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

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Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications

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

Crypto in unexpected places

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

Broadwell in DragonFly

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

DIY NAS software roundup

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

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

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

News Roundup

OpenBSD on DigitalOcean

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

Initial ARM64 support lands in FreeBSD

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

Scripting with least privilege

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

OpenBSD first impressions

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

PC-BSD and 4K oh my!

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

Feedback/Questions

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Discussion

Comparison of BSD release cycles

• FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD

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

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Greg Kroah-Hartman long time Linux kernel developer and maintainer of a few subsystems you depend on joins us to discuss his insights on the pace of Linux’s development, third party involvement, the rolling future & what gets him excited about Linux.

Plus Linus reviews Fedora 21, the questions facing Gnome Software…

AND SO MUCH MORE!

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Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel developer. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, and many critical subsystems.

He also created linux-hotplug, the udev project, and the Linux Driver Project. He worked for SUSE Labs and, as of 1 February 2012, works at the Linux Foundation.

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The Linux Kernel, how fast it is developed and …

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It will describe how the many thousand developers all work together and are able to release a stable kernel every 3 months with no planning.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

If you want to know how to build, configure, and install a custom Linux kernel
on your machine, buy this book. It is written by someone who spends every
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Runs Linux

The Roman Airport, Runs Linux!

During a recent trip to Rome I came upon a helpdesk-terminal kind of thing, a pedestal with a touch-screen for information and a microphone and camera for video calls with personnel.

That was awesome, it helped me out since my Italian is non-existent, and Italian organisational skills leaves a lot to be desired. The next one I saw however seems to have had some problem, and showed only a gnome desktop with a very Ubuntu-esque background, though I couldn’t quite place it.

-Dojan from Sweden

DOUBLE XTREME BONUS RUNS LINUX

This Mens Urinal Runs Linux

So I went with few friends to Boston Pizza (a pizza-bar chain, not sure if exist in the USA) in Toronto. After I had a few beers I went to the washroom (that’s how we say bathroom up here in the north) and to my surprise I saw this on the ad screen on the wall… with my pants already unbuttoned I pulled my phone out and took some pictures, as I was doing that a guy walked in and gave me a weird look. So I had to explain to him what the hell I was doing.

Anyways, I was very excited to see this grub menu in the wild… even if it was on the same wall with a urinal..

-kirbon47

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Linus Reviews Fedora 21

The merge window being over, and things being calm made me think I should try upgrading to F21..

JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification (JMAP)

JMAP is a transport-agnostic, stateless JSON-based API for synchronising a mail client with a mail server. It is intended as a replacement for IMAP. The specification is based on the API currently used by FastMail‘s web app.

GNOME Software, GNOME’s App Store, Is Drawing Some Fresh Criticism

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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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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

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• 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!
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• Next week Allan will be at BSDCam, so we’ll have a prerecorded episode then

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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 show off OpenBSD\’s new \”autoinstall\” feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – it\’s the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD ASLR status update

• Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD
• He\’s implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)
• Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi
• He\’s giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work
• While we\’re on the topic of BSDCan…

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

• Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials
• The tutorials are called \”Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter\” and \”Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5\” – both scheduled to last three hours each
• He\’s requesting anyone that\’ll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you\’d like to learn
• There\’s also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he\’s looking to improve them
• If you\’re interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

• The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready
• Python 3.3 is now a \”first class citizen\” in pkgsrc
• 14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64
• There\’s a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD – you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined
• They\’re also looking into signing packages

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

• A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list
• He questions \”what\’s the big deal\” about OpenBSD\’s slogan being \”Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!\”
• Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this
• Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD
• It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux\’s poor security record, definitely worth reading

Interview – Dru Lavigne – dru@freebsd.org / @bsdevents

FreeBSD\’s documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

• A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues
• Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router
• There are also some NIC driver updates and other things
• Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25
• 2.1.2 is already up for testing too

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

• It looks like FreeBSD\’s battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?
• Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64
• Look through the list to see all the details and information
• Thanks FreeBSD foundation!

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

• Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release
• They\’re aiming for late May for the next version
• Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support
• Gasp, they\’re even considering dropping i386

PCBSD weekly digest

• Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation
• New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime
• Autodetection for DVD / Audio CD insertion / plus playback
• Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds

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• Remy writes in
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• All the tutorials are posted in their entirety at bsdnow.tv
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• Also if you have any tutorial requests, we\’d be glad to show whatever the viewers want to see
• Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)
• Just a quick reminder: If you\’re running OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f please update it and regenerate, rotate and revoke your keys if you run a server with HTTPS, IMAPS, etc – huge security hole! (Also DES offers some insight on the FreeBSD security process)
• We\’re lucky it wasn\’t OpenSSH

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We talk with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it\’s all about. After that, we\’ve got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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FreeBSD quarterly status report

• Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what\’s going on
• The report contains 37 entries and is very very long… various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes
• Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving
• Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year
• There\’s quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time
• Jordan (jkh), one of the co-founders of the FreeBSD project, is once again a FreeBSD committer

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

• Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
• 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
• Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
• If you\’ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you\’ve seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
• Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things – some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
• Another report from Theo details his work
• Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff

Four new NetBSD releases

• NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
• These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
• You can upgrade depending on what branch you\’re currently on
• Confused about the different branches? See this graph.

The future of open source ZFS development

• On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
• The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
• It\’s in San Jose, California – go if you can!

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Interview – George Neville-Neil – gnn@freebsd.org / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

• pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
• They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
• There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
• Unfortunately they\’re only for subscribers, so you\’ll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense!

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

• Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here\’s the FreeBSD version
• Nice big fat warning: \”The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty.\”
• Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
• Other than that it\’s a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running

Dragonfly ACPI update

• Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
• There\’s also a \”heads up\” to update your BIOS if you experience problems
• Check the mailing list post for all the details

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
• Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
• By the way, PCBSD 10.0 is out!
• Special thanks to developers, testers, translators and docs team!
• Upcoming: Working on a 11-CURRENT PC-BSD and 10-STABLE

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• A BSD Now t-shirt design is in the works, we\’ll update you on the progress (but we have to get permission to use the mascots and get a rough sketch first)
• NYCBSDCon will be on February 8th in NYC
• We\’ll announce the winner of our tutorial contest on next week\’s episode! Get your last minute tutorial submissions in for our contest

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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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Headlines

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

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• Adam writes in: https://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk
• Adam\’s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here.

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• Reminder: the FreeBSD foundation\’s year-end donation is going on, please help out if you can. Happy Thanksgiving!

The post Bridging the Gap | BSD Now 13 first appeared on Jupiter Broadcasting.

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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Headlines

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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What does a post Ubuntu world look like, which distro would rise to the top? Our specially crafted team of armed and dangerous Linux users weigh in.

PLUS: Rise up against your bearded distro gatekeepers! If you\’re an experienced Linux user, it might be time to break out of your distro box and help push upstream forward.

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FU

• Learning the nuts and bolts

• RE: The Ubuntu Situation

• Some comments from \”The Ubuntu Situation\”

• Canonical\’s problem: Extraordinary Vision, Crippling Hubris, Underwhelming Execution

The Big Picture for Linux

• The Linux Action Show’s Ubuntu 13.10 Review

• Coder Radio 71: The Back Story to Chris’ Dash Woes

• I use old crusty Debian Stable and I love it

• It\’s not just about updates breaking stuff, it\’s about general stability, compatibility, functionality

The Linux desktop is easily still a good 5 years behind Windows and OSX and without LTS Linux wouldn\’t even be in the ballpark.

Linux outlasts Any Distro, Experienced End-Users Should Embrace that.

Watching the events around Ubuntu unfold it\’s once again teaching us something that anyone who\’s watched Linux for a long time, has noticed, but like my self, refuses to fully accept it. Many (maybe all? In the grand scheme) die or change for the worse.

And yet many Linux users are afraid of a \”raw\” Linux experience without the protection of their distro masters. They fear total system havoc without some bearded keeper of the repo gates preventing mass chaos from entering their system during some random update.

Four months into using Arch as my daily driver, in production and play, has taught me a big lesson. Not about how l33t Arch is, or that Wiki\’s can actually not suck, but that upstream is amazing. The near real time work that is being done is inspiring and encouraging to watch and enjoy.

Some examples of cutting edge:

• \’Corebird\’ – New GTK3-based Twitter App In Development
• \’Polari\’ – An Awesome New IRC App for GNOME

Maybe there is a case to be made, that if you, like me, often enjoy toying with computer instead of playing a video game, then perhaps it in Linux and all upstream code\’s best future interests to try and live outside the box a little.

• irrationalNumber comments on Ubuntu 13.10 Review | LAS s29e02

I\’ve spent a lot of time with each of the main-line distros (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch, openSUSE, Slackware), and I have to say that if I weren\’t using Arch, I really don\’t know what else I would use.

Mail Sack:

• In Defense of KDE

Chris points out that Gene wanted the Enterprise to be clean, and streamlined. Because the technology had become so perfected by that point it was natural and comfortable to use.

• Good and Bad Advice for Linux Noobs

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