web02.fireside.fm Mon, 04 May 2026 08:24:23 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Matt Ahrens” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/matt%20ahrens Wed, 18 Jun 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 42: Devious Methods https://www.bsdnow.tv/42 95dc548f-e688-476d-9fd7-8e78ff3cd16f Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 1:24:12 no <p>Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.</p> <h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2> <p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source"></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid"></a></p> <hr> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.soldierx.com/news/Position-Independent-Executable-Support-Added-FreeBSD" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update</a></h3> <ul> <li>A status update for Shawn Webb's ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD</li> <li>One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree</li> <li>"FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren't compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support"</li> <li>If you're running -CURRENT, just add "WITH_PIE=1" to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf</li> <li>The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it</li> <li>Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1347" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Misc. pfSense news</a></h3> <ul> <li>Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news</li> <li>Someone's gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they're sold, which involves powering them all on at least once</li> <li>To make that process faster, they're building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)</li> <li>There will be more info on that device a bit later on</li> <li>On Friday, June 27th, there will be <a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1367" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">another video session</a> (for paying customers only...) about virtualized firewalls</li> <li>pfSense <a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1332" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">University</a>, a new paid training course, was also announced</li> <li>A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ZFS stripe width</a></h3> <ul> <li>A new blog post from <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_05_14-bsdcanned_goods" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Matt Ahrens</a> about ZFS stripe width</li> <li>"The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice"</li> <li>Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages</li> <li>He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases</li> <li>It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels' overhead factor ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/078959.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released</a></h3> <ul> <li>The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we're slowly getting closer to the release</li> <li>This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs</li> <li>There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what's in -CURRENT (but still isn't using ChaCha20)</li> <li>The FreeBSD foundation has <a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/freebsd-93-beta3-now-available.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">a blog post</a> about it too</li> <li>There's <a href="https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/9-STABLE/relnotes/article.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">a list of changes</a> between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we'll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits ***</li> </ul> <h2>Interview - Bryce Chidester - <a href="mailto:brycec@devio.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">brycec@devio.us</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/brycied00d" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">@brycied00d</a> </h2> <p>Running a BSD shell provider</p> <hr> <h2>Tutorial</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/ssh-chaining" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Chaining SSH connections</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/my-freebsd-adventure-continued-4175508055/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">My FreeBSD adventure</a></h3> <ul> <li>A Slackware user from the "linux questions" forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings</li> <li>After <a href="https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/pc-bsd-10-0-is-now-available-4175493047/page2.html#post5142465" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ruling out</a> PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to "politics" (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on</li> <li>In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things</li> <li>So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux</li> <li>Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdcan-trip-report-li-wen-hsu.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Even more BSDCan trip reports</a></h3> <ul> <li>BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in</li> <li>This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation</li> <li>He's part of the "Jenkins CI for FreeBSD" group and went to BSDCan mostly for that</li> <li>Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read</li> <li>He even talks about... the food ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/2096" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD disk partitioning</a></h3> <ul> <li>For his latest book series on FreeBSD's GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification</li> <li>This erupted into a very <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2014-June/045246.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">long discussion</a> about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart</li> <li>So you don't have to read the 500 mailing list posts, he's summarized the findings in a blog post</li> <li>It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdrp/files/BSD_Router_Project/1.51" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BSD Router Project version 1.51</a></h3> <ul> <li>A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51</li> <li>It's now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE</li> <li>Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere</li> <li>Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes</li> <li>Bad news... the minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB... getting pretty bloated ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21X4hl28g" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Fongaboo writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20DELplMw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">David writes in</a></li> <li> <a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2tmazORRN" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Kristian writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, ssh, openssh, chaining, tor, hopping, jump host, tunnel, vpn, cowsay, 9.3, beta, release, pie, aslr, zfs, zpool, matt ahrens, delphix, foundation, devious, devio.us, bcallah is a noob, shell, shell provider, free, hosting, vps, vpn, ixsystems, tarsnap, bsdcan, report, bsd router project, router, pfsense, m0n0wall, openstack, security, linux, slackware, switching, linux vs bsd, netgate, firewall, university, hangout Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update

  • A status update for Shawn Webb's ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD
  • One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree
  • "FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren't compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support"
  • If you're running -CURRENT, just add "WITH_PIE=1" to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf
  • The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it
  • Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR ***

Misc. pfSense news

  • Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news
  • Someone's gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they're sold, which involves powering them all on at least once
  • To make that process faster, they're building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)
  • There will be more info on that device a bit later on
  • On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (for paying customers only...) about virtualized firewalls
  • pfSense University, a new paid training course, was also announced
  • A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch ***

ZFS stripe width

  • A new blog post from Matt Ahrens about ZFS stripe width
  • "The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice"
  • Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages
  • He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases
  • It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels' overhead factor ***

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released

  • The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we're slowly getting closer to the release
  • This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs
  • There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what's in -CURRENT (but still isn't using ChaCha20)
  • The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post about it too
  • There's a list of changes between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we'll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits ***

Interview - Bryce Chidester - brycec@devio.us / @brycied00d

Running a BSD shell provider

Tutorial

Chaining SSH connections

News Roundup

My FreeBSD adventure

  • A Slackware user from the "linux questions" forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings
  • After ruling out PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to "politics" (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on
  • In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things
  • So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux
  • Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later ***

Even more BSDCan trip reports

  • BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in
  • This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation
  • He's part of the "Jenkins CI for FreeBSD" group and went to BSDCan mostly for that
  • Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read
  • He even talks about... the food ***

FreeBSD disk partitioning

  • For his latest book series on FreeBSD's GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification
  • This erupted into a very long discussion about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart
  • So you don't have to read the 500 mailing list posts, he's summarized the findings in a blog post
  • It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools ***

BSD Router Project version 1.51

  • A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51
  • It's now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE
  • Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere
  • Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes
  • Bad news... the minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB... getting pretty bloated ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> Coming up this week, we'll be showing you how to chain SSH connections, as well as some cool tricks you can do with it. Going along with that theme, we also have an interview with Bryce Chidester about running a BSD-based shell provider. News, emails and cowsay turkeys, 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

PIE and ASLR in FreeBSD update

  • A status update for Shawn Webb's ASLR and PIE work for FreeBSD
  • One major part of the code, position-independent executable support, has finally been merged into the -CURRENT tree
  • "FreeBSD has supported loading PIEs for a while now, but the applications in base weren't compiled as PIEs. Given that ASLR is useless without PIE, getting base compiled with PIE support is a mandatory first step in proper ASLR support"
  • If you're running -CURRENT, just add "WITH_PIE=1" to your /etc/src.conf and /etc/make.conf
  • The next step is working on the ASLR coding style and getting more developers to look through it
  • Shawn will also be at EuroBSDCon (in September) giving an updated version of his BSDCan talk about ASLR ***

Misc. pfSense news

  • Couple of pfSense news items this week, including some hardware news
  • Someone's gotta test the pfSense hardware devices before they're sold, which involves powering them all on at least once
  • To make that process faster, they're building a controllable power board (and include some cool pics)
  • There will be more info on that device a bit later on
  • On Friday, June 27th, there will be another video session (for paying customers only...) about virtualized firewalls
  • pfSense University, a new paid training course, was also announced
  • A single two-day class costs $2000, ouch ***

ZFS stripe width

  • A new blog post from Matt Ahrens about ZFS stripe width
  • "The popularity of OpenZFS has spawned a great community of users, sysadmins, architects and developers, contributing a wealth of advice, tips and tricks, and rules of thumb on how to configure ZFS. In general, this is a great aspect of the ZFS community, but I’d like to take the opportunity to address one piece of misinformed advice"
  • Matt goes through different situations where you would set up your zpool differently, each with their own advantages and disadvantages
  • He covers best performance on random IOPS, best reliability, and best space efficiency use cases
  • It includes a lot of detail on each one, including graphs, and addresses some misconceptions about different RAID-Z levels' overhead factor ***

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA3 released

  • The third BETA in the 9.3 release cycle is out, we're slowly getting closer to the release
  • This is expected to be the final BETA, next will come the RCs
  • There have mostly just been small bug fixes since BETA2, but OpenSSL was also updated and the arc4random code was updated to match what's in -CURRENT (but still isn't using ChaCha20)
  • The FreeBSD foundation has a blog post about it too
  • There's a list of changes between 9.2 and 9.3 as well, but we'll be sure to cover it when the -RELEASE hits ***

Interview - Bryce Chidester - brycec@devio.us / @brycied00d

Running a BSD shell provider

Tutorial

Chaining SSH connections

News Roundup

My FreeBSD adventure

  • A Slackware user from the "linux questions" forum decides to try out BSD, and documents his initial impressions and findings
  • After ruling out PCBSD due to the demanding hardware requirements and NetBSD due to "politics" (whatever that means, his words) he decides to start off with FreeBSD 10, but also mentions trying OpenBSD later on
  • In his forum post, he covers the documentation (and how easy it makes it for a switcher), dual booting, packages vs ports, network configuration and some other little things
  • So far, he seems to really enjoy BSD and thinks that it makes a lot of sense compared to Linux
  • Might be an interesting, ongoing series we can follow up on later ***

Even more BSDCan trip reports

  • BSDCan may be over until next year, but trip reports are still pouring in
  • This time we have a summary from Li-Wen Hsu, who was paid for by the FreeBSD foundation
  • He's part of the "Jenkins CI for FreeBSD" group and went to BSDCan mostly for that
  • Nice long post about all of his experiences at the event, definitely worth a read
  • He even talks about... the food ***

FreeBSD disk partitioning

  • For his latest book series on FreeBSD's GEOM system, MWL asked the hackers mailing list for some clarification
  • This erupted into a very long discussion about fdisk vs gnop vs gpart
  • So you don't have to read the 500 mailing list posts, he's summarized the findings in a blog post
  • It covers MBR vs GPT, disk sector sizes and how to handle all of them with which tools ***

BSD Router Project version 1.51

  • A new version of the BSD Router Project has been released, 1.51
  • It's now based on FreeBSD 10-STABLE instead of 10.0-RELEASE
  • Includes lots of bugfixes and small updates, as well as some patches from pfSense and elsewhere
  • Check the sourceforge page for the complete list of changes
  • Bad news... the minimum disk size requirement has increased to 512MB... getting pretty bloated ***

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 <p>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.</p> <h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2> <p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source"></a></p> <hr> <h2>Headlines</h2> <h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/077085.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD quarterly status report</a></h3> <ul> <li>Gabor Pali sent out the October-December 2013 status report to get everyone up to date on what's going on</li> <li>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</li> <li>Lots of work going on in the ARM world, EC2/Xen and Google Compute Engine are also improving</li> <li>Secure boot support hopefully coming [by mid-year](<a href="http://www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year</a>)</li> <li>There's quite a bit going on in the FreeBSD world, many projects happening at the same time ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140124142027" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report</a></h3> <ul> <li>Recently, OpenBSD held one of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">their hackathons</a> in New Zealand</li> <li>15 developers gathered there to sit in a room and write code for a few days</li> <li>Philip Guenther brings back a nice report of the event</li> <li>If you've been watching the -current CVS logs, you've seen the flood of commits just from this event alone</li> <li>Fixes with threading, Linux compat, ACPI, and various other things - some will make it into 5.5 and others need more testing</li> <li> <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140127083112" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Another report from Theo</a> details his work</li> <li>Updates to the random subsystem, some work-in-progress pf fixes, suspend/resume fixes and more signing stuff ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_3_netbsd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Four new NetBSD releases</a></h3> <ul> <li>NetBSD released versions 6.1.3, 6.0.4, 5.2.2 and 5.1.4</li> <li>These updates include lots of bug fixes and some security updates, not focused on new features</li> <li>You can upgrade depending on what branch you're currently on</li> <li>Confused about the different branches? <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">See this graph.</a> ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-open-source-zfs-development" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The future of open source ZFS development </a></h3> <ul> <li>On February 11, 2014, Matt Ahrens will be giving a presentation about ZFS</li> <li>The talk will be about the future of ZFS and the open source development since Oracle closed the code</li> <li>It's in San Jose, California - go if you can! ***</li> </ul> <h2>Interview - George Neville-Neil - <a href="mailto:gnn@freebsd.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gnn@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/gvnn3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">@gvnn3</a> </h2> <p><a href="http://freebsdjournal.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The FreeBSD Journal</a></p> <hr> <h2>Tutorial</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots</a></h3> <ul> <li>pfSense has some snapshots available for the upcoming 2.1.1 release</li> <li>They include FreeBSD security fixes as well as some other updates</li> <li>There are <a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1198" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">recordings posted</a> of some of the previous hangouts</li> <li>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! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gce-discussion/YWoa3Aa_49U/FYAg9oiRlLUJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine</a></h3> <ul> <li>Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here's the FreeBSD version</li> <li>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."</li> <li>Their instructions are a little too Linuxy (assuming wget, etc.) for our taste, someone should probably get it updated!</li> <li>Other than that it's a pretty good set of instructions on how to get up and running ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/22/13225.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Dragonfly ACPI update</a></h3> <ul> <li>Sascha Wildner committed some <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">new ACPI code</a> </li> <li>There's also a "heads up" to <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">update your BIOS</a> if you experience problems</li> <li>Check the mailing list post for all the details ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-6/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3> <ul> <li>10.0-RC4 users need to upgrade all their packages for 10.0-RC5</li> <li>PBIs needed to be rebuilt.. actually everything did</li> <li>Help test GNOME 3 so we can get it in the official ports tree</li> <li>By the way, I think Kris has an announcement - PCBSD 10.0 is out! ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21ZlfOdTt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Tony writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Jeff writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Remy writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Nils writes in</a></li> <li> <a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Solomon writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> 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.

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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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