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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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Headlines

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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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
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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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Bridging the Gap | BSD Now 13

chris — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:02:22 +0000

We sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project – and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we\’ll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We\’ve also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.

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Getting to know your portmgr

In this interview they talk to one of the \”Annoying Reminder Guys\” – Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD\’s portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)
He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD
Describes FreeBSD as \”the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community.\”
In the next one they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@) which is strange since he\’s \”on hiatus\” + hasn\’t done anything in a long time
The usual, \”what inspires you about FreeBSD\” \”how did you get into it\” etc.

vBSDCon wrap-up compilation

Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place
Some from OpenBSD guys
Some from FreeBSD guys
Some from RootBSD
Some from iXsystems
Some from Verisign
And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009

Faces of FreeBSD

This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary
Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD
\”I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use.\”
He\’s been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports
He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team

Dragonfly 3.6 released

dports now default instead of pkgsrc
Big SMP scaling improvements
Experimental i915 and KMS support
See our interview with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it – nearly an hour long
Matt Dillion’s comments

ZFS TRIM bug on FreeBSD -CURRENT r258632

Do not upgrade to or past 258632, there is a ZFS TRIM bug that could result in data loss
If you have already upgraded, disable TRIM with vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 immediately
Roll back to a previous kernel, and then scrub your pool
A fix is expected shortly

Interview – Jordan Hubbard – jkh@freebsd.org / @omgjkh

FreeBSD\’s founding and future

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD router, part 2

Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions.
A few weeks back we showed you how to build a high performance BSD router
Lots of work has been done to clean up and reorganize it, it\’s cut up into sections now, also has a new section about power saving
It\’s been updated for \”switchless\” operation, using a virtual ethernet interface and some bridging magic (special thanks to Ryan for helping me test that)
This updated guide will show you how to do an all-in-one router to replace your consumer one without any additional hardware
We\’ll also showcase some extras – the email alerts, errata checking script and SSH/Tor tunnels
The errata script now auto-detects if you\’re running -release, -stable or -current and acts accordingly; can automatically patch your source code and alert you

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2

We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free \”public\” AMI
Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details
Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud

Puffy on the desktop

Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review
They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up
Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read
Ends with \”Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn\’t mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave\”

Two-factor authentication with SSH

Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys
Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD\’s login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well
Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised
Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption
They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree – please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!
PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed
Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end

Feedback/Questions

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Adam\’s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here.

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-CURRENT Events | BSD Now 9

chris — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:33:50 +0000

We\’ve got an interview with Henning Brauer about OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, a tutorial on how to follow the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches of FreeBSD, a recap of what happened at vBSDCon this year and.. As always, lots of news to cover, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Managed services using FreeBSD

New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD
Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more
Explains FreeBSD\’s role in commercial workloads on a massive scale
Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up

OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable
Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel
The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume
No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running \”installboot\” is all that\’s needed

More Dragonfly SMP speedups

Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements
Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test
The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour
Super technical details in the show notes, check \’em out

Getting to know portmgr

Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team
In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke
In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who\’s also the creator of redports.org)
Future segments will include the other members
Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff

BSD Now at the top of iTunes

BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes\’ technology podcast section
We\’re better than everyone else and Leo is fat

Interview – Henning Brauer – henning@openbsd.org / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

The BSDs have development branches you can follow
This guide shows the differences between FreeBSD -RELEASE, -STABLE and -CURRENT
Will do OpenBSD and NetBSD versions in the future, their methods are all pretty different

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid
Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD
Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it

PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone
A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages
AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more

Switching from Linux to BSD

Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it
Asks the community what some differences and advantages are
Good response from the community, worth reading if you\’re a Linux guy

Unattended OpenBSD installations

Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a \”response\” file
The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs
Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc
Still a work in progress

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