A tutorial on pkgng, we talk with the developers of OpenSMTPD about running a mail server OpenBSD-style, answer YOUR questions and, of course, discuss all the latest news.

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pfSense 2.1-RELEASE is out

• Now based on FreeBSD 8.3
• Lots of IPv6 features added
• Security updates, bug fixes, driver updates
• PBI package support
• Way too many updates to list, see the full list

New kernel based iSCSI stack comes to FreeBSD

• Brief explanation of iSCSI
• This work replaces the older userland iscsi target daemon and improves the in-kernel iscsi initiator
• Target layer consists of:
• ctld(8), a userspace daemon responsible for handling configuration, listening for incoming connections, etc, then handing off connections to the kernel after the iSCSI Login phase
• iSCSI frontend to CAM Target Layer, which handles Full Feature phase.
• The work is being sponsored by FreeBSD Foundation
• Commit here

MTier creates openup utility for OpenBSD

• MTier provides a number of things for the OpenBSD community
• For example, regularly updated (for security) stable packages from their custom repo
• openup is a utility to easily check for security updates in both base and packages
• It uses the regular pkg tools, nothing custom-made
• Can be run from cron, but only emails the admin instead of automatically updating

OpenSSH in FreeBSD -CURRENT supports DNSSEC

• OpenSSH in base is now compiled with DNSSEC support
• In this case the default setting for ‘VerifyHostKeyDNS’ is yes
• OpenSSH will silently trust DNSSEC-signed SSHFP records
• It is the secteam’s opinion that this is better than teaching users to blindly hit “yes” each time they encounter a new key

Interview – Gilles Chehade & Eric Faurot – gilles@openbsd.org / @poolpOrg & eric@openbsd.org

OpenSMTPD

• Q: Could you tell us a little bit about yourselves and how you got involved with OpenBSD?
• Q: What exactly is OpenSMTPD and why was it created?
• Q: How big is your team of developers? Who’s doing what?
• Q: How compatible is it with things like dovecot, spamassassin, etc?
• Q: Are there any advantages over the other mail servers like Postfix or Exim?
• Q: If someone wanted to switch from them, is it an easy replacement?
• Q: The config syntax is very nice and easy to grasp. Was inspired from PF’s at all?
• Q: What made you decide to develop a portable version, a la OpenSSH?
• Q: Tell us some cool, upcoming features in a future release
• Q: Anything else you’d like to mention about the project?
• Q: Where can people find more info and help with development if they want?

Tutorial

Using pkgng for binary package management

• Live demo
• pkgng is the replacement for the old pkg_add tools
• Much more modern, supports an array of features that the old system didn’t
• Works on DragonflyBSD as well

News Roundup

New progress with Newcons

• Newcons is a replacement console driver for FreeBSD
• Supports unicode, better graphics modes and bigger fonts
• Progress is being made, but it’s not finished yet

relayd gets PFS support

• relayd is a load balancer for OpenBSD which does protocol layers 3, 4, and 7
• Currently being ported to FreeBSD. There is a WIP port
• Works by negotiating ECDHE (Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman) between the remote site and relayd to enable TLS/SSL Perfect Forward Secrecy, even when the client does not support it

OpenZFS Launches

• Slides from LinuxCon
• Will feature ‘Office Hours’ (Ask an Expert)
• Goal is to reduce the differences between various open source implementations of ZFS, both user facing and pure lines of code

FreeBSD 10-CURRENT becomes 10.0-ALPHA

• Glen Barber tagged the -CURRENT branch as 10.0-ALPHA
• In preparation for 10.0-RELEASE, ALPHA2 as of 9/18
• Everyone was rushing to get their big commits in before 10-STABLE, which will be branched soon
• 10 is gonna be HUGE

September issue of BSD Mag

• BSD Mag is a monthly online magazine about the BSDs
• This month’s issue has some content written by Kris
• Topics include MidnightBSD live cds, server maintenance, turning a Mac Mini into a wireless access point with OpenBSD, server monitoring, FreeBSD programming, PEFS encryption and a brief introduction to ZFS

The FreeBSD IRC channel is official

• For many years, the FreeBSD freenode channel has been “unofficial” with a double-hash prefix
• Finally it has freenode’s blessing and looks like a normal channel!
• The old one will forward to the new one, so your IRC clients don’t need updating

OpenSSH 6.3 released

• After a big delay, Damien Miller announced the release of 6.3
• Mostly a bugfix release, with a few new features
• Of note, SFTP now supports resuming failed downloads via -a

Feedback/Questions

• A couple people wrote in to tell us not only OpenBSD have 64bit time. We misspoke.
• James writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2wBbbSWGz
• Elias writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2LMDF3PYx
• Gabor writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2aCodo65X
• Possibly the coolest feedback we’ve gotten thus far: Baptiste Daroussin, leader of the FreeBSD ports management team and author of poudriere and pkgng, has put up the BSD Now poudriere tutorial on the official documentation!
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It’s our review of PC-BSD 9.0 and 9.1. Allan joins us and we cover everything from the end-user experience, to setting up a Linux Jail running on top of PC-BSD. Plus we discuss a few bumps in the road bumps we hit, who we think is the target audience for our open source cousin, and much more!

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Runs Linux:

• US Congressman Michael Grimm, Runs Linux… Now…

Android Pick:

• Paragon NTFS & HFS+
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• syncBackup
• Picks so far
• Madjo

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• CentOS The Community ENTerprise Operating System

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• Slackware 14.0 Linux Released
• GNOME 3.6 Released!
  • First Look: GNOME 3.6
• Open webOS 1.0 Edition
• Open webOS ported to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus
• Ubuntu 12.10 Amazon Shopping Results to be Made Optional
  • Bug #1054282 “No obvious way to restrict adult shopping suggestions
• External Beta News | Valve
• Unity 4: Linux Publishing Preview: What, How, and Wherefore
• Ubuntu Software Center, On openSUSE

PC-BSD:

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• Download PC-BSD 9.1-RC1

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

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

• Warden Wiki

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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