app01 Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:03:09 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) BSD Now - Episodes Tagged with “Pxeboot” https://www.bsdnow.tv/tags/pxeboot Wed, 09 Apr 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 32: PXE Dust https://www.bsdnow.tv/32 a909eddb-036d-451c-8d5a-e7b8e358239f Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:00:00 -0400 JT Pennington full JT Pennington This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's the place to B.. SD. 1:16:50 no <p>This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's 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" 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://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2014-04-03/awesome-freebsd-aslr-progress" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD ASLR status update</a></h3> <ul> <li>Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD</li> <li>He's implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)</li> <li>Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi</li> <li>He's giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work</li> <li>While we're on the topic of BSDCan... ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/04/bsdcan-tutorials-please-help-me-improve.html" rel="nofollow noopener">BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience</a></h3> <ul> <li>Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials</li> <li>The tutorials are called "Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter" and "Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5" - both scheduled to last three hours each</li> <li>He's requesting anyone that'll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you'd like to learn</li> <li>There's also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he's looking to improve them</li> <li>If you're interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2014/04/04/msg000202.html" rel="nofollow noopener">pkgsrc-2014Q1 released</a></h3> <ul> <li>The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready</li> <li>Python 3.3 is now a "first class citizen" in pkgsrc</li> <li>14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64</li> <li>There's a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD - you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined</li> <li>They're also looking into <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2014/03/31/msg012873.html" rel="nofollow noopener">signing packages</a> ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/index.html#127993" rel="nofollow noopener">Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?</a></h3> <ul> <li>A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list</li> <li>He questions "what's the big deal" about OpenBSD's slogan being "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"</li> <li>Luckily, the community and Theo <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128001.html" rel="nofollow noopener">set the record straight</a> about why you should care about this</li> <li>Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually <strong>more</strong> secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg127995.html" rel="nofollow noopener">security features</a> of OpenBSD</li> <li>It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128073.html" rel="nofollow noopener">worth reading</a> ***</li> </ul> <h2>Interview - Dru Lavigne - <a href="mailto:dru@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow noopener">dru@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/bsdevents" rel="nofollow noopener">@bsdevents</a></h2> <p>FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics</p> <hr> <h2>Tutorial</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/autoinstall" rel="nofollow noopener">Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes" rel="nofollow noopener">pfSense 2.1.1 released</a></h3> <ul> <li>A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues</li> <li>Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router</li> <li>There are also some NIC driver updates <a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1238" rel="nofollow noopener">and other things</a></li> <li>Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense" rel="nofollow noopener">episode 25</a></li> <li>2.1.2 is already up for testing too ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&amp;revision=264095" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD gets UEFI support</a></h3> <ul> <li>It looks like FreeBSD's battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?</li> <li>Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64</li> <li>Look through the list to see all the details and information</li> <li>Thanks FreeBSD foundation! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2014-March/094909.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release</a></h3> <ul> <li>Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug" rel="nofollow noopener">Justin Sherrill</a> posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release</li> <li>They're aiming for late May for the next version</li> <li>Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support</li> <li>Gasp, they're even considering dropping i386 ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/04/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-24/" rel="nofollow noopener">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3> <ul> <li>Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation</li> <li>New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime</li> <li>New default CD and DVD player, umplayer</li> <li>Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s273oSezFs" rel="nofollow noopener">Remy writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2I3H1HsVb" rel="nofollow noopener">Jan writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2wUTRowzU" rel="nofollow noopener">Eddie writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2RA0whmwz" rel="nofollow noopener">Zen writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2pwE20Ov6" rel="nofollow noopener">Sean writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, pxe, pxeboot, autoinstall, dru lavigne, documentation, sprints, handbook, printed, bsdcan, aslr, arm, desktop, linux, games, ports, stable, pkgsrc, aslr, security, pie, branch, ports, pkgng, freenas This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's the place to B.. SD.

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Headlines

FreeBSD ASLR status update

  • Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD
  • He's implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)
  • Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi
  • He's giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work
  • While we're on the topic of BSDCan... ***

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

  • Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials
  • The tutorials are called "Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter" and "Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5" - both scheduled to last three hours each
  • He's requesting anyone that'll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you'd like to learn
  • There's also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he's looking to improve them
  • If you're interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up ***

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

  • The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready
  • Python 3.3 is now a "first class citizen" in pkgsrc
  • 14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64
  • There's a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD - you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined
  • They're also looking into signing packages ***

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

  • A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list
  • He questions "what's the big deal" about OpenBSD's slogan being "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"
  • Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this
  • Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD
  • It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely worth reading ***

Interview - Dru Lavigne - dru@freebsd.org / @bsdevents

FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

  • A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues
  • Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router
  • There are also some NIC driver updates and other things
  • Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25
  • 2.1.2 is already up for testing too ***

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

  • It looks like FreeBSD's battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?
  • Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64
  • Look through the list to see all the details and information
  • Thanks FreeBSD foundation! ***

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

  • Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release
  • They're aiming for late May for the next version
  • Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support
  • Gasp, they're even considering dropping i386 ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation
  • New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime
  • New default CD and DVD player, umplayer
  • Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> This week on the big show we'll be showing off OpenBSD's new "autoinstall" feature to do completely automatic, unattended installations. We also have an interview with Dru Lavigne about all the writing work she does for FreeBSD, PCBSD and FreeNAS. The latest headlines and answers to your emails, on BSD Now - it's the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage For Open Source

Headlines

FreeBSD ASLR status update

  • Shawn Webb gives us a little update on his address space layout randomization work for FreeBSD
  • He's implemented execbase randomization for position-independent executables (which OpenBSD also just enabled globally in 5.5 on i386)
  • Work has also started on testing ASLR on ARM, using a Raspberry Pi
  • He's giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work
  • While we're on the topic of BSDCan... ***

BSDCan tutorials, improving the experience

  • Peter Hansteen writes a new blog post about his upcoming BSDCan tutorials
  • The tutorials are called "Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter" and "Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5" - both scheduled to last three hours each
  • He's requesting anyone that'll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you'd like to learn
  • There's also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he's looking to improve them
  • If you're interested in OpenBSD and going to BSDCan this year, hit him up ***

pkgsrc-2014Q1 released

  • The new stable branch of pkgsrc packages has been built and is ready
  • Python 3.3 is now a "first class citizen" in pkgsrc
  • 14255 packages for NetBSD-current/x86_64, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x86_64
  • There's a new release every three months, and remember pkgsrc works on MANY operating systems, not just NetBSD - you could even use pkgsrc instead of pkgng or ports if you were so inclined
  • They're also looking into signing packages ***

Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares?

  • A particularly vocal Debian user, a lost soul, somehow finds his way to the misc@ OpenBSD mailing list
  • He questions "what's the big deal" about OpenBSD's slogan being "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!"
  • Luckily, the community and Theo set the record straight about why you should care about this
  • Running insecure applications on OpenBSD is actually more secure than running them on other systems, due to things like ASLR, PIE and all the security features of OpenBSD
  • It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely worth reading ***

Interview - Dru Lavigne - dru@freebsd.org / @bsdevents

FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics

Tutorial

Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE

News Roundup

pfSense 2.1.1 released

  • A new version of pfSense is released, mainly to fix some security issues
  • Tracking some recent FreeBSD advisories, pfSense usually only applies the ones that would matter on a firewall or router
  • There are also some NIC driver updates and other things
  • Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25
  • 2.1.2 is already up for testing too ***

FreeBSD gets UEFI support

  • It looks like FreeBSD's battle with UEFI may be coming to a close?
  • Ed Maste committed a giant list of patches to enable UEFI support on x86_64
  • Look through the list to see all the details and information
  • Thanks FreeBSD foundation! ***

Ideas for the next DragonflyBSD release

  • Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release
  • They're aiming for late May for the next version
  • Ideas include better support for running in a VM, pkgng fixes, documentation updates and PAM support
  • Gasp, they're even considering dropping i386 ***

PCBSD weekly digest

  • Lots of new PBI updates for 10.0, new runtime implementation
  • New support for running 32 bit applications in PBI runtime
  • New default CD and DVD player, umplayer
  • Latest GNOME 3 and Cinnamon merged, new edge package builds ***

Feedback/Questions

]]> 20: Bhyve Mind https://www.bsdnow.tv/20 6125c3d9-473a-4557-a429-423dffa36cbf Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:00:00 -0500 JT Pennington full JT Pennington It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD. 1:23:33 no <p>It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, 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" 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://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;sid=20140106055302" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD automatic installation</a></h3> <ul> <li>A CFT (call for testing) was posted for OpenBSD's new automatic installer process</li> <li>Using this new system, you can spin up fully-configured OpenBSD installs very quickly</li> <li>It will answer all the questions for you and can put files into place and start services</li> <li>Great for large deployments, help test it and report your findings ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL09rVicvyZrqe-I2LP5Vyg/videos" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeNAS install guide and blog posts</a></h3> <ul> <li>A multipart series on YouTube about installing FreeNAS</li> <li>In part 1, the guy (who is possibly Dracula, with his very Transylvanian accent..) builds his new file server and shows off the hardware</li> <li>In part 2, he shows how to install and configure FreeNAS, uses IPMI, sets up his pools</li> <li>He pronounces gigabytes as jiggabytes and it's hilarious</li> <li>We've also got an <a href="http://enoriver.net/index.php/2014/01/11/freenas-works-as-advertised/" rel="nofollow noopener">unrelated blog post</a> about a very satisfied FreeNAS user who details his setup</li> <li>As well as <a href="http://devinteske.com/freenas-development/" rel="nofollow noopener">another blog post</a> from our old pal <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013-09-25_teskeing_the_possibilities" rel="nofollow noopener">Devin Teske</a> about his recent foray into the FreeNAS development world ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076800.html" rel="nofollow noopener">FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 is out</a></h3> <ul> <li>Another, unexpected RC is out for 10.0</li> <li>Minor fixes included, please help test and report any bugs</li> <li>You can update via freebsd-update or from source</li> <li>Hopefully this will be the last one before 10.0-RELEASE, which has tons of new features we'll talk about</li> <li>It's been <a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&amp;revision=260664" rel="nofollow noopener">tagged -RELEASE</a> in SVN already too! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;m=138952598914052&amp;w=2" rel="nofollow noopener">OpenBSD 5.5-beta is out</a></h3> <ul> <li>Theo updated the branch status to 5.5-beta</li> <li>A <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html" rel="nofollow noopener">list of changes</a></li> <li><a href="http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/" rel="nofollow noopener">Help test</a> and report any bugs you find</li> <li>Lots of rapid development with signify (which we mentioned last week), the beta includes some "test keys"</li> <li>Does that mean it'll be part of the final release? We'll find out in May.. or when we interview Ted (soon) ***</li> </ul> <h2>Interview - Neel Natu &amp; Peter Grehan - <a href="mailto:neel@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow noopener">neel@freebsd.org</a> &amp; <a href="mailto:grehan@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow noopener">grehan@freebsd.org</a></h2> <p>BHyVe - the BSD hypervisor</p> <hr> <h2>Tutorial</h2> <h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/bhyve" rel="nofollow noopener">Virtualization with bhyve</a></h3> <hr> <h2>News Roundup</h2> <h3><a href="http://blog.djm.net.au/2014/01/hostname-canonicalisation-in-openssh.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Hostname canonicalisation in OpenSSH</a></h3> <ul> <li>Blog post from our friend <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline" rel="nofollow noopener">Damien Miller</a></li> <li>This new feature allows clients to canonicalize unqualified domain names</li> <li>SSH will know if you typed "ssh bsdnow" you meant "ssh bsdnow.tv" with new config options</li> <li>This will help clean up some ssh configs, especially if you have many hosts</li> <li>Should make it into OpenSSH 6.5, which is "due really soon" ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/07/13078.html" rel="nofollow noopener">Dragonfly on a Chromebook</a></h3> <ul> <li>Some work has been done by Matthew Dillon to get DragonflyBSD working on a Google Chromebook</li> <li>These <a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/10/13132.html" rel="nofollow noopener">couple of posts</a> detail some of the things he's got working so far</li> <li>Changes were needed to the boot process, trackpad and wifi drivers needed updating...</li> <li>Also includes a guide written by Dillon on how to get yours working ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://kazarka.com/index.php?section=spiderinabox" rel="nofollow noopener">Spider in a box</a></h3> <ul> <li>"Spiderinabox" is a new OpenBSD-based project</li> <li>Using a combination of OpenBSD, Firefox, XQuartz and VirtualBox, it creates a secure browsing experience for OS X</li> <li>Firefox runs encapsulated in OpenBSD and doesn't have access to OS X in any way</li> <li>The developer is looking for testers on other operating systems! ***</li> </ul> <h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-3/" rel="nofollow noopener">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3> <ul> <li>PCBSD 10 has entered into the code freeze phase</li> <li>They're focusing on fixing bugs now, rather than adding new features</li> <li>The update system got a lot of improvements</li> <li>PBI load times reduced by up to 40%! what!!! ***</li> </ul> <h2>Feedback/Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s25zbSPtcm" rel="nofollow noopener">Scott writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2EarxbZz1" rel="nofollow noopener">Chris writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2MWKxtWxF" rel="nofollow noopener">SW writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20kzex2qm" rel="nofollow noopener">Ole writes in</a></li> <li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2858Ph4o0" rel="nofollow noopener">Gertjan writes in</a> *** </li> </ul> freebsd, openbsd, netbsd, dragonflybsd, pcbsd, tutorial, howto, guide, bsd, interview, bhyve, virtualization, xen, hypervisor, type 2, neel natu, peter grehan, presentation, dom0, domu, automatic install, pxe, pxeboot, freenas, installation, chromebook, edgebsd, spiderinabox, spider in a box, vm It's our big 20th episode! We're going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

This episode was brought to you by

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Headlines

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!!! ***

Feedback/Questions

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Headlines

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!!! ***

Feedback/Questions

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