Episode 016: Cryptocrystalline
2013-12-18
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Secure communications with OpenBSD and OpenVPN
- Starting off today's theme of encryption...
- A new blog series about combining OpenBSD and OpenVPN to secure your internet traffic
- Part 1 covers installing OpenBSD with full disk encryption (which we'll be doing later on in the show)
- Part 2 covers the initial setup of OpenVPN certificates and keys
- Parts 3 and 4 are the OpenVPN server and client configuration
- Part 5 is some updates and closing remarks
FreeBSD Foundation Newsletter
- The December 2013 semi-annual newsletter was sent out from the foundation
- In the newsletter you will find the president's letter, articles on the current development projects they sponsor and reports from all the conferences and summits they sponsored
- The president's letter alone is worth the read, really amazing
- Really long, with lots of details and stories from the conferences and projects
Use of NetBSD with Marvell Kirkwood Processors
- Article that gives a brief history of NetBSD and how to use it on an IP-Plug computer
- The IP-Plug is a "multi-functional mini-server was developed by Promwad engineers by the order of AK-Systems. It is designed for solving a wide range of tasks in IP networks and can perform the functions of a computer or a server. The IP-Plug is powered from a 220V network and has low power consumption, as well as a small size (which can be compared to the size of a mobile phone charger)."
- Really cool little NetBSD ARM project with lots of graphs, pictures and details
Experimenting with zero-copy network IO
- Long blog post from Adrian Chadd about zero-copy network IO on FreeBSD
- Discusses the different OS' implementations and options
- He's able to get 35 gbit/sec out of 70,000 active TCP sockets, but isn't stopping there
- Tons of details, check the full post
Interview - Damien Miller - djm@openbsd.org / @damienmiller
Cryptography in OpenBSD and OpenSSH
Tutorial
Full disk encryption in FreeBSD & OpenBSD
News Roundup
OpenZFS office hours
- Our buddy George Wilson sat down to take some ZFS questions from the community
- You can see more info about it here
License summaries in pkgng
- A discussion between Justin Sherill and some NYCBUG guys about license frameworks in pkgng
- Similar to pkgsrc's "ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES" setting, pkgng could let the user decide which software licenses he wants to allow
- Maybe we could get a "pkg licenses" command to display the license of all installed packages
- Ok bapt, do it
The FreeBSD challenge continues
- Checking in with our buddy from the Linux foundation...
- The switching from Linux to FreeBSD blog series continues for his month-long trial
- Follow up from last week: "As a matter of fact, I did check out PC-BSD, and wanted the challenge. Call me addicted to pain and suffering, but the pride and accomplishment you feel from diving into FreeBSD is quite rewarding."
- Since we last mentioned it, he's decided to go from a VM to real hardware, got all of his common software installed, experimented with the Linux emulation, set up virtualbox, learned about slices/partitions/disk management, found BSD alternatives to his regularly-used commands and lots more
Ports gets a stable branch
- For the first time ever, FreeBSD's ports tree will have a maintained "stable" branch
- This is similar to how pkgsrc does things, with a rolling release for updated software and stable branch for only security and big fixes
- All commits to this branch require approval of portmgr, looks like it'll start in 2014Q1
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- The end of the year is the best time to donate to the FreeBSD foundation, and they also recently started accepting bitcoin donations
- The OpenBSD foundation is also accepting bitcoin donations
- I've been told the NetBSD foundation is working on bitcoin donations, but haven't gotten it going yet
- Be sure to support the projects you use and love!