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Windows 10’s first day numbers impress, Google has a new version of Glass, BitDefender gets hacked, Nvidia Tablets catch fire, tiny robots that walk on water… And our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Windows 10 – The First 24 Hours | Blogging Windows
• Google Quietly Distributes New Version of Glass Aimed at Workplaces – WSJ
• Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard | The Verge
• Anti-Virus Firm BitDefender Admits Breach, Hacker Claims Stolen Passwords Are Unencrypted – Forbes
• Tiny Robot Runs Across Water, Jumps 14 Times Its Own Height

Kickstarter of the Week:

• Snotbot: Pushing the Frontiers of Whale Research With Drones by Ocean Alliance — Kickstarter

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The first Ubuntu phone goes on sale tomorrow & we ask all the interesting questions you might have been wondering. The details on the launch of the phone, some of the great apps & what’s still missing.

Plus the new Raspberry Pi hates being flashed & we read a quick batch of great emails.

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• Secure Your Google Account, and Get 2 GB of Drive Storage

FU:

• Do you use Owncloud and for what?

• READ DOCUMENTATION BEFORE UPGRADING OWNCLOUD

• DistroPlaza: Share Distros!

• Distro Plaza

• Ad blocking

Bq Ubuntu Phone Goes on Sale Next Week at €169, Meizu Device Coming Soon – OMG! Ubuntu!

As we shared towards the end of last year, the Bq Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition handset will go on sale in Europe from next week priced at €169.

• This Is Bq’s Exclusive Ubuntu Phone Case Accessory – OMG! Ubuntu!

Bq has you covered with an exclusive ‘Ubuntu Edition’ of their popular Duo case accessory designed especially for the Aquaris E4.5, which is being made available for purchase alongside the handset.

• Debut Ubuntu phone’s first flash sale announced, more to come – CNET

The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is the first phone that will let phone fans snap up an Ubuntu-running device for themselves. Best known as an open-source operating system for computers, Ubuntu is expanding to phones as part of a plan that will see the software power everything from TVs to drones. And to kick things off, the BQ phone will be up for grabs between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. (CET) on Wednesday 11 February.

• First Ever Ubuntu Phone Unboxing Video Appears Online – OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu Touch Apps

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We look back on some of the rants and events of 2014. Whether it’s systemd, mir, tox, ubuntu or anything else, we covered lots of major events this year!

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• Episode 63 – For Forks Sake
• Episode 30 – Talkin’ Tox
• Episode 60 – Calm Before the Storm
• Episode 66 – Firefox gets Unplugged
• Episode 33 – Graphical Civil War

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The crew took the Firefox challenge & we follow up, we reflect on 10 years of Firefox, their early Linux support & the growing competition from Webkit.

Gnome raised money to defend it’s Trademark from Groupon, which has quickly raised the white flag. Is this instant groundswell of support the dawn of a new community attitude towards Gnome?

Plus an exciting first live on the show, tons of great feedback & more!

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• Amazon Echo Parody – YouTube

FU:

• How to fix the vsync issues with Nvidia cards

• Cheap Linux USB Headphones?

• Most persuasive features for potential switchers?

• Fedora Next – delayed but awesome.

Firefox Challange Follow Up

• I’m taking the Firefox Challenge, and I crash too

Celebrating 10 Years of Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

10 years ago we built Firefox to give you a choice. The Web was a monoculture and the only way in was through the company that controlled your operating system. We believed then, and so did many of you, that the Web deserved an independent alternative. Today hundreds of millions of people trust Firefox because they understand that we’re different; that our independence lets us put you first.

Mozilla Introduces ‘Forget Button’ for Firefox and Dev Edition Browser

With a huge developer user base, Mozilla’s new Firefox Developer Edition browser looks to provide an all-in-one debugging toolset for professi

While it’s loosely based around the previous Firefox Aurora builds, it’s not a straight-forward rebrand — it’s closer to the nightly builds, but built for a developer user base with different needs. It also removes a lot of the safeguards that are vital in the consumer browser but that can frustrate developers.

Chromium:

• The Google-authored portion of Chromium is released under the BSD license,[18] with other parts being subject to a variety of different open-source licenses, including the MIT License, the LGPL, the Ms-PL and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license

• Chromium (web browser) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

  Differences from Google Chrome

Chromium is the name given to the open-source project and the browser source code released and maintained by the Chromium Project.[7] It is possible to download the source code and build it manually on many platforms. To create Chrome from Chromium, Google takes this source code and adds:[8]

• A restriction blocking the installation of extensions from anywhere other than the Chrome Web Store[9]
• Integrated Flash Player[10] (proprietary license and code)
• Built-in print preview and print system
• The Google and Google Chrome names (both trademarked)[11][12][13]
• An auto-update system called GoogleUpdate (some, such as the Debian or Ubuntu community builds of chromium, rely on the package management system of the OS as an alternative)
• An opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports
• RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, including both when—and from where—Chrome was downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly, nor in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time (previously it was proprietary—and although the source is now open the feature was not migrated to Chromium) so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works.[14]

By default, Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags. Google Chrome supports these as well as the patent-encumbered AAC and MP3 codecs. On 11 January 2011, the Chrome Product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would no longer support the H.264 video format for its HTML5 player.[15] In October 2013 Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required.[16] As of December 2013, Chrome still supports H.264. Linux distributions that distribute Chromium may add support for other codecs to their customized versions of Chromium.

Gnome Vs Groupon

• Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark

Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation.” The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of applications they filed can be found here, here and here). To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous. Please help us fight this huge company as they try to trade on our goodwill and hard earned reputation.

• Groupon respond to ‘Defend GNOME’ critisism

• Sri Viswanath the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Groupon just posted

MATE 14.04 is OUT!

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Coming up this week, we’ll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update

• A status update for Shawn Webb’s ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD
• One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree
• “FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren’t compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support”
• If you’re running -CURRENT, just add “WITH_PIE=1” to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf
• The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it
• Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR

Misc. pfSense news

• Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news
• Someone’s gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they’re sold, which involves powering them all on at least once
• To make that process faster, they’re building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)
• There will be more info on that device a bit later on
• On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (for paying customers only…) about virtualized firewalls
• pfSense University, a new paid training course, was also announced
• A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch

ZFS stripe width

• A new blog post from Matt Ahrens about ZFS stripe width
• “The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice”
• Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages
• He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases
• It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels’ overhead factor

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released

• The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we’re slowly getting closer to the release
• This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs
• There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what’s in -CURRENT (but still isn’t using ChaCha20)
• The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post about it too
• There’s a list of changes between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we’ll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits

Interview – Bryce Chidester – brycec@devio.us / @brycied00d

Running a BSD shell provider

Tutorial

Chaining SSH connections

News Roundup

My FreeBSD adventure

• A Slackware user from the “linux questions” forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings
• After ruling out PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to “politics” (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on
• In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things
• So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux
• Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later

Even more BSDCan trip reports

• BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in
• This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation
• He’s part of the “Jenkins CI for FreeBSD” group and went to BSDCan mostly for that
• Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read
• He even talks about… the food

FreeBSD disk partitioning

• For his latest book series on FreeBSD’s GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification
• This erupted into a very long discussion about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart
• So you don’t have to read the tons of mailing list posts, he’s summarized the findings in a blog post
• It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools

BSD Router Project version 1.51

• A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51
• It’s now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE
• Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere
• Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes
• The minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB

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• Fongaboo writes in
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This week in the big show, we’ll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan.

As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla

• Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports
• After years and years of wanting to switch, they’ve finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla
• It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and
• There’s a new workflow chart for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things
• The old “send-pr” command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)
• This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful

DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014

• We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up
• More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he’s using for a budget NAS
• Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc
• With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it – $550 for all the parts
• Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions

DragonflyBSD 3.8 released

• Justin announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0
• Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts
• It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions
• Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it’s currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series
• See the release page for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions

OpenZFS European conference 2014

• There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure
• Matt Ahrens, Introduction
• Michael Alexander, FhGFS performance on ZFS
• Andriy Gapon, Testing ZFS on FreeBSD
• Luke Marsden, HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud
• Vadim Comănescu, Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS
• Chris George, DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation
• Grenville Whelan, High-Availability
• Phil Harman, Harman Holistic
• Mark Rees, Storiant and OpenZFS
• Andrew Holway, EraStor ZFS appliances
• Dan Vâtca, Syneto and OpenZFS
• Luke Marsden, HybridCluster and OpenZFS
• Matt Ahrens, Delphix and OpenZFS
• Check the link for slides and other goodies

Interview – Benedict Reuschling – bcr@freebsd.org

BSD documentation, getting commit access, unix education, various topics

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr, Steve Wills

• “It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Wills, the newest member of the portmgr team”
• swills is an all-round good guy, does a lot for ports (especially the ruby ports)
• In this interview, we learn why he uses FreeBSD, the most embarrassing moment in his FreeBSD career and much more
• He used to work for Red Hat, wow

BSDTalk episode 242

• This time on BSDTalk, Will interviews Chris Buechler from pfSense
• Topics include: the heartbleed vulnerability and how it affected pfSense, how people usually leave their firewalls unpatched for a long time (or even forget about them!), changes between major versions, the upgrade process, upcoming features in their 10-based version, backporting drivers and security fixes
• They also touch on recent concerns in the pfSense community about their license change, that they may be “going commercial” and closing the source – so tune in to find out what their future plans are for all of that

Turn old PC hardware into a killer home server

• Lots of us have old hardware lying around doing nothing but collecting dust
• Why not turn that old box into a modern file server with FreeNAS and ZFS?
• This article goes through the process of setting up a NAS, gives a little history behind the project and highlights some of the different protocols FreeNAS can use (NFS, SMB, AFS, etc)
• Most of our users are already familiar with all of this stuff, nothing too advanced
• Good to see BSD getting some well-deserved attention on a big mainstream site

Unbloating the VAX install CD

• After a discussion on the VAX mailing list, something very important came to the attention of the developers…
• You can’t boot NetBSD on a VAX box with 16MB of RAM from the CD image
• This blog post goes through the developer’s adventure in trying to fix that through emulation and stripping various things out of the kernel to make it smaller
• In the end, he got it booting – and now all three VAX users who want to run NetBSD can do so on their systems with 16MB of RAM…

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• The DNSCrypt tutorial has been updated to reflect the newest version
• There were some more serious OpenSSL security problems, make sure your systems get patched as soon as possible
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We sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project – and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we\’ll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We\’ve also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.

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Getting to know your portmgr

• In this interview they talk to one of the \”Annoying Reminder Guys\” – Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD\’s portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)
• He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD
• Describes FreeBSD as \”the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community.\”
• In the next one they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@) which is strange since he\’s \”on hiatus\” + hasn\’t done anything in a long time
• The usual, \”what inspires you about FreeBSD\” \”how did you get into it\” etc.

vBSDCon wrap-up compilation

• Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place
• Some from OpenBSD guys
• Some from FreeBSD guys
• Some from RootBSD
• Some from iXsystems
• Some from Verisign
• And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009

Faces of FreeBSD

• This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary
• Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD
• \”I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use.\”
• He\’s been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports
• He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team

Dragonfly 3.6 released

• dports now default instead of pkgsrc
• Big SMP scaling improvements
• Experimental i915 and KMS support
• See our interview with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it – nearly an hour long
• Matt Dillion’s comments

ZFS TRIM bug on FreeBSD -CURRENT r258632

• Do not upgrade to or past 258632, there is a ZFS TRIM bug that could result in data loss
• If you have already upgraded, disable TRIM with vfs.zfs.trim.enabled=0 immediately
• Roll back to a previous kernel, and then scrub your pool
• A fix is expected shortly

Interview – Jordan Hubbard – jkh@freebsd.org / @omgjkh

FreeBSD\’s founding and future

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD router, part 2

• Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions.
• A few weeks back we showed you how to build a high performance BSD router
• Lots of work has been done to clean up and reorganize it, it\’s cut up into sections now, also has a new section about power saving
• It\’s been updated for \”switchless\” operation, using a virtual ethernet interface and some bridging magic (special thanks to Ryan for helping me test that)
• This updated guide will show you how to do an all-in-one router to replace your consumer one without any additional hardware
• We\’ll also showcase some extras – the email alerts, errata checking script and SSH/Tor tunnels
• The errata script now auto-detects if you\’re running -release, -stable or -current and acts accordingly; can automatically patch your source code and alert you

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2

• We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free \”public\” AMI
• Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details
• Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud

Puffy on the desktop

• Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review
• They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up
• Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read
• Ends with \”Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn\’t mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave\”

Two-factor authentication with SSH

• Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys
• Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD\’s login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well
• Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised
• Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption
• They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree – please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!
• PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed
• Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end

Feedback/Questions

• Ben writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2ag1fA7Ug
• Florian writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2TSIvZzVO
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• Addison writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s20ntzqi9c
• Adam writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk
• Adam\’s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here.

• Lots of links in today\’s show notes, check them out. All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
• Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
• If you have stories about how you or your company uses BSD, interesting things you\’ve done, crazy network stories or cool projects, send them to us!
• Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (19:00 UTC)
• Reminder: the FreeBSD foundation\’s year-end donation is going on, please help out if you can. Happy Thanksgiving!

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We\’ve got an interview with Henning Brauer about OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, a tutorial on how to follow the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches of FreeBSD, a recap of what happened at vBSDCon this year and.. As always, lots of news to cover, so stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Managed services using FreeBSD

• New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD
• Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more
• Explains FreeBSD\’s role in commercial workloads on a massive scale
• Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up

OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

• So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable
• Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel
• The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume
• No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running \”installboot\” is all that\’s needed

More Dragonfly SMP speedups

• Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements
• Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test
• The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour
• Super technical details in the show notes, check \’em out

Getting to know portmgr

• Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team
• In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke
• In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who\’s also the creator of redports.org)
• Future segments will include the other members
• Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff

BSD Now at the top of iTunes

• BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes\’ technology podcast section
• We\’re better than everyone else and Leo is fat

Interview – Henning Brauer – henning@openbsd.org / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD\’s pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

• The BSDs have development branches you can follow
• This guide shows the differences between FreeBSD -RELEASE, -STABLE and -CURRENT
• Will do OpenBSD and NetBSD versions in the future, their methods are all pretty different

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

• Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid
• Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD
• Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it

PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

• Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone
• A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages
• AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more

Switching from Linux to BSD

• Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it
• Asks the community what some differences and advantages are
• Good response from the community, worth reading if you\’re a Linux guy

Unattended OpenBSD installations

• Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a \”response\” file
• The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs
• Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc
• Still a work in progress

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We go hands on with the Steam for Linux beta, look at the big picture, cover the beta lockout workaround, and a timeline from rumors to launch! Plus our observations and thoughts from our tests.

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Show Notes:

Steam for Linux Preview:

Brought to you by: System76

Steamy ACTION Timeline:

August 22nd 2010: https://youtu.be/hPsVMEn6y4o?t=30m24s – 31:10

June 10th 2012: https://youtu.be/cFOJRn87K6c?t=27m53s – 29:55

July 15th of 2012: https://youtu.be/lveUtnvP0PA?t=24m51s – 27:24

• Valve Puts An End To The Steam On Linux Rumors

• Steam for Linux Beta likely to launch today according to NVIDIA New

• Steam for Linux Beta Now Available

• Reddit Users Bypass Steam Linux Beta Invitations

• The big (updated!) list of which Steam for Linux games actually work for people bypassing the beta access check)

• Steam Moved to Arch

Track the very latest:
+ Linux Game Cast Shows off some goodies
+ Linux Gaming on Reddit

Runs Linux:

• Virgin Media store, Runs Linux

Android Pick:

• OpenSignalMaps

• Introducing Ubuntu Google Play Lens for Unity

• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Desktop App Pick:

• Rochard | Rock is hard. John Rochard is harder.

• Icon Set for HIB 6

• Picks so far

• Madjo

Distro Of The Day

• Hybryde Linux
• Thanks to Micah for sending that in!

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• Thanks to sakuramboo!

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• Jupiter Broadcasting Afiliate Extensions
• Callisto-app – Google Project Hosting
• Quick Update to the Jupiter Broadcasting Android App

News:

• The Humble Bundle for Android 4 (pay what you want and help charity)

• Humble Bundle For Android 4 Brings Sword & Sworcery To Android

• Humble Bundle Hire Full Time Linux Dev

• CD Projekt RED interview: Cyberpunk 2077, Witcher 2 piracy, Windows 8, and more

• Synergy lost its sponsor and needs help

• Gnome 3.8 To Drop Fallback Mode

• Fedora 18 slips into next year

• openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 1 is ready for you!

• Android and Linux on a dual-booting tablet for $100

• New NVIDIA Driver ‘Doubles Performance’ on Linux

• E17 Release Day Set For 21 December 2012

Feedback:

• Lightworks for Linux | s24e04 | Videofeedback

• Lightworks for Linux Preview | LAS | s24e04 : Feedback Thread

• RedShark News – First video review of Lightworks for Linux Alpha hits the Web

• Remote trolling?

• Steffen
  Has a Kickstarter Project

• Active Directory for Linux?

• Does Linux Have a AAA Title Future?

• JB is More value than Netflix!

Proxmox or Ubuntu on the Nexus 7 next week?

Chris’ Stash:

• Unfilter is looking for foreign correspondents!

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• Protecting Your Ubuntu Desktop
• Writing about Linux, sometimes, even asking tough questions
• Offering newbie centric advice, in my articles

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The man behind Phoronix.com Michael Larabel, joins Chris to chat about the big Steam coming to Linux. Plus some of Michael’s thoughts on Valve’s overall Linux plans.

And Unity on Fedora, Dell’s new Linux portable, and a Vivaldi tablet update.

Then – Fixing a common Jungle Disk backup issue for Gnome users, your feedback and more!

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Show Notes:

Runs Linux:

• This 8-bit micro Runs Linux
• Thanks to Cyber Axe!

Android Pick:

• TextSecure Beta
• Android Picks so far thanks to Madjo in the IRC Chat room!

Universal Pick:

• OcenAudio

Linux Action Show Subreddit

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• Linux Action Show Lookup
• Thanks to sakuramboo!

News:

• Steam’d Penguins | Valve Annouced Steam for Linux is in Dev
• Valve Picks Up Another All-Star Linux Developer
  +Valve & Intel Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers
• Dell to offer Ubuntu XPS 13 laptops this Autumn
• Update from Aaron on the Vivaldi tablet
• Ubuntu 12.10 to Feature Web App Integration
• Ubuntu’s Unity Desktop Comes To Fedora 17
• Heroes of Newerth 3D Linux Game Goes Completely Free
• Dieter Plaetinck, one of the lead arch devs in charge of releases, resigns
• Desktop Builds now available for Firefox OS

Matt’s Howto:

Presented by: System76

Out of the box, JungleDiskDesktop doesn’t play well with 64bit Ubuntu. When you try to run it, you end up with this error.

> error while loading shared libraries: libnotify.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Here is how you fix the problem:

1) Create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to /usr/lib/.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnotify.so.4 /usr/lib/libnotify.so.1*

2) Next, you need to run junglediskdesktop again — this time, it will work, but it’s still not appearing in the panel above. To fix this, use this command.

gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist “[‘all’]”

3) Run junglediskdesktop again, this time it’ll show up in the panel! This also helps Skype users running 64bit Ubuntu, too.

The bash scripts I used, are available upon request – scripts@matthartley.com will send you the scripts automatically.

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