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    BSD Now

    Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day.

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    37: BSDCanned Goods May 14, 2014
    Show notes

    This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Presentation - Matthew Ahrens - matt@mahrens.org / @mahrens1

    OpenZFS discussion

    Feedback/Questions

    • Remy writes in
    • Darin writes in
    • Steve writes in
    • Pascal writes in ***
    36: Let's Get RAID May 07, 2014
    Show notes

    This week on the show we'll be showing you how to set up RAID arrays in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. There's also an interview with David Chisnall - of the FreeBSD core team - about the switch to Clang and a lot more. As usual, we'll be dropping the latest news and answering your emails, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Headlines

    OpenBSD 5.5 released

    • If you ordered a CD set then you've probably had it for a little while already, but OpenBSD has formally announced the public release of 5.5
    • This is one of the biggest releases to date, with a very long list of changes and improvements
    • Some of the highlights include: time_t being 64 bit on all platforms, release sets and binary packages being signed with the new signify tool, a new autoinstall feature of the installer, SMP support on Alpha, a new AViiON port, lots of new hardware drivers including newer NICs, the new vxlan driver, relayd improvements, a new pf queue system for bandwidth shaping, dhcpd and dhclient fixes, OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 and all its new features, position-independent executables being default for i386, the RNG has been replaced with ChaCha20 as well as some other security improvements, FUSE support, tmpfs, softraid partitions larger than 2TB and a RAID 5 implementation, OpenSSH 6.6 with all its new features and fixes... and a lot more
    • The full list of changes is HUGE, be sure to read through it all if you're interested in the details
    • If you're doing an upgrade from 5.4 instead of a fresh install, pay careful attention to the upgrade guide as there are some very specific steps for this version
    • Also be sure to apply the errata patches on your new installations... especially those OpenSSL ones (some of which still aren't fixed in the other BSDs yet)
    • On the topic of errata patches, the project is now going to also send them out (signed) via the announce mailing list, a very welcome change
    • Congrats to the whole team on this great release - 5.6 is going to be even more awesome with "Libre"SSL and lots of other stuff that's currently in development ***

    FreeBSD foundation funding highlights

    • The FreeBSD foundation posts a new update on how they're spending the money that everyone donates
    • "As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of what we've done to help FreeBSD become the most innovative, reliable, and high-performance operation system"
    • During this spring, they want to highlight the new UEFI boot support and newcons
    • There's a lot of details about what exactly UEFI is and why we need it going forward
    • FreeBSD has also needed some updates to its console to support UTF8 and wide characters
    • Hopefully this series will continue and we'll get to see what other work is being sponsored ***

    OpenSSH without OpenSSL

    • The OpenSSH team has been hard at work, making it even better, and now OpenSSL is completely optional
    • Since it won't have access to the primitives OpenSSL uses, there will be a trade-off of features vs. security
    • This version will drop support for legacy SSH v1, and the only two cryptographic algorithms supported are an in-house implementation of AES in counter mode and the new combination of the Chacha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 for packet integrity
    • Key exchange is limited to elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and the newer Curve25519 KEXs
    • No support for RSA, DSA or ECDSA public keys - only Ed25519
    • It also includes a new buffer API and a set of wrappers to make it compatible with the existing API
    • Believe it or not, this was planned before all the heartbleed craziness
    • Maybe someday soon we'll have a mini-openssh-portable in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, would be really neat ***

    BSDMag's April 2014 issue is out

    • The free monthly BSD magazine has got a new issue available for download
    • This time the articles include: pascal on BSD, an introduction to revision control systems and configuration management, deploying NetBSD on AWS EC2, more GIMP tutorials, an AsiaBSDCon 2014 report and a piece about how easily credit cards are stolen online
    • Anyone can contribute to the magazine, just send the editors an email about what you want to write
    • No Linux articles this time around, good ***

    Interview - David Chisnall - theraven@freebsd.org

    The LLVM/Clang switch, FreeBSD's core team, various topics

    Tutorial

    RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD

    News Roundup

    BSDTalk episode 240

    • Our buddy Will Backman has uploaded a new episode of BSDTalk, this time with our other buddy GNN as the guest - mainly to talk about NTP and keeping reliable time
    • Topics include the specific details of crystals used in watches and computers to keep time, how temperature affects the quality, different sources of inaccuracy, some general NTP information, why you might want extremely precise time, different time sources (GPS, satellite, etc), differences in stratum levels, the problem of packet delay and estimating the round trip time, some of the recent NTP amplification attacks, the downsides to using UDP instead of TCP and... much more
    • GNN also talks a little about the Precision Time Protocol and how it's different than NTP
    • Two people we've interviewed talking to each other, awesome
    • If you're interested in NTP, be sure to see our tutorial too ***

    m2k14 trip reports

    • We've got a few more reports from the recent OpenBSD hackathon in Morocco
    • The first one is from Antoine Jacoutot (who is a key GNOME porter and gave us the screenshots for the OpenBSD desktop tutorial)
    • "Since I always fail at actually doing whatever I have planned for a hackathon, this time I decided to come to m2k14 unprepared about what I was going to do"
    • He got lots of work done with ports and pushing GNOME-related patches back up to the main project, then worked on fixing ports' compatibility with LibreSSL
    • Speaking of LibreSSL, there's an article all would-be portable version writers should probably read and take into consideration
    • Jasper Adriaanse also writes about what he got done over there
    • He cleaned up and fixed the puppet port to work better with OpenBSD ***

    Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS

    • Here we have a blog post from Atlantic, a VPS and hosting provider, about 10 reasons for using FreeBSD
    • Starts off with a little bit of BSD history for those who are unfamiliar with it and only know Linux and Windows
    • The 10 reasons are: community, stability, collaboration, ease of use, ports, security, ZFS, GEOM, sound and having lots of options
    • The post goes into detail about each of them and why FreeBSD makes a great choice for a VPS OS ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • Big changes coming in the way PCBSD manages software
    • The PBI system, AppCafe and related tools are all going to use pkgng now
    • The AppCafe will no longer be limited to PBIs, so much more software will be easily available from the ports tree
    • New rating system coming soon and much more ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Martin writes in
    • John writes in
    • Alex writes in
    • Goetz writes in
    • Jarrad writes in ***
    35: Puffy Firewall Apr 30, 2014
    Show notes

    We're back again! On this week's packed show, we've got one of the biggest tutorials we've done in a while. It's an in-depth look at PF, OpenBSD's firewall, with some practical examples and different use cases. We'll also be talking to Peter Hansteen about the new edition of "The Book of PF." Of course, we've got news and answers to your emails too, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Headlines

    ALTQ removed from PF

    • Kicking off our big PF episode...
    • The classic packet queueing system, ALTQ, was recently removed from OpenBSD -current
    • There will be a transitional phase between 5.5 and 5.6 where you can still use it by replacing the "queue" keyword with "oldqueue" in your pf.conf
    • As of 5.6, due about six months from now, you'll have to change your ruleset to the new syntax if you're using it for bandwidth shaping
    • After more than ten years, bandwidth queueing has matured quite a bit and we can finally put ALTQ to rest, in favor of the new queueing subsystem
    • This doesn't affect FreeBSD, PCBSD, NetBSD or DragonflyBSD since all of their PFs are older and maintained separately. ***

    FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

    • The quarterly status report from FreeBSD is out, detailing some of the project's ongoing tasks
    • Some highlights include the first "stable" branch of ports, ARM improvements (including SMP), bhyve improvements, more work on the test suite, desktop improvements including the new vt console driver and UEFI booting support finally being added
    • We've got some specific updates from the cluster admin team, core team, documentation team, portmgr team, email team and release engineering team
    • LOTS of details and LOTS of topics to cover, give it a read ***

    OpenBSD's OpenSSL rewrite continues with m2k14

    • A mini OpenBSD hackathon begins in Morocco, Africa
    • You can follow the changes in the -current CVS log, but a lot of work is mainly going towards the OpenSSL cleaning
    • We've got two trip reports so far, hopefully we'll have some more to show you in a future episode
    • You can see some of the more interesting quotes from the tear-down or see everything
    • Apparently they are going to call the fork "LibreSSL" ....
    • What were the OpenSSL developers thinking? The RSA private key was used to seed the entropy!
    • We also got some mainstream news coverage and another post from Ted about the history of the fork
    • Definitely consider donating to the OpenBSD foundation, this fork will benefit all the other BSDs too ***

    NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released

    • New updates for the 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD, focusing on bugfixes
    • The main update is - of course - the heartbleed vulnerability
    • Also includes fixes for other security issues and even a kernel panic... on Atari
    • Patch your Ataris right now, this is serious business ***

    Interview - Peter Hansteen - peter@bsdly.net / @pitrh

    The Book of PF: 3rd edition

    Tutorial

    BSD Firewalls: PF

    News Roundup

    New Xorg now the default in FreeBSD

    • For quite a while now, FreeBSD has had two versions of X11 in ports
    • The older, stable version was the default, but you could install a newer one by having "WITH_NEW_XORG" in /etc/make.conf
    • They've finally made the switch for 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE
    • Check this wiki page for more info ***

    GSoC-accepted BSD projects

    • The Google Summer of Code team has got the list of accepted project proposals uploaded so we can see what's planned
    • OpenBSD's list includes DHCP configuration parsing improvements, systemd replacements, porting capsicum, GPT and UEFI support, and modernizing the DHCP daemon
    • The FreeBSD list was also posted
    • Theirs includes porting FreeBSD to the Android emulator, CTF in the kernel debugger, improved unicode support, converting firewall rules to a C module, pkgng improvements, MicroBlaze support, PXE fixes, bhyve caching, bootsplash and lots more
    • Good luck to all the students participating, hopefully they become full time BSD users ***

    Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example

    • HybridCluster posted the second part of their VFS and ZFS series
    • This new post has lots of technical details once again, definitely worth reading if you're a ZFS guy
    • Of course, also watch episode 24 for our interview with HybridCluster - they do really interesting stuff ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • Preload has been ported over, it's a daemon that prefetches applications
    • PCBSD is developing their own desktop environment, Lumina (there's also an FAQ)
    • It's still in active development, but you can try it out by installing from ports
    • We'll be showing a live demo of it in a few weeks (when development settles down a bit)
    • Some kid in Australia subjects his poor mother to being on camera while she tries out PCBSD and gives her impressions of it ***
    34: It's Gonna Get NASty Apr 23, 2014
    Show notes

    This week, Allan's at a conference so we've got a short episode for you. We sat down with John Hixson to discuss FreeNAS development and all their future plans. The show will be back next week with a normal episode.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Interview - John Hixson - john@ixsystems.com / @bsdwhore

    FreeNAS development

    33: Certified Package Delivery Apr 16, 2014
    Show notes

    This week, we sit down with Jim Brown from the BSD Certification group to talk about the BSD exams. Following that, we'll be showing you how to build OpenBSD binary packages in bulk, a la poudriere. There's a boatload of news and we've got answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Headlines

    BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks

    • This year's BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa
    • The list of speakers is also out
    • And finally the talks everyone's looking forward to
    • Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest
    • Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts ***

    NYCBSDCon talks uploaded

    • The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading recordings from the 2014 NYCBSDCon
    • Jeff Rizzo's talk, "Releasing NetBSD: So Many Targets, So Little Time"
    • Dru Lavigne's talk, "ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD"
    • Scott Long's talk, "Serving one third of the Internet via FreeBSD"
    • Michael W. Lucas' talk, "BSD Breaking Barriers" ***

    FreeBSD Journal, issue 2

    • The bi-monthly FreeBSD journal's second issue is out
    • Topics in this issue include pkg, poudriere, the PBI format, hwpmc and journaled soft-updates
    • In less than two months, they've already gotten over 1000 subscribers! It's available on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, etc
    • "We are also working on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web browsers, including those that run on FreeBSD"
    • Check our interview with GNN for more information about the journal ***

    OpenSSL, more like OpenSS-Hell

    • We mentioned this huge OpenSSL bug last week during all the chaos, but the aftermath is just as messy
    • There's been a pretty vicious response from security experts all across the internet and in all of the BSD projects - and rightfully so
    • We finally have a timeline of events
    • Reactions from ISC, PCBSD, Tarsnap, the Tor project, FreeBSD, NetBSD, oss-sec, PHK, Varnish and Akamai
    • pfSense released a new version to fix it
    • OpenBSD disabled heartbeat entirely and is very unforgiving of the IETF
    • Ted Unangst has two good write-ups about the issue and how horrible the OpenSSL codebase is
    • A nice quote from one of the OpenBSD lists: "Given how trivial one-liner fixes such as #2569 have remained unfixed for 2.5+ years, one can only assume that OpenSSL's bug tracker is only used to park bugs, not fix them"
    • Sounds like someone else was having fun with the bug for a while too
    • There's also another OpenSSL bug that OpenBSD patched - it allows an attacker to inject data from one connection into another
    • OpenBSD has also imported the most current version of OpenSSL and are ripping it apart from the inside out - we're seeing a fork in real time ***

    Interview - Jim Brown - info@bsdcertification.org

    The BSD Certification exams

    Tutorial

    Building OpenBSD binary packages in bulk

    News Roundup

    Portable signify

    • Back in episode 23 we talked with Ted Unangst about the new "signify" tool in OpenBSD
    • Now there's a (completely unofficial) portable version of it on github
    • If you want to verify your OpenBSD sets ahead of time on another OS, this tool should let you do it
    • Maybe other BSD projects can adopt it as a replacement for gpg and incorporate it into their base systems ***

    Foundation goals and updates

    • The OpenBSD foundation has reached their 2014 goal of $150,000
    • You can check their activities and goals to see where the money is going
    • Remember that funding also goes to OpenSSH, which EVERY system uses and relies on everyday to protect their data
    • The FreeBSD foundation has kicked off their spring fundraising campaign
    • There's also a list of their activities and goals available to read through
    • Be sure to support your favorite BSD, whichever one, so they can continue to make and improve great software that powers the whole internet ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • New PBI runtime that fixes stability issues and decreases load times
    • "Update Center" is getting a lot of development and improvements
    • Lots of misc. bug fixes and updates ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • There's a reddit thread we wanted to highlight - a user wants to show his friend BSD and why it's great
    • Brad writes in
    • Sha'ul writes in
    • iGibbs writes in
    • Matt writes in ***
    32: PXE Dust Apr 09, 2014
    Show notes

    This week on the big show we'll be showing 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.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Headlines

    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
    • New default CD and DVD player, umplayer
    • Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Remy writes in
    • Jan writes in
    • Eddie writes in
    • Zen writes in
    • Sean writes in ***
    31: Edgy BSD Users Apr 01, 2014
    Show notes

    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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    Headlines

    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 ***

    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 ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Antonio writes in
    • Patrick writes in
    • Chris writes in
    • Ron writes in
    • Tyler writes in ***
    30: Documentation is King Mar 26, 2014
    Show notes

    Finally hit 30 episodes! Today we'll be chatting with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Headlines

    OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

    • Our buddy Ted Unangst got himself a cool Sun box
    • Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it
    • The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you're interested in one of these fine SPARC machines
    • He's also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server ***

    Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

    • Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon
    • The talks have apparently already been uploaded!
    • Subjects include Bhyve's past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization
    • Lots more detail in the videos, so check 'em all out ***

    Building a FreeBSD wireless access point

    • We've got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD
    • After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it's time for people to start building BSD routers
    • The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol' FreeBSD
    • Using hostapd, he's able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients
    • Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post ***

    Switching from Synology to FreeNAS

    • The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research
    • He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility - prebuilt or DIY
    • After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice
    • The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give ***

    Interview - Warren Block - wblock@freebsd.org

    FreeBSD's documentation project, igor, doceng

    Tutorial

    The world of BSD mailing lists

    News Roundup

    HAMMER2 work and notes

    • Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version
    • The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree
    • There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, a changes list and a todo list ***

    BSD Breaking Barriers

    • Our friend MWL gave a talk at NYCBSDCon about BSD "breaking barriers"
    • "What makes the BSD operating systems special? Why should you deploy your applications on BSD? Why does the BSD community keep growing, and why do Linux sites like DistroWatch say that BSD is where the interesting development work is happening? We'll cover the not-so-obvious reasons why BSD still stands tall after almost 40 years."
    • He also has another upcoming talk, (or "webcast") called "Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD's Real Purpose"
    • "OpenBSD is frequently billed as a high-security operating system. That's true, but security isn't the OpenBSD Project's main goal. This webcast will introduce systems administrators to OpenBSD, explain the project's mission, and discuss the features and benefits."
    • It's on May 27th and will hopefully be recorded ***

    FreeBSD in a chroot

    • Finch, "FreeBSD running IN a CHroot," is a new project
    • It's a way to extend the functionality of restricted USB-based FreeBSD systems (FreeNAS, etc.)
    • All the details and some interesting use cases are on the github page
    • He really needs to change the project name though ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • Lots of bugfixes for PCBSD coming down the tubes
    • LZ4 compression is now enabled by default on the whole pool
    • The latest 10-STABLE has been imported and builds are going
    • Also the latest GNOME and Cinnamon builds have been imported and much more ***

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    • Don writes in
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    29: P.E.F.S. Mar 19, 2014
    Show notes

    We're back from AsiaBSDCon! This week we'll be chatting with Gleb Kurtsou about some a filesystem-level encryption utility called PEFS. After that, we'll give you a step by step guide on how to actually use it. There's also the usual round of your questions and we've got a lot of news to catch up on, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Headlines

    Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication

    • SSH has a not-so-often-talked-about authentication option in addition to passwords and keys: certificates - you can add certificates to any current authentication method you're using
    • They're not really that complex, there just isn't a lot of documentation on how to use them - this post tries to solve that
    • There's the benefit of not needing a known_hosts file or authorized_users file anymore
    • The post goes into a fair amount of detail about the differences, advantages and implications of using certificates for authentication ***

    Back to FreeBSD, a new series

    • Similar to the "FreeBSD Challenge" blog series, one of our listeners will be writing about his switching BACK to FreeBSD journey
    • "So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on a Pentium. 14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD 10"
    • He's starting off with PCBSD since it's easy to get working with dual graphics
    • Should be a fun series to follow! ***

    OpenBSD's recent experiments in package building

    • If you'll remember back to our poudriere tutorial, it lets you build FreeBSD binary packages in bulk - OpenBSD's version is called dpb
    • Marc Espie recently got some monster machines in russia to play with to help improve scaling of dpb on high end hardware
    • This article goes through some of his findings and plans for future versions that increase performance
    • We'll be showing a tutorial of dpb on the show in a few weeks ***

    Securing FreeBSD with 2FA

    • So maybe you've set up two-factor authentication with gmail or twitter, but have you done it with your BSD box?
    • This post walks us through the process of locking down an ssh server with 2FA
    • With just a mobile phone and a few extra tools, you can enable two-factor auth on your BSD box and have just that little extra bit of protections ***

    Interview - Gleb Kurtsou - gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com

    PEFS (security audit results here)

    Tutorial

    Filesystem-based encryption with PEFS

    News Roundup

    BSDCan 2014 registration

    • Registration is finally open!
    • The prices are available along with a full list of presentations
    • Tutorial sessions for various topics as well
    • You have to go ***

    Big changes for OpenBSD 5.6

    • Although 5.5 was just frozen and the release process has started, 5.6 is already looking promising
    • OpenBSD has, for a long time, included a heavily-patched version of Apache based on 1.3
    • They've also imported nginx into base a few years ago, but now have finally removed Apache
    • Sendmail is also no longer the default MTA, OpenSMTPD is the new default
    • Will BIND be removed next? Maybe so
    • They've also discontinued the hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports ***

    Getting to know your portmgr lurkers

    • The "getting to know your portmgr" series makes its return
    • This time we get to talk with danfe@ (probably most known for being the nVidia driver maintainer, but he does a lot with ports)
    • How he got into FreeBSD? He "wanted a unix system that I could understand and that would not get bloated as time goes by"
    • Mentions why he's still heavily involved with the project and lots more ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • Work has started to port Pulseaudio to PCBSD 10.0.1
    • There's a new "pc-mixer" utility being worked on for sound management as well
    • New PBIs, GNOME/Mate updates, Life Preserver fixes and a lot more
    • PCBSD 10.0.1 was released too ***

    Feedback/Questions

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    28: Ghost of Partition Mar 12, 2014
    Show notes

    This week we're at AsiaBSDCon, so it'll be a shorter episode. We've got an interview with Eric Turgeon, founder of the desktop-focused GhostBSD project. Haven't heard of GhostBSD? Well stay tuned then. There's also a really interesting tutorial on how to serially concatenate disks in NetBSD. We'll be back next week with a normal episode.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Interview - Eric Turgeon - ericturgeon@ghostbsd.org / @GhostBSD1

    GhostBSD

    Tutorial

    Serially concatenating disks in NetBSD

    Feedback/Questions

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