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BSD talks at XDC 2014

• This year's Xorg conference featured a few BSD-related talks
• Matthieu Herrb, Status of the OpenBSD graphics stack
• Matthieu's talk details what's been done recently in Xenocara the OpenBSD kernel for graphics (slides here)
• Jean-Sébastien Pédron, The status of the graphics stack on FreeBSD
• His presentation gives a history of major changes and outlines the current overall status of graphics in FreeBSD (slides here)
• Francois Tigeot, Porting DRM/KMS drivers to DragonFlyBSD
• Francois' talk tells the story of how he ported some of the DRM and KMS kernel drivers to DragonFly (slides here) ***

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

• The FreeBSD project has a report of their activities between July and September of this year
• Lots of ARM work has been done, and a goal for 11.0 is tier one support for the platform
• The release includes reports from the cluster admin team, release team, ports team, core team and much more, but we've already covered most of the items on the show
• If you're interested in seeing what the FreeBSD community has been up to lately, check the full report - it's huge ***

Monitoring pfSense logs using ELK

• If you're one of those people who loves the cool graphs and charts that pfSense can produce, this is the post for you
• ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a group of tools that let you collect, store, search and (most importantly) visualize logs
• It works with lots of different things that output logs and can be sent to one central server for displaying
• This post shows you how to set up pfSense to do remote logging to ELK and get some pretty awesome graphs ***

Some updates to IPFW

• Even though PF gets a lot of attention, a lot of FreeBSD people still love IPFW
• While mostly a dormant section of the source tree, some updates were recently committed to -CURRENT
• The commit lists the user-visible changes, performance changes, ABI changes and internal changes
• It should be merged back to -STABLE after a month or so of testing, and will probably end up in 10.2-RELEASE
• Also check this blog post for some more information and fancy graphs ***

Interview - Hiroki Sato (佐藤広生) - hrs@freebsd.org / @hiroki_sato

BSD in Japan, technology conferences, various topics

News Roundup

pfSense on Hyper-V

• In case you didn't know, the latest pfSense snapshots support running on Hyper-V
• Unfortunately, the current stable release is based on an old, unsupported FreeBSD 8.x base, so you have to use the snapshots for now
• The author of the post tells about his experience running pfSense and gives lots of links to read if you're interested in doing the same
• He also praises pfSense above other Linux-based solutions for its IPv6 support and high quality code ***

OpenBSD as a daily driver

• A curious Reddit user posts to ask the community about using OpenBSD as an everyday desktop OS
• The overall consensus is that it works great for that, stays out of your way and is quite reliable
• Caveats would include there being no Adobe Flash support (though others consider this a blessing..) and it requiring a more hands-on approach to updating
• If you're considering running OpenBSD as a "daily driver," check all the comments for more information and tips ***

Getting PF log statistics

• The author of this post runs an OpenBSD box in front of all his VMs at his colocation, and details his experiences with firewall logs
• He usually investigates any IPs of interest with whois, nslookup, etc. - but this gets repetitive quickly, so..
• He sets out to find the best way to gather firewall log statistics
• After coming across a perl script to do this, he edited it a bit and is now a happy, lazy admin once again
• You can try out his updated PF script here ***

FlashRD 1.7 released

• In case anyone's not familiar, flashrd is a tool to create OpenBSD images for embedded hardware devices, executing from a virtualized environment
• This new version is based on (the currently unreleased) OpenBSD 5.6, and automatically adapts to the number of CPUs you have for building
• It also includes fixes for 4k drives and lots of various other improvements
• If you're interested in learning more, take a look at some of the slides and audio from the main developer on the website ***

Feedback/Questions

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Mailing List Gold

• Subtle trolling
• Old bugs with old fixes
• A pig reinstall
• Strange DOS-like environment ***