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396: License to thrill
FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting, The State of FreeBSD, dhcpleased, bhyve for Calamares Development, EFS automount and ebsnvme-id, Old Usenix pictures, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Network Troubleshooting (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-network-troubleshooting-understanding-network-performance/) FreeBSD has a full set of debugging features, and the network stack is able to report a ton of information. So much that it can be hard to figure out what is relevant and what is not. The State of FreeBSD (https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/10/the_state_of_freebsd/) License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything News Roundup dhcpleased(8) - DHCP client daemon (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210227232424) With the following commit, Florian Obser (florian@) imported dhcpleased(8), DHCP daemon to acquire IPv4 address leases from servers, plus dhcpleasectl(8), a utility to control the daemon: bhyve for Calamares Development (https://euroquis.nl//freebsd/2021/03/05/bhyve.html) bhyve (pronounced “bee hive”) is a hypervisor for BSD systems (and Illumos / openSolaris). It is geared towards server workloads, but does support desktop-oriented operation as well. I spent some time wayyyy back in November wrestling with it in order to replace VirtualBox for Calamares testing on FreeBSD. The “golden hint” as far as I’m concerned came from Karen Bruner and now I have a functioning Calamares test-ground that is more useful than before. “Calamares is a free and open-source independent and distro-agnostic system installer for Linux distributions.“ Some new FreeBSD/EC2 features: EFS automount and ebsnvme-id (https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-05-31-Some-new-FreeBSD-EC2-features.html) As my regular readers will be aware, I've been working on and gradually improving FreeBSD/EC2 for many years. Recently I've added two new features, which are available in the weekly HEAD and 12-STABLE snapshots and will appear in releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE. Old Usenix pictures (http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2021-February/018304.html) Beastie Bits https://2021.eurobsdcon.org/ (CFP is open until May 26th, 2021) EuroBSDcon is the European technical conference for users and developers of BSD-based systems. The conference is scheduled to take place September 16-19 2021 in Vienna, Austria or as an all-online event if COVID-19 developments dictate. The tutorials will be held on Thursday and Friday to registered participants and the talks are presented to conference attendees on Saturday and Sunday. The Call for Talk and Presentation proposals period will close on May 26th, 2021. Prospective speakers will be notified of acceptance or otherwise by June 1st, 2021. https://campgnd.com/ (CFP is open until 2021-04-15) campgndd will be held May 28th, 29th and 30th 2021, from wherever you happen to be. We're looking for submissions on anything you're enthusiastic and excited about. If you enjoy it, the odds are we will too! You don't need to be an expert to propose anything. Some example of things we are looking for are: Talks Walkthroughs Music From the Desk of Michael Lucas… ``` New Release: Only Footnotes I’ve lost count of the number of people who have told me that they purchase my books only for the footnotes. That’s okay. I don’t care why people buy my books, only that they do buy them. Nevertheless, I am a businessman living under capitalism and feel compelled to respond to my market. Allow me to present my latest release: Only Footnotes, a handsome hardcover-only compilation of decades of footnotes. From the back cover: Only Footnotes. Because that’s why you read his books. Academics hate footnotes. Michael W Lucas loves them. What he does with them wouldn’t pass academic muster, but that doesn’t mean the reader should skip them. The footnotes are the best part! Why not read only the footnotes, and skip all that other junk? After literal minutes of effort, Only Footnotes collects every single footnote from all of Lucas’ books to date.* Recycle those cumbersome treatises stuffed with irrelevant facts! No more flipping through pages and pages of actual technical knowledge looking for the offhand movie reference or half-formed joke. This slender, elegant volume contains everything the man ever passed off as his dubious, malformed “wisdom.” Smart books have footnotes. Smarter books are only footnotes. *plus additional annotations from the author. Because sometimes even a footnote needs a footnote. With interior illustrations by OpenBSD’s akoshibe, this distinguished tome would make fine inspirational reading for a system administrator, network engineer, or anyone sentenced to a life in information technology. Available at all fine bookstores, and many mediocre ones! ``` Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Tom Jones.
395: Tracing ARM’s history
Tracing the History of ARM and FreeBSD, Make ‘less’ more friendly, NomadBSD 1.4 Release, Create an Ubuntu Linux jail on FreeBSD 12.2, OPNsense 21.1.2 released, Midnight BSD and BastilleBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Tracing the History of ARM and FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/tracing-the-history-of-arm-and-freebsd/) When we think of computers, we generally think of laptops and desktops. Each one of these systems is powered by an Intel or AMD chip based on the x86 architecture. It might feel like you spend all day interacting with these kinds of systems, but you would be wrong. Unix Tip: Make ‘less’ more friendly (https://ascending.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/unix-tip-make-less-more-friendly/) You probably know about less: it is a standard tool that allows scrolling up and down in documents that do not fit on a single screen. Less has a very handy feature, which can be turned on by invoking it with the -i flag. This causes less to ignore case when searching. For example, ‘udf’ will find ‘udf’, ‘UDF’, ‘UdF’, and any other combination of upper-case and lower-case. If you’re used to searching in a web browser, this is probably what you want. But less is even more clever than that. If your search pattern contains upper-case letters, the ignore-case feature will be disabled. So if you’re looking for ‘QXml’, you will not be bothered by matches for the lower-case ‘qxml’. (This is equivalent to ignorecase + smartcase in vim.) News Roundup NomadBSD 1.4 Release (https://www.itsfoss.net/nomadbsd-1-4-release/) Version 1.4 of NomadBSD, a persistent live system for USB flash drives based on FreeBSD and featuring a graphical user interface built around Openbox, has been released: “We are pleased to present the release of NomadBSD 1.4. Create an Ubuntu Linux jail on FreeBSD 12.2 (https://hackacad.net/post/2021-01-23-create-a-ubuntu-linux-jail-on-freebsd/) OPNsense 21.1.2 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-2-released/) Work has so far been focused on the firmware update process to ensure its safety around edge cases and recovery methods for the worst case. To that end 21.1.3 will likely receive the full revamp including API and GUI changes for a swift transition after thorough testing of the changes now available in the development package of this release. Midnight BSD and BastilleBSD (https://www.justjournal.com/users/mbsd/entry/33869) We recently added a new port, mports/sysutils/bastille that allows you to manage containers. This is a port of a project that originally targetted FreeBSD, but also works on HardenedBSD. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Brad - monitoring with Grafana (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/395/feedback/Brad%20-%20monitoring%20with%20Grafana) Dennis - a few questions (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/395/feedback/Dennis%20-%20a%20few%20questions) Paul - FreeBSD 13 (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/395/feedback/Paul%20-%20FreeBSD%2013) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
394: FreeBSD on Mars
Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover, Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data, OpenBSD guest with bhyve - OmniOS, NextCloud on OpenBSD, MySQL Transactions - the physical side, TrueNAS 12.0-U2.1 is released, HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Prototyping an Onboard Scheduler for the Mars 2020 Rover (https://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/documents/papers/rabideau_iwpss2017_prototyping.pdf) The mars rover runs VxWorks, which is based on BSD, and uses the FreeBSD networking stack. While there has been a lot of type about the little helicopter that was inside the rover running Linux, the rover itself runs BSD. *** ### Practical Guide to Storage of Large Amounts of Microscopy Data (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/microscopy-today/article/practical-guide-to-storage-of-large-amounts-of-microscopy-data/D3CE39447BFF5BBF9B3ED8A0C35C6F36) > Biological imaging tools continue to increase in speed, scale, and resolution, often resulting in the collection of gigabytes or even terabytes of data in a single experiment. In comparison, the ability of research laboratories to store and manage this data is lagging greatly. This leads to limits on the collection of valuable data and slows data analysis and research progress. Here we review common ways researchers store data and outline the drawbacks and benefits of each method. We also offer a blueprint and budget estimation for a currently deployed data server used to store large datasets from zebrafish brain activity experiments using light-sheet microscopy. Data storage strategy should be carefully considered and different options compared when designing imaging experiments. *** ## News Roundup ### OpenBSD guest with bhyve - OmniOS (https://www.pbdigital.org/omniosce/bhyve/openbsd/2020/06/08/bhyve-zones-omnios.html) > Today I will be creating a OpenBSD guest via bhyve on OmniOS. I will also be adding a Pass Through Ethernet Controller so I can have a multi-homed guest that will serve as a firewall/router. > This post will cover setting up bhyve on OmniOS, so it will also be a good introduction to bhyve. As well, I look into OpenBSD’s uEFI boot loader so if you have had trouble with this, then you are in the right place. *** ### NextCloud on OpenBSD (https://h3artbl33d.nl/blog/nextcloud-on-openbsd) > NextCloud and OpenBSD are complimentary to one another. NextCloud is an awesome, secure and private alternative for propietary platforms, whereas OpenBSD forms the most secure and solid foundation to serve it on. Setting it up in the best way isn’t hard, especially using this step by step tutorial. MySQL Transactions - the physical side (https://blog.koehntopp.info/2020/07/27/mysql-transactions.html) So you talk to a database, doing transactions. What happens actually, behind the scenes? Let’s have a look. TrueNAS 12.0-U2.1 is released (https://www.truenas.com/docs/hub/intro/release-notes/12.0u2.1/) HardenedBSD 2021 State of the Hardened Union - NYCBUG - 2021-04-07 (https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10682) Beastie Bits FreeBSD Journal: Case Studies (https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/) *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Al - BusyNAS (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/394/feedback/Al%20-%20BusyNAS) Jeff - ZFS and NFS on FreeBSD (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/394/feedback/Jeff%20-%20ZFS%20and%20NFS%20on%20FreeBSD) Michael - remote unlock for encrypted systems (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/394/feedback/Michael%20-%20remote%20unlock%20for%20encrypted%20systems) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)
393: ZFS dRAID
Lessons learned from a 27 years old UNIX book, Finally dRAID, Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD, Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD, Things You Should Do Now, Just: More unixy than Make, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Lessons learned from a 27 years old UNIX book (https://www.linux.it/~ema/posts/porsche-book/) One of the Amazon reviewers of "Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet" gave it 3/5 stars. While still a nice introduction, the book by Adrian Cockcroft has become dated — claimed Roland in 2003, which believe it or not was 18 years ago... dRAID, Finally! (https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-draid-finally/) Admins will often use wide RAID stripes to maximize usable storage given a number of spindles. RAID-Z deployments with large stripe widths, ten or larger, are subject to poor resilver performance for a number of reasons. Resilvering a full vdev means reading from every healthy disk and continuously writing to the new spare. This will saturate the replacement disk with writes while scattering seeks over the rest of the vdev. For 14 wide RAID-Z2 vdevs using 12TB spindles, rebuilds can take weeks. Resilver I/O activity is deprioritized when the system has not been idle for a minimum period. Full zpools get fragmented and require additional I/O’s to recalculate data during reslivering. A pool can degenerate into a never ending cycle of rebuilds or loss of the pool Aka: the Death Spiral. News Roundup Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD (https://www.neelc.org/posts/freebsd-signal-proxy/) With the events that the private messaging app Signal has been blocked in Iran, Signal has come up with an “proxy” solution akin to Tor’s Bridges, and have given instructions on how to do it. For people who prefer FreeBSD over Linux like myself, we obviously can’t run Docker, which is what Signal’s instructions focus on. Fortunately, the Docker image is just a fancy wrapper around nginx, and the configs can be ported to any OS. Here, I’ll show you how to set up a Signal Proxy on FreeBSD. Annotate your PDF files on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/20210126/annotate-your-pdf-files-on-openbsd) On my journey to leave macOS, I regularly look to mimic some of the features I use. Namely, annotating (or signing) PDF files is a really simple task using Preview. I couldn’t do it on OpenBSD using Zathura, Xpdf etc. But there is a software in the ports that can achieve this: Xournal. Xournal is “an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus“. And now that my touchscreen is calibrated, highlighting can even be done with the fingers :) Things You Should Do Now (https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/things_you_should_do_now/) Describes things you should do now when building software, because the cost to do them increases over time and eventually becomes prohibitive or impossible. Just: A command runner. More unixy than Make because it does even less. (https://github.com/casey/just/) I think it's in the do-one-thing-well spirit of Unix, because it's just a command runner, no build system at all. Just has a bunch of nice features: Can be invoked from any subdirectory Arguments can be passed from the command line Static error checking that catches syntax errors and typos Excellent error messages with source context The ability to list recipes from the command line Recipes can be written in any language Works on Linux, macOS, and Windows And much more! Just doesn't replace Make, or any other build system, but it does replace reverse-searching your command history, telling colleagues the weird flags they need to pass to do the thing, and forgetting how to run old projects. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Marc - Confused about Snapshots (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/393/feedback/Marc%20-%20Confused%20about%20Snapshots) Dan’s gist: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/3140e60a816226ed75365ba8af185085 Pete - A Question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/393/feedback/Pete%20-%20A%20Question) Rick - ZFS Idea (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/393/feedback/Rick%20-%20ZFS%20Idea) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Dan Langille.
392: macOS inspired Desktop
FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks, FreeBSD Jails Deep Dive by Klara Systems, FreeBSD Foundation looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer & OSS Project Coordinator, macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS by helloSystem, A Trip into FreeBSD and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks - Performance Is Much Better (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=freebsd-13-beta1&num=6) FreeBSD Jails – Deep Dive into the Beginning of FreeBSD Containers (https://klarasystems.com/articles/freebsd-jails-the-beginning-of-freebsd-containers/) In recent years, containers and virtualization have become a buzzword in the Linux community, especially with the rise of Docker and Kubernetes. What many people probably don’t realize is that these ideas have been around for a very long time. Today, we will be looking at Jails and how they became part of FreeBSD. News Roundup FreeBSD Jobs The FreeBSD Foundation is looking for a Senior Arm Kernel Engineer (https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10369/senior-arm-kernel-engineer-at-the-freebsd-foundation/) The FreeBSD Foundation is also looking for an Open Source Project Coordinator. (https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10367/freebsd-open-source-project-coordinator-at-freebsd/) *** ### helloSystem Releases New ISOs For This macOS-Inspired BSD Desktop OS (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=helloSystem-New-12.1-Exp-ISOs) > The helloSystem motto is being a "desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. Less, but better!" The desktop utilities are written with PyQt5. *** ### A Trip into FreeBSD (https://christine.website/blog/a-trip-into-freebsd-2021-02-13) > I normally deal with Linux machines. Linux is what I know and it's what I've been using since I was in college. A friend of mine has been coaxing me into trying out FreeBSD, and I decided to try it out and see what it's like. Here's some details about my experience and what I've learned. *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Beastie Bits Testing Linux Steam Proton on GhostBSD with BSD linuxulator - NO Audio (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ihW0m3bRQ) New Build of DragonFlyBSD 5.8 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2021-February/381550.html) Install OpenBSD 6.8 on PINE64 ROCK64 Media Board (https://github.com/krjdev/rock64_openbsd) FOSDEM BSD Track Videos are up (https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/bsd/) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) *** Special Guest: Dan Langille.
391: i386 tear shedding
Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages, Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana, Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD, OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released, NomadBSD 1.4-RC1, Lets all shed a Tear for 386, find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes, OpenBSD KDE Status Report, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Follow-up about FreeBSD jail advantages (https://rubenerd.com/follow-up-about-freebsd-jail-advantages/) I’ll admit I ran a lot of justifications together into a single paragraph because I wanted to get to configuring the jails themselves. They’re also, by and large, not specific to FreeBSD’s flavour of containerisation, though I still think it’s easily the most elegant implementation. Sometimes the simplest solution really is the best one. History of FreeBSD part 4: TCP/IP (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-part-4-bsd-and-tcp-ip/) How TCP/IP evolved and BSDs special contribution to the history of the Internet *** FreeBSD: Install Prometheus, Node Exporter and Grafana (https://blog.andreev.it/?p=5289) FreeBSD comes out of the box with three great tools for monitoring. If you need more info about how these tools work, please read the official documentation. I’ll explain the installation only and creating a simple dashboard. News Roundup Calibrate your touch-screen on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/20210122/calibrate-your-touch-screen-on-openbsd/) I didn’t expected it but my refurbished T460s came with a touch-screen. It is recognized by default on OpenBSD and not well calibrated as-is. But that’s really simple to solve. Lets all shed a Tear for 386 (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2021-January/002006.html) FreeBSD is designating i386 as a Tier 2 architecture starting with FreeBSD 13.0. The Project will continue to provide release images, binary updates, and pre-built packages for the 13.x branch. However, i386-specific issues (including SAs) may not be addressed in 13.x. The i386 platform will remain Tier 1 on FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x. OPNsense 21.1 Marvelous Meerkat Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-21-1-marvelous-meerkat-released/) For more than 6 years, OPNsense is driving innovation through modularising and hardening the open source firewall, with simple and reliable firmware upgrades, multi-language support, HardenedBSD security, fast adoption of upstream software updates as well as clear and stable 2-Clause BSD licensing. NomadBSD 1.4-RC1 (https://nomadbsd.org/index.html#1.4-RC1) We are pleased to present the first release candidate of NomadBSD 1.4. find mostly doesn't need xargs today on modern Unixes (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/FindWithoutXargsToday) I've been using Unix for long enough that 'find | xargs' is a reflex. When I started and for a long time afterward, xargs was your only choice for efficiently executing a command over a bunch of find results. OpenBSD KDE Status Report (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210124113220) OpenBSD has managed to drop KDE3 and KDE4 in the 6.8 -> 6.9 release cycle. That makes me very happy because it was a big piece of work and long discussions. This of course brings questions: Kde Plasma 5 package missing. After half a year of work, I managed to successfully update the Qt5 stack to the last LTS version 5.15.2. On the whole, the most work was updating QtWebengine. What a monster! With my CPU power at home, I can build it 1-2 times a day which makes testing a little bit annoying and time intensive. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Karl - Firefox webcam audio solution (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Karl%20-%20Firefox%20webcam%20audio%20solution.md) Michal - openzfs (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Michal%20-%20openzfs.md) Dave - bufferbloat (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/391/feedback/Dave%20-%20bufferbloat.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
390: Commercial Unix Killer
Did Linux kill Commercial Unix, three node GlusterFS setup on FreeBSD, OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen), NetBSD on EdgeRouter Lite, TLS Mastery first draft done NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Did Linux Kill Commercial Unix? (https://www.howtogeek.com/440147/did-linux-kill-commercial-unix/) Sales of commercial Unix have fallen off a cliff. There has to be something behind this dramatic decline. Has Linux killed its ancestor by becoming a perfectly viable replacement, like an operating system version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers? Wireguard: Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/simple-and-secure-vpn-in-freebsd/) A great article by Tom Jones about setting up Wireguard on FreeBSD *** Setup a Three Node Replicated GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD (http://www.unibia.com/unibianet/freebsd/setup-three-node-replicated-glusterfs-cluster-freebsd) GlusterFS (GFS) is the open source equivalent to Microsoft's Distributed Filesystem (DFS). It's a service that replicates the contents of a filesystem in real time from one server to another. Clients connect to any server and changes made to a file will replicate automatically. It's similar to something like rsync or syncthing, but much more automatic and transparent. A FreeBSD port has been available since v3.4, and (as of this post) is currently at version 8.0 with 9.0 being released soon. News Roundup OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen) (https://jcs.org/2021/01/27/x1nano) Lenovo has finally made a smaller version of its X1 Carbon, something I’ve been looking forward to for years. NetBSD on the EdgeRouter Lite (https://www.cambus.net/netbsd-on-the-edgerouter-lite/) NetBSD-current now has pre-built octeon bootable images (which will appear in NetBSD 10.0) for the evbmips port, so I decided to finally give it a try. I've been happily running OpenBSD/octeon on my EdgeRouter Lite for a few years now, and have previously published some notes including more detail about the CPU. “TLS Mastery” first draft done! (https://mwl.io/archives/9938) Beastie Bits A Thread on a FreeBSD Desktop for PineBook Pro (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-desktop-for-pinebook-pro.78269/) FOSSASIA Conference - March 2021(Virtual) (https://eventyay.com/e/fa96ae2c) WireGuard for pfSense Software (https://www.netgate.com/blog/wireguard-for-pfsense-software.html) NetBSD logo to going Moon (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2021/02/07/msg000849.html) *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. ### Producer's Note > Hey everybody, it’s JT here. After our AMA episode where I mentioned I was looking for older BSD Retail Copies, I was contacted by Andrew who hooked me up with a bunch of OpenBSD disks from the 4.x era. So shout out to him, and since that worked so well, I figured I'd give it another shot and ask that if anyone has any old Unixes that will run on an 8088, 8086, or 286 and you're willing to send me copies of the disks. I've recently dug out an old 286 system and I’d love to get a Unix OS on it. I know of Minix, Xenix and Microport, but I haven’t been able to find many versions of them. I've found Microport 1.3.3, and SCO Xenix... but that's about it. Let me know if you happen to have any other versions, or know where I can get them. Feedback/Questions Christian - ZFS replication and verification (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/390/feedback/Christian%20-%20ZFS%20replication%20and%20verification) Iain - progress (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/390/feedback/Iain%20-%20progress) Paul - APU2 device (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/390/feedback/Paul%20-%20APU2%20device) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
389: Comfy FreeBSD Jails
A week with Plan 9, Exploring Swap on FreeBSD, how to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere, How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS, Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines A Week With Plan 9 (https://thedorkweb.substack.com/p/a-week-with-plan-9) I spent the first week of 2021 learning an OS called Plan 9 from Bell Labs. This is a fringe Operating System, long abandoned by it’s original authors. It's also responsible for a great deal of inspiration elsewhere. If you’ve used the Go language, /proc, UTF-8 or Docker, you’ve used Plan 9-designed features. This issue dives into Operating System internals and some moderately hard computer science topics. If that sort of thing isn’t your bag you might want to skip ahead. Normal service will resume shortly. Exploring Swap on FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/exploring-swap-on-freebsd/) On modern Unix-like systems such as FreeBSD, “swapping” refers to the activity of paging out the contents of memory to a disk and then paging it back in on demand. The page-out activity occurs in response to a lack of free memory in the system: the kernel tries to identify pages of memory that probably will not be accessed in the near future, and copies their contents to a disk for safekeeping until they are needed again. When an application attempts to access memory that has been swapped out, it blocks while the kernel fetches that saved memory from the swap disk, and then resumes execution as if nothing had happened. News Roundup How to create a FreeBSD pkg mirror using bastille and poudriere (https://hackacad.net/post/2021-01-13-build-a-freebsd-pkg-mirror-with-bastille-poudriere/) This a short how-to for creating a FreeBSD pkg mirror using BastilleBSD and Poudriere. How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configuring-freebsd-12-vnet-jail-using-bridgeepair-zfs/) How do I install, set up and configure a FreeBSD 12 jail with VNET on ZFS? How can I create FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with /etc/jail.conf to run OpenVPN, Apache, Wireguard and other Internet-facing services securely on my BSD box? FreeBSD jail is nothing but operating system-level virtualization that allows partitioning a FreeBSD based Unix server. Such systems have their root user and access rights. Jails can use network subsystem virtualization infrastructure or share an existing network. FreeBSD jails are a powerful way to increase security. Usually, you create jail per services such as an Nginx/Apache webserver with PHP/Perl/Python app, WireGuard/OpeNVPN server, MariaDB/PgSQL server, and more. This page shows how to configure a FreeBSD Jail with vnet and ZFZ on FreeBSD 12.x. Creating Comfy FreeBSD Jails Using Standard Tools (https://kettunen.io/post/standard-freebsd-jails/) Docker has stormed into software development in recent years. While the concepts behind it are powerful and useful, similar tools have been used in systems for decades. FreeBSD’s jails in one of those tools which build upon even older chroot(2) To put it shortly, with these tools, you can make a safe environment separated from the rest of the system. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Chris - USB BSD variant (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/389/feedback/Chris%20-%20USB%20BSD%20variant) Jacob - host wifi through a jail (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/389/feedback/Jacob%20-%20host%20wifi%20through%20a%20jail) Jordan - new tool vs updating existing tool (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/389/feedback/Jordan%20-%20new%20too%20vs%20updating%20existing%20tool) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
388: Must-have security tool
FreeBSD Q4 2020 Status report, a must-have security tool from OpenBSD, Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence, FreeBSD Wall Display Computer, etymology of command-line tools, GhostBSD 21.01.15 Release Notes, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD quarterly status report for Q4 2020 (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-10-2020-12/) Block spammers/abusive IPs with Pf-badhost in OpenBSD. A 'must have' security tool! (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210119113425) Pf-badhost is a very practical, robust, stable and lightweight security script for network servers. It's compatible with BSD based operating systems such as {Open,Free,Net,Dragonfly}BSD and MacOS. It prevents potentially-bad IP addresses that could possibly attack your servers (and waste your bandwidth and fill your logfiles), by blocking all those IPs contacting your server, and therefore it makes your server network/resources lighter and the logs of important services running on your server become simpler, more readable and efficient. News Roundup Bastille Port Redirection and Persistence (https://bastillebsd.org/blog/2021/01/13/bastille-port-redirection-and-persistence/) Bastille supports redirecting (rdr) ports from the host system into target containers. This port redirection is commonly used when running Internet services such as web servers, dns servers, email and many others. Any service you want to make public outside of your cluster will likely require port redirection (with some exceptions, see below). FreeBSD Wall Display Computer (https://blog.tyk.nu/blog/freebsd-wall-display-computer/) I've recently added a wall mounted 30" monitor for Grafana in my home. I can highly recommend doing the same, especially in a world where more work from home is becoming the norm. The etymology of command-line tools (https://i.redd.it/sni9gaxfj2d61.png) GhostBSD 21.01.15 Release Notes (https://ghostbsd.org/21.01.15_release_notes) I am happy to announce the availability of the new ISO 21.01.15. This new ISO comes with a clean-up of packages that include removing LibreOffice and Telegram from the default selection. We did this to bring the zfs RW live file systems to run without problem on 4GB of ram machine. We also removed the UFS full disk option from the installer. Users can still use custom partitions to setup UFS partition, but we discourage it. We also fixed the Next button's restriction in the custom partition related to some bug that people reported. We also fix the missing default locale setup and added the default setup for Linux Steam, not to forget this ISO includes kernel, userland and numerous application updates. Beastie Bits Interview with Brian Kernighan (https://corecursive.com/brian-kernighan-unix-bell-labs1/) *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)
387: OpenBSD Broadcast Studio
GNN's tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home, Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD, Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS, Dan's CURL tip of the Day, List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines GNN's tips for surviving Cabin Fever and Coding from Home (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3437846) Forgive me if this seems off topic, but I was wondering if you had any advice for the majority of us who are now KFH (koding from home). I don't know how KV works day to day, but it seems pretty clear that the status quo has changed at most workplaces in the last several months, and it's hard to know if there are things we could be doing to stay productive while we're all at home, ordering delivery, and microwaving our mail. Does KV have any good guidance? Self-host a password manager on OpenBSD (https://www.tumfatig.net/20210105/self-host-a-password-manager-on-openbsd/) I’ve been using Rubywarden to store and access my passwords from OpenBSD workstations and iOS toys. But recent redondant failures from the iOS App and rubywarden not being maintained anymore led to the need for a new solution. I was investing on pass+pgp+git but it was quite complex. News Roundup Preliminary OpenBSD Support added to OBS (https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20210113072623) Dan's CURL tip of the Day (https://mobile.twitter.com/DLangille/status/1323963716153626626) List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD (https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20210102) I'm sharing here some practices I'm following and some small tips/tools which facilitate my usage of OpenBSD in my day to day. Some are really specific to my usage, others could be re-used. Beastie Bits • [Traditional text mode games from BSD](https://github.com/msharov/bsd-games) • [FreeBSD Easter Eggs](https://twitter.com/freebsdfrau/status/972893680473317377) • [A prehistory and history of Unix Slide Deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BxnFiP_Hv3HJbbYRfSxpTym7GzqxJPQlTE6Ur5h1Al8/edit#slide=id.g951f86c343_0_95) • [How to use Android USB Tethering to get Internet on FreeBSD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAEmtrEZlV8) • [VPN'Othon #2 for CharmBUG](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/387/charmbug_event.md) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions • [Kev - Ramdisk](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/387/feedback/kev%20-%20ramdisk.md) • [John - new to freebsd](https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/387/feedback/John%20-%20new%20to%20freebsd) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
386: Aye, 386!
Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD, FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS howto, pkgsrc-2020Q4 released, FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 With 4GB of RAM, HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Routing and Firewalling VLANS with FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/routing-and-firewalling-vlans-with-freebsd/) In this article we are going to look at and integrate two network isolation technologies, VLANs and VNET. VLANs are common place, and if you have done some network management or design then you are likely to have interacted with them. The second are FreeBSDs VNET virtual network stacks, a powerful network stack isolation technology that gives FreeBSD jails super powers. Ethernet VLAN (standardised by IEEE 802.1Q) are an extension to Ethernet and provide an essential method for scaling network deployments. They are used in all environments to enable reuse of common infrastructure by isolating portions of networks from each other. VLANs allow the reuse of common cables, switches and routers to carry completely different networks. It is common to have data that must be separated from different networks carried on common cables until their VLAN tags are finally stripped at a gateway switch or router. How to set up FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with ZFS (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/configuring-freebsd-12-vnet-jail-using-bridgeepair-zfs/) How do I install, set up and configure a FreeBSD 12 jail with VNET on ZFS? How can I create FreeBSD 12 VNET jail with /etc/jail.conf to run OpenVPN, Apache, Wireguard and other Internet-facing services securely on my BSD box? FreeBSD jail is nothing but operating system-level virtualization that allows partitioning a FreeBSD based Unix server. Such systems have their root user and access rights. Jails can use network subsystem virtualization infrastructure or share an existing network. FreeBSD jails are a powerful way to increase security. Usually, you create jail per services such as an Nginx/Apache webserver with PHP/Perl/Python app, WireGuard/OpeNVPN server, MariaDB/PgSQL server, and more. This page shows how to configure a FreeBSD Jail with vnet and ZFS on FreeBSD 12.x. News Roundup pkgsrc-2020Q4 released (https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2021/01/08/msg000322.html) The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the 69th quarterly release of pkgsrc, the cross-platform packaging system. pkgsrc is available with more than 24,000 packages, running on 23 separate platforms; more information on pkgsrc itself is available at https://www.pkgsrc.org/ FreeBSD ON A Raspberry PI 4 With 4GB of RAM (https://lambdaland.org/posts/2020-12-23_freebsd_rpi4/) This is the story of how I managed to get FreeBSD running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of RAM, though I think the setup story is pretty similar for those with 2GB and 8GB.1 HardenedBSD December 2020 Status Report (https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2020-12-31/hardenedbsd-december-2020-status-report) Happy New Year! On this the last day of 2020, I submit December's status report. Beastie Bits Christmas Cards The Unix Way - with pic and troff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMijdTWSUEE&feature=youtu.be) Fast RPI3 upgrade from source (cross compile) (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/fast-upgrade-raspberry-pi3-from-source.78169/) *** ###Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions Robert - zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/386/feedback/robert%20-%20zfs%20question.md) Neb - AMA episode.md (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/386/feedback/neb%20-%20AMA%20episode.md) Joe - puppet (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/386/feedback/joe%20-%20puppet.md) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
385: Wireguard VPN mesh
Description: History of FreeBSD: Early Days of FreeBSD, mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard, FreeBSD Foundation Sponsors LLDB Improvements, Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines History of FreeBSD - Part 3: Early Days of FreeBSD (https://klarasystems.com/articles/history-of-freebsd-part-3-early-days-of-freebsd/?utm_source=bsdnow) In this third part of our series on the history of FreeBSD, we start tracing the early days of FreeBSD and the events that would eventually shape the project and the future of open source software. A mesh VPN using OpenBSD and WireGuard (https://www.tumfatig.net/20201202/a-mesh-vpn-using-openbsd-and-wireguard/?utm_source=bsdnow) WireGuard is a new coming to OpenBSD 6.8 and it looks like a simple and efficient way to connect computers. I own a few VPS (hello Vultr, hello OpenBSD.amsterdam) that tend to be connected through filtered public services and/or SSH tunnels. And that’s neither efficient nor easy to manage. Here comes the wg(4) era where all those peers will communicate with a bit more privacy and ease of management. News Roundup Foundation Sponsors FreeBSD LLDB Improvements (https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/guest-blog-foundation-sponsors-freebsd-lldb-improvements/?utm_source=bsdnow) With FreeBSD Foundation grant, Moritz Systems improved LLDB support for FreeBSD The LLDB project builds on libraries provided by LLVM and Clang to provide a great modern debugger. It uses the Clang ASTs and the expression parser, LLVM JIT, LLVM disassembler, etc so that it provides an experience that “just works”. It is also blazing fast and more permissively licensed than GDB, the GNU Debugger. LLDB is the default debugger in Xcode on macOS and supports debugging C, Objective-C, and C++ on the desktop and iOS devices and the simulator. Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-12-14-cryptpad-openbsd.html) In this article I will explain how to deploy your own Cryptpad instance with OpenBSD. Cryptpad is a web office suite featuring easy real time collaboration on documents. Cryptpad is written in JavaScript and the daemon acts as a web server. Beastie Bits OPNsense 20.7.7 Released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-7-released/?utm_source=bsdnow) Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Webinar - Jan 20th @ noon Eastern / 17:00 UTC. (https://klarasystems.com/learning/webinars/webinar-introducing-openzfs-2-0/?utm_source=bsdnow) BSD In Die Hard (https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/kk3c6y/merry_xmas/) Managing jails with Ansible: a showcase for building a container infrastructure on FreeBSD (https://papers.freebsd.org/2019/bsdcan/dengg-managing_jails_with_ansible/) BSD Hardware (https://bsd-hardware.info) New WINE chapter in FreeBSD handbook (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/wine.html) *** Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. *** Feedback/Questions scott- zfs question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/scott-%20zfs%20question) Bruce - copy paste on esxi (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/Bruce%20-%20copy%20paste%20on%20esxi) Julian - an apology for Allan (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/385/feedback/Julian%20-%20an%20apology%20for%20Allan) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)
384: In memoriam
Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship, Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions, Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus, Multi-volume support in HAMMER2, and more. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship (http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/allen_k_briggs_memorial_scholarship) Allen Briggs was one of the earliest members of the NetBSD community, pursuing his interest in macBSD, and moving to become a NetBSD developer when the two projects merged. Allen was known for his quiet and relaxed manner, and always brought a keen wisdom with him; allied with his acute technical expertise, he was one of the most valued members of the NetBSD community. The Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship is an endowment to provide scholarships in perpetuity for summer programs at the North Carolina School of Science & Math, which Allen considered to be a place that fundamentally shaped him as a person. We would love to invite Allen's friends and colleagues from the BSD community to donate to this cause so that we can provide more scholarships to students with financial need each year. We are approximately halfway to our goal of $50K with aspirations to exceed that target and fund additional scholarships. Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-11-15-openbsd-ports-ci.html) A first step for the CI service would be to create a database of diffs sent to ports. This would allow people to track what has been sent and not yet committed and what the state of the contribution is (build/don’t build, apply/don’t apply). News Roundup Trying OpenZFS 2 on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE (https://rubenerd.com/trying-openzfs-on-freebsd-12-release/?utm_source=bsdnow) OpenZFS 2 is a huge achievement, and makes me bullish about the long term prospects for the world’s most trustworthy and nicest to use storage system. You can even use try it today on FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE, though I recommend tracking -CURRENT for these sorts of features. OpenBSD on TECLAST F7 Plus (https://www.tumfatig.net/20201215/openbsd-on-teclast-f7-plus/?utm_source=bsdnow) I got myself a TECLAST F7 Plus laptop. It comes preinstalled with Windows 10 but I planned to use it as my daily driver. So I installed OpenBSD 6.8 on it. Multi-volume support in HAMMER2 (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/12/28/25287.html) commit (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2020-December/770072.html) > This commit adds initial multi-volumes support for HAMMER2. Maximum supported volumes is 64. The feature and implementation is similar to multi-volumes support in HAMMER1. *** Beastie Bits FreeBSD Last SVN Commit (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/README?view=markup&pathrev=368820) FreeBSD First git Commit (https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=5ef5f51d2bef80b0ede9b10ad5b0e9440b60518c) Introducing OpenZFS 2.0 Webinar - Jan 20th @ noon Eastern / 17:00 UTC. (https://klarasystems.com/learning/webinars/webinar-introducing-openzfs-2-0/?utm_source=bsdnow) *** Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. *** Feedback/Questions jay - feedback for ian (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/384/feedback/jay%20-%20feedback%20for%20ian) Iebluefire - concerns about freebsd (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/384/feedback/Iebluefire%20-%20concerns%20about%20freebsd) mike - zfs cluster aware (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/384/feedback/mike%20-%20zfs%20cluster%20aware) *** Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
383: Scale the tail
FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin Final Milestone achieved, Tailscale for OpenBSD, macOS to FreeBSD migration, monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, OPNsense 20.7.6 released, and more NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Headlines FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin: Final Milestone Achieved (https://www.moritz.systems/blog/freebsd-remote-plugin-final-milestone-achieved/) Moritz Systems have been contracted by the FreeBSD Foundation to modernize the LLDB debugger’s support for FreeBSD. We are working on a new plugin utilizing the more modern client-server layout that is already used by Darwin, Linux, NetBSD and (unofficially) OpenBSD. The new plugin is going to gradually replace the legacy one. Tailscale on OpenBSD (https://rakhesh.com/linux-bsd/tailscale-on-openbsd/) I spent some time setting this up today evening and thought I’d post the steps here. Nothing fancy, just putting together various pieces actually. I assume you know what Tailscale is; if not check out their website. Basically it is a mesh network built on top of Wireguard. Using it you can have all your devices both within your LAN(s) and outside be on one overlay network as if they are all on the same LAN and can talk to each other. It’s my new favourite thing! News Roundup macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a why I left macOS (https://antranigv.am/weblog_en/posts/macos_to_freebsd/) This is not a technical documentation for how I migrated from macOS to FreeBSD. This is a high-level for why I migrated from macOS to FreeBSD. Not so long ago, I was using macOS as my daily driver. The main reason why I got a macbook was the underlying BSD Unix and the nice graphics it provides. Also, I have an iPhone. But they were also the same reasons for why I left macOS. Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020 (https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurOpenBSDMonitoring) We have a number of OpenBSD firewalls in service (along with some other OpenBSD servers for things like VPN endpoints), and I was recently asked how we monitor PF and overall network traffic on them. I had to disappoint the person who asked with my answer, because right now we mostly don't (although this is starting to change). OPNsense 20.7.6 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-6-released/) This update brings the usual mix of reliability fixes, plugin and third party software updates: FreeBSD, HardenedBSD, PHP, OpenSSH, StrongSwan, Suricata and Syslog-ng amongst others. Please note that Let's Encrypt users need to reissue their certificates manually after upgrading to this version to fix the embedded certificate chain issue with the current signing CA switch going on. NYC Bug Jan 2021 with Michael W. Lucas (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/383/nycbug) Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Feedback/Questions cy - .so files (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/383/feedback/cy%20-%20.so%20files) ben - mixer volume (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/383/feedback/ben%20-%20mixer%20volume) probono - live cds (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/383/feedback/probono%20-%20live%20cds) Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv) ***
382: BSDNow Q&A 2020
We asked for it, you answered our call. This episode features you interviewing us with questions that you sent in. JT, Allan, and Benedict answer everything that you ever wanted to know in this week’s special episode of BSDNow. NOTES This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow) Interview - Allan Jude - Allan.jude@gmail.com (Allan.jude@gmail.com) / @allanjude (https://twitter.com/allanjude) Interview - Benedict Reuschling - bcr@freebsd.org (mailto:bcr@freebsd.org) / @bsdbcr (https://twitter.com/bsdbcr) Interview - JT Pennington - jt@obs-sec.com (mailto:jt@obs-sec.com) / @q5sys (https://twitter.com/q5sys) AMA questions Benedict: You work at a university right? Were you already into tech before you started working there? What do you do there? Yes, I do work at the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany. I’m a lab engineer there (without a lab, but with a big data cluster). I teach in the winter semester an undergraduate, elective course called “Unix for Developers”. Yes, I was already in tech by that time. Did some previous work at companies before (selling hardware at the call-in hotline and later in the store) and during my CS studies. Allan: What’s the next big FreeBSD Project you plan on doing? JT: How did you get involved in BSD? Weren't you a Linux guy? All: Is there any way you can create an entire episode of BSDnow on hardware that runs OpenBSD and FreeBSD? We see you audacity, etc on a mac. Benedict: Not sure about OpenBSD (don’t use it), but FreeBSD should be doable for my part. If we switch from Skype to a different video chat tool, the rest is already there. Production side may be more difficult, but not impossible. All: if you could finish up one project right now... what would it be? Benedict: Updated ZFS chapter in the FreeBSD handbook. All: How did all of you guys meet? All: My question is, do you guys use FreeBSD as your main desktop OS? If not, what do you use? Benedict: No, but Mac OS is close enough. Doing a lot of SSHing into FreeBSD from there. All: Can you all give us the best shot of outside of their windows? JT’s answer: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-2LSbspL/0/69437dbb/5K/i-2LSbspL-5K.jpg Allan: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UnKXnKMt6cn8FDhNA Benedict: No, it’s dark outside anyway. ;-) All: How old were you when you got your first computer and what was that computer? Allan: 12 or 13, a 486DX2/66hz with an insane 32mb of RAM, 400 and 500 MB SCSI HDDs, 14400 baud model, and a 1.7x CD rom drive Benedict: Around 13 or so. 386DX2, 4 MB RAM, IDE disk drive (no idea how big, but it wasn’t much), 3.5” floppy, DOS, and a lot of games. JT: Technically the first was a Atari 1200XL with a 6502 CPU running at 1.79 MHz 64KB RAM. It had it's own OS and you could load programs off of either cartridges, floppy disks, or cassette tapes. First PC Clone was a Packard Bell with a 386 and 1mb ram which later was upgraded to 4mb and a Dual speed CD-ROM. My dad got me a Compaq 286 laptop... this one (show)... a year or so later because he got tired of fighting me for the computer. All: Can we have a peek at your bookcase and what books are there? Allan: No picture handy, but my shelf is pretty small, mostly a collection of autographed FreeBSD books. I have D&I with all 3 autographs (took some travel to acquire), and a copy of my first book (FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS) autographed by Jeff Bonwick and Matt Ahrens, the creators of ZFS, plus a bunch of other big names in ZFS like George Wilson. JT’s answer: So... my library is packed away... but here’s about half of it... the rest is still in storage. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-SBG2KDv/0/0b9856b8/4K/i-SBG2KDv-4K.jpg Software Collection: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-HfTVPN9/0/ad610dd4/O/i-HfTVPN9.jpg Benedict: A mix of FreeBSD books (by MWL), the graveyard book, 4 hour work week, the once and future king (took me a long time to finish that one), Total Immersion swimming (still learning to swim) and some books in german language, fiction and tech. Groff lives in there while the pandemic lasts. All: What desktop/Window Manager/shell do each of you primarily use? Benedict: Mainly Mac OS, when on FreeBSD it’s i3. Zsh with zsh-autosuggestions currently. JT: Lumina/zsh Allan: Lumina and tcsh, want to learn zsh but never gotten time to change All: What spoken languages do you speak? Benedict: German and English (obviously), learning a bit of Spanish via Duolingo at the moment JT: English, Bad English, and some French. All: Do you have Non-Computer hobbies if so what are those? Benedict: Tai Chi Chuan (Yang Style) JT: I'd say photography, but that's a job for me. I have a lot of varied interests, Krav Maga, working on my VW Corrado, working on the old Victorian house I bought, and camping/backpacking. Ive done the northern half of the AT (Appalachian Trail, I want to finish it up and then do the PCT and CDT. (Pacific Crest Trail and Continental Divide Trail). All: When COVID passes, when are either of you are coming to BSD pizza night in Portland, OR, USA so I can buy you a beer/wine/whisky or pizza/coffee/tea (or six) Rapid Fire: All: What was the first car you ever owned? All: Do you own a vehicle and if so what is the make/model? All: Favorite Star franchise? Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate, Battlestar, etc. JT: Will you ever host any more BSDNow episodes? All: Favorite superhero? Marvel and/or DC. All: Favorite game(s) of all time? All: Pants or no pants on virtual meetings/presentations? All: Do you or have you used alternative operating systems that are not "main stream or is considered retro" if so what are those? All: Who has more animals at home? Allan: Does Allan have any batteries for his tetris cubes? Can we see that thing light up? Allan and Benedict: Are you guys going to go on JT's new show? If you’re wondering what show this is, here are the two shows Im a host of: https://www.opensourcevoices.org & https://www.theopiniondominion.org Allan and Benedict: Have Allan or Benedict lost anything on the way to and from a conference? Benedict: Is Benedict going to do his NOEL blocks again? Benedict: Does Benedict make his bed every Wednesday morning? It always looks great! Not just Wednesdays, but pretty much every day. Here, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKZRFDCbGTA Nuff said. ;-) JT: Are you batman because the episodes are always awesome sir so thank you JT’s answer: Can you ever admit to being batman? If I were batman wouldn't I have to deny it? All: What's your Daily Driver Hardware? All: Who has more servers or VMs at home? Benedict: Allan, easily JT: Allan definitely beats me with VMs, but I think I might give him a run on servers. 4x 4u HP DL580s, one HP DL980, three HP C3000 8 bay bladecenters, three HP C7000 16 bay Bladecenters, 2x Sun 280R, bunch of Dell and IBM 1Us… but all my stuff is old. Allan has all the new and shiny stuff. The Pile in the Kitchen: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-HBScrpk/0/4b058cc5/X2/i-HBScrpk-X2.jpg The other pile: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-wNxFszV/0/e7a4b2d6/X2/i-wNxFszV-X2.jpg All: What book(s) are you currently reading? Benedict: Antifragile by Nassim Taleb JT: Douglas Hofstader - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Douglas Rushkoff - program or be programmed. Also a 4 part book series on the American civil war written in the 1880s, by people in the civil war. All: Favorite mechanical keyboard switch? Cherry MX, Kalih, Gateron, etc. Benedict: Cherry MX brown currently Allan: Cherry MX Blue (Coolermaster Master Keys Pro-L) JT: I prefer scissor switches, so I use a Logitech K740. Tarsnap This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups. Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv (mailto:feedback@bsdnow.tv)