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OBS – Open Broadcaster Software

OBS Studio (formerly known as OBS Multiplatform) is a complete rewrite of the original OBS from the ground up, with the main goals being multiplatform support, a more thorough feature set, and a much more powerful API. While still in its early stages, releases are currently available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

ZeeVee TV

ZeeVee is leading the way in developing video distribution platforms that ensure the highest quality video – on any display device – leveraging existing or new cable infrastructure.
ZeeVee engineers and manufactures innovative products that challenge the status quo and leverage industry standards to distribute HD to Ultra-HD/4K video. Simply and Rapidly.
ZeeVee is leading convergence of AV and IP, bringing to market innovative, cost effective and easy to install IP video distribution platforms.

• Global manufacturer of video and signal distribution technology for ProAV and IT markets
• Only manufacturer today that can deliver multimedia content across any network – coax, fiber, and CATx and from any source – HDMI, component, composite, VGA or HD-SDI
• Award-winning SD to HD to Ultra-HD/4K solutions delivering innovative, cost effective and easy to install distribution platforms
• World-class customer support (pre and post sale)
• ZeeVee is installed in thousands of facilities worldwide, across multiple industries, where there is a need to transport HD to Ultra-HD/4K video
• Made in the United States
• Industry leading warranties
• Robust features are included in every ZeeVee model

Logitech C920

Connect with everyone in Full HD 1080p on Skype, or in fluid HD 720p on FaceTime for Mac.

Also make high-quality video calls with Google Hangouts and video-calling clients. Even chat with your Facebook® friends with video calling powered by Skype or Facebook Messenger.

• Logitech C930e

6 Best Linux Distributions For Educational Use – LinuxAndUbuntu

For those in Education, there are quite a number of specialized Linux distributions that are geared towards education.

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Real-Time Graphics in Pixar Film Production, Runs Linux

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Desktop App Pick

peek: Simple animated Gif screen recorder for GNOME 3

A simple tool that allows you to record short animated GIF images from your screen.

Currently only Linux with X11 is supported. Other Unix like systems using X11
should work as well. It is planned to also support Wayland and maybe other
operating systems in the future.

Spotlight

micro: A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Micro is a terminal-based text editor that aims to be easy to use and intuitive, while also taking advantage of the full capabilities
of modern terminals. It comes as one single, batteries-included, static binary with no dependencies, and you can download and use it right now.

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• Ting data price drop
• Ting drops data prices to $10 GB beyond the first gig

​Florida Man Arrested for Allegedly Hacking Key Linux Servers | Motherboard

A_ustin allegedly broke into several named servers, including “Odin1,” “Zeus1,” and “Pub3,” as well as Linux Kernel Organization founder Peter Anvin’s private email server, and installed the “Phalanx” rootkit—a backdoor that would allow him to connect to the infected computer and install additional software on the target—and the “Ebury” trojan, which harvested credentials of those logging into the infected computer. He also allegedly used his unauthorized administrative privileges to insert messages that would display when the servers restarted._

• Bloke accused of Linux kernel.org hack nabbed during traffic stop • The Register

Austin was released from jail on payment of $50,000 in bail money, and will have to appear in court in San Francisco at 0930 on September 21 before the Honorable Sallie Kim. If found guilty, he faces a possible sentence of 40 years in prison and $2m in fines.

Linux.Rex.1, a new Linux Trojan the creates a P2P BotnetSecurity Affairs

The botnet composed of machines infected by the Linux.Rex.1 is a P2P botnet, each node of the malicious network is able to share data with peers by using a protocol implemented by the malware authors.

• Linux.Rex.1

A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go. The Trojan implements the ВРЕ protocol to share data with other P2P botnet’s nodes and is launched as a node that receives and processes RPC messages. Probably, this malware program’s modification is still under development because it generates a large number of debugging messages recorded to the /dev/null device.

OpenOffice, after years of neglect, could shut down

As LibreOffice soars, OpenOffice management considers retiring the project.

GNOME web-API dependent apps have another run-in with changing services

GNOME Maps and GNOME Weather have both recently had bad luck with online service providers who either discontinues or changes data APIs with crippling results for their users. Maybe it’s time to acknowledge that APIs are unstable and unreliable, and build for expectation of failure instead.

PC-BSD Evolves into TrueOS

We are proud to announce that the PC-BSD project has evolved into TrueOS: a modern, cutting-edge distribution of FreeBSD focused on security, simplicity, and stability for desktops, servers, and beyond! TrueOS harnesses the best elements of PC-BSD, combines it with security technologies from OpenBSD, and layers it on top of FreeBSD to provide a complete system for modern machines.

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We look back at five years of Linux memories, and reminisce about the bad old days of the Linux desktop.

Then the exciting future for PC-BSD, and it’s new unique desktop.

Plus our favorite ways to track performance, desktop Linux app containers that are already here and shipping and much more!

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• Lifehacker Pack For Linux 2014: Our List Of The Essential Linux Apps

FU:

• Bandwidth monitor in a Plasma widget

• Multi-Monitor Support + Gaming possible tutorial? // Slexy 2.0

Feedback:

On encapsulated linux applications

Hi I wonder why you haven’t talk much about linuxportable apps, is really great for users that dont want to deal with dependencies and distros and such. Even the Portable Linux Games is awesome since games are non standard linux installs (usually a gnome or kde app will make more sense than a game that has no connection with the DE).

Portable Games for Linux

Please let me know what u think, and who has used before?

AppImageKit

Using AppImageKit you can package applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives.

The AppImage format has the following properties:

• The AppImage is an ISO9660 file
• The contents of the ISO9660 file can be compressed with zf
• In the first 32k of the ISO9660 file, an ELF executable is embedded
  which mounts the AppImage, executes the application from the
  mounted AppImage, and afterwards unmounts the AppImage again
• The ISO9660 file contains an AppDir as per the ROX AppDir specification
• The AppDir contains one desktop file as per the freedesktop.org specification

For an AppImage to run on most systems, the following conditions need to be met: 1. The AppImage needs to include all libraries and other dependencies that are not part of all of the base systems that the AppImage is intended to run on 2. The binaries contained in the AppImage need to be compiled on a system not newer than the oldest base system that the AppImage is intended to run on 3. The AppImage should actually be tested on the base systems that it is intended to run on

Retro

5 Years ago: July 2009

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4

• https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-gnome.png
• https://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/os112m2-kde-desktop.png

Sabayon 4.2

• review – https://wolf911.us/wgo/?p=190
• https://techexposures.com/2009/07/sabayon-4-2-gnome-linux-review-and-screenshots/
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz.png
• https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Sabayon_Linux_4.2G_Compiz_Fusion_Desktop_Wall.png

CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01

• RELEASE NOTES: https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/release-notes/9.04.01
• https://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/screenshots/9.04.01

PC-BSD 7.1.1

• The PC-BSD developers have announced the release of version 7.1.1, the Galileo Edition of their open source operating system. Version 7.1.1 is a maintenance release and includes several bug fixes and improvements.
• https://www.pcmech.com/article/pc-bsd-711-quick-review/
• https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/pc-bsd.html

Slackware Linux 13.0 RC1

• Release Announcement: https://www.slackware.com/announce/13.0.php
• https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/12/17/review-slackware-13-0/

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, released its Launchpad source code

under a free software license. (announcement)

Amazon fails in its irony detection and deletes George Orwell’s 1984 (and Animal Farm) from users’ Kindle e-book readers. (New York Times coverage)

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We’re back and this week we’ll be showing you how to tunnel out of a restrictive network using only DNS queries.

We also sat down with Bryan Drewery, from the FreeBSD portmgr team, to talk all about their building cluster and some recent changes.

All the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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EuroBSDCon 2014 registration open

• September is getting closer, and that means it’s time for EuroBSDCon – held in Bulgaria this year
• Registration is finally open to the public, with prices for businesses ($287), individuals ($217) and students ($82) for the main conference until August 18th
• Tutorials, sessions, dev summits and everything else all have their own pricing as well
• Registering between August 18th – September 12th will cost more for everything
• You can register online here and check hotels in the area
• The FreeBSD foundation is also accepting applications for travel grants

OpenBSD SMP PF update

• A couple weeks ago we talked about how DragonflyBSD updated their PF to be multithreaded
• With them joining the SMP ranks along with FreeBSD, a lot of users have been asking about when OpenBSD is going to make the jump
• In a recent mailing list thread, Henning Brauer addresses some of the concerns
• The short version is that too many things in OpenBSD are currently single-threaded for it to matter – just reworking PF by itself would be useless
• He also says PF on OpenBSD is over four times faster than FreeBSD’s old version, presumably due to those extra years of development it’s gone through
• There’s also been even more recent concern about the uncertain future of FreeBSD’s PF, being mostly unmaintained since their SMP patches
• We reached out to four developers (over week ago) about coming on the show to talk about OpenBSD network performance and SMP, but they all ignored us

Introduction to NetBSD pkgsrc

• An article from one of our listeners about how to create a new pkgsrc port or fix one that you need
• The post starts off with how to get the pkgsrc tree, shows how to get the developer tools and finally goes through the Makefile format
• It also lists all the different bmake targets and their functions in relation to the porting process
• Finally, the post details the whole process of creating a new port

FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE

• After three RCs, FreeBSD 9.3 was scheduled to be finalized and announced today but actually came out yesterday
• The full list of changes is available, but it’s mostly a smaller maintenance release
• Lots of driver updates, ZFS issues fixed, hardware RNGs are entirely disabled by default, netmap framework updates, read-only ext4 support was added, the vt driver was merged from -CURRENT, new hardware support (including radeon KMS), various userland tools got new features, OpenSSL and OpenSSH were updated… and much more
• If you haven’t jumped to the 10.x branch yet (and there are a lot of people who haven’t!) this is a worthwhile upgrade – 9.2-RELEASE will reach EOL soon
• Good news, this will be the first release with PGP-signed checksums on the FTP mirrors – a very welcome change
• 9.2’s EOL was extended until December of this year
• With that out of the way, the 10.1-RELEASE schedule was posted

Interview – Bryan Drewery – bdrewery@freebsd.org / @bdrewery

The FreeBSD package building cluster, pkgng, ports, various topics

Tutorial

Tunneling traffic through DNS

News Roundup

SSH two-factor authentication on FreeBSD

• We’ve previously mentioned stories on how to do two-factor authentication with a Yubikey or via a third party website
• This blog post tells you how to do exactly that, but with your Google account and the pam_google_authenticator port
• Using this setup, every user that logs in with a password will have an extra requirement before they can gain access – but users with public keys can login normally
• It’s a really, really simple process once you have the port installed – full details on the page

Ditch tape backup in favor of FreeNAS

• The author of this post shares some of his horrible experiences with tape backups for a client
• Having constant, daily errors and failed backups, he needed to find another solution
• With 1TB of backups, tapes just weren’t a good option anymore – so he switched to FreeNAS (after also ruling out a pre-built NAS)
• The rest of the article details his experiences with it and tells about his setup

NetBSD vs FreeBSD, desktop experiences

• A NetBSD and pkgsrc developer details his experiences running NetBSD on a workstation at his job
• Becoming more and more disappointed with graphics performance, he finally decides to give FreeBSD 10 a try – especially since it has a native nVidia driver
• “Running on VAX, PlayStation 2 and Amiga is fun, but I’ll tell you a little secret: nobody cares anymore about VAX, PlayStation 2 and Amiga.”
• He’s become pretty satisfied with FreeBSD, a modern choice for a 2014 desktop system

PCBSD not-so-weekly digest

• Speaking of choices for a desktop system, it’s the return of the PCBSD digest!
• Warden and PBI_add have gotten some interesting new features
• You can now create jails “on the fly” when adding a new PBI to your application library
• Bulk jail creation is also possible now, and it’s really easy
• New Jenkins integration, with public access to Poudriere logs as well (https://builds.pcbsd.org)
• PkgNG 1.3.0.rc2 testing for EDGE users

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• Congrats to the new FreeBSD core team members
• The first (and second.. and third..) portable release of LibreSSL is available on the OpenBSD FTP sites, with a brief announcement email
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We chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We\’ll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report

• Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we\’ll cover a few of them
• Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more
• We\’ve covered some of these things already, but there\’s lots to read in the announcement
• See full page for details on everything

Dragonfly SMP contention update

• Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release
• Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box
• The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is \”a fairly major milestone for the project\”
• Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out

FreeBSD gets \”first boot\” rc.d scripts

• Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot
• Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches
• Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup
• Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages
• Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports
• Lots of possibilities

NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel

• NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel
• A luactl command was added to easily manipulate it
• It will be interesting to see what can come out of this
• Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview!

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Interview – Antti Kantee – pooka@netbsd.org / @anttikantee

The anykernel and rump kernels
rump kernels in userspace, rump kernels + applications on Xen, fs-utils, rump kernel compiled to javascript

Tutorial

Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service

• The BSDs, with their great network performance and security, make great Tor nodes
• This tutorial shows the different cool things you can do with Tor
• Help out the network by donating some bandwidth
• We need more BSD nodes. Our random number generator isn\’t backdoored like Linux\’s

News Roundup

Second PCBSD feature digest it out

• Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features
• Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac​.pcbsd​.org
• Life Preserver has finished development and is now being tested
• PCBSD 10.0 ISOs coming soon

OpenBSD imports VXLAN interface

• VXLAN is a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface
• UDP-based tunneling protocol for overlaying virtualized layer 2 networks over layer 3 networks

OpenZFS Office Hours

• The question and answer session with Matt has been uploaded
• Covers lots of topics ranging from cross-compatibility to performance improvements and trivia

BSDMag\’s October issue is out

• Free monthly BSD magazine releases another issue
• Topics include FreeBSD moving to SVN, a BSD programming intro, new PCBSD utilities, migrating from Linux to BSD and OpenBSD LTS updates (which we already covered!)

Feedback/Questions

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  • PCBSD pkg config: https://github.com/pcbsd/pcbsd/blob/master/build-files/conf/port-make.conf
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We chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, and we\’ll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail. Then we get you caught up on all the latest news.

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

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HAMMER2 GSOC improvements merged

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

OSNews starts a \”BSD family\” segment

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

pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch announcement

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

PCBSD 9.2 released

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

Interview – Theo de Raadt – deraadt@openbsd.org

Tutorial

Jailed VNC sessions

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

The place to B…SD

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

News Roundup

Curve25519 patch for OpenSSH

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

FreeBSD 10-ALPHA5 is out

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

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

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

Ohio Linuxfest talks uploaded

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

Theo\’s absence and other updates

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

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We\’ll cover Dropbox’s two-factor authentication flaw, how “Team Telecom” forced fibre providers to enable surveillance, the FBI’s warning about phishing attacks.

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Dropbox flaw allows attackers to circumvent two-factor authentication

• If an attacker is able to get the username and password for your dropbox account, they can access your account even if you have enabled two-factor authentication
• Dropbox does not verify the email address used to signup for a new account, because of this, the attacker can signup for a new account with your email address and just append a dot to the end of the domain name
• Login to this new account and enable 2 factor authentication
• Save the ‘emergency override code’, used in case you lose your phone
• Logout and login to the victim account, when prompted for the one-time password, click “I lost my phone”
• Enter the emergency override code (it is the same for both accounts)
• It is not clear why having the dot at the end of the email (valid) is enough to make the account unique, but does not make the override code unique

US Government established “Team Telecom” to force foreign owned fibre providers to allow the government access to the data transitting them

• In 2003 the “Network Security Agreement” was signed between the US Government and Global Crossing, one of the largest internet transit providers, connecting 200 major cities in 27 nations on four continents
• “In months of private talks, the team of lawyers from the FBI and the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security demanded that the company maintain what amounted to an internal corporate cell of American citizens with government clearances”
• The FCC would hold up approval of cable licenses until such agreements were in place
• The agreements required the transit providers to maintain a “Network Operations Center” (NOC) on U.S. soil. This NOC must be staffed with U.S. citizens pre-screened by the government and operating under gag orders, preventing the employees for sharing the information even with their bosses.
• Originally a US company, Global Crossing filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2002
• A deal was setup where a partnership between Singapore Technologies Telemedia and Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa would buy Global Crossing
• The Hong Kong side of the partnership was pressured by the US Government and eventually withdrew. The US was worried that the Chinese Government would gain access to the US’s surveillance requests
• Singapore Technologies Telemedia eventually agreed to buy the majority stake in Global Crossing and that half of the new board of directors would consist of American citizens with security clearances
• This agreement has been used as a template for other foreign owned telcos and applied as foreign investors bought existing telcos from US investors
• In 2011 Global Crossing was sold to US Telecom giant Level3, however ST Telemedia maintained a minority stake, resulting in another round of review by “Team Telecom”
• A spokesman for Level 3 Communications declined to comment for this article
• Tapping undersea cables has been a key component of US intelligence collection since WWII, the US Navy used to have a number of submarines specifically outfitted for tapping undersea copper phone lines to listen to sensitive traffic in the Soviet Union
• Infographic

FBI issues formal warning about targetted spear phishing

• Many of the very large compromises that we have covered lately were made possible by the attacker establishing an initial beachhead on a single machine, via spear phishing
• The compromises at The Onion and the Financial Times were both explained in detail after the fact and showed just how much damage an attacker can do once they get inside the network, and how easily they can get inside the network with spear phishing
• Many in the defense and aerospace industries have been targeted by highly sophisticated spear phishing campaigns, including professionally produced .pdf flyers for fake conferences that took advantage of flaws in Adobe Acrobat to infect the system
• According to research by AV vendor Trend Micro, 91% of all targeted attacks involved spear phishing in the initial phases
• Training firm PhishMe says their clients usually start at around 60% susceptibility, but training reduces this to single digits
• The PhiseMe system works by sending your users different types of phishing emails, including links, attachments, etc
• When the user falls for the phishing attempt, they are redirected to training pages, teaching them what they did wrong
• Enhanced versions will even disguise themselves to look like your company\’s page, and prompt users to enter sensitive information. If they do, they are admonished and given further training
• This type of ongoing proactive training seems like the only real way to increase security, because typical training does not seem to work

MIT Media lab rolls out ‘Immersion’ tool to allow you to visualize your email metadata

• Logs in to your gmail via OAuth
• Looks at only the headers (To, From, CC, and timestamp)
• Builds a visualization of your ‘social graph’
• After you view the report, you have the option to allow them to save it, or ask them to erase it
• If you save a snapshot of your social graph, it is automatically deleted after 30 days

Feedback:

• Don’t mount an iSCSI device in two places at once

• File Server Woes

• Starting in Networking Tech?

• What happens if you get hit by a bus?

• NIC Driver Woes in FreeBSD

  • Get a different intel NIC, some of the onboard ones are less good
  • service netif restart; service routing restart

• pfSense Wifi Xtreme

TechSNAP Bitmessage: BM-GuGEaEtsqQjqgHRAfag5FW33Dy2KHUmZ

Round Up:

• Attacker who compromised .pk domain root last year, claims to have access to Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s servers that contain files on every citizen
• The problems with debugging software on mars
• Password sharing compromises 24,000 nintendo accounts – More than 15 million login attempts were made, but only those accounts that had a common password with some other unknown (likely related) service were compromised
• 911 dispatch system in Detroit goes down, backup does not kick in. Apparently the backup had not been tested in over 2 years
• Federal Judge rejects “states secrets” claim, allows EFF case against illegal surveillance (originally filed against the GW Bush administration) to proceed
• Root SSH key for Emergency Broadcasting Systems compromised
• Audit finds US Economic Development Administration destroyed hardware after minor malware infection, including uninfected systems, printers, cameras and mice
• Team of famous security researchers write amicus brief in defense of weev in his trial against AT&T for accessing data they accidently placed on their public website
• Android master key vulnerability checker now online
• ARM’s response to high efficency – lower power: one chip for each, use as needed
• PirateBay founder brokep starts encrypted messaging service
• PC-BSD Now Uses a CDN

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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

Distro Of The Day

• CentOS The Community ENTerprise Operating System

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News:

• 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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Turns out FreeBSD is still a thing you can think about download! We take a look at version 9.0! And marvel at its new anti-crash-usb-thumb-drive removal technology!

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• The University of Windsor, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

• Significant Other Pleaser Free
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Universal Pick:

• Tor
• Pencil
• Picks so far. Thanks to Madjo!

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• Tails

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• Samsung says no final decision on bada/Tizen merge

  • bada – Wikipedia
  • Bada 2.0.1 OS screenshots leak, UI change imminent

• Arch Linux – pacman 4 moves to core

  • Pacman Package Signing
    • LAS Reddit thread

• Roadmap For openSUSE 12.2: Summer 2012 Release

• XBMC running on Raspberry Pi

• Desura Game Client Is Now Open-Source

• Red Hat software now slightly less dependent on Microsoft Windows

• Linux Foundation Happy Barcharts

• EU To Sign ACTA Later This Month

• What Is ACTA ? – YouTube
  • ACTA subreddit

FreeBSD 9 Review:

• UFS Softupdate Journaling
• The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports softupdates journaling. It introduces a intent log into a softupdates-enabled file system which eliminates the need for background fsck(8) even on unclean shutdown
• This new feature means that a fsck after an unexpected reboot is no longer required. In modern FreeBSD only a basic preen was required, and then a full fsck would take place on a snapshot of the file system, in the background after the system had finished rebooting. With the new softupdate journaling (basically an intent log), a full fsck is no longer required at all
• Journaling support is enabled by default on all newly created file systems, and can be enabled on existing UFS2 partitions using tunefs(8)
• Full TRIM support for SSDs
• The FreeBSD Fast File System now supports the TRIM command when freeing data blocks. The TRIM-enable flag makes the file system send a delete request to the underlying device for each freed block
• TRIM support can also be enabled during newfs(8) or on an existing file system with tunefs(8)
• ZFS Upgraded to v28
• ZFS v28 introduces support for data deduplication, triple parity RAIDZ (raidz3), snapshot holds, log device removal, zfs diff, zpool split, zpool import -F, and read-only zpool import
• The zpool(8): utility now supports a zpool labelclear command. This allows to wipe the label data from a drive that is not active in a pool
• HAST Improvements
• The Highly Available Storage daemon now supports data checksumming (crc32 or sha256) and compression (zero hole or lzf) and improved security
• Introduction of the GEOM RAID class graid(8)
• Which supports:
  • RAID0
  • RAID1
  • RAID1E
  • RAID10
  • SINGLE
  • CONCAT
• It also supports the on disk formats for:
  • Intel RAID BIOS
  • JMicron RAID BIOS
  • NVIDIA MediaShield RAID BIOS
  • Promise and AMD/ATI RAID BIOS
  • SiliconImage RAID BIOS
• Additionally, geom_map(4) allows specific areas of a device to be mapped as separate devices, especially useful for embedded flash storage
• GEOM also support the following classes: CACHE, ELI, JOURNAL, LABEL, MIRROR, MOUNTVER, MULTIPATH, NOP, PART, RAID3, SCHED, SHSEC, STRIPE and VIRSTOR
• NFSv4 with ACLs
• In addition to NFSv2 and v3,
• New utmpx(3) user accounting system
• 5 new TCP congestion control schems
• The FreeBSD TCP/IP network stack now supports the mod_cc(9) pluggable congestion control framework. This allows TCP congestion control algorithms to be implemented as dynamically loadable kernel modules
• The following kernel modules are available as of 9.0-RELEASE: cc_chd(4) for the CAIA-Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_cubic(4) for the CUBIC algorithm, cc_hd(4) for the Hamilton-Delay algorithm, cc_htcp(4) for the H-TCP algorithm, cc_newreno(4) for the NewReno algorithm, and cc_vegas(4) for the Vegas algorithm.
• An h_ertt(4) (Enhanced Round Trip Time) module has been added, which allows per-connection, low noise estimates of the instantaneous RTT in the TCP/IP network stack.
• New CAM based disk subsystem
• The ATA/SATA disk subsystem has been replaced with a new cam(4)-based implementation. cam(4) stands for Common Access Method, which is an implementation of an API set originally for SCSI–2 and standardized as “SCSI–2 Common Access Method Transport and SCSI Interface Module”
• The ada(4) driver now supports per-device write cache control. New sysctl(8) variables kern.cam.ada.write_cache and kern.cam.ada.N.write_cache settings of 1 enables and 0 disables the write cache, and –1 leaves the device default behavior. sysctl(8) variables can override the configuration in a per-device basis (the default value is –1, which means to use the global setting)
• New Resource Accounting and Limiting APIs
• RACCT is a new resource accounting API has been implemented. It can keep per-process, per-jail, and per-loginclass resource accounting information
• The new resource-limiting API RCTL works in conjunction with the RACCT resource accounting implementation and takes user-configurable actions based on the set of rules it maintains and the current resource usage
• Full USB3 support
• OpenSSH upgraded to 5.8p2 with HPN for faster transfer speeds
• OpenResolv to manage resolv.conf for multiple interfaces
• Support for SHA–256 and SHA–512 cryptographic password hashing
• sh updated
• new arithmetic expression handling imported from dash (which is originally from NetBSD ash)
• changes to the way builtin commands relate to PATH env
• fixed various other bugs
• Capsicum Capability Mode
• New Sandboxing and compartmentalization framework from Cambridge University
• Improved privilege separation in OpenSSH and DHClient
• Replacement of various GPL tools and utilities with BSD licensed ones to avoid GPLv3
• libreadline
• grep
• llvm/clang imported, will eventually replace gcc 4.2 (last GPL v2)
• compiler-rt replaced libgcc

If you are using an older version of FreeBSD, the FreeBSD-Update tool can do a quick in-place upgrade using bsdiff binary patching.

As always, instructions for installing the OS and Packages, securing and managing your system can be found in the FreeBSD Handbook

• PC-BSD 9.0 Released!
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