BSD Now

23: Time Signatures

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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.

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FreeBSD foundation's 2013 fundraising results
  • 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)
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    OpenSSH 6.5 released
    • We mentioned the CFT last week, and it's finally here!
    • 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 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 FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
    • Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
    • Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL!
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      Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower
      • In 2000, MWL 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
      • 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."
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        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
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          Interview - Ted Unangst - [email protected] / @tedunangst

          OpenBSD's signify infrastructure, ZFS on OpenBSD

          Tutorial
          Running an NTP server
          News Roundup
          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
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            More OpenBSD hackathon reports
            • 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
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              X11 in a jail
              • 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 for ideas
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                PCBSD weekly digest
                • 10.0 "Joule Edition" finally released!
                • AMD graphics are now officially supported
                • GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
                • Grub updates and fixes
                • PCBSD also got a mention in eweek
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                  Feedback/Questions
                  • Justin writes in
                  • Daniel writes in
                  • Martin writes in
                  • Alex writes in - unofficial FreeBSD RPI Images
                  • James writes in
                  • John writes in
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