Bsd Now

This week we're on the other side of the Atlantic, attending EuroBSDCon. For now, we've got an awesome interview with Peter Wemm about the FreeBSD web cluster and infrastructure. It's an inside look that you probably won't hear about anywhere else! We'll also get to a couple of your emails today, and be back next week with all the usual goodies, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Peter Wemm - peter@freebsd.org (mailto:peter@freebsd.org) / @karinjiri (https://twitter.com/karinjiri) The FreeBSD web cluster and infrastructure Feedback/Questions Todd writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2LRZu3hlI) Brandon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21JeoW1rn) ***

Coming up this week, we'll be talking with Adrian Chadd about all things wireless, his experience with FreeBSD on various laptop hardware and a whole lot more. As usual, we've got the latest news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10.1-BETA1 is out (http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/) The first maintenance update in the 10.x series of FreeBSD is on its way Since we can't see a changelog yet, the 10-STABLE release notes (https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/10-STABLE/relnotes/article.html) offer a glimpse at some of the new features and fixes that will be included in 10.1 The vt driver was merged from -CURRENT, lots of drivers were updated, lots of bugs were fixed and bhyve also got many improvements from 11 Initial UEFI support, multithreaded softupdates for UFS and many more things were added You can check the release schedule (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.1R/schedule.html) for the planned releas

This week on the show, it's all about Lumina. We'll be giving you a visual walkthrough of the new BSD-exclusive desktop environment, as well as chatting with the main developer. There's also answers to your emails and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Portscout ported to OpenBSD (http://blog.jasper.la/portscout-for-openbsd/) Portscout is a popular utility used in the FreeBSD ports infrastructure It lets port maintainers know when there's a new version of the upstream software available by automatically checking the distfile mirror Now OpenBSD porters can enjoy the same convenience, as it's been ported over You can view the status online (http://portscout.jasper.la/) to see how it works and who maintains what (http://portscout.jasper.la/index-total.html) The developer who ported it is working to get all the current features working on OpenBSD, and added a few new features as well He decided to fork and rename it (https://jasperla.github.io/port

It's our one year anniversary episode, and we'll be talking with Reyk Floeter about the new OpenBSD webserver - why it was created and where it's going. After that, we'll show you the ins and outs of DragonFly's HAMMER FS. Answers to viewer-submitted questions and the latest headlines, on a very special BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD foundation's new IPSEC project (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/08/freebsd-foundation-announces-ipsec.html) The FreeBSD foundation, along with Netgate, is sponsoring some new work on the IPSEC code With bandwidth in the 10-40 gigabit per second range, the IPSEC stack needs to be brought up to modern standards in terms of encryption and performance This new work will add AES-CTR and AES-GCM modes to FreeBSD's implementation, borrowing some code from OpenBSD The updated stack will also support AES-NI for hardware-based encryption speed ups It's expected to be completed by the end of September, and will also be in pfSe

Coming up this week, we'll be chatting with Shawn Webb about his recent work with ASLR and PIE in FreeBSD. After that, we'll be showing you how you can create a reverse SSH tunnel to a system behind a firewall... how sneaky. Answers to your emails plus the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD foundation August update (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014augupdate.pdf) The foundation has published a new PDF detailing some of their recent activities It includes project development updates, the 10.1-RELEASE schedule and some of its new features There is also a short interview with Dru Lavigne (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_04_09-pxe_dust) in the "voices from the community" section If you're into hardware, there's another section about some new FreeBSD server equipment In closing, there's an update on funding too *** NSD for an authoritative nameserver (http://www.prado.it/2014/08/20/how-to-run-master-nsd-on-freebsd-10-0/) With BIND havi

Coming up on the show, we'll be showing you how to set up a secure, SSL-only webserver. There's also an interview with Eric Le Blan about community participation and FreeBSD's role in the commercial server space. All that and more, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Password gropers take spamtrap bait (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/08/password-gropers-take-spamtrap-bait.html) Our friend Peter Hansteen (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_04_30-puffy_firewall), who keeps his eyes glued to his log files, has a new blog post He seems to have discovered another new weird phenomenon in his pop3 logs "yes, I still run one, for the same bad reasons more than a third of my readers probably do: inertia" Someone tried to log in to his service with an address that was known to be invalid The rest of the post goes into detail about his theory of why someone would use a list of invalid addresses for this purpose *** Inside the Atheros wifi chipset (https://www.youtube.com/watch

It's our 50th episode, and we're going to show you how to protect your internet traffic with a BSD-based VPN. We'll also be talking to Robert Watson, of the FreeBSD core team, about security research, exploit mitigation and a whole lot more. The latest news and answers to all of your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines MeetBSD 2014 is approaching (http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/ixsystems-to-host-meetbsd-california-2014-at-western-digital-in-san-jose/) The MeetBSD conference is coming up, and will be held on November 1st and 2nd in San Jose, California MeetBSD has an "unconference" format, which means there will be both planned talks and community events All the extra details will be on their site (https://www.meetbsd.com/) soon It also has hotels and various other bits of useful information - hopefully with more info on the talks to come Of course, EuroBSDCon is coming up before then *** First experiences with OpenBSD (https://www.azabani.com/2014/08/09/

Coming up this week on the show, we've got something special for you! We'll be giving you an in-depth look at all of the graphical PC-BSD utilities. That's right, BSD doesn't have to be commandline-only anymore! There's also the usual round of answers to your emails and all the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD foundation semi-annual newsletter (https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2014jul-newsletter) The FreeBSD foundation published their semi-annual newsletter, complete with a letter from the president of the foundation "In fact after reading [the president's] letter, I was motivated to come up with my own elevator pitch instead of the usual FreeBSD is like Linux, only better!" It talks about the FreeBSD journal (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_29-journaled_news_updates) as being one of the most exciting things they've launched this year, conferences they funded and various bits of sponsored code that went into -CURRENT The ful

Coming up in this week's episode, we'll be talking with one of OpenBSD's newest developers - Brent Cook - about the portable version of LibreSSL and how it's developed. We've also got some information about the FreeBSD port of LibreSSL you might not know. The latest news and your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD quarterly status report (https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2014-04-2014-06.html) FreeBSD has gotten quite a lot done this quarter Changes in the way release branches are supported - major releases will get at least five years over their lifespan A new automounter is in the works, hoping to replace amd (which has some issues) The CAM target layer and RPC stack have gotten some major optimization and speed boosts Work on ZFSGuru continues, with a large status report specifically for that The report also mentioned some new committers, both source and ports It also covers GNATS being replaced with Bugzilla, the new core team, 9.3-RELE

Coming up this week on the show! We've got an interview with Dag-Erling Smørgrav, the current security officer of FreeBSD, to discuss what exactly being in such an important position is like. The latest news, answers to your emails and even some LibreSSL drama, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines g2k14 hackathon reports (http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html) Nearly 50 OpenBSD developers gathered in Ljubljana, Slovenia from July 8-14 for a hackathon Lots of work got done - in just the first two weeks of July, there were over 1000 commits (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&r=1&b=201407&w=2) to their CVS tree Some of the developers wrote in to document what they were up to at the event Bob Beck (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140713220618) planned to work on kernel stuff, but then "LibreSSL happened" and he spent most of his time working on that Miod Vallat (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140718072312) also tells about his LibreSSL experienc

We're back, and this week we'll be showing you how to tunnel out of a restrictive network using only DNS queries. We also sat down with Bryan Drewery, from the FreeBSD portmgr team, to talk all about their building cluster and some recent changes. All the latest news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDCon 2014 registration open (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/registration/) September is getting closer, and that means it's time for EuroBSDCon - held in Bulgaria this year Registration is finally open to the public, with prices for businesses ($287), individuals ($217) and students ($82) for the main conference until August 18th Tutorials, sessions, dev summits and everything else all have their own pricing as well Registering between August 18th - September 12th will cost more for everything You can register online here (http://registration.eurobsdcon.org/) and check hotels in the area (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/registration/travel-and

This week Allan is at BSDCam in the UK, so we'll be back with a regular episode next week. For now though, here's an interview with Josh Paetzel about some crazy experiences he's had with ZFS. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Josh Paetzel - josh@ixsystems.com (mailto:josh@ixsystems.com) / @bsdunix4ever (https://twitter.com/bsdunix4ever) Crazy ZFS stories, network protocols, server hardware

This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait! This week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines pfSense 2.1.4 released (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1377) The pfSense team (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense) has released 2.1.4, shortly after 2.1.3 - it's mainly a security release Included within are eight security fixes, most of which are pfSense-specific OpenSSL, the WebUI and some packages all need to be patched (and there are instructions on how to do so) It also includes a large number of various other bug fixes Update all your routers! *** DragonflyBSD's pf gets SMP (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-June/270300.html) While we're on the topic of pf... Dragonfly patches their old[er than

It's a big show this week! We'll be interviewing Marc Espie about OpenBSD's package system and build cluster. Also, we've been asked many times "how do I keep my BSD box up to date?" Well, today's tutorial should finally answer that. Answers to all your emails and this week's headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDCon 2014 talks and schedule (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/talks-and-schedule/) The talks and schedules for EuroBSDCon 2014 are finally revealed The opening keynote is called "FreeBSD, looking forward to another 10 years" by jkh Lots of talks spanning FreeBSD, OpenBSD and PCBSD, and we finally have a few about NetBSD and DragonflyBSD too! Variety is great It looks like Theo even has a talk, but the title isn't on the page... how mysterious There are also days dedicated to some really interesting tutorials Register now, the conference is on September 25-28th in Bulgaria If you see Allan and Kris walking towards you and you haven't given us an in

Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update (https://www.soldierx.com/news/Position-Independent-Executable-Support-Added-FreeBSD) A status update for Shawn Webb's ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree "FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren't compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support" If you're running -CURRENT, just add "WITH_PIE=1" to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf The next step is working on the ASLR coding style

This week in the big show, we'll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-June/001559.html) Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports After years and years of wanting to switch, they've finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and There's a new workflow chart (http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/bugrelocation/workflow.html) for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things The old "send-pr" command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports) This will hopefully make reporting bu

On this week's episode, we'll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD's ports and package system. There's also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware. Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCan 2014 talks and reports, part 2 (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/) More presentations and trip reports are still being uploaded Ingo Schwarze, New Trends in mandoc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oifYhwTaOuw) Vsevolod Stakhov, The Architecture of the New Solver in pkg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOKFz2UUQ4) Julio Merino, The FreeBSD Test Suite (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf-bFeKaZsY) Zbigniew Bodek, Transparent Superpages for FreeBSD on ARM (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5iIKEHtbX8) There's also a trip report from Michael Dexter (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdcan-trip-report-michael-dexter.html) and another (very long and detai

This time on the show we'll be talking with Jon Anderson about Capsicum and Casper to securely sandbox processes. After that, our tutorial will show you how to encrypt all your DNS lookups, either on a single system or for your whole network. News, emails and all the usual fun, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCan 2014 talks and reports (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/) The majority of the BSDCan talks are finally uploaded, so prepare to be flooded with links Karl Lehenbauer's keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13LiyjnTGsQ) (he's on next week's episode) Mariusz Zaborski and Pawel Jakub Dawidek, Capsicum and Casper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la06FHbdvg) (relevant to today's interview) Luigi Rizzo, In-kernel OpenvSwitch on FreeBSD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr5o1VQMtgA) Dwayne Hart, Migrating from Linux to FreeBSD for Backend Data Storage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVuF9eFeVWs) Warner Losh, NAND Flash and FreeBSD (https://www.youtu

We're back from BSDCan! This week on the show we'll be chatting with Brian Callahan and Aaron Bieber about forming a local BSD users group. We'll get to hear their experiences of running one and maybe encourage some of you to start your own! After that, we've got a tutorial on the basics of NetBSD's package manager, pkgsrc. Answers to your emails and the latest headlines, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 11 goals and discussion (http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2053) Something that actually happened at BSDCan this year... During the FreeBSD devsummit, there was some discussion about what changes will be made in 11.0-RELEASE Some of MWL's notes include: the test suite will be merged to 10-STABLE, more work on the MIPS platforms, LLDB getting more attention, UEFI boot and install support A large list of possibilities was also included and open for discussion, including AES-GCM in IPSEC, ASLR, OpenMP, ICC, in-place kernel upgrades, Capsicum improvem

This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming. For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS. We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Presentation - Matthew Ahrens - matt@mahrens.org (mailto:matt@mahrens.org) / @mahrens1 (https://twitter.com/mahrens1) OpenZFS discussion Feedback/Questions Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2kGZUlxjg) Darin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s23j9RHsIx) Steve writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21dMlBAhM) Pascal writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20IyvdSmR) ***