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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 36: Let's Get RAID https://www.bsdnow.tv/36 485b12e9-ea67-4bc6-9709-4b0e38a76184 Wed, 07 May 2014 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington 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. 1:30:47 no 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 <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 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&amp;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 installer, SMP support on Alpha, a new AViiON port, lots of new hardware drivers including newer NICs, the new vxlan driver, relayd improvements, a new pf queue system for bandwidth shaping, dhcpd and dhclient fixes, OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 and all its new features, position-independent executables being default for i386, the RNG has been replaced with ChaCha20 as well as some other security improvements, FUSE support, tmpfs, softraid partitions larger than 2TB and a RAID 5 implementation, OpenSSH 6.6 with all its new features and fixes... and a lot more The full list of changes (http://www.openbsd.org/plus55.html) is HUGE, be sure to read through it all if you're interested in the details If you're doing an upgrade from 5.4 instead of a fresh install, pay careful attention to the upgrade guide (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade55.html) as there are some very specific steps for this version Also be sure to apply the errata patches (http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html) on your new installations... especially those OpenSSL ones (some of which still aren't fixed (http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&amp;m=139906348230995&amp;w=2) in the other BSDs yet) On the topic of errata patches, the project is now going to also send them out (signed (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140502103355)) via the announce mailing list (http://lists.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?user=&amp;passw=&amp;func=lists-long-full&amp;extra=announce), a very welcome change Congrats to the whole team on this great release - 5.6 is going to be even more awesome with "Libre"SSL and lots of other stuff that's currently in development *** FreeBSD foundation funding highlights (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/04/freebsd-foundation-spring-fundraising_28.html) The FreeBSD foundation posts a new update on how they're spending the money that everyone donates "As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of what we've done to help FreeBSD become the most innovative, reliable, and high-performance operation system" During this spring, they want to highlight the new UEFI boot support and newcons (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/05/freebsd-foundation-newcons-project.html) There's a lot of details about what exactly UEFI is and why we need it going forward FreeBSD has also needed some updates to its console to support UTF8 and wide characters Hopefully this series will continue and we'll get to see what other work is being sponsored *** OpenSSH without OpenSSL (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=139879453001957&amp;w=2) The OpenSSH team has been hard at work, making it even better, and now OpenSSL is completely optional Since it won't have access to the primitives OpenSSL uses, there will be a trade-off of features vs. security This version will drop support for legacy SSH v1, and the only two cryptographic algorithms supported are an in-house implementation of AES in counter mode and the new combination (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/PROTOCOL.chacha20poly1305?rev=HEAD;content-type=text%2Fplain) of the Chacha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 for packet integrity Key exchange is limited to elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and the newer Curve25519 KEXs No support for RSA, DSA or ECDSA public keys - only Ed25519 It also includes a new buffer API (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=139883582313750&amp;w=2) and a set of wrappers to make it compatible with the existing API Believe it or not, this was planned before all the heartbleed craziness Maybe someday soon we'll have a mini-openssh-portable in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, would be really neat *** BSDMag's April 2014 issue is out (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1861-free-pascal-on-bsd-april-bsd-issue) The free monthly BSD magazine has got a new issue available for download This time the articles include: pascal on BSD, an introduction to revision control systems and configuration management, deploying NetBSD on AWS EC2, more GIMP tutorials, an AsiaBSDCon 2014 report and a piece about how easily credit cards are stolen online Anyone can contribute to the magazine, just send the editors an email about what you want to write No Linux articles this time around, good *** Interview - David Chisnall - theraven@freebsd.org (mailto:theraven@freebsd.org) The LLVM/Clang switch, FreeBSD's core team, various topics Tutorial RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/raid) News Roundup BSDTalk episode 240 (http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2014/04/bsdtalk240-about-time-with-george.html) Our buddy Will Backman has uploaded a new episode of BSDTalk, this time with our other buddy GNN as the guest - mainly to talk about NTP and keeping reliable time Topics include the specific details of crystals used in watches and computers to keep time, how temperature affects the quality, different sources of inaccuracy, some general NTP information, why you might want extremely precise time, different time sources (GPS, satellite, etc), differences in stratum levels, the problem of packet delay and estimating the round trip time, some of the recent NTP amplification attacks, the downsides to using UDP instead of TCP and... much more GNN also talks a little about the Precision Time Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_Protocol) and how it's different than NTP Two people (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_29-journaled_news_updates) we've interviewed (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_03_05-bsd_now_vs_bsdtalk) talking to each other, awesome If you're interested in NTP, be sure to see our tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ntpd) too *** m2k14 trip reports (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140502092427) We've got a few more reports from the recent OpenBSD hackathon in Morocco The first one is from Antoine Jacoutot (who is a key GNOME porter and gave us the screenshots for the OpenBSD desktop tutorial (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/the-desktop-obsd)) "Since I always fail at actually doing whatever I have planned for a hackathon, this time I decided to come to m2k14 unprepared about what I was going to do" He got lots of work done with ports and pushing GNOME-related patches back up to the main project, then worked on fixing ports' compatibility with LibreSSL Speaking of LibreSSL, there's an article (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140505062023) all would-be portable version writers should probably read and take into consideration Jasper Adriaanse also writes (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140501185019) about what he got done over there He cleaned up and fixed the puppet port to work better with OpenBSD *** Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS (https://www.atlantic.net/blog/2014/04/08/freebsd-ssd-cloud-vps-hosting-10-reasons/) Here we have a blog post from Atlantic, a VPS and hosting provider, about 10 reasons for using FreeBSD Starts off with a little bit of BSD history for those who are unfamiliar with it and only know Linux and Windows The 10 reasons are: community, stability, collaboration, ease of use, ports, security, ZFS, GEOM, sound and having lots of options The post goes into detail about each of them and why FreeBSD makes a great choice for a VPS OS *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/05/weekly-feature-digest-27-software-system-redesign/) Big changes coming in the way PCBSD manages software The PBI system, AppCafe and related tools are all going to use pkgng now The AppCafe will no longer be limited to PBIs, so much more software will be easily available from the ports tree New rating system coming soon and much more *** Feedback/Questions Martin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21bk2oPuQ) John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2n9fx1Rpw) Alex writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2rBBKLA4u) Goetz writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20JY6ZI71) Jarrad writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20YV5Ohpa) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, theraven, david chisnall, core, core team, clang, gcc, llvm, raid, stripe, mirror, bioctl, gstripe, zfs, gmirror, graid, ufs, ffs, disks, the worst pun i've done so far, i regret this already, redundancy, raid0, raid1, raid5, raidz, raid-z, filesystem, 5.5, pie, aslr, cd set, demo, tour, opensmtpd, pf, gnome, gnome3, marcusports, ports, router, signify, hackathon 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.

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Headlines

OpenBSD 5.5 released

  • If you ordered a CD set then you've probably had it for a little while already, but OpenBSD has formally announced the public release 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 installer, SMP support on Alpha, a new AViiON port, lots of new hardware drivers including newer NICs, the new vxlan driver, relayd improvements, a new pf queue system for bandwidth shaping, dhcpd and dhclient fixes, OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 and all its new features, position-independent executables being default for i386, the RNG has been replaced with ChaCha20 as well as some other security improvements, FUSE support, tmpfs, softraid partitions larger than 2TB and a RAID 5 implementation, OpenSSH 6.6 with all its new features and fixes... and a lot more
  • The full list of changes is HUGE, be sure to read through it all if you're interested in the details
  • If you're doing an upgrade from 5.4 instead of a fresh install, pay careful attention to the upgrade guide as there are some very specific steps for this version
  • Also be sure to apply the errata patches on your new installations... especially those OpenSSL ones (some of which still aren't fixed in the other BSDs yet)
  • On the topic of errata patches, the project is now going to also send them out (signed) via the announce mailing list, a very welcome change
  • Congrats to the whole team on this great release - 5.6 is going to be even more awesome with "Libre"SSL and lots of other stuff that's currently in development ***

FreeBSD foundation funding highlights

  • The FreeBSD foundation posts a new update on how they're spending the money that everyone donates
  • "As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of what we've done to help FreeBSD become the most innovative, reliable, and high-performance operation system"
  • During this spring, they want to highlight the new UEFI boot support and newcons
  • There's a lot of details about what exactly UEFI is and why we need it going forward
  • FreeBSD has also needed some updates to its console to support UTF8 and wide characters
  • Hopefully this series will continue and we'll get to see what other work is being sponsored ***

OpenSSH without OpenSSL

  • The OpenSSH team has been hard at work, making it even better, and now OpenSSL is completely optional
  • Since it won't have access to the primitives OpenSSL uses, there will be a trade-off of features vs. security
  • This version will drop support for legacy SSH v1, and the only two cryptographic algorithms supported are an in-house implementation of AES in counter mode and the new combination of the Chacha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 for packet integrity
  • Key exchange is limited to elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and the newer Curve25519 KEXs
  • No support for RSA, DSA or ECDSA public keys - only Ed25519
  • It also includes a new buffer API and a set of wrappers to make it compatible with the existing API
  • Believe it or not, this was planned before all the heartbleed craziness
  • Maybe someday soon we'll have a mini-openssh-portable in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, would be really neat ***

BSDMag's April 2014 issue is out

  • The free monthly BSD magazine has got a new issue available for download
  • This time the articles include: pascal on BSD, an introduction to revision control systems and configuration management, deploying NetBSD on AWS EC2, more GIMP tutorials, an AsiaBSDCon 2014 report and a piece about how easily credit cards are stolen online
  • Anyone can contribute to the magazine, just send the editors an email about what you want to write
  • No Linux articles this time around, good ***

Interview - David Chisnall - theraven@freebsd.org

The LLVM/Clang switch, FreeBSD's core team, various topics

Tutorial

RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD

News Roundup

BSDTalk episode 240

  • Our buddy Will Backman has uploaded a new episode of BSDTalk, this time with our other buddy GNN as the guest - mainly to talk about NTP and keeping reliable time
  • Topics include the specific details of crystals used in watches and computers to keep time, how temperature affects the quality, different sources of inaccuracy, some general NTP information, why you might want extremely precise time, different time sources (GPS, satellite, etc), differences in stratum levels, the problem of packet delay and estimating the round trip time, some of the recent NTP amplification attacks, the downsides to using UDP instead of TCP and... much more
  • GNN also talks a little about the Precision Time Protocol and how it's different than NTP
  • Two people we've interviewed talking to each other, awesome
  • If you're interested in NTP, be sure to see our tutorial too ***

m2k14 trip reports

  • We've got a few more reports from the recent OpenBSD hackathon in Morocco
  • The first one is from Antoine Jacoutot (who is a key GNOME porter and gave us the screenshots for the OpenBSD desktop tutorial)
  • "Since I always fail at actually doing whatever I have planned for a hackathon, this time I decided to come to m2k14 unprepared about what I was going to do"
  • He got lots of work done with ports and pushing GNOME-related patches back up to the main project, then worked on fixing ports' compatibility with LibreSSL
  • Speaking of LibreSSL, there's an article all would-be portable version writers should probably read and take into consideration
  • Jasper Adriaanse also writes about what he got done over there
  • He cleaned up and fixed the puppet port to work better with OpenBSD ***

Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS

  • Here we have a blog post from Atlantic, a VPS and hosting provider, about 10 reasons for using FreeBSD
  • Starts off with a little bit of BSD history for those who are unfamiliar with it and only know Linux and Windows
  • The 10 reasons are: community, stability, collaboration, ease of use, ports, security, ZFS, GEOM, sound and having lots of options
  • The post goes into detail about each of them and why FreeBSD makes a great choice for a VPS OS ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • Big changes coming in the way PCBSD manages software
  • The PBI system, AppCafe and related tools are all going to use pkgng now
  • The AppCafe will no longer be limited to PBIs, so much more software will be easily available from the ports tree
  • New rating system coming soon and much more ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 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

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

Headlines

OpenBSD 5.5 released

  • If you ordered a CD set then you've probably had it for a little while already, but OpenBSD has formally announced the public release 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 installer, SMP support on Alpha, a new AViiON port, lots of new hardware drivers including newer NICs, the new vxlan driver, relayd improvements, a new pf queue system for bandwidth shaping, dhcpd and dhclient fixes, OpenSMTPD 5.4.2 and all its new features, position-independent executables being default for i386, the RNG has been replaced with ChaCha20 as well as some other security improvements, FUSE support, tmpfs, softraid partitions larger than 2TB and a RAID 5 implementation, OpenSSH 6.6 with all its new features and fixes... and a lot more
  • The full list of changes is HUGE, be sure to read through it all if you're interested in the details
  • If you're doing an upgrade from 5.4 instead of a fresh install, pay careful attention to the upgrade guide as there are some very specific steps for this version
  • Also be sure to apply the errata patches on your new installations... especially those OpenSSL ones (some of which still aren't fixed in the other BSDs yet)
  • On the topic of errata patches, the project is now going to also send them out (signed) via the announce mailing list, a very welcome change
  • Congrats to the whole team on this great release - 5.6 is going to be even more awesome with "Libre"SSL and lots of other stuff that's currently in development ***

FreeBSD foundation funding highlights

  • The FreeBSD foundation posts a new update on how they're spending the money that everyone donates
  • "As we embark on our 15th year of serving the FreeBSD Project and community, we are proud of what we've done to help FreeBSD become the most innovative, reliable, and high-performance operation system"
  • During this spring, they want to highlight the new UEFI boot support and newcons
  • There's a lot of details about what exactly UEFI is and why we need it going forward
  • FreeBSD has also needed some updates to its console to support UTF8 and wide characters
  • Hopefully this series will continue and we'll get to see what other work is being sponsored ***

OpenSSH without OpenSSL

  • The OpenSSH team has been hard at work, making it even better, and now OpenSSL is completely optional
  • Since it won't have access to the primitives OpenSSL uses, there will be a trade-off of features vs. security
  • This version will drop support for legacy SSH v1, and the only two cryptographic algorithms supported are an in-house implementation of AES in counter mode and the new combination of the Chacha20 stream cipher with Poly1305 for packet integrity
  • Key exchange is limited to elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and the newer Curve25519 KEXs
  • No support for RSA, DSA or ECDSA public keys - only Ed25519
  • It also includes a new buffer API and a set of wrappers to make it compatible with the existing API
  • Believe it or not, this was planned before all the heartbleed craziness
  • Maybe someday soon we'll have a mini-openssh-portable in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, would be really neat ***

BSDMag's April 2014 issue is out

  • The free monthly BSD magazine has got a new issue available for download
  • This time the articles include: pascal on BSD, an introduction to revision control systems and configuration management, deploying NetBSD on AWS EC2, more GIMP tutorials, an AsiaBSDCon 2014 report and a piece about how easily credit cards are stolen online
  • Anyone can contribute to the magazine, just send the editors an email about what you want to write
  • No Linux articles this time around, good ***

Interview - David Chisnall - theraven@freebsd.org

The LLVM/Clang switch, FreeBSD's core team, various topics

Tutorial

RAID in FreeBSD and OpenBSD

News Roundup

BSDTalk episode 240

  • Our buddy Will Backman has uploaded a new episode of BSDTalk, this time with our other buddy GNN as the guest - mainly to talk about NTP and keeping reliable time
  • Topics include the specific details of crystals used in watches and computers to keep time, how temperature affects the quality, different sources of inaccuracy, some general NTP information, why you might want extremely precise time, different time sources (GPS, satellite, etc), differences in stratum levels, the problem of packet delay and estimating the round trip time, some of the recent NTP amplification attacks, the downsides to using UDP instead of TCP and... much more
  • GNN also talks a little about the Precision Time Protocol and how it's different than NTP
  • Two people we've interviewed talking to each other, awesome
  • If you're interested in NTP, be sure to see our tutorial too ***

m2k14 trip reports

  • We've got a few more reports from the recent OpenBSD hackathon in Morocco
  • The first one is from Antoine Jacoutot (who is a key GNOME porter and gave us the screenshots for the OpenBSD desktop tutorial)
  • "Since I always fail at actually doing whatever I have planned for a hackathon, this time I decided to come to m2k14 unprepared about what I was going to do"
  • He got lots of work done with ports and pushing GNOME-related patches back up to the main project, then worked on fixing ports' compatibility with LibreSSL
  • Speaking of LibreSSL, there's an article all would-be portable version writers should probably read and take into consideration
  • Jasper Adriaanse also writes about what he got done over there
  • He cleaned up and fixed the puppet port to work better with OpenBSD ***

Why you should use FreeBSD on your cloud VPS

  • Here we have a blog post from Atlantic, a VPS and hosting provider, about 10 reasons for using FreeBSD
  • Starts off with a little bit of BSD history for those who are unfamiliar with it and only know Linux and Windows
  • The 10 reasons are: community, stability, collaboration, ease of use, ports, security, ZFS, GEOM, sound and having lots of options
  • The post goes into detail about each of them and why FreeBSD makes a great choice for a VPS OS ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • Big changes coming in the way PCBSD manages software
  • The PBI system, AppCafe and related tools are all going to use pkgng now
  • The AppCafe will no longer be limited to PBIs, so much more software will be easily available from the ports tree
  • New rating system coming soon and much more ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 22: Journaled News-Updates https://www.bsdnow.tv/22 e49b46fd-a367-451d-819a-544b35fc4f89 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington 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. 1:30:12 no 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 <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 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 on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time *** n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140124142027) Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons (http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html) in New Zealand 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event If you've been watching the -current CVS logs, you've seen the flood of commits just from this event alone Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things - some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing Another report from Theo (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140127083112) details his work Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff *** Four new NetBSD releases (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_3_netbsd) NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4 These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features You can upgrade depending on what branch you're currently on Confused about the different branches? See this graph. (https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1) *** The future of open source ZFS development (http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-open-source-zfs-development) On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code It's in San Jose, California - go if you can! *** Interview - George Neville-Neil - gnn@freebsd.org (mailto:gnn@freebsd.org) / @gvnn3 (https://twitter.com/gvnn3) The FreeBSD Journal (http://freebsdjournal.com/) Tutorial Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD) (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd) News Roundup pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots (https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes) pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates There are recordings posted (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1198) of some of the previous hangouts Unfortunately they're only for subscribers, so you'll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense! *** FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gce-discussion/YWoa3Aa_49U/FYAg9oiRlLUJ) Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here's the FreeBSD version Nice big fat warning: "The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty." Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated! Other than that it's a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running *** Dragonfly ACPI update (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/22/13225.html) Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html) There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html) if you experience problems Check the mailing list post for all the details *** PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-6/) 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5 PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! *** Feedback/Questions Tony writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21ZlfOdTt) Jeff writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5) Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI) Nils writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt) Solomon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS) *** freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, freebsd journal, journal, news, stable, current, cvs, anoncvs, branch, update, upgrade, binary, buildworld, make build, release engineering, ufs, ffs, gce, google compute engine, openzfs, zfs, matt ahrens, uefi, efi, secureboot, secure boot, acpi, pfsense, poudriere, hackathon, new zealand, n2k14, george neville-neil, gnn, nycbsdcon, nyc, convention, conference 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

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Headlines

FreeBSD quarterly status report

  • 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 on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time ***

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

  • Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
  • 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
  • Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
  • If you've been watching the -current CVS logs, you've seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
  • Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things - some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
  • Another report from Theo details his work
  • Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff ***

Four new NetBSD releases

  • NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
  • These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
  • You can upgrade depending on what branch you're currently on
  • Confused about the different branches? See this graph. ***

The future of open source ZFS development

  • On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
  • The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
  • It's in San Jose, California - go if you can! ***

Interview - George Neville-Neil - gnn@freebsd.org / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

  • pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
  • They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
  • There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
  • Unfortunately they're only for subscribers, so you'll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense! ***

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

  • Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here's the FreeBSD version
  • Nice big fat warning: "The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty."
  • Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
  • Other than that it's a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running ***

Dragonfly ACPI update

  • Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
  • There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS if you experience problems
  • Check the mailing list post for all the details ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
  • PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did
  • Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
  • By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 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

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Headlines

FreeBSD quarterly status report

  • 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 on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time ***

n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report

  • Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons in New Zealand
  • 15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days
  • Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event
  • If you've been watching the -current CVS logs, you've seen the flood of commits just from this event alone
  • Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things - some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing
  • Another report from Theo details his work
  • Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff ***

Four new NetBSD releases

  • NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4
  • These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features
  • You can upgrade depending on what branch you're currently on
  • Confused about the different branches? See this graph. ***

The future of open source ZFS development

  • On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS
  • The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code
  • It's in San Jose, California - go if you can! ***

Interview - George Neville-Neil - gnn@freebsd.org / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

  • pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release
  • They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates
  • There are recordings posted of some of the previous hangouts
  • Unfortunately they're only for subscribers, so you'll have to wait until next month when we have Chris on the show to talk about pfSense! ***

FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine

  • Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here's the FreeBSD version
  • Nice big fat warning: "The team has put together a best-effort posting that will get most, if not all, of you up and running. That being said, we need to remind you that FreeBSD is being supported on Google Compute Engine by the community. The instructions are being provided as-is and without warranty."
  • Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!
  • Other than that it's a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running ***

Dragonfly ACPI update

  • Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
  • There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS if you experience problems
  • Check the mailing list post for all the details ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • 10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5
  • PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did
  • Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree
  • By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! ***

Feedback/Questions

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