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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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    27: BSD Now vs. BSDTalk Mar 05, 2014
    Show notes

    The long-awaited meetup is finally happening on today's show. We're going to be interviewing the original BSD podcaster, Will Backman, to discuss what he's been up to and what the future of BSD advocacy looks like. After that, we'll be showing you how to track (and even cross-compile!) the -CURRENT branch of NetBSD. We've got answers to user-submitted questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    FreeBSD and OpenBSD in GSOC2014

    • The Google Summer of Code is a way to encourage students to write code for open source projects and make some money
    • Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD were accepted, and we'd love for anyone listening to check out their GSOC pages
    • The FreeBSD wiki has a list of things that they'd be interested in someone helping out with
    • OpenBSD's want list was also posted
    • DragonflyBSD and NetBSD were sadly not accepted this year ***

    Yes, you too can be an evil network overlord

    • A new blog post about monitoring your network using only free tools
    • OpenBSD is a great fit, and has all the stuff you need in the base system or via packages
    • It talks about the pflow pseudo-interface, its capabilities and relation to NetFlow (also goes well with pf)
    • There's also details about flowd and nfsen, more great tools to make network monitoring easy
    • If you're listening, Peter... stop ignoring our emails and come on the show! We know you're watching! ***

    BSDMag's February issue is out

    • The theme is "configuring basic services on OpenBSD 5.4"
    • There's also an interview with Peter Hansteen (oh hey...)
    • Topics also include locking down SSH, a GIMP lesson, user/group management, and...
    • Linux and Solaris articles? Why?? ***

    Changes in bcrypt

    • Not specific to any OS, but the OpenBSD team is updating their bcrypt implementation
    • There is a bug in bcrypt when hashing long passwords - other OSes need to update theirs too! (FreeBSD already has)
    • "The length is stored in an unsigned char type, which will overflow and wrap at 256. Although we consider the existence of affected hashes very rare, in order to differentiate hashes generated before and after the fix, we are introducing a new minor 'b'."
    • As long as you upgrade your OpenBSD system in order (without skipping versions) you should be ok going forward
    • Lots of specifics in the email, check the full thing ***

    Interview - Will Backman - bitgeist@yahoo.com / @bsdtalk

    The BSDTalk podcast, BSD advocacy, various topics

    Tutorial

    Tracking and cross-compiling -CURRENT (NetBSD)

    News Roundup

    X11 no longer needs root

    • Xorg has long since required root privileges to run the main server
    • With recent work from the OpenBSD team, now everything (even KMS) can run as a regular user
    • Now you can set the "machdep.allowaperture" sysctl to 0 and still use a GUI ***

    OpenSSH 6.6 CFT

    • Shortly after the huge 6.5 release, we get a routine bugfix update
    • Test it out on as many systems as you can
    • Check the mailing list for the full bug list ***

    Creating an OpenBSD USB drive

    • Since OpenBSD doesn't distribute any official USB images, here are some instructions on how to do it
    • Step by step guide on how you can make your very own
    • However, there's some recent emails that suggest official USB images may be coming soon... oh wait ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • New PBI updates that allow separate ports from /usr/local
    • You need to rebuild pbi-manager if you want to try it out
    • Updates and changes to Life Preserver, App Cafe, PCDM ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • espressowar writes in
    • Antonio writes in
    • Christian writes in
    • Adam writes in
    • Alex writes in ***
    26: Port Authority Feb 26, 2014
    Show notes

    On today's show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

    • The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU
    • Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it!
    • This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device
    • He goes through the trial and error of "compile, break it, rebuild, try again"
    • After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working ***

    pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

    • pkgsrccon is "a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure"
    • This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
    • The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
    • BSDCan's schedule was also announced
    • We'll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
    • Kris' presentation was accepted!
    • Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully! ***

    Two factor auth with pushover

    • A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
    • Pushover is "a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway" - you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
    • His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
    • Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh! ***

    The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

    • It's no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
    • OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
    • This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
    • A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they're finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
    • The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us - it's a beautiful thing
    • This goes right along with our interview today! ***

    Interview - Joe Marcus Clark - marcus@freebsd.org

    The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

    Tutorial

    The FreeBSD Ports Collection

    News Roundup

    DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

    • The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
    • On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they'd like to get done before then
    • In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes ***

    NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

    • We've got a nice wrap-up titled "NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend"
    • The author also interviews GNN about the conference
    • There's even a little "beginner introduction" to BSD segment
    • Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event ***

    FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

    • GNN in yet another story - he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
    • He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs "distros," development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
    • Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends ***

    PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

    • Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
    • You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
    • How dare Kris be "unimpressed with" freebsd-update and pkgng!?
    • Various updates and fixes ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Jeffrey writes in
    • Shane writes in
    • Ferdinand writes in
    • Curtis writes in
    • Clint writes in
    • Peter writes in ***
    25: A Sixth pfSense Feb 19, 2014
    Show notes

    We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Headlines

    EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon

    • This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria
    • They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present
    • There will also be a tutorial section of the conference
    • AsiaBSDCon will be next month, in March!
    • All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted
    • Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers! ***

    FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

    • The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU
    • This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router
    • Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up
    • It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don't want to use the ones rolled by someone else
    • For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router
    • Of course if you're more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see our tutorial for that too ***

    Signed pkgsrc package guide

    • We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up
    • It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD)
    • He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them
    • The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer ***

    Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports

    • Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI
    • In the second, ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things
    • In the third, jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara
    • In the fourth, dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead - but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he's done
    • In the fifth, claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things ***

    Interview - Chris Buechler - cmb@pfsense.com / @cbuechler

    pfSense

    Tutorial

    pfSense walkthrough

    News Roundup

    FreeBSD challenge continues

    • Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey
    • In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first
    • In day 14, he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he's starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again - concludes that ports are the way to go
    • In day 15, he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch
    • In day 16, he dives into the world of FreeBSD jails! ***

    BSD books in 2014

    • BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them
    • In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014
    • In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and...
    • Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch our interview with him)
    • Check the link for all the details ***

    How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images

    • Our friend Colin Percival details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post
    • Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own from scratch
    • You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI
    • It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • This time around we discuss how you can become a developer
    • Kris also details the length of supported releases
    • Expect lots of new features in 10.1 ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Sean writes in
    • Jake writes in
    • Niclas writes in
    • Steffan writes in
    • Antonio writes in
    • Chris writes in ***
    24: The Cluster & The Cloud Feb 12, 2014
    Show notes

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

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    Headlines

    FreeBSD 10 as a firewall

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

    Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools

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

    FreeBSD ASLR patches submitted

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

    Old-style pkg_ tools retired

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

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

    BSD at HybridCluster

    Tutorial

    Filesharing with chrooted SFTP

    News Roundup

    FreeBSD on OpenStack

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

    FOSDEM BSD videos

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

    The FreeBSD challenge finally returns!

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

    PCBSD weekly digest

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

    Feedback/Questions

    • Derrick writes in
    • Sean writes in
    • Patrick writes in
    • Peter writes in
    • Sean writes in ***
    23: Time Signatures Feb 05, 2014
    Show notes

    On this week's episode, we'll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even... the winner of our tutorial contest will be announced! So stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Headlines

    FreeBSD foundation's 2013 fundraising results

    • The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013
    • $768,562 from 1659 donors
    • Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture
    • "We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon."
    • A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook) ***

    OpenSSH 6.5 released

    • We mentioned the CFT last week, and it's finally here!
    • New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein's Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it)
    • Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA
    • Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can't even attempt to login lol~
    • New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force
    • Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one
    • Portable version already in FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
    • Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
    • Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL! ***

    Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

    • In 2000, MWL wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: "It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now."
    • This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent comments from Richard Stallman
    • Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL
    • Check out the full post if you're one of those people that gets into license arguments
    • The takeaway is "BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone." ***

    OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black

    • Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi
    • A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today!
    • He describes it as "everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black"
    • It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds
    • Could be a really fun weekend project if you're interested in small or embedded devices ***

    Interview - Ted Unangst - tedu@openbsd.org / @tedunangst

    OpenBSD's signify infrastructure, ZFS on OpenBSD

    Tutorial

    Running an NTP server

    News Roundup

    Getting started with FreeBSD

    • A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD
    • The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he's worked with
    • He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users
    • The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics - 4 videos so far ***

    More OpenBSD hackathon reports

    • As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience
    • He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work
    • This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there ***

    X11 in a jail

    • We've gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can!
    • A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes
    • Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail
    • Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial for ideas ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • 10.0 "Joule Edition" finally released!
    • AMD graphics are now officially supported
    • GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
    • Grub updates and fixes
    • PCBSD also got a mention in eweek ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Justin writes in
    • Daniel writes in
    • Martin writes in
    • Alex writes in - unofficial FreeBSD RPI Images
    • James writes in
    • John writes in ***
    22: Journaled News-Updates Jan 29, 2014
    Show notes

    This time on the show, we'll be talking with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it's all about. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Headlines

    FreeBSD quarterly status report

    • Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what's going on
    • The report contains 37 entries and is very very long... various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes
    • Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving
    • Secure boot support hopefully coming [by mid-year](www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year)
    • There's quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time ***

    n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

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

    Four new NetBSD releases

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

    The future of open source ZFS development

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

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

    The FreeBSD Journal

    Tutorial

    Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

    News Roundup

    pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

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

    FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

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

    Dragonfly ACPI update

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

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
    • PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did
    • Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
    • By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Tony writes in
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    • Remy writes in
    • Nils writes in
    • Solomon writes in ***
    21: Tendresse for Ten Jan 22, 2014
    Show notes

    This time on the show, we've got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE - yes it's finally here! We're gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we'll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We've got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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    Headlines

    FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out

    • The long awaited, giant release of FreeBSD is now official and ready to be downloaded
    • One of the biggest releases in FreeBSD history, with tons of new updates
    • Some features include: LDNS/Unbound replacing BIND, Clang by default (no GCC anymore), native Raspberry Pi support and other ARM improvements, bhyve, hyper-v support, AMD KMS, VirtIO, Xen PVHVM in GENERIC, lots of driver updates, ZFS on root in the installer, SMP patches to pf that drastically improve performance, Netmap support, pkgng by default, wireless stack improvements, a new iSCSI stack, FUSE in the base system... the list goes on and on
    • Start up your freebsd-update or do a source-based upgrade ***

    OpenSSH 6.5 CFT

    • Our buddy Damien Miller announced a Call For Testing for OpenSSH 6.5
    • Huge, huge release, focused on new features rather than bugfixes (but it includes those too)
    • New ciphers, new key formats, new config options, see the mailing list for all the details
    • Should be in OpenBSD 5.5 in May, look forward to it - but also help test on other platforms! ***

    DIY NAS story, FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA

    • Another new blog post about FreeNAS!
    • Instead of updating the older tutorials, the author started fresh and wrote a new one for 2014
    • "I did briefly consider suggesting nas4free for the EconoNAS blog, since it’s essentially a fork off the FreeNAS tree but may run better on slower hardware, but ultimately I couldn’t recommend anything other than FreeNAS"
    • Really long article with lots of nice details about his setup, why you might want a NAS, etc.
    • Speaking of FreeNAS, they released 9.2.1-BETA with lots of bugfixes ***

    OpenBSD needed funding for electricity.. and they got it

    • Briefly mentioned at the end of last week's show, but has blown up over the internet since
    • OpenBSD in the headlines of major tech news sites: slashdot, zdnet, the register, hacker news, reddit, twitter.. thousands of comments
    • They needed about $20,000 to cover electric costs for the server rack in Theo's basement
    • Lots of positive reaction from the community helping out so far, and it appears they have reached their goal and got $100,000 in donations
    • From Bob Beck: "we have in one week gone from being in a dire situation to having a commitment of approximately $100,000 in donations to the foundation"
    • This is a shining example of the BSD community coming together, and even the Linux people realizing how critical BSD is to the world at large ***

    Interview - Colin Percival - cperciva@freebsd.org / @cperciva

    FreeBSD on Amazon EC2, backups with Tarsnap, 10.0-RELEASE, various topics

    Tutorial

    Bandwidth monitoring and testing

    News Roundup

    pfSense talk at Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyoukai

    • Isaac Levy will be presenting "pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability Datacenter Deployments"
    • He's also going to be looking for help to translate the pfSense documentation into Japanese
    • The event is on February 17, 2014 if you're in the Tokyo area ***

    m0n0wall 1.8.1 released

    • For those who don't know, m0n0wall is an older BSD-based firewall OS that's mostly focused on embedded applications
    • pfSense was forked from it in 2004, and has a lot more active development now
    • They switched to FreeBSD 8.4 for this new version
    • Full list of updates in the changelog
    • This version requires at least 128MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32MB or more, oh no! ***

    Ansible and PF, plus NTP

    • Another blog post from our buddy Michael Lucas
    • There've been some NTP amplification attacks recently in the news
    • The post describes how he configured ntpd on a lot of servers without a lot of work
    • He leverages pf and ansible for the configuration
    • OpenNTPD is, not surprisingly, unaffected - use it ***

    ruBSD videos online

    • Just a quick followup from a few weeks ago
    • Theo and Henning's talks from ruBSD are now available for download
    • There's also a nice interview with Theo ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • 10.0-RC4 images are available
    • Wine PBI is now available for 10
    • 9.2 systems will now be able to upgrade to version 10 and keep their PBI library ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Sha'ul writes in
    • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
    • Mike writes in
    • Charlie writes in (and gets a reply)
    • Kevin writes in ***
    20: Bhyve Mind Jan 15, 2014
    Show notes

    It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Headlines

    OpenBSD automatic installation

    • A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD's new automatic installer process
    • Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly
    • It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services
    • Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings ***

    FreeNAS install guide and blog posts

    • A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS
    • In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylvanian accent..) builds his new file server and shows off the hardware
    • In part 2, he shows how to install and configure FreeNAS, uses IPMI, sets up his pools
    • He pronounces gigabytes as jiggabytes and it's hilarious
    • We've also got an unrelated blog post about a very satisfied FreeNAS user who details his setup
    • As well as another blog post from our old pal Devin Teske about his recent foray into the FreeNAS development world ***

    FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 is out

    • Another, unexpected RC is out for 10.0
    • Minor fixes included, please help test and report any bugs
    • You can update via freebsd-update or from source
    • Hopefully this will be the last one before 10.0-RELEASE, which has tons of new features we'll talk about
    • It's been tagged -RELEASE in SVN already too! ***

    OpenBSD 5.5-beta is out

    • Theo updated the branch status to 5.5-beta
    • A list of changes
    • Help test and report any bugs you find
    • Lots of rapid development with signify (which we mentioned last week), the beta includes some "test keys"
    • Does that mean it'll be part of the final release? We'll find out in May.. or when we interview Ted (soon) ***

    Interview - Neel Natu & Peter Grehan - neel@freebsd.org & grehan@freebsd.org

    BHyVe - the BSD hypervisor

    Tutorial

    Virtualization with bhyve

    News Roundup

    Hostname canonicalisation in OpenSSH

    • Blog post from our friend Damien Miller
    • This new feature allows clients to canonicalize unqualified domain names
    • SSH will know if you typed "ssh bsdnow" you meant "ssh bsdnow.tv" with new config options
    • This will help clean up some ssh configs, especially if you have many hosts
    • Should make it into OpenSSH 6.5, which is "due really soon" ***

    Dragonfly on a Chromebook

    • Some work has been done by Matthew Dillon to get DragonflyBSD working on a Google Chromebook
    • These couple of posts detail some of the things he's got working so far
    • Changes were needed to the boot process, trackpad and wifi drivers needed updating...
    • Also includes a guide written by Dillon on how to get yours working ***

    Spider in a box

    • "Spiderinabox" is a new OpenBSD-based project
    • Using a combination of OpenBSD, Firefox, XQuartz and VirtualBox, it creates a secure browsing experience for OS X
    • Firefox runs encapsulated in OpenBSD and doesn't have access to OS X in any way
    • The developer is looking for testers on other operating systems! ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • PCBSD 10 has entered into the code freeze phase
    • They're focusing on fixing bugs now, rather than adding new features
    • The update system got a lot of improvements
    • PBI load times reduced by up to 40%! what!!! ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Scott writes in
    • Chris writes in
    • SW writes in
    • Ole writes in
    • Gertjan writes in ***
    19: The Installfest Jan 08, 2014
    Show notes

    We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Headlines

    FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure

    • A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
    • Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
    • Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
    • More details available here
    • Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***

    OpenBSD gets signify

    • At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
    • For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
    • A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around
    • More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
    • Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***

    Faces of FreeBSD

    • This time they interview Isabell Long
    • She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
    • In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
    • "The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***

    pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

    • The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
    • 13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
    • Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
    • pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
    • See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***

    OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine

    • Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2
    • Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
    • Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option
    • It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
    • Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***

    The Installfest

    We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:

    • FreeBSD 10.0
    • OpenBSD 5.4
    • NetBSD 6.1.2
    • DragonflyBSD 3.6
    • PCBSD 10.0 ***

    News Roundup

    Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

    • A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router
    • Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless
    • Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute ***

    FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

    • Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas
    • For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10
    • Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware
    • He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail
    • It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." ***

    Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

    • Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day
    • To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down"
    • Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD
    • Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • 10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested
    • New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next
    • Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Daniel writes in
    • Erik writes in
    • SW writes in
    • [Bostjan writes in[(http://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum)
    • Samuel writes in ***
    18: Eclipsing Binaries Jan 01, 2014
    Show notes

    Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We're back with the first show of 2014, and we've got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we'll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

    iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

    Headlines

    Faces of FreeBSD continues

    • Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia
    • Gives some information about how she got into BSD
    • "I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn't booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out."
    • She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation
    • We've also got one for Kevin Martin
    • Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company
    • "FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community." ***

    OpenPF?

    • A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest
    • What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD's firewall?
    • Similar to portable OpenSSH or OpenZFS, there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue
    • Right now FreeBSD 9's pf is old, FreeBSD 10's pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD's pf is old (but they're working on a fork) and Dragonfly's pf is old
    • Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’
    • Not likely to happen any time soon, but it's good food for thought ***

    Year of BSD on the server

    • A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD
    • 2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10's amazing new features
    • This author was particularly taken with pkgng and the more coherent layout of BSD systems
    • Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread, "Why did you choose BSD over Linux?"
    • Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send 'em to your friends ***

    Getting to know your portmgr

    • This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team
    • He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team
    • Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time
    • Lots of fun trivia and background about him
    • Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is... ***

    Interview - Baptiste Daroussin - bapt@freebsd.org

    The future of FreeBSD's binary packages, ports' features, various topics

    News Roundup

    pfSense december hang out

    • Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post
    • "This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics"
    • Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store
    • We're planning on having a pfSense episode next month! ***

    BSDMag December issue is out

    • The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December
    • Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, "unix basics for security professionals," some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH ***

    OpenBSD gets tmpfs

    • In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs
    • To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current
    • Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan
    • Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide ***

    PCBSD weekly digests

    • Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land..
    • 10.0-RC2 is now available
    • The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Remy writes in
    • Jason writes in
    • Rob writes in
    • John writes in
    • Stuart writes in ***
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