pkg_add – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com Open Source Entertainment, on Demand. Mon, 22 Feb 2016 02:48:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png pkg_add – Jupiter Broadcasting https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com 32 32 Base ISO 100 | BSD Now 44 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/61457/base-iso-100-bsd-now-44/ Thu, 03 Jul 2014 11:46:54 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=61457 This time on the show, we’ll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we’ll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied… ISO can’t wait! This week’s news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – […]

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This time on the show, we’ll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we’ll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied… ISO can’t wait!

This week’s news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

pfSense 2.1.4 released

  • The pfSense team has released 2.1.4, shortly after 2.1.3 – it’s mainly a security release
  • Included within are eight security fixes, most of which are pfSense-specific
  • OpenSSL, the WebUI and some packages all need to be patched (and there are instructions on how to do so)
  • It also includes a large number of various other bug fixes
  • Update all your routers!

DragonflyBSD’s pf gets SMP

  • While we’re on the topic of pf…
  • Dragonfly patches their old[er than even FreeBSD’s] pf to support multithreading in many areas
  • Stemming from a user’s complaint, Matthew Dillon did his own work on pf to make it SMP-aware
  • Altering your configuration‘s ruleset can also help speed things up, he found
  • When will OpenBSD, the source of pf, finally do the same?

ChaCha usage and deployment

  • A while back, we talked to djm about some cryptography changes in OpenBSD 5.5 and OpenSSH 6.5
  • This article is sort of an interesting follow-up to that, showing which projects have adopted ChaCha20
  • OpenSSH offers it as a stream cipher now, OpenBSD uses it for it’s random number generator, Google offers it in TLS for Chromium and some of their services and lots of other projects seem to be adopting it
  • Both Google’s fork of OpenSSL and LibReSSL have upcoming implementations, while vanilla OpenSSL does not
  • Unfortunately, this article has one mistake: FreeBSD does not use it – they still use the broken RC4 algorithm

BSDMag June 2014 issue

  • The monthly online BSD magazine releases their newest issue
  • This one includes the following articles: TLS hardening, setting up a package cluster in MidnightBSD, more GIMP tutorials, “saving time and headaches using the robot framework for testing,” an interview and an article about the increasing number of security vulnerabilities
  • The free pdf file is available for download as always

Interview – Craig Rodrigues – rodrigc@freebsd.org

FreeBSD’s continuous testing infrastructure


Tutorial

Creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs


News Roundup

Preauthenticated decryption considered harmful

  • Responding to a post from Adam Langley, Ted Unangst talks a little more about how signify and pkg_add handle signatures
  • In the past, the OpenBSD installer would pipe the output of ftp straight to tar, but then verify the SHA256 at the end – this had the advantage of not requiring any extra disk space, but raised some security concerns
  • With signify, now everything is fully downloaded and verified before tar is even invoked
  • The pkg_add utility works a little bit differently, but it’s also been improved in this area – details in the post
  • Be sure to also read the original post from Adam, lots of good information

FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 is out

  • As the -RELEASE inches closer, release candidate 2 is out and ready for testing
  • Since the last one, it’s got some fixes for NIC drivers, the latest file and libmagic security fixes, some serial port workarounds and various other small things
  • The updated bsdconfig will use pkgng style packages now too
  • A lesser known fact: there are also premade virtual machine images you can use too

pkgsrcCon 2014 wrap-up

  • In what may be the first real pkgsrcCon article we’ve ever had!
  • Includes wrap-up discussion about the event, the talks, the speakers themselves, what they use pkgsrc for, the hackathon and basically the whole event
  • Unfortunately no recordings to be found…

PostgreSQL FreeBSD performance and scalability

  • FreeBSD developer kib@ writes a report on PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and how it scales
  • On his monster 40-core box with 1TB of RAM, he runs lots of benchmarks and posts the findings
  • Lots of technical details if you’re interested in getting the best performance out of your hardware
  • It also includes specific kernel options he used and the rest of the configuration
  • If you don’t want to open the pdf file, you can use this link too

Feedback/Questions


  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
  • There, you’ll also find a link to Bob Beck’s LibReSSL talk from the end of May – we finally found a recording!
  • 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)
  • Next week Allan will be at BSDCam, so we’ll have a prerecorded episode then

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Package Design | BSD Now 43 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/60837/package-design-bsd-now-43/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:06:40 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=60837 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 […]

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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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Headlines

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


  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
  • 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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The Cluster & The Cloud | BSD Now 24 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/51482/the-cluster-the-cloud-bsd-now-24/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 21:47:41 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=51482 A talk with Luke Marsden, CEO of HybridCluster, about how they use BSD at large. Plus our tutorial will show you how to securely share files with SFTP in a chroot.

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

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Headlines

FreeBSD 10 as a firewall

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

Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools

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

FreeBSD ASLR patches submitted

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

Old-style pkg_ tools retired

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

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

BSD at HybridCluster


Tutorial

Filesharing with chrooted SFTP


News Roundup

FreeBSD on OpenStack

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

FOSDEM BSD videos

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

The FreeBSD challenge finally returns!

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

PCBSD weekly digest

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

Feedback/Questions

  • After today\’s questions, our email backlog will be just about caught up. Now\’s a great time to send us something – questions, stories, ideas, requests, anything you want
  • Derrick writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21nbJKYmb
  • Sean writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2yhziVsBP
  • Patrick writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20PuccWbo
  • Peter writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s22PL0SbUO
  • Sean writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20dkbjuOK

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

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Eclipsing Binaries | BSD Now 18 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/48817/eclipsing-binaries-bsd-now-18/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:36:57 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=48817 We have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD.

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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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Headlines

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…

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Interview – Baptiste Daroussin – bapt@freebsd.org

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

  • Remy writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2UrUzlnf6
  • Jason writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2iqnywwKX
  • Rob writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2IUcPySbh
  • John writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21aYlbXz2
  • Stuart writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s21vrYSqU8

  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
  • 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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MX with TTX | BSD Now 3 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/43392/mx-with-ttx-bsd-now-3/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 08:26:39 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=43392 A tutorial on pkgng, we talk with the developers of OpenSMTPD about running a mail server OpenBSD-style, answer YOUR questions and more.

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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.

All that and more on BSD Now! The place to B… SD.

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Headlines

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!
  • We always want more feedback, especially tutorial ideas and show topics you want to see

  • Big thanks to TJ for writing most of the show notes and the tutorials, as well as handling most of your feedback
  • All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, etc to feedback@bsdnow.tv
  • We don’t check YouTube comments, JB comments, Reddit, etc. If you want us to see it, send it via email (the preferred way) or Twitter (also acceptable)
  • Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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