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Designing a Storage Pool: RAIDZ, Mirrors, and Hybrid Configurations

The Report of My Death Was an Exaggeration

News Roundup

Generic BSD installations on ARM64 UEFI: results and first impressions

dm_target_crypt_ng - Add next-generation implementation

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals

Yes, The Book of PF, 4th Edition Is Coming Soon

Periodical 20 — Localized Computing

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BSD panel at Phoenix LUG

• The Phoenix, Arizona Linux users group had a special panel so they could learn a bit more about BSD
• It had one FreeBSD user and one OpenBSD user, and they answered questions from the organizer and the people in the audience
• They covered a variety of topics, including filesystems, firewalls, different development models, licenses and philosophy
• It was a good "real world" example of things potential switchers are curious to know about
• They closed by concluding that more diversity is always better, and even if you've got a lot of Linux boxes, putting a few BSD ones in the mix is a good idea ***

Book of PF signed copy auction

• Peter Hansteen (who we've had on the show) is auctioning off the first signed copy of the new Book of PF
• All the profits from the sale will go to the OpenBSD Foundation
• The updated edition of the book includes all the latest pf syntax changes, but also provides examples for FreeBSD and NetBSD's versions (which still use ALTQ, among other differences)
• If you're interested in firewalls, security or even just advanced networking, this book is a great one to have on your shelf - and the money will also go to a good cause
• Michael Lucas has challenged Peter to raise more for the foundation than his last book selling - let's see who wins
• Pause the episode, go bid on it and then come back! ***

FreeBSD Foundation goes to EuroBSDCon

• Some people from the FreeBSD Foundation went to EuroBSDCon this year, and come back with a nice trip report
• They also sponsored four other developers to go
• The foundation was there "to find out what people are working on, what kind of help they could use from the Foundation, feedback on what we can be doing to support the FreeBSD Project and community, and what features/functions people want supported in FreeBSD"
• They also have a second report from Kamil Czekirda
• A total of $2000 was raised at the conference ***

OpenBSD 5.6 released

• Note: we're doing this story a couple days early - it's actually being released on November 1st (this Saturday), but we have next week off and didn't want to let this one slip through the cracks - it may be out by the time you're watching this
• Continuing their always-on-time six month release cycle, the OpenBSD team has released version 5.6
• It includes support for new hardware, lots of driver updates, network stack improvements (SMP, in particular) and new security features
• 5.6 is the first formal release with LibreSSL, their fork of OpenSSL, and lots of ports have been fixed to work with it
• You can now hibernate your laptop when using a fully-encrypted filesystem (see our tutorial for that)
• ALTQ, Kerberos, Lynx, Bluetooth, TCP Wrappers and Apache were all removed
• This will serve as a "transitional" release for a lot of services: moving from Sendmail to OpenSMTPD, from nginx to httpd and from BIND to Unbound
• Sendmail, nginx and BIND will be gone in the next release, so either migrate to the new stuff between now and then or switch to the ports versions
• As always, 5.6 comes with its own song and artwork - the theme this time was obviously LibreSSL
• Be sure to check the full changelog (it's huge) and pick up a CD or tshirt to support their efforts
• If you don't already have the public key releases are signed with, getting a physical CD is a good "out of bounds" way to obtain it safely
• Here are some cool images of the set
• After you do your installation or upgrade, don't forget to head over to the errata page and apply any patches listed there ***

Interview - John-Mark Gurney - jmg@freebsd.org / @encthenet

Updating FreeBSD's IPSEC stack

News Roundup

Clang in DragonFly BSD

• As we all know, FreeBSD got rid of GCC in 10.0, and now uses Clang almost exclusively on i386/amd64
• Some DragonFly developers are considering migrating over as well, and one of them is doing some work to make the OS more Clang-friendly
• We'd love to see more BSDs switch to Clang/LLVM eventually, it's a lot more modern than the old GCC most are using ***

reallocarray(): integer overflow detection for free

• One of the less obvious features in OpenBSD 5.6 is a new libc function: "reallocarray()"
• It's a replacement function for realloc(3) that provides integer overflow detection at basically no extra cost
• Theo and a few other developers have already started a mass audit of the entire source tree, replacing many instances with this new feature
• OpenBSD's explicit_bzero was recently imported into FreeBSD, maybe someone could also port over this too ***

Switching from Linux blog

• A listener of the show has started a new blog series, detailing his experiences in switching over to BSD from Linux
• After over ten years of using Linux, he decided to give BSD a try after listening to our show (which is awesome)
• So far, he's put up a few posts about his initial thoughts, some documentation he's going through and his experiments so far
• It'll be an ongoing series, so we may check back in with him again later on ***

Owncloud in a FreeNAS jail

• One of the most common emails we get is about running Owncloud in FreeNAS
• Now, finally, someone made a video on how to do just that, and it's even jailed
• A member of the FreeNAS community has uploaded a video on how to set it up, with lighttpd as the webserver backend
• If you're looking for an easy way to back up and sync your files, this might be worth a watch ***

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Mailing List Gold

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ALTQ removed from PF

• 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 favor of the new queueing subsystem
• This doesn't affect FreeBSD, PCBSD, NetBSD or DragonflyBSD since all of their PFs are older and maintained separately. ***

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

• The quarterly status report from FreeBSD is out, detailing some of the project's ongoing tasks
• Some highlights include the first "stable" branch of ports, ARM improvements (including SMP), bhyve improvements, more work on the test suite, desktop improvements including the new vt console driver and UEFI booting support finally being added
• We've got some specific updates from the cluster admin team, core team, documentation team, portmgr team, email team and release engineering team
• LOTS of details and LOTS of topics to cover, give it a read ***

OpenBSD's OpenSSL rewrite continues with m2k14

• A mini OpenBSD hackathon begins in Morocco, Africa
• You can follow the changes in the -current CVS log, but a lot of work is mainly going towards the OpenSSL cleaning
• We've got two trip reports so far, hopefully we'll have some more to show you in a future episode
• You can see some of the more interesting quotes from the tear-down or see everything
• Apparently they are going to call the fork "LibreSSL" ....
• What were the OpenSSL developers thinking? The RSA private key was used to seed the entropy!
• We also got some mainstream news coverage and another post from Ted about the history of the fork
• Definitely consider donating to the OpenBSD foundation, this fork will benefit all the other BSDs too ***

NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released

• New updates for the 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD, focusing on bugfixes
• The main update is - of course - the heartbleed vulnerability
• Also includes fixes for other security issues and even a kernel panic... on Atari
• Patch your Ataris right now, this is serious business ***

Interview - Peter Hansteen - peter@bsdly.net / @pitrh

The Book of PF: 3rd edition

Tutorial

BSD Firewalls: PF

News Roundup

New Xorg now the default in FreeBSD

• For quite a while now, FreeBSD has had two versions of X11 in ports
• The older, stable version was the default, but you could install a newer one by having "WITH_NEW_XORG" in /etc/make.conf
• They've finally made the switch for 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE
• Check this wiki page for more info ***

GSoC-accepted BSD projects

• The Google Summer of Code team has got the list of accepted project proposals uploaded so we can see what's planned
• OpenBSD's list includes DHCP configuration parsing improvements, systemd replacements, porting capsicum, GPT and UEFI support, and modernizing the DHCP daemon
• The FreeBSD list was also posted
• Theirs includes porting FreeBSD to the Android emulator, CTF in the kernel debugger, improved unicode support, converting firewall rules to a C module, pkgng improvements, MicroBlaze support, PXE fixes, bhyve caching, bootsplash and lots more
• Good luck to all the students participating, hopefully they become full time BSD users ***

Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example

• HybridCluster posted the second part of their VFS and ZFS series
• This new post has lots of technical details once again, definitely worth reading if you're a ZFS guy
• Of course, also watch episode 24 for our interview with HybridCluster - they do really interesting stuff ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• Preload has been ported over, it's a daemon that prefetches applications
• PCBSD is developing their own desktop environment, Lumina (there's also an FAQ)
• It's still in active development, but you can try it out by installing from ports
• We'll be showing a live demo of it in a few weeks (when development settles down a bit)
• Some kid in Australia subjects his poor mother to being on camera while she tries out PCBSD and gives her impressions of it ***