BSD Now

By JT Pennington

Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as... more

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November 06, 201310: Year of the BSD Desktop
Headlines
OpenBSD 5.4 released
The usual 6 month release cycle continues with 5.4
People who bought the CD get the release very early, but now it's on the public FTP
New platforms "octeon" and "beagle"
Improved Intel DRM, reworked checksumming for network protocols, ECDHE support in httpd, inetd no longer started by default, DHCP improvements, lots of new OpenSMTPD work, OpenSSH 6.3
Over 7,800 ports available, comes with another new song and fun artwork, lots of new features - check out the full release notes
A special thanks to Nick Holland and Bob Beck for their behind-the-scenes work
Experimental FUSE support was enabled shortly after the release, so look forward to that in the future
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FreeBSD pkgng repos are official
Built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday
Signed packages coming soon with pkg 1.2
Added official public key to -STABLE and -CURRENT
New "pkg+http" protocol identifier for SRV records
If you need something more up to date or with custom options, it's easy to make your own with just the packages you want using our tutorial
If you need a guide on how to use pkgng itself, check our tutorial for that too!
What does this mean for PCBSD repo users? Should they switch? Differences?
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DragonflyBSD 3.6 branched
SMP improvements and GCC changes are all in, so it's time to branch
Release planned for a little under 2 weeks from today
Features will include i915 support, mdocml imported, crazy SMP improvements, dports being default
We're hoping to get someone from Dragonfly on the show next week to talk about the final release
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FreeBSD portmgr lurkers
Over the course of the next two years, volunteers from a group of ports committers will participate in portmgr activities
At four month intervals, two committers at a time will be brought in to work on various projects and learn the inner workings of the team
The first two -lurkers are Mathieu Arnold (mat@) and Antoine Brodin (antoine@).
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Interview - Michael W. Lucas - [email protected] / @mwlauthor
Sudo Mastery
Video: DNSSec in 55 Minutes
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Tutorial
Configuring FreeBSD as a desktop system
News Roundup
Capsicum in DragonflyBSD
Dragonfly has no security framework yet besides the traditional unix DAC model
Port of Capsicum to Dragonfly has begun
Quite a bit of technical detail in the show notes
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NYCBSDCon 2014
After a three year hiatus, NYCBSDCon is back on February 8, 2014
Theme of "The BSDs in Production" this year
Held in New York City, more information to come as the time draws closer
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FreeBSD newcons progress update
This project will provide a replacement for the legacy syscons system console
Newcons provides a number of improvements, including better integration with graphics modes, and broader character set support
More details on the project can be found on the FreeBSD wiki
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Weekly PCBSD feature digest
PBI 10 format is about ready and they'll begin populating the 10.0 appcafe starting next week
PCDM login manager is back and is ready to be tested
New PC-BSD Disk Manager Utility with lots of features
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Feedback/Questions
Alptekin writes in
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Kevin writes in
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Michael writes in
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1h 33min
October 30, 20139: CURRENT Events
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
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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
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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
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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
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BSD Now at the top of iTunes
BSD Now is on the front-and-center page of iTunes' technology podcast section
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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1h 17min
October 25, 2013 A Brief Introduction | BSD Now 8
We chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
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1h 22min
October 23, 20138: A Brief Introduction
This week, we chat with Antti Kantee from the NetBSD project about a crazy little thing called rump kernels. We'll also be showing you all the different cool things you can do with BSD and the Tor network, as well as discussing all the latest news. So sit back and enjoy BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
FreeBSD July-September 2013 Status Report
Quarterly FreeBSD status report is out with A LOT of updates, we'll cover a few of them
Highlights include AES-NI Improvements for GELI, Capsicum development, Continuation of the Newcons Project, Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection, status updates from all the various FreeBSD teams, FreeBSD on EC2 news, updates to the CSPRNG, much more
We've covered some of these things already, but there's lots to read in the announcement
See full page for details on everything
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Dragonfly SMP contention update
Lots of work going in to reducing SMP contention in the next Dragonfly release
Anything which forks and/or execs a lot will now run as close to optimally as it is possible to run on a multi-core box
The lead developer was using poudriere and noticed the performance difference, says this is "a fairly major milestone for the project"
Lots of technical details in the mailing list post, check it out
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FreeBSD gets "first boot" rc.d scripts
Colin Percival added support for scripts that run on the first boot
Might be desirable for embedded systems to automatically download and apply patches
Similarly, it can be used to invoke freebsd-update to patch your system on the first bootup
Could also be used to download and run a script or install ports or packages
Already MFCed to 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE and added to ports
Lots of possibilities
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NetBSD gets lua scripting in the kernel
NetBSD gained support for the Lua scripting language in the kernel
A luactl command was added to easily manipulate it
It will be interesting to see what can come out of this
Speaking of NetBSD kernels, that leads us into our interview!
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Interview - Antti Kantee - [email protected] / @anttikantee
The anykernel and rump kernels
rump kernels in userspace, rump kernels + applications on Xen, fs-utils, rump kernel compiled to javascript
Tutorial
Running a Tor relay, bridge, exit or hidden service
News Roundup
Second PCBSD feature digest is out
Weekly PCBSD digest is out to tell you about new features
Mentions switching over all bug reports to trac.pcbsd.org
Life Preserver has finished development and is now being tested
PCBSD 10.0 ISOs coming soon
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OpenBSD imports VXLAN interface
VXLAN is a virtual extensible local area network tunnel interface
UDP-based tunneling protocol for overlaying virtualized layer 2 networks over layer 3 networks
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OpenZFS Office Hours
The question and answer session with Matt has been uploaded
Covers lots of topics ranging from cross-compatibility to performance improvements and trivia
We'll be trying to get Matt on for an interview sometime, already contacted him
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BSDMag's October issue is out
Free monthly BSD magazine releases another issue
Topics include FreeBSD moving to SVN, a BSD programming intro, new PCBSD utilities, migrating from Linux to BSD and OpenBSD LTS updates (which we already covered!)
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Feedback/Questions
Ben writes in
Brian writes in
Toby writes in
Noah writes in
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1h 22min
October 18, 2013 Go Directly to Jail(8) | BSD Now 7
On this week’s show, you’ll be getting the full jail treatment. We’ll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp – the guy who actually invented them! There’s lots of interesting news items to cover as well.
So stay tuned to BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.
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1h 17min
October 16, 20137: Go Directly to Jail(8)
On this week's show, you'll be getting the full jail treatment. We'll show you how to create and deploy BSD jails, as well as chatting with Poul-Henning Kamp - the guy who actually invented them! There's lots of interesting news items to cover as well, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
FreeBSD turns it up to 11
The -CURRENT branch is now known as 11
10 has been branched to -STABLE
10-BETA1 ISOs are available now
Will be the next -RELEASE, probably next year
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Stopping the SSH bruteforce with BSD and pf
The Hail Mary Cloud is an SSH bruteforce botnet that takes a different approach
While most botnets pound port 22 rapidly, THMB does it very slowly and passively
This makes prevention based on rate limiting more involved and complex
Nice long blog post about some potential solutions and what we've learned
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ZFS and GELI in bsdinstall coming soon
The man with the beard strikes again, new patch allows for ZFS-on-root installs
Supports GELI for disk encryption
Might be the push we need to make Michael W Lucas update his FreeBSD book
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AsiaBSDCon 2014 announced
Will be held in Tokyo, 13-16 March, 2014
The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and Mac OS X
Call for papers can be found here
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Interview - Poul-Henning Kamp - [email protected] / @bsdphk
FreeBSD beginnings, md5crypt, jails, varnish and his... telescope project?
Tutorial
Everything you need to know about Jails
News Roundup
New pf queue system
Henning Brauer committed the new kernel-side bandwidth shaping subsystem
Uses the HFSC algorithm behind the scenes
ALTQ to be retired "in a release or two" - everyone should migrate soon
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Dragonfly imports FreeBSD KMS driver
Hot on the trails of OpenBSD and later FreeBSD, Dragonfly gets AMD KMS
Ported over from the FreeBSD port
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Get paid to hack OpenSSH
Google has announced they will pay up to $3113.70 for security patches to OpenSSH
Patches can fix security or improve security
If you come up with something, send it to the OpenSSH guys
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Feedback/Questions
Darren writes in
Kjell-Aleksander writes in
Ryan writes in
Alexander writes in
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1h 17min
October 09, 20136: Doing It de Raadt Way
On this week's episode we'll show you how to securely run graphical applications in a jail, we sit down and chat with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt and, as always, get you caught up on all the latest news. All that and more, this week on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
HAMMER2 GSOC improvements merged
A student from the Google Summer of Code's patches were committed to upstream Dragonfly
It focuses mainly on compression and updating the I/O infrastructure to work with compression
The ability to boot from HAMMER2 volumes was also added
Check the show notes for a full list of additions and improvements
We'll have someone on the show to talk about HAMMER FS in the future
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OSNews starts a "BSD family" segment
An OSNews reader decided to share some info about the BSDs
He's writing a three-part series covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD
Pretty good info for Linux switchers
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pkgsrc-2013Q3 branch announcement
pkgsrc is similar to the ports concept, but for 21 different OSes
The pkgsrc developers make a new release every three months.
13184 total packages for AMD64
If there's any interest, we'll try to get a pkgsrc tutorial written in the future
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PCBSD 9.2 released
Shortly after the official FreeBSD 9.2 release, PCBSD follows up
Highlights include bootable ZFS boot environments, a rewritten life-preserver utility for backups, improved pkgng support, updated appcafe, major improvements to warden, a GUI pkgng management system, filesystem-based encryption for home directories and much more
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Interview - Theo de Raadt - [email protected]
The OpenBSD project
Tutorial
Jailed VNC sessions
News Roundup
Curve25519 patch for OpenSSH
Because of recent NSA news, someone implemented an alternative key exchange mechanism
It uses Curve25519 instead of the traditional Diffie-Hellman
Comes from the developer of libssh and is already implemented there
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FreeBSD 10-ALPHA5 is out
Includes the big removal of BIND
More GNU stuff removed
Bhyve and XEN improvements
Some LLVM fixes
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M:Tier offering "Long Time Support" for OpenBSD ports
Starting with 5.4, M:Tier will be offering a subscription for LTS support, in addition to their free 6 month version
OpenBSD releases are only supported for 1 year normally (5.2 becomes unsupported when 5.4 comes out, etc.)
This model makes it easier to keep your ports patched for security in a corporate environment
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Ohio Linuxfest talks uploaded
The OLF 2013 talks have been uploaded
Includes Kirk Mckusick's keynote about building an open source community and Ken Moore's talk about lots of new PCBSD stuff
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Theo's absence and other updates
In an uncharacteristic manner, Theo started a thread on misc@ instead of finishing it
For the last year, he's not been as involved in OpenBSD development
He's been busy with setting up an Internet Exchange in Calgary
Also mentions some troubles with an imposter Twitter account
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Feedback/Questions
Kenneth writes in
Jason writes in
Alex writes in
Henson writes in
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52min
October 02, 20135: Stacks of Cache
After returning from a successful EuroBSDCon in Malta, we're back to get you caught up on all the latest news! We've got stories, interviews and a special treat for OpenBSD fans later in the show. All that and more on this week's BSD Now, the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
FreeBSD 9.2 released
FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE is finally out
Highlights include ZFS TRIM and LZ4 support, virtio drivers, dtrace and OpenSSH updates as well as lots of driver improvements
Will be supported until 2014-09-30
Get out there and freebsd-update or buildworld!
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Four new NetBSD releases
NetBSD 5.2 and 5.1 branches get security and bugfix updates
The 6.1 and 6.0 branches were updated soon after, also with security updates and bug fixes
Check the show notes for the full changelog
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BIND being replaced by unbound in FreeBSD
Most FreeBSD users are familiar with BIND from the security notifications
It has has many vulnerabilities over the years, and we’ll finally be rid of it
Being replaced with unbound and ldns, everyone rejoices
As of September 24th, BIND is no longer built by default
As of September 30th, BIND was completely removed
Includes an easy to use script for local DNS
OpenBSD also has unbound in base, but it's not built by default yet
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DragonflyBSD future plans
An announcement was posted that details some possible plans for Dragonfly
dports (their version of FreeBSD ports) will be switching to GCC 4.7
i915 support is probably going to be in version 3.6
Work is being done on HAMMER 2, but it won't make it to 3.6
3.6 is also likely going to ditch pkgsrc as the default in favor of dports, due to a hugely positive reaction from the community
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FreeBSD ports get Stack Protector support
Some portsnap users noticed a massive sweep of every port being updated
Shortly after, stack protector support was announced by Bryan Drewery
Only works on i386 and AMD64 on FreeBSD 10 and AMD64 on 9
Hopefully will become the default, but needs to go through some testing and exp-runs
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EuroBSDCon 2013 wrap-up chat
BSD Now is back from EuroBSDCon with lots of stories
We picked up an OpenBSD 5.4 CD set at EuroBSDCon, before the official release
We'll give a little showcase of what's inside, they put a lot of effort into it
Comes with the OS, source code, stickers, music, cool other stuff
Consider supporting the OpenBSD project
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Interview - Marshall Kirk McKusick - [email protected]
Various topics
Tutorial
Faster recompiles with ccache and tmpfs
News Roundup
List of vBSDCon speakers posted
Registration will be open until October 23rd
Presentations covering FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeNAS and others
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Xen PVHVM added to GENERIC
It's now possible to run FreeBSD 10 under Xen with the GENERIC kernel
freebsd-update will work now
With FreeBSD 10 ALPHA 4 just being released, should be interesting
We should call the new kernel "XENERIC"
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Dragonfly AMD KMS port
A Dragonfly user has started porting the new FreeBSD AMD KMS driver
Still a work in progress, asking for help from the community
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NetBSD gets an nVidia driver
NetBSD gets a preliminary nVidia driver
So far only supports the GeForce 2MX, so not a lot of use just yet
No acceleration yet, but it's a start
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FreeBSD cracks the top 10 on DistroWatch
Over the last year FreeBSD has steadily moved up the rankings from #18 to #10
Increasing from an average of 570 to 779 hits per day
Surpassed CentOS, Puppy Linux and Slackware
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Feedback/Questions
Charlie writes in
Kjell-Aleksander writes in
Stefen writes in
Sichendra writes in
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1h 4min
September 26, 2013 Teskeing the Possibilities | BSD Now 4
We talk to Devin Teske about his work with bsdinstall, bsdconfig and all the other interesting things he’s been up to lately.
This week we’re at EuroBSDCon, so we’ve just got an interview for you today. BSD Now will be back next week with a normal episode and lots of stories from the conference. We’ll also try to get some more interviews there.
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37min
September 25, 2013 4: Teskeing the Possibilities
This week we’re at EuroBSDCon, so we’ve just got an interview for you today. BSD Now will be back next week with a normal episode and lots of stories from the conference. We’ll also try to get some more interviews there. For today, though, we talk to Devin Teske about his work with bsdinstall, bsdconfig and all the other interesting things he’s been up to lately.
Interview - Devin Teske - [email protected] / @devinteske
bsdconfig, bsdinstall, sysrc and fdpv
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37min

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