March 26, 2014

30: Documentation is King

1 hour 22 minutes

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.

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OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

Our buddy Ted Unangst 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

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Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon 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

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Building a FreeBSD wireless access 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

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

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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

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Interview - Warren Block - [email protected]

FreeBSD's documentation project, igor, doceng

Tutorial

The world of BSD mailing lists

News Roundup

HAMMER2 work and notes

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

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BSD Breaking Barriers

Our friend MWL 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"

"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

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FreeBSD in a chroot

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 though

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PCBSD weekly digest

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

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Feedback/Questions

Bostjan writes in (IRC suggests md5deep)

Don writes in

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Harri writes in

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