web01.fireside.fm Sun, 17 May 2026 10:00:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “New Zealand” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/new%20zealand Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:00:00 -0500 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 25: A Sixth pfSense https://www.bsdnow.tv/25 dad040a2-8866-4876-88fb-43b036b3e691 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 1:07:55 no <p>We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here 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="http://2014.eurobsdcon.org/calendar/call-for-papers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon</a></h3> <ul> <li>This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria</li> <li>They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present</li> <li>There will also be a tutorial section of the conference</li> <li> <a href="http://2014.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html.en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">AsiaBSDCon</a> will be next month, in March!</li> <li>All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted</li> <li>Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://rtfm.net/FreeBSD/ERL/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite</a></h3> <ul> <li>The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU</li> <li>This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router</li> <li>Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up</li> <li>It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don't want to use the ones rolled by someone else</li> <li>For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router</li> <li>Of course if you're more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">our tutorial</a> for that too ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.saveosx.org/signed-packages/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Signed pkgsrc package guide</a></h3> <ul> <li>We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up</li> <li>It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD)</li> <li>He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them</li> <li>The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140212083627" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports</a></h3> <ul> <li>Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI</li> <li>In <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140213065843" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the second</a>, ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things</li> <li>In <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140213173808" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the third</a>, jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara</li> <li>In <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140214070023" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the fourth</a>, dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead - but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he's done</li> <li>In <a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140214130039" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">the fifth</a>, claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things ***</li> </ul> <h2>Interview - Chris Buechler - <a href="mailto:cmb@pfsense.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cmb@pfsense.com</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/cbuechler" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">@cbuechler</a> </h2> <p>pfSense</p> <hr> <h2>Tutorial</h2> <h3>pfSense walkthrough</h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/13/freebsd-challenge-day-13-30/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD challenge continues</a></h3> <ul> <li>Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey</li> <li>In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first</li> <li>In <a href="http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/14/freebsd-challenge-day-14-30/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">day 14</a>, he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he's starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again - concludes that ports are the way to go</li> <li>In <a href="http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/14/freebsd-challenge-day-15-30/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">day 15</a>, he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch</li> <li>In <a href="http://www.thelinuxcauldron.com/2014/02/17/freebsd-challenge-day-16-30/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">day 16</a>, he dives into the world of <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/jails" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD jails</a>! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1962" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">BSD books in 2014</a></h3> <ul> <li>BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them</li> <li>In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014</li> <li>In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and...</li> <li>Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_06-year_of_the_bsd_desktop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">our interview with him</a>)</li> <li>Check the link for all the details ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2014-02-16-FreeBSD-EC2-build.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images</a></h3> <ul> <li>Our friend <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_01_22-tendresse_for_ten" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Colin Percival</a> details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post</li> <li>Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own <a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/cperciva/EC2-build/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">from scratch</a> </li> <li>You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI</li> <li>It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/02/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-17/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3> <ul> <li>This time around we discuss how you can become a developer</li> <li>Kris also details the length of supported releases</li> <li>Expect lots of new features in 10.1 ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s216xJoCVG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Sean writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2gLrR3VVf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Jake writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21gfG3Iho" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Niclas writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2JNyw5BCn" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Steffan writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2kg3zoRfm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Antonio writes in</a></li> <li> <a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2ZwSIfRjm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Chris writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, pfsense, pf, firewall, gateway, router, hangout, webui, web interface, php, ipfw, ipfilter, gateway, graphs, bandwidth, edgerouter, edgerouter lite, eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2014, edge router, 2014, books, michael w lucas, freebsd journal, fosdem, asiabsdcon, mips, hackathon, new zealand, pkgsrc, signed packages, edgebsd, smp, ec2, amazon, images, instance, build, custom We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon

  • This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present
  • There will also be a tutorial section of the conference
  • AsiaBSDCon will be next month, in March!
  • All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted
  • Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers! ***

FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

  • The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU
  • This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router
  • Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up
  • It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don't want to use the ones rolled by someone else
  • For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router
  • Of course if you're more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see our tutorial for that too ***

Signed pkgsrc package guide

  • We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up
  • It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD)
  • He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them
  • The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer ***

Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports

  • Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI
  • In the second, ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things
  • In the third, jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara
  • In the fourth, dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead - but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he's done
  • In the fifth, claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things ***

Interview - Chris Buechler - cmb@pfsense.com / @cbuechler

pfSense

Tutorial

pfSense walkthrough

News Roundup

FreeBSD challenge continues

  • Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey
  • In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first
  • In day 14, he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he's starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again - concludes that ports are the way to go
  • In day 15, he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch
  • In day 16, he dives into the world of FreeBSD jails! ***

BSD books in 2014

  • BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them
  • In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014
  • In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and...
  • Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch our interview with him)
  • Check the link for all the details ***

How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images

  • Our friend Colin Percival details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post
  • Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own from scratch
  • You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI
  • It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • This time around we discuss how you can become a developer
  • Kris also details the length of supported releases
  • Expect lots of new features in 10.1 ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> We have a packed show for you this week! We'll sit down for an interview with Chris Buechler, from the pfSense project, to learn just how easy it can be to deploy a BSD firewall. We'll also be showing you a walkthrough of the pfSense interface so you can get an idea of just how convenient and powerful it is. Answers to your questions and the latest headlines, 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

EuroBSDCon and AsiaBSDCon

  • This year, EuroBSDCon will be in September in Sofia, Bulgaria
  • They've got a call for papers up now, so everyone can submit the talks they want to present
  • There will also be a tutorial section of the conference
  • AsiaBSDCon will be next month, in March!
  • All the info about the registration, tutorials, hotels, timetable and location have been posted
  • Check the link for all the details on the talks - if you plan on going to Tokyo next month, hang out with Allan and Kris and lots of BSD developers! ***

FreeBSD 10 on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite

  • The Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite is a router that costs less than $100 and has a MIPS CPU
  • This article goes through the process of installing and configuring FreeBSD on it to use as a home router
  • Lots of good pictures of the hardware and specific details needed to get you set up
  • It also includes the scripts to create your own images if you don't want to use the ones rolled by someone else
  • For such a cheap price, might be a really fun weekend project to replace your shitty consumer router
  • Of course if you're more of an OpenBSD guy, you can always see our tutorial for that too ***

Signed pkgsrc package guide

  • We got a request on IRC for more pkgsrc stuff on the show, and a listener provided a nice write-up
  • It shows you how to set up signed packages with pkgsrc, which works on quite a few OSes (not just NetBSD)
  • He goes through the process of signing packages with a public key and how to verify the packages when you install them
  • The author also happens to be an EdgeBSD developer ***

Big batch of OpenBSD hackathon reports

  • Five trip reports from the OpenBSD hackathon in New Zealand! In the first one, jmatthew details his work on fiber channel controller drivers, some octeon USB work and ARM fixes for AHCI
  • In the second, ketennis gets into his work with running interrupt handlers without holding the kernel lock, some SPARC64 improvements and a few other things
  • In the third, jsg updated libdrm and mesa and did various work on xenocara
  • In the fourth, dlg came with the intention to improve SMP support, but got distracted and did SCSI stuff instead - but he talks a little bit about the struggle OpenBSD has with SMP and some of the work he's done
  • In the fifth, claudio talks about some stuff he did for routing tables and misc. other things ***

Interview - Chris Buechler - cmb@pfsense.com / @cbuechler

pfSense

Tutorial

pfSense walkthrough

News Roundup

FreeBSD challenge continues

  • Our buddy from the Linux foundation continues his switching to BSD journey
  • In day 13, he covers some tips for new users, mentions trying things out in a VM first
  • In day 14, he starts setting up XFCE and X11, feels like he's starting over as a new Linux user learning the ropes again - concludes that ports are the way to go
  • In day 15, he finishes up his XFCE configuration and details different versions of ports with different names, as well as learns how to apply his first patch
  • In day 16, he dives into the world of FreeBSD jails! ***

BSD books in 2014

  • BSD books are some of the highest quality technical writings available, and MWL has written a good number of them
  • In this post, he details some of his plans for 2014
  • In includes at least one OpenBSD book, at least one FreeBSD book and...
  • Very strong possibility of Absolute FreeBSD 3rd edition (watch our interview with him)
  • Check the link for all the details ***

How to build FreeBSD/EC2 images

  • Our friend Colin Percival details how to build EC2 images in a new blog post
  • Most people just use the images he makes on their instances, but some people will want to make their own from scratch
  • You build a regular disk image and then turn it into an AMI
  • It requires a couple ports be installed on your system, but the whole process is pretty straightforward ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • This time around we discuss how you can become a developer
  • Kris also details the length of supported releases
  • Expect lots of new features in 10.1 ***

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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