web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:18:49 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Differences” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/differences Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:00:00 -0400 Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day. en-us episodic A weekly podcast and the place to B...SD JT Pennington Created by three guys who love BSD, we cover the latest news and have an extensive series of tutorials, as well as interviews with various people from all areas of the BSD community. It also serves as a platform for support and questions. We love and advocate FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD and TrueOS. Our show aims to be helpful and informative for new users that want to learn about them, but still be entertaining for the people who are already pros. The show airs on Wednesdays at 2:00PM (US Eastern time) and the edited version is usually up the following day. no berkeley,freebsd,openbsd,netbsd,dragonflybsd,trueos,trident,hardenedbsd,tutorial,howto,guide,bsd,interview JT Pennington feedback@bsdnow.tv 58: Behind the Masq https://www.bsdnow.tv/58 987ec34a-a4f6-4c08-afa9-f39b542e05c5 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 1:15:53 no Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. This episode was brought to you by <a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source"></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid"></a> Headlines NetBSD's EuroBSDCon report (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_developer_summit_at_eurobsdcon) This year's EuroBSDCon had the record number of NetBSD developers attending The NetBSD guys had a small devsummit as well, and this blog post details some of their activities Pierre Pronchery also talked about EdgeBSD there (also see our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_04_01-edgy_bsd_users) if you haven't already) Hopefully this trend continues, and NetBSD starts to have even more of a presence at the conferences *** Upcoming features in OpenBSD 5.6 (http://lteo.net/blog/2014/10/01/a-sneak-peek-at-the-upcoming-openbsd-5-dot-6-release/) OpenBSD 5.6 is to be released in just under a month from now, and one of the developers wrote a blog post about some of the new features The post is mostly a collection of various links, many of which we've discussed before It'll be the first version with LibreSSL and many other cool things We will, of course, have all the details on the day of release There are some good comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413028) on hacker news about 5.6 as well *** FreeBSD ARMv8-based implementation (http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-to-sponsor-freebsd-armv8-based-implementation-277724361.html) The FreeBSD foundation is sponsoring some work to port FreeBSD to the new ThunderX ARM CPU family With the potential to have up to 48 cores, this type of CPU might make ARM-based servers a more appealing option Cavium, the company involved with this deal, seems to have lots of BSD fans This collaboration is expected to result in Tier 1 recognition of the ARMv8 architecture *** Updating orphaned OpenBSD ports (https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&amp;m=141235737615585&amp;w=2) We discussed OpenBSD porting over portscout from FreeBSD a while back Their ports team is making full use of it now, and they're also looking for people to help update some unmaintained ports A new subdomain, portroach.openbsd.org (http://portroach.openbsd.org/), will let you view all the ports information easily If you're interested in learning to port software, or just want to help update a port you use, this is a good chance to get involved *** Interview - Matt Ranney &amp; George Kola - mjr@ranney.com (mailto:mjr@ranney.com) &amp; george.kola@voxer.com (mailto:george.kola@voxer.com) BSD at Voxer, companies switching from Linux, community interaction Tutorial Adblocking with DNSMasq &amp; Pixelserv (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/dnsmasq) News Roundup GhostBSD 4.0 released (http://ghostbsd.org/4.0-release) The 4.0 branch of GhostBSD has finally been released, based on FreeBSD 10 With it come all the big 10.0 changes: clang instead of gcc, pkgng by default, make replaced by bmake Mate is now the default desktop, with different workstation styles to choose from *** Reports from PF about banned IPs (http://ypnose.org/blog/2014/newbrute-pf.html) If you run any kind of public-facing server, you've probably seen your logs fill up with unwanted traffic This is especially true if you run SSH on port 22, which the author of this post seems to A lot can be done with just PF and some brute force tables He goes through some different options for blocking Chinese IPs and break-in attempts It includes a useful script he wrote to get reports about the IPs being blocked via email *** NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 released (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_5_and) The 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD got some updates They include a number of security and stability fixes - plenty of OpenSSL mentions Various panics and other small bugs also got fixed *** OpenSSH 6.7 released (https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-announce/2014-October/000119.html) After a long delay, OpenSSH 6.7 has finally been released Major internal refactoring has been done to make part of OpenSSH usable as a library SFTP transfers can now be resumed Lots of bug fixes, a few more new features - check the release notes for all the details This release disables some insecure ciphers by default, so keep that in mind if you connect with legacy clients that use Arcfour or CBC modes *** Feedback/Questions Andriy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s218tT9C7v) Karl writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2WY5R5e0l) Possnfiffer writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20z8MPBVw) Brad writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21h2Yx5al) Solomon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21xu9U0qt) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, voxer, whatsapp, dnsmasq, pixelserv, ad blocking, adblock plus, advertisements, malware, linux vs bsd, differences, linux, arm, eurobsdcon Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

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Headlines

NetBSD's EuroBSDCon report

  • This year's EuroBSDCon had the record number of NetBSD developers attending
  • The NetBSD guys had a small devsummit as well, and this blog post details some of their activities
  • Pierre Pronchery also talked about EdgeBSD there (also see our interview if you haven't already)
  • Hopefully this trend continues, and NetBSD starts to have even more of a presence at the conferences ***

Upcoming features in OpenBSD 5.6

  • OpenBSD 5.6 is to be released in just under a month from now, and one of the developers wrote a blog post about some of the new features
  • The post is mostly a collection of various links, many of which we've discussed before
  • It'll be the first version with LibreSSL and many other cool things
  • We will, of course, have all the details on the day of release
  • There are some good comments on hacker news about 5.6 as well ***

FreeBSD ARMv8-based implementation

  • The FreeBSD foundation is sponsoring some work to port FreeBSD to the new ThunderX ARM CPU family
  • With the potential to have up to 48 cores, this type of CPU might make ARM-based servers a more appealing option
  • Cavium, the company involved with this deal, seems to have lots of BSD fans
  • This collaboration is expected to result in Tier 1 recognition of the ARMv8 architecture ***

Updating orphaned OpenBSD ports

  • We discussed OpenBSD porting over portscout from FreeBSD a while back
  • Their ports team is making full use of it now, and they're also looking for people to help update some unmaintained ports
  • A new subdomain, portroach.openbsd.org, will let you view all the ports information easily
  • If you're interested in learning to port software, or just want to help update a port you use, this is a good chance to get involved ***

Interview - Matt Ranney & George Kola - mjr@ranney.com & george.kola@voxer.com

BSD at Voxer, companies switching from Linux, community interaction

Tutorial

Adblocking with DNSMasq & Pixelserv

News Roundup

GhostBSD 4.0 released

  • The 4.0 branch of GhostBSD has finally been released, based on FreeBSD 10
  • With it come all the big 10.0 changes: clang instead of gcc, pkgng by default, make replaced by bmake
  • Mate is now the default desktop, with different workstation styles to choose from ***

Reports from PF about banned IPs

  • If you run any kind of public-facing server, you've probably seen your logs fill up with unwanted traffic
  • This is especially true if you run SSH on port 22, which the author of this post seems to
  • A lot can be done with just PF and some brute force tables
  • He goes through some different options for blocking Chinese IPs and break-in attempts
  • It includes a useful script he wrote to get reports about the IPs being blocked via email ***

NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 released

  • The 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD got some updates
  • They include a number of security and stability fixes - plenty of OpenSSL mentions
  • Various panics and other small bugs also got fixed ***

OpenSSH 6.7 released

  • After a long delay, OpenSSH 6.7 has finally been released
  • Major internal refactoring has been done to make part of OpenSSH usable as a library
  • SFTP transfers can now be resumed
  • Lots of bug fixes, a few more new features - check the release notes for all the details
  • This release disables some insecure ciphers by default, so keep that in mind if you connect with legacy clients that use Arcfour or CBC modes ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> Coming up this week on the show, we'll be talking to Matt Ranney and George Kola about how they use FreeBSD at Voxer, and how to get more companies to switch over. After that, we'll show you how to filter website ads at the gateway level, using DNSMasq. All this week's news and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open sourceTarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid

Headlines

NetBSD's EuroBSDCon report

  • This year's EuroBSDCon had the record number of NetBSD developers attending
  • The NetBSD guys had a small devsummit as well, and this blog post details some of their activities
  • Pierre Pronchery also talked about EdgeBSD there (also see our interview if you haven't already)
  • Hopefully this trend continues, and NetBSD starts to have even more of a presence at the conferences ***

Upcoming features in OpenBSD 5.6

  • OpenBSD 5.6 is to be released in just under a month from now, and one of the developers wrote a blog post about some of the new features
  • The post is mostly a collection of various links, many of which we've discussed before
  • It'll be the first version with LibreSSL and many other cool things
  • We will, of course, have all the details on the day of release
  • There are some good comments on hacker news about 5.6 as well ***

FreeBSD ARMv8-based implementation

  • The FreeBSD foundation is sponsoring some work to port FreeBSD to the new ThunderX ARM CPU family
  • With the potential to have up to 48 cores, this type of CPU might make ARM-based servers a more appealing option
  • Cavium, the company involved with this deal, seems to have lots of BSD fans
  • This collaboration is expected to result in Tier 1 recognition of the ARMv8 architecture ***

Updating orphaned OpenBSD ports

  • We discussed OpenBSD porting over portscout from FreeBSD a while back
  • Their ports team is making full use of it now, and they're also looking for people to help update some unmaintained ports
  • A new subdomain, portroach.openbsd.org, will let you view all the ports information easily
  • If you're interested in learning to port software, or just want to help update a port you use, this is a good chance to get involved ***

Interview - Matt Ranney & George Kola - mjr@ranney.com & george.kola@voxer.com

BSD at Voxer, companies switching from Linux, community interaction

Tutorial

Adblocking with DNSMasq & Pixelserv

News Roundup

GhostBSD 4.0 released

  • The 4.0 branch of GhostBSD has finally been released, based on FreeBSD 10
  • With it come all the big 10.0 changes: clang instead of gcc, pkgng by default, make replaced by bmake
  • Mate is now the default desktop, with different workstation styles to choose from ***

Reports from PF about banned IPs

  • If you run any kind of public-facing server, you've probably seen your logs fill up with unwanted traffic
  • This is especially true if you run SSH on port 22, which the author of this post seems to
  • A lot can be done with just PF and some brute force tables
  • He goes through some different options for blocking Chinese IPs and break-in attempts
  • It includes a useful script he wrote to get reports about the IPs being blocked via email ***

NetBSD 6.1.5 and 6.0.6 released

  • The 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD got some updates
  • They include a number of security and stability fixes - plenty of OpenSSL mentions
  • Various panics and other small bugs also got fixed ***

OpenSSH 6.7 released

  • After a long delay, OpenSSH 6.7 has finally been released
  • Major internal refactoring has been done to make part of OpenSSH usable as a library
  • SFTP transfers can now be resumed
  • Lots of bug fixes, a few more new features - check the release notes for all the details
  • This release disables some insecure ciphers by default, so keep that in mind if you connect with legacy clients that use Arcfour or CBC modes ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 26: Port Authority https://www.bsdnow.tv/26 0e208963-5f59-446a-902e-9876d96c8f3f Wed, 26 Feb 2014 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington 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. 1:31:05 no 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 <a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source"></a> 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 *** pkgsrcCon and BSDCan (http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/) pkgsrccon is "a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure" This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd The schedule (http://www.pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2014/schedule.html) is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it BSDCan's schedule (https://www.bsdcan.org/2014/schedule/events.en.html) was also announced We'll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more Kris' presentation was accepted! Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully! *** Two factor auth with pushover (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/login-pushover) A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures) Pushover is "a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway" - you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh! *** The status of GNOME 3 on BSD (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140219085851) It's no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast (https://www.bsdfrog.org/tmp/undeadly-gnome.webm) A few recent (http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/02/19/on-portability/) posts (http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/02/19/on-portability/) from some GNOME developers show that they're finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us - it's a beautiful thing This goes right along with our interview today! *** Interview - Joe Marcus Clark - marcus@freebsd.org (mailto:marcus@freebsd.org) The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics Tutorial The FreeBSD Ports Collection (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ports) News Roundup DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release (http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/versions/4) The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8 On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they'd like to get done before then In the meantime, 3.6.1 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-February/199294.html) was released with lots of bugfixes *** NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece (http://www.informit.com/blogs/blog.aspx?uk=NYCBSDCon-2014-Rocked-a-Cold-February-Weekend) We've got a nice wrap-up titled "NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend" The author also interviews GNN (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_29-journaled_news_updates) about the conference There's even a little "beginner introduction" to BSD segment Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event *** FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?&amp;v=5mv_oKFzACM#t=418) GNN in yet another story - he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs "distros," development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends *** PCBSD CFT and weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/call-for-testers-new-major-upgrade-methodology/) Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-18/) How dare Kris be "unimpressed with" freebsd-update and pkgng!? Various updates and fixes *** Feedback/Questions Jeffrey writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s213KxUdVj) Shane writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20lwkjLVK) Ferdinand writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21DqJs77g) Curtis writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20eXKEqJc) Clint writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21XMVFuVu) Peter writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20Xk05MHe) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, portmgr, ports, pkgng, packages, portsnap, make.conf, tinderbox, portlint, gnome, gnome 3, gnome-shell, omnibook, 800ct, ixsystems, pkgsrc, pkgsrccon, pushover, two factor authentication, bsdcan, 2014, dragonfly mail agent, dma, sendmail, postfix, ssmtp, flashrd, nylug, linux, differences, switching to bsd, presentation, lug, uug, bug, gnu, gpl, fsf, license, debate, nycbsdcon 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

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Headlines

Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

  • The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, 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 ***

pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

  • pkgsrccon is "a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure"
  • This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
  • The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
  • BSDCan's schedule was also announced
  • We'll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
  • Kris' presentation was accepted!
  • Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully! ***

Two factor auth with pushover

  • A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
  • Pushover is "a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway" - you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
  • His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
  • Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh! ***

The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

  • It's no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
  • OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
  • This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
  • A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they're finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
  • The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us - it's a beautiful thing
  • This goes right along with our interview today! ***

Interview - Joe Marcus Clark - marcus@freebsd.org

The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

Tutorial

The FreeBSD Ports Collection

News Roundup

DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

  • The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
  • On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they'd like to get done before then
  • In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes ***

NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

  • We've got a nice wrap-up titled "NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend"
  • The author also interviews GNN about the conference
  • There's even a little "beginner introduction" to BSD segment
  • Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event ***

FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

  • GNN in yet another story - he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
  • He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs "distros," development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
  • Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends ***

PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

  • Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
  • You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
  • How dare Kris be "unimpressed with" freebsd-update and pkgng!?
  • Various updates and fixes ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 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

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Headlines

Tailoring OpenBSD for an old, strange computer

  • The author of this article had an OmniBook 800CT, 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 ***

pkgsrcCon and BSDCan

  • pkgsrccon is "a technical conference for people working on the NetBSD Packages Collection, focusing on existing technologies, research projects, and works-in-progress in pkgsrc infrastructure"
  • This year it will be on June 21st and 22nd
  • The schedule is still being worked out, so if you want to give a talk, submit it
  • BSDCan's schedule was also announced
  • We'll be having presentations about ARM on NetBSD and FreeBSD, PF on OpenBSD, Capsicum and casperd, ASLR in FreeBSD, more about migrating from Linux to BSD, FreeNAS stuff and much more
  • Kris' presentation was accepted!
  • Tons of topics, look forward to the recorded versions of all of them hopefully! ***

Two factor auth with pushover

  • A new write-up from our friend Ted Unangst
  • Pushover is "a web hook to smartphone push notification gateway" - you sent a POST to a web server and it sends a code to your phone
  • His post goes through the steps of editing your login.conf and setting it all up to work
  • Now you can get a two factor authenticated login for ssh! ***

The status of GNOME 3 on BSD

  • It's no secret that the GNOME team is a Linux-obsessed bunch, almost to the point of being hostile towards other operating systems
  • OpenBSD keeps their GNOME 3 ports up to date very well, and Antoine Jacoutot writes about his work on that and how easy it is to use
  • This post goes through the process of how simple it is to get GNOME 3 set up on OpenBSD and even includes a screencast
  • A few recent posts from some GNOME developers show that they're finally working with the BSD guys to improve portability
  • The FreeBSD and OpenBSD teams are working together to bring the latest GNOME to all of us - it's a beautiful thing
  • This goes right along with our interview today! ***

Interview - Joe Marcus Clark - marcus@freebsd.org

The life and daily activities of portmgr, GNOME 3, Tinderbox, portlint, various topics

Tutorial

The FreeBSD Ports Collection

News Roundup

DragonflyBSD 3.8 goals and 3.6.1 release

  • The Dragonfly team is thinking about what should be in version 3.8
  • On their bug tracker, it lists some of the things they'd like to get done before then
  • In the meantime, 3.6.1 was released with lots of bugfixes ***

NYCBSDCon 2014 wrap-up piece

  • We've got a nice wrap-up titled "NYCBSDCon 2014 Heats Up a Cold Winter Weekend"
  • The author also interviews GNN about the conference
  • There's even a little "beginner introduction" to BSD segment
  • Includes a mention of the recently-launched journal and lots of pictures from the event ***

FreeBSD and Linux, a comparative analysis

  • GNN in yet another story - he gave a presentation at the NYLUG about the differences between FreeBSD and Linux
  • He mentions the history of BSD, the patch set and 386BSD, the lawsuit, philosophy and license differences, a complete system vs "distros," development models, BSD-only features and technologies, how to become a committer, overall comparisons, different hats and roles, the different bsds and their goals and actual code differences
  • Serves as a good introduction you can show your Linux friends ***

PCBSD CFT and weekly digest

  • Upgrade tools have gotten a major rewrite
  • You have to help test it, there is no choice! Read more here
  • How dare Kris be "unimpressed with" freebsd-update and pkgng!?
  • Various updates and fixes ***

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