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In special Raspberry Pi 3 edition of the show we look at the new hardware, review & chat with Mycroft CTO Ryan Sipes on how important the Raspberry Pi is for development of their open artificial intelligence platform & get the latest news.

Plus replacing Spotify on Linux, the new Microsoft lock-in, our hosts face a moral quandary & more!

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The headlining feature of the Pi 3 is the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth, but it doesn’t stop there. Here’s the complete specs for the Pi 3:

• SoC: Broadcom BCM2837 (roughly 50% faster than the Pi 2)
• CPU: 1.2 GHZ quad-core ARM Cortex A53 (ARMv8 Instruction Set)
• GPU: Broadcom VideoCore IV @ 400 MHz
• Memory: 1 GB LPDDR2-900 SDRAM
• USB ports: 4
• Network: 10/100 MBPS Ethernet, 802.11n Wireless LAN, Bluetooth 4.0
• MagPi 43

Lots of Raspberry Pi Accessories

Raspberry Pi 3 Is Looking Towards Upstream Kernel Support

Today on his blog Anholt wrote, “I spent most of [the month] working on the Raspberry Pi 3 support so I could have a working branch for upstream day 1. That involved cleaning up the SDHOST driver for submission, cleaning up pinctrl DT, writing an I2C GPIO expander driver, debugging the I2C controller, fixing HDMI hotplug handling, debugging EMMC (not quite done!), scraping together some wireless firmware, and a bunch of work trying to get BT working on the UART. I’m happy to say that on day 1 I published a branch that worked the same as a RPi2, and by the end of the day I had wireless working. Some of the patches are now out for review, and I’ll be working on cleaning up the rest in the near future.”

New Generations of Products Powered by Pi

• The Raspberry Pi 3 Is Here! – Mycroft

We are testing Mycroft with the Pi 3 and if all goes as planned we will be shipping our backers Mycroft units with a Raspberry Pi 3 at its core. We’d like to thank the Raspberry Pi foundation for all of the work they do to bring makers, hackers and students such a great platform.

Ryan Sipes Mycroft CTO

• Mycroft
• Mycroft: An Open Source Artificial Intelligence For Everyone by Joshua Montgomery — Kickstarter
• Slice : A media player and more by FiveNinjas — Kickstarter
• Meet OTTO – The Hackable GIF Camera by Next Thing Co. — Kickstarter

Ubuntu MATE for the Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3

We have done what we can to optimise the build for the Raspberry Pi 2
and Raspberry Pi 3, you can comfortably use applications such as
LibreOffice, which in fact is a joy to use But the microSDHC I/O
throughput is a bottleneck so we recommend that you use a Class 6 or
Class 10 microSDHC card.

Other 64bit Kits of Awesome

The Odroid-C2 already has 2GB of RAM, which is also available on the $29 “Plus” version of Pine64’s Pine A64, a quad-core, Cortex-A53 Allwinner A64 SBC with a 40-pin Pi-compatible connector. The PineA64 will soon start shipping to Kickstarter backers, and Pine64 is processing new orders for shipment starting in May.

The $15 version of the Pine A64 with 512MB RAM is sold out, but there’s also a $19 version with 1GB RAM that also moves up to Gigabit Ethernet. As with the Odroid-C2, wireless is an extra-cost option, and despite the Pine A64’s larger dimensions, even the top models are limited to dual USB host ports instead of four on the C2 and Raspberry Pi.

The only other 64-bit ARM hacker boards currently shipping are more expensive 96Boards-compatible SBCs, both of which have onboard wireless. These include Qualcomm’s quad-core, $75 DragonBoard 410c and the octa-core, $99 to $129 HiKey.

RPi Laptop Dock

NexDock is a revolutionary laptop that harnesses the productivity of smartphones, tablets and mini PCs by adding a bluetooth keyboard, a capable battery and a 14-inch screen

Imagine a computer that one day you can use as Chromebook, and the next day as an Ubuntu developer laptop. Imagine a longer lasting computer that you can easily upgrade and customize to become a powerful Windows gamer laptop.
We envision a world where we carry only our mini PCs, which connect to any screen in the world to turn them into tablets, laptops and PCs.

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• Indian Driverless car RUNS LINUX

Long Time Jupiter Broadcasting fan here from India. I was reading an article about a Driver-less car made ingeniously by a team of 5 here in India. The article mentioned how this automatic driving system was much cheaper and simpler to implement on any car in production.

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Desktop App Pick

• Google Play Music Desktop Player
• Media Keys support (Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, Next)
• Last.FM Scrobbling and Now Playing support!
• Desktop notifications on track change
• A simplistic mini player
• Customizable Dark theme
• Task bar media controls (media controls embedded into the taskbar) Windows only
• HTML5 Audio Support – No more Adobe Flash Player
• Built in audio equalizer – Make it sounds how you like it
• Background music playing, minimize to the task bar
• Customizable hotkeys, no worries if you don’t have media keys. Choose your own shortcuts
• Choose your audio output device from within the player
• Interface for external applications such as Rainmeter
• GitHub – MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL
• Upload music – Google Play Music

Weekly Spotlight

• VideoLAN – VLMC, open source video editor

VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X! It is free software distributed under the terms of the GPLv2.

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DROWN Attack

DROWN is a serious vulnerability that affects HTTPS and
other services that rely on SSL and TLS, some of the essential
cryptographic protocols for Internet security. These protocols
allow everyone on the Internet to browse the web, use email,
shop online, and send instant messages without third-parties
being able to read the communication.

• Fedora’s not DROWNing

Spotify for Linux Sucks, But At Least We Now Know Why

In a post to the Spotify community forum,company rep ‘Jooon’ reveals that: “…since after September, we have had no developers working on the linux client”.

Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC. We must fight it

In my view, this is the most aggressive move Microsoft has ever made. While the company has been convicted of violating antitrust law in the past, its wrongful actions were limited to fights with specific competitors and contracts with certain PC manufacturers.

T-Platforms launches a Linux-based, MIPS-powered all-in-one PC (in Russia)

Most modern desktop and notebook computers ship with Intel or AMD processors and Windows or OS X software. A few companies are positioning products with ARM-based chips as desktop computers. But the Tavolga Terminal TB-T22BT is something different.

The computer is made by Russian company T-Platforms, which also offers an SF-BT1 processor module for those that want to build their own hardware.

Both devices use a Baikal-T1 processor which is a 32-bit dual-core MIPS P5600 processor. Like the computers, the chip was designed in Russia, although it’s based on work from Imagination Technologies (the company behind the MIPS architecture)

Thunderbolt Comes to Linux

Already compatible with Windows PCs and Macs, the super-fast Thunderbolt 3 connector technology will soon also work with Linux PCs. The technology will be featured in a new model of Dell’s upcoming XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux. Thunderbolt 3 will be available via a USB Type-C port.

The PC maker is building driver support for Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C into the XPS 13 Developer Edition, wrote a Dell employee in a company forum.

Thunderbolt 3 is a connector technology that can hook up PCs to external peripherals like storage and monitors. It’s like USB, but four times faster. A 4K movie could be transferred from an external storage device to a PC in 30 seconds.

Linux PCs will be a lot more capable with Thunderbolt 3. Users will be able to connect two 4K monitors simultaneously, connect to external graphics cards and establish a peer-to-peer network with other Linux PCs.

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After some updates about some of your favorite distros, we go hands on with the Raspberry Pi 3. Then we look at the AppImage project and their delivery on the download and run promise.

Plus a make good on a recent mistake, looking at a new kind of distro funding model & much more!

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Follow Up / Catch Up

The Linux Mint Blog » Post Attack

I’d like to thank Avast for working with us on this. They contacted us and offered to help analyze the fake ISO. We gave them a copy of it and all the info we already had. A day later they came back with a full malware analysis and we were able to issue an update to warn people who might still be affected by it. Avast also pushed updates towards their own users and they were able to block access to the Bulgarian servers used by the hackers. Finally, the addresses the malware was connecting to were either shut down or blocked by Kaspersky’s DNS sinkhole. I’ve been really impressed by Avast and the awesome work they did, it really helped us react quicker.

Response Summary

• To protect ourselves and reduce the risk of future attacks, many restrictions were placed on our servers. This might affect some of the websites a bit. If you find yourself unable to comment, to upload or to do something that worked well before, please let us know.
• To protect you and reduce the risk of man-in-the-middle attacks, almost all websites moved to HTTPS so you’re guaranteed you’re looking at the real Linux Mint server and the communication between you and us is encrypted. These measures protect you against local attacks (somebody listening to your local network, somebody maliciously opening up free Wifi to capture passwords being typed in a public place, or even on a greater scale.. fake DNS resolution pointing you to malicious servers). Note: The blog is yet to switch to HTTPS, we’re working on that still.
• Our servers are now monitored by Sucuri and protected by their firewall. We’ll be entering a partnership with them and it’s a real pleasure not just to benefit from the protection and the range of services they’re offering us but also to have that close relationship with security experts and to be able to quickly get in touch with them whenever our project needs it.
• To make ISO verification more accurate we’ll communicate SHA256 sums and GPG information more prominently going forward. MD5 was displayed as the primary mean of verification, with SHA256 and GPG being available for people who wanted them. We’ll review the way this information is shown and try to make more people use SHA256 and hopefully also GPG by default.
• We’re considering re-adding Gufw to the default software selection. What happened was very uncommon but as our project and Linux in general are getting more and more popular, our operating system is becoming more and more of a target. We cannot ignore the threat of malware and think that it only affects Windows. The centralization of our software and the better practices of our users who rarely directly install 3rd party packages or binaries are an asset, but they can also be a vulnerability. A malicious PPA archive could affect Ubuntu and Linux Mint users, it could offer legitimate packages for months and then suddenly spread malware that would be immediately accepted by thousands of users. It’s important to understand that the reason we’ve been so safe until now is because we’re smaller and because we therefore represent a much less interesting target. We can’t just protect ourselves from attacks, we also need to think of how we can react to them after they’ve taken place. We need scanners, and we’ll look into that as well, and we need something people can use to quickly and easily configure outgoing traffic and review applications communicating with their network, and Gufw does that very well.

Fedora project leader Matthew Miller reveals what’s in store for Fedora in 2016

Fedora is still focused on developers—but developers want to play games on their laptops, too.

DigitalOcean

• DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

Ubuntu MATE February 2016 supporters

Many thanks to everyone who donated to the Ubuntu MATE project this
month. You have been generous as always and ensured that we can meet
all the costs associated with running the Ubuntu MATE project and the
community site. In fact, this month we are able to reward some
developers for working on Ubuntu MATE projects.

AppImage | Linux apps that run anywhere

Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered.

• Linus: This is just very cool. I finally got around to play with the “AppImage”…

I finally got around to play with the “AppImage” version of +Subsurface, and it really does seem to “just work”.

• AppImages

Intel Atom X3: 100-Dollar-Smartphone bietet ‘Continuum’ mit Android & Debian Linux

TING

• Ting – mobile that makes sense

Raspberry Pi 3 has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 64-bit chip, still just $35

Pi will still run 32-bit operating systems, but it’ll be 50% faster.

Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi 3

The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is here and we are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B!

• Microsoft releases Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi 3 — can it displace Linux on Pi?

We’re excited to have Windows 10 support the new board via a new Windows 10 IoT Core Insider Preview update available for download today. The new Raspberry Pi 3 board is available now in the Microsoft Store online”, says Billy Anders, Director of Program Management, Windows IoT.

• $40 ODROID-C2 is faster, has more memory than Raspberry Pi 3

While the ODROID-C2 costs $5 more than a Raspberry Pi 3, it does have a faster processor, twice as much memory, Gigabit Ethernet, and a number of other features which could make it faster than the new Raspberry Pi.

Linux Academy

• Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

N1 is a very nice open source client with modern workflow but it requires that all emails are synced on the Nylas servers or run/maintain a sync engine yourself locally. Would you trust a 3rd party service provider with your emails however secure they claim to be?

• markole comments on Entroware Apollo: Linux Macbook Killer | LAS 406

Chris, are you aware that by using N1 client, all your mails are routed through 3rd party servers?

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2015/10/n1-open-source-email-app-linux

By default N1 uses the Nylas API and open-source Sync Engine to handle mailsync operations on Nylas’ own cloud infrastructure.

In effect this means that all email you get in the app first passes through — and is stored on — a Nylas server.

That’s a big no in my book.

• nylas/sync-engine: IMAP/SMTP sync system with modern APIs

The Nylas Sync Engine provides a RESTful API on top of a powerful email sync platform, making it easy to build apps on top of email. See the full API documentation for more details.

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From backups to deployment, we go back to the backend! The new solutions giving us the opportunity to reconsider the infrastructure around our projects.

Plus gearing up for 64bit development, and much more.

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• The RMS Rap

Announcement Recap

• Apple announcement reaction

• Apple Announces Thinner, Lighter iPad Air With 64-Bit A7 Processor – Mac Rumors

With the A7 chip, the iPad Air offers twice the CPU and graphics performance of the previous iPad. The 64-bit architecture supports Open GL ES version 3.0, for \”game console-like visual effects.\”

• The real reasons Apple\’s 64-bit A7 chip makes sense | Mobile – CNET News

A nearer-term reason the Apple A7 might appeal to programmers has nothing to do with its 64-bit nature: the ARMv8 architecture itself brings some real advantages.

One of them is a larger number of registers — tiny on-chip storage areas where the processor stores data for very fast access. ARMv8 roughly doubles general-purpose registers from 16 to 31, which means the chip needn\’t fritter away as many cycles swapping things into and out of memory.

• They finally get it… sort of

Backing up

• When do I need a backend
• Continuous integration?
• Testing?

• Deployment

• Docker All The Things | Coder Radio 66

We\’re joined by two gentlemen from dotCloud, the folks behind Docker. We chat about what Docker is best at, how far out the 1.0 release is, the projects use of Go, the future of Docker, and much more.

• Homepage – Docker: the Linux container engine

Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application.

The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at scale, in production, on VMs, bare metal

• About Docker – Docker: the Linux container engine

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable,
self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere.

Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same
container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop will run at scale, in production*, on VMs,
bare-metal servers, OpenStack clusters, public instances, or combinations of the above.

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iOS 7 is landing and Mike and Chris discuss what’s in store for developers, and the real reason to put a 64bit CPU in a cell phone.

Plus the core of what’s wrong with Microsoft, practicing security from the start, your emails and more!

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• Klemens writes in asking why isn\’t basic internet security taught in schools? and has some concerns about Mozilla Persona.
• Coder Radio Subreddit — Enterprise Java / Fizzbuzz: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/1mc9ma/fizzbuzz_enterprise_edition/
• Coder Radio Subreddit user Caryhartline’s post: https://www.reddit.com/r/CoderRadio/comments/1mg6wh/a_rant_about_the_tech_media/
• General feedback where’s all the moviel

Dev World Hoopla

• A Developer\’s Guide to Apple\’s 64-Bit A7 Chip

\”The first thing devs need to do is focus on updating for iOS 7 and its design changes,\” he says. \”The second stage is 64-bit using Xcode 5, and to read all the developer documents.\”

And even if an app won\’t see a seismic shift in performance by moving to 64-bit, it\’s not a bad idea to start considering a move. Lahartinger says that its relatively easy for developers to get started and \”take advantage of some of the 5S 64-bit features right away,\” noting that this \”will mostly help their apps perform even better.\”

• iOS 7 and what that means for devs

• Developer wake-up call: Shift from iOS 6 to iOS 7 is ‘biggest since the original iPhone’

\”iOS 7 is a different user experience, and it is a significant difference,\” he said. \”If developers just compile for iOS 7, there are going to be noticeable flaws.\”

• Samsung Developers Conference – October 2013 – San Francisco, CA

Join us for the first annual Samsung Developers Conference to connect with industry visionaries, Samsung executives and technical leaders, and fellow developers. Get an exclusive first look at the latest tools, SDKs, and emerging platforms for Samsung devices to create what\’s next.

• Nokia was testing Android on Lumias before Microsoft sale

Now, according to a new report from The New York Times, it turns out Nokia engineers did develop Lumia phones that ran Google\’s Android operating system. The report, which cites people familiar with the matter, says that Android was running on Nokia smartphones internally \”well before\” discussions that led to Microsoft\’s purchase of the company\’s handset division, which suggests that such efforts may have taken place in 2012 or early 2013. Additionally, it\’s said that while Microsoft knew about the project — and confirmed its existence to the _Times _—it \”wasn\’t a part of Microsoft\’s discussions\” prior to the acquisition.

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BSD Now is BACK to talk with Glen Barber from the FreeBSD Release team, show you how to build your own binary package repository and discuss the latest BSD news!

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64bit time in OpenBSD

• Many operating systems face an upcoming challenge, similar to (but more complicated than) Y2K: Y2038. All of the BSDs and most other operating systems track time by counting the seconds since Jan 1st, 1970. In 2038 this value will reach the maximum value of a signed 32 bit integer.
• Simply changing to a 64 bit counter may not be the best solution, because there may still be 32 bit systems in use for embedded applications
• Theo will be giving the keynote at EuroBSDCon on the subject, explaining how OpenBSD has implemented the solution
• No other BSDs have it yet
• ABI incompatibility. Updating to this kernel requires extra work or you won\’t be able to login: install a snapshot instead. Upgrading by source is for the insane only.

AESNI pipelining gets a speed boost

• AES-NI is a new processor instruction available on modern Intel and AMD chips that provides hardware acceleration for AES encryption and decryption. This feature is especially useful for encrypted disks, because it removes most of the performance penalty traditionally associated with encryption
• The new commit has the instructions pipelined, so there is no latency between the instructions
• Uses SSE2 instructions for calculating XTS tweak factor for further increased performance
• GELI based disk encryption performance increased by 3x on capable CPUs
• Should affect PEFS and other AES backed encryption schemes as well
• Full disk encryption should be more or less transparent now

OpenBSD 5.4 Preorders

• Every 6 months there is a new OpenBSD version
• They include a fun song and nicely-packaged CD set
• The proceeds from sale of these products is the primary funding of the OpenBSD project
• The official ISOs will be uploaded on November 1st

GCC no longer built by default on FreeBSD -CURRENT

• On platforms where clang is the default compiler, don\’t build gcc or libstdc++
• GCC is still enabled on PC98, because the PC98 bootloader requires GCC to build
• While the base FreeBSD system has been built by clang for a long time, this change also covers the ports tree

Patch to update Xorg and Mesa on FreeBSD

• Updates xorg drivers
• Expected to be committed in about 2 weeks
• Adds option to use devd instead of HAL for X configuration
• Updates the MESA stack (9.1.6), libGL, DRI, etc
• Enables KMS for AMD/ATI cards
• Call for Testing
• OpenBSD has recently upgraded to Mesa 9.2 for their stable version of Xorg

Interview – Glen Barber – gjb@freebsd.org @g_j_b_

FreeBSD Release Engineering

• Q: Tell us a little about yourself, your role with the project – K
• Q: When did you join the release engineering team (re@) and how did that come about? -A
• Q: What kind of tasks and decisions are in the hands of re@? – K
• Q: Why it is /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ -A
• Q: Any stand-out features of 9.2-RELEASE that you’re personally excited about? -K
• Q: Tell us about net.inet.tcp.experimental.initcwnd10 in r242266 -A
• Q: Why was it reverted for 9.2-RC3? Causing problems? -K
• Q: Why was there an RC4 added? – A
• Q: Talk about the new snapshot releases for -CURRENT/-STABLE (we’ll have a future segment on how to upgrade to these branches) – K
• Q: Is there a possibility of freebsd-update someday offering snapshot-based upgrades to the -STABLE or -CURRENT branches? What technical difficulties need to be overcome? – A
• Q: Are there plans to remove bind from the base system? -K
• Q: Would it be possible in the future to have a “WITHOUT_BLOBS” src.conf option to remove any non-open source wifi firmware modules and such? -A
• Q: Tell us about you joining the FreeBSD Foundation and what this will mean for users – K

Tutorial

Making your own binary repository

• Live demo
• Poudriere builds binary packages from a list of ports (or the whole tree)
• Uses the fantastic BSD jail system for everything
• Supports signing the repository with an RSA key
• Easy way to deploy large number of systems or low-powered systems
• Very flexible, works on different versions of the OS, lots of features

Place to B…SD

iXsystems hosts FreeBSD Anniversary party

• Celebrating FreeBSD’s 20th anniversary
• Saturday, November 2nd at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
• Notable FreeBSD figures will contribute words of wisdom on the past, present, and future of FreeBSD

News Roundup

NetBSD gets basic support for the cubieboard 1 & 2

• Very preliminary support for cubieboard 1 & 2 based on the Allwinner A10 & A20 SoCs
• Many drivers are stubs with autoconf glue
• Contributed by Matt Thomas

Rayservers ditches Linux for BSD

• Used them all, Windows, Mac, OpenBSD, Linux
• Needed PF, ZFS, disk encryption, lots of networking features, better security
• In Linux, \”The new cgroups based memory management ran out of memory – on a 256 GB RAM system whilst it was not using more than 40.\”
• BSD now protects the privacy of their email users

HPN for OpenSSH 6.2

• High Performance Networking is an SSH patchset to improve transfer speeds by removing the fixed window size and take better advantage of TCP
• Maintained as a patchset separate from OpenSSH
• First integrated into FreeBSD base as of 9.0
• Updated to support 6.2 (available in the ports tree as security/openssh-portable)
• The HPN patch set also includes threaded AES-CTR support to increase performance and take advantage of multiple CPU cores for encryption. In this latest patch, threaded AES-CTR now works in all situations (it failed in some specific situations previously). Expected performance increase is ~50%
• NONE cipher is now separate from the main patch set. The NONE cipher allows tools like scp and sftp to switch off the encryption for file transfers (when specifically told to do so) to keep encryption from bottlenecking performance and wasting CPU time

Call for testing: OpenSSH-6.3

• Mostly a bugfix release
• SFTP now supports resuming partially-downloaded or uploaded transfers
• More logging features
• Six weeks after the initial email, still no release. des@ is not pleased.

pkgsrc gets signing

• pkgsrc is used on NetBSD, DragonflyBSD and other OSes
• Comes from an EdgeBSD developer
• Uses GPG for signing package files
• Currently just a patch on github and in its infancy
• Provides a short howto

FreeBSD vs. Linux: 10 points of superiority

• New FreeBSD user, ex-Linux user writes about his experience
• Mentions consistency, documentation, security, filesystems, updates, jails, community
• Really long post, definitely worth a read

[Feedback/Questions]

• We received TONS of email. We’ll get to a few of the questions, but a lot of them will be answered in future episodes.

• hoopla writes in: “I\’m looking to install PCBSD on my laptop and was wondering if there was support for encryption of the root folder in the installer. For my arch linux install I ended up setting up an encrypted lvm by hand and it was hell but if it\’s built into the installer it\’d make the transition to BSD much simpler.”

• Juergen writes in: \”hi guys, I want to listen to the new BSD podcast but I couldn\’t find the RSS feed. Can you publish the feed?\”

• Due to the way publishing happens at JupiterBroadcasting, there were no RSS feeds until the first episode was published. The feeds for MP3, OGG, SD and HD Video and Torrent are now in the top right corner of the BSDNow.tv page. The episodes will also be published on iTunes once the show is approved by Apple.

• Sam write in with two questions: “I want a few simple python web apps. What is the best \”FreeBSD way\” to deploy this? Nginx + uWSGI? It is surprisingly hard to find a usable nginx.conf that I can throw in a jail and run a python app. Is uWSGI even the right tool?”

• “The PCBSD tools are great, but the tool versions that are in the ports tree are always out of date compared to what ships with PC-BSD. Why is this? Same with FreeNAS, why is the Warden more up to date in FreeNAS than PC-BSD.. then there\’s yet a 3rd version in ports?”

• Frank writes in with a long question: “My company is a major CA. We run virtualized RHEL 6 virtualized on KVM, about 3000 nodes serving different purposes on about 350 pizza boxes also running RHEL/KVM. We have kind of a sale issue. To have both TLS 1.2 support and ECC ciphers available we have to recompile both OpenSSL and NGINX and a few other system packages. I\’ve built RPM\’s, but there still are issues on a default install, relating to other not to be disclosed core business software choughJava based cachough. However, compiling it all on each machine does work.

Now I\’ve got this working on FreeBSD kvm virtual machines, which both provide better performance (almost 30% less resource usage than the RHEL nodes) and also work with our configuration management stack (puppet + homegrown). It also would allow us to drop a lot of virtual nodes because less BSD boxes can handle the same amount as the CentOS ones. And of course the lack of security issues, less software by default on a fresh install and such.

My team also likes it, has knowledge, supports a migration, and the metrics support it, however management is not happy and does not want to do such a big \”migration\”. (Not knowing that about 100 VM\’s are already FreeBSD and working). Also, they don\’t like that they\’ve got a 10 year contract with Red Hat and have paid for that… But, in the end the cost would go down because of the migration.

Any tips to get support from them?”
+ The first thing that comes to mind is to see what other people have done in the past. There was a presentation at BSDCan 2013 in May of this year on this specific topic: Case study: Switching from Linux to FreeBSD

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