November 27, 2013

13: Bridging the Gap

1 hour 8 minutes

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

Headlines

Getting to know your portmgr

In this interview they talk to one of the "Annoying Reminder Guys" - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD's portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)

He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD

Describes FreeBSD as "the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community."

In the next one they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@)

The usual, "what inspires you about FreeBSD" "how did you get into it" etc.

***

vBSDCon wrap-up compilation

Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place

Some from OpenBSD guys

Some from FreeBSD guys

Some from RootBSD

Some from iXsystems

Some from Verisign

And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009

***

Faces of FreeBSD

This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary

Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD

"I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use."

He's been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports

He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team

***

Dragonfly 3.6 released

dports now default instead of pkgsrc

Big SMP scaling improvements

Experimental i915 and KMS support

See our interview with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long

***

Interview - Jordan Hubbard - [email protected] / @omgjkh

FreeBSD's founding and future

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD router, part 2

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

***

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2

We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free "public" AMI

Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details

Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud

***

Puffy on the desktop

Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review

They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up

Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read

Ends with "Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn't mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave"

***

Two-factor authentication with SSH

Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys

Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD's login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well

Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised

Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read

***

PCBSD weekly digest

10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption

They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree - please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!

PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed

Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end

***

Feedback/Questions

Ben writes in

Florian writes in

Zach writes in

Addison writes in

Adam writes in

Adam's BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here.

***

...more

View all episodes

By JT Pennington

4.9

8989 ratings