BSD Now

57: The Daemon's Apprentice

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We're back from EuroBSDCon! This week we'll be talking with Steve Wills about mentoring new BSD developers. If you've ever considered becoming a developer or helping out, it's actually really easy to get involved. We've also got all the BSD news for the week and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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NetBSD at Hiroshima Open Source Conference
  • NetBSD developers are hard at work, putting NetBSD on everything they can find
  • At a technology conference in Hiroshima, some developers brought their exotic machines to put on display
  • As usual, there are lots of pictures and a nice report from the conference
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    FreeBSD's Linux emulation overhaul
    • For a long time, FreeBSD's emulation layer has been based on an ancient Fedora 10 system
    • If you've ever needed to install Adobe Flash on BSD, you'll be stuck with all this extra junk
    • With some recent work, that's been replaced with a recent CentOS release
    • This opens up the door for newer versions of Skype to run on FreeBSD, and maybe even Steam someday
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      pfSense 2.2-BETA
      • Big changes are coming in pfSense land, with their upcoming 2.2 release
      • We talked to the developer a while back about future plans, and now they're finally out there
      • The 2.2 branch will be based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE (instead of 8.3) and include lots of performance fixes
      • It also includes some security updates, lots of package changes and updates and much more
      • You can check the full list of changes on their wiki
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        NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi
        • This article shows how you can install NetBSD on the ever-so-popular Raspberry Pi
        • As of right now, you'll need to use a -CURRENT snapshot to do it
        • It also shows how to grow the filesystem to fill up an SD card, some pkgsrc basics and how to get some initial things set up
        • Can anyone find something that you can't install NetBSD on?
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          Interview - Steve Wills - [email protected] / @swills

          Mentoring new BSD developers

          News Roundup
          MidnightBSD 0.5 released
          • We don't hear a whole lot about MidnightBSD, but they've just released version 0.5
          • It's got a round of the latest FreeBSD security patches, driver updates and various small things
          • Maybe one of their developers could come on the show sometime and tell us more about the project
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            BSD Router Project 1.52 released
            • The newest update for the BSD Router Project is out
            • This version is based on a snapshot of 10-STABLE that's very close to 10.1-RELEASE
            • It's mostly a bugfix release, but includes some small changes and package updates
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              Configuring a DragonFly BSD desktop
              • We've done tutorials on how to set up a FreeBSD or OpenBSD desktop, but maybe you're more interested in DragonFly
              • In this post from Justin Sherrill, you'll learn some of the steps to do just that
              • He pulled out an old desktop machine, gave it a try and seems to be pleased with the results
              • It includes a few Xorg tips, and there are some comments about the possibility of making a GUI DragonFly installer
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                Building a mini-ITX pfSense box
                • Another week, another pfSense firewall build post
                • This time, the author is installing to a Jetway J7F2, a mini-ITX device with four LAN ports
                • He used to be a m0n0wall guy, but wanted to give the more modern pfSense a try
                • Lots of great pictures of the hardware, which we always love
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