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Cisco has a wormable vulnerability in its Firewall appliances, crimeware that allows unlimited ATM withdrawals & the big problem with the Java installer.

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Cisco ASA IPSec vulnerability given highest possible CVSS score

• Cisco has released a patch for a critical vulnerability its ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) firewalls
• “The Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliance is an IP router that acts as an application-aware firewall, network antivirus, intrusion prevention system, and virtual private network (VPN) server. It is advertised as “the industry’s most deployed stateful firewall.” When deployed as a VPN, the device is accessible from the Internet and provides access to a company’s internal networks.”
• “A vulnerability in the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) version 1 (v1) and IKE version 2 (v2) code of Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code.“
• “The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow in the affected code area. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted UDP packets to the affected system. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain full control of the system or to cause a reload of the affected system.”
• So the router can be owned by a single UDP packet. It could then be controlled by the attack and used to send more of those UDP packets, making this a “wormable” exploit
• Affected devices include:
  • Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances
  • Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls
  • Cisco ASA Services Module for Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switches and Cisco 7600 Series Routers
  • Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall
  • Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv)
  • Cisco Firepower 9300 ASA Security Module
  • Cisco ISA 3000 Industrial Security Appliance
• Users of ASA software versions 7.x, 8.0 – 8.6, will be forced to upgrade to ASA version 9.1
• The researchers had dubbed the exploit “Execute My Packet”
• “The algorithm for re-assembling IKE payloads fragmented with the Cisco fragmentation protocol contains a bounds-checking flaw that allows a heap buffer to be overflowed with attacker-controlled data.”
• Attempts to exploit the attack can be detected with packet inspection:
• “Looking for the value of the length field of a Fragment Payload (type 132) IKEv2 or IKEv1 packet allows detecting an exploitation attempt. Any length field with a value < 8 must be considered as an attempt to exploit the vulnerability. The detection also has to deal with the fact that the multiple payloads can be chained inside an IKEv2 packet, and that the Fragment Payload may not be the only/first payload of the packet.”
• Researcher Post
• Additional Coverage: SANS
• SANS says “We are seeing a LARGE INCREASE in port 500/UDP traffic (see and select TCP Ratio for the left Y axis. earlier spikes affecting this port were mostly TCP)”

Metel crimeware allows unlimited ATM withdrawls

• An APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) crimeware package has been found in the wild, being used to drain ATMs and bank accounts
• This type of attack was previously the exclusive territory of Nation States
• “It contains more than 30 separate modules that can be tailored to the computer it’s infecting. One of the most powerful components automatically rolls back ATM transactions shortly after they’re made. As a result, people with payment cards from a compromised bank can withdraw nearly unlimited sums of money from ATMs belonging to another bank. Because the Metel module repeatedly resets card balances, the criminals never pass the threshold that would normally freeze the card. Last year, the rollback scheme caused an unnamed bank in Russia to lose millions of rubles in a single night.”
• “Metel usually gains an initial foothold by exploiting vulnerabilities in browsers or through spear phishing e-mails that trick employees to execute malicious files. Members of the Metel hacking gang then use legitimate software used by server administrators and security researchers to compromise other PCs in an attempt to further burrow into the targeted network. They will often patiently work this way until they gain control over a system with access to money transactions, for example, PCs used by call center operators or IT support.”
• “Metel illustrates the growing sophistication of hackers targeting banks. It wasn’t long ago that reconnaissance, social engineering, state-of-the-art software engineering, lateral movements through a network, and long-term persistence were largely the exclusive hallmarks of so-called advanced persistent threat actors that painstakingly hack high-profile targets, usually on behalf of government spy agencies. Hackers targeting financial institutions, by contrast, took a more opportunistic approach that infected the easiest targets and didn’t bother with more challenging ones. Now, sophisticated techniques are increasingly a part of financially motivated hacking crimes as well.”
• Other groups have been found doing similar things:
• “The so-called GCMAN group, which gets its name because its malware is built using the GCC compiler. Like Metel, its members gain an initial foothold into financial institutions using spearphishing e-mails and from there use widely available tools such as Putty, VNC, and Meterpreter to broaden their access. In one case, GCMAN members had access to one targeted network for 18 months before siphoning any funds. When the group finally sprang into action, it used automated scripts to slowly transfer funds—about $200 per minute—into the account of a so-called “mule,” who was designated to withdraw the money.”
• “The Carbanak 2.0 malware, which in one recent case used its access to a financial institution to change ownership details of a large company. The records were modified to list a money mule as one of the shareholders. After attacking a variety of banks last year, the gang took a five-month sabbatical that caused Kaspersky researchers to think it had disbanded. In December, Kaspersky confirmed the group was active and had overhauled its malware to target new classes of victims”
• “Kaspersky researchers said all three gangs appear to be active and are known to have collectively infected 29 organizations in Russia. The researchers said they suspect the number of institutions hit by the groups is much higher.”
• Researcher Post
• Indicators and Signatures

Java installer vulnerable to binary planting

• “On Friday, Oracle published a security advisory recommending that users delete all the Java installers they might have laying around on their computers and use new ones for versions 6u113, 7u97, 8u73 or later.”
• Oracle Advisory
• “On most computers, the default download folder quickly becomes a repository of old and unorganized files that were opened once and then forgotten about. A recently fixed flaw in the Java installer highlights why keeping this folder clean is important.”
• “The reason is that older Java installers are designed to look for and automatically load a number of specifically named DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files from the current directory. In the case of Java installers downloaded from the Web, the current directory is typically the computer’s default download folder.”
• This allows an attacker to plant their own malicious binaries there, and then when the “trusted” Java installer is run with enhanced privileges, the malicious .dll gains those enhanced permissions
• “To be successfully exploited, this vulnerability requires that an unsuspecting user be tricked into visiting a malicious web site and download files into the user’s system before installing Java SE 6, 7 or 8. Though relatively complex to exploit, this vulnerability may result, if successfully exploited, in a complete compromise of the unsuspecting user’s system.”
• It is not clear how Oracle’s new java downloader is improved, but it is likely not as good as it should be
• Many other downloaders are also likely vulnerable, but the applications do not have the same install base as java
• For less sophisticated users, the process of “clearing download history” would seem to imply that the files are removed as well, which is not the case

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Round Up:

• Super Bowl fans use a record 10TB of data on Levi’s Stadium WiFi network, up 63% from 2015
• Paper: How Complex Systems Fail
• Hacker leaks thousands of FBI, DHS employees’ details
• Norse are not the only ones that can do Visualizations
• Google Will Reject All Flash Based Adverts In a Push For HTML5
• Krebs: Credit Card skimmers at the self checkout at Safeway
• U.S. can’t ban encryption because it’s a global phenomenon, Harvard study finds
• Krebs: New e-commerce fraud, order expensive merchandise just to steal the rewards points
• Linux kernel bug delivers corrupt TCP/IP data to Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker containers
• New tool from Harvard, AMBER, a wordpress and drupal plugin that automatically archives pages you link to, and uses that copy if the original goes away, or falls back to the Archive.org wayback machine
• “Revenue per employee, 2015: Yahoo: $419,830 Twitter: $462,009 MSFT: $789,145 Google: $1,160,648 Facebook: $1,412,655 Apple: $2,032,304”
• “Profit per employee, 2015: Twitter: -$129,334 Yahoo: $54,182 MSFT: $102,822 Google: $250,367 Facebook: $290,600 Apple: $464,296”

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Deepin Linux might just be one of the freshest takes on the desktop this year. We review this compelling Ubuntu based alternative.

Plus: The Steam bug that leaves you fresh and clean, some great new open source releases, goodbye Photoshop…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Deepin

Fast, Elegant and easy to use. Deepin currently runs on millions of desktop and laptop computers around the world.

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deepin @linux_deepin

Official Twitter Account for Deepin. Deepin, Worth the Diggin’!

Deepin Software Center

• Linux Deepin – Features

Deepin Software Center, aka DSC, is one of the most talked about applications of Linux Deepin. Installing new applications is just a one-click operation. DSC supports parallel downloading, resuming downloads, update notification and cache cleaning. DSC also comes with colorful skins that can be swapped as your mood changes.

Deepin Desktop Environment

Similar to other projects Deepin went ahead and developed their own Shell which was simply called Deepin Desktop Environment. DDE is based on HTML5 and WebKit and uses a mix of QML and Go Language for different components. Core components of DDE include the desktop itself, the brand new launcher, bottom Dock, and the control center.

Release Cycle

• Deepin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The release cycle of deepin new versions has been changed from twice a year (in June and in December) to four times a year, including two new versions and two amended versions, for example, Deepin 2014.1 is the amended version of Deepin 2014.

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Mars One, Runs Linux.

Time was covering the mars one project and apparently most if not all thier pc’s could be running ubuntu, I can’t tell if it is 12.04 or 14.04 as Ubuntu loooks the same, you have to pause the video as it moves by fast, here are the time urls for the video. I hope Ubuntu becomes the first disro on mars, espiacly before arch, XD

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• Another angle of the Unity desktop

Desktop App Pick

StarFaux

Remake of Star Fox for SNES using OpenGL/GLUT

Weekly Spotlight

Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls

Douane is a personal firewall that protects a user’s privacy by allowing a user to control which applications can connect to the internet from their GNU/Linux computer.

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Moving the Steam folder on Linux is causing users’ entire file systems to be deleted

Users of Steam on GNU/Linux are reporting that attempting to move the Steam folder – something that the GNU/Linux Steam installer doesn’t allow you to set at the time of installation – is leading to everything able to be deleted being deleted recursively from root. First entered as a bug report by the Github user keyvin, he explained how he tried to move the directory somewhere else and symlink it to the original location. In almost every use case under the Sun, this usually works without too many problems. Unfortunately for keyvin, however, a bug in Steam proceeded to delete everything it was able to on his computer – even the content on his 3TB external storage.

‘Goodbye Photoshop’ and ‘Hello Krita’ at University Paris 8

The ATI (Art and Technology of Image) department at University Paris 8 is switching to Krita this year. This department has the double aim to train students both to use graphic software (2D,3D,VFX and Compositing) and to code their own (Python, C#, C++). Until recently the classes used only Adobe Photoshop, but because of inadequate support from the company the department decided to
replace that.

Xonotic 0.8 Release

Today we are very excited to give you the next iteration of Xonotic, the free and fast arena shooter. Yep, you guessed it: Xonotic 0.8.0 is out! This version is the culmination of months of effort from many individuals from across the globe. It contains improvements in just about all visible aspects of the game and onto the web. There are new menu screens, gameplay features, and a much-anticipated new weapon: the Arc! We’re excited for the what the future holds, and we hope to see you out on the servers soon. Happy fragging!

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Is openSUSE 13.2 the best distro to take advantage of tomorrow’s Linux tools today? Or do the rough-spots leave us frustrated? We lived in openSUSE 13.2 and share our results.

Plus China’s big switch to Linux gets official, we call time out on feeding the drama monster & one of the best open source talks we’ve ever seen.

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Some Rough Spots

• The disk layout report is super dense, and a lot to parse. I opted to manually layout the partition table so I would have a better handle on what was being done. I was unable to get the auto suggest tool to suggest a layout that included removing my current install of Ubuntu. I liked some of its suggestions.

• Refreshing the repos causes an error while it tries to read from the USB Thumb drive I used to install the OS. This happens everytime I do a “One Click” install. It happens twice during a “One Click” install.

• Wifi selection / config did not hold over from install

• When selecting a wifi network, I first have to enter my admin password, then the wifi network password, then it connects. So only users with admin rights can join wifi?

• Administrator password needed to suspend the system

• There is a lot of choice when it comes to installing software on openSUSE. From the very handy zypper command, to several, perhaps too many GUI applications to handle the task with various levels of functionality.

• The same is true for just installing updates.

• It’s interesting how Gnome normalizes the branding across distributions. It seem distributions are still attempting to figure out how to “brand” gnome and not look tacky. Perhaps the design culture around gnome creates a high amount of pressure not to screw it up, so the distributions avoid changing it much. But the experience is rather generic between all of the distributions so far.

software.opensuse.org

• software.opensuse.org gives the openSUSE user confdince that many of the packages and tools he or she will need will be just a simple click away, with the added benfit of future updates. An investment that is truly paying off for the users of openSUSE. It’s not as complete as one might hope, but its one of the best out there. It’s a super advantage for opensuse, and it just seems to get better and better over time, regardless of what version of openSUSE you use.

Tomorrow’s Linux features, today.

• zypper after many years has really come into its own. Powerful, fast, and intuitive to use. I prefer it over all other GUI tools and other distro command line tools.

• SUSE Linux – Zypper Command Examples

• Finally I get rewarded for using btrfs, with built in snapshots tied into the zypper package manager. Roll back changes with ease. Not the first distro to do this, but definitely the most user friendly.

• Quickly install and take advantage of KVM or XEN with their quick install wizard.

• The virtual machine management tools are readily available, and the same great tools you’ve come to love from other distros. But the speed at which all of it is setup and gets you up and running is impressive, and suggestions openSUSE could be a fantastic base OS for any developer, testers, system admins or etc that need quick and ready access to great virtualization tools.

My humble unofficial resources

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King County Metro, runs Linux

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The digital sign appears to be running Linutop Kiosk, a customized version of Xubuntu optimized for deployments such as this one. I’m not sure what happened here. Perhaps someone remoted in and forgot to fullscreen Firefox again?

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Desktop App Pick

Download APKs From Google Play To Your Computer With Google Play Downloader

Google Play Downloader isn’t some piracy tool and it won’t allow you to download paid apps and games. The tool can only download free games and applications and is useful if you want to backup Android APK files to your computer, if you don’t want to install some applications directly via Googe Play for privacy or other reasons (for instance, you can use it with Genymotion, which no longer includes Google Play with its Android images) and so on.

• AUR (en) – googleplaydownloader

Weekly Spotlight

Managing Services with systemctl

— NEWS —

China will move to Linux by 2020 in ‘de-Windowsifying’ process

China have announced a new time frame in which they will move to a new operating system. It will consist of 15% of government computers being switched to Linux per year. The report by Ni Guangnan outlining the transition won government approval and by 2020 the Chinese Government’s transition to Linux should be complete.

• China Plans to Replace All Windows Machines with Linux Rigs by 2020 | Maximum PC

Debian’s Civil War: Has It Really Come to This?

Well it seems no matter how loudly we here in the Linux blogosphere try to hum a happy tune or discuss
cheerful FOSS matters, we just can’t seem to drown out the shouts and screams coming from those standing too close to the Systemd Inferno.

Stand back, people! It’s dangerous!

The embers, of course,
had been hot for some time already before the blaze
flared sky-high a few months ago. Now, the conflagration appears to be completely out of control.

Need proof? Two words:
Debian fork.

That’s right: Debian, the granddaddy of Linux distributions and embodiment of everything so many FOSS fans hold dear, may be forked, and it’s apparently all because of Systemd.

Cinnamon 2.4

On behalf of the team and all the developers who contributed to this build, I am proud to announce the release of Cinnamon 2.4!

This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” planned for the end of November and in LMDE 2 “Betsy” planned for Spring 2015.

Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5

Kubuntu Vivid is the development name for what will be released in April next year as Kubuntu 15.04. The exciting news is that following some discussion and some wavering, the Kubuntu team will be switching to Plasma 5 by default. They claim that it has shown itself as a solid and reliable platform and it’s time to show it off to the world. There are some bits which are missing from Plasma 5 which are planned to be filled in over the next six months. As another technical detail, Debian git is now used to store the packaging in a Kubuntu branch, so hopefully it will be easier to share updates.

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Keynote: Ruth Suehle – Default to Open

• Keynote: Ruth Suehle | Ohio LinuxFest 2014 – The Future of Free

With visions of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos, Thingiverse and Instructables, it looks on the surface to many that the maker community is also an open source community. But is it? What does “open source” mean beyond code, and how does it apply to the maker community? Is the maker community open by default (or should it be)? Take a trip back through the long history of making and short history of makers to see where open source fits in and where we should be headed.

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We discuss how one software center for all distributions would work & which existing solutions are the closest.

Plus looking forward to some new Ubuntu apps & how Linux bit Lightworks right in the memory manager.

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• VeraCrypt Is the New TrueCrypt — and It’s Better – Slashdot

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Ubuntu Next Gen apps on Ubuntu 14.10 – YouTube

A Lightworks developer talks about the kind of issue you meet when coding for an NLE on Linux

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

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Headlines

FreeBSD\’s new testing infrastructure

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

OpenBSD gets signify

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

Faces of FreeBSD

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

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

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

OpenBSD on Google\’s Compute Engine

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

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The Installfest

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

News Roundup

Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

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

FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

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

Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

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

PCBSD weekly digest

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

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Contest

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

• All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
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• BSD Now got some unintended publicity at the 30th Chaos Communication Congress (1:28:16 – 1:31:00 in the video)

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Antergos is bringing Arch to the masses, but still keeps it simple. We chat with the founder of Antergos, formerly Cinnarch, about their future plans, and how they hope to improve Arch without taking away what makes it so great.

Plus: A backdoor worm plagues Linux boxes, details on SteamOS game streaming…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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It’s our review of PC-BSD 9.0 and 9.1. Allan joins us and we cover everything from the end-user experience, to setting up a Linux Jail running on top of PC-BSD. Plus we discuss a few bumps in the road bumps we hit, who we think is the target audience for our open source cousin, and much more!

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PC-BSD:

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• Download PC-BSD 9.1-RC1

• For full release versions, along with the full selection of CD, DVD and USB images, PC-BSD also offers ready to use VirtualBox and VMWare images

• The Install:
  • Your choice of Desktop Environments, Installer automatically adjusts the defaults depending on how much ram you have installed
  • Your options: KDE, Gnome, LXDE or XFCE
  • Another option is TrueOS, a console based server, FreeBSD with the CLI version of Warden, the PBI system, ZFS Boot Environments and other utilities
  • The install also offers vanilla FreeBSD Server
• Disk Partitioning
  • PC-BSD allows you to do a full ‘root on ZFS’ install (only recommended if you have 4 or more GB of ram), including creating many different datasets with different settings such as compression for optimal use of space
  • You have the option of the Basic Wizard, the Advanced Wizard, or the FreeBSD CLI partitioning system
  • The advanced Wizard also allows you to setup more complex ZFS mirror or RAIDZ
  • You can choose to optionally encrypt your hard disk using GELI
• Warden
  • Warden is a Graphical and Command Line based manager for FreeBSD’s Jails feature
  • In FreeBSD a jail is a secondary installation of the OS files, which is then started in a chroot, and the processes, network and user/group IDs are separate
  • Allows you to manage three types of jails:
  • Traditional Jail – run internet applications in a container, if compromised, the attacker only gains access to the jail, not the host OS
  • Ports Jail – less secure version if jails, allows you to install applications from the FreeBSD ports tree without interfering with the PBI package manager in the host OS
  • Linux Jail – install Debian or Gentoo in a jail, and run your linux applications in a full linux environment
  • Warden also allows you to stop a jail, pack it up, and move it to a different physical machine
  • Warden also allows you to install meta-packages into the jails with a single click, allowing you to deploy apache+php+mysql in no time
  • Warden can back your jails storage with ZFS, allowing you to take advantage of ZFS features such as snapshots, clones (writable snapshots), revert to a previous snapshot, etc

• Warden Wiki

Chris’ notes:
Hardware:
HP Envy 17 – Wifi was not detected. Only the vesa video driver seemed to work.

VM: No major issue, video performance is not great.

If you consider yourself someone who likes to stay current on open source software releases, try out new betas, and upgrade right after release – PC-BSD is probably not for you.

I failed to find the KDE desktop compelling for me. A good enough implementation, but error pages in certain areas and a lack of anything particular interesting drove me to try the other desktops.

This is one, of two audiences I think PC-BSD could be great for. The first is Gnome 2 lovers. Gnome 2.32 ships with PC-BSD as an option, along with LXDE and XFCE. I tried them all, but Gnome 2 was the most fun. It really was a treat to set up the old workhorse the way I used to like it.

It also made me realize, the world has moved on and Gnome 2 is just not for me anymore.

However, if the work horse aspect is important to you – then you might be the second category of user I think PC-BSD is great for. The enterprise workstation.

FreeBSD is an awesomely cohesive and well built system, even as an outsider in a strange new land I can detect and appreciate the collective thought behind this operating system. On top of that, it’s stable, fast, and has one of the best file systems in the world for managing and protecting large sets of data.

The speed and utility of the Gnome 2 desktop is great, the XFCE setup would also work quite well in a workstation type setup.

Combine that with years of updates, iXsystem’s enterprise expertise and you could have a major contender in the workstation market.

All that said, if you want the latest version of HandBrake (PBI: 0.9.3 current: 0.9.8), PiTiVi ( PBI: 0.13.4 current: 0.15.2), or Chromium (PBI: 21.0 Current: 22.0) and so on, you’ll need to look else where.

Much of this can be alleviated by taking advantage of the FreeBSD ports tree, which PC-BSD makes it easy to setup with just a few clicked.

If wireless and 3D acceleration are important features for you, test the system first.

For users like myself, there are areas of the system that feel a bit unpolished. Perhaps the result of a small, but dedicated team. And despite the team’s amazing efforts, it still feels like the FreeBSD desktop market could be shrinking as the Linux game market heats up.

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