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Core File Tales | BSD Now 346

Wes Payne — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Show Notes/Links: https://www.bsdnow.tv/346

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PXE Dust | BSD Now 32

chris — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 18:43:25 +0000

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We show off OpenBSD\’s new \”autoinstall\” feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – it\’s the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD ASLR status update

Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD
He\’s implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)
Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi
He\’s giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work
While we\’re on the topic of BSDCan…

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials
The tutorials are called \”Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter\” and \”Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5\” – both scheduled to last three hours each
He\’s requesting anyone that\’ll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you\’d like to learn
There\’s also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he\’s looking to improve them
If you\’re interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready
Python 3.3 is now a \”first class citizen\” in pkgsrc
14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64
There\’s a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD – you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined
They\’re also looking into signing packages

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list
He questions \”what\’s the big deal\” about OpenBSD\’s slogan being \”Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!\”
Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this
Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD
It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux\’s poor security record, definitely worth reading

Interview – Dru Lavigne – dru@freebsd.org / @bsdevents

FreeBSD\’s documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues
Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router
There are also some NIC driver updates and other things
Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25
2.1.2 is already up for testing too

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

It looks like FreeBSD\’s battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?
Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64
Look through the list to see all the details and information
Thanks FreeBSD foundation!

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release
They\’re aiming for late May for the next version
Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support
Gasp, they\’re even considering dropping i386

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation
New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime
Autodetection for DVD / Audio CD insertion / plus playback
Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds

Feedback/Questions

BSD Now has an official IRC channel now. #bsdnow on irc.freenode.net
All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
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
Also if you have any tutorial requests, we\’d be glad to show whatever the viewers want to see
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
Just a quick reminder: If you\’re running OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f please update it and regenerate, rotate and revoke your keys if you run a server with HTTPS, IMAPS, etc – huge security hole! (Also DES offers some insight on the FreeBSD security process)
We\’re lucky it wasn\’t OpenSSH

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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

Feedback/Questions

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All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
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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