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Dungeons and Distros | User Error 65

Wes Payne — Fri, 10 May 2019 03:39:24 +0000

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Death by Download | LINUX Unplugged 182

chris — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 20:15:41 +0000

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KDE – Plasma 5.9 Kicks off 2017 in Style.

Tuesday, 31 January 2017. Today KDE releases this year’s first Plasma feature update, Plasma 5.9. While this release brings many exciting new features to your desktop, we’ll continue to provide bugfixes to Plasma 5.8 LTS.

Black market Blackphones get sent a kill message that bricks them [Updated] | Ars Technica

A reader in Germany contacted Ars after the update “bricked” his phone, which he had purchased through eBay. “The Blackphone 2 I’ve received came in retail packaging and looks just like the one that you guys reviewed,” the reader told Ars. “It worked up to Silent OS 3.0.7 Silent OS, [but] 3.0.8 seems to intentionally brick the baseband on some devices.”

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macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350

This project targets at giving the relatively complete functional macOS for XPS13 9350. Before you start, there’s a brief introduction of how to finish powering up macOS on your laptop

Dell XPS 15 Kaby Lake w/ Nvidia 1050 review

Re: RAID56 status?

I’d like to update the wiki to “More and more RAID5/6 bugs are found”

OK, no kidding, at least we did exposed several new bugs, and reports
already exists for a while in mail list.

Some examples are:

1) RAID5/6 scrub will repair data while corrupting parity
   Quite ironic, repairing is just changing one corruption to
   another.

2) RAID5/6 scrub can report false alerts on csum error

3) Dev-replace cancel sometimes can cause kernel panic.

And if we find more bugs, I’m not surprised at all.

So, if really want to use RAID5/6, please use soft raid, then build
single volume btrfs on it.

I’m seriously considering to re-implement btrfs RAID5/6 using device
mapper, which is tried and true.

+The SGI XFS Filesystem

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Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues | Ars Technica

SteamPipe is used to deliver what the client needs, be it a whole game or just an update, in roughly megabyte-size chunks. (Chunking like this allows developers to publish updates without having to push a whole new game package—they just invalidate old chunks and upload new ones.) As Valve points out on the SteamPipe developer community page, SteamPipe uses plain ol’ HTTP rather than a proprietary protocol. And that gives us the opportunity to stick our fingers into the process and mess with it.

How things will work with our Steam caching server if what we want isn’t in cache.

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Teleconsole

Teleconsole is a free service to share your terminal session with people you trust.
Your friends can join via a command line via SSH or via their browser over HTTPS.
Use this to ask for help or to connect to your own devices sitting behind NAT.

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The Many Faces of Linux | LINUX Unplugged 177

chris — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:53:03 +0000

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Distro Engagement | LAS 446

chris — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 22:34:09 +0000

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How to decided on a distro.

Ever since my upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 borked my laptop I’ve been distro hopping like crazy and after the last rebuild today I have to ask: how the devil did you decide on a distro to stick with?
I been using Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Solus, Elementary, Fedora, OpenSuse, and Antegos. But I can’t seem to pick on to stick with for more than a few weeks. Am I insane?

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Runs Linux

Digital Signage RUNS LINUX

StreetSign is a digital signage system, originally written for the TeenStreet 2013 (Germany) youth congress. It works with a single server, and multiple client computers (for TS2013 we used Raspberry Pis) which connect over the network. It is light-weight enough that a raspberry pi can run as the server as well, for smaller installations.

Desktop App Pick

Unmark – The to do app for bookmarks.

Unmark is designed to help you actually do something with your bookmarks, rather than just hoard them. A simple layout puts the focus on your task at hand and friendly reminders keep you in line. Filtering options let you find what you’re looking for.

Spotlight Karbon

Karbon is a vector drawing application with an user interface that is easy to use, highly customizable and extensible. That makes Karbon a great application for users starting to explore the world of vector graphics as well as for artists wanting to create breathtaking vector art.

Whether you want to create clipart, logos, illustrations or photorealistic vector images – look no further, Karbon is the tool for you!

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— NEWS —

Taking a stand against unofficial Ubuntu images

We are currently in dispute with a European cloud provider which has breached its contract and is publishing insecure, broken images of Ubuntu despite many months of coaxing to do it properly. The home-grown images on the cloud, VPS and bare metal services of this provider disable fundamental security mechanisms and modify the system in ways that are unsupportable. They are likely to behave unpredictably on update in weirdly creative and mysterious ways

mjg59 | Ubuntu still isn’t free software

The appropriate means to handle this kind of issue is trademark law. If someone claims that something is Ubuntu when it isn’t, that’s probably an infringement of the trademark and it’s entirely reasonable for the trademark owner to take action to protect the value associated with their trademark. But Canonical’s _IP policy_goes much further than that – it can be interpreted as meaning[1] that you can’t distribute works based on Ubuntu without paying Canonical for the privilege

Intellectual property rights policy | Terms and policies | Ubuntu

Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code to create your own binaries. This does not affect your rights under any open source licence applicable to any of the components of Ubuntu. If you need us to approve, certify or provide modified versions for redistribution you will require a licence agreement from Canonical, for which you may be required to pay. For further information, please contact us (as set out below).

Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million

The site reports that the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its products closed down over time, with Fitbit acquiring its assets, which include intellectual property and software.

Giving Thanks (along with a Shipping Update) – Mycroft

Before I blather on I’ll get to what many are most interested in — the hardware shipping update.

Plex for Kodi

A dedicated device running Kodi and the Plex for Kodi add-on gives you a slick, configurable way to play your media in your home theater. Kodi AV settings enable powerfully advanced knob twisting and lever sliding to fine tune playback for a customized viewing experience! Settings nirvana!

Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF’d in short term – post regarding Oracle Corp. layoffs

There will be no Solaris 12, final release will be 11.4.

Feedback:

Mail Bag

Name: Brad C
Subject: Cheap Linux Laptop
Message:

: My daughter’s school recently got 20 Chromebooks to share between 3 4th grade classes. As you might imagine that is not enough. They are recommending that parents buy one for their kids, but also say a PC or Mac laptop would be fine. I’ve had my daughter doing her work on an old laptop that I put Ubuntu 16.04 on (but it’s a 17 inch laptop). I’m wondering if there are any small inexpensive laptops that could run Ubuntu that you could suggest. Most of her work is with Google docs and Google classroom.

I love all the JB shows!

Thanks

Name: Barry H
Subject: Microsoft Moving to Linux?
Message:

This isnt really a question but a prediction that could be good or bad depending on how you look at it. With MS adding in support for bash etc in win 10 and then creating .net sdk etc for linux which allows powershell etc to run. Do you think as I do that MS may be looking at moving Win 10 (No Server editions of their products only their desktop/laptop/mobile OS) to a linux distro and then having MS packages like .net etc running on top. This would mean they dont have to support patch etc a desktop distro that takes up alot of their time and money but basically get the open source community to do that for them. Obviously this wont happen in next 5 years maybe not even for a while after that for a while. But I do think it may be something they looking into… PS Send my regards to Chris and the team for a great show(s). Cheers

SIP Calling – What do you use?

Hello everyone. This is my first post on the sub.

I hear Noah mention sip calling sometimes. I am wondering what he uses and what you guys use? I am looking for a good inexpensive provider. I need to be able to receive inbound calls and make outbound calls outside of SIP. I have looked around the web and I can see there are plenty of options.

Thanks for all the feedback guys!
Asterisk is probably way more than I need. I am looking for simple. I am leaning towards Local Phone. Great price and a decent user interface on their website. If call quality is good then im set!

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16.04 and Shut Your Face | LINUX Unplugged 141

chris — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:52:31 +0000

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We get a little rambunctious as we talk about Ubuntu 16.04, why not the openSUSE Build Server & the remarkable problem with Ubuntu that’s just now being solved.

Plus some audio never meant for public release, updates on your favorite projects, first hands on with the Bq Ubuntu Tablet & more!

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And We’re Off: World’s First Ubuntu Tablet Is Now Shipping

Yes, if you pre-ordered one of the Ubuntu-powered slates from Bq last month you’ll want to keep an eye your email address over the coming days.

Received my bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition today!

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Ubuntu 16.04 Review Follow Up

Few things that were not mentioned in LAS:

new option to always show menu has been added
client side decoration is fully supported in Unity
Gnome Calendar is installed by default
Empathy has been removed similar to Brasero as not many people use desktop IM clients
Startup Disk Creator have been update, and actually works
Gnome Software has proper notifications (what Noah was saying has been fixed)
Music and Messaging menus are dynamic now, for example if you use VLC to play media only controls for that player show up
Unity now support 3rd party themes better
most software are set to optional, so you can uninstall a key software and it won’t break your system
The launcher, not only can you move it to the bottom, it also shows the icon of the application you launched to let the user know that it has been launched and is loading (for slower computers, this will help the user from accidentally launching it again)
Launcher now properly shows different instances of nautilus (i.e. USB CD, Trash, Downloads, etc. are shown separately and not all clumped into one icon of Files)
Gnome Software got comments and rating support

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Follow Up Pt 2

Ubuntu 16.04 Intel Graphics: Unity, Xfce, KDE, LXDE, GNOME, MATE, Openbox – Phoronix

Again, it’s the out-of-the-box experience on each of the desktop environments without any tweaking. There’s also some desktop environment developers that recommend running Linux games in their own X.Org Server, etc.

Bug #1552539 “Ubiquity Erase Disk and Install Fails to create Sw…” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu

Daily Build of Gnome 16.04 using installation option to Erase Disk and Install fails with following message:
“The creation of swap space in Partition #5 of SCSi3(0,0,0) (sda) failed.

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Ubuntu 16.04: From Warty to Wimpy | LAS 413

chris — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:24:58 +0000

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We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with.

Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

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Some Bugs

Bug #1553652 “Ubiquity Install fails to create Swap Partition Er…” : Bugs : ubiquity package : Ubuntu

Attempting to install Daily Drop of Unity Desktop 16.04. Selecting fourth install option to Erase Disk and Install Ubuntu. Receiving error that Swap Partition creation failed. Unable to proceed with installation and must reboot. This is a hard failure and also happens on the current Gnome Daily 16.04 distribution.

@dominucco @Kernellinux not yet. I understand it's an upstream Intel video driver issue. Will let you know when I see a fix appear.

— Alan Pope (@popey) April 16, 2016

No Catalyst/fglrx video driver in Ubuntu 16.04 | Timo Aaltonen’s Weblog

In case someone hasn’t noticed yet, fglrx has been removed from Xenial. There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, the driver did not support XServer 1.18 which we wanted to get in for 16.04. But more importantly, AMD asked us earlier this year to migrate to the open driver stack since fglrx would not be supported in 16.04.

Snap Packages

Snapcraft 2.8 Now Live in Ubuntu 16.04, Adds Support for Snappy’s New Interfaces

New features in Snapcraft 2.8 include better detection of some of the steps that need to be executed for showing the current version of the snapraft.yaml file, support for using the “cleanbuild” command to make sure you have a clean build of your snaps, as well as support for Snappy’s new interface, which is still work in progress.

Starting with Snapcraft 2.8, support for Snappy’s “config” setting has been completely removed, and by popular request, the “geoip” feature has been disabled by default. Users can enable it in Snapcraft using the “–enable-geoip” flag via the command-line. More details should be found in today’s announcement.

Great Flavors

Download Ubuntu MATE 16.04

New in Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Here is a run down of the headline features in Ubuntu MATE 16.04:

MATE Desktop 1.12.1
- Touchpad support is significantly improved and now features multi touch and natural scrolling.
- Multi monitor support has been improved so the display settings use output names and the revised UI lets you set the primary monitor.
- The power applet now displays model and vendor information so you can distinguish between multiple battery powered devices.
- Improved session management which now includes screensaver inhibition while playing media.
- Extended systemd support.
- Long standing bugs and many little usability paper-cuts were fixed.
- Consistent categorisation of the Control Center and System menus.
- See the MATE Desktop 1.12 release announcement for more details.
- CPU resource requirements have been reduced across the board.
Complete overhaul of Ubuntu MATE Welcome
- Incorporates Ubuntu MATE Software Boutique with one-click installs for nearly 150 best in class Linux desktop applications.
- One-click install for popular applications that are not in the official Ubuntu archive, such as Google Chrome, InSync, Minecraft, Opera, Spotify, Steam, Skype, Syncthing, Telegram, TorBrowser and Vivaldi via the Software Boutique.
- Pre-installation documentation and assistant.
- System Information and Diagnostics.
- Post-install setup and configuration assistant.
- Added one-click enablement of the LibreOffice Fresh PPA to continually track stable LibreOffice releases.
- One-click install of Drivers, Firmware and Codecs.
- Includes Raspberry Pi specific documentation and features.
- Translated in 20 languages.
Cross tooklit integration and theming
- QT applications will inherit GTK theming.
- Client Side Decorated and Header Bar applications render correctly in all supported window managers, even without compositing enabled in all shipped themes.
- The default Ubuntu MATE themes have been refined to minimise differences between GTK3 and GTK2.
- Deeper Compiz integration, gtk-window-manager now sources settings directly from MATE when Compiz is running in a MATE session.
Supports Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3
- Including the Raspberry Pi 3 integrated Bluetooth and WiFi. Also includes Raspberry Pi accelerated versions of VLC, ffmpeg and Kodi.
- Option to enable experimental hardware accelerated OpenGL rendering.
MATE Tweak capabilities have been extended.
- Option to enable Keyboard LED to show a Caps Lock and Num Lock status indicator for modern laptops and wireless keyboards that no longer have built-in status LEDs.
- Added Compton GPU accelerated compositing, as an alternative to Compiz, for those seeking tear free video playback.
- Displays a confirmation after changing the compositor to either Compton or Compiz.
Added MATE Dock Applet developed by Robin Thompson.
- A configurable dock applet that can be placed on any panel, in any orientation.
Added Topmenu Applet developed by Javier S. Pedro
- A GTK+ module that allows placing a global menu in MATE panel applets.
- The Ubuntu MATE team also added lxpanel-plugin-topmenu and xfce4-topmenu-plugin to the Debian and Ubuntu archives so those desktops can benefit too.
Added Mutiny panel layout which showcases mate-dock-applet and topmenu-gtk.
- The traditional GNOME2 style two panel layout is, and will continue to be, the default.
- The Mutiny layout is a Unity-like interface, designed to showcase MATE Dock Applet and Topmenu Applet.
Added Synapse which also includes complete MATE integration.
- Synapse is a graphical launcher enabling you to start applications and also to quickly find and access relevant documents and files (by making use of the Zeitgeist engine).
- The Synapse Launcher can be enabled via MATE Tweak.
Updated to Plank 0.11 and includes a new theme for Ubuntu MATE contributed by Holger Rueckershaeuser.
DVD and BluRay libraries are pre-installed
- This doesn’t mean encrypted DVD and BluRay will play out-of-the-box, but they can be fully enabled via Ubuntu MATE Welcome.
Vastly expanded language support, the full rationale on how we choose the languages and what we install is available from https://launchpad.net/bugs/1520278.
- Including this wider language support has added ~400MB to the size of the .iso images.
Improved support for braille displays and a new indicator for changing accessibility profiles in Ubiquity.
Added an assortment of new community contributed background wallpapers, more consistent icons and icon rendering in menus is optimised.
…and many other minor improvements and hundreds of bug fixes.
KDE neon upgrades to 16.04LTS

KDE neon is a package archive of KDE software built on a stable foundation. We use Ubuntu because it’s good technology that we’re familiar with and which provides a Long Term Support foundation we can use. When we started the only practical version to use at the start was 15.10 so our packages have been built using that. But with 16.04LTS due out next week it’s time to move to a solid foundation where we expect to stay for the next couple of years.

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Runs Linux

Pi Powered Weather Monitor RUNS LINUX

Essentially, one Raspberry Pi acts as a surveillance camera and temperature sensor, while the other Raspberry Pi acts as a remote display. You can view the feed of the camera using a touchscreen that allows you to switch over to a graph at a tap. As you’d expect, you’ll need a couple of Raspberry Pis, a touch screen, a temperature sensor, a Raspberry Pi camera, and a pair of Wi-Fi dongles. When you’re all finished with the project, you’ll easily be able to pull up a live feed from the camera on a Pi. It’s a pretty easy little project when all’s said and done. Head over to Adafruit for the full guide.

Desktop App Pick

AltYo

AltYo – drop-down console, is written in vala, depends only on libvte, gtk3.

For full description please follow this link https://github.com/linvinus/AltYo

AltYo – drop-down terminal emulator, written in Vala, depends only on libvte and gtk3.

Weekly Spotlight

Shotwell has a new Maintainer

GitHub – chubin/wttr.in: Web frontend for wego

This is a web frontend for a console weather application wego, using it as a backend.
You can check it at wttr.in.

— NEWS —

Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds

In the latest OpenStack user survey, we see that OpenStack is finally gaining real momentum in private clouds. We also see that Ubuntu Linux is continuing to dominate OpenStack. As Canonical cloud marketing manager Bill Bauman said, “Ubuntu OpenStack continues to dominate the majority of deployments with 55 percent of production OpenStack clouds. The previous survey showed Ubuntu OpenStack at 33 percent of production clouds. Ubuntu has seen almost 67 percent growth in an area where Ubuntu was already the market leader. These numbers are a huge testament to the community support Ubuntu OpenStack receives every day.” The Cloud Market’s latest analysis of operating systems on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) shows Ubuntu with just over 215,000 instances. Ubuntu is followed by Amazon’s own Amazon Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI), with 86,000 instances. Further back, you’ll find Windows with 26,000 instances. In fourth and fifth place, respectively, you’ll find Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with 16,500 instances and then CentOS with 12,500 instances.

How Red Hat is Worth 2 Billion

Many corporate cultures still conform to the hierarchical command and control management model designed for 20th century business needs. Knowledge workers are driving our economy today and they thrive in organizations that welcome their opinions, tap their creativity and award contribution over title.

In his new book The Open Organization (published by the Harvard Business Review Press), Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst challenges businesses to adopt an open approach that ignites passion and performance. Red Hat became the world’s first (and only so far) billion-dollar open source company by staying true to its ethos – leveraging a community approach to creating solutions where the best ideas win.

CIA’s In-Q-Tel invests in Docker, Mesosphere

Mesosphere and Docker are very well-funded San Francisco-based companies, with valuations that are said to be at or above $1 billion.

All Linux ALL The Time

The culture at Cumulus is all about standards. It was expressed repeatedly that Cumulus want to ensure that their linux is absolutely standard, so the file system hierarchy should be the standard, configuration files should be where they normally are, and so forth. A system that doesn’t follow those guidelines becomes a special snowflake that can’t be supported by regular tools and, as you’ll see, this attitude has paid dividends in this solution.

Noah v. Emma: Switching People to Linux

Noah vs Emma Card
Can not already be running Linux.
Must agree to install Linux, or have Linux installed
Will take place Sat during Linux Fest NW (Location TBD)
Come find Noah let him switch you to Linux and get a free SSD installed.

Call Box

Chris’ call out for the community to help him with his background

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Builder’s Insurance | BSD Now 94

chris — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 10:30:39 +0000

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This week on the show, we’ll be chatting with Marc Espie. He’s recently added some additional security measures to dpb, OpenBSD’s package building tool, and we’ll find out why they’re so important. We’ve also got all this week’s news, answers to your emails and even a BSDCan wrap-up, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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BSDCan 2015 videos

BSDCan just ended last week, but some of the BSD-related presentation videos are already online
Allan Jude, UCL for FreeBSD
Andrew Cagney, What happens when a dwarf and a daemon start dancing by the light of the silvery moon?
Andy Tanenbaum, A reimplementation of NetBSD using a MicroKernel
Brooks Davis, CheriBSD: A research fork of FreeBSD
Giuseppe Lettieri, Even faster VM networking with virtual passthrough
Joseph Mingrone, Molecular Evolution, Genomic Analysis and FreeBSD
Olivier Cochard-Labbe, Large-scale plug&play x86 network appliance deployment over Internet
Peter Hessler, Using routing domains / routing tables in a production network
Ryan Lortie, a stitch in time: jhbuild
Ted Unangst, signify: Securing OpenBSD From Us To You
Many more still to come…

Documenting my BSD experience

Increasingly common scenario: a long-time Linux user (since the mid-90s) decides it’s finally time to give BSD a try
“That night I came home, I had been trying to find out everything I could about BSD and I watched many videos, read forums, etc. One of the shows I found was BSD Now. I saw that they helped people and answered questions, so I decided to write in.”
In this ongoing series of blog posts, a user named Michael writes about his initial experiences with trying different BSDs for some different tasks
The first post covers ZFS on FreeBSD, used to build a file server for his house (and of course he lists the hardware, if you’re into that)
You get a glimpse of a brand new user trying things out, learning how great ZFS-based RAID arrays are and even some of the initial hurdles someone could run into
He’s also looking to venture into the realm of replacing some of his VMs with jails and bhyve soon
His second post explores replacing the firewall on his self-described “over complicated home network” with an OpenBSD box
After going from ipfwadmin to ipchains to iptables, not even making it to nftables, he found the simple PF syntax to be really refreshing
All the tools for his networking needs, the majority of which are in the base system, worked quickly and were easy to understand
Getting to hear experiences like this are very important – they show areas where all the BSD developers’ hard work has paid off, but can also let us know where we need to improve

PC-BSD starts experimental HardenedBSD builds

The PC-BSD team has created a new branch of their git repo with the HardenedBSD ASLR patches integrated
They’re not the first major FreeBSD-based project to offer an alternate build – OPNsense did that a few weeks ago – but this might open the door for more projects to give it a try as well
With Personacrypt, OpenNTPD, LibreSSL and recent Tor integration through the tools, these additional memory protections will offer PC-BSD users even more security that a default FreeBSD install won’t have
Time will tell if more projects and products like FreeNAS might be interested too

C-states in OpenBSD

People who run BSD on their notebooks, you’ll want to pay attention to this one
OpenBSD has recently committed some ACPI improvements for deep C-states, enabling the processor to enter a low-power mode
According to a few users so far, the change has resulted in dramatically lower CPU temperatures on their laptops, as well as much better battery life
If you’re running OpenBSD -current on a laptop, try out the latest snapshot and report back with your findings

NetBSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Hokkaido

The Japanese NetBSD users group never sleeps, and they’ve hit yet another open source conference
As is usually the case, lots of strange machines on display were running none other than NetBSD (though it was mostly ARM this time)
We’ll be having one of these guys on the show next week to discuss some of the lesser-known NetBSD platforms

Interview – Marc Espie – espie@openbsd.org / @espie_openbsd

Recent improvements to OpenBSD’s dpb tool

News Roundup

Introducing xhyve, bhyve on OS X

We’ve talked about FreeBSD’s “bhyve” hypervisor a lot on the show, and now it’s been ported to another OS
As the name “xhyve” might imply, it’s a port of bhyve to Mac OS X
Currently it only has support for virtualizing a few Linux distributions, but more guest systems can be added in the future
It runs entirely in userspace, and has no extra requirements beyond OS X 10.10 or newer
There are also a few examples on how to use it

4K displays on DragonFlyBSD

If you’ve been using DragonFly as a desktop, maybe with those nice Broadwell graphics, you’ll be pleased to know that 4K displays work just fine
Matthew Dillon wrote up a wiki page about some of the specifics, including a couple gotchas
Some GUI applications might look weird on such a huge resolution,
HDMI ports are mostly limited to a 30Hz refresh rate, and there are slightly steeper hardware requirements for a smooth experience

Sandboxing port daemons on OpenBSD

We talked about different containment methods last week, and mentioned that a lot of the daemons in OpenBSD’s base as chrooted by default – things from ports or packages don’t always get the same treatment
This blog post uses a mumble server as an example, but you can apply it to any service from ports that doesn’t chroot by default
It goes through the process of manually building a sandbox with all the libraries you’ll need to run the daemon, and this setup will even wipe and refresh the chroot every time you restart it
With a few small changes, similar tricks could be done on the other BSDs as well – everybody has chroots

SmallWall 1.8.2 released

SmallWall is a relatively new BSD-based project that we’ve never covered before
It’s an attempt to keep the old m0n0wall codebase going, and appears to have started around the time m0n0wall called it quits
They’ve just released the first official version, so you can give it a try now
If you’re interested in learning more about SmallWall, the lead developer just might be on the show in a few weeks…

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Business as Usual | BSD Now 86

chris — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:26:48 +0000

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Coming up this time on the show, we’ll be chatting with Antoine Jacoutot about how M:Tier uses BSD in their business. After that, we’ll be discussing the different release models across the BSDs, and which style we like the most. As always, answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications

Netflix has released a report on some of their recent activities, pushing lots of traffic through TLS on FreeBSD
TLS has traditionally had too much overhead for the levels of bandwidth they’re using, so this pdf outlines some of their strategy in optimizing it
The sendfile() syscall (which nginx uses) isn’t available when data is encrypted in userland
To get around this, Netflix is proposing to add TLS support to the FreeBSD kernel
Having encrypted movie streams would be pretty neat

Crypto in unexpected places

OpenBSD is somewhat known for its integrated cryptography, right down to strong randomness in every place you could imagine (process IDs, TCP initial sequence numbers, etc)
One place you might not expect crypto to be used (or even needed) is in the “ping” utility, right? Well, think again
David Gwynne recently committed a change that adds MAC to the ping timestamp payload
By default, it’ll be filled with a ChaCha stream instead of an unvarying payload, and David says “this lets us have some confidence that the timestamp hasn’t been damaged or tampered with in transit”
Not only is this a security feature, but it should also help detect dodgy or malfunctioning network equipment going forward
Maybe we can look forward to a cryptographically secure “echo” command next…

Broadwell in DragonFly

The DragonFlyBSD guys have started a new page on their wiki to discuss Broadwell hardware and its current status
Matt Dillon, the project lead, recently bought some hardware with this chipset, and lays out what works and what doesn’t work
The two main show-stoppers right now are the graphics and wireless, but they have someone who’s already making progress with the GPU support
Wireless support will likely have to wait until FreeBSD gets it, then they’ll port it back over
None of the BSDs currently have full Broadwell support, so stay tuned for further updates

DIY NAS software roundup

In this blog post, the author compares a few different software solutions for a network attached storage device
He puts FreeNAS, one of our favorites, up against a number of opponents – both BSD and Linux-based
NAS4Free gets an honorable mention as well, particularly for its lower hardware requirements and sleek interface
If you’ve been thinking about putting together a NAS, but aren’t quite comfortable enough to set it up by yourself yet, this article should give you a good view of the current big names
Some competition is always good, gotta keep those guys on their toes

Interview – Antoine Jacoutot – ajacoutot@openbsd.org / @ajacoutot

OpenBSD at M:Tier, business adoption of BSD, various topics

News Roundup

OpenBSD on DigitalOcean

When DigitalOcean rolled out initial support for FreeBSD, it was a great step in the right direction – we hoped that all the other BSDs would soon follow
This is not yet the case, but a blog article here has details on how you can install OpenBSD (and likely the others too) on your VPS
Using a -current snapshot and some swapfile trickery, it’s possible to image an OpenBSD ramdisk installer onto an unmounted portion of the virtual disk
After doing so, you just boot from their web UI-based console and can perform a standard installation
You will have to pay special attention to some details of the disk layout, but this article takes you through the entire process step by step

Initial ARM64 support lands in FreeBSD

The ARM64 architecture, sometimes called ARMv8 or AArch64, is a new generation of CPUs that will mostly be in embedded devices
FreeBSD has just gotten support for this platform in the -CURRENT branch
Previously, it was only the beginnings of the kernel and enough bits to boot in QEMU – now a full build is possible
Work should now start happening in the main source code tree, and hopefully they’ll have full support in a branch soon

Scripting with least privilege

A new scripting language with a focus on privilege separation and running with only what’s absolutely needed has been popular in the headlines lately
Shell scripts are used everywhere today: startup scripts, orchestration scripts for mass deployment, configuring and compiling software, etc.
Shill aims to answer the questions “how do we limit the authority of scripts” and “how do we determine what authority is necessary” by including a declarative security policy that’s checked and enforced by the language runtime
If used on FreeBSD, Shill will use Capsicum for sandboxing
You can find some more of the technical information in their documentation pdf or watch their USENIX presentation video
Hacker News also had some discussion on the topic

OpenBSD first impressions

A brand new BSD user has started documenting his experience through a series of blog posts
Formerly a Linux guy, he’s tried out FreeBSD and OpenBSD so far, and is currently working on an OpenBSD desktop
The first post goes into why he chose BSD at all, why he’s switching away from Linux, how the initial transition has been, what you’ll need to relearn and what he’s got planned going forward
He’s only been using OpenBSD for a few days as of the time this was written – we don’t usually get to hear from people this early in on their BSD journey, so it offers a unique perspective

PC-BSD and 4K oh my!

Yesterday, Kris Moore got ahold of some 4K monitor hardware to test PC-BSD out
The short of it – It works great!
Minor tweaks being made to some of the PC-BSD defaults to better accommodate 4K out of box
PSA: This particular model monitor ships with DisplayPort set to 1.1 mode only, switching it to 1.2 mode enables 60Hz properly

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Discussion

Comparison of BSD release cycles

FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD

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We’re still looking for some new interviews, so let us know if you’re interested in coming on the show (or have someone you’d like us to approach)
If we have any listeners in Poland, there’s a new Polish BSD users group that’s just started up
If you’re closer to Germany, there’s a local BSD installfest happening on May 15th in the Landshut area
If neither of those locations are close to you, but India is, there’s the brand new New Delhi BSD users group as well
Check the show notes for the links to all of those
Lastly, the EuroBSDCon 2015 call for papers has been extended due to the massive amount of last-minute submissions, so now you’ve got until May 22nd to send in your ideas

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Just Add QEMU | BSD Now 79

chris — Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:04:35 +0000

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Coming up this time on the show, we’ll be talking to Sean Bruno. He’s been using poudriere and QEMU to cross compile binary packages, and has some interesting stories to tell about it. We’ve also got answers to viewer-submitted questions and all this week’s news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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AsiaBSDCon 2015 schedule

Almost immediately after we finished recording an episode last week, the 2015 AsiaBSDCon schedule went up
This year’s conference will be between 12-15 March at the Tokyo University of Science in Japan
The first and second days are for tutorials, as well as the developer summit and vendor summit
Days four and five are the main event with the presentations, which Kris and Allan both made the cut for once again
Not counting the ones that have yet to be revealed (as of the day we’re recording this), there will be thirty-six different talks in all – four BSD-neutral, four NetBSD, six OpenBSD and twenty-two FreeBSD
Summaries of all the presentations are on the timetable page if you scroll down a bit

FreeBSD foundation updates and more

The FreeBSD foundation has posted a number of things this week, the first of which is their February 2015 status update
It provides some updates on the funded projects, including PCI express hotplugging and FreeBSD on the POWER8 platform
There’s a FOSDEM recap and another update of their fundraising goal for 2015
They also have two new blog posts: a trip report from SCALE13x and a featured “FreeBSD in the trenches” article about how a small typo caused a lot of ZFS chaos in the cluster
“Then panic ensued. The machine didn’t panic — I did.”

OpenBSD improves browser security

No matter what OS you run on your desktop, the most likely entry point for an exploit these days is almost certainly the web browser
Ted Unangst writes in to the OpenBSD misc list to introduce a new project he’s working on, simply titled “improving browser security”
He gives some background on the W^X memory protection in the base system, but also mentions that some applications in ports don’t adhere to it
For it to be enforced globally instead of just recommended, at least one browser (or specifically, one JIT engine) needs to be fixed to use it
“A system that is ‘all W^X except where it’s not’ is the same as a system that’s not W^X. We’ve worked hard to provide a secure foundation for programs; we’d like to see them take advantage of it.”
The work is being supported by the OpenBSD foundation, and we’ll keep you updated on this undertaking as more news about it is released
There’s also some discussion on Hacker News and Undeadly about it

NetBSD at Open Source Conference 2015 Tokyo

The Japanese NetBSD users group has once again invaded a conference, this time in Tokyo
There’s even a spreadsheet of all the different platforms they were showing off at the booth (mostly ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and Landisk this time around)
If you just can’t get enough strange devices running BSD, check the mailing list post for lots of pictures
Their next target is, as you might guess, AsiaBSDCon 2015 – maybe we’ll run into them

Interview – Sean Bruno – sbruno@freebsd.org / @franknbeans

Cross-compiling packages with poudriere and QEMU

News Roundup

The Crypto Bone

The Crypto Bone is a new device that’s aimed at making encryption and secure communications easier and more accessible
Under the hood, it’s actually just a Beaglebone board, running stock OpenBSD with a few extra packages
It includes a web interface for configuring keys and secure tunnels
The source code is freely available for anyone interested in hacking on it (or auditing the crypto), and there’s a technical overview of how everything works on their site
If you don’t want to teach your mom how to use PGP, buy her one of these(?)

BSD in the 2015 Google Summer of Code

For those who don’t know, GSoC is a way for students to get paid to work on a coding project for an open source organization
Good news: both FreeBSD and OpenBSD were accepted for the 2015 event
FreeBSD has a wiki page of ideas for people to work on
OpenBSD also has an ideas page where you can see some of the initial things that might be interesting
If you’re a student looking to get involved with BSD development, this might be a great opportunity to even get paid to do it
Who knows, you may even end up on the show if you work on a cool project
GSoC will be accepting idea proposals starting March 16th, so you have some time to think about what you’d like to hack on

pfSense 2.3 roadmap

The pfSense team has posted a new blog entry, detailing some of their plans for future versions
PPTP will finally be deprecated, PHP will be updated to 5.6 and other packages will also get updated to newer versions
PBIs are scheduled to be replaced with native pkgng packages
Version 3.0, something coming much later, will be a major rewrite that gets rid of PHP entirely
3.0 will focus on having a REST API, and separating the GUI from the actual implementation of the configuration
The ultimate goal is to have pfSense be a package you can just install on top of a regular FreeBSD Install

PCBSD 10.1.2 security features

PCBSD 10.1.2 will include a number of cool security features, some of which are detailed in a new blog post
A new “personacrypt” utility is introduced, which allows for easy encryption and management of external drives for your home directory
Going along with this, it also has a “stealth mode” that allows for one-time temporary home directories (but it doesn’t self-destruct, don’t worry)
The LibreSSL integration also continues, and now packages will be built with it by default
If you’re using the Life Preserver utility for backups, it will encrypt the remote copy of your files in the next update
They’ve also been working on introducing some new options to enable tunneling your traffic through Tor
There will now be a fully-transparent proxy option that utilizes the switch to IPFW we mentioned last week
A small disclaimer: remember that many things can expose your true IP when using Tor, so use this option at your own risk if you require full anonymity
Look forward to Kris wearing a Tor shirt in future episodes

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Unifying Linux Software | LINUX Unplugged 62

chris — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 17:03:58 +0000

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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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ownCloud 7 Interview | LAS 324

chris — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 15:37:55 +0000

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The founder of ownCloud joins us to discuss their latest release, future plans and challenges. And we’ll ask a batch of the tough questions you sent in.

Then we take a look at CRUX, a legendary Linux distribution with an amazing history. Plus an app pick that will instantly tickle your retro bone, a cautious tale…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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CRUX Linux Review:

Brought to you by: System76

Today we’re kicking off our most substantial Ubuntu computer sale of the year.…

About: Crux

CRUX is a lightweight Linux distribution for the x86-64 architecture targeted at experienced Linux users. The primary focus of this distribution is keep it simple, which is reflected in a straightforward tar.gz-based package system, BSD-style initscripts, and a relatively small collection of trimmed packages. The secondary focus is utilization of new Linux features and recent tools and libraries. CRUX also has a ports system which makes it easy to install and upgrade applications.

In short, CRUX might suit you very well if you are:

A somewhat experienced Linux user who wants a clean and solid Linux distribution as the foundation of your installation.
A person who prefers editing configuration files with an editor to using a GUI.
Someone who does not hesitate to download and compile programs from the source.

History of CRUX

Started May 2000
No public releases made during this time
A strong community by 2002, and was responsible for working together and adding important package management features to the distro.
CRUX was built from scratch and has never been based on any other Linux distribution.
Tracked by Distrowatch since 2002-01-14

CRUX vs Arch

Before creating Arch, Judd Vinet admired and used CRUX; a minimalist distribution created by Per Lidén. Originally inspired by ideas in common with CRUX and BSD, Arch was built from scratch, and pacman was then coded in C.
Arch and CRUX share some guiding principles: for instance, both are architecture-optimized, minimalist and K.I.S.S.-oriented.
Both ship with ports-like systems, and, like *BSD, both provide a minimal base environment to build upon.
Arch features pacman, which handles binary system package management and works seamlessly with the Arch Build System. CRUX uses a community contributed system called prt-get, which, in combination with its own ports system, handles dependency resolution, but builds all packages from source (though the CRUX base installation is binary).
Arch officially supports x86_64 and i686 only, whereas CRUX officially offers only x86_64.
Arch uses a rolling-release system and features a large array of binary package repositories as well as the Arch User Repository. CRUX provides a more slimmed-down officially supported ports system in addition to a comparatively modest community repository.

CRUX 3.1 Released July 17th 2014

Toolchain updates

CRUX 3.1 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.19.0, gcc 4.8.3 and binutils 2.24

Kernel

Linux 3.12.24

Xorg

CRUX 3.1 ships with Xorg 7.7 and xorg-server 1.15.1.

CRUX Install:

Very Manual.

Packages in CRUX

The package system (pkgutils) is made with simplicity in mind, where all packages are plain tar.gz files (i.e. without any kind of meta data).

When a package is installed using pkgadd a new record is added to the package database (stored in /var/lib/pkg/db). The basic package system does not have any kind of dependency checking, thus it will not warn you if you install a package that requires other packages to be installed. The included prt-get tool, however, does support dependencies.

Since the package file itself does not contain any meta data. Instead, the package manager uses the package filename to determine the package name and version.
Thus, when installing a package file named bash#2.05-1.pkg.tar.gz, the package manager will interpret this as a package named bash at version 2.05-1.

If pkgadd is unable to interpret the filename (e.g. # is missing or the filename does not end with .pkg.tar.gz) an error message will be printed and pkgadd will abort without installing the package.

Package management frontend: prt-get

To address the different requirements towards package management in CRUX, a number of users started discussion about an advanced package management frontend to pkgutils, with dependency handling and support for large install transactions. The result of this community effort is prt-get, a tool which provides a number of features on top of pkgutils while keeping pkgutils’ original character and power. Its main features are

Dependency handling
Build logging
Powerful search and query functionality

Nowadays prt-get is an official project and tool of the CRUX project.

The Ports System

The term Ports System refers to a remote repository containing ports and a client program capable of downloading ports from that repository. CRUX users use the ports(8) utility to download ports from the repository and place them in /usr/ports/. The ports utility uses rsync(1) or httpup(1) to do the actual downloading/synchronization.

A port is a directory containing the files needed for building a package using pkgmk. This means that this directory at least has the files Pkgfile (which is the package build description) and .footprint (which is used for regression testing and contains a list of files this package is expected to contain once it is built). Further, a port directory can contain patches and/or other files needed for building the package. It is important to understand that the actual source code for the package is not necessarily present in port directory. Instead the Pkgfile contains an URL which points to a location where the source can be downloaded.

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The Future of Desktop Computing? – Computerphile – YouTube

Tablets are taking over from desktop computing but what if we merge the two? This prototype demonstrates something new, that builds upon something centuries old – working with paper on your desk.

How To Install and Configure Syncthing to Synchronize Directories on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean

Desktop App Pick

cool-old-term

‘cool-old-term’: This retro styled Terminal Emulator could be the coolest we’ve seen yet! | Tech Drive-in

Developed by Swordfish’s Labs, cool-old-term is a terminal emulator which tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

Weekly Spotlight

Toxic

Toxic is a Tox-based instant messaging client which formerly resided in the Tox core repository, and is now available as a standalone application.

qTox

Powerful Tox client that tries to follow the Tox UI mockup while running on all major systems.
This GUI uses code from @nurupo’tos ProjectTox-Qt-GUI, in particular the “Core” Toxcore wrapper.
However, it is not a fork.

Features

One to one chat with friends
Group chats
File transfers, with previewing of images
Audio calls
Video calls (alpha)
Tox DNS
Translations in various languages

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— NEWS —

OpenSUSE Factory Turns Into Rolling Release Distribution

OpenSUSE Factory will still serve where openSUSE development takes place, but it’s also going to aim for being a distribution on its own as a “tested and stable fresh-daily bleeding-edge distribution.”

Fedora security team is announced

== What are we doing? ==

The Security Team’s mission is to assist packagers in closing security vulnerabilities. Once alerted to a
vulnerability on a package, the security team can help work with upstream to obtain a patch or a new release
of a package. Once we have a patch or a new release we attach it to the vulnerability bug and work with
packagers to get the fix pushed.

== How bad is the problem now? ==

As of a few days ago we had 566 open vulnerability tickets that cover both Fedora and EPEL. The breakdown of
those bugs by severity looks like this:

Critical: 3
Important: 69
Moderate: 366
Low: 128
Answering questions regarding the Fedora Security Team | Sparks’ Open Source and Security Journal

Fedora 21 Has Been Delayed By Three Weeks

At Wednesday’s Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee it was agreed upon to push back the entire release process by three weeks. This three weeks is to give additional time to finish outstanding work prior to the changes freeze and for also then working around Fedora’s “Flock” contributor conference.

Fedora 21 will not be officially released now until at least 4 November while the alpha release is at 26 August, beta release on 30 September, and the final change deadline on 21 October. The updated Fedora 21 schedule can be found via this Fedora Wiki page.

OMG! Fedora is just getting a security team? Does this mean Fedora has been insecure this entire time?!?

Umm, no, it doesn’t mean that Fedora has been insecure this entire time. In all actuality Fedora is in pretty good shape overall. There is always room for improvement and so we’re organizing a team to help facilitate that improvement.

XBMC Is Getting a New Name – Introducing Kodi 14

We are excited to announce that the media center software we’ve all loved for so many years will have a new name, starting with version 14. Instead of XBMC 14, we’d like to introduce you to Kodi 14.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

ownCloud 7 Community Edition has significant feature improvements for users, administrators and developers.

ownCloud 7 Released With more Sharing And Control | ownCloud.org

Questions for Frank:

What brought about Server-to-Server syncing, and how close to real time is that syncing?
Sleepee asks: Any plans for better auditing on who shared filed. He’s working in an Enterprise, and the management would like some records.
Seal20 asks: I could not find anyway to replace the last closed and evil tool: evernote. I hate it but I couldn’t switch to any other free alternative. Do you plan do include an evernote alternative somewhere down the road?
Seal20 also asks: What about an “owncloud phone” you could rip off an android os from all google or even better start from a firefox os and include all owncloud related apps: cal/carddav sync, owncloud news, sync apps, etc! I and i am sure others will surely pay a premium for this!
pierre4l asks: I wonder whether the focus of OwnCloud is going to be home users wanting to set up their personal cloud servers, or whether it is veering more to the enterprise deployments. Or is it trying to be a solution for all?
OwnCloud apps seems to be really growing. Where do you see OwnCloud apps going? Even casual games on apps.ownCloud.com
autodidactos: I know there are two email client apps available (roundcube and rainloop) but neither seem to be as integrated as an official client would be. Are there any plans for an official OwnCloud email client?

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Package Design | BSD Now 43

chris — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:06:40 +0000

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It’s a big show this week! We’ll be interviewing Marc Espie about OpenBSD’s package system and build cluster. Also, we’ve been asked many times “how do I keep my BSD box up to date?” Well, today’s tutorial should finally answer that. Answers to all your emails and this week’s headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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EuroBSDCon 2014 talks and schedule

The talks and schedules for EuroBSDCon 2014 are finally revealed
The opening keynote is called “FreeBSD, looking forward to another 10 years” by jkh
Lots of talks spanning FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PCBSD, and we finally have a few about NetBSD and DragonflyBSD too! Variety is great
It looks like Theo even has a talk, but the title isn’t on the page… how mysterious
There are also days dedicated to some really interesting tutorials
Register now, the conference is on September 25-28th in Bulgaria
If you see Allan and Kris walking towards you and you haven’t given us an interview yet… well you know what’s going to happen
Why aren’t the videos up from last year yet? Will this year also not have any?

FreeNAS vs NAS4Free

More mainstream news covering BSD, this time with an article about different NAS solutions
In a possibly excessive eight-page article, Ars Technica discusses the pros and cons of both FreeNAS and NAS4Free
Both are based on FreeBSD and ZFS of course, but there are more differences than you might expect
Discusses the different development models, release cycles, features, interfaces and ease-of-use factor of each project
“One is pleasantly functional; the other continues devolving during a journey of pain” – uh oh, who’s the loser?

Quality software costs money, heartbleed was free

PHK writes an article for ACM Queue about open source software projects’ funding efforts
A lot of people don’t realize just how widespread open source software is – TVs, printers, gaming consoles, etc
The article discusses ways to convince your workplace to fund open source efforts, then goes into a little bit about FreeBSD and Varnish’s funding
The latest heartbleed vulnerability should teach everyone that open source projects are critical to the internet, and need people actively maintaining them
On that subject, “Earlier this year the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug laid waste to Internet security, and there are still hundreds of thousands of embedded devices of all kinds—probably your television among them—that have not been and will not ever be software-upgraded to fix it. The best way to prevent that from happening again is to avoid having bugs of that kind go undiscovered for several years, and the only way to avoid that is to have competent people paying attention to the software”
Consider donating to your favorite BSD foundation (or buying cool shirts and CDs!) and keeping the ecosystem alive

Geoblock evasion with pf and OpenBSD rdomains

Geoblocking is a way for websites to block visitors based on the location of their IP
This is a blog post about how to get around it, using pf and rdomains
It has the advantage of not requiring any browser plugins or DNS settings on the users’ computers, you just need to be running OpenBSD on your router (hmm, if only a website had a tutorial about that…)
In this post, the author wanted to get an American IP address, since the service he was using (Netflix) is blocked in Australia
It’s got all the details you need to set up a VPN-like system and bypass those pesky geographic filters

Interview – Marc Espie – espie@openbsd.org / @espie_openbsd

OpenBSD’s package system, building cluster, various topics

Tutorial

Keeping your BSD up to date

News Roundup

BoringSSL and LibReSSL

Yet another OpenSSL fork pops up, this time from Google, called BoringSSL
Adam Langley has a blog post about it, why they did it and how they’re going to maintain it
You can easily browse the source code
Theo de Raadt also weighs in with how this effort relates to LibReSSL
More eyes on the code is good, and patches will be shared between the two projects

More BSD Tor nodes wanted

Friend of the show bcallah posts some news to the Tor-BSD mailing list about monoculture in the Tor network being both bad and dangerous
Originally discussed on the Tor-Relays list, it was made apparent that having such a large amount of Linux nodes weakens the security of the whole network
If one vulnerability is found, a huge portion of the network would be useless – we need more variety in the network stacks, crypto, etc.
The EFF is also holding a Tor challenge for people to start up new relays and keep them online for over a year
Check out our Tor tutorial and help out the network, and promote BSD at the same time!

FreeBSD 10 OpenStack images

OpenStack, to quote Wikipedia, is “a free and open-source software cloud computing platform. It is primarily deployed as an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution.”
The article goes into detail about creating a FreeBSD instant, installing and converting it for use with “bsd-cloudinit”
The author of the article is a regular listener and emailer of the show, hey!

BSDday 2014 call for papers

BSD Day, a conference not so well-known, is going to be held August 9th in Argentina
It was created in 2008 and is the only BSD conference around that area
The “call for papers” was issued, so if you’re around Argentina and use BSD, consider submitting a talk
Sysadmins, developers and regular users are, of course, all welcome to come to the event

Feedback/Questions

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Just a reminder for those who don’t check the website, you’ll also find contact information for every guest we’ve ever had in the show notes – so if you have follow up questions for them, it’s easy to get in touch
Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
If you want to come on for an interview or have a tutorial you’d like to see, let us know
Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
Congrats to Matt Ahrens for getting FreeBSD commit access – hopefully lots of great ZFS stuff to come
A special 21st happy birthday to FreeBSD

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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

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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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Developers Get Qt | LINUX Unplugged 40

chris — Tue, 13 May 2014 17:55:52 +0000

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We chat with two of the LXQt developers, and find out what’s behind this major undertaking. Then we discuss our favorite packages for a Linux home server, and the brand new Ubuntu Orange cluster box.

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What makes the perfect home server?

Building a new server for JB1, details on a upcoming LAS.
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Anti-virus pioneer Alan Solomon thinks anti-virus is dead. He uses Linux instead

“I stopped using an antivirus a long time ago, because I couldn\’t see how it could work in a world where you would need daily updates, which means that each update is tested for … how long? Not very long, obviously.

Ubuntu Cluster Orange Box

Canonical Keynote – YouTube

The Orange Box is an innovative, custom designed micro cluster chassis, envisioned by Canonical, and contract manufactured by TranquilPC Limited. The chassis includes a small cluster of Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) boards, and is particularly well suited for portable demonstration and local prototyping of cloud workloads. The Orange Box, manufactured in the UK to exacting standards is available to order and ships internationally (free of charge).

Each Orange Box chassis contains:

10x Intel NUCs
Specifically, the Ivy Bridge D53427RKE model

Each Intel NUC contains

i5-3427U CPU
Intel HD Graphics 4000
16GB of DDR3 RAM
120GB SSD root disk
Intel Gigabit ethernet
D-Link DGS-1100-16 managed gigabit switch with 802.1q VLAN support

All 10 nodes are internally connected to this gigabit switch

In aggregate, this micro cluster effectively fields 40 cores, 160GB of RAM, 1.2TB of solid state storage, and is connected over an internal gigabit network fabric. A single fan quietly cools the power supply, while all of the nodes are passively cooled by aluminum heat sinks spanning each side of the chassis.

The first node, node0, additionally contains:

An Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 WiFi adapter
A 2TB HDD (spinning)
USB and HDMI ports are wired and accessible from the rear of the box
Access to the USB/HDMI of nodes1-9 is accessible from the underside of the unit
Six GBE LAN ports (all connected to the internal switch) are exposed to the rear panel, for external access, or even clustering of multiple Orange Boxes together.

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Windows eXPired | LINUX Unplugged 35

chris — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 16:26:39 +0000

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XP support ends today and we’ll celebrate the occasion by debating what prevents technical users switching to Linux, address some common myths, and set a course for our new howto show.

Plus why Chase and Matt are wrong about DS9, blaming choice, your feedback, and more!

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How Hard Is It to Switch to Linux?

I was tired of things breaking from nowhere, or being frustrated with certain second-rate apps, and even though I learned a lot—and I LOVED the command line and package management—it just was too much trouble for me day-to-day. I never thought I\’d see Windows as an OS that \”just works,\” but compared to Linux, it really fit that bill in my experience.

What does a beginner need to know before switching to Ubuntu? – Ask Ubuntu

What are the first things I have to do when I completed the installation?

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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

Feedback/Questions

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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

Feedback/Questions

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All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
The ssh tutorial has been updated with some new 6.5 stuff
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)
Reminder: if you\’re on FreeBSD 8.3 for some reason, upgrade soon – it\’s reaching EOL
Reminder: if you\’re using pkgng, be sure to update to 1.2.6 for a security issue
The winner of the tutorial contest is… Dusko! We didn\’t get as many submissions as we wanted, but his Nagios monitoring tutorial was extremely well-done. It\’ll be featured in a future episode. Congrats! Send us a picture when it arrives.
Allan got his pillow in the mail as well, it\’s super awesome

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Eclipsing Binaries | BSD Now 18

chris — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:36:57 +0000

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Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We\’re back with the first show of 2014, and we\’ve got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we\’ll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Faces of FreeBSD continues

Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia
Gives some information about how she got into BSD
\”I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn\’t booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out.\”
She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation
We\’ve also got one for Kevin Martin
Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company
\”FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community.\”

OpenPF?

A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest
What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD\’s firewall?
Similar to portable OpenSSH or OpenZFS, there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue
Right now FreeBSD 9\’s pf is old, FreeBSD 10\’s pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD\’s pf is old (but they\’re working on a fork) and Dragonfly\’s pf is old
Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’
Not likely to happen any time soon, but it\’s good food for thought

Year of BSD on the server

A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD
2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10\’s amazing new features
This author was particularly taken with pkgng and the more coherent layout of BSD systems
Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread, \”Why did you choose BSD over Linux?\”
Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send \’em to your friends

Getting to know your portmgr

This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team
He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team
Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time
Lots of fun trivia and background about him
Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is…

This episode was brought to you by

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The future of FreeBSD\’s binary packages, ports\’ features, various topics

Tutorial

Binary upgrades in OpenBSD

Using a third party script, binary upgrades in OpenBSD are easy
It automates a lot of the manual work and saves time – great for large deployments

News Roundup

pfSense december hang out

Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post
\”This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics\”
Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store
We\’re planning on having a pfSense episode next month!

BSDMag December issue is out

The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December
Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, \”unix basics for security professionals,\” some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH

OpenBSD gets tmpfs

In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs
To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current
Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan
Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide

PCBSD weekly digests

Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land..
10.0-RC2 is now available
The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out

Feedback/Questions

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The jail tutorial and disk encryption tutorial have gotten some improvements and 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)
Happy new year everybody!

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ownCloud 5 Review | LAS | s26e04

chris — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:41:48 +0000

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Can OwnCloud solve your Dropbox problem? The free web based software that promises to reduce or even replace Google, Dropbox, and much more in your life. But has the project bitten off more then it can chew? Tune in to find out!

And: Our overview of OwnCloud’s desktop syncing system, and the innovative way OwnCloud is deployed to Linux distributions.

Plus: The FUD storm heading towards Linux gamers, a quick look at Gnome 3.8, Microsoft gets slapped down, a surprise gadget unboxing….

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Pinguy OS Review | LAS | s17e03

chris — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:19:30 +0000

There’s a new Linux distro in town, and it’s here to disrupt! Find out if this up-start distribution is on the path to become the new king of the land, or fade into obscurity!

PLUS – Is Canonical too focused on the Netbook? And why WebOS might be the MeeGo Killer!

All this week on, The Linux Action Show!

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