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30: Documentation is King
Finally hit 30 episodes! Today we'll be chatting with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD on a Sun T5120 (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-a-Sun-T5120) Our buddy Ted Unangst (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures) got himself a cool Sun box Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you're interested in one of these fine SPARC machines He's also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/Dell-CS24-SC-server) *** Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bhyvecon%20tokyo&sm=3) Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon (http://bhyvecon.org/) was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon The talks have apparently already been uploaded! Subjects include Bhyve's past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization Lots more detail in the videos, so check 'em all out *** Building a FreeBSD wireless access point (http://blog.khubla.com/freebsd/building-my-own-wireless-point) We've got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it's time for people to start building BSD routers (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router) The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol' FreeBSD Using hostapd, he's able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post *** Switching from Synology to FreeNAS (http://www.notquitemainstream.com/2014/03/15/why-im-switching-from-synology-to-freenas/) The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility - prebuilt or DIY After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give *** Interview - Warren Block - wblock@freebsd.org (mailto:wblock@freebsd.org) FreeBSD's documentation project, igor, doceng Tutorial The world of BSD mailing lists (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/mailing-lists) News Roundup HAMMER2 work and notes (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/03/18/13651.html) Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, a changes list and a todo list *** BSD Breaking Barriers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buo5JlMnGPI) Our friend MWL (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop) gave a talk at NYCBSDCon about BSD "breaking barriers" "What makes the BSD operating systems special? Why should you deploy your applications on BSD? Why does the BSD community keep growing, and why do Linux sites like DistroWatch say that BSD is where the interesting development work is happening? We'll cover the not-so-obvious reasons why BSD still stands tall after almost 40 years." He also has another upcoming talk, (or "webcast") called "Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD's Real Purpose (http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/3059)" "OpenBSD is frequently billed as a high-security operating system. That's true, but security isn't the OpenBSD Project's main goal. This webcast will introduce systems administrators to OpenBSD, explain the project's mission, and discuss the features and benefits." It's on May 27th and will hopefully be recorded *** FreeBSD in a chroot (http://dreamcat4.github.io/finch/) Finch, "FreeBSD running IN a CHroot," is a new project It's a way to extend the functionality of restricted USB-based FreeBSD systems (FreeNAS, etc.) All the details and some interesting use cases are on the github page He really needs to change the project name (https://www.freshports.org/net-im/finch) though *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/03/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-22/) Lots of bugfixes for PCBSD coming down the tubes LZ4 compression is now enabled by default on the whole pool The latest 10-STABLE has been imported and builds are going Also the latest GNOME and Cinnamon builds have been imported and much more *** Feedback/Questions Bostjan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20SlvTcwd) (IRC suggests md5deep) Don writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2PeMqXFid) kaltheat writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21yii6KZe) (We use R0DE Podcast microphones and Logitech C920 HD webcams) Harri writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21SkX19Cp) ***
29: P.E.F.S.
We're back from AsiaBSDCon! This week we'll be chatting with Gleb Kurtsou about some a filesystem-level encryption utility called PEFS. After that, we'll give you a step by step guide on how to actually use it. There's also the usual round of your questions and we've got a lot of news to catch up on, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication (http://neocri.me/documentation/using-ssh-certificate-authentication/) SSH has a not-so-often-talked-about authentication option in addition to passwords and keys: certificates - you can add certificates to any current authentication method you're using They're not really that complex, there just isn't a lot of documentation on how to use them - this post tries to solve that There's the benefit of not needing a knownhosts file or authorizedusers file anymore The post goes into a fair amount of detail about the differences, advantages and implications of using certificates for authentication *** Back to FreeBSD, a new series (http://www.duckland.org/2014/03/back-to-freebsd-aka-day-1#more) Similar to the "FreeBSD Challenge" blog series, one of our listeners will be writing about his switching BACK to FreeBSD journey "So, a long time ago, I had a box which was running FreeBSD 4, running on a Pentium. 14 years later, I have decided to get back into FreeBSD, now at FreeBSD 10" He's starting off with PCBSD since it's easy to get working with dual graphics Should be a fun series to follow! *** OpenBSD's recent experiments in package building (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140307130554) If you'll remember back to our poudriere tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/poudriere), it lets you build FreeBSD binary packages in bulk - OpenBSD's version is called dpb (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/dpb) Marc Espie recently got some monster machines in russia to play with to help improve scaling of dpb on high end hardware This article goes through some of his findings and plans for future versions that increase performance We'll be showing a tutorial of dpb on the show in a few weeks *** Securing FreeBSD with 2FA (http://jafdip.com/securing-freebsd-2fa-two-factor-authentication/) So maybe you've set up two-factor authentication with gmail or twitter, but have you done it with your BSD box? This post walks us through the process of locking down an ssh server (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-tmux) with 2FA With just a mobile phone and a few extra tools, you can enable two-factor auth on your BSD box and have just that little extra bit of protections *** Interview - Gleb Kurtsou - gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com (mailto:gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com) PEFS (security audit results here (https://defuse.ca/audits/pefs.htm)) Tutorial Filesystem-based encryption with PEFS (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pefs) News Roundup BSDCan 2014 registration (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/registration.php) Registration is finally open! The prices are available along with a full list of presentations Tutorial sessions for various topics as well You have to go *** Big changes for OpenBSD 5.6 (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140314080734) Although 5.5 was just frozen and the release process has started, 5.6 is already looking promising OpenBSD has, for a long time, included a heavily-patched version of Apache based on 1.3 They've also imported nginx into base a few years ago, but now have finally removed Apache Sendmail is also no longer the default MTA, OpenSMTPD is the new default (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140313052817) Will BIND be removed next? Maybe so (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139492163427518&w=2) They've also discontinued the hp300, mvme68k and mvme88k ports *** Getting to know your portmgr lurkers (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/03/11/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-lurker-alexy-dokuchaev/) The "getting to know your portmgr" series makes its return This time we get to talk with danfe@ (probably most known for being the nVidia driver maintainer, but he does a lot with ports) How he got into FreeBSD? He "wanted a unix system that I could understand and that would not get bloated as time goes by" Mentions why he's still heavily involved with the project and lots more *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/03/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-20/) Work has started to port Pulseaudio to PCBSD 10.0.1 There's a new "pc-mixer" utility being worked on for sound management as well New PBIs, GNOME/Mate updates, Life Preserver fixes and a lot more PCBSD 10.0.1 was released (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/03/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-21-pcbsd-10-0-1-released/) too *** Feedback/Questions Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2QwjHkL2n) Ben writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2wLGlHF15) Nick writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21JsgRjMU) Sami writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2UX4sYdHy) Christopher writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s26z60Qd6z) ***
28: Ghost of Partition
This week we're at AsiaBSDCon, so it'll be a shorter episode. We've got an interview with Eric Turgeon, founder of the desktop-focused GhostBSD project. Haven't heard of GhostBSD? Well stay tuned then. There's also a really interesting tutorial on how to serially concatenate disks in NetBSD. We'll be back next week with a normal episode. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Eric Turgeon - ericturgeon@ghostbsd.org (mailto:ericturgeon@ghostbsd.org) / @GhostBSD1 (https://twitter.com/GhostBSD1) GhostBSD Tutorial Serially concatenating disks in NetBSD (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/nbsd-disks) Feedback/Questions Dave writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ff5BOdU0) Shane writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2F6j5fVYH) Rob writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2GHmy7tuS) Predrag writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2uM28feQe) ***
27: BSD Now vs. BSDTalk
The long-awaited meetup is finally happening on today's show. We're going to be interviewing the original BSD podcaster, Will Backman, to discuss what he's been up to and what the future of BSD advocacy looks like. After that, we'll be showing you how to track (and even cross-compile!) the -CURRENT branch of NetBSD. We've got answers to user-submitted questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD and OpenBSD in GSOC2014 (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014) The Google Summer of Code is a way to encourage students to write code for open source projects and make some money Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD were accepted, and we'd love for anyone listening to check out their GSOC pages The FreeBSD wiki has a list of things that they'd be interested in someone helping out with OpenBSD's want list was also posted (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html) DragonflyBSD and NetBSD were sadly not accepted this year *** Yes, you too can be an evil network overlord (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/02/yes-you-too-can-be-evil-network.html) A new blog post about monitoring your network using only free tools OpenBSD is a great fit, and has all the stuff you need in the base system or via packages It talks about the pflow pseudo-interface, its capabilities and relation to NetFlow (also goes well with pf) There's also details about flowd and nfsen, more great tools to make network monitoring easy If you're listening, Peter... stop ignoring our emails and come on the show! We know you're watching! *** BSDMag's February issue is out (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1858-openbsd-5-4-configure-openbsd-basic-services) The theme is "configuring basic services on OpenBSD 5.4" There's also an interview with Peter Hansteen (oh hey...) Topics also include locking down SSH, a GIMP lesson, user/group management, and... Linux and Solaris articles? Why?? *** Changes in bcrypt (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=139320023202696&w=2) Not specific to any OS, but the OpenBSD team is updating their bcrypt implementation There is a bug in bcrypt when hashing long passwords - other OSes need to update theirs too! (FreeBSD already has) "The length is stored in an unsigned char type, which will overflow and wrap at 256. Although we consider the existence of affected hashes very rare, in order to differentiate hashes generated before and after the fix, we are introducing a new minor 'b'." As long as you upgrade your OpenBSD system in order (without skipping versions) you should be ok going forward Lots of specifics in the email, check the full thing *** Interview - Will Backman - bitgeist@yahoo.com (mailto:bitgeist@yahoo.com) / @bsdtalk (https://twitter.com/bsdtalk) The BSDTalk podcast, BSD advocacy, various topics Tutorial Tracking and cross-compiling -CURRENT (NetBSD) (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/current-nbsd) News Roundup X11 no longer needs root (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426) Xorg has long since required root privileges to run the main server With recent work (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&;m=139245772023497&w=2) from the OpenBSD team, now everything (even KMS) can run as a regular user Now you can set the "machdep.allowaperture" sysctl to 0 and still use a GUI *** OpenSSH 6.6 CFT (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2014-March/032259.html) Shortly after the huge 6.5 release, we get a routine bugfix update Test it out on as many systems as you can Check the mailing list for the full bug list *** Creating an OpenBSD USB drive (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140225072408) Since OpenBSD doesn't distribute any official USB images, here are some instructions on how to do it Step by step guide on how you can make your very own However, there's some recent emails (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140228231258) that suggest official USB images may be coming soon... oh wait (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=139377587526463&w=2) *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-19/) New PBI updates that allow separate ports from /usr/local You need to rebuild pbi-manager if you want to try it out Updates and changes to Life Preserver, App Cafe, PCDM *** Feedback/Questions espressowar writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2JpJ5EaZp) Antonio writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2QpPevJ3J) Christian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2EZLxDfWh) Adam writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21gEBZbmG) Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2RnCO1p9c) ***
26: Port Authority
On today's show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer (http://multixden.blogspot.com/2014/02/tailoring-openbsd-for-old-strange.html) The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT (http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233), which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it! This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device He goes through the trial and error of "compile, break it, rebuild, try again" After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working *** pkgsrcCon and BSDCan (http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) pkgsrccon is "a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure" This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd The schedule (http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/schedule.html) is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it BSDCan's schedule (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events.en.html) was also announced We'll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more Kris' presentation was accepted! Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully! *** Two factor auth with pushover (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/login-pushover) A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures) Pushover is "a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway" - you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh! *** The status of GNOME 3 on BSD (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140219085851) It's no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast (https://www.bsdfrog.org/tmp/undeadly-gnome.webm) A few recent (http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/19/on-portability/) posts (http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/02/19/on-portability/) from some GNOME developers show that they're finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us - it's a beautiful thing This goes right along with our interview today! *** Interview - Joe Marcus Clark - marcus@freebsd.org (mailto:marcus@freebsd.org) The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics Tutorial The FreeBSD Ports Collection (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ports) News Roundup DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release (http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/versions/4) The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8 On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they'd like to get done before then In the meantime, 3.6.1 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-February/199294.html) was released with lots of bugfixes *** NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece (http://www.informit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?uk=NYCBSDCon-2014-Rocked-a-Cold-February-Weekend) We've got a nice wrap-up titled "NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend" The author also interviews GNN (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_29-journaled_news_updates) about the conference There's even a little "beginner introduction" to BSD segment Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event *** FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=5mv_oKFzACM#t=418) GNN in yet another story - he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs "distros," development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends *** PCBSD CFT and weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/call-for-testers-new-major-upgrade-methodology/) Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-18/) How dare Kris be "unimpressed with" freebsd-update and pkgng!? Various updates and fixes *** Feedback/Questions Jeffrey writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s213KxUdVj) Shane writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20lwkjLVK) Ferdinand writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21DqJs77g) Curtis writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20eXKEqJc) Clint writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21XMVFuVu) Peter writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20Xk05MHe) ***
25: A Sixth pfSense
We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/calendar/call-for-papers/) This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present There will also be a tutorial section of the conference AsiaBSDCon (http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.en) will be next month, in March! All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers! *** FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/) The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don't want to use the ones rolled by someone else For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router Of course if you're more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see our tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router) for that too *** Signed pkgsrc package guide (http://blog.saveosx.org/signed-packages/) We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD) He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer *** Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140212083627) Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI In the second (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140213065843), ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things In the third (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140213173808), jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara In the fourth (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140214070023), dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead - but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he's done In the fifth (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140214130039), claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things *** Interview - Chris Buechler - cmb@pfsense.com (mailto:cmb@pfsense.com) / @cbuechler (https://twitter.com/cbuechler) pfSense Tutorial pfSense walkthrough News Roundup FreeBSD challenge continues (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/13/freebsd-challenge-day-13-30/) Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first In day 14 (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/14/freebsd-challenge-day-14-30/), he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he's starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again - concludes that ports are the way to go In day 15 (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/14/freebsd-challenge-day-15-30/), he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch In day 16 (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/17/freebsd-challenge-day-16-30/), he dives into the world of FreeBSD jails (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/jails)! *** BSD books in 2014 (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1962) BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014 In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and... Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch our interview with him (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop)) Check the link for all the details *** How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-02-16-FreeBSD-EC2-build.html) Our friend Colin Percival (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_22-tendresse_for_ten) details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own from scratch (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/cperciva/EC2-build/) You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-17/) This time around we discuss how you can become a developer Kris also details the length of supported releases Expect lots of new features in 10.1 *** Feedback/Questions Sean writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s216xJoCVG) Jake writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2gLrR3VVf) Niclas writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21gfG3Iho) Steffan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2JNyw5BCn) Antonio writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2kg3zoRfm) Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ZwSIfRjm) ***
24: The Cluster & The Cloud
This week on BSD Now... a wrap-up from NYCBSDCon! We'll also be talking to Luke Marsden, CEO of HybridCluster, about how they use BSD at large. Following that, our tutorial will show you how to securely share files with SFTP in a chroot. The latest news and answers to your questions, of course it's BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10 as a firewall (http://www.pantz.org/software/pf/use_freebsd_10_as_a_pf_firewall.html) Back in 2012, the author of this site wrote an article stating you should avoid FreeBSD 9 for a firewall and use OpenBSD instead Now, with the release of 10.0, he's apparently changed his mind and switched back over It mentions the SMP version of pf, general performance advantages and more modern features The author is a regular listener of BSD Now, hi Joe! *** Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/02/effective-spam-and-malware.html) Really long blog post, based on a BSDCan presentation, about fighting spam with OpenBSD Peter Hansteen, author of the book of PF, goes through how he uses OpenBSD's spamd and other security features to combat spam and malware He goes through his experiences with content filtering and disappointment with a certain proprietary vendor Not totally BSD-specific, lots of people can enjoy the article - lots of virus history as well *** FreeBSD ASLR patches submitted (http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2014-02-02/freebsd-aslr-patch-submitted-upstream) So far, FreeBSD hasn't had Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR is a nice security feature, see wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomization) for more information With a giant patch from Shawn Webb, it might be integrated into a future version (after a vicious review from the security team of course) We might have Shawn on the show to talk about it, but he's also giving a presentation at BSDCan about his work with ASLR *** Old-style pkg_ tools retired (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/02/03/time-to-bid-farewell-to-the-old-pkg_-tools/) At last the old pkg_add tools are being retired in FreeBSD pkgng (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng) is a huge improvement, and now portmgr@ thinks it's time to cut the cord on the legacy toolset Ports aren't going away, and probably never will, but for binary package fans and new users that are used to things like apt, pkgng is the way to go All pkg_ tools will be considered unsupported on September 1, 2014 - even on older branches *** Interview - Luke Marsden - luke@hybridcluster.com (mailto:luke@hybridcluster.com) / @lmarsden (https://twitter.com/lmarsden) BSD at HybridCluster Tutorial Filesharing with chrooted SFTP (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/chroot-sftp) News Roundup FreeBSD on OpenStack (http://pellaeon.github.io/bsd-cloudinit/) OpenStack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack) is a cloud computing project It consists of "a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, able to be managed or provisioned through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools, or a RESTful API." Until now, there wasn't a good way to run a full BSD instance on OpenStack With a project in the vein of Colin Percival (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_22-tendresse_for_ten)'s AWS startup scripts, now that's no longer the case! *** FOSDEM BSD videos (https://fosdem.org/2014/schedule/track/bsd/) This year's FOSDEM had seven BSD presentations The videos are slowly being uploaded (https://video.fosdem.org/2014/) for your viewing pleasure Not all of the BSD ones are up yet, but by the time you're watching this they might be! Check this directory (https://video.fosdem.org/2014/AW1121/Saturday/) for most of 'em The BSD dev room was full, lots of interest in what's going on from the other communities *** The FreeBSD challenge finally returns! (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/05/freebsd-challenge-returns-day-11-30/) Due to prodding from a certain guy of a certain podcast, the "FreeBSD Challenge" series has finally resumed Our friend from the Linux foundation picks up with day 11 (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/05/freebsd-challenge-day-11-30/) and day 12 (http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/09/freebsd-challenge-day-12-30/) on his switching from Linux journey This time he outlines the upgrade process of going from 9 to 10, using freebsd-update There's also some notes about different options for upgrading ports and some extra tips *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-16/) After the big 10.0 release, the PCBSD crew is focusing on bug fixes for a while During their "fine tuning phase" users are encouraged to submit any and all bugs via the trac system Warden got some fixes and the package manager got some updates as well Huge size reduction in PBI format *** Feedback/Questions Derrick writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21nbJKYmb) Sean writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2yhziVsBP) Patrick writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20PuccWbo) Peter writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s22PL0SbUO) Sean writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20dkbjuOK) ***
23: Time Signatures
On this week's episode, we'll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even... the winner of our tutorial contest will be announced! So stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD foundation's 2013 fundraising results (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/01/freebsd-foundation-announces-2013.html) The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013 $768,562 from 1659 donors Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture "We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon." A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook) *** OpenSSH 6.5 released (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2014-January/032152.html) We mentioned the CFT last week, and it's finally here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7154925)! New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein's Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it) Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can't even attempt to login (http://slexy.org/view/s2rI13v8F4) lol~ New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one Portable version already in (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261320) FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=342618) Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) with Damien Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL (https://twitter.com/msfriedl/status/427902493176377344)! *** Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1942) In 2000, MWL (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop) wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: "It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now." This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent comments from Richard Stallman (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html) Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL Check out the full post if you're one of those people that gets into license arguments The takeaway is "BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone." *** OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-BeagleBone-Black) Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today! He describes it as "everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black" It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds Could be a really fun weekend project if you're interested in small or embedded devices *** Interview - Ted Unangst - tedu@openbsd.org (mailto:tedu@openbsd.org) / @tedunangst (https://twitter.com/tedunangst) OpenBSD's signify (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify) infrastructure, ZFS on OpenBSD Tutorial Running an NTP server (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ntpd) News Roundup Getting started with FreeBSD (http://smyck.net/2014/02/01/getting-started-with-freebsd/) A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he's worked with He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics - 4 videos so far *** More OpenBSD hackathon reports (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140204080515) As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there *** X11 in a jail (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=261266) We've gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can! A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials) for ideas *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/whoami-im-pc-bsd-10-0-weekly-feature-digest-15/) 10.0 "Joule Edition" finally released (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-10-0-release-is-now-available/)! AMD graphics are now officially supported GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available Grub updates and fixes PCBSD also got a mention in eweek (http://www.eweek.com/enterprise-apps/slideshows/freebsd-open-source-os-comes-to-the-pc-bsd-desktop.html) *** Feedback/Questions Justin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21VnbKZsH) Daniel writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2nD7RF6bo) Martin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2jwRrj7UV) Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s201koMD2c) - unofficial FreeBSD RPI Images (http://people.freebsd.org/~gjb/RPI/) James writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2AntZmtRU) John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20bGjMsIQ) ***
22: Journaled News-Updates
This time on the show, we'll be talking with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it's all about. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD quarterly status report (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/077085.html) Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what's going on The report contains 37 entries and is very very long... various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year (www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year) There's quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time *** n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140124142027) Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons (http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html) in New Zealand 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event If you've been watching the -current CVS logs, you've seen the flood of commits just from this event alone Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things - some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing Another report from Theo (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140127083112) details his work Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff *** Four new NetBSD releases (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_3_netbsd) NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4 These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features You can upgrade depending on what branch you're currently on Confused about the different branches? See this graph. (https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1) *** The future of open source ZFS development (http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-open-source-zfs-development) On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code It's in San Jose, California - go if you can! *** Interview - George Neville-Neil - gnn@freebsd.org (mailto:gnn@freebsd.org) / @gvnn3 (https://twitter.com/gvnn3) The FreeBSD Journal (http://freebsdjournal.com/) Tutorial Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD) (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd) News Roundup pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots (https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes) pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates There are recordings posted (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1198) of some of the previous hangouts Unfortunately they're only for subscribers, so you'll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense! *** FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gce-discussion/YWoa3Aa_49U/FYAg9oiRlLUJ) Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here's the FreeBSD version Nice big fat warning: "The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty." Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated! Other than that it's a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running *** Dragonfly ACPI update (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/22/13225.html) Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html) There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html) if you experience problems Check the mailing list post for all the details *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-6/) 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5 PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! *** Feedback/Questions Tony writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21ZlfOdTt) Jeff writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5) Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI) Nils writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt) Solomon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS) ***
21: Tendresse for Ten
This time on the show, we've got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE - yes it's finally here! We're gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we'll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We've got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html) The long awaited, giant release of FreeBSD is now official and ready to be downloaded (http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/10.0/) One of the biggest releases in FreeBSD history, with tons of new updates Some features include: LDNS/Unbound replacing BIND, Clang by default (no GCC anymore), native Raspberry Pi support and other ARM improvements, bhyve, hyper-v support, AMD KMS, VirtIO, Xen PVHVM in GENERIC, lots of driver updates, ZFS on root in the installer, SMP patches to pf that drastically improve performance, Netmap support, pkgng by default, wireless stack improvements, a new iSCSI stack, FUSE in the base system... the list goes on and on (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html) Start up your freebsd-update or do a source-based upgrade *** OpenSSH 6.5 CFT (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2014-January/031987.html) Our buddy Damien Miller (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) announced a Call For Testing for OpenSSH 6.5 Huge, huge release, focused on new features rather than bugfixes (but it includes those too) New ciphers, new key formats, new config options, see the mailing list for all the details Should be in OpenBSD 5.5 in May, look forward to it - but also help test on other platforms! *** DIY NAS story, FreeNAS 9.2.1-BETA (http://blog.brianmoses.net/2014/01/diy-nas-2014-edition.html) Another new blog post about FreeNAS! Instead of updating the older tutorials, the author started fresh and wrote a new one for 2014 "I did briefly consider suggesting nas4free for the EconoNAS blog, since it’s essentially a fork off the FreeNAS tree but may run better on slower hardware, but ultimately I couldn’t recommend anything other than FreeNAS" Really long article with lots of nice details about his setup, why you might want a NAS, etc. Speaking of FreeNAS, they released 9.2.1-BETA (http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2014/01/freenas-9-2-1-beta-now-ready-for-download.html) with lots of bugfixes *** OpenBSD needed funding for electricity.. and they got it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069889) Briefly mentioned at the end of last week's show, but has blown up over the internet since OpenBSD in the headlines of major tech news sites: slashdot, zdnet, the register, hacker news, reddit, twitter.. thousands of comments They needed about $20,000 to cover electric costs for the server rack in Theo's basement (http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg) Lots of positive reaction from the community helping out so far, and it appears they have reached their goal (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2104.html) and got $100,000 in donations From Bob Beck: "we have in one week gone from being in a dire situation to having a commitment of approximately $100,000 in donations to the foundation" This is a shining example of the BSD community coming together, and even the Linux people realizing how critical BSD is to the world at large *** Interview - Colin Percival - cperciva@freebsd.org (mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org) / @cperciva (https://twitter.com/cperciva) FreeBSD on Amazon EC2 (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/), backups with Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/), 10.0-RELEASE, various topics Tutorial Bandwidth monitoring and testing (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/vnstat-iperf) News Roundup pfSense talk at Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyoukai (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1176) Isaac Levy will be presenting "pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability Datacenter Deployments" He's also going to be looking for help to translate the pfSense documentation into Japanese The event is on February 17, 2014 if you're in the Tokyo area *** m0n0wall 1.8.1 released (http://m0n0.ch/wall/downloads.php) For those who don't know, m0n0wall is an older BSD-based firewall OS that's mostly focused on embedded applications pfSense was forked from it in 2004, and has a lot more active development now They switched to FreeBSD 8.4 for this new version Full list of updates in the changelog This version requires at least 128MB RAM and a disk/CF size of 32MB or more, oh no! *** Ansible and PF, plus NTP (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1933) Another blog post from our buddy Michael Lucas (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop) There've been some NTP amplification attacks recently (https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-14:02.ntpd.asc) in the news The post describes how he configured ntpd on a lot of servers without a lot of work He leverages pf and ansible for the configuration OpenNTPD is, not surprisingly, unaffected - use it *** ruBSD videos online (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140115054839) Just a quick followup from a few weeks ago Theo and Henning's talks from ruBSD are now available for download There's also a nice interview with Theo *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-5/) 10.0-RC4 images are available Wine PBI is now available for 10 9.2 systems will now be able to upgrade to version 10 and keep their PBI library *** Feedback/Questions Sha'ul writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2WQXwMASZ) Kjell-Aleksander writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2H0FURAtZ) Mike writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21eKKPgqh) Charlie writes in (and gets a reply) (http://slexy.org/view/s21UMLnV0G) Kevin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2SuazcfoR) ***
20: Bhyve Mind
It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD automatic installation (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140106055302) A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD's new automatic installer process Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings *** FreeNAS install guide and blog posts (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL09rVicvyZrqe-I2LP5Vyg/videos) A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylvanian accent..) builds his new file server and shows off the hardware In part 2, he shows how to install and configure FreeNAS, uses IPMI, sets up his pools He pronounces gigabytes as jiggabytes and it's hilarious We've also got an unrelated blog post (http://enoriver.net/index.php/2014/01/11/freenas-works-as-advertised/) about a very satisfied FreeNAS user who details his setup As well as another blog post (http://devinteske.com/freenas-development/) from our old pal Devin Teske (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013-09-25_teskeing_the_possibilities) about his recent foray into the FreeNAS development world *** FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 is out (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076800.html) Another, unexpected RC is out for 10.0 Minor fixes included, please help test and report any bugs You can update via freebsd-update or from source Hopefully this will be the last one before 10.0-RELEASE, which has tons of new features we'll talk about It's been tagged -RELEASE (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=260664) in SVN already too! *** OpenBSD 5.5-beta is out (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138952598914052&w=2) Theo updated the branch status to 5.5-beta A list of changes (http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html) Help test (http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/) and report any bugs you find Lots of rapid development with signify (which we mentioned last week), the beta includes some "test keys" Does that mean it'll be part of the final release? We'll find out in May.. or when we interview Ted (soon) *** Interview - Neel Natu & Peter Grehan - neel@freebsd.org (mailto:neel@freebsd.org) & grehan@freebsd.org (mailto:grehan@freebsd.org) BHyVe - the BSD hypervisor Tutorial Virtualization with bhyve (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/bhyve) News Roundup Hostname canonicalisation in OpenSSH (http://blog.djm.net.au/2014/01/hostname-canonicalisation-in-openssh.html) Blog post from our friend Damien Miller (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) This new feature allows clients to canonicalize unqualified domain names SSH will know if you typed "ssh bsdnow" you meant "ssh bsdnow.tv" with new config options This will help clean up some ssh configs, especially if you have many hosts Should make it into OpenSSH 6.5, which is "due really soon" *** Dragonfly on a Chromebook (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/07/13078.html) Some work has been done by Matthew Dillon to get DragonflyBSD working on a Google Chromebook These couple of posts (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/10/13132.html) detail some of the things he's got working so far Changes were needed to the boot process, trackpad and wifi drivers needed updating... Also includes a guide written by Dillon on how to get yours working *** Spider in a box (http://kazarka.com/index.php?section=spiderinabox) "Spiderinabox" is a new OpenBSD-based project Using a combination of OpenBSD, Firefox, XQuartz and VirtualBox, it creates a secure browsing experience for OS X Firefox runs encapsulated in OpenBSD and doesn't have access to OS X in any way The developer is looking for testers on other operating systems! *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-3/) PCBSD 10 has entered into the code freeze phase They're focusing on fixing bugs now, rather than adding new features The update system got a lot of improvements PBI load times reduced by up to 40%! what!!! *** Feedback/Questions Scott writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s25zbSPtcm) Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2EarxbZz1) SW writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2MWKxtWxF) Ole writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20kzex2qm) Gertjan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2858Ph4o0) ***
19: The Installfest
We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-December/044009.html) A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM More details available here (http://julipedia.meroh.net/2013/12/introducing-freebsd-test-suite.html) Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? *** OpenBSD gets signify (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138845902916897&w=2) At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases! For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around More details in a blog post (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/signify) from the guy who committed it Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." *** Faces of FreeBSD (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.ca/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-isabell-long.html) This time they interview Isabell Long She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation "The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." *** pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/12/31/msg019107.html) The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out 13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang! Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD See our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_20-collecting_shells) with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc *** OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=138610199311393&w=2) Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2 Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS) Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it *** The Installfest We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using: FreeBSD 10.0 OpenBSD 5.4 NetBSD 6.1.2 DragonflyBSD 3.6 PCBSD 10.0 *** News Roundup Building an OpenBSD wireless access point (http://ctors.net/2013/12/30/openbsd_wireless_access_point) A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute *** FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0 (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1919) Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop) For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10 Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." *** Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD (http://www.skeptech.org/blog/2013/01/13/unscrewed-a-story-about-openbsd/) Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down" Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-2/) 10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental *** Feedback/Questions Daniel writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2uns1hMml) Erik writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2MeJNCCiu) SW writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21fBXkP2K) [Bostjan writes in[(http://slexy.org/view/s20N9bfkum) Samuel writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20FU9wUO5) ***
18: Eclipsing Binaries
Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We're back with the first show of 2014, and we've got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we'll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Faces of FreeBSD continues (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-shteryana-shopova.html) Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia Gives some information about how she got into BSD "I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn't booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out." She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation We've also got one for Kevin Martin (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-kevin-martin.html) Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company "FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community." *** OpenPF? (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/12/19/13008.html) A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD's firewall? Similar to portable OpenSSH (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) or OpenZFS (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_04-zettabytes_for_days), there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue Right now FreeBSD 9's pf is old, FreeBSD 10's pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD's pf is old (but they're working on a fork) and Dragonfly's pf is old Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’ Not likely to happen any time soon, but it's good food for thought *** Year of BSD on the server (http://mxey.net/the-year-of-freebsd-on-the-server/) A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD 2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10's amazing new features This author was particularly taken with pkgng (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng) and the more coherent layout of BSD systems Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread (http://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1tdrz1/why_did_you_choose_bsd_over_linux/), "Why did you choose BSD over Linux?" Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send 'em to your friends *** Getting to know your portmgr (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/12/24/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-bryan-drewery/) This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time Lots of fun trivia and background about him Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is... *** Interview - Baptiste Daroussin - bapt@freebsd.org (mailto:bapt@freebsd.org) The future of FreeBSD's binary packages (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng), ports' features, various topics News Roundup pfSense december hang out (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD-2e9u3tug) Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post (http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1146) "This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics" Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store (http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1156) We're planning on having a pfSense episode next month! *** BSDMag December issue is out (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1854-carp-on-freebsd-how-to-use-devd-to-take-action-on-kernel-events) The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, "unix basics for security professionals," some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH *** OpenBSD gets tmpfs (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131217081921) In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ccache) *** PCBSD weekly digests (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/12/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-122013/) Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land.. 10.0-RC2 is now available (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/12/weekly-feature-digest-122713/) The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out *** Feedback/Questions Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2UrUzlnf6) Jason writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2iqnywwKX) Rob writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2IUcPySbh) John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21aYlbXz2) Stuart writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21vrYSqU8) ***
17: The Gift of Giving
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 Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org (mailto:scottl@freebsd.org) FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics
16: Cryptocrystalline
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 Headlines Secure communications with OpenBSD and OpenVPN (http://johnchapin.boostrot.net/blog/2013/12/07/secure-comms-with-openbsd-and-openvpn-part-1/) 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 (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Dec-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 (http://evertiq.com/design/33394) 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 (http://adrianchadd.blogspot.com/2013/12/experimenting-with-zero-copy-network-io.html) 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 (mailto:djm@openbsd.org) / @damienmiller (https://twitter.com/damienmiller) Cryptography in OpenBSD and OpenSSH Tutorial Full disk encryption in FreeBSD & OpenBSD (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/fde) News Roundup OpenZFS office hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWmVW2R_uz8) Our buddy George Wilson (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_04-zettabytes_for_days) sat down to take some ZFS questions from the community You can see more info about it here (http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Office_Hours) *** License summaries in pkgng (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/12/09/12934.html) A discussion between Justin Sherill (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) 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 (http://thelinuxcauldron.com/2013/12/08/freebsd-challenge/) 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 (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=336615) 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 (http://slexy.org/view/s2iRV1tOzB) Spencer writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21gAR5lgf) Campbell writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s203iOnFh1) Sha'ul writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2yUqj3vKW) Clint writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2egcTPBXH) ***