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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) ***
15: Kickin' NAS
This time on the show, we'll be looking at the new version of FreeNAS, a BSD-based network attached storage solution, as well as talking to Josh Paetzel - one of the key developers of FreeNAS. Actually, he's on the FreeBSD release engineering team too, and does quite a lot for the project. We've got answers to your viewer-submitted questions and plenty of news to cover, so get ready for some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines More faces of FreeBSD (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-reid-linnemann.html) Another installment of the FoF series This time they talk with Reid Linnemann who works at Spectra Logic Gives a history of all the different jobs he's done, all the programming languages he knows Mentions how he first learned about FreeBSD, actually pretty similar to Kris' story "I used the system to build and install ports, and explored, getting actively involved in the mailing lists and forums, studying, passing on my own limited knowledge to those who could benefit from it. I pursued my career in the open source software world, learning the differences in BSD and GNU licensing and the fragmented nature of Linux distributions, realizing the FreeBSD community was more mature and well distributed about industry, education, and research. Everything steered me towards working with and on FreeBSD." Now works on FreeBSD as his day job The second one (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-brooks-davis.html) covers Brooks Davis FreeBSD committer since 2001 and core team member from 2006 through 2012 He's helped drive our transition from a GNU toolchain to a more modern LLVM-based toolchain "One of the reasons I like FreeBSD is the community involved in the process of building a principled, technically-advanced operating system platform. Not only do we produce a great product, but we have fun doing it." Lots more in the show notes *** We cannot trust Intel and Via’s chip-based crypto (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-09-devsummit.html#Security) We woke up to see FreeBSD on the front page of The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/09/freebsd_abandoning_hardware_randomness/), Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-intel-and-vias-chip-based-crypto-freebsd-developers-say/), Slashdot (http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/12/11/1919201/freebsd-developers-will-not-trust-chip-based-encryption) and Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6880474) for their strong stance on security and respecting privacy At the EuroBSDCon dev summit, there was some discussion about removing support for hardware-based random number generators. FreeBSD's /dev/random got some updates and, for 10.0, will no longer allow the use of Intel or VIA's hardware RNGs as the sole point of entropy "It will still be possible to access hardware random number generators, that is, RDRAND, Padlock etc., directly by inline assembly or by using OpenSSL from userland, if required, but we cannot trust them any more" *** OpenSMTPD 5.4.1 released (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.opensmtpd.general/1146) The OpenBSD developers came out with major a new version Improved config syntax (please check your smtpd.conf before upgrading) Adds support for TLS Perfect Forward Secrecy and custom CA certificate MTA, Queue and SMTP server improvements SNI support confirmed for the next version Check the show notes for the full list of changes, pretty huge release Watch Episode 3 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013-09-18_mx_with_ttx) for an interview we did with the developers *** More getting to know your portmgr (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/12/02/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-thomas-abthorpe/) The portmgr secretary, Thomas Abthorpe, interviews... himself! Joined as -secretary in March 2010, upgraded to full member in March 2011 His inspiration for using BSD is "I wanted to run a webserver, and I wanted something free. I was going to use something linux, then met up with a former prof from university, and shared my story with him. He told me FreeBSD was the way to go." Mentions how he loves that anyone can contribute and watch it "go live" The second one (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/12/09/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-baptiste-daroussin/) covers Baptiste Daroussin The reason for his nick, bapt, is "Baptiste is too long to type" There's even a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZk__K8rqOg) of bapt joining the team! *** Interview - Santa Clause - josh@ixsystems.com (mailto:josh@ixsystems.com) / @freenasteam (https://twitter.com/freenasteam) FreeNAS 9.2.0 (http://www.freenas.org/whats-new/2013/12/freenas-9-2-0-rc-available.html) Note: we originally scheduled the interview to be with Josh Paetzel, but Santa showed up instead. Tutorial FreeNAS walkthrough News Roundup Introducing configinit (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2013-12-09-FreeBSD-EC2-configinit.html) CloudInit is "a system originally written for Ubuntu which performs configuration of a system at boot-time based on user-data provided via EC2" Wasn't ideal for FreeBSD since it requires python and is designed around the concept of configuring a system by running commands (rather than editing configuration files) Colin Percival came up with configinit, a FreeBSD alternative Alongside his new "firstboot-pkgs" port, it can spin up a webserver in 120 seconds from "launch" of the EC2 instance Check the show notes for full blog post *** OpenSSH support for Ed25519 and bcrypt keys (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.key?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup) New Ed25519 key support (hostkeys and user identities) using the public domain ed25519 reference code SSH private keys were encrypted with a symmetric key that's just an MD5 of their password Now they'll be using bcrypt by default (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138633721618361&w=2) We'll get more into this in next week's interview *** The FreeBSD challenge (http://thelinuxcauldron.com/2013/12/08/freebsd-challenge/) A member of the Linux foundation blogs about using FreeBSD Goes through all the beginner steps, has to "unlearn" some of his Linux ways Only a few posts as of this time, but it's a continuing series that may be helpful for switchers *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/12/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-111513-2/) GNOME3, cinnamon and mate desktops are in the installer Compat layer updated to CentOS 6, enables newest Skype Looking for people to test printers and hplip Continuing work on grub, but the ability to switch between bootloaders is back *** Feedback/Questions Bostjan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20k2gumbP) Jason writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2PM8tfKfe) John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2KgXIKqrJ) Kjell-Aleksander writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20DLk8bac) Alexy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2nmmJHvgR) ***
14: Zettabytes for Days
This week is the long-awaited episode you've been asking for! We'll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project's recent developments. We have answers to your feedback emails and there are some great news items to get caught up on too, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. Headlines pkgng 1.2 released (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=334937) bapt and bdrewery from the portmgr team released pkgng 1.2 final New features include an improved build system, plugin improvements, new bootstrapping command, SRV mirror improvements, a new "pkg config" command, repo improvements, vuXML is now default, new fingerprint features and much more Really simple to upgrade, check our pkgng tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng) if you want some easy instructions It's also made its way into Dragonfly (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2013-November/090339.html) See the show notes for the full list of new features and fixes *** ChaCha20 and Poly1305 in OpenSSH (http://blog.djm.net.au/2013/11/chacha20-and-poly1305-in-openssh.html) Damien Miller recently committed support for a new authenticated encryption cipher for OpenSSH, chacha20-poly1305 Long blog post explaining what these are and why we need them This cipher combines two primitives: the ChaCha20 cipher and the Poly1305 MAC RC4 is broken, we needed an authenticated encryption mode to complement AES-GCM that doesn't show the packet length in cleartext Great explanation of the differences between EtM, MtE and EaM and their advantages "Both AES-GCM and the EtM MAC modes have a small downside though: because we no longer desire to decrypt the packet as we go, the packet length must be transmitted in plaintext. This unfortunately makes some forms of traffic analysis easier as the attacker can just read the packet lengths directly." *** Is it time to dump Linux and move to BSD (http://www.itworld.com/open-source/384383/should-you-switch-linux-bsd) ITworld did an article about switching from Linux to BSD The author's interest was sparked from a review he was reading that said "I feel the BSD communities, especially the FreeBSD-based projects, are where the interesting developments are happening these days. Over in FreeBSD land we have efficient PBI bundles, a mature advanced file system in the form of ZFS, new friendly and powerful system installers, a new package manager (pkgng), a powerful jail manager and there will soon be new virtualization technology coming with the release of FreeBSD 10.0" The whole article can be summed up with "yes" - ok, next story! *** OpenZFS devsummit videos (https://www.youtube.com/user/deirdres/videos) The OpenZFS developer summit (http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit_2013) discussion and presentation videos are up People from various operating systems (FreeBSD, Mac OS X, illumos, etc.) were there to discuss ZFS on their platforms and the challenges they faced Question and answer session from representatives of every OS - had a couple FreeBSD guys there including one from the foundation Presentations both about ZFS itself and some hardware-based solutions for implementing ZFS in production TONS of video, about 6 hours' worth This leads us into our interview, which is... *** Interview - George Wilson - wilzun@gmail.com (mailto:wilzun@gmail.com) / @zfsdude (https://twitter.com/zfsdude) OpenZFS Tutorial A crash course on ZFS (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/zfs) News Roundup ruBSD 2013 information (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131126113154) The ruBSD 2013 conference will take place on Saturday December 14, 2013 at 10:30 AM in Moscow, Russia Speakers include three OpenBSD developers, Theo de Raadt (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_09-doing_it_de_raadt_way), Henning Brauer (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_30-current_events) and Mike Belopuhov Their talks are titled "The bane of backwards compatibility," "OpenBSD's pf: Design, Implementation and Future" and "OpenBSD: Where crypto is going?" No word on if there will be video recordings, but we'll let you know if that changes *** DragonFly roadmap, post 3.6 (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/11/28/12874.html) John Marino posted a possible roadmap for DragonFly, now that they're past the 3.6 release He wants some third party vendor software updated from very old versions (WPA supplicant, bmake, binutils) Plans to replace GCC44 with Clang, but GCC47 will probably be the primary compiler still Bring in fixes and new stuff from FreeBSD 10 *** BSDCan 2014 CFP (http://lists.bsdcan.org/pipermail/bsdcan-announce/2013-December/000123.html) BSDCan 2014 will be held on May 16-17 in Ottawa, Canada They're now accepting proposals for talks If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal We'll be getting lots of interviews there *** casperd added to -CURRENT (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=258838) "It (and its services) will be responsible forgiving access to functionality that is not available in capability modes and box. The functionality can be precisely restricted." Lists some sysctls that can be controlled *** ZFS corruption bug fixed in -CURRENT (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=258704) Just a quick follow-up from last week, the ZFS corruption bug in FreeBSD -CURRENT was very quickly fixed, before that episode was even uploaded *** Feedback/Questions Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2JDWKjs7l) SW writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20BLqxTWD) Jason writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2939tUOf5) Clint writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21qKY6qIb) Chris writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20LWlmhoK) ***
13: Bridging the Gap
This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD. Headlines Getting to know your portmgr (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/18/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-erwin-lansing/) In this interview they talk to one of the "Annoying Reminder Guys" - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD's portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation) He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD Describes FreeBSD as "the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community." In the next one (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/25/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-martin-wilke/) they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@) The usual, "what inspires you about FreeBSD" "how did you get into it" etc. *** vBSDCon wrap-up compilation (http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/11/20/vbsdcon-wrap-ups/) Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place Some from OpenBSD guys (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131121050402) Some from FreeBSD guys (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/vbsdcon-trip-report-john-mark-gurney.html) Some from RootBSD (http://www.rootbsd.net/vbsdcon-2013-wrap-up/) Some from iXsystems (http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/blog/vbsdcon-2013.html) Some from Verisign (http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/builders_and_archaeologists) And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_30-current_events) *** Faces of FreeBSD (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/faces-of-freebsd-each-week-we-are-going.html) This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD "I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use." He's been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team *** Dragonfly 3.6 released (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release36/) dports now default instead of pkgsrc Big SMP scaling improvements Experimental i915 and KMS support See our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long *** Interview - Jordan Hubbard - jkh@freebsd.org (mailto:jkh@freebsd.org) / @omgjkh (https://twitter.com/omgjkh) FreeBSD's founding and future Tutorial Building an OpenBSD router, part 2 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router) Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions. *** News Roundup pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2 (http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1132) We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free "public" AMI Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud *** Puffy on the desktop (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131118#feature) Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read Ends with "Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn't mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave" *** Two-factor authentication with SSH (http://cmacr.ae/openbsd/security/networking/2013/11/25/ssh-yubi.html) Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD's login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/weekly-feature-digest-112313/) 10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree - please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself! PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end *** Feedback/Questions Ben writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ag1fA7Ug) Florian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2TSIvZzVO) Zach writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20Po4soFF) Addison writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20ntzqi9c) Adam writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk) Adam (https://twitter.com/redshirtlinux)'s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here (http://bsdnow.cdn.scaleengine.net/bsdrouterproject.m4v). ***
12: Collecting SSHells
This week we'll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD's future plans and much more. After that, if you've ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today's tutorial has got you covered. We'll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. Headlines Faces of FreeBSD (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/faces-of-freebsd-colin-percival.html) The FreeBSD foundation is publishing articles on different FreeBSD developers This one is about Colin Percival (cperciva@), the ex-security officer Tells the story of how he first found BSD, what he contributed back, how he eventually became the security officer Running series with more to come *** Lots of BSD presentation videos uploaded (http://www.freebsdnews.net/2013/11/14/eurobsdcon-2013-devsummit-video-recordings/) EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit videos, AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos, MWL's presentation video Most of us never get to see the dev summit talks since they're only for developers AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos also up (https://www.youtube.com/user/bsdconferences) finally List of AsiaBSDCon presentation topics here (http://2013.asiabsdcon.org/papers/index.html) Our buddy Michael W Lucas gave an "OpenBSD for Linux users" talk (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1879) at a Michigan Unix Users Group. He says "Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member. We also talk long long time, memory randomization, PF, BSD license versus GPL, Microsoft and other OpenBSD stuff" Really informative presentation, pretty long, answers some common questions at the end *** Call for Presentations: FOSDEM 2014 and NYCBSDCon 2014 (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/call_for_presentations_bsd_devroom) FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1–2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer's room The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features. If you are in the area or want to go, check the show notes for details NYCBSDCon is also accepting papers (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131119053455). It'll be in New York City at the beginning of February 2014 If anyone wants to give a talk at one of these conferences, go ahead and send in your stuff! *** FreeBSD foundation's year-end fundraising campaign (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2013-November/001511.html) The FreeBSD foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD project and community for over 13 years As of today they have raised about half a million dollars, but still have a while to go Donations go towards new features, paying for the server infrastructure, conferences, supporting the community, hiring full-time staff members and promoting FreeBSD at events They are preparing the debut of a new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal Typically big companies make their huge donations in December, like a couple of anonymous donors that gave around $250,000 each last year Make your donation today (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/) over at freebsdfoundation.org, every little bit helps Everyone involved with BSD Now made a donation last year and will do so again this year *** Interview - Amitai Schlair - schmonz@netbsd.org (mailto:schmonz@netbsd.org) / @schmonz (https://twitter.com/schmonz) The NetBSD Foundation, pkgsrc, future plans Tutorial Combining SSH and tmux (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-tmux) Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions. *** News Roundup PS4 released (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/16/sony_playstation_4_kernel) Sony's Playstation 4 is finally released As previously thought, its OS is heavily based on FreeBSD and uses the kernel among other things Link in the show notes contains the full list of BSD software they're using (http://www.scei.co.jp/ps4-license/) Always good to see BSD being so widespread *** BSD Mag November issue (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1853-hast-on-freebsd-how-to-make-storage-highly-availble-by-using-hast) Free monthly BSD magazine publishes another issue This time their topics include: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD, IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation, more FreeBSD Programming Primer, PfSense and Snort and a few others PDF linked in the show notes *** pbulk builds made easy (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2013/11/09/msg018881.html) NetBSD's pbulk tool (https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/bulk.html) is similar to poudriere (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/poudriere), but for pkgsrc While working on updating the documentation, a developer cleaned up quite a lot of code He wrote a script that automates pbulk deployment and setup The whole setup of a dedicated machine has been reduced to just three commands *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-111513/) Over 200 PBIs have been populated in to the PC-BSD 10 Stable Appcafe Many PC-BSD programs received some necessary bug fixes and updates Some include network detection in the package and update managers, nvidia graphic detection, security updates for PCDM *** Feedback/Questions Peter writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21oh3vP7t) Kjell-Aleksander writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21zfqcWMP) Jordan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ZmW77Odb) Christian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2BZq7xiyo) entransic writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21xrk0M4k) ***
11: The Gateway Drug
This time on the show, we sit down to chat with Justin Sherrill of the DragonflyBSD project about their new 3.6 release. Later on, we'll be showing you a huge tutorial that's been baking for over a month - how to build an OpenBSD router that'll destroy any consumer router on the market! There's lots of news to get caught up on as well, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. Headlines OpenSSH 6.4 released (http://openssh.com/txt/release-6.4) Security fixes in OpenSSH (http://openssh.com/) don't happen very often 6.4 fixes a memory corruption problem, no new features If exploited, this vulnerability might permit code execution with the privileges of the authenticated user and may therefore allow bypassing restricted shell/command configurations. Disabling AES-GCM in the server configuration is a workaround Only affects 6.2 and 6.3 if compiled against a newer OpenSSL (so FreeBSD 9's base OpenSSL is unaffected, for example) Full details here (http://www.openssh.com/txt/gcmrekey.adv) *** Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/04/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-mathieu-arnold/) Next entry in portmgr interview series This time they chat with Mathieu Arnold, one of the portmgr-lurkers we mentioned previously Lots of questions ranging from why he uses BSD to what he had for breakfast Another one (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/11/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-antoine-brodin/) was since released, with Antoine Brodin aka antoine@ *** FUSE in OpenBSD (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131108082749) As we glossed over last week, FUSE was recently added to OpenBSD Now the guys from the OpenBSD Journal have tracked down more information This version is released under an ISC license Should be in OpenBSD 5.5, released a little less than 6 months from now Will finally enable things like SSHFS to work in OpenBSD *** Automated submission of kernel panic reports (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-November/046175.html) New tool from Colin Percival Saves information about kernel panics and emails it to FreeBSD Lets you review before sending so you can edit out any private info Automatically encrypted before being sent FreeBSD never kernel panics so this won't get much use *** Interview - Justin Sherrill - justin@dragonflybsd.org (mailto:justin@dragonflybsd.org) / @dragonflybsd (https://twitter.com/dragonflybsd) DragonflyBSD 3.6 and the Dragonfly Digest (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/) Tutorial Building an OpenBSD Router (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router) News Roundup BSD router project 1.5 released (http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdrp/files/BSD_Router_Project/1.5/) Nice timing for our router tutorial; TBRP is a FreeBSD distribution for installing on a router It's an alternative to pfSense, but not nearly as well known or popular New version is based on 9.2-RELEASE, includes lots of general updates and bugfixes Fits on a 256MB Compact Flash/USB drive *** Curve25519 now default key exchange (http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/5cfc11a2aa3696190b675b6e3e1da7e8ff28582e) We mentioned in an earlier episode about a patch for curve25519 (http://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html) Now it's become the default for key exchange Will probably make its way into OpenSSH 6.5, would've been in 6.4 if we didn't have that security vulnerability It's interesting to see all these big changes in cryptography in OpenBSD lately *** FreeBSD kernel selection in boot menu (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=257650) Adds a kernel selection menu to the beastie menu List of kernels is taken from 'kernels' in loader.conf as a space or comma separated list of names to display (up to 9) From our good buddy Devin Teske (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013-09-25_teskeing_the_possibilities) *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-11813/) PCDM has officially replaced GDM as the default login manager New ISO build scripts (we got a sneak preview last week) Lots of bug fixes Second set of 10-STABLE ISOs available with new artwork and much more *** Theo de Raadt speaking at MUUG (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131113074042&mode=expanded&count=0) Theo will be speaking at Manitoba UNIX User Group in Winnipeg On Friday, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:30PM (see show notes for the address) If you're watching the show live you have time to make plans, if you're watching the downloaded version it might be happening right now! No agenda, but expect some OpenBSD discussion *** Feedback/Questions Dave writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21YXhiLRB) James writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s215EjcgdM) Allen writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21mCP2ecL) Chess writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s207ePFrna) Frank writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20iVFXJve) ***
10: Year of the BSD Desktop
Headlines OpenBSD 5.4 released (http://www.openbsd.org/54.html) The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4 People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP New platforms "octeon" and "beagle" Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3 Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future *** FreeBSD pkgng repos are official (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkg/2013-October/000107.html) Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2 Added official public key (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r257150) to -STABLE and -CURRENT New "pkg+http" protocol (http://freshbsd.org/commit/freebsd/r257328) identifier for SRV records If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/poudriere) with just the packages you want using our tutorial If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/pkgng) for that too! What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences? *** DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-October/063015.html) SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release *** FreeBSD portmgr lurkers (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/01/portmgr-lurkers-pilot-project/) Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@). *** Interview - Michael W. Lucas - mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com (mailto:mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com) / @mwlauthor (https://twitter.com/mwlauthor) Sudo Mastery (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1852) + Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1805) Tutorial Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/the-desktop) News Roundup Capsicum in DragonflyBSD (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2013-October/063014.html) Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes *** NYCBSDCon 2014 (http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2014/) After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 8, 2014 Theme of "The BSDs in Production" this year Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer *** FreeBSD newcons progress update (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/newcons-system-console-project-update.html) This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons) *** Weekly PCBSD feature digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-11113/) PBI 10 format is about ready and they'll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features *** Feedback/Questions Alptekin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s208YfYZA9) [Gertjan writes in[(http://slexy.org/view/s2k4C2Ryo9) Kevin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2172EyaRG) Kjell-Aleksander writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2mP8ftX0U) Michael writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s203Z9VdKt) ***
9: CURRENT Events
Headlines Managed services using FreeBSD (http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/Managed%20Services%20Using%20FreeBSD%20at%20NYI.pdf) New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more Explains FreeBSD's role in commercial workloads on a massive scale Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up *** OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138227554705375&w=2) So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running "installboot" is all that's needed *** More Dragonfly SMP speedups (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/10/24/12671.html) Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour Super technical details in the show notes, check 'em out *** Getting to know portmgr (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/10/21/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-joe-marcus-clarke/) Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who's also the creator of redports.org) Future segments will include the other members Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff *** BSD Now at the top of iTunes (http://i.imgur.com/lITf0xb.jpg) BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section *** Interview - Henning Brauer - henning@openbsd.org (mailto:henning@openbsd.org) / @henningbrauer (https://twitter.com/henningbrauer) OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics Tutorial Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current) News Roundup OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138267062532046&w=2) Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it *** PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available (http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/announce/2013-October/000056.html) Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more *** Switching from Linux to BSD (http://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1otg6n/switching_from_linux_over_to_bsd/) Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it Asks the community what some differences and advantages are Good response from the community, worth reading if you're a Linux guy *** Unattended OpenBSD installations (http://freshbsd.org/commit/openbsd/cacacb528f0d47778aed7630d07988314f952264) Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a "response" file The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc Still a work in progress *** Feedback/Questions Kjell-Aleksander writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21hxDpzjO) Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21ibNDb5y) Chad writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20D6K2NUe) Joshua writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20UZLFHAg) Craig writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20S15bbZ4) We want to especially thank Chris for his huge feedback emails with lots of show ideas. ***
8: A Brief Introduction
This week, we chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. Headlines FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.html) Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we'll cover a few of them Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more We've covered some of these things already, but there's lots to read in the announcement See full page for details on everything *** Dragonfly SMP contention update (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/090181.html) Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is "a fairly major milestone for the project" Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out *** FreeBSD gets "first boot" rc.d scripts (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&sortby=date&revision=256775) Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports Lots of possibilities *** NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2013/10/16/msg048283.html) NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel A luactl (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2013/10/16/msg048285.html) command was added to easily manipulate it It will be interesting to see what can come out of this (https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/lua_in_the_netbsd_kernel/) Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview! *** Interview - Antti Kantee - pooka@netbsd.org (mailto:pooka@netbsd.org) / @anttikantee (https://twitter.com/anttikantee) The anykernel and rump kernels (http://www.netbsd.org/docs/rump/) rump kernels in userspace (https://github.com/anttikantee/buildrump.sh), rump kernels + applications on Xen (https://github.com/anttikantee/rumpuser-xen), fs-utils (https://github.com/stacktic/fs-utils), rump kernel compiled to javascript (http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump.js/) Tutorial Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/tor) News Roundup Second PCBSD feature digest is out (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/10/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-101813/) Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac.pcbsd.org Life Preserver has finished development and is now being tested PCBSD 10.0 ISOs coming soon *** OpenBSD imports VXLAN interface (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138165902522412&w=2) VXLAN is a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface UDP-based tunneling protocol for overlaying virtualized layer 2 networks over layer 3 networks *** OpenZFS Office Hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2vIdPmsnTI) The question and answer (http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Office_Hours) session with Matt has been uploaded Covers lots of topics ranging from cross-compatibility to performance improvements and trivia We'll be trying to get Matt on for an interview sometime, already contacted him *** BSDMag's October issue is out (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1851-freebsd-programming-primer-how-to-configure-a-development-environment) Free monthly BSD magazine releases another issue Topics include FreeBSD moving to SVN, a BSD programming intro, new PCBSD utilities, migrating from Linux to BSD and OpenBSD LTS updates (which we already covered!) *** Feedback/Questions Ben writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20MUQmfuD) Brian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20oVdxaE5) Toby writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2GfQkSSDz) Noah writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2IFpjbWVr) ***