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GhostBSD 22.01 is available

Packet Scheduling with Dummynet and FreeBSD

News Roundup

Inside zone installation

Why the FreeBSD Desktop and my Linux Rant

How to install Gnome on OpenBSD

The important Unix idea of the "virtual filesystem switch"

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OpenBSD on the Thinkpad X1 Carbon 7th Gen

Another year, another ThinkPad X1 Carbon, this time with a Dolby Atmos sound system and a smaller battery.
The seventh generation X1 Carbon isn't much different than the fifth and sixth generations. I opted for the non-vPro Core i5-8265U, 16Gb of RAM, a 512Gb NVMe SSD, and a matte non-touch WQHD display at ~300 nits. A brighter 500-nit 4k display is available, though early reports indicated it severely impacts battery life.
Gone are the microSD card slot on the back and 1mm of overall thickness (from 15.95mm to 14.95mm), but also 6Whr of battery (down to 51Whr) and a little bit of travel in the keyboard and TrackPoint buttons. I still very much like the feel of both of them, so kudos to Lenovo for not going too far down the Apple route of sacrificing performance and usability just for a thinner profile.
On my fifth generation X1 Carbon, I used a vinyl plotter to cut out stickers to cover the webcam, "X1 Carbon" branding from the bottom of the display, the power button LED, and the "ThinkPad" branding from the lower part of the keyboard deck.

• See link for the rest of the article

How To Install FreeBSD On A MacBook 1,1 or 2,1

• FreeBSD Setup For MacBook 1,1 and 2,1

FreeBSD with some additional setup can be installed on a MacBook 1,1 or 2,1. This article covers how to do so with FreeBSD 10-12.

• Installing

FreeBSD can be installed as the only OS on your MacBook if desired. What you should have is:

• A Mac OS X 10.4.6-10.7.5 installer. Unofficial versions modified for these MacBooks such as 10.8 also work.
• A blank CD or DVD to burn the FreeBSD image to. Discs simply work best with these older MacBooks.
• An ISO file of FreeBSD for x86. The AMD64 ISO does not boot due to the 32 bit EFI of these MacBooks.

• Burn the ISO file to the blank CD or DVD. Once done, make sure it's in your MacBook and then power off the MacBook. Turn it on, and hold down the c key until the FreeBSD disc boots.

  • See link for the rest of the guide

News Roundup

Patch for review: Kernel portion of in-kernel TLS (KTLS)

One of the projects I have been working on for the past several months in conjunction with several other folks is upstreaming work from Netflix to handle some aspects of Transport Layer Security (TLS) in the kernel. In particular, this lets a web server use sendfile() to send static content on HTTPS connections. There is a lot more detail in the review itself, so I will spare pasting a big wall of text here. However, I have posted the patch to add the kernel-side of KTLS for review at the URL below. KTLS also requires other patches to OpenSSL and nginx, but this review is only for the kernel bits. Patches and reviews for the other bits will follow later.

• https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21277

DragonFly Boot Enviroments

This is a tool inspired by the beadm utility for FreeBSD/Illumos systems that creates and manages ZFS boot environments. This utility in contrast is written from the ground up in C, this should provide better performance, integration, and extensibility than the POSIX sh and awk script it was inspired by. During the time this project has been worked on, beadm has been superseded by bectl on FreeBSD. After hammering out some of the outstanding internal logic issues, I might look at providing a similar interface to the command as bectl.

• See link for the rest of the details

Project Trident Updates

• 19.08 Available

This is a general package update to the CURRENT release repository based upon TrueOS 19.08.
Legacy boot ISO functional again
This update includes the FreeBSD fixes for the “vesa” graphics driver for legacy-boot systems. The system can once again be installed on legacy-boot systems.

• PACKAGE CHANGES FROM 19.07-U1

  • New Packages: 154
  • Deleted Packages: 394
  • Updated Packages: 4926

• 12-U3 Available

This is the third general package update to the STABLE release repository based upon TrueOS 12-Stable.

• PACKAGE CHANGES FROM STABLE 12-U2
  • New Packages: 105
  • Deleted Packages: 386
  • Updated Packages: 1046

vBSDcon

• vBSDcon 2019 will return to the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA on September 5-7 2019. ***

Beastie Bits

• The next NYCBUG meeting will be Sept 4 @ 18:45

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OpenBSD automatic installation

• A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD's new automatic installer process
• Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly
• It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services
• Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings ***

FreeNAS install guide and blog posts

• A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS
• In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylvanian accent..) builds his new file server and shows off the hardware
• In part 2, he shows how to install and configure FreeNAS, uses IPMI, sets up his pools
• He pronounces gigabytes as jiggabytes and it's hilarious
• We've also got an unrelated blog post about a very satisfied FreeNAS user who details his setup
• As well as another blog post from our old pal Devin Teske about his recent foray into the FreeNAS development world ***

FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 is out

• Another, unexpected RC is out for 10.0
• Minor fixes included, please help test and report any bugs
• You can update via freebsd-update or from source
• Hopefully this will be the last one before 10.0-RELEASE, which has tons of new features we'll talk about
• It's been tagged -RELEASE in SVN already too! ***

OpenBSD 5.5-beta is out

• Theo updated the branch status to 5.5-beta
• A list of changes
• Help test and report any bugs you find
• Lots of rapid development with signify (which we mentioned last week), the beta includes some "test keys"
• Does that mean it'll be part of the final release? We'll find out in May.. or when we interview Ted (soon) ***

Interview - Neel Natu & Peter Grehan - neel@freebsd.org & grehan@freebsd.org

BHyVe - the BSD hypervisor

Tutorial

Virtualization with bhyve

News Roundup

Hostname canonicalisation in OpenSSH

• Blog post from our friend Damien Miller
• This new feature allows clients to canonicalize unqualified domain names
• SSH will know if you typed "ssh bsdnow" you meant "ssh bsdnow.tv" with new config options
• This will help clean up some ssh configs, especially if you have many hosts
• Should make it into OpenSSH 6.5, which is "due really soon" ***

Dragonfly on a Chromebook

• Some work has been done by Matthew Dillon to get DragonflyBSD working on a Google Chromebook
• These couple of posts detail some of the things he's got working so far
• Changes were needed to the boot process, trackpad and wifi drivers needed updating...
• Also includes a guide written by Dillon on how to get yours working ***

Spider in a box

• "Spiderinabox" is a new OpenBSD-based project
• Using a combination of OpenBSD, Firefox, XQuartz and VirtualBox, it creates a secure browsing experience for OS X
• Firefox runs encapsulated in OpenBSD and doesn't have access to OS X in any way
• The developer is looking for testers on other operating systems! ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• PCBSD 10 has entered into the code freeze phase
• They're focusing on fixing bugs now, rather than adding new features
• The update system got a lot of improvements
• PBI load times reduced by up to 40%! what!!! ***

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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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