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Linux Action News 18 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/118136/linux-action-news-18/ Sun, 10 Sep 2017 18:13:38 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=118136 RSS Feeds: HD Video Feed | MP3 Feed | iTunes Feed Become a supporter on Patreon: Episode Links Connnect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign begins — First unveiled in late August, the team behind the Connect Watch have launched a campaign on European crowdfunding site Ulule in hopes of raising about $33,000. Sailfish meetup […]

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  • Connnect Watch smartwatch with AsteroidOS crowdfunding campaign begins — First unveiled in late August, the team behind the Connect Watch have launched a campaign on European crowdfunding site Ulule in hopes of raising about $33,000.
  • Sailfish meetup in Krakow — We are inviting you to a meetup with our CEO, Mr. Sami Pienimäki in the city of Kraków on Thursday, September 14th for a round or two of beer!
  • What Project Treble Means for Future Custom ROM Development — Because of the way the lower layer of Android was modularized, all Treble devices in the market will be able to boot a generic stock, AOSP Android build. This takes away most of the hassle of porting custom ROMs to an older device since a single, generic Android build can run on many devices.
  • Mozilla and the Washington Post Are Reinventing Online Comments — Talk is developed by The Coral Project, a Mozilla creation that builds open-source tools to make digital journalism more inclusive and more engaging
  • Chinese government bans ICOs — The ruling comes from China’s central bank, which issued a statement criticizing ICOs for “disrupting” the country’s financial order. The regulator described initial coin offerings as “a form of unapproved illegal public financing” that “raises suspicions” of fraud and criminal activity
  • Might shut down Bitcoin exchanges — China’s Bitcoin exchanges said on Saturday they are still awaiting clarification from the authorities on a media report that they will be shut down.
  • WinBtrfs 1.0 Released For Supporting Btrfs On Windows — Harmstone’s WinBtrfs driver is a “reimplementation from scratch” of Btrfs for Windows that supports all major functionality as well as basic RAID 0/1/10/5/6, caching, Btrfs partition discovery, ACLs, symlinks and hardlinks, free-space cache, LZO/ZLib compression, balancing, scrubbing, TRIM/DISCARD, and much more.
  • A Breakdown of Operating Systems on Dockerhub — It is clear that Debian is the most popular, with Alpine taking second place, and then a number of others each taking a smaller share.
  • NGINX releases application platform with new application server, centralized management tools — Today, NGINX launched its new NGINX Application Platform, a suite of products which together, form a solution made up of application delivery, an application server, and policy-driven monitoring and management.

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A Perfectly Fine Gun | User Error 6 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/103781/a-perfectly-fine-gun-user-error-6/ Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:14:53 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=103781 RSS Feeds: MP3 Feed | Video Feed | iTunes Feed Become a supporter on Patreon: — Links — BitTorrrent CEOs Out, Los Angeles Studio Closed, Staff Laid Off Second Amendment

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Flavorless Mint | LINUX Unplugged 144 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/99611/flavorless-mint-lup-144/ Tue, 10 May 2016 18:41:38 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=99611 Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it. Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta. Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean Direct Download: MP3 […]

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Is a new wave of tech savvy Linux users coming? Chris makes his case & why distributions like Linux Mint won’t be ready for it.

Plus updates from some of our favorite projects, Linux on the PS4 & a quick look at the Fedora 24 beta.


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Linux Running on Playstation 4 Revealed By Hacker Fail overflow, Playstation Jailbreak Could Actually Boost Sales of the Console!

Therefore, when hackers announced earlier in December that it is possible to jailbreak the PlayStation 4, it came out as quite an achievement. This step has been taken further by another group of hackers name failoverflow. They have jailbroken a PS4 and further loaded it with Linux.

Sony Orbis OS is run by the Sony console and it is based on Linux FreeBSD. It was further reported by Engadget that this hack exploits the Webkit bug in order to gain access to the kernel. It also works on Orbis version 1.74. It is also a much older version than the current 3.11 on the PS4. Moreover, the bug has since been patched.

However, it seems like the hacker group’s method can be tailored to further work on future consoles. The first thing done by the group during the jailbreak demonstration was running a Game Boy Advance emulator on the Linux PS4. At the same time, they fired up a copy of Pokemon Emerald.

Solus to Offer Users a Brand-New and Modern Graphical Package Manager

“There is no getting around the fact that the Software Center in Solus 1.1 sucks,” said Josh Strobl. “Software discoverability and ease-of-use for installation of software is incredibly important to us and we want to tackle it with urge__ncy. So we’re doing something about it now, this cycle, and it is going to be amazing.”

SSL Certificate Expired – Manjaro Linux

Our SSL certificate has once again expired. We are waiting for a new one to be issued (while also looking at more sustainable alternatives, i.e. Let’s Encrypt). If you’re having problems accessing any of the sites please use a different browser profile, or Private/Incognito Browsing. You will then be able to add a temporary exception.

Kind regards,
The Manjaro Development Team

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Dogfooding Unity 8

Fedora 24 Beta released!

This new release also features GNOME 3.20. There have been changes to the theming API in GTK+ 3. At this time the API is under heavy development and will not remain stable. As a result, applications that use custom CSS theming for example, may have rendering issues. This could include default applications that come with Fedora 24 Beta Workstation. We request that users try out their favorite GTK+ 3 based applications and report bugs to the upstream developers so they can be fixed in time for the final release.

TING

Linux Mint: Too Big to Fail?

Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system. “OEM installation disks and NoCodec images will no longer be released. Instead, similar to other distributions, images will ship without codecs and will support both traditional and OEM installations. This will reduce our release cycle to 4 separate events and the production and testing of 12 ISO images. Multimedia codecs can be installed easily: From the welcome screen, by clicking on “Multimedia Codecs”, or from the main menu, by clicking on “Menu”->”Sound and Video”->”Install Multimedia Codecs”, or during the installation process, by clicking a checkbox option.” Additional information on the upcoming release of Linux Mint 18 can be found in the project’s monthly newsletter.

Why Mint? We checked the Internet and….

When I reflect on why I’ve chosen Mint over Ubuntu in recent years, it came down to:

  • Seriously disliking Unity. (But now I can install Cinnamon packages on Ubuntu easily.)

  • Easy ability to play DVD’s. (But it just got a tiny bit harder; not significantly.)

  • Wanting to give Shuttleworth the middle finger regarding forcing Unity down people’s throats. (But I think my finger has now been extended long enough.)

  • The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Monthly News – April 2016

As part of the “xapps” initiative, which aims to produce cross-desktop and cross-distribution software, we also released the following applications:

  • A media player based on totem, called xplayer.
  • A text editor based on pluma, called xed.
  • A picture viewer based on eog, called xviewer.
  • A document reader based on atril, called xreader.

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Krita 2016: Let’s Make Text and Vector Art Awesome! by Krita Foundation

Krita is the free and open source painting application used by artists all over the world. Let’s create awesome text and vector tools!

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Linux’s Amazing Year | LINUX Unplugged 124 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/91826/linuxs-amazing-year-lup-124/ Tue, 22 Dec 2015 09:59:35 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=91826 We look back at the big year for Linux, for our show & our virtual LUG. Some of the most interesting projects in open source were discussed first in our LUG, we look at some of the great moments & then give you our fresh take on the big events. It’s a very special edition […]

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We look back at the big year for Linux, for our show & our virtual LUG. Some of the most interesting projects in open source were discussed first in our LUG, we look at some of the great moments & then give you our fresh take on the big events.

It’s a very special edition of LINUX Unplugged.

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Vulkan the Metal Slayer | LINUX Unplugged 105 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/86422/vulkan-the-metal-slayer-lup-105/ Tue, 11 Aug 2015 18:03:48 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=86422 We chat with the chief technology officer behind Mycroft, an open source artificial intelligence for everyone. Then discuss Android’s adoption of Vulkan and the major impact it could have on desktop Linux & the nice new Linux exclusive features coming to Firefox. Plus we revisit file syncing under Linux & discuss the really great options […]

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We chat with the chief technology officer behind Mycroft, an open source artificial intelligence for everyone. Then discuss Android’s adoption of Vulkan and the major impact it could have on desktop Linux & the nice new Linux exclusive features coming to Firefox.

Plus we revisit file syncing under Linux & discuss the really great options that have cropped up recently.

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Uses natural language to control Internet of Things. Built on Raspberry Pi this whole home A.I. plays media, controls lights & more.

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Kali linux 2.0 Released

We now find ourselves smack in the middle of the most significant release of Kali since 2013. Today is the day that Kali 2.0 is officially released.


Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution oriented toward penetration testing and related tasks; the 2.0 release is now available. “There’s a new 4.0 kernel, now based on Debian Jessie, improved hardware and wireless driver coverage, support for a variety of Desktop Environments (gnome, kde, xfce, mate, e17, lxde, i3wm), updated desktop environment and tools – and the list goes on. But these bulletpoint items are essentially a side effect of the real changes that have taken place in our development backend. Ready to hear the real news? Take a deep breath, it’s a long list.” At the top of that list is that Kali is now a rolling distribution.

GNOME Announces Search for Executive Director

The GNOME Foundation is looking for qualified candidates for the position of Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. The Executive Director is critical for the Foundation, the public face of GNOME, the liaison to the GNOME Advisory Board


DigitalOcean

Syncing Under Linux Revisited

Today, we’re happy to be open sourcing the biggest piece of our Ubuntu One file syncing service.

Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and
you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet.

The Firefox Accounts server is deployed on our systems using RPM packaging,
and we don’t provide any other packaging or publish official builds yet.

TING

Android Developers Blog

In order to address some of the sources of CPU overhead and provide developers with more explicit control over rendering, we’ve been working to bring a new 3D rendering API, Vulkan(tm), to Android.

Here’s a brain dump of the things that sometimes drive me crazy about OpenGL.

Metal provides the lowest-overhead access to the GPU, enabling you to maximize the graphics and compute potential of your apps on iOS and OS X.

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Putin on Ice | Unfilter 137 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/79107/putin-on-ice-unfilter-137/ Wed, 18 Mar 2015 23:44:52 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=79107 Where in the world has Vlad been? After more than a week of silence, Russia’s president has broken his silence in a big way that could shape the future of the Arctic forever. Plus a quick ISIS update, how Oil explains it all, some feedback & a lot more! Direct Download: Video | MP3 Audio […]

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Where in the world has Vlad been? After more than a week of silence, Russia’s president has broken his silence in a big way that could shape the future of the Arctic forever.

Plus a quick ISIS update, how Oil explains it all, some feedback & a lot more!

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Wikipedia Sues NSA Over Dragnet Internet Surveillance – The Intercept

The lawsuit argues that this broad surveillance, revealed in documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, violates the First Amendment by chilling speech and the open exchange of information, and that it also runs up against Fourth Amendment privacy protections.

Edward Snowden is right—NSA surveillance won’t stop terrorism

The controversial whistleblower made a surprise appearance via Google Hangout at SXSW this week, where his remarks proved captivating as always. Essentially a less flashy sequel to his ACLU speech from 2014, Snowden only spoke to a few people this time around, engaging in a conversation with a select group of leaders from America’s tech sector. In particular, he urged tech companies to become “champions of privacy,” suggesting that they use their power to help shield Americans from an increasingly watchful government.

Even with hiring up, Fed want further gains before rate hike – Houston Chronicle

The Fed signaled Wednesday that it needs the job market to improve further and inflation to rise above low levels before it begins nudging borrowing rates up. Even then, it suggested it will do so only very gradually.

The statement the Fed issued after its latest policy meeting seemed to catch investors by surprise in suggesting that a rate increase might be further off than many had assumed. Stock prices jumped, and bond yields fell.

The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been down nearly 100 points before the statement was issued, closed up 227 points, or 1.3 percent. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which influences long-term mortgage rates, tumbled from 2.04 percent just before the Fed’s announcement to 1.92 percent.

The US Assuming Chairmanship of Artic Council

chart from The Heritage Foundation's 2015 Index of Military Strength

Admiral Robert Papp, U.S. special representative to the Arctic, delivered a keynote address on U.S. policy in Arctic. He stressed the importance of U.S. leadership in the Arctic, and the need to educate younger generations on climate change and the Arctic at an early age. His comments preceded U.S. assumption of the Arctic Council chairmanship for a two year term.

“U.S. Leadership in the Arctic” was held at the Brookings Institution.

In April US assumes the chairmanship of the Arctic council for two years

The Arctic Council is a high-level intergovernmental forum that addresses primarily environmental protection and sustainable development issues in the Arctic region. The eight founding nations (Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States) of the 1991 Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy comprise the Member States of the Arctic Council. Six Arctic indigenous groups hold Permanent Participant status, and a number of other countries and organizations are accredited observers. The Council meets every two years at the Ministerial level to coordinate Council activities and oversee the work of the six working groups. Senior Arctic Officials from each member state meet more frequently to oversee Council operations between Ministerial meetings. The Arctic Council website includes general information about the Council and its activities, projects, and upcoming events, as well as archives of Council documents and links to the working group websites.

The United States participates in the Arctic Council under the leadership of the Department of State. Many other agencies, including the Departments of Interior, Energy, Commerce (NOAA), Transportation (FAA), and Homeland Security (Coast Guard), the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Arctic Research Commission, and the State of Alaska support or actively participate in the Arctic Council’s work.

The United States actively seeks to promote the viability and socioeconomic well being of Arctic communities and supports scientific research and international cooperation in achieving these goals. The United States is committed to working with its partners in the Arctic Council to advance shared objectives and looks forward to its 2015-17 Chairmanship.

Russia’s Arctic pivot is a massive military undertaking – Business Insider

Russia’s biggest new military development in the Arctic is the creation of the Russian Joint Strategic Command North (JSCN), which is built out of the former Northern Fleet. The command, according to Defense News, has a surface fleet and a submarine fleet of about 40 vessels each, although between 40% and 70% of those ships are currently unusable.

According to the Polish Institute of International Affairs, the JSCN won’t be an ordinary naval fleet. The command will ultimately feature an air defense division, two Arctic mechanized brigades, a naval infantry brigade, a coastal defense missile system, and the placement of missile regiments in outlying archipelagos in the Arctic Ocean.

Russia’s Arctic Militarization ‘Disturbing,’ US Lawmakers Say | Defense Tech

“When you look at what the Russians are doing in the Arctic, it is actually quite impressive –impressive, but disturbing,” Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska., told military leaders at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee Navy budget hearing.

“The Russians are looking at adding four new combat brigades in the Arctic as our U.S. Army is thinking at pulling them out of there,” he said. “I think that would give Vladimir Putin a lot of joy. They are building 13 new airfields and conducting long-range air patrols off the coast of Alaska.

Petroleum exploration in the Arctic – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oil in the Arctic

A 2008 United States Geological Survey estimates that areas north of the Arctic Circle have 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil (and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids ) in 25 geologically defined areas thought to have potential for petroleum. This represents 13% of the undiscovered oil in the world.

Arctic drilling is inevitable: if we don’t find oil in the ice, then Russia will – Telegraph

Forget the North Sea and the Middle East, it is the frozen oceans of the Arctic which are the next great frontier that big oil companies plan to exploit over the coming 15 years.

“There aren’t that many places left on the planet that are on the kind of scale as the Arctic in terms of possible resources for the oil companies to go at,” Andrew Latham, vice-president of exploration services at Wood Mackenzie told The Daily Telegraph.

Jason and The Argonauts

I’ve written into the show once before, but I still hear my name called from time to time. So I decided to do some digging…

Looking at the Unfilter Patreon page[1] I noticed that the amount of patrons named Jason is way above average. According to NameStatistics.com[2] about 0.66% of males in the USA are named Jason. Of the Unfilter patrons, 2.1% are named Jason. That’s over three times the average.

So way to go all the other Jasons out there!

Non-Lethal Aid: US Spends $15 Million on Journalists for Anti-Assad Reports — News from Antiwar.com

$15 million of the funding is going to go to journalists and opposition figures “to support documentation of war crimes, human rights violations, and other Syrian government abuses.”

Reports link Islamic State recruiter to Canadian Embassy in Jordan

Canada’s embassy in Jordan, which is run by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s hand picked ambassador and former top bodyguard, is being linked in news reports to an unfolding international terrorism and spy scandal.

The federal government refused to comment Friday on multiple Turkish media reports that a foreign spy allegedly working for Canadian intelligence — and arrested in Turkey for helping three young British girls travel to Syria to join Islamic State militants — was working for the Canadian embassy in Amman, Jordan.

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Top Pot Researcher Weighs in on Long-Term Effects of Marijuana Use | High Times

Allegations from anti-pot proponents that cannabis use by adults causes serious harms are unwarranted and unproven. So says one of the nation’s leading marijuana researchers.

Speaking recently to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. Igor Grant acknowledged, “There is no evidence for long-term damaging effects in adults.”

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On the Verge of Convergence | LINUX Unplugged 84 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/79012/on-the-verge-of-convergence-lup-84/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:44:58 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=79012 We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch. Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update. Thanks to: Get […]

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We get the scoop on how Ubuntu Touch plans to tackle Android’s market share & the challenges involved in moving some of our favorite desktop Linux apps to Ubuntu touch.

Plus what makes the perfect laptop for our crew, why the future of Btrfs looks very bright & an Ubuntu MATE Update.

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Like most people, I find myself using the same VoIP options everyone else is using. Thankfully, these days there are far more options available than what we might think. Today, I’ll look at these options and also explore up-and-coming alternatives as well.

TING

Here you can install everything needed to get developing apps and scopes for Ubuntu.

LinuxFest Northwest 2015

Bellingham, WA • April 25th & 26th


DigitalOcean

Dell’s Linux PC sequel still “just works”—but it adds 4K screen and rough edges | Ars Technica

For $1,533 out of the gate or about $2,080 as tested, is the M3800 Developer Edition worth it?

Sure—if you want a fast, well-built, well-equipped 4K laptop preloaded with Ubuntu, with most of the potential edge-case configuration issues already taken care of, with an active set of developers working to ensure that the necessary repos are kept current, and with an actual, for-real OEM warranty and support.

The Good
  • Ubuntu 14.04, factory-preconfigured to just work
  • Barton George and the other Dell engineers worry about packages and drivers so you don’t have to
  • High-quality build: no squeaks, no rattles, no shimmies
  • 16GB of RAM, the potential for a large SSD, and a Haswell i7 CPU mean it’s got plenty of guts as a developer’s workstation
  • Reasonable amount of upgradeability
  • Display is bright, beautiful, and works with Ubuntu 14.04 (including the multitouch functionality)
The Bad
  • Thunderbolt port doesn’t really work in Ubuntu
  • Application-level 4k scaling issues are pretty much all over the place
  • If all you’re after is Linux on a laptop, you can do it for cheaper than the M3800’s starting price
  • I kind of hoped the Dell logo on the back would light up, but sadly it doesn’t
The Ugly
  • Battery life with the Nvidia GPU enabled is far too short for a day’s worth of working

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The future of Linux storage | ZDNet

For instance, Chris Mason, a Facebook software engineer and one of the _Btrfs(pronounced Butter FS) maintainers, explained how Facebook uses this file system. Btrfs has many advantages as a file system such as the ability to handle both numerous small files and single files as large as 16 exabytes; baked in RAID; built-in file-system compression; and integrated multi-storage device support._

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Daemons in the North | BSD Now 70 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/74777/daemons-in-the-north-bsd-now-70/ Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:33:49 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=74777 It’s our last episode of 2014, and we’ll be chatting with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSDCan conference. We’ll find out what’s planned and what sorts of presentations they’re looking for. As usual, answers to viewer-submitted questions and all the week’s news, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD. Thanks to: […]

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It’s our last episode of 2014, and we’ll be chatting with Dan Langille about the upcoming BSDCan conference. We’ll find out what’s planned and what sorts of presentations they’re looking for. As usual, answers to viewer-submitted questions and all the week’s news, coming up on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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OpenBSD PIE enhancements

  • ASLR and PIE are great security features that OpenBSD has had enabled by default for a long time, in both the base system and ports, but they have one inherent problem
  • They only work with dynamic libraries and binaries, so if you have any static binaries, they don’t get the same treatment
  • For example, the default shells (and many other things in /bin and /sbin) are statically linked
  • In the case of the static ones, you can always predict the memory layout, which is very bad and sort of defeats the whole purpose
  • With this and a few related commits, OpenBSD fixes this by introducing static self-relocation
  • More and more CPU architectures are being tested and getting support too; this isn’t just for amd64 and i386 – VAX users can rest easy
  • It’ll be available in 5.7 in May, or you can use a -current snapshot if you want to get a slice of the action now

FreeBSD foundation semi-annual newsletter

  • The FreeBSD foundation publishes a huge newsletter twice a year, detailing their funded projects and some community activities
  • As always, it starts with a letter from the president of the foundation – this time it’s about encouraging students and new developers to get involved
  • The article also has a fundraising update with a list of sponsored projects, and they note that the donations meter has changed from dollars to number of donors (since they exceeded the goal already)
  • You can read summaries of all the BSD conferences of 2014 and see a list of upcoming ones next year too
  • There are also sections about the FreeBSD Journal‘s progress, a new staff member and a testimonial from NetApp
  • It’s a very long report, so dedicate some time to read all the way through it
  • This year was pretty great for BSD: both the FreeBSD and OpenBSD foundations exceeded their goals and the NetBSD foundation came really close too
  • As we go into 2015, consider donating to whichever BSD you use, it really can make a difference

Modernizing OpenSSH fingerprints

  • When you connect to a server for the first time, you’ll get what’s called a fingerprint of the host’s public key – this is used to verify that you’re actually talking to the same server you intended to
  • Up until now, the key fingerprints have been an MD5 hash, displayed as hex
  • This can be problematic, especially for larger key types like RSA that give lots of wiggle room for collisions, as an attacker could generate a fake host key that gives the same MD5 string as the one you wanted to connect to
  • This new change replaces the default MD5 and hex with a base64-encoded SHA256 fingerprint
  • You can add a “FingerprintHash” line in your ssh_config to force using only the new type
  • There’s also a new option to require users to authenticate with more than one public key, so you can really lock down login access to your servers – also useful if you’re not 100% confident in any single key type
  • The new options should be in the upcoming 6.8 release

Interview – Dan Langille – info@bsdcan.org / @bsdcan

Plans for the BSDCan 2015 conference


News Roundup

Introducing ntimed, a new NTP daemon

  • As we’ve mentioned before in our tutorials, there are two main daemons for the Network Time Protocol – ISC’s NTPd and OpenBSD’s OpenNTPD
  • With all the recent security problems with ISC’s NTPd, Poul-Henning Kamp has been working on a third NTP daemon
  • It’s called “ntimed” and you can try out a preview version of it right now – it’s in FreeBSD ports or on Github
  • PHK also has a few blog entries about the project, including status updates

OpenBSD-maintained projects list

  • There was recently a read on the misc mailing list asking about different projects started by OpenBSD developers
  • The initial list had marks for which software had portable versions to other operating systems (OpenSSH being the most popular example)
  • A developer compiled a new list from all of the replies to that thread into a nice organized webpage
  • Most people are only familiar with things like OpenSSH, OpenSMTPD, OpenNTPD and more recently LibreSSL, but there are quite a lot more
  • This page also serves as a good history lesson for BSD in general: FreeBSD and others have ported some things over, while a couple OpenBSD tools were born from forks of FreeBSD tools (mergemaster, pkg tools, portscout)

Monitoring network traffic with FreeBSD

  • If you’ve ever been curious about monitoring network traffic on your FreeBSD boxes, this forum post may be exactly the thing for you
  • It’ll show you how to combine the Netflow, NfDump and NfSen suite of tools to get some pretty detailed network stats (and of course put them into a fancy webpage)
  • This is especially useful for finding out what was going on at a certain point in time, for example if you had a traffic spike

Trapping spammers with spamd

  • This is a blog post about OpenBSD’s spamd – a spam email deferral daemon – and how to use it for your mail
  • It gives some background on the greylisting approach to spam, rather than just a typical host blacklist
  • “Greylisting is a method of defending e-mail users against spam. A mail transfer agent (MTA) using greylisting will “temporarily reject” any email from a sender it does not recognize. If the sender re-attempts mail delivery at a later time, the sender may be allowed to continue the mail delivery conversation.”
  • The post also shows how to combine it with PF and other tools for a pretty fancy mail setup
  • You can find spamd in the OpenBSD base system, or use it with FreeBSD or NetBSD via ports and pkgsrc
  • You might also want to go back and listen to BSDTalk episode 68, where Will talks to Bob Beck about spamd

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Best of LUP 2014 | LINUX Unplugged 72 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/74372/best-of-lup-2014-lup-72/ Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:58:09 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=74372 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! Thanks to: Get Paid to Write for DigitalOcean Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD Video | Torrent | YouTube RSS Feeds: […]

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Fedora Takes the Lead | LINUX Unplugged 71 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/73942/fedora-takes-the-lead-lup-71/ Tue, 16 Dec 2014 19:24:43 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=73942 Our virtual LUG reviews Fedora 21 & why we’ve just witnessed one of the most ambitious transformation of any Linux distro of 2014. Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical answers if Ubuntu Snappy could be the future of the entire Ubuntu project & what’s coming soon from the Xonotic project. Thanks to: Get Paid to Write […]

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Our virtual LUG reviews Fedora 21 & why we’ve just witnessed one of the most ambitious transformation of any Linux distro of 2014.

Plus Dustin Kirkland from Canonical answers if Ubuntu Snappy could be the future of the entire Ubuntu project & what’s coming soon from the Xonotic project.

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Brewie is a fully automated brewing machine with compact design. Perfect for beginners and experts.

Summary of Brewie specs

Specs listed for the Brewie include:

  • Processor — TI Sitara AM3358 (may change in commercial version)
  • Memory/storage — (not specified)
  • Display — 4.3-inch color LCD touchscreen
  • Wireless — 802.11b/g/n; RFID transceiver
  • Other I/O — USB port
  • Internal sensors — Level, current, and temperature
  • Brewing features:
    • Solid state relay control
    • Magnetic valves with brushless pumps
    • Stainless steel containers
    • 20,000-hour pumps
    • Automatic water inlet
    • Wort outlet (one button push)
    • 2x automatic hop inserters
  • Other features (Beginner’s model) — 4x 5-liter kegs; 1x ingredient pad
  • Capacity — 20 liters (5.2 gal.)
  • Brewing time — 5-6 hours, plus approx. 14 days of fermentation.
  • Power — 230V/120VAC, 2000 W
  • Weight — 25 k (55 lbs)
  • Dimensions — 71.5 x 32.5 x 45cm (21.15 x 12.8 x 17.7 in.)
  • Operating system — Poky-based Linux; accessible from Android, iOS, and Windows Phone mobile apps, plus a general web interface

FU:


Ubuntu Snappy Core for the Desktop?

  • We ask Dustin Kirkland the Ubuntu Cloud Product Manager and Strategist at Canonical if his new baby could be the future of the Ubuntu Project.

Fedora 21 Community Review

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce Fedora 21, the final release, ready to run on your desktops, servers, and in the cloud. Fedora 21 is a game-changer for the Fedora Project, and we think you’re going to be very pleased with the results.

tl;dr?

Impatient? Go straight to https://getfedora.org/ and get started. Otherwise, read on!

Sans the Files bug, I found Fedora 21 to be an impressive release. I was able to get the desired software from RPMFusion. Online Accounts and Software are among the many gems that this community has developed and I wish other DEs adopt a similar approach to make people’s lives easier.

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NFC Payments War! | Tech Talk Today 81 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/70092/nfc-payments-war-tech-talk-today-81/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 10:05:38 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=70092 Popular retailers disable NFC in their stores to block ApplePay, and that drives Android and iPhone users to team up and boycott. Fitbit has some new toys, and Microsoft gets behind WebRTC. Plus a surprise from Firefox OS & a Kickstarter of the week! Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Video | HD […]

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Popular retailers disable NFC in their stores to block ApplePay, and that drives Android and iPhone users to team up and boycott. Fitbit has some new toys, and Microsoft gets behind WebRTC.

Plus a surprise from Firefox OS & a Kickstarter of the week!

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CVS and Rite Aid Apple Pay blockade official as iOS and Android users unite in rare showing to fight NFC ban

Apple responds to CVS & Rite Aid blocking Apple Pay for CurrentC

CVS’s decision to not accept Apple Pay has been echoed by competing pharmacy chain Rite Aid in favor of a system called CurrentC. Rather than support both Apple Pay, CurrentC, and any other mobile payment system like Google Wallet, both chains have opted to actively disable NFC functionality at their sales terminals disabling Apple Pay support at checkout. CurrentC is an effort from the Merchant Customer eXchange (MCX) consortium which includes a number of other retailers like Best Buy and Walmart as well.


Both CVS and Rite Aid were able to accept Apple Pay at NFC terminals during the first few days of Apple Pay’s roll out, but both have since manually disabled support for all NFC-based payments. Competing pharmacy chain Walgreens, however, is a launch partner for Apple Pay and has encouraged its shoppers to use the secure mobile payment system.

Fitbit Joins the Smartwatch Race, and Replaces the Rash-y Force With a New Wristband

The company has just announced a new line-up of activity-tracking devices, including one “smart” fitness watch. Two of the new wearables include optical heart rate sensors, something new to Fitbits.


The new products break down as follows:

  • The Fitbit Charge is being marketed as the “Force reinvented,” with an improved design. It measures steps, distance traveled, calories burned and floors climbed. It has an OLED display, is water-resistant and Fitbit is claiming it lasts up to seven days on a charge. As you can see from the photo here, it looks strikingly similar to the Force, but now includes automatic sleep detection and a caller ID function. It’s selling now for $130 dollars.

  • The Fitbit Charge HR is basically the Charge wristband but with a combination of heart rate sensors that Fitbit is calling PurePulse. This means the wearer can monitor his or her heart rate continuously (some heart-rate wearables require you to press “start” on an activity to get a reading), and the device will use that data to give a more accurate calorie reading or spot heart rate trends over time. It also means the battery on the Charge HR will likely last around five days, not seven; this one will cost $150 and won’t be available until early 2015.

  • And finally, there’s the $250 Fitbit Surge. This is the company’s first foray into connected-watch territory. It has a backlit LCD touchscreen display and eight different sensors: A tri-axis accelerometer, gyroscope, compass, ambient light sensor, GPS and heart rate. It records granular data around specific activities like running and cross-training, placing it firmly in the fitness-watch category, but will also cycle through the typical “smart” watch notifications like text alerts and incoming calls, provided a smartphone is in range. It’s water resistant, but isn’t meant to track swimming. Expected battery life is around seven days. Like the Charge HR, this one won’t ship until sometime in 2015.

Microsoft nears bringing WebRTC to Internet Explorer, eyes plugin-free Skype calls in the browser | VentureBeat | News Briefs | by Emil Protalinski

Microsoft today announced it is backing the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) technology and will be supporting the ORTC API in Internet Explorer. Put another way, the company is finally throwing its weight behind the broader industry trend of bringing voice and video calling to the browser without the need for plugins.


For those who don’t know, WebRTC is an open project that lets Internet users communicate in real time via voice and video simply by using a WebRTC-compatible browser.

Microsoft and over 80 other participants are actively collaborating with the W3C and IETF to contribute and improve standards like the ORTC API for WebRTC. The W3C ORTC Community Group has issued a “Call for Implementations,” which means the ORTC specification has reached significant stability.


The main goal is to influence how the 1.0 version of the WebRTC API will function, though the company still hasn’t confirmed it will implement it in its browser. Microsoft is hoping to push ITU-T H.264 as the primary video codec and says it will offer audio codecs Opus, G.722, and G.711.

Mozilla hopes to challenge Raspbian as RPi OS of choice

The Mozilla Foundation staged a Mozilla Festival in the UK over the weekend, and one of the projects developers delivered was a port of Firefox OS working to the Raspberry Pi.

The NoPhone by The NoPhone Team — Kickstarter

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Don’t Feed the Soap Opera | LINUX Unplugged 61 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/68567/dont-feed-the-soap-opera-lup-61/ Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:20:43 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=68567 The Linux community is at each others throats this week, from Lennart Poettering’s well intentioned rant, to the rage quit of GamingOnLinux’s lead writer. You’d think it was high school all over again. But what’s the larger ramifications of this public fight & what causes them? Plus can we put the blame at the feet […]

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The Linux community is at each others throats this week, from Lennart Poettering’s well intentioned rant, to the rage quit of GamingOnLinux’s lead writer. You’d think it was high school all over again. But what’s the larger ramifications of this public fight & what causes them?

Plus can we put the blame at the feet of Linus Torvalds? Our thoughts on structuring a productive community, your emails & much more!

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Lenart on the Linux community.

I Am Moving On From GamingOnLinux | GamingOnLinux

Final week to respond to the systemd survey. Results will be released the following week.

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  • Is all this drama caused by subliminal stresses of modern life?

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The Daemon’s Apprentice | BSD Now 57 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/68082/the-daemons-apprentice-bsd-now-57/ Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:54:25 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=68082 We’re back from EuroBSDCon! This week we’ll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you’ve ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it’s actually really easy to get involved. We’ve also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place […]

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We’re back from EuroBSDCon! This week we’ll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you’ve ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it’s actually really easy to get involved. We’ve also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference

  • NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find
  • At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display
  • As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference

FreeBSD’s Linux emulation ports rehaul

  • For a long time, FreeBSD’s emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system
  • If you’ve ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you’ll be stuck with all this extra junk
  • With some recent work, that’s been replaced with a recent CentOS release
  • This opens up the door for newer versions of Skype to run on FreeBSD, and maybe even Steam someday

pfSense 2.2-BETA

  • Big changes are coming in pfSense land, with their upcoming 2.2 release
  • We talked to the developer a while back about future plans, and now they’re finally out there
  • The 2.2 branch will be based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE (instead of 8.3) and include lots of performance fixes
  • It also includes some security updates, lots of package changes and updates and much more
  • You can check the full list of changes on their wiki

NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi

  • This article shows how you can install NetBSD on the ever-so-popular Raspberry Pi
  • As of right now, you’ll need to use a -CURRENT snapshot to do it
  • It also shows how to grow the filesystem to fill up an SD card, some pkgsrc basics and how to get some initial things set up
  • Can anyone find something that you can’t install NetBSD on?

Interview – Steve Wills – swills@freebsd.org / @swills

Mentoring new BSD developers


News Roundup

MidnightBSD 0.5 released

  • We don’t hear a whole lot about MidnightBSD, but they’ve just released version 0.5
  • It’s got a round of the latest FreeBSD security patches, driver updates and various small things
  • Maybe one of their developers could come on the show sometime and tell us more about the project

BSD Router Project 1.52 released

  • The newest update for the BSD Router Project is out
  • This version is based on a snapshot of 10-STABLE that’s very close to 10.1-RELEASE
  • It’s mostly a bugfix release, but includes some small changes and package updates

Configuring a DragonFly BSD desktop

  • We’ve done tutorials on how to set up a FreeBSD or OpenBSD desktop, but maybe you’re more interested in DragonFly
  • In this post from Justin Sherrill, you’ll learn some of the steps to do just that
  • He pulled out an old desktop machine, gave it a try and seems to be pleased with the results
  • It includes a few Xorg tips, and there are some comments about the possibility of making a GUI DragonFly installer

Building a mini-ITX pfSense box

  • Another week, another pfSense firewall build post
  • This time, the author is installing to a Jetway J7F2, a mini-ITX device with four LAN ports
  • He used to be a m0n0wall guy, but wanted to give the more modern pfSense a try
  • Lots of great pictures of the hardware, which we always love

Feedback/Questions


  • 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
  • Slides from most of the EuroBSDCon talks are up, hopefully we’ll have the links to all the videos soon
  • We got lots of great interviews, so look forward to those in the coming months
  • The Book of PF’s third edition is now available to buy digitally, and physical copies will be available later this month
  • OpenBSD 5.6 preorders are up on their new store, openbsdstore.com – there’s also some other cool things there
  • Watch live Wednesdays at 2:00PM Eastern (18:00 UTC)

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systemd Haters Busted | LINUX Unplugged 57 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/66417/systemd-haters-busted-lup-57/ Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:49:51 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=66417 The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out. Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF? Thanks to: Direct Download: MP3 Audio | OGG Audio […]

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The majority of systemd hate appears to be coming from just two sources. At least that’s what we suspect & call them out.

Plus a review of OpenMediaVault and how it compares to FreeNAS, a quick look at Tox & what the heck is Fedora’s DNF?

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OpenMediaVault – The open network attached storage solution

systemd – the topic that just keeps driving the clicks

Ultimately, the schism over systemd could lead to a separation of desktop and server distros, or Linux server admins moving to FreeBSD

Systemd has turned into the Godzilla of Linux controversies. Everywhere you look it’s stomping through blogs, rampaging through online discussion threads, and causing white-hot flames that resemble Godzilla’s own breath of death. TechNewsWorld has a roundup of the systemd hostilities in case you missed any of it and want to savor some of the drama.

Maybe it’s time Linux is split in two. I suggested this possibility last week when discussing systemd (or that FreeBSD could see higher server adoption), but it’s more than systemd coming into play here. It’s from the bootloader all the way up. The more we see Linux distributions trying to offer chimera-like operating systems that can be a server or a desktop at a whim, the more we tend to see the dilution of both. You can run stock Debian Jessie on your laptop or on a 64-way server. Does it not make sense to concentrate all efforts on one or the other?

DNF – The Next Generation Package Management Utility for RPM Based Distributions

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The PC-BSD Tour | BSD Now 49 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/64072/the-pc-bsd-tour-bsd-now-49/ Thu, 07 Aug 2014 11:38:35 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=64072 Coming up this week on the show, we’ve got something special for you! We’ll be giving you an in-depth look at all of the graphical PC-BSD utilities. That’s right, BSD doesn’t have to be command line only anymore! There’s also the usual round of answers to your emails and all the latest headlines, on BSD […]

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Coming up this week on the show, we’ve got something special for you! We’ll be giving you an in-depth look at all of the graphical PC-BSD utilities. That’s right, BSD doesn’t have to be command line only anymore! There’s also the usual round of answers to your emails and all the latest headlines, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD foundation semi-annual newsletter

  • The FreeBSD foundation published their semi-annual newsletter, complete with a letter from the president of the foundation
  • “In fact after reading [the president’s] letter, I was motivated to come up with my own elevator pitch instead of the usual FreeBSD is like Linux, only better!”
  • It talks about the FreeBSD journal as being one of the most exciting things they’ve launched this year, conferences they funded and various bits of sponsored code that went into -CURRENT
  • The full list of funded projects is included, also with details in the financial reports
  • There are also a number of conference wrap-ups: NYCBSDCon, BSDCan, AsiaBSDCon and details about the upcoming EuroBSDCon
  • A new application page for travel grants to EuroBSDCon is also up

OpenBSD on an Intel NUC

  • A lot of people love small form factor PCs, and we love ones that can run BSD – so does the author of this write-up
  • The Intel NUC is a small, almost Mac Mini-like device that’s pretty cheap and offers some nice specs
  • “The NUC has integrated Intel graphics (Intel HD Graphics 5000) which as an OpenBSD user is exactly what I wanted” – fully supported
  • The post goes into detail about PXE booting the installation and talks about his experiences

BAFUG presentation videos

  • A couple of talks from BAFUG, the Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group, were uploaded to YouTube
  • The first talk is by Craig Rodrigues about libvirt and bhyve integration
  • libvirt is a c library for interacting with various Hypervisors and virtualization technology – bhyve support was recently added
  • The second is by Adrian Chadd, titled “Upcoming RSS enhancements to the FreeBSD Network Stack”
  • Adrian also wrote a blog post that accompanies the video
  • We need more good quality BSD presentation videos!

TLS decompression

  • A new blog post from our buddy Ted Unangst](https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures), this time about a feature he recently removed from LibreSSL
  • The original commit message was just “decompress libressl” with no details – these are the missing details of that change
  • It talks about the different network layers where compression is applied and how code has to be refactored for that
  • “I might download a zip file (of png files!). The web server, if configured just wrong, can apply http compression to it. If it’s https, the TLS layer can compress it again. If I’m using an SSH tunnel, that can compress it. If it’s travelling over IPsec, it can get compressed again. It can get compressed again by IP compression. How many layers of compression do we really need?”

Special segment

The PC-BSD Tour


News Roundup

Introducing pkgfs

  • A new tool, pkgfs, was committed to FreeBSD -CURRENT
  • It’s described as “a file system implementation for reading files out of a compressed tarball”
  • Users will now be able to view pkgng packages (or any compressed tarball) just like NFS, SMB, SSHFS, etc

BSDMag’s July 2014 issue is out

  • Continuing their monthly release cycle, BSD Magazine has another issue for us
  • Topics include using Wireshark in a SAN environment, more GIMP image manipulation tutorials, an interview with Brett Davis about TrueNAS, an article about pkgng in DragonFlyBSD and a few other things
  • The PDF is free to download, as always

A new OpenSMTPD interview

  • Way back in episode three, we talked to Gilles and Eric from the OpenBSD team about OpenSMTPD
  • One of the developers gave a text-only interview with a Russian website about some recent activity
  • It talks about their development process, testing the code on various platforms and architectures, stress testing via the “Twitter flash mob” and a few other things

FreeBSD as a syslog server

  • If you have a large number of servers, examining their logs individually is a pain
  • Fortunately, you can configure them to send their logs to a dedicated system to receive them
  • This blog post goes through the process of setting up the “client” systems as well as the “server” system to get all your logs in one place

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  • An important notice: OpenBSD is moving to a new distributor in September, so between now and then is your last chance to buy any of the current shirts, CDs, mugs, posters – grab them now while you still can!

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Liberating SSL | BSD Now 48 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/63517/liberating-ssl-bsd-now-48/ Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:38:19 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=63517 Coming up in this week’s episode, we’ll be talking with one of OpenBSD’s newest developers – Brent Cook – about the portable version of LibreSSL and how it’s developed. We’ve also got some important information about the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL. The latest news and your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. […]

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Coming up in this week’s episode, we’ll be talking with one of OpenBSD’s newest developers – Brent Cook – about the portable version of LibreSSL and how it’s developed. We’ve also got some important information about the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL. The latest news and your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD quarterly status report

  • FreeBSD has gotten quite a lot done this quarter
  • Changes in the way release branches are supported – major releases will get at least five years over their lifespan
  • A new automounter is in the works, hoping to replace amd (which has some issues)
  • The CAM target layer and RPC stack have gotten some major optimization and speed boosts
  • Work on ZFSGuru continues, with a large status report specifically for that
  • The report also mentioned some new committers, both source and ports
  • It also covers GNATS being replaced with Bugzilla, the new core team, 9.3-RELEASE, GSoC updates, UEFI booting and lots of other things that we’ve already mentioned on the show
  • “Foundation-sponsored work resulted in 226 commits to FreeBSD over the April to June period”

A new OpenBSD HTTPD is born

  • Work has begun on a new HTTP daemon in the OpenBSD base system
  • A lot of people are asking “why?” since OpenBSD includes a chrooted nginx already – will it be removed? Will they co-exist?
  • Initial responses seem to indicate that nginx is getting bloated, and is a bit overkill for just serving content (this isn’t trying to be a full-featured replacement)
  • It’s partially based on the relayd codebase and also comes from the author of relayd, Reyk Floeter
  • This has the added benefit of the usual, easy-to-understand syntax and privilege separation
  • There’s a very brief man page online already
  • It supports vhosts and can serve static files, but is still in very active development – there will probably be even more new features by the time this airs
  • Will it be named OpenHTTPD? Or perhaps… LibreHTTPD? (I hope not)

pkgng 1.3 announced

  • The newest version of FreeBSD’s second generation package management system has been released, with lots of new features
  • It has a new “real” solver to automatically handle conflicts, and dynamically discover new ones (this means the annoying -o option is deprecated now, hooray!)
  • Lots of the code has been sandboxed for extra security
  • You’ll probably notice some new changes to the UI too, making things more user friendly
  • A few days later 1.3.1 was released to fix a few small bugs, then 1.3.2 shortly thereafter and 1.3.3 yesterday

FreeBSD after-install security tasks

  • A number of people have written in to ask us “how do I secure my BSD box after I install it?”
  • With this blog post, hopefully most of their questions will finally be answered in detail
  • It goes through locking down SSH with keys, patching the base system for security, installing packages and keeping them updated, monitoring and closing any listening services and a few other small things
  • Not only does it just list things to do, but the post also does a good job of explaining why you should do them
  • Maybe we’ll see some more posts in this series in the future

Interview – Brent Cook – bcook@openbsd.org / @busterbcook

LibreSSL’s portable version and development


News Roundup

FreeBSD Mastery – Storage Essentials

  • MWL‘s new book about the FreeBSD storage subsystems now has an early draft available
  • Early buyers can get access to an in-progress draft of the book before the official release, but keep in mind that it may go through a lot of changes
  • Topics of the book will include GEOM, UFS, ZFS, the disk utilities, partition schemes, disk encryption and maximizing I/O performance
  • You’ll get access to the completed (e)book when it’s done if you buy the early draft
  • The suggested price is $8

Why BSD and not Linux?

  • Yet another thread comes up asking why you should choose BSD over Linux or vice-versa
  • Lots of good responses from users of the various BSDs
  • Directly ripping a quote: “Features like Ports, Capsicum, CARP, ZFS and DTrace were stable on BSDs before their Linux versions, and some of those are far more usable on BSD. Features like pf are still BSD-only. FreeBSD has GELI and ipfw and is “GCC free”. DragonflyBSD has HAMMER and kernel performance tuning. OpenBSD have upstream pf and their gamut of security features, as well as a general emphasis on simplicity.”
  • And “Over the years, the BSDs have clearly shown their worth in the nix ecosystem by pioneering new features and driving adoption of others. The most recent on OpenBSD were 2038 support and LibreSSL. FreeBSD still arguably rules the FOSS storage space with ZFS.”
  • Some other users share their switching experiences – worth a read

More g2k14 hackathon reports

  • Following up from last week’s huge list of hackathon reports, we have a few more
  • Landry Breuil spent some time with Ansible testing his infrastructure, worked on the firefox port and tried to push some of their patches upstream
  • Andrew Fresh enjoyed his first hackathon, pushing OpenBSD’s perl patches upstream and got tricked into rewriting the adduser utility in perl
  • Ted Unangst did his usual “teduing” (removing of) old code – say goodbye to asa, fpr, mkstr, xstr, oldrdist, fsplit, uyap and bluetooth
  • Luckily we didn’t have to cover 20 new ones this time!

BSDTalk episode 243

  • The newest episode of BSDTalk is out, featuring an interview with Ingo Schwarze of the OpenBSD team
  • The main topic of discussion is mandoc, which some users might not be familiar with
  • mandoc is a utility for formatting manpages that OpenBSD and NetBSD use (DragonFlyBSD and FreeBSD include it in their source tree, but it’s not built by default)
  • You may also want to watch Ingo’s BSDCan talk about mandoc
  • We’ll catch up to you soon, Will…

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  • Just can’t get enough LibreSSL? Brent also did a text-only interview for Undeadly, which we also have a link to there
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  • If you’re a big PCBSD fan, or have been curious about what it has to offer over regular FreeBSD, you’ll like next week’s episode
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Commit This Bit | BSD Now 41 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/59797/commit-this-bit-bsd-now-41/ Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:23:00 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=59797 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. Thanks to: Direct Download: Video | HD Video | […]

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

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Headlines

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


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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The Friendly Sandbox | BSD Now 39 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/58472/the-friendly-sandbox-bsd-now-39/ Thu, 29 May 2014 13:26:06 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=58472 This time on the show we\’ll be talking with Jon Anderson about Capsicum and Casper to securely sandbox processes. After that, our tutorial will show you how to encrypt all your DNS lookups, either on a single system or for your whole network. News, emails and all the usual fun, on BSD Now – the […]

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This time on the show we\’ll be talking with Jon Anderson about Capsicum and Casper to securely sandbox processes. After that, our tutorial will show you how to encrypt all your DNS lookups, either on a single system or for your whole network. News, emails and all the usual fun, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

BSDCan 2014 talks and reports


Defend your network and privacy with a VPN and OpenBSD

  • After all the recent news about spying, backdoored routers, deep packet inspection and everything else, you might want to start taking steps at getting some privacy back
  • This article describes how to set up a secure network gateway and VPN using OpenBSD and related crypto utilities
  • There are bits for DHCP, DNS, OpenVPN, DNSCrypt and a watchdog script to make sure your tunnel is always being used
  • You can transparently tunnel all your outbound traffic over the VPN with this configuration, nothing is needed on any of the client systems – this could also be used with Tor (but it would be very slow)
  • It also includes a few general privacy tips, recommended browser extensions, etc
  • The intro to the article is especially great, so give the whole thing a read
  • He mentions our OpenBSD router guide and other tutorials being a big help for this setup, so hello if you\’re watching!

You should try FreeBSD

  • In this blog post, the author talks a bit about how some Linux people aren\’t familiar with the BSDs and how we can take steps to change that
  • He goes into some FreeBSD history specifically, then talks about some of the apparent (and not-so-apparent) differences between the two
  • Possibly the most useful part is how to address the question \”my server already works, why bother switching?\”
  • \”Stackoverflow’s answers assume I have apt-get installed\” ← lol
  • It includes mention of the great documentation, stability, ports, improved security and much more
  • A takeaway quote for would-be Linux switchers: \”I like to compare FreeBSD to a really tidy room where you can find everything with your eyes closed. Once you know where the closets are, it is easy to just grab what you need, even if you have never touched it before\”

OpenBSD and the little Mauritian contributor

  • This is a story about a guy from Mauritius named Logan, one of OpenBSD\’s newest developers
  • Back in 2010, he started sending in patched for OpenBSD\’s \”mg\” editor, among other small things, and eventually added file transfer resume support for SFTP
  • The article talks about his journey from just a guy who submits a patch here and there to joining the developer ranks and even getting his picture taken with Theo at a recent hackathon
  • It really shows how easy it is to get involved with the different BSDs and contribute back to the software ecosystem
  • Congrats to Logan, and hopefully this will inspire more people to start helping out and contributing code back

Interview – Jon Anderson – jonathan@freebsd.org

Capsicum and Casperd


Tutorial

Encrypting DNS lookups


News Roundup

FreeBSD Journal, May 2014 issue

  • The newest issue of the FreeBSD Journal is out, following the bi-monthly release cycle
  • This time the topics include: a letter from the foundation, a ports report, some 9.3-RELEASE plans, an events calendar, an overview of ipfw, exploring network activity with dtrace, an article about kqueue, data distribution with dnssec and finally an article about TCP scaling
  • Pick up your (digital) copy at Amazon, Google Play or on iTunes and have a read

LibreSSL porting update

  • Since the last LibreSSL post we covered, a couple unofficial \”portable\” versions have died off
  • Unfortunately, people still think they can just port LibreSSL to other BSDs and Linux all willy-nilly – stop doing that!
  • This post reiterates that LibreSSL currently relies on a lot of OpenBSD-specific security functions that are not present in other systems, and also gives a very eye-opening example
  • Please wait for an official portable version instead of wasting time with these dime-a-dozen github clones that do more harm than good

BSDMag May 2014 issue is out

  • The usual monthly release from BSDMag, covering a variety of subjects
  • This time around the topics include: managing large development projects using RCS, working with HAMMER FS and PFSes, running MeteorJS on FreeBSD 11, another bhyve article, more GIMP tutorials and a few other things
  • It\’s a free PDF, go grab it

BSDTalk episode 241

  • A new episode of BSDTalk is out, this time with Bob Beck
  • He talks about the OpenBSD foundation\’s recent activities, his own work in the project, some stories about the hardware in Theo\’s basement and a lot more
  • The interview itself isn\’t about LibreSSL at all, but they do touch on it a bit too
  • Really interesting stuff, covers a lot of different topics in a short amount of time

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  • Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
  • We\’re looking for new tutorial ideas, so if there\’s something specific you\’d like to learn about, let us know
  • FreeBSD core team elections are in progress – nominations ended today. There are 21 candidates, and voting is open for the next month. We\’ll let you know how it goes in a future episode.
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Edgy BSD Users | BSD Now 31 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/54522/edgy-bsd-users-bsd-now-31/ Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:02:03 +0000 https://original.jupiterbroadcasting.net/?p=54522 We talk to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen.

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This week we\’ll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we\’ll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now – the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

  • The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder
  • We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book
  • \”For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD\’s internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11\”
  • OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now
  • You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it\’s available publicly
  • 5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these – tell Austin we sent you!

pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

  • This year\’s pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd
  • There\’s a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks
  • Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it\’s pretty informal
  • Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

BSDMag issue for March 2014

  • The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue
  • Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article
  • The Linux article trend seems to continue… hmm

Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

  • We\’ve gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS
  • Here we\’ve got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build
  • The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it\’s not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it\’s more expensive
  • Regular RAM also has \”special\” issues with ZFS and pool corruption
  • Long post, so check out the whole thing if you\’ve been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits
  • While we\’re on the topic of FreeNAS…

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Interview – Pierre Pronchery – khorben@edgebsd.org / @khorben

EdgeBSD (slides)


Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop


News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

  • This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@
  • Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team
  • \”FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how
    organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with
    the for-profit companies I work for\”
  • We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

NetBSD on the Playstation 2

  • Who doesn\’t want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?
  • The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived
  • It\’s using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn\’t have much GCC support
  • Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

The FreeBSD Challenge update

  • Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey
  • This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren\’t working because of his clock being way off
  • After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases
  • Maybe he should\’ve just read our NTP tutorial!

PCBSD weekly digest

  • The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes
  • The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and… destroyed
  • New language localization project is in progress
  • Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

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  • Also if you have any tutorial requests, we\’d be glad to show whatever the viewers want to see
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