April 09, 2014

32: PXE Dust

1 hour 16 minutes

This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD ASLR status update

Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD

He's implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)

Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi

He's giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work

While we're on the topic of BSDCan...

***

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials

The tutorials are called "Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter" and "Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5" - both scheduled to last three hours each

He's requesting anyone that'll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you'd like to learn

There's also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he's looking to improve them

If you're interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up

***

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready

Python 3.3 is now a "first class citizen" in pkgsrc

14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64

There's a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD - you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined

They're also looking into signing packages

***

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list

He questions "what's the big deal" about OpenBSD's slogan being "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this

Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD

It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely worth reading

***

Interview - Dru Lavigne - [email protected] / @bsdevents

FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues

Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router

There are also some NIC driver updates and other things

Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25

2.1.2 is already up for testing too

***

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

It looks like FreeBSD's battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?

Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64

Look through the list to see all the details and information

Thanks FreeBSD foundation!

***

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release

They're aiming for late May for the next version

Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support

Gasp, they're even considering dropping i386

***

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation

New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime

New default CD and DVD player, umplayer

Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds

***

Feedback/Questions

Remy writes in

Jan writes in

Eddie writes in

Zen writes in

Sean writes in

***

...more

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April 09, 2014

32: PXE Dust

1 hour 16 minutes

This episode was brought to you by

Headlines

FreeBSD ASLR status update

Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD

He's implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)

Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi

He's giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work

While we're on the topic of BSDCan...

***

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials

The tutorials are called "Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter" and "Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5" - both scheduled to last three hours each

He's requesting anyone that'll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you'd like to learn

There's also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he's looking to improve them

If you're interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up

***

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready

Python 3.3 is now a "first class citizen" in pkgsrc

14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64

There's a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD - you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined

They're also looking into signing packages

***

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list

He questions "what's the big deal" about OpenBSD's slogan being "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"

Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this

Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD

It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely worth reading

***

Interview - Dru Lavigne - [email protected] / @bsdevents

FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues

Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router

There are also some NIC driver updates and other things

Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25

2.1.2 is already up for testing too

***

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

It looks like FreeBSD's battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?

Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64

Look through the list to see all the details and information

Thanks FreeBSD foundation!

***

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release

They're aiming for late May for the next version

Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support

Gasp, they're even considering dropping i386

***

PCBSD weekly digest

Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation

New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime

New default CD and DVD player, umplayer

Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds

***

Feedback/Questions

Remy writes in

Jan writes in

Eddie writes in

Zen writes in

Sean writes in

***

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