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This week on the show, we’ve got something pretty different. We went to a Linux convention and asked various people if they’ve ever tried BSD and what they know about it. Stay tuned for that, all this week’s news and, of course, answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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LUKS in OpenBSD

Last week, we were surprised to find out that DragonFlyBSD has support for dm-crypt, sometimes referred to as LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup)
It looks like they might not be the only BSD with support for it for much longer, as OpenBSD is currently reviewing a patch for it as well
LUKS would presumably be an additional option in OpenBSD’s softraid system, which already provides native disk encryption
Support hasn’t been officially committed yet, it’s still going through testing, but the code is there if you want to try it out and report your findings
If enabled, this might pave the way for the first (semi-)cross platform encryption scheme since the demise of TrueCrypt (and maybe others BSDs will get it too in time)

FreeBSD gets 64bit Linux emulation

For those who might be unfamiliar, FreeBSD has an emulation layer to run Linux-only binaries (as rare as they may be)
The most common use case is for desktop users, enabling them to run proprietary applications like Adobe Flash or Skype
Similar systems can also be found in NetBSD and OpenBSD (though disabled by default on the latter)
However, until now, it’s only supported binaries compiled for the i386 architecture
This new update, already committed to -CURRENT, will open some new possibilities that weren’t previously possible
Meanwhile, HardenedBSD considers removing the emulation layer entirely

BSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Nagoya

We’ve covered the Japanese NetBSD users group setting up lots of machines at various conferences in the past, but now they’re expanding
Their latest report includes many of the NetBSD things you’d expect, but also a couple OpenBSD machines
Some of the NetBSD ones included a Power Mac G4, SHARP NetWalker, Cubieboard2 and the not-so-foreign Raspberry Pi
One new addition of interest is the OMRON LUNA88k, running the luna88k port of OpenBSD
While at the event, NetBSD even revived their older luna68k port
There was even an old cell phone running Windows games on NetBSD
Check the mailing list post for some links to all of the nice pictures

LLVM introduces OpenMP support

One of the things that has kept some people in the GCC camp is the lack of OpenMP support in LLVM
According to the blog post, it “enables Clang users to harness full power of modern multi-core processors with vector units”
With Clang being the default in FreeBSD, Bitrig and OS X, and with some other BSDs exploring the option of switching, the need for this potential speed boost was definitely there
This could also open some doors for more BSD in the area of high performance computing, putting an end to the current Linux monopoly

Interview – Eric, FSF, John, Jose, Kris and Stewart

Various “man on the street” style mini-interviews

News Roundup

BSD-licensed gettext replacement

If you’ve ever installed ports on any of the BSDs, you’ve probably had GNU’s gettext pulled in as a dependency
Wikipedia says “gettext is an internationalization and localization (i18n) system commonly used for writing multilingual programs on Unix-like computer operating systems”
A new BSD-licensed rewrite has begun, with the initial version being for NetBSD (but it’s likely to be portable)
If you’ve got some coding skills, get involved with the project – the more freely-licensed replacements, the better

Unix history git repo

A git repository was recently created to show off some Unix source code history
The repository contains 659 thousand commits and 2306 merges
You can see early 386BSD commits all the way up to some of the more modern FreeBSD code
If you want to browse through the giant codebase, it can be a great history lesson
Paper with additional details and methodology

PCBSD 10.1.2 and Lumina updates

We mentioned 10.1.1 being released last week (and all the cool features a couple weeks before) but now 10.1.2 is out
This minor update contained a few hotfixes: RAID-Z installation, cache and log devices and the text-only installer in UEFI mode
There’s also a new post on the PCBSD blog about Lumina, answering some frequently asked questions and giving a general status update

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11 Years of Linux Benchmarking | LINUX Unplugged 94

chris — Tue, 26 May 2015 18:08:59 +0000

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Michael Larabel joins us to discuss his initiative of daily automated performance benchmarking of some of the world’s most important open source projects & reflects on 11 years of running Phoronix.com.

Plus our first take on Fedora 22 & how we resolved some rough edges, the best new options for new users that require Microsoft Office under Linux & more!

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Mandriva is dead

Bye Bye Mandriva, She’s Being Liquidated

Per this French posting (translation), this company based out of Paris is being liquidated. Surprisingly, in 2013 the company managed to pull in 553.6k USD, but it wasn’t sustainable and now in 2015 the company with 10 to 19 employees left is ending.

New App Will Let You Share GPS Between Phone and Desktop

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Opening The Gates To Our Daily Open-Source Linux Benchmark Results – Phoronix

For a few months now I’ve been talking about the LinuxBenchmarking.com initiative to provide daily benchmark results of the latest development Git/SVN code for various open-source projects in a fully-automated manner… Among the projects being tracked have been the Linux kernel, GCC, LLVM Clang, etc.

LinuxBenchmarking.com

LinuxBenchmarking.com is a public deployment of the next-generation Phoromatic test orchestration and management software built into Phoronix Test Suite 5.4 and newer. This reference deployment of the open-source Phoronix Test Suite / Phoromatic benchmarking software tracks the performance of several high-profile open-source projects on a daily basis looking for performance regressions and improvements. This test farm is fully open-source and automated from the powering on/off systems, setting the systems into their appropriate state each time, remotely managing and maintaining the systems, and the collection of all benchmark results.

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Fedora 22 Released, See What`s New

Fedora 22 Workstation was released today and it ships with the latest stable GNOME 3.16, a new default package manager and other interesting changes.

Torrent Server for the Fedora Project

Release Notes

This document provides the release notes for Fedora 22. It describes major changes offered as compared to Fedora 21. For a detailed listing of all changes, refer to the Fedora Technical Notes.

GNOME login screen doesn’t appear after installation

Common F22 bugs – FedoraProject

link to this item – Bugzilla: #1218787

On certain Macbook laptops with dual graphics cards, Fedora 22 Live environment boots fine, but after installation there’s just black screen and no boot splash followed by a GNOME login screen. There seems to be an issue with Wayland, an upcoming window system, which is used in GNOME login screen.

It seems that users of affected laptops should be able to work around this issue by booting in a basic graphics mode (adding nomodeset to the boot command line in GRUB), and then editing /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and uncommenting the following line:

#WaylandEnable=false

That will disable Wayland for GNOME login screen in future boots.

Red Hat Has Another Developer Now Working On Nouveau – Phoronix

Hans de Goede in the past has mostly been known for his Linux USB contributions while one year ago he joined the Red Hat Graphics Team where he worked on the various X.Org/Wayland things and then for a while was one of the Red Hat developers working on libinput.

With the libinput work settling down, his next course of action is going to be working on Nouveau. Right now it’s not known specifically what he’ll be focusing on as he’s still learning more about GPU driver programming, but it’s great to see Red Hat providing additional resources for Nouveau. Hans shared his new Nouveau focus at Red Hat via this mailing list post introducing himself to the Nouveau community.

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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

News Roundup

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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Must Be Rigged | BSD Now 67

chris — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 11:13:33 +0000

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Coming up this week on the show, we’ve got an interview with Patrick Wildt, one of the developers of Bitrig. We’ll find out all the details of their OpenBSD fork, what makes it different and what their plans are going forward. We’ve also got all the week’s news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Bitrig 1.0 released

If you haven’t heard of it, Bitrig is a fork of OpenBSD that started a couple years ago
According to their FAQ, some of their goals include: only supporting modern hardware and a limited set of CPU architectures, replacing nearly all GNU tools in base with BSD versions and having better virtualization support
They’ve finally announced their first official release, 1.0
This release introduces support for Clang 3.4, replacing the old GCC, along with libc++ replacing the GNU version
It also includes filesystem journaling, support for GPT and – most importantly – a hacker- style console with green text on black background
One of the developers answered some questions about it on Hacker News too

Is it time to try BSD?

Here we get a little peek into the Linux world – more and more people are considering switching
On a more mainstream tech news site, they have an article about people switching away from Linux and to BSD
People are starting to get even more suspicious of systemd, and lots of drama in the Linux world is leading a whole new group of potential users over to the BSD side
This article explores some pros and cons of switching, and features opinions of various users

Poudriere 3.1 released

One of the first things we ever covered on the show was poudriere, a tool with a funny name that’s used to build binary packages from FreeBSD ports
It’s come a long way since then, and bdrewery and bapt have just announced a new major version
This new release features a redesigned web interface to check on the status of your packages
There are lots of new bulk building options to preserve packages even if some fail to compile – this makes maintaining a production repo much easier
It also introduces a useful new “pkgclean” subcommand to clean out your repository of packages that aren’t needed anymore, and poudriere keeps it cleaner by default as well now
Check the full release notes for all the additions and bug fixes

Firewalling with OpenBSD’s pf and pfsync

A talk by David Gwynne from an Australian conference was uploaded, with the subject matter being pf and pfsync
He uses pf to manage 60 internal networks with a single firewall
The talk gives some background on how pf originally came to be and some OpenBSD 101 for the uninitiated
It also touches on different rulesets, use cases, configuration syntax, placing limits on connections, ospf, authpf, segregating VLANs, synproxy handling and a lot more
The second half of the presentation focuses on pfsync and carp for failover and redundancy
With two BSD boxes running pfsync, you can actually patch your kernel and still stay connected to IRC

Interview – Patrick Wildt – patrick@bitrig.org / @bitrig

The initial release of Bitrig

News Roundup

Infrastructural enhancements at NYI

The FreeBSD foundation put up a new blog post detailing some hardware improvements they’ve recently done
Their eastern US colocation is hosted at New York Internet, and is used for FTP mirrors, pkgng mirrors, and also as a place for developers to test things
There’ve been fourteen machines purchased since July, and now FreeBSD boasts a total of sixty-eight physical boxes there
This blog post goes into detail about how those servers are used and details some of the network topology

The long tail of MD5

Our friend Ted Unangst is on a quest to replace all instances of MD5 in OpenBSD’s tree with something more modern
In this blog post, he goes through some of the different areas where MD5 still lives, and discovers how easy (or impossible) it would be to replace
Through some recent commits, OpenBSD now uses SHA512 in some places that you might not expect
Some other places require a bit more care…

DragonFly cheat sheet

If you’ve been thinking of trying out DragonFlyBSD lately, this might make the transition a bit easier
A user-created “cheat sheet” on the website lists some common answers to beginner questions
The page features a walkthrough of the installer, some shell tips and workarounds for various issues
At the end, it also has some things that new users can get involved with to help out

Experiences with an OpenBSD laptop

A lot of people seem to be interested in trying out some form of BSD on their laptop, and this article details just that
The author got interested in OpenBSD mostly because of the security focus and the fact that it’s not Linux
In this blog post, he goes through the steps of researching, installing, configuring, upgrading and finally actually using it on his Thinkpad
He even gives us a mention as a good place to learn more about BSD, thanks!

PC-BSD Updates

A call for testing of a new update system has gone out
Conversion to Qt5 for utils has taken place

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Let’s Get RAID | BSD Now 36

chris — Fri, 09 May 2014 09:25:39 +0000

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This week on the show we\’ll be showing you how to set up RAID arrays in FreeBSD. There\’s also an interview with David Chisnall – of the FreeBSD core team – about the switch to Clang and a lot more.

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OpenBSD 5.5 released

If you ordered a CD set then you\’ve probably had it for a little while already, but OpenBSD has formally announced the public release of 5.5
This is one of the biggest releases to date, with a very long list of changes and improvements
Some of the highlights include: time_t being 64 bit on all platforms, release sets and binary packages being signed with the new signify tool, a new autoinstall feature of the installer, SMP support on Alpha, a new AViiON port, lots of new hardware drivers including newer NICs, the new vxlan driver, relayd improvements, a new pf queue system for bandwidth shaping, dhcpd and dhclient fixes, OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 and all its new features, position-independent executables being default for i386, the RNG has been replaced with ChaCha20 as well as some other security improvements, FUSE support, tmpfs, softraid partitions larger than 2TB and a RAID 5 implementation, OpenSSH 6.6 with all its new features and fixes… and a lot more
The full list of changes is HUGE, be sure to read through it all if you\’re interested in the details
If you\’re doing an upgrade from 5.4 instead of a fresh install, pay careful attention to the upgrade guide as there are some very specific steps for this version
Also be sure to apply the errata patches on your new installations… especially those OpenSSL ones (some of which still aren\’t fixed in the other BSDs yet)
On the topic of errata patches, the project is now going to also send them out (signed) via the announce mailing list, a very welcome change
Congrats to the whole team on this great release – 5.6 is going to be even more awesome with \”Libre\”SSL and lots of other stuff that\’s currently in development

FreeBSD foundation funding highlights

The FreeBSD foundation posts a new update on how they\’re spending the money that everyone donates
\”As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of what we\’ve done to help FreeBSD become the most innovative, reliable, and high-performance operation system\”
During this spring, they want to highlight the new UEFI boot support and newcons
There\’s a lot of details about what exactly UEFI is and why we need it going forward
FreeBSD has also needed some updates to its console to support UTF8 and wide characters
Hopefully this series will continue and we\’ll get to see what other work is being sponsored

OpenSSH without OpenSSL

The OpenSSH team has been hard at work, making it even better, and now OpenSSL is completely optional
Since it won\’t have access to the primitives OpenSSL uses, there will be a trade-off of features vs. security
This version will drop support for legacy SSH v1, and the only two cryptographic algorithms supported are an in-house implementation of AES (in counter mode) and the new combination of the Chacha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 for packet integrity
Key exchange is limited to elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and the newer Curve25519 KEXs
No support for RSA, DSA or ECDSA public keys – only Ed25519
It also includes a new buffer API and a set of wrappers to make it compatible with the existing API
Believe it or not, this was planned before all the heartbleed craziness
Maybe someday soon we\’ll have a mini-openssh-portable in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc… would be really cool

BSDMag\’s April 2014 issue is out

The free monthly BSD magazine has got a new issue available for download
This time the articles include: pascal on BSD, an introduction to revision control systems and configuration management, deploying NetBSD on AWS EC2, more GIMP tutorials, an AsiaBSDCon 2014 report and a piece about how easily credit cards are stolen online
Anyone can contribute to the magazine, just send the editors an email about what you want to write
No Linux articles this time around

Interview – David Chisnall – theraven@freebsd.org

The LLVM/Clang switch, FreeBSD\’s core team, various topics

Tutorial

RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD

News Roundup

BSDTalk episode 240

The original BSD podcaster Will Backman has uploaded a new episode of BSDTalk, this time with our other buddy GNN as the guest – mainly to talk about NTP and keeping reliable time
Topics include the specific details of crystals used in watches and computers to keep time, how temperature affects the quality, different sources of inaccuracy, some general NTP information, why you might want extremely precise time, different time sources (GPS, satellite, etc), differences in stratum levels, the problem of packet delay and estimating the round trip time, some of the recent NTP amplification attacks, the downsides to using UDP instead of TCP and… much more
GNN also talks a little about the Precision Time Protocol and how it\’s different than NTP
Two people we\’ve interviewed talking to each other, awesome
If you\’re interested in NTP, be sure to see our tutorial too

m2k14 trip reports

We\’ve got a few more reports from the recent OpenBSD hackathon in Morocco
The first one is from Antoine Jacoutot (who is a key GNOME porter, and gave us the screenshots for the OpenBSD desktop tutorial)
\”Since I always fail at actually doing whatever I have planned for a hackathon, this time I decided to come to m2k14 unprepared about what I was going to do\”
He got lots of work done with ports and pushing GNOME-related patches back up to the main project, then worked on fixing ports\’ compatibility with LibreSSL
Speaking of LibreSSL, there\’s an article all would-be portable version writers should probably read and take into consideration
Jasper Adriaanse also writes about what he got done over there
He cleaned up and fixed the puppet port to work better with OpenBSD

Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS

Here we have a blog post from Atlantic, a VPS and hosting provider, about 10 reasons for using FreeBSD
Starts off with a little bit of BSD history for those who are unfamiliar with it and only know Linux and Windows
(Spoiler) the 10 reasons are: community, stability, collaboration, ease of use, ports, security, ZFS, GEOM, sound and having lots of options
The post goes into detail about each of them and why FreeBSD makes a great choice for a VPS OS

PCBSD weekly digest

Big changes coming in the way PCBSD manages software
The PBI system, AppCafe and related tools are all going to use pkgng now
The AppCafe will no longer be limited to PBIs, so much more software will be easily available from the ports tree
New rating system coming soon and much more

Feedback/Questions

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
The Tor and mailing list tutorials have gotten some fixes and updates
The OpenBSD router tutorial has also gotten a bit of a makeover, and now includes new scripts for 5.5 and signify
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
If any listeners have a collection of old FreeBSD or OpenBSD CDs, we\’d love for you to send in a picture of the whole set together so we can show it off
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
We will be at BSDCan next week – be sure to say hi if you run into us!

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Time Signatures | BSD Now 23

chris — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:08:15 +0000

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We\’ll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even… the winner of our tutorial contest! It\’s a big show, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD foundation\’s 2013 fundraising results

The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013
$768,562 from 1659 donors
Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture
\”We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon.\”
A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook)

OpenSSH 6.5 released

We mentioned the CFT last week, and it\’s finally here!
New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein\’s Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it)
Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA
Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can\’t even attempt to login
New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force
Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one
Portable version already in FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL!

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

In 2000, MWL wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: \”It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now.\”
This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent idiocy from Richard Stallman
Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL
Check out the full post if you\’re one of those people that gets into license arguments
The takeaway is \”BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone.\”

OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black

Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi
A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today!
He describes it as \”everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black\”
It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds
Could be a really fun weekend project if you\’re interested in small or embedded devices

This episode was brought to you by

Interview – Ted Unangst – tedu@openbsd.org / @tedunangst

OpenBSD\’s signify infrastructure

Tutorial

Running an NTP server

News Roundup

Getting started with FreeBSD

A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD
The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he\’s worked with
He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users
The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics – 4 videos so far

More OpenBSD hackathon reports

As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience
He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work
This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there

X11 in a jail

We\’ve gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can!
A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes
Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail
Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial for ideas
Ongoing Discussion

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0 \”Joule Edition\” finally released!
AMD graphics are now officially supported
GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
PCBSD also got a mention in eweek

Feedback/Questions

Justin writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21VnbKZsH
Daniel writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2nD7RF6bo
Martin writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2jwRrj7UV
Alex writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s201koMD2c
+ unofficial FreeBSD RPI Images
James writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2AntZmtRU
John writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20bGjMsIQ

All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
The ssh tutorial has been updated with some new 6.5 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)
Reminder: if you\’re on FreeBSD 8.3 for some reason, upgrade soon – it\’s reaching EOL
Reminder: if you\’re using pkgng, be sure to update to 1.2.6 for a security issue
The winner of the tutorial contest is… Dusko! We didn\’t get as many submissions as we wanted, but his Nagios monitoring tutorial was extremely well-done. It\’ll be featured in a future episode. Congrats! Send us a picture when it arrives.
Allan got his pillow in the mail as well, it\’s super awesome

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Outrageous Fortune | CR 11

chris — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:23:59 +0000

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As Yoda would say — “Always in motion the future is”. Change is a fact of life and a fact of software development. It’s great to be the one driving change, but what happens when change seems to be driving you?

This week’s all about gritting your teeth and hanging on.

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Feedback

Cole is doing some Django but is wondering if ROR generates enough HTML/JS that he would not have to fiddle with it if he used ROR.
Chris writes in to share some QT deployment wisdom and to share his current OSS project: personal audio server
Macarthur writes us a letter in C/C++ and took extra care to have it compile on compilers and machines. Also,has some interesting ideas on OO.
Macarthur (maybe same dude?) writes in to tell us that he has great success with Clang+LLVM for debugging but releases uses GCC.
Forlian writes in to share his success with Pomodoro and shares an extension for GNOME
Daniel asks about design patterns and needs a jumping off place for research.
Nick is using D with QT but is having a hard time configuring QTD. Also, some clarifications on Mike C++ and Java.
Jason’s Email — Jason has a tough choice to make. Oh and he made me build his email with Ant — Java fans REJOICE!
Ewoud writes in to remind us that there a lot of embedded developers out there working in C and to offer Bill (our aspiring Linux dev) some encouragement. Oh Also, he has robotics experience, so when the robots take over — blame him.

Code School Affiliate

Chris was Right About Code Journal

Castles on Sand

Platforms and frameworks are great… until they move your cheese.
Case Study: Phil Phish’s Fez and XNA.
Here today gone tomorrow — what do you mean it’s not supported???

Orders from on High

Management can be… interesting in some of their technical decisions. What happens when your specialty becomes legacy.
About those distribution platforms.

Tool of the Week

OmniPlan

Book of the Week

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Eat Your Greens | CR 07

chris — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 12:08:23 +0000

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Sometimes doing the things you hate to do, is exactly what you need to do. From working with designers, pushing your clients for extra security, and taking needed time off.

This episode is all about why you need to do the things, you don’t want to do!

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Feedback

Emett checks in again with some more details on his situation — the outlook is still pretty tough.
Louis sent me an email in C++
Joel got in touch asking about my Linux dev setup
Abe would like some clarifications on CLANG, GCC , and LLVM
Hey wait C++ isn’t really low level, said the Java dev
Nelson needs some help figuring out where to host his Python app
Scott has a gift for Chris

The Power of User Experience

The Nexus 7 is the Android tablet you’ve been looking.
What does it mean for devs?
What’s a designer and why do I care?
Ok but my project isn’t consumer facing…

Chris Calls Devs Lazy!

We take a broader look at what really caused the in app purchase mess and what the situation on the ground is regarding purchase receipts.
How do budgets and external constraints affect best practices?

Working hard? You might be doing it wrong…

The article inspired it all
Does working longer hours really lead to better developer productivity?
Isn’t it worth it at the end to get in on the ground floor?

Il Mio Pomodoro

You say tomato I say “efficient day of coding”
25 up 5 down.
The catch with Pomodoro — unplugging
The Pomodoro Technique

Project update

Check out the project on Github

Tool of the week

KDiff, yes it is an icy day in Hell

Book of the week

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