November 20, 2013

12: Collecting SSHells

1 hour 8 minutes

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

Headlines

Faces of FreeBSD

The FreeBSD foundation is publishing articles on different FreeBSD developers

This one is about Colin Percival (cperciva@), the ex-security officer

Tells the story of how he first found BSD, what he contributed back, how he eventually became the security officer

Running series with more to come

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Lots of BSD presentation videos uploaded

EuroBSDCon 2013 dev summit videos, AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos, MWL's presentation video

Most of us never get to see the dev summit talks since they're only for developers

AsiaBSDCon 2013 videos also up finally

List of AsiaBSDCon presentation topics here

Our buddy Michael W Lucas gave an "OpenBSD for Linux users" talk at a Michigan Unix Users Group.

He says "Among other things, I compare OpenBSD to Richard Stallman and physically assault an audience member. We also talk long long time, memory randomization, PF, BSD license versus GPL, Microsoft and other OpenBSD stuff"

Really informative presentation, pretty long, answers some common questions at the end

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Call for Presentations: FOSDEM 2014 and NYCBSDCon 2014

FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1–2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium

Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer's room

The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features.

If you are in the area or want to go, check the show notes for details

NYCBSDCon is also accepting papers.

It'll be in New York City at the beginning of February 2014

If anyone wants to give a talk at one of these conferences, go ahead and send in your stuff!

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FreeBSD foundation's year-end fundraising campaign

The FreeBSD foundation has been supporting the FreeBSD project and community for over 13 years

As of today they have raised about half a million dollars, but still have a while to go

Donations go towards new features, paying for the server infrastructure, conferences, supporting the community, hiring full-time staff members and promoting FreeBSD at events

They are preparing the debut of a new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal

Typically big companies make their huge donations in December, like a couple of anonymous donors that gave around $250,000 each last year

Make your donation today over at freebsdfoundation.org, every little bit helps

Everyone involved with BSD Now made a donation last year and will do so again this year

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Interview - Amitai Schlair - [email protected] / @schmonz

The NetBSD Foundation, pkgsrc, future plans

Tutorial

Combining SSH and tmux

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

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News Roundup

PS4 released

Sony's Playstation 4 is finally released

As previously thought, its OS is heavily based on FreeBSD and uses the kernel among other things

Link in the show notes contains the full list of BSD software they're using

Always good to see BSD being so widespread

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BSD Mag November issue

Free monthly BSD magazine publishes another issue

This time their topics include: Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD, IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation, more FreeBSD Programming Primer, PfSense and Snort and a few others

PDF linked in the show notes

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pbulk builds made easy

NetBSD's pbulk tool is similar to poudriere, but for pkgsrc

While working on updating the documentation, a developer cleaned up quite a lot of code

He wrote a script that automates pbulk deployment and setup

The whole setup of a dedicated machine has been reduced to just three commands

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PCBSD weekly digest

Over 200 PBIs have been populated in to the PC-BSD 10 Stable Appcafe

Many PC-BSD programs received some necessary bug fixes and updates

Some include network detection in the package and update managers, nvidia graphic detection, security updates for PCDM

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Feedback/Questions

Peter writes in

Kjell-Aleksander writes in

Jordan writes in

Christian writes in

entransic writes in

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