October 30, 2013

9: CURRENT Events

1 hour 16 minutes

Headlines

Managed services using FreeBSD

New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD

Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more

Explains FreeBSD's role in commercial workloads on a massive scale

Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up

***

OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable

Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel

The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume

No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running "installboot" is all that's needed

***

More Dragonfly SMP speedups

Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements

Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test

The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour

Super technical details in the show notes, check 'em out

***

Getting to know portmgr

Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team

In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke

In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who's also the creator of redports.org)

Future segments will include the other members

Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff

***

BSD Now at the top of iTunes

BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section

***

Interview - Henning Brauer - [email protected] / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid

Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD

Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it

***

PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone

A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages

AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more

***

Switching from Linux to BSD

Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it

Asks the community what some differences and advantages are

Good response from the community, worth reading if you're a Linux guy

***

Unattended OpenBSD installations

Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a "response" file

The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs

Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc

Still a work in progress

***

Feedback/Questions

Kjell-Aleksander writes in

Alex writes in

Chad writes in

Joshua writes in

Craig writes in

We want to especially thank Chris for his huge feedback emails with lots of show ideas.

***

...more

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October 30, 2013

9: CURRENT Events

1 hour 16 minutes

Headlines

Managed services using FreeBSD

New York Internet, a huge ISP and service provider, details how they use FreeBSD

Mentions using BSD technologies: pf, pfsync, carp, haproxy, zfs, jails and more

Explains FreeBSD's role in commercial workloads on a massive scale

Lots of cool graphs and info, check out the full write-up

***

OpenBSD boot support for keydisk-based crypto volumes

So far, only passphrase-based crypto volumes were bootable

Full disk encryption with key disks required a non-crypto partition to load the kernel

The bootloader now scans all BIOS-visible disks for RAID partitions and automatically associates key disk partitions with their crypto volume

No need to re-create existing volumes. Moving the root partition onto the crypto disk and running "installboot" is all that's needed

***

More Dragonfly SMP speedups

Matthew Dillon has been committing lots of various SMP improvements

Using dports builds on a 48-processor machine as a test

The machine’s now building more than 1000 packages an hour

Super technical details in the show notes, check 'em out

***

Getting to know portmgr

Start of an ongoing series profiling members of the FreeBSD Ports Management Team

In the first interview, they talk to longest serving member of the team, Joe Marcus Clarke

In the second, Bernhard Frölich (who's also the creator of redports.org)

Future segments will include the other members

Topics include their inspiration for using FreeBSD, first time using it, lots of other interesting stuff

***

BSD Now at the top of iTunes

BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section

***

Interview - Henning Brauer - [email protected] / @henningbrauer

OpenBSD's pf firewall, privilege separation, various topics

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT

News Roundup

OpenBSD gets XBox360 controller support

Adds support for Microsoft XBox 360 controller as a uhid

Will make things easier for emulators in OpenBSD

Are there people who regularly play games on BSD? Email us, might do a segment on it

***

PCBSD 10-STABLE ISOs available

Early cut of the new stable/10 branch, not recommended for everyone

A pkgng repository is available, but is missing a number of packages

AMD KMS, new text installer, UEFI loader support, much more

***

Switching from Linux to BSD

Yet another Linux user switching to BSD makes a thread about it

Asks the community what some differences and advantages are

Good response from the community, worth reading if you're a Linux guy

***

Unattended OpenBSD installations

Unattended installations possible using DHCP and a "response" file

The system gets an IP via DHCP, then fetches a config file with key=value pairs

Can do automatic network setup, SSH, passwords, etc

Still a work in progress

***

Feedback/Questions

Kjell-Aleksander writes in

Alex writes in

Chad writes in

Joshua writes in

Craig writes in

We want to especially thank Chris for his huge feedback emails with lots of show ideas.

***

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