April 01, 2014

31: Edgy BSD Users

1 hour 9 minutes

This week we'll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we'll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now - the place to Lin.. ux.

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Preorders for cool BSD stuff

The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder

We talked to GNN briefly about it, but he and Kirk have apparently finally finished the book

"For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD's internal structure. Now, this definitive guide has been extensively updated to reflect all major FreeBSD improvements between Versions 5 and Versions 11"

OpenBSD 5.5 preorders are also up, so you can buy a CD set now

You can help support the project, and even get the -release of the OS before it's available publicly

5.5 is a huge release with lots of big changes, so now is the right time to purchase one of these - tell Austin we sent you!

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pkgsrcCon 2014 CFP

This year's pkgsrcCon is in London, on June 21st and 22nd

There's a Call For Papers out now, so you can submit your talks

Anything related to pkgsrc is fine, it's pretty informal

Does anyone in the audience know if the talks will be recorded? This con is relatively unknown

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BSDMag issue for March 2014

The monthly BSD magazine releases its newest issue

Topics this time include: deploying NetBSD using AWS EC2, creating a multi-purpose file server with NetBSD, DragonflyBSD as a backup server, more GIMP lessons, network analysis with wireshark and a general security article

The Linux article trend seems to continue... hmm

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Non-ECC RAM in FreeNAS

We've gotten a few questions about ECC RAM with ZFS

Here we've got a surprising blog post about why someone did not go with ECC RAM for his NAS build

The article mentions the benefits of ECC and admits it is a better choice in nearly all instances, but unfortunately it's not very widespread in consumer hardware motherboards and it's more expensive

Regular RAM also has "special" issues with ZFS and pool corruption

Long post, so check out the whole thing if you've been considering your memory options and weighing the benefits

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Interview - Pierre Pronchery - [email protected] / @khorben

EdgeBSD (slides)

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD desktop

News Roundup

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

This week we get to hear from Frederic Culot, colut@

Originally an OpenBSD user from France, Frederic joined as a ports committer in 2010 and recently joined the portmgr lurkers team

"FreeBSD is also one of my sources of inspiration when it comes to how

organizations behave and innovate, and I find it very interesting to compare FreeBSD with

the for-profit companies I work for"

We get to find out a little bit about him, why he loves FreeBSD and what he does for the project

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NetBSD on the Playstation 2

Who doesn't want to run NetBSD on their old PS2?

The PS2 port of NetBSD was sadly removed in 2009, but it has been revived

It's using a slightly unusual MIPS CPU that didn't have much GCC support

Hopefully a bootable kernel will be available soon

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The FreeBSD Challenge update

Our friend from the Linux Foundation continues his FreeBSD switching journey

This time he starts off by discovering virtual machines suck at keeping accurate time, and some ports weren't working because of his clock being way off

After polling the IRC for help, he finally learns the difference between ntpdate and ntpd and both of their use cases

Maybe he should've just read our NTP tutorial!

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PCBSD weekly digest

The mount tray icon got lots of updates and fixes

The faulty distribution server has finally been tracked down and... destroyed

New language localization project is in progress

Many many updates to ports and PBIs, new -STABLE builds

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Feedback/Questions

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