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The Installfest | BSD 19

chris — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:37:03 +0000

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We\’ve got some special treats for you this week on the show. It\’s the long-awaited \”installfest\” segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well… and… we even have our very first viewer contest! There\’s a lot to get to today on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD\’s new testing infrastructure

A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
More details available here
Could the iXsystems monster server be involved…?

OpenBSD gets signify

At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
For \”the world\’s most secure OS\” it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
A commit to the -current tree reveals a new \”signify\” tool is currently being kicked around
More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
Quote: \”yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that\’s still work in progress.\”

Faces of FreeBSD

This time they interview Isabell Long, a 19 year old female that\’s involved with FreeBSD
She\’s a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
\”The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved.\”

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc

OpenBSD on Google\’s Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine is a \”cloud computing\” platform similar to EC2
Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
Recently it\’s been announced that there is a custom OS option
It\’s using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it

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The Installfest

We\’ll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we\’re using:
+ FreeBSD 10.0
+ OpenBSD 5.4
+ NetBSD 6.1.2
+ DragonflyBSD 3.6
+ PCBSD 10.0

News Roundup

Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router
Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless
Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute

FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas
For whatever reason (an \”in-house application\”), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10
Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware
He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail
It\’s \”an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code.\”

Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day
To set the tone, \”It was 5am, and the network was down\”
Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD
Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested
New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they\’re working on nVidia next
Fixed an issue with detecting disk drives that take a LONG time to probe
Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental (and all 4 people that use them wept)

Feedback/Questions

Daniel writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2uns1hMml
Erik writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2MeJNCCiu
SW writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21fBXkP2K
Bostjan writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum
Samuel writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20FU9wUO5

Contest

We\’re going to be having our first viewer contest!
We\’ll be giving away a handmade FreeBSD pillow – yes you heard right
All you need to do is write a tutorial for the show
Submit your BSD tutorial write-ups to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you want to email us your idea first, I can tell you if I already have a tutorial for that topic prewritten for the show in the backlog
Check bsdnow.tv/contest for all the rules, details, instructions and a picture of the pillow.

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
The OpenBSD router tutorial has gotten some improvements. It now includes an option to encrypt all your DNS lookups, as well as some cool utilities you can use for bandwidth monitoring, performance improvements and other fun router stuff
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)
BSD Now got some unintended publicity at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (1:28:16 – 1:31:00 in the video)

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Go Directly to Jail(8) | BSD Now 7

chris — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:26:57 +0000

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On this week\’s show, you\’ll be getting the full jail treatment. We\’ll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp – the guy who actually invented them! There\’s lots of interesting news items to cover as well.

So stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD turns it up to 11

The -CURRENT branch is now known as 11
10 has been branched to -STABLE
10-BETA1 ISOs are available now
Will be the next -RELEASE, probably next year

Stopping the SSH bruteforce with OpenBSD and pf

The Hail Mary Cloud is an SSH bruteforce botnet that takes a different approach
While most botnets pound port 22 rapidly, THMB does it very slowly and passively
This makes prevention based on rate limiting more involved and complex
Nice long blog post about some potential solutions and what we\’ve learned

ZFS and GELI in bsdinstall coming soon

The man with the beard strikes again, new patch allows for ZFS-on-root installs
Supports GELI for disk encryption
Might be the push we need to make Michael W Lucas update his FreeBSD book

AsiaBSDCon 2014 announced

Will be held in Tokyo, 13-16 March, 2014
The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and Mac OS X
Call for papers can be found here

Interview – Poul-Henning Kamp – phk@freebsd.org / @bsdphk

FreeBSD beginnings, md5crypt, jails, varnish and his… telescope project?

Tutorial

Everything you need to know about Jails

Last week we showed you how to run VNC in a jail, but people asked \”how do I make a jail in the first place?\”
This time around, we\’ll show you how to do exactly that
Jails are a dream come true for both security experts and clean freaks, keeping everything isolated
We\’ll be using the ezjail utility and making a basic jail setup

News Roundup

New pf queue system

Henning Brauer committed the new kernel-side bandwidth shaping subsystem
Uses the HFSC algorithm behind the scenes
ALTQ to be retired \”in a release or two\” – everyone should migrate soon

Dragonfly imports FreeBSD KMS driver

Hot on the trails of OpenBSD and later FreeBSD, Dragonfly gets AMD KMS
Ported over from the FreeBSD port

Weekly PCBSD feature digest

Weekly status update every Friday
Will be a \”highlight of what important features have been added, what major bugs have been fixed, and what is presently going on in general with the project.\”

Get paid to hack OpenSSH

Google has announced they will pay up to $3113.70 for security patches to OpenSSH
Patches can fix security or improve security
If you come up with something, send it to the OpenSSH guys

Feedback/Questions

Darren writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s24RmwvEvE
Kjell-Aleksander writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2wFcFk9Yz
Ryan writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s23e920gNG
Alexander writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2usxPqO9k

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, etc to feedback@bsdnow.tv
We don’t check YouTube comments, JB comments, Reddit, etc. If you want us to see it, send it via email (the preferred way) or Twitter (also acceptable)
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Teskeing the Possibilities | BSD Now 4

chris — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:42:35 +0000

We talk to Devin Teske about his work with bsdinstall, bsdconfig and all the other interesting things he’s been up to lately.

This week we’re at EuroBSDCon, so we’ve just got an interview for you today. BSD Now will be back next week with a normal episode and lots of stories from the conference. We’ll also try to get some more interviews there.

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Interview – Devin Teske – dteske@freebsd.org / @devinteske

bsdconfig, bsdinstall, sysrc and fdpv

Sr. FreeBSD Architect and Systems Integration Specialist at FISGlobal

Q: Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved with FreeBSD?
Q: What tools in base did you have a hand in creating?
Q: What are you working on for bsdinstall?
Q: A question many want to know: when we will we have a zfs-on-root option in the default installer? Or full disk encryption?
Q: Tell us about your new tools: bsdconfig, sysrc and fdpv
Q: Any chance of seeing the boot menu’s 4th code being replaced with something else?
Q: Are there any secret projects have you been working on lately?
Q: What is DruidBSD?

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, etc to feedback@bsdnow.tv
We don’t check YouTube comments, JB comments, Reddit, etc. If you want us to see it, send it via email (the preferred way) or Twitter (also acceptable)
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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