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That‘s why we’ve improved the key exchange mechanism. To make sure your call is 100% secure, you and your recipient just need to compare four emoji over the phone. No lengthy codes or complicated pictures!

Each time you make a Voice Call on Telegram, a neural network learns from your and your device‘s feedback

Explaining Containers in Pictures

An elegant vim distribution inspired by spacemacs

What is space-vim?
space-vim is a vim distribution for vim plugins and resources, compatible with Vim and NeoVim.
It is inspired by spacemacs and mimics spacemacs in a high level, especially in the whole architecture, key bindings and GUI.

Spacemacs

Libreboot no longer opposes the GNU project or FSF. We have made peace.

Over the past six months, the Libreboot project has been in a state of discord. After an issue with a transgender employee at the FSF escalated, Libreboot publicly left GNU with little consultation from the community. Relations with so many people were strained. Friendships broken, lines of code never written: the chaos needs to come to an end.

With all of this in mind, were the allegations against the Free Software Foundation true? Perhaps. Perhaps not. At this point, it doesn’t matter. Indeed, it is unlikely that Libreboot will ever rejoin GNU, but feuding in an already fragmented community helps nobody. The world of free software is shrinking and under attack. Though the FSF may make mistakes from time to time, so do we. We do not need another divide.
No more “royal we”. No more notorious surprises. No more late night “typofixes”.

Transparency and collaboration are the way forward.

Linux Academy

Linux Academy | Linux and AWS Online Training

Fedora to HN: We got what you want

Over the last few years I do feel we managed to nail down what the major pain points are and crossed them out one by one or gotten people assigned to work on them. So a lot of the items people asked for in that thread we already have in Fedora Workstation or have already in our roadmap. So I thought it would be nice to write them up and maybe encourage people to take a look at Fedora Workstation if you haven’t done so already.

Handling of DPI scaling and HiDPI
Multitouch gestures
Battery life
UEFI issues
Something like Redshift
Wayland

Report: Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Research from web analytics company StatCounter found Android now accounts for a larger share of internet usage than Windows for the first time. During March 2017, Android users represented 37.93 percent of activity on StatCounter’s network versus 37.91 percent for the Microsoft operating system. It’s a small gap for sure — and it refers to usage not necessary users — but it marks a notable tipping point that has been inevitable for the past couple of years.

The wider Android-Windows trend has been evident for some time. Windows dominated, and continues to dominate, the desktop landscape, but worldwide PC sales have declined for the past five years to reach the same levels as 2008. In contrast, sales of smartphones continue to grow, and Android is the operating system for the lion’s share of internet users worldwide. Growth is highest in emerging markets like India. There, Apple has increased its sales but remains a niche player, with Android accounting for upwards of 90 percent of smartphones.

TING

Ting – mobile that makes sense

Using Linux in the Real World

Discovering my inner curmudgeon: A Linux laptop review

Quick refresher: I’m a life-long Mac user, but I was disappointed by Apple’s latest MacBook Pro release. I researched a set of alternative computers to consider. And, as a surprise even to myself, I decided to leave the Mac platform.

If you’re in the market for a new laptop, by all means check this one out. However, I’ll be selling my Spectre x360 and going back to my mid-2012 MacBook Air. It’s not HP’s fault or because of the Linux desktop. The problem is how I value my time.

In contrast, I’ve spent the past two years learning how to play the piano. It’s required rote memorization and repeated physical exercises. By spending time practicing piano, I’ve opened myself up to ideas that I couldn’t appreciate before. I’ve learned things about music that I couldn’t comprehend in the past. My retraining efforts have expanded my horizons. I’m skeptical that adopting HP hardware and the Linux desktop could have a similar effect on me.

Other User’s Stories

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been sharing various users’ stories about their own personal migration to Linux.
This is Brian Hall’s story of switching to Linux.

Linux at work

For those of you with Linux-related jobs:
How much of it really involves Linux (and not Windows)?
(Workstations) Can you pick your own distribution?
(Servers) When new systems are being deployed, do you have any influence on > which distribution will be installed?
Are you able to do your work with a Linux-based development machine at least?

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean: SSD Cloud Server, VPS Server, Simple Cloud Hosting

What makes a ‘Proper’ distribution?

Do you have to build your own binaries?
Does it take a large team be to taken seriously?
What makes Ubuntu Popular?

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Live from SouthEast LinuxFest | LAS 369

chris — Sun, 14 Jun 2015 16:08:21 +0000

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Exclusive interviews and coverage from one of the show’s favorite events, SouthEast LinuxFest, aka SELF 2015. Find out the latest with the Ubuntu project, a humble approach to Linux advocacy & how the boundaries of science are being pushed by Linux.

Plus the new MATE release, HP kills The Machine, a quick update on Ubuntu’s Unity 8 & more!

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Southeast LinuxFest 2015

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SouthEast LinuxFest | Linux and in the GNU/South

The SouthEast LinuxFest is a community event for anyone who wants to learn more about Linux and Open Source Software. It is part educational conference and part social gathering. Like Linux itself, it is shared with attendees of all skill levels to communicate tips and ideas, and to benefit all who use Linux and Open Source Software. SELF is the place to learn, to make new friends, to network with new business partners, and most importantly, to have fun!

Build a botnet?: Open Source Convention – O’Reilly OSCON, July 20 – 24, 2015 in Portland, OR

This talk will introduce you to the concepts behind botnets, and also show a live demonstration of a botnet on a sandboxed network.

We’ll start off by discussing the implications of running a botnet and the horrifying effect of distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks. I’ll demonstrate how bots behave on infected hosts, and give attendees a look at a command and control (C&C) system, which ultimately gives the bots their orders.

At the end of the discussion attendees will be encouraged to share their horror stories of botnet attacks on networks and systems that they’ve administered.

There are a lot of resources available online for those who’d like to research botnets. I’ll share some of these with attendees, but please realize that this talk is for research purposes only.

Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical

Michael Hall – Google+

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Linux powers DARPA Robotics Challenge winne

A Xenomai Linux based robot from Korea’s Team KAIST called the DRC-Hubo won the $2 million DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, one of only three bots to complete the course on time.

Desktop App Pick

FileZilla – FTP Client

FileZilla, the free FTP solution. Both a client and a server are available. FileZilla is open source software distributed free of charge under the terms of the GNU General Public License

Weekly Spotlight

Emby for Kodi – a headless media server for Kodi. (Transcoding, Open Source, Web GUI, and more)

An addon for Kodi that’ll let you automatically sync with Emby media server.

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the release of MATE Desktop 1.10. We would like to thank every MATE contributor
and user.

Ubuntu’s Unity 8 and Mir Get Another Massive, Exciting New Update

After announcing last week that both the next-generation Unity 8 user interface and Mir display server of the Ubuntu Linux operating system received a massive update with numerous new features, Kevin Gunn dropped an email on June 12 informing us about an exciting new update for said technologies.

HP kills The Machine, repurposes design around conventional technologies

Last year, HP announced it was building The Machine — a computer meant to leap as far above conventional modern systems as a high-end Xeon workstation is above an IBM mainframe from the 1960s. The entire system was designed to work with special-purpose cores and to use memristors as a universal memory architecture. The entire system would be tied together through extensive use of silicon photonics. It was bold, ambitious, and cutting-edge. And now, it’s pretty much dead.

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Proprietary Exodus | LINUX Unplugged 74

chris — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 20:36:30 +0000

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During a recent passionate speech Richard Stallman said users of proprietary software are victims, we’ll debate of that’s true & play other clips from his speech.

Then we’ll look at the recent exodus of Mac developers, ponder if this a trend worth paying attention to & if Linux is ready to take advantage of it.

Plus the pants debt comes due, your feedback & much more!

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C3TV – Freedom in your computer and in the net

For freedom in your own computer, the software must be free. For freedom on the internet, we must organize against surveillance, censorship, SaaSS and the war against sharing.

Macs Exodus

Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose existence I didn’t even think would be possible yet, but it runs an OS with embarrassing bugs and fundamental regressions. Just a few years ago, we would have relentlessly made fun of Windows users for these same bugs on their inferior OS, but we can’t talk anymore.

Geoff Wozniak went back to desktop Linux after almost a decade on OS X (Update: He appears to have taken the post down). It’s just one person’s story, but many of his cited reasons resonate widely. I suspect the biggest force keeping stories like this from being more common is that Windows is still worse overall and desktop Linux is still too much of a pain in the ass for most people. But it should be troubling if a lot of people are staying on your OS because everything else is worse, not necessarily because they love it.

What it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.org

Why I quit OS X – Curried lambda

After nearly 10 years of using OS X as my primary OS for personal work, I switched away in late 2014. I consider it to be the best tech decision I made last year.

Furthermore, I found that I had stopped using the majority of the primary apps that ship with OS X: Mail, Safari, iTunes, and Apple Creativity Apps/iLife. For the most part, I ran essentially three apps: Firefox, MailMate, and iTerm2. Most of my work was done in terminals. The culture of the operating system at this point was more about sharing than personal productivity.

In short, I was working against the grain of the environment. It was a gradual transition, but OS X went from a useful tool set to get my work done to an obnoxious ecosystem of which I no longer wanted to be a part.

More damning than the lack of personal connection, though, was the complete lack of transparency and general decline in software quality, as I perceived it.

At this point, my default position on Apple software in OS X has moved from “probably good” to “probably not OK”. They seem more interested in pumping out quantity by way of more upgrades. It’s death by a thousand cuts, but it’s death nonetheless.

I’ve gone back to a desktop system running Linux (for now) and while I consider it markedly inferior to OS X in terms of usability, it feels like a personal computer again. I’m enjoying the experience and I look forward to working with it, even when it’s a monumental pain in the ass.

Panic Blog » The 2014 Panic Report

This is the biggest problem we’ve been grappling with all year: we simply don’t make enough money from our iOS apps. We’re building apps that are, if I may say so, world-class and desktop-quality. They are packed with features, they look stunning, we offer excellent support for them, and development is constant. I’m deeply proud of our iOS apps. But… they’re hard to justify working on.

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Perfect Linux Laptop | LINUX Unplugged 69

chris — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 19:46:39 +0000

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The founder of Purism Librem 15, a laptop that promises to respect your freedom and be the perfect Linux machine joins us to discuss the hardware, software & goals of the project & how he hopes to encourage manufacturers to free the entire stack. But are the goals of this project too ambitions? We’ll ask!

Plus CoreOS announces Rocket, a new Docker competitor that we’re very excited about & more!

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Librem 15: A Free/Libre Software Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms | Crowd Supply

The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. Every other consumer-grade laptop you can purchase comes with an operating system that includes suspect, proprietary software, and there’s no way for you to know what that software does.

The reality is that unless every aspect of your kernel, operating system, and software applications are free/libre and open source, there is no way to know that your computer is truly working in your best interest. Purism is the first to solve this problem.

CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

Rocket is a new container runtime, designed for composability, security, and speed. Today we are releasing a prototype version on GitHub to begin gathering feedback from our community and explain why we are building Rocket.

Initial thoughts on the Rocket announcement | Docker Blog

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Edgy BSD Users | BSD Now 31

chris — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:02:03 +0000

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This week we\’ll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we\’ll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now – the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder
We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book
\”For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD\’s internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11\”
OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now
You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it\’s available publicly
5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these – tell Austin we sent you!

pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

This year\’s pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd
There\’s a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks
Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it\’s pretty informal
Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

BSDMag issue for March 2014

The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue
Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article
The Linux article trend seems to continue… hmm

Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

We\’ve gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS
Here we\’ve got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build
The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it\’s not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it\’s more expensive
Regular RAM also has \”special\” issues with ZFS and pool corruption
Long post, so check out the whole thing if you\’ve been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits
While we\’re on the topic of FreeNAS…

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EdgeBSD (slides)

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@
Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team
\”FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how
organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with
the for-profit companies I work for\”
We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

NetBSD on the Playstation 2

Who doesn\’t want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?
The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived
It\’s using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn\’t have much GCC support
Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

The FreeBSD Challenge update

Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey
This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren\’t working because of his clock being way off
After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases
Maybe he should\’ve just read our NTP tutorial!

PCBSD weekly digest

The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes
The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and… destroyed
New language localization project is in progress
Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

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Port Authority | BSD Now 26

chris — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:34:25 +0000

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On today\’s show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU
Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it!
This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device
He goes through the trial and error of \”compile, break it, rebuild, try again\”
After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working

pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

pkgsrccon is \”a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure\”
This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
BSDCan\’s schedule was also announced
We\’ll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
Kris\’ presentation was accepted!
Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully!

Two factor auth with pushover

A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
Pushover is \”a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway\” – you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh!

The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

It\’s no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they\’re finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us – it\’s a beautiful thing
This goes right along with our interview today!

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The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

Tutorial

The FreeBSD Ports Collection

News Roundup

DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they\’d like to get done before then
In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes

NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

We\’ve got a nice wrap-up titled \”NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend\”
The author also interviews GNN about the conference
There\’s even a little \”beginner introduction\” to BSD segment
Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event

FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

GNN in yet another story – he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs \”distros,\” development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends

PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
How dare Kris be \”unimpressed with\” freebsd-update and pkgng!?
Various updates and fixes

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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

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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

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Collecting SSHells | BSD Now 12

chris — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:46:15 +0000

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This week we\’ll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD\’s future plans and much more. After that, if you\’ve ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today\’s tutorial has got you covered. We\’ll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

Faces of FreeBSD

The FreeBSD foundation is publishing articles on different FreeBSD developers
This one is about Colin Percival (cperciva@), the ex-security officer
Tells the story of how he first found BSD, what he contributed back, how he eventually became the security officer
Running series with more to come

Lots of BSD presentation videos uploaded

EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit videos, AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos, MWL\’s presentation video
Most of us never get to see the dev summit talks since they\’re only for developers
AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos also up finally
List of AsiaBSDCon presentation topics here
Our buddy Michael W Lucas gave an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk at a Michigan Unix Users Group.
He says \”Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member. We also talk long long time, memory randomization, PF, BSD license versus GPL, Microsoft and other OpenBSD stuff\”
Really informative presentation, pretty long, answers some common questions at the end

Call for Presentations: FOSDEM 2014 and NYCBSDCon 2014

FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1–2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium
Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer\’s room
The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features.
If you are in the area or want to go, check the show notes for details
NYCBSDCon is also accepting papers.
It\’ll be in New York City at the beginning of February 2014
If anyone wants to give a talk at one of these conferences, go ahead and send in your stuff!

FreeBSD foundation\’s year-end fundraising campaign

The FreeBSD foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD project and community for over 13 years
As of today they have raised about half a million dollars, but still have a while to go
Donations go towards new features, paying for the server infrastructure, conferences, supporting the community, hiring full-time staff members and promoting FreeBSD at events
They are preparing the debut of a new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal
Typically big companies make their huge donations in December, like a couple of anonymous donors that gave around $250,000 each last year
Make your donation today over at freebsdfoundation.org, every little bit helps
Everyone involved with BSD Now made a donation last year and will do so again this year

Interview – Amitai Schlair – schmonz@netbsd.org / @schmonz

The NetBSD Foundation, pkgsrc, future plans
Can you start off by telling us a little bit about who you are and how you got involved with BSD in general?
What are all your roles with the NetBSD project? What \”hats\” do you wear?
What kind of tasks are assigned to the foundation? What does being on the board entail?
Since you\’re also very involved with pkgsrc, could you give us a brief overview of what pkgsrc is, and how it compares to something like ports?
What\’s planned for the next big release of NetBSD, and when can we expect it?
In what ways do you personally use NetBSD? Desktops, servers, toasters? All of the above?
If some of our listeners want to get involved with NetBSD and pkgsrc, where would you recommend they go to help out?
How can people find you? Anything else you\’d like to mention?
https://twitter.com/schmonz

Tutorial

A guide to SSH and tmux

OpenSSH and tmux, a match made in heaven
This guide shows how to do basic tasks with SSH
Persistent sessions with tmux increase productivity

News Roundup

PS4 released

Sony\’s Playstation 4 is finally released
As previously thought, its OS is heavily based on FreeBSD and uses the kernel among other things
Link in the show notes contains the full list of BSD software they\’re using
Always good to see BSD being so widespread

BSD Mag November issue

Free monthly BSD magazine publishes another issue
This time their topics include: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD, IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation, more FreeBSD Programming Primer, PfSense and Snort and a few others
PDF linked in the show notes

pbulk builds made easy

NetBSD\’s pbulk tool is similar to poudriere, but for pkgsrc
While working on updating the documentation, a developer cleaned up quite a lot of code
He wrote a script that automates pbulk deployment and setup
The whole setup of a dedicated machine has been reduced to just three commands

PCBSD weekly digest

Over 200 PBIs have been populated in to the PC-BSD 10 Stable Appcafe
Many PC-BSD programs received some necessary bug fixes and updates
Some include network detection in the package and update managers, nvidia graphic detection, security updates for PCDM

Feedback/Questions

Peter writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21oh3vP7t
Kjell-Aleksander writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21zfqcWMP
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Gateways to Programming | CR 01

chris — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:53:20 +0000

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Michael and Chris introduce our new weekly software development podcast. We start with a look at ways beginners can get started with development.

Plus we chat about the issues new developers face entering a market dominated by App stores.

Then – How platform vendors are feeling the need to reclaim greater control from developers.

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What is Coder Radio?

Background info (premise, etc)

Gateways to Programming

First Programming Language / Platform
Is there a best programming language / Platform?
Tools you may already have and not know about
Tools for learning programming
QBasic
Visual Programming Tools
Google-Blockly
Illumination Software Creator

Sponsor:

JB’s Affiliate Program Chrome Extension

Because We were Stupid and We were Lazy

Security implications of bad programming
Hardware implications of bad programming
OS stability implications of bad programming
Mac OS X Gatekeeper
Windows 8 App Store
Ubuntu Software Center

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Tool of the Week

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Bryan Hates Freedom | LAS | s21e01

chris — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:12:50 +0000

We’re still hungover from episode 200, this week: We give you are thoughts and responses to our RMS interview, are we truly being negative in the freedom dimension? Tune in to find out!

Plus we drool over new games coming to Linux, and ask the big question: Can Crowd Funding scale to support open source?

THEN – Matt stops by with a super easy howto for video conferencing under Linux!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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Matt’s Howto:

Jitsi: Works great with Ubuntu on our Wild Dog PC from System76.com, plus it will allow you a viable alternative to have video chat conversations with those using OS X and Windows. All three platforms support screen sharing. Linux version only shows the incoming video, previewing your own video while in a call, isn’t working. Video preview does however, work great on the other platforms. The really neat part is with a HD webcam, you can actually video chat in full HD quality video.

We found that setting up jabber accounts, using Gmail credincials, provided success with Jitsi. GoogleTalk isn’t going to give you video chat, you need to take that Google login and use it in the jabber account area instead.

All of this good stuff aside, it should be noted that this software hasn’t been updated in sometime. So it could break sometime down the road. Still, for those who don’t distro hop much, this is a great alternative to Skype. Install via https://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Download

What’s Bryan Doin?

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New SWTOR Podcast! TORked!

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