granted today: Linux support has officially arrived on GOG.com!

The first 50+ titles we’ve have in store for you come from all the corners of our DRM-Free catalog. Note that we’ve got many classic titles coming officially to Linux for the very first time, thanks to the custom builds prepared by our dedicated team of penguin tamers. That’s over twenty fan-favorite GOG.com classics, like FlatOut&Flatout 2, , Darklands, or Realms of the Haunting we’ve personally ushered one by one into the welcoming embrace of Linux gamers. That’s already quite a nice chunk of our back-catalog, and you can expect more from our dedicated Linux team soon

“OK, but how will Linux support actually work on GOG.com” – you might ask. For both native Linux versions, as well as special builds prepared by our team, GOG.com will provide distro-independent tar.gz archives and support convenient DEB installers for the two most popular Linux distributions: Ubuntu and Mint, in their current and future LTS editions. Helpful and responsive customer support has always been an important part of the GOG.com gaming experience. We wouldn’t have it any other way when it comes to Linux, and starting today our helpdesk offers support for our official Linux releases on Ubuntu and Mint systems.

Major win for open document format in the UK

The UK government declared that all official office suites must support Open Document Format (ODF).

UK makes ODF its official documents format standard | ZDNet

The world’s most secure OS may have a serious problem

The Tails operating system is one of the most trusted platforms in cryptography, favored by Edward Snowden and booted up more than 11,000 times per day in May. But according to the security firm Exodus Intelligence, the program may not be as secure as many thought. The company says they’ve discovered an undisclosed vulnerability that will let attackers deanonymize Tails computers and even execute code remotely, potentially exposing users to malware attacks. Exodus is currently working with Tails to patch the bug, and expects to hand over a full report on the exploit next week.

We're happy to see that TAILS 1.1 is being released tomorrow. Our multiple RCE/de-anonymization zero-days are still effective. #tails #tor

— Exodus Intelligence (@ExodusIntel) July 21, 2014

CoreOS Stable Release

CoreOS 367.1.0, our first version on the stable channel, includes the following:

Linux 3.15.2
Docker 1.0.1
Support on all major cloud providers, including Rackspace Cloud, Amazon EC2 (including HVM), and Google Compute Engine
Commercial support via CoreOS Managed Linux

The CoreOS developers have announced the release of version 367.1.0 of the CoreOS distribution; this is the first version deemed to be stable and ready for production. “Please note: The stable release is not including etcd and fleet as stable, this release is only targeted at the base OS and Docker 1.0. etcd/fleet stable support will be in subsequent releases.”

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

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Network Iodometry | BSD Now 46

chris — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:26:02 +0000

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We’re back and this week we’ll be showing you how to tunnel out of a restrictive network using only DNS queries.

We also sat down with Bryan Drewery, from the FreeBSD portmgr team, to talk all about their building cluster and some recent changes.

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EuroBSDCon 2014 registration open

September is getting closer, and that means it’s time for EuroBSDCon – held in Bulgaria this year
Registration is finally open to the public, with prices for businesses ($287), individuals ($217) and students ($82) for the main conference until August 18th
Tutorials, sessions, dev summits and everything else all have their own pricing as well
Registering between August 18th – September 12th will cost more for everything
You can register online here and check hotels in the area
The FreeBSD foundation is also accepting applications for travel grants

OpenBSD SMP PF update

A couple weeks ago we talked about how DragonflyBSD updated their PF to be multithreaded
With them joining the SMP ranks along with FreeBSD, a lot of users have been asking about when OpenBSD is going to make the jump
In a recent mailing list thread, Henning Brauer addresses some of the concerns
The short version is that too many things in OpenBSD are currently single-threaded for it to matter – just reworking PF by itself would be useless
He also says PF on OpenBSD is over four times faster than FreeBSD’s old version, presumably due to those extra years of development it’s gone through
There’s also been even more recent concern about the uncertain future of FreeBSD’s PF, being mostly unmaintained since their SMP patches
We reached out to four developers (over week ago) about coming on the show to talk about OpenBSD network performance and SMP, but they all ignored us

Introduction to NetBSD pkgsrc

An article from one of our listeners about how to create a new pkgsrc port or fix one that you need
The post starts off with how to get the pkgsrc tree, shows how to get the developer tools and finally goes through the Makefile format
It also lists all the different bmake targets and their functions in relation to the porting process
Finally, the post details the whole process of creating a new port

FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE

After three RCs, FreeBSD 9.3 was scheduled to be finalized and announced today but actually came out yesterday
The full list of changes is available, but it’s mostly a smaller maintenance release
Lots of driver updates, ZFS issues fixed, hardware RNGs are entirely disabled by default, netmap framework updates, read-only ext4 support was added, the vt driver was merged from -CURRENT, new hardware support (including radeon KMS), various userland tools got new features, OpenSSL and OpenSSH were updated… and much more
If you haven’t jumped to the 10.x branch yet (and there are a lot of people who haven’t!) this is a worthwhile upgrade – 9.2-RELEASE will reach EOL soon
Good news, this will be the first release with PGP-signed checksums on the FTP mirrors – a very welcome change
9.2’s EOL was extended until December of this year
With that out of the way, the 10.1-RELEASE schedule was posted

Interview – Bryan Drewery – bdrewery@freebsd.org / @bdrewery

The FreeBSD package building cluster, pkgng, ports, various topics

Tutorial

Tunneling traffic through DNS

News Roundup

SSH two-factor authentication on FreeBSD

We’ve previously mentioned stories on how to do two-factor authentication with a Yubikey or via a third party website
This blog post tells you how to do exactly that, but with your Google account and the pam_google_authenticator port
Using this setup, every user that logs in with a password will have an extra requirement before they can gain access – but users with public keys can login normally
It’s a really, really simple process once you have the port installed – full details on the page

Ditch tape backup in favor of FreeNAS

The author of this post shares some of his horrible experiences with tape backups for a client
Having constant, daily errors and failed backups, he needed to find another solution
With 1TB of backups, tapes just weren’t a good option anymore – so he switched to FreeNAS (after also ruling out a pre-built NAS)
The rest of the article details his experiences with it and tells about his setup

NetBSD vs FreeBSD, desktop experiences

A NetBSD and pkgsrc developer details his experiences running NetBSD on a workstation at his job
Becoming more and more disappointed with graphics performance, he finally decides to give FreeBSD 10 a try – especially since it has a native nVidia driver
“Running on VAX, PlayStation 2 and Amiga is fun, but I’ll tell you a little secret: nobody cares anymore about VAX, PlayStation 2 and Amiga.”
He’s become pretty satisfied with FreeBSD, a modern choice for a 2014 desktop system

PCBSD not-so-weekly digest

Speaking of choices for a desktop system, it’s the return of the PCBSD digest!
Warden and PBI_add have gotten some interesting new features
You can now create jails “on the fly” when adding a new PBI to your application library
Bulk jail creation is also possible now, and it’s really easy
New Jenkins integration, with public access to Poudriere logs as well (https://builds.pcbsd.org)
PkgNG 1.3.0.rc2 testing for EDGE users

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Congrats to the new FreeBSD core team members
The first (and second.. and third..) portable release of LibreSSL is available on the OpenBSD FTP sites, with a brief announcement email
Test it on your platform of choice, including building ports against it, and report your findings to either the LibreSSL team or the port maintainers so we can increase compatibility
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Package Design | BSD Now 43

chris — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:06:40 +0000

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It’s a big show this week! We’ll be interviewing Marc Espie about OpenBSD’s package system and build cluster. Also, we’ve been asked many times “how do I keep my BSD box up to date?” Well, today’s tutorial should finally answer that. Answers to all your emails and this week’s headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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EuroBSDCon 2014 talks and schedule

The talks and schedules for EuroBSDCon 2014 are finally revealed
The opening keynote is called “FreeBSD, looking forward to another 10 years” by jkh
Lots of talks spanning FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PCBSD, and we finally have a few about NetBSD and DragonflyBSD too! Variety is great
It looks like Theo even has a talk, but the title isn’t on the page… how mysterious
There are also days dedicated to some really interesting tutorials
Register now, the conference is on September 25-28th in Bulgaria
If you see Allan and Kris walking towards you and you haven’t given us an interview yet… well you know what’s going to happen
Why aren’t the videos up from last year yet? Will this year also not have any?

FreeNAS vs NAS4Free

More mainstream news covering BSD, this time with an article about different NAS solutions
In a possibly excessive eight-page article, Ars Technica discusses the pros and cons of both FreeNAS and NAS4Free
Both are based on FreeBSD and ZFS of course, but there are more differences than you might expect
Discusses the different development models, release cycles, features, interfaces and ease-of-use factor of each project
“One is pleasantly functional; the other continues devolving during a journey of pain” – uh oh, who’s the loser?

Quality software costs money, heartbleed was free

PHK writes an article for ACM Queue about open source software projects’ funding efforts
A lot of people don’t realize just how widespread open source software is – TVs, printers, gaming consoles, etc
The article discusses ways to convince your workplace to fund open source efforts, then goes into a little bit about FreeBSD and Varnish’s funding
The latest heartbleed vulnerability should teach everyone that open source projects are critical to the internet, and need people actively maintaining them
On that subject, “Earlier this year the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug laid waste to Internet security, and there are still hundreds of thousands of embedded devices of all kinds—probably your television among them—that have not been and will not ever be software-upgraded to fix it. The best way to prevent that from happening again is to avoid having bugs of that kind go undiscovered for several years, and the only way to avoid that is to have competent people paying attention to the software”
Consider donating to your favorite BSD foundation (or buying cool shirts and CDs!) and keeping the ecosystem alive

Geoblock evasion with pf and OpenBSD rdomains

Geoblocking is a way for websites to block visitors based on the location of their IP
This is a blog post about how to get around it, using pf and rdomains
It has the advantage of not requiring any browser plugins or DNS settings on the users’ computers, you just need to be running OpenBSD on your router (hmm, if only a website had a tutorial about that…)
In this post, the author wanted to get an American IP address, since the service he was using (Netflix) is blocked in Australia
It’s got all the details you need to set up a VPN-like system and bypass those pesky geographic filters

Interview – Marc Espie – espie@openbsd.org / @espie_openbsd

OpenBSD’s package system, building cluster, various topics

Tutorial

Keeping your BSD up to date

News Roundup

BoringSSL and LibReSSL

Yet another OpenSSL fork pops up, this time from Google, called BoringSSL
Adam Langley has a blog post about it, why they did it and how they’re going to maintain it
You can easily browse the source code
Theo de Raadt also weighs in with how this effort relates to LibReSSL
More eyes on the code is good, and patches will be shared between the two projects

More BSD Tor nodes wanted

Friend of the show bcallah posts some news to the Tor-BSD mailing list about monoculture in the Tor network being both bad and dangerous
Originally discussed on the Tor-Relays list, it was made apparent that having such a large amount of Linux nodes weakens the security of the whole network
If one vulnerability is found, a huge portion of the network would be useless – we need more variety in the network stacks, crypto, etc.
The EFF is also holding a Tor challenge for people to start up new relays and keep them online for over a year
Check out our Tor tutorial and help out the network, and promote BSD at the same time!

FreeBSD 10 OpenStack images

OpenStack, to quote Wikipedia, is “a free and open-source software cloud computing platform. It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution.”
The article goes into detail about creating a FreeBSD instant, installing and converting it for use with “bsd-cloudinit”
The author of the article is a regular listener and emailer of the show, hey!

BSDday 2014 call for papers

BSD Day, a conference not so well-known, is going to be held August 9th in Argentina
It was created in 2008 and is the only BSD conference around that area
The “call for papers” was issued, so if you’re around Argentina and use BSD, consider submitting a talk
Sysadmins, developers and regular users are, of course, all welcome to come to the event

Feedback/Questions

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Just a reminder for those who don’t check the website, you’ll also find contact information for every guest we’ve ever had in the show notes – so if you have follow up questions for them, it’s easy to get in touch
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you want to come on for an interview or have a tutorial you’d like to see, let us know
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
Congrats to Matt Ahrens for getting FreeBSD commit access – hopefully lots of great ZFS stuff to come
A special 21st happy birthday to FreeBSD

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Commit This Bit | BSD Now 41

chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:23:00 +0000

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This week in the big show, we’ll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan.

As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla

Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports
After years and years of wanting to switch, they’ve finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla
It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and
There’s a new workflow chart for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things
The old “send-pr” command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)
This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful

DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014

We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up
More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he’s using for a budget NAS
Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc
With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it – $550 for all the parts
Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions

DragonflyBSD 3.8 released

Justin announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0
Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts
It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions
Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it’s currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series
See the release page for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions

OpenZFS European conference 2014

There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure
Matt Ahrens, Introduction
Michael Alexander, FhGFS performance on ZFS
Andriy Gapon, Testing ZFS on FreeBSD
Luke Marsden, HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud
Vadim Comănescu, Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS
Chris George, DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation
Grenville Whelan, High-Availability
Phil Harman, Harman Holistic
Mark Rees, Storiant and OpenZFS
Andrew Holway, EraStor ZFS appliances
Dan Vâtca, Syneto and OpenZFS
Luke Marsden, HybridCluster and OpenZFS
Matt Ahrens, Delphix and OpenZFS
Check the link for slides and other goodies

Interview – Benedict Reuschling – bcr@freebsd.org

BSD documentation, getting commit access, unix education, various topics

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr, Steve Wills

“It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Wills, the newest member of the portmgr team”
swills is an all-round good guy, does a lot for ports (especially the ruby ports)
In this interview, we learn why he uses FreeBSD, the most embarrassing moment in his FreeBSD career and much more
He used to work for Red Hat, wow

BSDTalk episode 242

This time on BSDTalk, Will interviews Chris Buechler from pfSense
Topics include: the heartbleed vulnerability and how it affected pfSense, how people usually leave their firewalls unpatched for a long time (or even forget about them!), changes between major versions, the upgrade process, upcoming features in their 10-based version, backporting drivers and security fixes
They also touch on recent concerns in the pfSense community about their license change, that they may be “going commercial” and closing the source – so tune in to find out what their future plans are for all of that

Turn old PC hardware into a killer home server

Lots of us have old hardware lying around doing nothing but collecting dust
Why not turn that old box into a modern file server with FreeNAS and ZFS?
This article goes through the process of setting up a NAS, gives a little history behind the project and highlights some of the different protocols FreeNAS can use (NFS, SMB, AFS, etc)
Most of our users are already familiar with all of this stuff, nothing too advanced
Good to see BSD getting some well-deserved attention on a big mainstream site

Unbloating the VAX install CD

After a discussion on the VAX mailing list, something very important came to the attention of the developers…
You can’t boot NetBSD on a VAX box with 16MB of RAM from the CD image
This blog post goes through the developer’s adventure in trying to fix that through emulation and stripping various things out of the kernel to make it smaller
In the end, he got it booting – and now all three VAX users who want to run NetBSD can do so on their systems with 16MB of RAM…

Feedback/Questions

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The DNSCrypt tutorial has been updated to reflect the newest version
There were some more serious OpenSSL security problems, make sure your systems get patched as soon as possible
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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AirPorts & Packages | BSD Now 40

chris — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 13:12:25 +0000

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On this week\’s episode, we\’ll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD\’s ports and package system.

There\’s also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware.

Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan 2014 talks and reports, part 2

More presentations and trip reports are still being uploaded
Ingo Schwarze, New Trends in mandoc
Vsevolod Stakhov, The Architecture of the New Solver in pkg
Julio Merino, The FreeBSD Test Suite
Zbigniew Bodek, Transparent Superpages for FreeBSD on ARM
There\’s also a trip report from Michael Dexter and another (very long and detailed) trip report from our friend Warren Block that even gives us some linkage, thanks!

Beyond security, getting to know OpenBSD\’s real purpose

Michael W Lucas (who, we learn through this video, has been using BSD since 1986) gave a \”webcast\” last week, and the audio and slides are finally up
It clocks in at just over 30 minutes, managing to touch on a lot of OpenBSD topics
Some of those topics include: what is OpenBSD and why you should care, the philosophy of the project, how it serves as a \”pressure cooker for ideas,\” briefly touches on GPL vs BSDL, their \”do it right or don\’t do it at all\” attitude, their stance on NDAs and blobs, recent LibreSSL development, some of the security functions that OpenBSD enabled before anyone else (and the ripple effect that had) and, of course, their disturbing preference for comic sans
Here\’s a direct link to the slides
Great presentation if you\’d like to learn a bit about OpenBSD, but also contains a bit of information that long-time users might not know too

FreeBSD vs Linux, a comprehensive comparison

Another blog post covering something people seem to be obsessed with – FreeBSD vs Linux
This one was worth mentioning because it\’s very thorough in regards to how things are done behind the scenes, not just the usual technical differences
It highlights the concept of a \”core team\” and their role vs \”contributors\” and \”committers\” (similar to a presentation Kirk McKusick did not long ago)
While a lot of things will be the same on both platforms, you might still be asking \”which one is right for me?\” – this article weighs in with some points for both sides and different use cases
Pretty well-written and unbiased article that also mentions areas where Linux might be better, so don\’t hate us for linking it

Expand FreeNAS with plugins

One of the things people love the most about FreeNAS (other than ZFS) is their cool plugin framework
With these plugins, you can greatly expand the feature set of your NAS via third party programs
This page talks about a few of the more popular ones and how they can be used to improve your NAS or media box experience
Some examples include setting up an OwnCloud server, Bacula for backups, Maraschino for managing a home theater PC, Plex Media Server for an easy to use video experience and a few more
It then goes into more detail about each of them, how to actually install plugins and then how to set them up

Interview – Karl Lehenbauer – karl@flightaware.com / @flightaware

FreeBSD at FlightAware, BSD history, various topics

Tutorial

Ports and packages in OpenBSD

News Roundup

Code review culture meets FreeBSD

In most of the BSDs, changes need to be reviewed by more than one person before being committed to the tree
This article describes Phabricator, an open source code review system that we briefly mentioned last week
Instructions for using it are on the wiki
While not approved by the core team yet for anything official, it\’s in a testing phase and developers are encouraged to try it out and get their patches reviewed
Just look at that fancy interface!!

Michael Lucas\’ next tech books

Sneaky MWL somehow finds his way into both our headlines and the news roundup
He gives us an update on the next BSD books that he\’s planning to release
The plan is to release three (or so) books based on different aspects of FreeBSD\’s storage system(s) – GEOM, UFS, ZFS, etc.
This has the advantage of only requiring you to buy the one(s) you\’re specifically interested in
\”When will they be released? When I\’m done writing them. How much will they cost? Dunno.\”
It\’s not Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition…

CARP failover and high availability on FreeBSD

If you\’re running a cluster or a group of servers, you should have some sort of failover in place
But the question comes up, \”how do you load balance the load balancers!?\”
This video goes through the process of giving more than one machine the same IP, how to set up CARP, securing it and demonstrates a node dying
Also mentions DNS-based load balancing as another option

PCBSD weekly digest

This time in PCBSD land, we\’re getting ready for the 10.0.2 release (ISOs here)
AppCafe got a good number of fixes, and now shows 10 random highlighted applications
EasyPBI added a \”bulk\” mode to create PBIs of an entire FreeBSD port category
Lumina, the new desktop environment, is still being worked on and got some bug fixes too

Feedback/Questions

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If you want to come on for an interview or have a tutorial you\’d like to see, let us know
Just a reminder, if you\’re using vnd (vnconfig) on OpenBSD for encryption, it\’s being retired for 5.7 – start planning to migrate your data to softraid
There were also some security advisories for FreeBSD recently, make sure you\’re all patched up
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Documentation is King | BSD Now 30

chris — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:38:46 +0000

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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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Tutorial

The world of BSD mailing lists

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

Feedback/Questions

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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!

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P.E.F.S. | BSD 29

chris — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 22:58:57 +0000

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We\’re back from AsiaBSDCon! This week we\’ll be chatting with Gleb Kurtsou about some a filesystem-level encryption utility called PEFS. After that, we\’ll give you a step by step guide on how to actually use it. There\’s also the usual round of your questions and we\’ve got a lot of news to catch up on, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication

SSH has a not-so-often-talked-about authentication option in addition to passwords and keys: certificates – you can add certificates to any current authentication method you\’re using
They\’re not really that complex, there just isn\’t a lot of documentation on how to use them – this post tries to solve that
There\’s the benefit of not needing a known_hosts file or authorized_users file anymore
The post goes into a fair amount of detail about the differences, advantages and implications of using certificates for authentication

Back to FreeBSD, a new series

Similar to the \”FreeBSD Challenge\” blog series, one of our listeners will be writing about his switching BACK to FreeBSD journey
\”So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on a Pentium. 14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD 10\”
He\’s starting off with PCBSD since it\’s easy to get working with dual graphics
Should be a fun series to follow!

OpenBSD\’s recent experiments in package building

If you\’ll remember back to our poudriere tutorial, it lets you build FreeBSD binary packages in bulk – OpenBSD\’s version is called dpb
Marc Espie recently got some monster machines in russia to play with to help improve scaling of dpb on high end hardware
This article goes through some of his findings and plans for future versions that increase performance
We\’ll be showing a tutorial of dpb on the show in a few weeks

Securing FreeBSD with 2FA

So maybe you\’ve set up two-factor authentication with gmail or twitter, but have you done it with your BSD box?
This post walks us through the process of locking down an ssh server with 2FA
With just a mobile phone and a few extra tools, you can enable two-factor auth on your BSD box and have just that little extra bit of protections

Interview – Gleb Kurtsou – gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com

PEFS

Tutorial

Filesystem-based encryption with PEFS

News Roundup

BSDCan 2014 registration

Registration is finally open!
The prices are available along with a full list of presentations
Tutorial sessions for various topics as well
You have to go

Big changes for OpenBSD 5.6

Although 5.5 was just frozen and the release process has started, 5.6 is already looking promising
OpenBSD has, for a long time, included a heavily-patched version of Apache based on 1.3
They\’ve also imported nginx into base a few years ago, but now have finally removed Apache
Sendmail is also no longer the default MTA, OpenSMTPD is the new default
Will BIND be removed next? Maybe so
They\’ve also discontinued the hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports

Getting to know your portmgr lurkers

The \”getting to know your portmgr\” series makes its return
This time we get to talk with danfe@ (probably most known for being the nVidia driver maintainer, but he does a lot with ports)
How he got into FreeBSD? He \”wanted a unix system that I could understand and that would not get bloated as time goes by\”
Mentions why he\’s still heavily involved with the project and lots more

PCBSD weekly digest

Work has started to port Pulseaudio to PCBSD 10.01 (why?)
There\’s a new \”pc-mixer\” utility being worked on for sound management as well
New PBIs, GNOME/Mate updates, Life Preserver fixes and a lot more
PCBSD 10.0.1 was released too

Feedback/Questions

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
The pkgng, ZFS, OpenBSD router and FreeBSD desktop tutorials have gotten some updates and fixes
If you were using the automatic errata checking script in the router tutorial, you need to redownload the new, fixed version (they rearranged some stuff on the website and broke it)
A few weeks\’ worth of new tutorials were uploaded ahead of time for the benefit of everyone, no point in holding them hostage – go check \’em all out
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
Dusko, the winner of our tutorial contest, sent us a picture with his awesome FreeBSD pillow!

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BSD Now vs. BSDTalk | BSD Now 27

chris — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:41:07 +0000

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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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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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Also, if you\’re a NetBSD or DragonflyBSD guy listening, we want to talk to you! We\’d love more interviews related to those, whether you\’re a developer or not
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Port Authority | BSD Now 26

chris — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:34:25 +0000

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On today\’s show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU
Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it!
This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device
He goes through the trial and error of \”compile, break it, rebuild, try again\”
After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working

pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

pkgsrccon is \”a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure\”
This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
BSDCan\’s schedule was also announced
We\’ll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
Kris\’ presentation was accepted!
Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully!

Two factor auth with pushover

A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
Pushover is \”a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway\” – you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh!

The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

It\’s no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they\’re finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us – it\’s a beautiful thing
This goes right along with our interview today!

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The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

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The FreeBSD Ports Collection

News Roundup

DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they\’d like to get done before then
In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes

NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

We\’ve got a nice wrap-up titled \”NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend\”
The author also interviews GNN about the conference
There\’s even a little \”beginner introduction\” to BSD segment
Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event

FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

GNN in yet another story – he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs \”distros,\” development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends

PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
How dare Kris be \”unimpressed with\” freebsd-update and pkgng!?
Various updates and fixes

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A Sixth pfSense | BSD 25

chris — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:25:32 +0000

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We sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We\’ll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon

This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria
They\’ve got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present
There will also be a tutorial section of the conference
AsiaBSDCon will be next month, in March!
All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted
Check the link for all the details on the talks – if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers!

FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU
This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router
Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up
It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don\’t want to use the ones rolled by someone else
For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router
Of course if you\’re more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see our tutorial for that too

Signed pkgsrc package guide

We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up
It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD)
He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them
The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer

Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports

Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI
In the second, ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things
In the third, jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara
In the fourth, dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead – but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he\’s done
In the fifth, claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things

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FreeBSD challenge continues

Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey
In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first
In day 14, he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he\’s starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again – concludes that ports are the way to go
In day 15, he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch
In day 16, he dives into the world of FreeBSD jails!

BSD books in 2014

BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them
In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014
In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and…
Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch our interview with him)
Check the link for all the details

How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images

Our friend Colin Percival details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post
Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own from scratch
You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI
It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward

PCBSD weekly digest

This time around we discuss how you can become a developer
Kris also details the length of supported releases
Expect lots of new features in 10.1

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Linux at CES 2014 | LAS s30e05

chris — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 14:32:28 +0000

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The best stuff at CES this year ran Linux, and that’s no joke! From International CES 2014, we’ve pushed through the noise and feature nothing but the best and most innovative Linux powered devices.

Plus: CentOS and Red Hat officially join forces, Epic OpenShot 2.0 Update…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Belkin shows Linux powered smart slow cooker at CES 2014
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JB 2014 “State of the Onion” Address:

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JB’s BIG 2014 Plans | FauxShow 159

chris — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:52:24 +0000

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Angela and Chris reveal their BIG plans to kick off 2014, find out the new and fun ways Jupiter Broadcasting will grow in the new year, and when you can visit the Jupiter Base Station.

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The future of JB Intergalactic Studios:

Pictures
Expected Time Schedule
Lot of work to do on sound, electric, lighting. Know anyone handy in our area?
Open to studio guests
A place to work, and play with new ideas.
Possible new sets, ideas include “living room set” “Howto set” in garage, etc.
Back yard big enough for BBQ.
Someone wise once said:

“I think that JB is awesome and independent broadcasting on an unmoderated medium is something that is needed and the people that make JB happen are some of the best people i\’ve ever met and i\’m happy i\’ve been able to help out and hope to be able to help out even more in the future.”

Adopting a new family member:

rikai, he is a 27 year old redhead with a magnificent beard.
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Found us through LAS, then IRC, then came back because of Allan

The power of staff:

rikai will be taking on post production and posting duties from Chris.
After many years of spending hours after each show, Chris will have that time available.
New show concepts are in the works, hopefully with fun on-location tie ins.

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In Defense of Gnome 3 | LAS s30e04

chris — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:07:07 +0000

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Hating on Gnome is the popular thing to do, and it’s fantastic link bait. We’ll come to the defense of this bold shell, and why 2014 could be big year for Gnome.

Plus: We’ll breakdown the major security issues plaguing X, the UK “porn” filter that’s blocking Fedora downloads, a little Enlightenment 18 talk…

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In Defense of Gnome 3:

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REALTALK about GNOME 3 and the Linux community

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The majority of my work week recently has been spent in KDE.
Chris’ desktop
The future for Qt looks bright, and like most geeks, I want to ride the wave and try to live in the future.
Gnome Extensions concern me in the long run. Some important functionality for me in Gnome 3 is provided via extensions. The long term viability of that is quesentonalbe.
Every time an extension works, it feels like a tiny and temporary merical.

– Summation of Common Gnome 3 Complaints –

The problem with GNOME 3

– Gnome Developers Step Into the Spotlight –

William Jon McCann, Files developer:

Someone smart once said “Linux is just a kernel”. I couldn’t agree more. But in this age, it is going to take more than adding on a few tools to make a compelling operating system. It is going to take thinking seriously about the end result and making hard decisions to get there. A result that I believe the world needs more now than ever. A real choice for freedom. A choice for everyone. Time to step out of the dark ages. We, the technological elite, have been holding on to freedom too long. Effectively preventing others from enjoying it. Perpetuated by hostile dogma like the “unix way”. We need to be clear. Those days are over. And it is time to share.

source

Sri Ramkrishna, Tizen dev, long time Gnome Contributor:

Changes to Nautilus have been met with universal unhappiness – the changes that have been made have made a lot of people unhappy. There just hasn’t been anybody I’ve met both who are fans of GNOME 3 and critics alike who like what the current nautilus have become. People have either been silent or have encouraged the use of the 3.6 fork of Nautilus.

People have really been down on GNOME designers. While they have made some great community outreach, specifically Allen Day and Jakub Steiner have always been available to talk about their designs. Regardless, there is always this sense that whatever feedback is given will be ignored that everything is inevitable.

It’s very important that we are up front on regressions. The gnome-terminal incident is a good example of this. There is no doubt that transparency is a popular feature in terminals.

I will ask module maintainers to be upfront to the release team when there is a significant regression like this. In turn, release team needs to tell the engagement team as well so that we are also ready to talk about it when it comes up.

The conclusion is, we are creating a product. But we need to act like we are creating a product. That will require closer teamwork between the various teams that we have before. I’ll talk about this in another post. But we don’t have everything set up for that. We have gaps, and they should be addressed.

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The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.

QuickLook Function called Globulos Preview

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Best of Linux and more at 2014 International CES:

Annual best of Linux @ 2014 International CES, January 7–10
Chase from Unfilter joins Matt and Chris next week for CES Coverage.
On our January 12th episode LAS s30e05

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Ilja van Sprundel, Professional Pen Tester

Talk at 30th Chaos Communication Congress [30c3]
Spent a year researching X.org code and bugs.
Found trivial memory corruption bugs with many opportunities to insert random/malicious data.
Very awesome response from xsecuirty@xorg developer, 80 of the bugs fixed asap. He was very responsive and worked super hard.
Some of these bugs exist because hard drives were so tiny when X was created, they never thought about some of the interesting ways folks could load/inject data into memory.
LWN comment from OG X dev: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=11m29s – 12:41
X Client Summary: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=25m57s
One major issue on the X client side is so many X apps run with setuid to root. Making it trivial for a client side X application to abuse X flaws.
SUID (Set owner User ID up on execution) is a special type of file permissions given to a file.
Normally in Linux/Unix when a program runs, it inherits access permissions from the logged in user. SUID is defined as giving temporary permissions to a user to run a program/file with the permissions of the file owner rather that the user who runs it.
Users will get file owner’s permissions as well as owner UID and GID when executing a file/program/command.
X server is in good shape, and the X11 protocol.
GLX is broken “beyond repair”. (OpenGL Extension to the X Window System)
X extensions have quite a few bugs too, but not all systems have the same extensions. Trickier.
tl;dr: 80 bugs in xlib, most of them fixed. 120 bugs in the server, going to be fixed but not disclosed yet to avoid 0-day exploits. Tons of stinky code in extension modules, potentially full of bugs, but no investigations have been done, yet.
Aksed about Wayland: https://youtu.be/2l7ixRE3OCw?t=55m17s – 56:00
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Unplugging 2013 | LINUX Unplugged 21

chris — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:31:36 +0000

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In the final moments of 2013 our virtual LUG shares their expectations and predictions for 2014. We’ll debate some of the most anticipated changes.

Plus a frank Slackware discussion, rolling Ubuntu is back again, your emails, and more!

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Into 2014

NSA reportedly intercepting laptops purchased online to install spy malware

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with the CIA and FBI, routinely and secretly intercepts shipping deliveries for laptops or other computer accessories in order to implant bugs before they reach their destinations. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA\’s TAO group is able to divert shipping deliveries to its own \”secret workshops\” in a method called interdiction, where agents load malware onto the electronics or install malicious hardware that can give US intelligence agencies remote access.

Mail Sack:

Why no love for Slackware

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Example: Debian can’t get off the pot about their init. Choosing systemd would impact 0.8% of their user base negatively (according to voluntary stats) and be beneficial for Linux as a whole not just Debian. Yet they can’t make the call.

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It’s the Stupid Economy | Unfilter 68

chris — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:49:17 +0000

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This week marked the five-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank, which triggered the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression. And it also marked second anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street.

And while the establishment uses false metrics to assure us everything is going in the right direction, the cold numbers paint a much different picture. On the eve of another political showdown that threatens yet another government shutdown, we’ll dig into the fundamental issues that leave us like boiling frogs.

Then it’s your feedback, our follow up, and much much more

On this week’s Unfilter.

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NSA is CRAZY

Snowden’s lawyer: US desperate to get Edward, still a threat to him – YouTube

Who pays for Snowden’s security in Russia?

Cutting the cord: Brazil’s bold plan to combat the NSA | The Verge

Earlier this month, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff announced plans to create an undersea fiber-optic cable that would funnel internet traffic between South America and Europe, bypassing the US entirely.

Brazilian president Rousseff: US surveillance a ‘breach of international law’ | World news | The Guardian

Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, has launched a blistering attack on US espionage at the UN general assembly, accusing the NSA of violating international law by its indiscriminate collection of personal information of Brazilian citizens and economic espionage targeted on the country’s strategic industries.
Rousseff’s angry speech was a direct challenge to President Barack Obama, who was waiting in the wings to deliver his own address to the UN general assembly, and represented the most serious diplomatic fallout to date from the revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N. – The Hindu

According to a top-secret NSA document obtained by The Hindu, the NSA selected India’s U.N. office and the embassy as “location target” for infiltrating their computers and telephones with hi-tech bugs, which might have given them access to vast quantities of Internet traffic, e-mails, telephone and office conversations and even official documents stored digitally.
Though emails sent to India’s New York mission have remained unanswered so far, an Indian diplomat told The Hindu that the NSA eavesdropping might have done “extensive damage” to India’s stand on many international issues ranging from UN Security Council reforms to peacekeeping operations. “If they could implant bugs inside communications equipment of European Union office here and tap into their communications cables as well, there is no reason to believe that they didn’t snoop on us,” said the diplomat, speaking strictly on condition of anonymity.

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Economic Dissonance

How income inequality hurts America – Sep. 25, 2013

“The 400 richest people in the United States have more wealth than the bottom 150 million put together,” said Berkeley Professor and former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on a recent CNNMoney panel on inequality.

Ex-Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich warns about income inequality

Former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, who served in the Clinton administration, warned during an interview of the perils of widening income inequality in the United States, excessive executive compensation and the future of labor.

Reich is promoting his new documentary, “Inequality for All,” which looks at the income gap and possible solutions. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and won a special jury prize in the documentary competition for director Jacob Kornbluth.

This Map Will Show You The Staggering Growth In Income Inequality Over The Past 40 Years

To put the staggering rise in income inequality another way: The incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans, adjusted for inflation, grew by $59 on average between 1966 and 2011, while the average income of the top 10 percent grew by $116,071 during the same period, according to an analysis by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston.

Treasury Puts a Date on When Cash May Run Out – Oct. 17

The Treasury will only have $30 billion of cash on hand by mid-October, putting the United States on the precipice of an unprecedented default, the department said on Wednesday.

In the letter, Mr. Lew set Oct. 17 as the effective deadline for Congressional action: after that date, the country would be at severe risk of missing or defaulting on some of its payments every day going forward.

The Treasury makes more than 80 million individual payments a month. After exhausting its extraordinary measures, it would miss about 30 percent of those payments until Congress raised the ceiling again.

According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the Treasury is facing a $12 billion Social Security payment on Oct. 23 and a $6 billion interest payment on the public debt on Oct. 31.

On Nov. 1 alone, it needs to spend $18 billion on Medicare, $25 billion on Social Security, $12 billion on military pay and veterans benefits and $3 billion on the Supplemental Security Income program.

Obamacare Showdown

Sen. Cruz ends anti-Obamacare talkathon after more than 21 hours – The Washington Post

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) ended his marathon talking attack on President Obama’s health-care law Wednesday after 21 hours and 19 minutes — a feat of stamina that seems likely to complicate House GOP efforts to pass a funding bill aimed at averting a looming government shutdown.

The freshman senator ceded the floor — and got his first opportunity for a bathroom break — at noon, after running up against a deadline imposed by Senate procedural rules

Premiums unveiled for health overhaul plans – SFGate

Before tax credits that work like an upfront discount for most consumers, sticker-price premiums for a mid-range benchmark plan will average $328 a month nationally for an individual, comparable to payments for a new car.

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Killer Rubber | J@N | 208

chris — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:20:26 +0000

The guys rip through some geek news you can use, then kick around a Bewitched remake, Eureka’s unfortunate state, Catwoman’s crazy new costume and the secret Marvel movies for the next few years!

Then its our complete review of the movie made for no reason, Rubber! Find out how this homicidal tire will change a small town forever.

Show Notes:

COMIC BOOKS:

Bryan releases a new Sci-Fi/Adventure Comic Book. There is much rejoicing.

GEEK GAB:

TV:

MOVIES:

MOVING PICTURE HAPPY FUN MUTUAL TIME:

The weirdest goddam movie ever: RUBBER

Ok, it’s about a sentient tire with psychic powers. But it’s also not about him. It’s also about film in general. And about the concept of spectating films. Very meta.

This movie was made by the same asshole, who is now a DJ, that made this song (which was, apparently a huge hit in Europe):

Flat Beat
The douche-bag himself:
Mr Oizo

* Next Week *
The Mercury Men

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