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Coming up this week, we’ll be chatting with Lucas Holt, founder of MidnightBSD. It’s a slightly lesser-known fork of FreeBSD, with a focus on easy desktop use. We’ll find out what’s different about it and why it was created. Answers to your emails and all this week’s news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

Zocker, it’s like docker on FreeBSD

  • Containment is always a hot topic, and docker has gotten a lot of hype in Linux land in the last couple years – they’re working on native FreeBSD support at the moment
  • This blog post is about a docker-like script, mainly for ease-of-use, that uses only jails and ZFS in the base system
  • In total, it’s 1,500 lines of shell script
  • The post goes through the process of using the tool, showing off all the subcommands and explaining the configuration
  • In contrast to something like ezjail, Zocker utilizes the jail.conf system in the 10.x branch

Patrol Read in OpenBSD

  • OpenBSD has recently imported some new code to support the Patrol Read function of some RAID controllers
  • In a nutshell, Patrol Read is a function that lets you check the health of your drives in the background, similar to a zpool “scrub” operation
  • The goal is to protect file integrity by detecting drive failures before they can damage your data
  • It detects bad blocks and prevents silent data corruption, while marking any bad sectors it finds

HAMMER 2 improvements

  • DragonFly BSD has been working on the second generation HAMMER FS
  • It now uses LZ4 compression by default, which we’ve been big fans of in ZFS
  • They’ve also switched to a faster CRC algorithm, further improving HAMMER’s performance, especially when using iSCSI

FreeBSD foundation May update

  • The FreeBSD foundation has published another update newsletter, detailing some of the things they’ve been up to lately
  • In it, you’ll find some development status updates: notably more ARM64 work and the addition of 64 bit Linux emulation
  • Some improvements were also made to FreeBSD’s release building process for non-X86 architectures
  • There’s also an AsiaBSDCon recap that covers some of the presentations and the dev events
  • They also have an accompanying blog post where Glen Barber talks about more sysadmin and clusteradm work at NYI

Interview – Lucas Holt – questions@midnightbsd.org / @midnightbsd

MidnightBSD


News Roundup

The launchd on train is never coming

  • Replacement of init systems has been quite controversial in the last few years
  • Fortunately, the BSDs have avoided most of that conflict thus far, but there have been a few efforts made to port launchd from OS X
  • This blog post details the author’s opinion on why he thinks we’re never going to have launchd in any of the BSDs
  • Email us your thoughts on the matter

Native SSH comes to… Windows

  • In what may be the first (and last) mention of Microsoft on BSD Now…
  • They’ve just recently announced that PowerShell will get native SSH support in the near future
  • It’s not based on the commercial SSH either, it’s the same one from OpenBSD that we already use everywhere
  • Up until now, interacting between BSD and Windows has required something like PuTTY, WinSCP, FileZilla or Cygwin – most of which are based on really outdated versions
  • The announcement also promises that they’ll be working with the OpenSSH community, so we’ll see how many Microsoft-submitted patches make it upstream (or how many donations they make)

Moving to FreeBSD

  • This blog post describes a long-time Linux user’s first BSD switching experience
  • The author first talks about his Linux journey, eventually coming to love the more customization-friendly systems, but the journey ended with systemd
  • After doing a bit of research, he gave FreeBSD a try and ended up liking it – the rest of the post mostly covers why that is
  • He also plans to write about his experience with other BSDs, and is writing some tutorials too – we’ll check in with him again later on

Feedback/Questions


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  • Next week is a prerecorded episode since we’ll be at BSDCan
  • If you’re interested in doing an interview at the conference, send us an email now and we can prepare some questions ahead of time

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That Sly MINIX | BSD Now 74 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/76472/that-sly-minix-bsd-now-74/ Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:31:55 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=76472 Coming up this week, we’ve got something a little bit different for you. We’ll be talking with Andrew Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. They’ve recently imported parts of NetBSD into their OS, and we’ll find out how and why that came about. As always, all the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD […]

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Coming up this week, we’ve got something a little bit different for you. We’ll be talking with Andrew Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. They’ve recently imported parts of NetBSD into their OS, and we’ll find out how and why that came about. As always, all the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

The missing EuroBSDCon videos


FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro (or two)

  • We’ve got a couple posts about running FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro this week
  • In the first one, the author talks a bit about trying to run Linux on his laptop for quite a while, going back and forth between it and something that Just Works™
  • Eventually he came full circle, and the focus on using only GUI tools got in the way, instead of making things easier
  • He works on a lot of FreeBSD-related software, so switching to it for a desktop seems to be the obvious next step
  • He’s still not quite to that point yet, but documents his experiments with BSD as a desktop
  • The second article also documents an ex-Linux user switching over to BSD for their desktop
  • It also covers power management, bluetooth and trackpad setup
  • On the topic of Gentoo, “Underneath the beautiful and easy-to-use Portage system lies the same glibc, the same turmoil over a switch to a less-than-ideal init system, and the same kernel-level bugs that bring my productivity down”
  • Check out both articles if you’ve been considering running FreeBSD on a MacBook

Remote logging over TLS

  • In most of the BSDs, syslogd has been able to remotely send logs to another server for a long time
  • That feature can be very useful, especially for forensics purposes – it’s much harder for an attacker to hide their activities if the logs aren’t on the same server
  • The problem is, of course, that it’s sent in cleartext, unless you tunnel it over SSH or use some kind of third party wrapper
  • With a few recent commits, OpenBSD’s syslogd now supports sending logs over TLS natively, including X509 certificate verification
  • By default, syslogd runs as an unprivileged user in a chroot on OpenBSD, so there were some initial concerns about certificate verification – how does that user access the CA chain outside of the chroot?
  • That problem was also conquered, by loading the CA chain directly from memory, so the entire process can be run in the chroot without issue
  • Some of the privsep verifcation code even made its way into LibreSSL right afterwards
  • If you haven’t set up remote logging before, now might be an interesting time to try it out

FreeBSD, not a Linux distro

  • George Neville-Neil gave a presentation recently, titled “FreeBSD: not a Linux distro”
  • It’s meant to be an introduction to new users that might’ve heard about FreeBSD, but aren’t familiar with any BSD history
  • He goes through some of that history, and talks about what FreeBSD is and why you might want to use it over other options
  • There’s even an interesting “thirty years in three minutes” segment
  • It’s not just a history lesson though, he talks about some of the current features and even some new things coming in the next version(s)
  • We also learn about filesystems, jails, capsicum, clang, dtrace and the various big companies using FreeBSD in their products
  • This might be a good video to show your friends or potential employer if you’re looking to introduce FreeBSD to them

Long-term support considered harmful

  • There was recently a pretty horrible bug in GNU’s libc (BSDs aren’t affected, don’t worry)
  • Aside from the severity of the actual problem, the fix was delayed for quite a long time, leaving people vulnerable
  • Ted Unangst writes a post about how this idea of long-term support could actually be harmful in the long run, and compares it to how OpenBSD does things
  • OpenBSD releases a new version every six months, and only the two most recent releases get support and security fixes
  • He describes this as both a good thing and a bad thing: all the bugs in the ecosystem get flushed out within a year, but it forces people to stay (relatively) up-to-date
  • “Upgrades only get harder and more painful (and more fragile) the longer one goes between them. More changes, more damage. Frequent upgrades amortize the cost and ensure that regressions are caught early.”
  • There was also some discussion about the article on Hacker News

Interview – Andrew Tanenbaum – info@minix3.org / @minix3

MINIX’s integration of NetBSD


News Roundup

Using AFL on OpenBSD

  • We’ve talked about American Fuzzy Lop a bit on a previous episode, and how some OpenBSD devs are using it to catch and fix new bugs
  • Undeadly has a cool guide on how you can get started with fuzzing
  • It’s a little on the advanced side, but if you’re interested in programming or diagnosing crashes, it’ll be a really interesting article to read
  • Lots of recent CVEs in other open source projects are attributed to fuzzing – it’s a great way to stress test your software

Lumina 0.8.1 released

  • A new version of Lumina, the BSD-licensed desktop environment from PCBSD, has been released
  • This update includes some new plugins, lots of bugfixes and even “quality-of-life improvements”
  • There’s a new audio player desktop plugin, a button to easily minimize all windows at once and some cool new customization options
  • You can get it in PCBSD’s edge repo or install it through regular ports (on FreeBSD, OpenBSD or DragonFly!)
  • If you haven’t seen our episode about Lumina, where we interview the developer and show you a tour of its features, gotta go watch it

My first OpenBSD port

  • The author of the “Code Rot & Why I Chose OpenBSD” article has a new post up, this time about ports
  • He recently made his first port and got it into the tree, so he talks about the whole process from start to finish
  • After learning some of the basics and becoming comfortable running -current, he noticed there wasn’t a port for the “Otter” web browser
  • At that point he did what you’re supposed to do in that situation, and started working on it himself
  • OpenBSD has a great porter’s handbook that he referenced throughout the process
  • Long story short, his browser of choice is in the official ports collection and now he’s the maintainer (and gets to deal with any bug reports, of course)
  • If some software you use isn’t available for whatever BSD you’re using, you could be the one to make it happen

How to slide with DragonFly

  • DragonFly BSD has a new HAMMER FS utility called “Slider”
  • It’s used to easily browse through file history and undelete files – imagine something like a commandline version of Apple’s Time Machine
  • They have a pretty comprehensive guide on how to use it on their wiki page
  • If you’re using HAMMER FS, this is a really handy tool to have, check it out

OpenSMTPD with Dovecot and Salt

  • We recently had a feedback question about which mail servers you can use on BSD – Postfix, Exim and OpenSMTPD being the big three
  • This blog post details how to set up OpenSMTPD, including Dovecot for IMAP and Salt for quick and easy deployment
  • Intrigued by it becoming the default MTA in OpenBSD, the author decided to give it a try after being a long-time Postfix fan
  • “Small, fast, stable, and very easy to customize, no more ugly m4 macros to deal with”
  • Check it out if you’ve been thinking about configuring your first mail server on any of the BSDs

Feedback/Questions


Mailing List Gold


  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
  • Also send us your ideas for the new discussion segment – we might start that either next week or the week after, depending on how much feedback we get about it (which has been almost none so far)
  • We’d love to get more emails from the listeners in general
  • Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (19:00 UTC)

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It’s HAMMER Time | BSD Now 53 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/65947/its-hammer-time-bsd-now-53/ Thu, 04 Sep 2014 10:26:17 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=65947 It’s our one year anniversary episode, and we’ll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver – why it was created and where it’s going. After that, we’ll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly’s HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now – […]

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It’s our one year anniversary episode, and we’ll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver – why it was created and where it’s going. After that, we’ll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly’s HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD foundation’s new IPSEC project

  • The FreeBSD foundation, along with Netgate, is sponsoring some new work on the IPSEC code
  • With bandwidth in the 10-40 gigabit per second range, the IPSEC stack needs to be brought up to modern standards in terms of encryption and performance
  • This new work will add AES-CTR and AES-GCM modes to FreeBSD’s implementation, borrowing some code from OpenBSD
  • The updated stack will also support AES-NI for hardware-based encryption speed ups
  • It’s expected to be completed by the end of September, and will also be in pfSense 2.2

NetBSD at Shimane Open Source Conference 2014

  • The Japanese NetBSD users group held a NetBSD booth at the Open Source Conference 2014 in Shimane on August 23
  • One of the developers has gathered a bunch of pictures from the event and wrote a fairly lengthy summary
  • They had NetBSD running on all sorts of devices, from Raspberry Pis to Sun Java Stations
  • Some visitors said that NetBSD had the most chaotic booth at the conference

pfSense 2.1.5 released

  • A new version of the pfSense 2.1 branch is out
  • Mostly a security-focused release, including three web UI fixes and the most recent OpenSSL fix (which FreeBSD has still not patched in -RELEASE after nearly a month)
  • It also includes many other bug fixes, check the blog post for the full list

Systems, Science and FreeBSD

  • Our friend George Neville-Neil gave a presentation at Microsoft Research
  • It’s mainly about using FreeBSD as a platform for research, inside and outside of universities
  • The talk describes the OS and its features, ports, developer community, documentation, who uses BSD and much more

Interview – Reyk Floeter – reyk@openbsd.org / @reykfloeter

OpenBSD’s HTTP daemon


Tutorial

A crash course on HAMMER FS


News Roundup

OpenBSD’s rcctl tool usage

  • OpenBSD recently got a new tool for managing /etc/rc.conf.local in -current
  • Similar to FreeBSD’s “sysrc” tool, it eliminates the need to manually edit rc.conf.local to enable or disable services
  • This blog post – from a BSD Now viewer – shows the typical usage of the new tool to alter the startup services
  • It won’t make it to 5.6, but will be in 5.7 (next May)

pfSense mini-roundup

  • We found five interesting pfSense articles throughout the week and wanted to quickly mention them
  • The first item in our pfSense mini-roundup details how you can stream Netflix to in non-US countries using a “smart” DNS service
  • The second post talks about setting ip IPv6, in particular if Comcast is your ISP
  • The third one features pfSense on Softpedia, a more mainstream tech site
  • The fourth post describes how to filter HTTPS traffic with Squid and pfSense
  • The last article describes setting up a VPN using the “tinc” daemon and pfSense
  • It seems to be lesser known, compared to things like OpenVPN or SSH tunnels, so it’s interesting to read about
  • This pfSense HQ website seems to have lots of other cool pfSense items, check it out

OpenBSD’s new buffer cache

  • OpenBSD has traditionally used the tried-and-true LRU algorithm for buffer cache, but it has a few problems
  • Ted Unangst has just switched to a new algorithm in -current, partially based on 2Q, and details some of his work
  • Initial tests show positive results in terms of cache responsiveness
  • Check the post for all the fine details

BSDTalk episode 244

  • Another new BSDTalk is up and, this time around, Will Backman interviews Ken Moore, the developer of the new BSD desktop environment
  • They discuss the history of development, differences between it and other DEs, lots of topics
  • If you’re more of a visual person, fear not, because…
  • We’ll have Ken on next week, including a full “virtual walkthrough” of Lumina and its applications

Feedback/Questions


  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
  • We want to give a huge thank you to our viewer Toby for writing this week’s tutorial
  • 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 (18:00 UTC)

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Documentation is King | BSD Now 30 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/54187/documentation-is-king-bsd-now-30/ Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:38:46 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=54187 We chat with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. Today's tutorial will show you the basics of the world of mailing lists.

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We chat with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you\’ve ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today\’s tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There\’s lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

  • Our buddy Ted Unangst got himself a cool Sun box
  • Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it
  • The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you\’re interested in one of these fine SPARC machines
  • He\’s also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server

Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

  • Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon
  • The talks have apparently already been uploaded!
  • Subjects include Bhyve\’s past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization
  • Lots more detail in the videos, so check \’em all out

Building a FreeBSD wireless access point

  • We\’ve got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD
  • After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it\’s time for people to start building BSD routers
  • The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol\’ FreeBSD
  • Using hostapd, he\’s able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients
  • Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post

Switching from Synology to FreeNAS

  • The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research
  • He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility – prebuilt or DIY
  • After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice
  • The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give
  • Speaking of FreeNAS…

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Interview – Warren Block – wblock@freebsd.org

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Tutorial

The world of BSD mailing lists


News Roundup

HAMMER2 work and notes

  • Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version
  • The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree
  • There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, that should be signed with a digital signing software from the
    sodapdf esign site

BSD Breaking Barriers

  • Our friend MWL gave a talk at NYCBSDCon about BSD \”breaking barriers\”
  • \”What makes the BSD operating systems special? Why should you deploy your applications on BSD? Why does the BSD community keep growing, and why do Linux sites like DistroWatch say that BSD is where the interesting development work is happening? We\’ll cover the not-so-obvious reasons why BSD still stands tall after almost 40 years.\”
  • He also has another upcoming talk, (or \”webcast\”) called \”Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD\’s Real Purpose\”
  • \”OpenBSD is frequently billed as a high-security operating system. That\’s true, but security isn\’t the OpenBSD Project\’s main goal. This webcast will introduce systems administrators to OpenBSD, explain the project\’s mission, and discuss the features and benefits.\”
  • It\’s on May 27th and will hopefully be recorded

FreeBSD in a chroot

  • Finch, \”FreeBSD running IN a CHroot,\” is a new project
  • It\’s a way to extend the functionality of restricted USB-based FreeBSD systems (FreeNAS, etc.)
  • All the details and some interesting use cases are on the github page
  • He really needs to change the project name though

PCBSD weekly digest

  • Lots of bugfixes for PCBSD coming down the tubes
  • LZ4 compression is now enabled by default on the whole pool
  • The latest 10-STABLE has been imported and builds are going
  • Also the latest GNOME and Cinnamon builds have been imported and much more

Feedback/Questions


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  • 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 (18:00 UTC)
  • We wanted to give the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group a special mention, if you\’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, there\’s a very healthy BSD community there and they regularly have meet-ups
  • If you listened to the audio-only version of this week\’s episode, you\’re really missing out on Warren\’s fun animations in the interview!

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Doing It de Raadt Way | BSD Now 6 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/44477/doing-it-de-raadt-way-bsd-now-6/ Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:39:38 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=44477 We chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, and we'll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail.

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We chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, and we\’ll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail. Then we get you caught up on all the latest news.

All that and more, this week on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

HAMMER2 GSOC improvements merged

  • A student from the Google Summer of Code\’s patches were committed to upstream Dragonfly
  • It focuses mainly on compression and updating the I/O infrastructure to work with compression
  • The ability to boot from HAMMER2 volumes was also added
  • Check the show notes for a full list of additions and improvements
  • We\’ll have someone on the show to talk about HAMMER FS in the future

OSNews starts a \”BSD family\” segment

  • An OSNews reader decided to share some info about the BSDs
  • He\’s writing a three-part series covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
  • Pretty good info for Linux switchers

pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch announcement

  • pkgsrc is similar to the ports concept, but for 21 different OSes
  • The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.
  • 13184 total packages for AMD64
  • If there\’s any interest, we\’ll try to get a pkgsrc tutorial written in the future

PCBSD 9.2 released

  • Shortly after the official FreeBSD 9.2 release, PCBSD follows up
  • Highlights include bootable ZFS boot environments, a rewritten life-preserver utility for backups, improved pkgng support, updated appcafe, major improvements to warden, a GUI pkgng management system, filesystem-based encryption for home directories and much more

Interview – Theo de Raadt – deraadt@openbsd.org


Tutorial

Jailed VNC sessions

  • VNC lets you run GUI applications remotely and detach from them like tmux
  • Running it in a jail provides another layer of security
  • Can be used for isolated web browser instances and lots of other things
  • If you don\’t know how to set up a jail, fear not – we\’ve already got a jail tutorial in the works

The place to B…SD

  • vBSDCon October 25-27th
    • At the Dulles Hyatt in Virginia
    • Hybrid unconference, good mix of formal and informal
  • Speakers include: Baptiste Daroussin, Devin Teske, Scott Long, Luigi Rizzo, and David Chisnall
  • iXsystems hosts FreeBSD Anniversary party – November 2nd
  • Celebrating FreeBSD’s 20th anniversary
  • Saturday, November 2nd at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco
  • Same location as the 10th anniversary party
  • Notable FreeBSD figures will contribute words of wisdom on the past, present, and future of FreeBSD

News Roundup

Curve25519 patch for OpenSSH

  • Because of recent NSA news, someone implemented an alternative key exchange mechanism
  • It uses Curve25519 instead of the traditional Diffie-Hellman
  • Comes from the developer of libssh and is already implemented there

FreeBSD 10-ALPHA5 is out

  • Includes the big removal of BIND
  • More GNU stuff removed
  • Bhyve and XEN improvements
  • Some LLVM fixes

M:Tier offering \”Long Time Support\” for OpenBSD ports

  • Starting with 5.4, M:Tier will be offering a subscription for LTS support, in addition to their free 6 month version
  • OpenBSD releases are only supported for 1 year normally (5.2 becomes unsupported when 5.4 comes out, etc.)
  • This model makes it easier to keep your ports patched for security in a corporate environment

Ohio Linuxfest talks uploaded

  • The OLF 2013 talks have been uploaded
  • Includes Kirk Mckusick\’s keynote about building an open source community and Ken Moore\’s talk about lots of new PCBSD stuff

Theo\’s absence and other updates

  • In an uncharacteristic manner, Theo started a thread on misc@ instead of finishing it
  • For the last year, he\’s not been as involved in OpenBSD development as he should be
  • He\’s been busy with setting up an Internet Exchange in Calgary
  • Also mentions some troubles with an imposter Twitter account (which is now suspended)

Feedback/Questions

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