Bsd Now

This week on the show we'll be showing you how to set up RAID arrays in both FreeBSD and OpenBSD. There's also an interview with David Chisnall - of the FreeBSD core team - about the switch to Clang and a lot more. As usual, we'll be dropping the latest news and answering your emails, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD 5.5 released (http://www.openbsd.org/55.html) If you ordered (https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order) a CD set (https://twitter.com/blakkheim/status/461909893813784576) then you've probably had it for a little while already, but OpenBSD has formally announced the public release (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140501153339) of 5.5 This is one of the biggest releases to date, with a very long list of changes and improvements Some of the highlights include: time_t being 64 bit on all platforms, release sets and binary packages being signed with the new signify tool, a new autoinstall feature of the installe

We're back again! On this week's packed show, we've got one of the biggest tutorials we've done in a while. It's an in-depth look at PF, OpenBSD's firewall, with some practical examples and different use cases. We'll also be talking to Peter Hansteen about the new edition of "The Book of PF." Of course, we've got news and answers to your emails too, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines ALTQ removed from PF (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140419151959) Kicking off our big PF episode... The classic packet queueing system, ALTQ, was recently removed from OpenBSD -current There will be a transitional phase between 5.5 and 5.6 where you can still use it by replacing the "queue" keyword with "oldqueue" in your pf.conf As of 5.6, due about six months from now, you'll have to change your ruleset to the new syntax if you're using it for bandwidth shaping After more than ten years, bandwidth queueing has matured quite a bit and we can finally put ALTQ to rest, in

This week, Allan's at a conference so we've got a short episode for you. We sat down with John Hixson to discuss FreeNAS development and all their future plans. The show will be back next week with a normal episode. This episode was brought to you by Interview - John Hixson - john@ixsystems.com (mailto:john@ixsystems.com) / @bsdwhore (https://twitter.com/bsdwhore) FreeNAS development

This week, we sit down with Jim Brown from the BSD Certification group to talk about the BSD exams. Following that, we'll be showing you how to build OpenBSD binary packages in bulk, a la poudriere. There's a boatload of news and we've got answers to your questions, coming up on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/) This year's BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa The list of speakers (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/speakers.en.html) is also out And finally the talks (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events.en.html) everyone's looking forward to Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts (https://twitter.com/bsdcan/status/454990067552247808) *** NYCBSDCon talks uploaded (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bPduH6O7lI) The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading

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. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD ASLR status update (http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2014-04-03/awesome-freebsd-aslr-progress) 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 (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/04/bsdcan-tutorials-please-help-me-improve.html) Peter H

This week we'll be talking to Richard Stallman about the upcoming GPLv4 and how it will protect our software from being stolen. After that, we'll show you how to recover from those pesky ZFS on Linux corruption issues, as well as some tips on how to explain to your boss that all the production boxes were compromised. Your questions and all the latest GNUs, on Linux Now - the place to Lin.. ux. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Preorders for cool BSD stuff (http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0321968972/) The 2nd edition of The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is up for preorder We talked to GNN (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_29-journaled_news_updates) briefly about it, but he and Kirk (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013-10-02_stacks_of_cache) have apparently finally finished the book "For many years, The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System has been recognized as the most complete, up-to-date, and authoritative technical guide to FreeBSD's internal s

Finally hit 30 episodes! Today we'll be chatting with Warren Block to discuss BSD documentation efforts and future plans. If you've ever wondered about the scary world of mailing lists, today's tutorial will show you the basics of how to get help and contribute back. There's lots to get to today, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD on a Sun T5120 (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/OpenBSD-on-a-Sun-T5120) Our buddy Ted Unangst (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures) got himself a cool Sun box Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you're interested in one of these fine SPARC machines He's also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/Dell-CS24-SC-server) *** Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bhyvecon%20tokyo&sm=3) Li

We're back from AsiaBSDCon! This week we'll be chatting with Gleb Kurtsou about some a filesystem-level encryption utility called PEFS. After that, we'll give you a step by step guide on how to actually use it. There's also the usual round of your questions and we've got a lot of news to catch up on, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Using OpenSSH Certificate Authentication (http://neocri.me/documentation/using-ssh-certificate-authentication/) SSH has a not-so-often-talked-about authentication option in addition to passwords and keys: certificates - you can add certificates to any current authentication method you're using They're not really that complex, there just isn't a lot of documentation on how to use them - this post tries to solve that There's the benefit of not needing a knownhosts file or authorizedusers file anymore The post goes into a fair amount of detail about the differences, advantages and implications of using certificates for auth

This week we're at AsiaBSDCon, so it'll be a shorter episode. We've got an interview with Eric Turgeon, founder of the desktop-focused GhostBSD project. Haven't heard of GhostBSD? Well stay tuned then. There's also a really interesting tutorial on how to serially concatenate disks in NetBSD. We'll be back next week with a normal episode. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Eric Turgeon - ericturgeon@ghostbsd.org (mailto:ericturgeon@ghostbsd.org) / @GhostBSD1 (https://twitter.com/GhostBSD1) GhostBSD Tutorial Serially concatenating disks in NetBSD (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/nbsd-disks) Feedback/Questions Dave writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ff5BOdU0) Shane writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2F6j5fVYH) Rob writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2GHmy7tuS) Predrag writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2uM28feQe) ***

The long-awaited meetup is finally happening on today's show. We're going to be interviewing the original BSD podcaster, Will Backman, to discuss what he's been up to and what the future of BSD advocacy looks like. After that, we'll be showing you how to track (and even cross-compile!) the -CURRENT branch of NetBSD. We've got answers to user-submitted questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD and OpenBSD in GSOC2014 (https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2014) The Google Summer of Code is a way to encourage students to write code for open source projects and make some money Both FreeBSD and OpenBSD were accepted, and we'd love for anyone listening to check out their GSOC pages The FreeBSD wiki has a list of things that they'd be interested in someone helping out with OpenBSD's want list was also posted (http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html) DragonflyBSD and NetBSD were sadly not accepted this year *** Yes, you too can be an

On today's show we have an interview with Joe Marcus Clark, one of the original portmgr members in FreeBSD, and one of the key GNOME porters. Keeping along with that topic, we have a FreeBSD ports tutorial for you as well. The latest news and answers to your BSD questions, right here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer (http://multixden.blogspot.com/2014/02/tailoring-openbsd-for-old-strange.html) The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT (http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=233), which comes with a pop-out mouse, black and white display, 32MB of RAM and a 133MHz CPU Obviously he had to install some kind of BSD on it! This post goes through all his efforts of trimming down OpenBSD to work on such a limited device He goes through the trial and error of "compile, break it, rebuild, try again" After cutting a lot out from the kernel, saving a precious megabyte here and there, he eventually gets it working *** pkg

We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon (http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/calendar/call-for-papers/) This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present There will also be a tutorial section of the conference AsiaBSDCon (http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.en) will be next month, in March! All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out w

This week on BSD Now... a wrap-up from NYCBSDCon! We'll also be talking to Luke Marsden, CEO of HybridCluster, about how they use BSD at large. Following that, our tutorial will show you how to securely share files with SFTP in a chroot. The latest news and answers to your questions, of course it's BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10 as a firewall (http://www.pantz.org/software/pf/use_freebsd_10_as_a_pf_firewall.html) Back in 2012, the author of this site wrote an article stating you should avoid FreeBSD 9 for a firewall and use OpenBSD instead Now, with the release of 10.0, he's apparently changed his mind and switched back over It mentions the SMP version of pf, general performance advantages and more modern features The author is a regular listener of BSD Now, hi Joe! *** Network Noise Reduction Using Free Tools (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/02/effective-spam-and-malware.html) Really long blog post, based on a BSDCan presentation, about fighting spam wi

On this week's episode, we'll be talking with Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD team about their new signing infrastructure. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to run your own NTP server. News, your feedback and even... the winner of our tutorial contest will be announced! So stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD foundation's 2013 fundraising results (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/01/freebsd-foundation-announces-2013.html) The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013 $768,562 from 1659 donors Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture "We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon." A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that w

This time on the show, we'll be talking with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it's all about. After that, we've got a tutorial on how to track the -stable and -current branches of OpenBSD. Answers to all your BSD questions and the latest headlines, only on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD quarterly status report (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/077085.html) Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what's going on The report contains 37 entries and is very very long... various reports from all the different teams under the FreeBSD umbrella, probably too many to even list in the show notes Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving Secure boot support hopefully coming by mid-year (www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year) There's quite a bit going o

This time on the show, we've got some great news for OpenBSD, as well as the scoop on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE - yes it's finally here! We're gonna talk to Colin Percival about running FreeBSD 10 on EC2 and lots of other interesting stuff. After that, we'll be showing you how to do some bandwidth monitoring and network performance testing in a combo tutorial. We've got a round of your questions and the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE is out (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/announce.html) The long awaited, giant release of FreeBSD is now official and ready to be downloaded (http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/10.0/) One of the biggest releases in FreeBSD history, with tons of new updates Some features include: LDNS/Unbound replacing BIND, Clang by default (no GCC anymore), native Raspberry Pi support and other ARM improvements, bhyve, hyper-v support, AMD KMS, VirtIO, Xen PVHVM in GENERIC, lots of driver update

It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines OpenBSD automatic installation (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140106055302) A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD's new automatic installer process Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings *** FreeNAS install guide and blog posts (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL09rVicvyZrqe-I2LP5Vyg/videos) A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylva

We've got some special treats for you this week on the show. It's the long-awaited "installfest" segment, where we go through the installer of each of the different BSDs. Of course we also have your feedback and the latest news as well... and... we even have our very first viewer contest! There's a lot to get to today on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2013-December/044009.html) A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM More details available here (http://julipedia.meroh.net/2013/12/introducing-freebsd-test-suite.html) Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? *** OpenBSD gets signify (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=138845902916897&w=2) At long last, OpenB

Put away the Christmas trees and update your ports trees! We're back with the first show of 2014, and we've got some catching up to do. This time on the show, we have an interview with Baptiste Daroussin about the future of FreeBSD binary packages. Following that, we'll be highlighting a cool script to do binary upgrades on OpenBSD. Lots of holiday news and listener feedback, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by Headlines Faces of FreeBSD continues (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/12/faces-of-freebsd-shteryana-shopova.html) Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia Gives some information about how she got into BSD "I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn't booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out." She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant fro

Merry Christmas everyone! We're taking the holiday off and just have an interview for you today. We sat down with Scott Long to discuss using FreeBSD at Netflix and lots of other things. Next week we will return with the normal round of news and tutorials. This episode was brought to you by Interview - Scott Long - scottl@freebsd.org (mailto:scottl@freebsd.org) FreeBSD at Netflix, OpenConnect, network performance, various topics