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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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    17: The Gift of Giving Dec 25, 2013
    Show notes

    Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org

    FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics


    16: Cryptocrystalline Dec 18, 2013
    Show notes

    This time on the show, we'll be showing you how to do a fully-encrypted installation of FreeBSD and OpenBSD. We also have an interview with Damien Miller - one of the lead developers of OpenSSH - about some recent crypto changes in the project. If you're into data security, today's the show for you. The latest news and all your burning questions answered, right 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

    Secure communications with OpenBSD and OpenVPN

    • Starting off today's theme of encryption...
    • A new blog series about combining OpenBSD and OpenVPN to secure your internet traffic
    • Part 1 covers installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption (which we'll be doing later on in the show)
    • Part 2 covers the initial setup of OpenVPN certificates and keys
    • Parts 3 and 4 are the OpenVPN server and client configuration
    • Part 5 is some updates and closing remarks ***

    FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter

    • The December 2013 semi-annual newsletter was sent out from the foundation
    • In the newsletter you will find the president's letter, articles on the current development projects they sponsor and reports from all the conferences and summits they sponsored
    • The president's letter alone is worth the read, really amazing
    • Really long, with lots of details and stories from the conferences and projects ***

    Use of NetBSD with Marvell Kirkwood Processors

    • Article that gives a brief history of NetBSD and how to use it on an IP-Plug computer
    • The IP-Plug is a "multi-functional mini-server was developed by Promwad engineers by the order of AK-Systems. It is designed for solving a wide range of tasks in IP networks and can perform the functions of a computer or a server. The IP-Plug is powered from a 220V network and has low power consumption, as well as a small size (which can be compared to the size of a mobile phone charger)."
    • Really cool little NetBSD ARM project with lots of graphs, pictures and details ***

    Experimenting with zero-copy network IO

    • Long blog post from Adrian Chadd about zero-copy network IO on FreeBSD
    • Discusses the different OS' implementations and options
    • He's able to get 35 gbit/sec out of 70,000 active TCP sockets, but isn't stopping there
    • Tons of details, check the full post ***

    Interview - Damien Miller - djm@openbsd.org / @damienmiller

    Cryptography in OpenBSD and OpenSSH

    Tutorial

    Full disk encryption in FreeBSD & OpenBSD

    News Roundup

    OpenZFS office hours

    • Our buddy George Wilson sat down to take some ZFS questions from the community
    • You can see more info about it here ***

    License summaries in pkgng

    • A discussion between Justin Sherill and some NYCBUG guys about license frameworks in pkgng
    • Similar to pkgsrc's "ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES" setting, pkgng could let the user decide which software licenses he wants to allow
    • Maybe we could get a "pkg licenses" command to display the license of all installed packages
    • Ok bapt, do it ***

    The FreeBSD challenge continues

    • Checking in with our buddy from the Linux foundation...
    • The switching from Linux to FreeBSD blog series continues for his month-long trial
    • Follow up from last week: "As a matter of fact, I did check out PC-BSD, and wanted the challenge. Call me addicted to pain and suffering, but the pride and accomplishment you feel from diving into FreeBSD is quite rewarding."
    • Since we last mentioned it, he's decided to go from a VM to real hardware, got all of his common software installed, experimented with the Linux emulation, set up virtualbox, learned about slices/partitions/disk management, found BSD alternatives to his regularly-used commands and lots more ***

    Ports gets a stable branch

    • For the first time ever, FreeBSD's ports tree will have a maintained "stable" branch
    • This is similar to how pkgsrc does things, with a rolling release for updated software and stable branch for only security and big fixes
    • All commits to this branch require approval of portmgr, looks like it'll start in 2014Q1 ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • John writes in
    • Spencer writes in
    • Campbell writes in
    • Sha'ul writes in
    • Clint writes in ***

    15: Kickin' NAS Dec 11, 2013
    Show notes

    This time on the show, we'll be looking at the new version of FreeNAS, a BSD-based network attached storage solution, as well as talking to Josh Paetzel - one of the key developers of FreeNAS. Actually, he's on the FreeBSD release engineering team too, and does quite a lot for the project. We've got answers to your viewer-submitted questions and plenty of news to cover, so get ready for some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    This episode was brought to you by

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    Headlines

    More faces of FreeBSD

    • Another installment of the FoF series
    • This time they talk with Reid Linnemann who works at Spectra Logic
    • Gives a history of all the different jobs he's done, all the programming languages he knows
    • Mentions how he first learned about FreeBSD, actually pretty similar to Kris' story
    • "I used the system to build and install ports, and explored, getting actively involved in the mailing lists and forums, studying, passing on my own limited knowledge to those who could benefit from it. I pursued my career in the open source software world, learning the differences in BSD and GNU licensing and the fragmented nature of Linux distributions, realizing the FreeBSD community was more mature and well distributed about industry, education, and research. Everything steered me towards working with and on FreeBSD."
    • Now works on FreeBSD as his day job
    • The second one covers Brooks Davis
    • FreeBSD committer since 2001 and core team member from 2006 through 2012
    • He's helped drive our transition from a GNU toolchain to a more modern LLVM-based toolchain
    • "One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is the community involved in the process of building a principled, technically-advanced operating system platform. Not only do we produce a great product, but we have fun doing it."
    • Lots more in the show notes ***

    We cannot trust Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto

    • We woke up to see FreeBSD on the front page of The Register, Ars Technica, Slashdot and Hacker News for their strong stance on security and respecting privacy
    • At the EuroBSDCon dev summit, there was some discussion about removing support for hardware-based random number generators.
    • FreeBSD's /dev/random got some updates and, for 10.0, will no longer allow the use of Intel or VIA's hardware RNGs as the sole point of entropy
    • "It will still be possible to access hardware random number generators, that is, RDRAND, Padlock etc., directly by inline assembly or by using OpenSSL from userland, if required, but we cannot trust them any more" ***

    OpenSMTPD 5.4.1 released

    • The OpenBSD developers came out with major a new version
    • Improved config syntax (please check your smtpd.conf before upgrading)
    • Adds support for TLS Perfect Forward Secrecy and custom CA certificate
    • MTA, Queue and SMTP server improvements
    • SNI support confirmed for the next version
    • Check the show notes for the full list of changes, pretty huge release
    • Watch Episode 3 for an interview we did with the developers ***

    More getting to know your portmgr

    • The portmgr secretary, Thomas Abthorpe, interviews... himself!
    • Joined as -secretary in March 2010, upgraded to full member in March 2011
    • His inspiration for using BSD is "I wanted to run a webserver, and I wanted something free. I was going to use something linux, then met up with a former prof from university, and shared my story with him. He told me FreeBSD was the way to go."
    • Mentions how he loves that anyone can contribute and watch it "go live"
    • The second one covers Baptiste Daroussin
    • The reason for his nick, bapt, is "Baptiste is too long to type"
    • There's even a video of bapt joining the team! ***

    Interview - Santa Clause - josh@ixsystems.com / @freenasteam

    FreeNAS 9.2.0

    Note: we originally scheduled the interview to be with Josh Paetzel, but Santa showed up instead.

    Tutorial

    FreeNAS walkthrough

    News Roundup

    Introducing configinit

    • CloudInit is "a system originally written for Ubuntu which performs configuration of a system at boot-time based on user-data provided via EC2"
    • Wasn't ideal for FreeBSD since it requires python and is designed around the concept of configuring a system by running commands (rather than editing configuration files)
    • Colin Percival came up with configinit, a FreeBSD alternative
    • Alongside his new "firstboot-pkgs" port, it can spin up a webserver in 120 seconds from "launch" of the EC2 instance
    • Check the show notes for full blog post ***

    OpenSSH support for Ed25519 and bcrypt keys

    • New Ed25519 key support (hostkeys and user identities) using the public domain ed25519 reference code
    • SSH private keys were encrypted with a symmetric key that's just an MD5 of their password
    • Now they'll be using bcrypt by default
    • We'll get more into this in next week's interview ***

    The FreeBSD challenge

    • A member of the Linux foundation blogs about using FreeBSD
    • Goes through all the beginner steps, has to "unlearn" some of his Linux ways
    • Only a few posts as of this time, but it's a continuing series that may be helpful for switchers ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • GNOME3, cinnamon and mate desktops are in the installer
    • Compat layer updated to CentOS 6, enables newest Skype
    • Looking for people to test printers and hplip
    • Continuing work on grub, but the ability to switch between bootloaders is back ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Bostjan writes in
    • Jason writes in
    • John writes in
    • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
    • Alexy writes in ***

    14: Zettabytes for Days Dec 04, 2013
    Show notes

    This week is the long-awaited episode you've been asking for! We'll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project's recent developments. We have answers to your feedback emails and there are some great news items to get caught up on too, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    Headlines

    pkgng 1.2 released

    • bapt and bdrewery from the portmgr team released pkgng 1.2 final
    • New features include an improved build system, plugin improvements, new bootstrapping command, SRV mirror improvements, a new "pkg config" command, repo improvements, vuXML is now default, new fingerprint features and much more
    • Really simple to upgrade, check our pkgng tutorial if you want some easy instructions
    • It's also made its way into Dragonfly
    • See the show notes for the full list of new features and fixes ***

    ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH

    • Damien Miller recently committed support for a new authenticated encryption cipher for OpenSSH, chacha20-poly1305
    • Long blog post explaining what these are and why we need them
    • This cipher combines two primitives: the ChaCha20 cipher and the Poly1305 MAC
    • RC4 is broken, we needed an authenticated encryption mode to complement AES-GCM that doesn't show the packet length in cleartext
    • Great explanation of the differences between EtM, MtE and EaM and their advantages
    • "Both AES-GCM and the EtM MAC modes have a small downside though: because we no longer desire to decrypt the packet as we go, the packet length must be transmitted in plaintext. This unfortunately makes some forms of traffic analysis easier as the attacker can just read the packet lengths directly." ***

    Is it time to dump Linux and move to BSD

    • ITworld did an article about switching from Linux to BSD
    • The author's interest was sparked from a review he was reading that said "I feel the BSD communities, especially the FreeBSD-based projects, are where the interesting developments are happening these days. Over in FreeBSD land we have efficient PBI bundles, a mature advanced file system in the form of ZFS, new friendly and powerful system installers, a new package manager (pkgng), a powerful jail manager and there will soon be new virtualization technology coming with the release of FreeBSD 10.0"
    • The whole article can be summed up with "yes" - ok, next story! ***

    OpenZFS devsummit videos

    • The OpenZFS developer summit discussion and presentation videos are up
    • People from various operating systems (FreeBSD, Mac OS X, illumos, etc.) were there to discuss ZFS on their platforms and the challenges they faced
    • Question and answer session from representatives of every OS - had a couple FreeBSD guys there including one from the foundation
    • Presentations both about ZFS itself and some hardware-based solutions for implementing ZFS in production
    • TONS of video, about 6 hours' worth
    • This leads us into our interview, which is... ***

    Interview - George Wilson - wilzun@gmail.com / @zfsdude

    OpenZFS

    Tutorial

    A crash course on ZFS

    News Roundup

    ruBSD 2013 information

    • The ruBSD 2013 conference will take place on Saturday December 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM in Moscow, Russia
    • Speakers include three OpenBSD developers, Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer and Mike Belopuhov
    • Their talks are titled "The bane of backwards compatibility," "OpenBSD's pf: Design, Implementation and Future" and "OpenBSD: Where crypto is going?"
    • No word on if there will be video recordings, but we'll let you know if that changes ***

    DragonFly roadmap, post 3.6

    • John Marino posted a possible roadmap for DragonFly, now that they're past the 3.6 release
    • He wants some third party vendor software updated from very old versions (WPA supplicant, bmake, binutils)
    • Plans to replace GCC44 with Clang, but GCC47 will probably be the primary compiler still
    • Bring in fixes and new stuff from FreeBSD 10 ***

    BSDCan 2014 CFP

    • BSDCan 2014 will be held on May 16-17 in Ottawa, Canada
    • They're now accepting proposals for talks
    • If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal
    • We'll be getting lots of interviews there ***

    casperd added to -CURRENT

    • "It (and its services) will be responsible forgiving access to functionality that is not available in capability modes and box. The functionality can be precisely restricted."
    • Lists some sysctls that can be controlled ***

    ZFS corruption bug fixed in -CURRENT

    • Just a quick follow-up from last week, the ZFS corruption bug in FreeBSD -CURRENT was very quickly fixed, before that episode was even uploaded ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Chris writes in
    • SW writes in
    • Jason writes in
    • Clint writes in
    • Chris writes in ***

    13: Bridging the Gap Nov 27, 2013
    Show notes

    This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.

    Headlines

    Getting to know your portmgr

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

    vBSDCon wrap-up compilation

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

    Faces of FreeBSD

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

    Dragonfly 3.6 released

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

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

    FreeBSD's founding and future

    Tutorial

    Building an OpenBSD router, part 2

    • Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions. ***

    News Roundup

    pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2

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

    Puffy on the desktop

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

    Two-factor authentication with SSH

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

    PCBSD weekly digest

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

    Feedback/Questions

    • Ben writes in
    • Florian writes in
    • Zach writes in
    • Addison writes in
    • Adam writes in
    • Adam's BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here. ***

    12: Collecting SSHells Nov 20, 2013
    Show notes

    This week we'll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD's future plans and much more. After that, if you've ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today's tutorial has got you covered. We'll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    Headlines

    Faces of FreeBSD

    • The FreeBSD foundation is publishing articles on different FreeBSD developers
    • This one is about Colin Percival (cperciva@), the ex-security officer
    • Tells the story of how he first found BSD, what he contributed back, how he eventually became the security officer
    • Running series with more to come ***

    Lots of BSD presentation videos uploaded

    • EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit videos, AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos, MWL's presentation video
    • Most of us never get to see the dev summit talks since they're only for developers
    • AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos also up finally
    • List of AsiaBSDCon presentation topics here
    • Our buddy Michael W Lucas gave an "OpenBSD for Linux users" talk at a Michigan Unix Users Group.
    • He says "Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member. We also talk long long time, memory randomization, PF, BSD license versus GPL, Microsoft and other OpenBSD stuff"
    • Really informative presentation, pretty long, answers some common questions at the end ***

    Call for Presentations: FOSDEM 2014 and NYCBSDCon 2014

    • FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1–2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium
    • Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer's room
    • The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features.
    • If you are in the area or want to go, check the show notes for details
    • NYCBSDCon is also accepting papers.
    • It'll be in New York City at the beginning of February 2014
    • If anyone wants to give a talk at one of these conferences, go ahead and send in your stuff! ***

    FreeBSD foundation's year-end fundraising campaign

    • The FreeBSD foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD project and community for over 13 years
    • As of today they have raised about half a million dollars, but still have a while to go
    • Donations go towards new features, paying for the server infrastructure, conferences, supporting the community, hiring full-time staff members and promoting FreeBSD at events
    • They are preparing the debut of a new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal
    • Typically big companies make their huge donations in December, like a couple of anonymous donors that gave around $250,000 each last year
    • Make your donation today over at freebsdfoundation.org, every little bit helps
    • Everyone involved with BSD Now made a donation last year and will do so again this year ***

    Interview - Amitai Schlair - schmonz@netbsd.org / @schmonz

    The NetBSD Foundation, pkgsrc, future plans

    Tutorial

    Combining SSH and tmux

    • Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions. ***

    News Roundup

    PS4 released

    • Sony's Playstation 4 is finally released
    • As previously thought, its OS is heavily based on FreeBSD and uses the kernel among other things
    • Link in the show notes contains the full list of BSD software they're using
    • Always good to see BSD being so widespread ***

    BSD Mag November issue

    • Free monthly BSD magazine publishes another issue
    • This time their topics include: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD, IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation, more FreeBSD Programming Primer, PfSense and Snort and a few others
    • PDF linked in the show notes ***

    pbulk builds made easy

    • NetBSD's pbulk tool is similar to poudriere, but for pkgsrc
    • While working on updating the documentation, a developer cleaned up quite a lot of code
    • He wrote a script that automates pbulk deployment and setup
    • The whole setup of a dedicated machine has been reduced to just three commands ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • Over 200 PBIs have been populated in to the PC-BSD 10 Stable Appcafe
    • Many PC-BSD programs received some necessary bug fixes and updates
    • Some include network detection in the package and update managers, nvidia graphic detection, security updates for PCDM ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Peter writes in
    • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
    • Jordan writes in
    • Christian writes in
    • entransic writes in ***

    11: The Gateway Drug Nov 13, 2013
    Show notes

    This time on the show, we sit down to chat with Justin Sherrill of the DragonflyBSD project about their new 3.6 release. Later on, we'll be showing you a huge tutorial that's been baking for over a month - how to build an OpenBSD router that'll destroy any consumer router on the market! There's lots of news to get caught up on as well, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    Headlines

    OpenSSH 6.4 released

    • Security fixes in OpenSSH don't happen very often
    • 6.4 fixes a memory corruption problem, no new features
    • If exploited, this vulnerability might permit code execution with the privileges of the authenticated user and may therefore allow bypassing restricted shell/command configurations.
    • Disabling AES-GCM in the server configuration is a workaround
    • Only affects 6.2 and 6.3 if compiled against a newer OpenSSL (so FreeBSD 9's base OpenSSL is unaffected, for example)
    • Full details here ***

    Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

    • Next entry in portmgr interview series
    • This time they chat with Mathieu Arnold, one of the portmgr-lurkers we mentioned previously
    • Lots of questions ranging from why he uses BSD to what he had for breakfast
    • Another one was since released, with Antoine Brodin aka antoine@ ***

    FUSE in OpenBSD

    • As we glossed over last week, FUSE was recently added to OpenBSD
    • Now the guys from the OpenBSD Journal have tracked down more information
    • This version is released under an ISC license
    • Should be in OpenBSD 5.5, released a little less than 6 months from now
    • Will finally enable things like SSHFS to work in OpenBSD ***

    Automated submission of kernel panic reports

    • New tool from Colin Percival
    • Saves information about kernel panics and emails it to FreeBSD
    • Lets you review before sending so you can edit out any private info
    • Automatically encrypted before being sent
    • FreeBSD never kernel panics so this won't get much use ***

    Interview - Justin Sherrill - justin@dragonflybsd.org / @dragonflybsd

    DragonflyBSD 3.6 and the Dragonfly Digest

    Tutorial

    Building an OpenBSD Router

    News Roundup

    BSD router project 1.5 released

    • Nice timing for our router tutorial; TBRP is a FreeBSD distribution for installing on a router
    • It's an alternative to pfSense, but not nearly as well known or popular
    • New version is based on 9.2-RELEASE, includes lots of general updates and bugfixes
    • Fits on a 256MB Compact Flash/USB drive ***

    Curve25519 now default key exchange

    • We mentioned in an earlier episode about a patch for curve25519
    • Now it's become the default for key exchange
    • Will probably make its way into OpenSSH 6.5, would've been in 6.4 if we didn't have that security vulnerability
    • It's interesting to see all these big changes in cryptography in OpenBSD lately ***

    FreeBSD kernel selection in boot menu

    • Adds a kernel selection menu to the beastie menu
    • List of kernels is taken from 'kernels' in loader.conf as a space or comma separated list of names to display (up to 9)
    • From our good buddy Devin Teske ***

    PCBSD weekly digest

    • PCDM has officially replaced GDM as the default login manager
    • New ISO build scripts (we got a sneak preview last week)
    • Lots of bug fixes
    • Second set of 10-STABLE ISOs available with new artwork and much more ***

    Theo de Raadt speaking at MUUG

    • Theo will be speaking at Manitoba UNIX User Group in Winnipeg
    • On Friday, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:30PM (see show notes for the address)
    • If you're watching the show live you have time to make plans, if you're watching the downloaded version it might be happening right now!
    • No agenda, but expect some OpenBSD discussion ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Dave writes in
    • James writes in
    • Allen writes in
    • Chess writes in
    • Frank writes in ***

    10: Year of the BSD Desktop Nov 06, 2013
    Show notes

    Headlines

    OpenBSD 5.4 released

    • The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
    • People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP
    • New platforms "octeon" and "beagle"
    • Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
    • Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes
    • A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
    • Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future ***

    FreeBSD pkgng repos are official

    • Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
    • Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
    • Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
    • New "pkg+http" protocol identifier for SRV records
    • If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
    • If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
    • What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences? ***

    DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched

    • SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch
    • Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
    • Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
    • We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release ***

    FreeBSD portmgr lurkers

    • Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
    • At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
    • The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@). ***

    Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com / @mwlauthor

    Sudo Mastery

    • Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes ***

    Tutorial

    Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system

    News Roundup

    Capsicum in DragonflyBSD

    • Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
    • Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
    • Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes ***

    NYCBSDCon 2014

    • After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 8, 2014
    • Theme of "The BSDs in Production" this year
    • Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer ***

    FreeBSD newcons progress update

    • This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
    • Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
    • More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki ***

    Weekly PCBSD feature digest

    • PBI 10 format is about ready and they'll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
    • PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
    • New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Alptekin writes in
    • [Gertjan writes in[(http://slexy.org/view/s2k4C2Ryo9)
    • Kevin writes in
    • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
    • Michael writes in ***

    9: CURRENT Events Oct 30, 2013
    Show notes

    Headlines

    Managed services using FreeBSD

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

    OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

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

    More Dragonfly SMP speedups

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

    Getting to know portmgr

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

    BSD Now at the top of iTunes

    • BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section ***

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

    OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

    Tutorial

    Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

    News Roundup

    OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

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

    PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

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

    Switching from Linux to BSD

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

    Unattended OpenBSD installations

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

    Feedback/Questions

    • Kjell-Aleksander writes in
    • Alex writes in
    • Chad writes in
    • Joshua writes in
    • Craig writes in
    • We want to especially thank Chris for his huge feedback emails with lots of show ideas. ***

    8: A Brief Introduction Oct 23, 2013
    Show notes

    This week, we chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

    Headlines

    FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report

    • Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we'll cover a few of them
    • Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more
    • We've covered some of these things already, but there's lots to read in the announcement
    • See full page for details on everything ***

    Dragonfly SMP contention update

    • Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release
    • Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box
    • The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is "a fairly major milestone for the project"
    • Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out ***

    FreeBSD gets "first boot" rc.d scripts

    • Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot
    • Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches
    • Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup
    • Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages
    • Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports
    • Lots of possibilities ***

    NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel

    • NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel
    • A luactl command was added to easily manipulate it
    • It will be interesting to see what can come out of this
    • Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview! ***

    Interview - Antti Kantee - pooka@netbsd.org / @anttikantee

    The anykernel and rump kernels
    rump kernels in userspace, rump kernels + applications on Xen, fs-utils, rump kernel compiled to javascript

    Tutorial

    Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service

    News Roundup

    Second PCBSD feature digest is out

    • Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features
    • Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac​.pcbsd​.org
    • Life Preserver has finished development and is now being tested
    • PCBSD 10.0 ISOs coming soon ***

    OpenBSD imports VXLAN interface

    • VXLAN is a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface
    • UDP-based tunneling protocol for overlaying virtualized layer 2 networks over layer 3 networks ***

    OpenZFS Office Hours

    • The question and answer session with Matt has been uploaded
    • Covers lots of topics ranging from cross-compatibility to performance improvements and trivia
    • We'll be trying to get Matt on for an interview sometime, already contacted him ***

    BSDMag's October issue is out

    • Free monthly BSD magazine releases another issue
    • Topics include FreeBSD moving to SVN, a BSD programming intro, new PCBSD utilities, migrating from Linux to BSD and OpenBSD LTS updates (which we already covered!) ***

    Feedback/Questions

    • Ben writes in
    • Brian writes in
    • Toby writes in
    • Noah writes in ***

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