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Binary Decisions | LINUX Unplugged 160

chris — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:12:53 +0000

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OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: OpenShot 2.1 Released!

Avidemux 2.6.13 Open-Source Video Editor Gets AAC/ADTS Import and Export

Editorial: I ditched SteamOS in favour of a normal Linux distribution for my gaming

That was the final nail in the coffin for my time with SteamOS. I don’t have time to deal with such breakage.

Broken promises: Games that never made it to SteamOS and Linux | PCWorld

Maru OS mixes a custom ROM with a dockable Debian desktop, and now it’s open source

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Fedora 24 review: The year’s best Linux distro is puzzlingly hard to recommend

In the end, despite how much I enjoyed using Fedora 24 for a couple of months, it hasn’t convinced me to give up Arch. That’s not a totally fair comparison since much of what I like about Arch is that it’s a rolling release, but I would be more inclined to embrace Fedora if it had either a long-term support type of release that would last several years or a rolling release that dealt out updates as they were ready. As it stands, Fedora sits somewhere in the middle and ends up with an often awkward update process happening all too frequently. It’s possible that the new tools in DNF (and GNOME Software) will make things easier on the update front, but for now that’s far from certain.

Purism announces the creation of its Advisory Board

Purism is pleased to announce the creation of its Advisory Board, comprised of top-tier experts from the Free Software community: Kyle Rankin, Matthew Garrett, Aaron Grattafiori, and Stefano Zacchiroli. Together, they bring their vision—with decades of experience in cybersecurity, privacy protection, and digital freedom—to Purism’s product development, as the company continues to create products that finally address privacy and digital rights by default, rights that 86% of computer users cite as a concern.

Linus Torvalds Announces Linux Kernel 4.8 RC4 with Skylake Power Management Fix

the biggest new feature being a fix for an Intel Skylake power management bug. However, there are also the usual updated drivers, arch improvements, and some KVM changes.

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Grepping logs is terrible

You see, the main difference between me and proponents of text-based log storage is that I want my queries and their results to be human readable, and I don’t care how that is accomplished. They, on the other hand, want their raw data to be human readable, and would sacrifice convenience for the sake of being able to keep data textual.

I’m really liking systemd : linux
Wes’ new router build using systemd-nspawn container and all the networking being configured by systemd-networkd

Container technologies in Fedora: systemd-nspawn

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.network.html
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nspawn.html
Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
#835222 – needs multiple restarts until network is fully up – Debian Bug report logs

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Kent Overstreet is creating bcachefs – a next generation Linux filesystem

Wimpy Goes All In on Ubuntu Touch

How to install Ubuntu on Meizu Pro 5 that was originally with Android?

XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Change region/ID to International in Meizu Pro 5

Note: If you are using the global version, you needn’t do this setup.

XDA Developers: [TUTORIAL] Unlock the bootloader of Meizu PRO 5
XDA Developers: [RECOVERY][M86][UNOFFICIAL] TWRP 3.0 for Meizu PRO
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Not OK Google | LINUX Unplugged 98

chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:24:07 +0000

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We look at some tools that make installing Linux on multiple computers a snap, discuss our favorite backup and reload approaches & then debate the merits of Chromium auto-downloading a binary to enable users microphones.

Plus a great interview with the Openoid project from SELF2015 & more!

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Google was downloading audio listeners onto computers without consent, say Chromium users

Google was downloading audio listeners onto computers without consent before the bug was fixed, Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Pirate Party has claimed.

Writing on the website Privacy Online News, Falkvinge alleged that Google listened into the conversations of users of Chromium without consent, through a ‘black box’ of code.

The ‘black box’ code was downloaded to enable a feature that activates a search function when you say “Ok, Google,” however the code appears to have enabled eavesdropping on conversations prior to this — in order to hear the phrase.

The software is able to transmit audio data back to Google, but Google claim the code was merely downloaded without consent and knowledge, not activated.

Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth

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Chromium Bugging Bug | Tech Talk Today 187

chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:14:24 +0000

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Google wants to improve your search experience for you automatically, with your microphone. We debate if this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back or just a nice feature.

Plus the Core Infrastructure initiative throws a little money around, the US Navy is sticking with XP & more!

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PIE in the Sky | BSD Now 85

chris — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 11:18:11 +0000

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This time on the show, we’ll be talking with Pascal Stumpf about static PIE in the upcoming OpenBSD release. He’ll tell us what types of attacks it prevents, and why it’s such a big deal. We’ve also got answers to questions from you in the audience and all this week’s news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Solaris’ networking future is with OpenBSD

A curious patch from someone with an Oracle email address was recently sent in to one of the OpenBSD mailing lists
It was revealed that future releases of Solaris are going to drop their IPFilter firewall entirely, in favor of a port of the current version of PF
For anyone unfamiliar with the history of PF, it was actually made as a replacement for IPFilter in OpenBSD, due to some licensing issues
What’s more, Solaris was the original development platform for IPFilter, so the fact that it would be replaced in its own home is pretty interesting
This blog post goes through some of the backstory of the two firewalls
PF is in a lot of places – other BSDs, Mac OS X and iOS – but there are plenty of other OpenBSD-developed technologies end up ported to other projects too
“Many of the world’s largest corporations and government agencies are heavy Solaris users, meaning that even if you’re neither an OpenBSD user or a Solaris user, your kit is likely interacting intensely with both kinds, and with Solaris moving to OpenBSD’s PF for their filtering needs, we will all be benefiting even more from the OpenBSD project’s emphasis on correctness, quality and security”
You’re welcome, Oracle

BAFUG discussion videos

The Bay Area FreeBSD users group has been uploading some videos from their recent meetings
Sean Bruno gave a recap of his experiences at EuroBSDCon last year, including the devsummit and some proposed ideas from it (as well as their current status)
Craig Rodrigues also gave a talk about Kyua and the FreeBSD testing framework
Lastly, Kip Macy gave a talk titled “network stack changes, user-level FreeBSD”
The main two subjects there are some network stack changes, and how to get more people contributing, but there’s also open discussion about a variety of FreeBSD topics
If you’re close to the Bay Area in California, be sure to check out their group and attend a meeting sometime

More than just a makefile

If you’re not a BSD user just yet, you might be wondering how the various ports and pkgsrc systems compare to the binary way of doing things on Linux
This blog entry talks about the ports system in OpenBSD, but a lot of the concepts apply to all the ports systems across the BSDs
As it turns out, the ports system really isn’t that different from a binary package manager – they are what’s used to create binary packages, after all
The author goes through what makefiles do, customizing which options software is compiled with, patching source code to build and getting those patches back upstream
After that, he shows you how to get your new port tested, if you’re interesting in doing some porting yourself, and getting involved with the rest of the community
This post is very long and there’s a lot more to it, so check it out (and more discussion on Hacker News)

Securing your home fences

Hopefully all our listeners have realized that trusting your network(s) to a consumer router is a bad idea by now
We hear from a lot of users who want to set up some kind of BSD-based firewall, but don’t hear back from them after they’ve done it.. until now
In this post, someone goes through the process of setting up a home firewall using OPNsense on a PCEngines APU board
He notes that you have a lot of options software-wise, including vanilla FreeBSD, OpenBSD or even Linux, but decided to go with OPNsense because of the easy interface and configuration
The post covers all the hardware you’ll need, getting the OS installed to a flash drive or SD card and going through the whole process
Finally, he goes through setting up the firewall with the graphical interface, applying updates and finishing everything up
If you don’t have any experience using a serial console, this guide also has some good info for beginners about those (which also applies to regular FreeBSD)
We love super-detailed guides like this, so everyone should write more and send them to us immediately

Interview – Pascal Stumpf – pascal@openbsd.org

Static PIE in OpenBSD

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LLVM’s new libFuzzer

We’ve discussed fuzzing on the show a number of times, albeit mostly with the American Fuzzy Lop utility
It looks like LLVM is going to have their own fuzzing tool too now
The Clang and LLVM guys are no strangers to this type of code testing, but decided to “close the loop” and start fuzzing parts of LLVM (including Clang) using LLVM itself
With Clang being the default in both FreeBSD and Bitrig, and with the other BSDs considering the switch, this could make for some good bug hunting across all the projects in the future

HardenedBSD upgrades secadm

The HardenedBSD guys have released a new version of their secadm tool, with the showcase feature being integriforce support
We covered both the secadm tool and integriforce in previous episodes, but the short version is that it’s a way to prevent files from being altered (even as root)
Their integriforce feature itself has also gotten a couple improvements: shared objects are now checked too, instead of just binaries, and it uses more caching to speed up the whole process now

RAID5 returns to OpenBSD

OpenBSD’s softraid subsystem, somewhat similar to FreeBSD’s GEOM, has had experimental RAID5 support for a while
However, it was exactly that – experimental – and required a recompile to enable
With some work from recent hackathons, the final piece was added to enable resuming partial array rebuilds
Now it’s on by default, and there’s a call for testing being put out, so grab a snapshot and put the code through its paces
The bioctl softraid command also now supports DUIDs during pseudo-device detachment, possibly paving the way for the installer to drop the “do you want to enable DUIDs?” question entirely

pkgng 1.5.0 released

Going back to what we talked about last week, the final version of pkgng 1.5.0 is out
The “provides” and “requires” support is finally in a regular release
A new “-r” switch will allow for direct installation to a chroot or alternate root directory
Memory usage should be much better now, and some general code speed-ups were added
This version also introduces support for Mac OS X, NetBSD and EdgeBSD – it’ll be interesting to see if anything comes of that
Many more bugs were fixed, so check the mailing list announcement for the rest (and plenty new bugs were added, according to bapt)

p2k15 hackathon reports

There was another OpenBSD hackathon that just finished up in the UK – this time it was mainly for ports work
As usual, the developers sent in reports of some of the things they got done at the event
Landry Breuil, both an upstream Mozilla developer and an OpenBSD developer, wrote in about the work he did on the Firefox port (specifically WebRTC) and some others, as well as reviewing lots of patches that were ready to commit
Stefan Sperling wrote in, detailing his work with wireless chipsets, specifically when the vendor doesn’t provide any hardware documentation, as well as updating some of the games in ports
Ken Westerback also sent in a report, but decided to be a rebel and not work on ports at all – he got a lot of GPT-related work done, and also reviewed the RAID5 support we talked about earlier

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A BUG’s Life | BSD Now 38

chris — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:22:23 +0000

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We\’re back from BSDCan! This week on the show we\’ll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We\’ll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own!

After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD\’s package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 11 goals and discussion

Something that actually happened at BSDCan this year…
During the FreeBSD devsummit, there was some discussion about what changes will be made in 11.0-RELEASE
Slides from Dev Summit
Some of MWL\’s notes include: the test suite will be merged to 10-STABLE, more work on the MIPS platforms, LLDB getting more attention, UEFI boot and install support
A large list of possibilities was also included and open for discussion, including AES-GCM in IPSEC, ASLR, OpenMP, ICC, in-place kernel upgrades, Capsicum improvements, TCP performance improvements and A LOT more
There\’s also some notes from the devsummit virtualization session, mostly talking about bhyve
Lastly, he also provides some notes about ports and packages and where they\’re going

An SSH honeypot with OpenBSD and Kippo

Everyone loves messing with script kiddies, right?
This blog post introduces Kippo, an SSH honeypot tool, and how to use it in combination with OpenBSD
It includes a step by step (or rather, command by command) guide and some tips for running a honeypot securely
You can use this to get new 0day exploits or find weaknesses in your systems
OpenBSD makes a great companion for security testing tools like this with all its exploit mitigation techniques that protect all running applications

NetBSD foundation financial report

The NetBSD foundation has posted their 2013 financial report
It\’s a very \”no nonsense\” page, pretty much only the hard numbers
In 2013, they got $26,000 of income in donations
The rest of the page shows all the details, how they spent it on hardware, consulting, conference fees, legal costs and everything else
Be sure to donate to whichever BSDs you like and use!

Building a fully-encrypted NAS with OpenBSD

Usually the popular choice for a NAS system is FreeNAS, or plain FreeBSD if you know what you\’re doing
This article takes a look at the OpenBSD side and explains how to build a NAS with security in mind
The NAS will be fully encrypted, no separate /boot partition like FreeBSD and FreeNAS require – this means the kernel itself is even protected
The obvious trade-off is the lack of ZFS support for storage, but this is an interesting idea that would fit most people\’s needs too
There\’s also a bit of background information on NAS systems in general, some NAS-specific security tips and even some nice graphs and pictures of the hardware – fantastic write up!

Interview – Brian Callahan & Aaron Bieber – admin@lists.nycbug.org & admin@cobug.org

Forming a local BSD Users Group

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The basics of pkgsrc

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FreeBSD periodic mails vs. monitoring

If you\’ve ever been an admin for a lot of FreeBSD boxes, you\’ve probably noticed that you get a lot of email
This page tells about all the different alert emails, cron emails and other reports you might end up getting, as well as how to manage them
From bad SSH logins to Zabbix alerts, it all adds up quickly
It highlights the periodic.conf file and FreeBSD\’s periodic daemon, as well as some third party monitoring tools you can use to keep track of your servers

Doing cool stuff with OpenBSD routing domains

A blog post from our viewer and regular emailer, Kjell-Aleksander!
He manages some internally-routed IP ranges at his work, but didn\’t want to have equipment for each separate project
This is where OpenBSD routing domains and pf come in to save the day
The blog post goes through the process with all the network details you could ever dream of
He even named his networking equipment… after us

LibreSSL, the good and the bad

We\’re all probably familiar with OpenBSD\’s fork of OpenSSL at this point
However, \”for those of you that don\’t know it, OpenSSL is at the same time the best and most popular SSL/TLS library available, and utter junk\”
This article talks about some of the cryptographic development challenges involved with maintaining such a massive project
You need cryptographers, software engineers, software optimization specialists – there are a lot of roles that need to be filled
It also mentions some OpenSSL alternatives and recent LibreSSL progress, as well as some downsides to the fork – the main one being their aim for backwards compatibility

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots going on in PCBSD land this week, AppCafe has been redesigned
The PBI system is being replaced with pkgng, PBIs will be automatically converted once you update
In the more recent post, there\’s some further explanation of the PBI system and the reason for the transition
It\’s got lots of details on the different ways to install software, so hopefully it will clear up any possible confusion
Working on adding support for FDE with GELI using GRUB for 10.0.2
Any devs who can grock the GRUB geli code are welcome to contact Kris

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Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you\’ve got something cool to talk about and want to come on for an interview, shoot us an email
Michael Lucas will be giving a live presentation next Tuesday, \”Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD’s Real Purpose\” so be sure to catch that
Preorders for the book of PF\’s third edition are up
We got a picture of a bunch of old FreeBSD CDs
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Journaled News-Updates | BSD Now 22

chris — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:05:18 +0000

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We talk with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it\’s all about. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD quarterly status report

Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what\’s going on
The report contains 37 entries and is very very long… various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes
Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving
Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year
There\’s quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time
Jordan (jkh), one of the co-founders of the FreeBSD project, is once again a FreeBSD committer

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
If you\’ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you\’ve seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things – some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
Another report from Theo details his work
Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff

Four new NetBSD releases

NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
You can upgrade depending on what branch you\’re currently on
Confused about the different branches? See this graph.

The future of open source ZFS development

On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
It\’s in San Jose, California – go if you can!

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Interview – George Neville-Neil – gnn@freebsd.org / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
Unfortunately they\’re only for subscribers, so you\’ll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense!

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here\’s the FreeBSD version
Nice big fat warning: \”The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty.\”
Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
Other than that it\’s a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running

Dragonfly ACPI update

Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
There\’s also a \”heads up\” to update your BIOS if you experience problems
Check the mailing list post for all the details

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
By the way, PCBSD 10.0 is out!
Special thanks to developers, testers, translators and docs team!
Upcoming: Working on a 11-CURRENT PC-BSD and 10-STABLE

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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 (19:00 UTC)
A BSD Now t-shirt design is in the works, we\’ll update you on the progress (but we have to get permission to use the mascots and get a rough sketch first)
NYCBSDCon will be on February 8th in NYC
We\’ll announce the winner of our tutorial contest on next week\’s episode! Get your last minute tutorial submissions in for our contest

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Eclipsing Binaries | BSD Now 18

chris — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:36:57 +0000

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Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We\’re back with the first show of 2014, and we\’ve got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we\’ll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Faces of FreeBSD continues

Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia
Gives some information about how she got into BSD
\”I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn\’t booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out.\”
She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation
We\’ve also got one for Kevin Martin
Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company
\”FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community.\”

OpenPF?

A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest
What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD\’s firewall?
Similar to portable OpenSSH or OpenZFS, there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue
Right now FreeBSD 9\’s pf is old, FreeBSD 10\’s pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD\’s pf is old (but they\’re working on a fork) and Dragonfly\’s pf is old
Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’
Not likely to happen any time soon, but it\’s good food for thought

Year of BSD on the server

A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD
2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10\’s amazing new features
This author was particularly taken with pkgng and the more coherent layout of BSD systems
Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread, \”Why did you choose BSD over Linux?\”
Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send \’em to your friends

Getting to know your portmgr

This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team
He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team
Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time
Lots of fun trivia and background about him
Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is…

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The future of FreeBSD\’s binary packages, ports\’ features, various topics

Tutorial

Binary upgrades in OpenBSD

Using a third party script, binary upgrades in OpenBSD are easy
It automates a lot of the manual work and saves time – great for large deployments

News Roundup

pfSense december hang out

Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post
\”This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics\”
Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store
We\’re planning on having a pfSense episode next month!

BSDMag December issue is out

The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December
Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, \”unix basics for security professionals,\” some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH

OpenBSD gets tmpfs

In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs
To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current
Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan
Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide

PCBSD weekly digests

Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land..
10.0-RC2 is now available
The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out

Feedback/Questions

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The jail tutorial and disk encryption tutorial have gotten some improvements and updates
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
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Happy new year everybody!

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Year of the BSD Desktop | BSD Now 10

chris — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:25:34 +0000

We\’ll be talking to renowned BSD author Michael Lucas about his latest opus, \”Sudo Mastery.\” Also, we\’ve heard your cries and we\’ll also finally be showing you how to build a BSD desktop system from the ground up. There\’s plenty of news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

OpenBSD 5.4 released

The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
People who bought the CD (this is where we show the CD) get the release very early, but now it\’s on the public FTP
New platforms \”octeon\” and \”beagle\”
Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features – check out the full release notes
A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future

FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
New \”pkg+http\” protocol identifier for SRV records
If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it\’s easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?

DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it\’s time to branch
Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
We\’re hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release

FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).

Interview – Michael W. Lucas – mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

Sudo Mastery
+ Could you tell us a little about yourself, how you got involved with writing and specifically writing about BSD?
+ To set the record straight, is \”su-doh\” or \”su-du\” the correct pronunciation?
+ For the sake of completeness, what is sudo, where does it come from, what does it do?
+ Why did you write this book?
+ Is this mainly a security-focused book?
+ What\’s something interesting you learned about sudo while writing this that you didn\’t know?
+ What are some other BSD books you\’ve written?
+ What makes a \”good\” tech book, would you say?
+ Since you\’ve written about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, how do you personally use both of them?
+ Do the projects get any of the money from sales of the books?
+ Where\’s the best place for people to go to find out more about (and buy) your books?
+ We saw on Twitter you\’re going to be doing an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk for MUG?
+ Anything else you\’d like to mention?
+ Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes

Tutorial

Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

The BSDs are known around the world as the server OSes of the gods
They can each make a pretty nice desktop
PCBSD gives you an out of the box, preconfigured desktop experience
This guide is for manually setting one up and learning about the process

News Roundup

iXsystems FreeBSD party wrap-up chat

Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes

NYCBSDCon 2014

After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 1, 2014
Theme of \”The BSDs in Production\” this year
Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer

FreeBSD newcons progress update

This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki

Weekly PCBSD feature digest

PBI 10 format is about ready and they\’ll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
New PC-BSD Builder Scripts (https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd-build)
New 9.2 ISO just out today

Feedback/Questions

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