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A BUG’s Life | BSD Now 38

chris — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:22:23 +0000

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We\’re back from BSDCan! This week on the show we\’ll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We\’ll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own!

After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD\’s package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 11 goals and discussion

Something that actually happened at BSDCan this year…
During the FreeBSD devsummit, there was some discussion about what changes will be made in 11.0-RELEASE
Slides from Dev Summit
Some of MWL\’s notes include: the test suite will be merged to 10-STABLE, more work on the MIPS platforms, LLDB getting more attention, UEFI boot and install support
A large list of possibilities was also included and open for discussion, including AES-GCM in IPSEC, ASLR, OpenMP, ICC, in-place kernel upgrades, Capsicum improvements, TCP performance improvements and A LOT more
There\’s also some notes from the devsummit virtualization session, mostly talking about bhyve
Lastly, he also provides some notes about ports and packages and where they\’re going

An SSH honeypot with OpenBSD and Kippo

Everyone loves messing with script kiddies, right?
This blog post introduces Kippo, an SSH honeypot tool, and how to use it in combination with OpenBSD
It includes a step by step (or rather, command by command) guide and some tips for running a honeypot securely
You can use this to get new 0day exploits or find weaknesses in your systems
OpenBSD makes a great companion for security testing tools like this with all its exploit mitigation techniques that protect all running applications

NetBSD foundation financial report

The NetBSD foundation has posted their 2013 financial report
It\’s a very \”no nonsense\” page, pretty much only the hard numbers
In 2013, they got $26,000 of income in donations
The rest of the page shows all the details, how they spent it on hardware, consulting, conference fees, legal costs and everything else
Be sure to donate to whichever BSDs you like and use!

Building a fully-encrypted NAS with OpenBSD

Usually the popular choice for a NAS system is FreeNAS, or plain FreeBSD if you know what you\’re doing
This article takes a look at the OpenBSD side and explains how to build a NAS with security in mind
The NAS will be fully encrypted, no separate /boot partition like FreeBSD and FreeNAS require – this means the kernel itself is even protected
The obvious trade-off is the lack of ZFS support for storage, but this is an interesting idea that would fit most people\’s needs too
There\’s also a bit of background information on NAS systems in general, some NAS-specific security tips and even some nice graphs and pictures of the hardware – fantastic write up!

Interview – Brian Callahan & Aaron Bieber – admin@lists.nycbug.org & admin@cobug.org

Forming a local BSD Users Group

Tutorial

The basics of pkgsrc

News Roundup

FreeBSD periodic mails vs. monitoring

If you\’ve ever been an admin for a lot of FreeBSD boxes, you\’ve probably noticed that you get a lot of email
This page tells about all the different alert emails, cron emails and other reports you might end up getting, as well as how to manage them
From bad SSH logins to Zabbix alerts, it all adds up quickly
It highlights the periodic.conf file and FreeBSD\’s periodic daemon, as well as some third party monitoring tools you can use to keep track of your servers

Doing cool stuff with OpenBSD routing domains

A blog post from our viewer and regular emailer, Kjell-Aleksander!
He manages some internally-routed IP ranges at his work, but didn\’t want to have equipment for each separate project
This is where OpenBSD routing domains and pf come in to save the day
The blog post goes through the process with all the network details you could ever dream of
He even named his networking equipment… after us

LibreSSL, the good and the bad

We\’re all probably familiar with OpenBSD\’s fork of OpenSSL at this point
However, \”for those of you that don\’t know it, OpenSSL is at the same time the best and most popular SSL/TLS library available, and utter junk\”
This article talks about some of the cryptographic development challenges involved with maintaining such a massive project
You need cryptographers, software engineers, software optimization specialists – there are a lot of roles that need to be filled
It also mentions some OpenSSL alternatives and recent LibreSSL progress, as well as some downsides to the fork – the main one being their aim for backwards compatibility

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots going on in PCBSD land this week, AppCafe has been redesigned
The PBI system is being replaced with pkgng, PBIs will be automatically converted once you update
In the more recent post, there\’s some further explanation of the PBI system and the reason for the transition
It\’s got lots of details on the different ways to install software, so hopefully it will clear up any possible confusion
Working on adding support for FDE with GELI using GRUB for 10.0.2
Any devs who can grock the GRUB geli code are welcome to contact Kris

Feedback/Questions

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Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you\’ve got something cool to talk about and want to come on for an interview, shoot us an email
Michael Lucas will be giving a live presentation next Tuesday, \”Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD’s Real Purpose\” so be sure to catch that
Preorders for the book of PF\’s third edition are up
We got a picture of a bunch of old FreeBSD CDs
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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Certified Package Delivery | BSD Now 33

chris — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:59:10 +0000

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We sit down with Jim Brown from the BSD Certification group to talk about the BSD exams. Following that, we\’ll be showing you how to build OpenBSD binary packages in bulk, a la poudriere. There\’s a boatload of news and we\’ve got answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks

This year\’s BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa
The list of speakers is also out
And finally the talks everyone\’s looking forward to
Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest
Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts

NYCBSDCon talks uploaded

The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading recordings from the 2014 NYCBSDCon
Jeff Rizzo\’s talk, \”Releasing NetBSD: So Many Targets, So Little Time\”
Dru Lavigne\’s talk, \”ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD\”
Scott Long\’s talk, \”Serving one third of the Internet via FreeBSD\”
Michael W. Lucas\’ talk, \”BSD Breaking Barriers\”

FreeBSD Journal, issue 2

The bi-monthly FreeBSD journal\’s second issue is out
Topics in this issue include pkg, poudriere, the PBI format, hwpmc and journaled soft-updates
In less than two months, they\’ve already gotten over 1000 subscribers! It\’s available on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, etc
\”We are also working on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web browsers, including those that run on FreeBSD\”
Check our interview with GNN for more information about the journal

OpenSSL, more like OpenSS-Hell

We mentioned this huge OpenSSL bug last week during all the chaos, but the aftermath is just as messy
There\’s been a pretty vicious response from security experts all across the internet and in all of the BSD projects – and rightfully so
We finally have a timeline of events
Reactions from ISC, PCBSD, Tarsnap, the Tor project, FreeBSD, NetBSD, oss-sec, PHK, Varnish and Akamai
pfSense released a new version to fix it
OpenBSD disabled heartbeat entirely and is very unforgiving of the IETF
Ted Unangst has two good write-ups about the issue and how horrible the OpenSSL codebase is
A nice quote from one of the OpenBSD lists: \”Given how trivial one-liner fixes such as #2569 have remained unfixed for 2.5+ years, one can only assume that OpenSSL\’s bug tracker is only used to park bugs, not fix them\”
Sounds like someone else was having fun with the bug for a while too
There\’s also another OpenSSL bug that\’s possibly worse that OpenBSD patched – it allows an attacker to inject data from one connection into another
OpenBSD has also imported the most current version of OpenSSL and are ripping it apart from the inside out – we\’re seeing a fork in real time (over 55000 lines of code removed as of yesterday evening)

Interview – Jim Brown – info@bsdcertification.org

The BSD Certification exams

Tutorial

Building OpenBSD binary packages in bulk

News Roundup

Portable signify

Back in episode 23 we talked with Ted Unangst about the new \”signify\” tool in OpenBSD
Now there\’s a (completely unofficial) portable version of it on github
If you want to verify your OpenBSD sets ahead of time on another OS, this tool should let you do it
Maybe other BSD projects can adopt it as a replacement for gpg and incorporate it into their base systems

Foundation goals and updates

The OpenBSD foundation has reached their 2014 goal of $150,000
You can check their activities and goals to see where the money is going
Remember that funding also goes to OpenSSH, which EVERY system uses and relies on everyday to protect their data
The FreeBSD foundation has kicked off their spring fundraising campaign
There\’s also a list of their activities and goals available to read through
Be sure to support your favorite BSD, whichever one, so they can continue to make and improve great software that powers the whole internet

PCBSD weekly digest

New PBI runtime that fixes stability issues and decreases load times
\”Update Center\” is getting a lot of development and improvements
Lots of misc. bug fixes and updates

Feedback/Questions

There\’s a reddit thread we wanted to highlight – a user wants to show his friend BSD and why it\’s great
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All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv – there\’s a couple new ones on the site now that we\’ll be covering in future episodes
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Also if you have any tutorial requests, we\’d be glad to show whatever the viewers want to see
If you\’re in or around Colorado in the US, there\’s a brand new BSD users group that was just formed and announced – they\’ll be having meetings and doing tutorials, so check out their site (also, if you have a local BUG, let us know!)
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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!

This episode was brought to you by

Interview – Joe Marcus Clark – marcus@freebsd.org

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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Our email backlog is totally caught up now, so email us all your questions!
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The Cluster & The Cloud | BSD Now 24

chris — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:47:41 +0000

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This week on BSD Now… a wrap-up from NYCBSDCon! We\’ll also be talking to Luke Marsden, CEO of HybridCluster, about how they use BSD at large. Following that, our tutorial will show you how to securely share files with SFTP in a chroot. The latest news and answers to your questions, of course it\’s BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD 10 as a firewall

Back in 2012, the author of this site wrote an article stating you should avoid FreeBSD 9 for a firewall and use OpenBSD instead
Now, with the release of 10.0, he\’s apparently changed his mind and switched back over
It mentions the SMP version of pf, general performance advantages and more modern features
The author is a regular listener of BSD Now, hi Joe!

Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools

Really long blog post, based on a BSDCan presentation, about fighting spam with OpenBSD
Peter Hansteen, author of the book of PF, goes through how he uses OpenBSD\’s spamd and other security features to combat spam and malware
He goes through his experiences with content filtering and disappointment with a certain proprietary vendor
Not totally BSD-specific, lots of people can enjoy the article – lots of virus history as well

FreeBSD ASLR patches submitted

So far, FreeBSD hasn\’t had Address Space Layout Randomization
ASLR is a nice security feature, see wikipedia for more information
With a giant patch from Shawn Webb, it might be integrated into a future version (after a vicious review from the security team of course)
We might have Shawn on the show to talk about it, but he\’s also giving a presentation at BSDCan about his work with ASLR

Old-style pkg_ tools retired

At last the old pkg_add tools are being retired in FreeBSD
pkgng is a huge improvement, and now portmgr@ thinks it\’s time to cut the cord on the legacy toolset
Ports aren\’t going away, and probably never will, but for binary package fans and new users that are used to things like apt, pkgng is the way to go
All pkg_ tools will be considered unsupported on September 1, 2014 – even on older branches

This episode was brought to you by

Interview – Luke Marsden – luke@hybridcluster.com / @lmarsden

BSD at HybridCluster

Tutorial

Filesharing with chrooted SFTP

News Roundup

FreeBSD on OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud computing project
It consists of \”a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, able to be managed or provisioned through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API.\”
Until now, there wasn\’t a good way to run a full BSD instance on OpenStack
With a project in the vein of Colin Percival\’s AWS startup scripts, now that\’s no longer the case!

FOSDEM BSD videos

This year\’s FOSDEM had seven BSD presentations
The videos are slowly being uploaded for your viewing pleasure
Not all of the BSD ones are up yet, but by the time you\’re watching this they might be!
Check this directory for most of \’em
The BSD dev room was full, lots of interest in what\’s going on from the other communities

The FreeBSD challenge finally returns!

Due to prodding from a certain guy of a certain podcast, the \”FreeBSD Challenge\” series has finally resumed
Our friend from the Linux foundation picks up with day 11 and day 12 on his switching from Linux journey
This time he outlines the upgrade process of going from 9 to 10, using freebsd-update
There\’s also some notes about different options for upgrading ports and some extra tips

PCBSD weekly digest

After the big 10.0 release, the PCBSD crew is focusing on bug fixes for a while
During their \”fine tuning phase\” users are encouraged to submit any and all bugs via the trac system
Warden got some fixes and the package manager got some updates as well
Huge size reduction in PBI format

Feedback/Questions

After today\’s questions, our email backlog will be just about caught up. Now\’s a great time to send us something – questions, stories, ideas, requests, anything you want
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All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
Last week\’s NTP tutorial got a small update if you\’re running a LAN-only server, as well as a couple links on how to turn it into a stratum 1 server with a GPS device
The SSH tutorial also got some updates
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (19:00 UTC)
Lastly, the BSD Now t-shirt is close to being ready… stay tuned!

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Journaled News-Updates | BSD Now 22

chris — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 23:05:18 +0000

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We talk with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it\’s all about. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD quarterly status report

Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what\’s going on
The report contains 37 entries and is very very long… various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes
Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving
Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year
There\’s quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time
Jordan (jkh), one of the co-founders of the FreeBSD project, is once again a FreeBSD committer

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
If you\’ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you\’ve seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things – some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
Another report from Theo details his work
Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff

Four new NetBSD releases

NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
You can upgrade depending on what branch you\’re currently on
Confused about the different branches? See this graph.

The future of open source ZFS development

On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
It\’s in San Jose, California – go if you can!

This episode was brought to you by

Interview – George Neville-Neil – gnn@freebsd.org / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
Unfortunately they\’re only for subscribers, so you\’ll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense!

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here\’s the FreeBSD version
Nice big fat warning: \”The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty.\”
Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
Other than that it\’s a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running

Dragonfly ACPI update

Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
There\’s also a \”heads up\” to update your BIOS if you experience problems
Check the mailing list post for all the details

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
By the way, PCBSD 10.0 is out!
Special thanks to developers, testers, translators and docs team!
Upcoming: Working on a 11-CURRENT PC-BSD and 10-STABLE

Feedback/Questions

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A BSD Now t-shirt design is in the works, we\’ll update you on the progress (but we have to get permission to use the mascots and get a rough sketch first)
NYCBSDCon will be on February 8th in NYC
We\’ll announce the winner of our tutorial contest on next week\’s episode! Get your last minute tutorial submissions in for our contest

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Year of the BSD Desktop | BSD Now 10

chris — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 22:25:34 +0000

We\’ll be talking to renowned BSD author Michael Lucas about his latest opus, \”Sudo Mastery.\” Also, we\’ve heard your cries and we\’ll also finally be showing you how to build a BSD desktop system from the ground up. There\’s plenty of news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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OpenBSD 5.4 released

The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
People who bought the CD (this is where we show the CD) get the release very early, but now it\’s on the public FTP
New platforms \”octeon\” and \”beagle\”
Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features – check out the full release notes
A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future

FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
New \”pkg+http\” protocol identifier for SRV records
If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it\’s easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?

DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it\’s time to branch
Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
We\’re hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release

FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).

Interview – Michael W. Lucas – mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

Sudo Mastery
+ Could you tell us a little about yourself, how you got involved with writing and specifically writing about BSD?
+ To set the record straight, is \”su-doh\” or \”su-du\” the correct pronunciation?
+ For the sake of completeness, what is sudo, where does it come from, what does it do?
+ Why did you write this book?
+ Is this mainly a security-focused book?
+ What\’s something interesting you learned about sudo while writing this that you didn\’t know?
+ What are some other BSD books you\’ve written?
+ What makes a \”good\” tech book, would you say?
+ Since you\’ve written about OpenBSD and FreeBSD, how do you personally use both of them?
+ Do the projects get any of the money from sales of the books?
+ Where\’s the best place for people to go to find out more about (and buy) your books?
+ We saw on Twitter you\’re going to be doing an \”OpenBSD for Linux users\” talk for MUG?
+ Anything else you\’d like to mention?
+ Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes

Tutorial

Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

The BSDs are known around the world as the server OSes of the gods
They can each make a pretty nice desktop
PCBSD gives you an out of the box, preconfigured desktop experience
This guide is for manually setting one up and learning about the process

News Roundup

iXsystems FreeBSD party wrap-up chat

Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes

NYCBSDCon 2014

After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 1, 2014
Theme of \”The BSDs in Production\” this year
Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer

FreeBSD newcons progress update

This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki

Weekly PCBSD feature digest

PBI 10 format is about ready and they\’ll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
New PC-BSD Builder Scripts (https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd-build)
New 9.2 ISO just out today

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