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Using Git offline

Make your own E-Mail server - FreeBSD, OpenSMTPD, Rspamd and Dovecot included - Part 1

News Roundup

quiz: a tool for rapid OpenZFS development

Configuring openzfs for nvme databases

Mirroring OmniOS: The Complete Guide; Part One

Installing OpenBSD 7.4 on a VisionFive 2 rev 1.2a

Terminal Latency

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4 Months of BSD

Self Hosted Calendar and address Book

News Roundup

Ban scanners IPs from OpenSMTP logs

Self-hosted git page with stagit (featuring ed, the standard editor)

Bastille template example

Nginx: How to Restrict Access by Geographical Location on FreeBSD

Beastie Bits

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3 Advantages to Running FreeBSD as Your Server Operating System

FreeBSD 14 Release Schedule

News Roundup

Stream your OpenBSD desktop audio to other devices

DOD KSOS Secure UNIX Operating System Manual and Final Report

How to limit bandwidth usage with SCP transfers

Beastie Bits

• OpenSolaris 11.4 running in a VM
• Celebrating 30 Years of FreeBSD – FreeBSD Journal Special Edition
• Some ways you can contribute to open source software without writing code
  • ScreenCapture if you don't have a twitter account

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A Guide to Problem-Solving for Software Developers with Examples

Making 20% time work

News Roundup

Long live netbooks!

OpenBSD Router on Sg105w

FreeBSD: How to Set Up a Simple and Actually Working Wireguard Server

How to be a -10x Engineer

Unix Edition Zero

Beastie Bits

• Game of Trees 0.90 released

• ZFSp

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Interview - Dan Langille - dan@langille.org / @twitter

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Installing and Using Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator

httm – The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method

News Roundup

NFS on NetBSD: server and client side

HardenedBSD October 2022 Status Report

Nushell : Introduction

Beastie Bits

Unix Pipe Game
Slides - The “other” FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix to serve video at 800Gb/s from a single server
My FreeBSD Friday Lecture: The Writing Scholar’s Guide to FreeBSD

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FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 4th Quarter 2021

Reproducible clean $HOME in OpenBSD using impermanence

News Roundup

Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server

helloSystem 0.7.0 is out

My lazy approach to FreeBSD dual-booting

Going to jail

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OpenBSD, from distribution to project

• Ted Unangst has yet another interesting blog post up, this time covering a bit of BSD history and some different phases OpenBSD has been through
• It's the third part of his ongoing series of posts about OpenBSD removing large bits of code in favor of smaller replacements
• In the earliest days, OpenBSD collected and maintained code from lots of other projects (Apache, lynx, perl..)
• After importing new updates every release cycle, they eventually hit a transitional phase - things were updated, but nothing new was imported
• When the need arose, instead of importing a known tool to do the job, homemade replacements (OpenNTPD, OpenBGPD, etc) were slowly developed
• In more recent times, a lot of the imported code has been completely removed in favor of the homegrown daemons
• More discussion on HN and reddit ***

Remote ZFS mirrors, the hard way

• Backups to "the cloud" have become a hot topic in recent years, but most of them require trade-offs between convenience and security
• You have to trust (some of) the providers not to snoop on your data, but even the ones who allow you to locally encrypt files aren't without some compromise
• As the author puts it: "We don't need live synchronisation, cloud scaling, SLAs, NSAs, terms of service, lock-ins, buy-outs, up-sells, shut-downs, DoSs, fail whales, pay-us-or-we'll-deletes, or any of the noise that comes with using someone else's infrastructure."
• This guide walks you through setting up a FreeBSD server with ZFS to do secure offsite backups yourself
• The end result is an automatic system for incremental backups that's backed (pun intended) by ZFS
• If you're serious about keeping your important data safe and sound, you'll want to give this one a read - lots of detailed instructions ***

Various DragonFlyBSD updates

• The DragonFly guys have been quite busy this week, making an assortment of improvements throughout the tree
• Intel ValleyView graphics support was finally committed to the main repository
• While on the topic of graphics, they've also issued a call for testing for a DRM update (matching Linux 3.16's and including some more Broadwell fixes)
• Their base GCC compiler is also now upgraded to version 5.2
• If your hardware supports it, DragonFly will now use an accelerated console by default ***

QuakeCon runs on OpenBSD

• QuakeCon, everyone's favorite event full of rocket launchers, recently gave a mini-tour of their network setup
• For such a crazy network, unsurprisingly, they seem to be big fans of OpenBSD and PF
• In this video interview, one of the sysadmins discusses why he chose OpenBSD, what he likes about it, different packet queueing systems, how their firewalls and servers are laid out and much more
• He also talks about why they went with vanilla PF, writing their ruleset from the ground up rather than relying on a prebuilt solution
• There's also some general networking talk about nginx, reverse proxies, caching, fiber links and all that good stuff
• Follow-up questions can be asked in this reddit thread
• The host doesn't seem to be that familiar with the topics at hand, mentioning "OpenPF" multiple times among other things, so our listeners should get a kick out of it ***

Interview - Adrian Chadd - adrian@freebsd.org / @erikarn

Rethinking ways to improve FreeBSD

News Roundup

CII contributes to OpenBSD

• If you recall back to when we talked to the OpenBSD foundation, one of the things Ken mentioned was the Core Infrastructure Initiative
• In a nutshell, it's an organization of security experts that helps facilitate (with money, in most cases) the advancement of the more critical open source components of the internet
• The group is organized by the Linux foundation, and gets its multi-million dollar backing from various big companies in the technology space (and donations from volunteers)
• To ensure that OpenBSD and its related projects (OpenSSH, LibreSSL and PF likely being the main ones here) remain healthy, they've just made a large donation to the foundation - this makes them the first "platinum" level donor as well
• While the exact amount wasn't disclosed, it was somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000
• The donation comes less than a month after Microsoft's big donation, so it's good to see these large organizations helping out important open source projects that we depend on every day ***

Another BSDCan report

• The FreeBSD foundation is still getting trip reports from BSDCan, and this one comes from Mark Linimon
• In his report, he mainly covers the devsummit and some discussion with the portmgr team
• One notable change for the upcoming 10.2 release is that the default binary repository is now the quarterly branch - Mark talks a bit about this as well
• He also gives his thoughts on using QEMU for cross-compiling packages and network performance testing ***

Lumina 0.8.6 released

• The PC-BSD team has released another version of Lumina, their BSD-licensed desktop environment
• This is mainly a bugfix and performance improvement release, rather than one with lots of new features
• The on-screen display widget should be much faster now, and the configuration now allows for easier selection of default applications (which browser, which terminal, etc)
• Lots of non-English translation updates and assorted fixes are included as well
• If you haven't given it a try yet, or maybe you're looking for a new window manager, Lumina runs on all the BSDs ***

More c2k15 hackathon reports

• Even more reports from OpenBSD's latest hackathon are starting to pour in
• The first one is from Alexandr Nedvedicky, one of their brand new developers (the guy from Oracle)
• He talks about his experience going to a hackathon for the first time, and lays out some of the plans for integrating their (very large) SMP PF patch into OpenBSD
• Second up is Andrew Fresh, who went without any specific plans, but still ended up getting some UTF8 work done
• On the topic of ARMv7, "I did enjoy being there when things weren't working so [Brandon Mercer] could futilely try to explain the problem to me (I wasn't much help with kernel memory layouts). Fortunately others overheard and provided words of encouragement and some help which was one of my favorite parts of attending this hackathon."
• Florian Obser sent in a report that includes a little bit of everything: setting up the hackathon's network, relayd and httpd work, bidirectional forwarding detection, airplane stories and even lots of food
• Paul Irofti wrote in as well about his activities, which were mainly focused on the Octeon CPU architecture
• He wrote a new driver for the onboard flash of a DSR-500 machine, which was built following the Common Flash Interface specification
• This means that, going forward, OpenBSD will have out-of-the-box support for any flash memory device (often the case for MIPS and ARM-based embedded devices) ***

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OpenBSD on a Sun T5120

• Our buddy Ted Unangst got himself a cool Sun box
• Of course he had to write a post about installing and running OpenBSD on it
• The post goes through some of the quirks and steps to go through in case you're interested in one of these fine SPARC machines
• He's also got another post about OpenBSD on a Dell CS24-SC server ***

Bhyvecon 2014 videos are up

• Like we mentioned last week, Bhyvecon was an almost-impromptu conference before AsiaBSDCon
• The talks have apparently already been uploaded!
• Subjects include Bhyve's past, present and future, OSv on Bhyve, a general introduction to the tool, migrating those last few pesky Linux boxes to virtualization
• Lots more detail in the videos, so check 'em all out ***

Building a FreeBSD wireless access point

• We've got a new blog post about creating a wireless access point with FreeBSD
• After all the recent news of consumer routers being pwned like candy, it's time for people to start building BSD routers
• The author goes through a lot of the process of getting one set up using good ol' FreeBSD
• Using hostapd, he's able to share his wireless card in hostap mode and offer DHCP to all the clients
• Plenty of config files and more messy details in the post ***

Switching from Synology to FreeNAS

• The author has been considering getting a NAS for quite a while and documents his research
• He was faced with the compromise of convenience vs. flexibility - prebuilt or DIY
• After seeing the potential security issues with proprietary NAS devices, and dealing with frustration with trying to get bugs fixed, he makes the right choice
• The post also goes into some detail about his setup, all the things he needed a NAS to do as well as all the advantages an open source solution would give ***

Interview - Warren Block - wblock@freebsd.org

FreeBSD's documentation project, igor, doceng

Tutorial

The world of BSD mailing lists

News Roundup

HAMMER2 work and notes

• Matthew Dillon has posted some updated notes about the development of the new HAMMER version
• The start of a cluster API was committed to the tree
• There are also links to design document, a freemap design document, a changes list and a todo list ***

BSD Breaking Barriers

• Our friend MWL gave a talk at NYCBSDCon about BSD "breaking barriers"
• "What makes the BSD operating systems special? Why should you deploy your applications on BSD? Why does the BSD community keep growing, and why do Linux sites like DistroWatch say that BSD is where the interesting development work is happening? We'll cover the not-so-obvious reasons why BSD still stands tall after almost 40 years."
• He also has another upcoming talk, (or "webcast") called "Beyond Security: Getting to Know OpenBSD's Real Purpose"
• "OpenBSD is frequently billed as a high-security operating system. That's true, but security isn't the OpenBSD Project's main goal. This webcast will introduce systems administrators to OpenBSD, explain the project's mission, and discuss the features and benefits."
• It's on May 27th and will hopefully be recorded ***

FreeBSD in a chroot

• Finch, "FreeBSD running IN a CHroot," is a new project
• It's a way to extend the functionality of restricted USB-based FreeBSD systems (FreeNAS, etc.)
• All the details and some interesting use cases are on the github page
• He really needs to change the project name though ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• Lots of bugfixes for PCBSD coming down the tubes
• LZ4 compression is now enabled by default on the whole pool
• The latest 10-STABLE has been imported and builds are going
• Also the latest GNOME and Cinnamon builds have been imported and much more ***

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FreeBSD foundation's 2013 fundraising results

• The FreeBSD foundation finally counted all the money they made in 2013
• $768,562 from 1659 donors
• Nice little blog post from the team with a giant beastie picture
• "We have already started our 2014 fundraising efforts. As of the end of January we are just under $40,000. Our goal is to raise $1,000,000. We are currently finalizing our 2014 budget. We plan to publish both our 2013 financial report and our 2014 budget soon."
• A special thanks to all the BSD Now listeners that contributed, the foundation was really glad that we sent some people their way (and they mentioned us on Facebook) ***

OpenSSH 6.5 released

• We mentioned the CFT last week, and it's finally here!
• New key exchange using elliptic-curve Diffie Hellman in Daniel Bernstein's Curve25519 (now the default when both clients support it)
• Ed25519 public keys are now available for host keys and user keys, considered more secure than DSA and ECDSA
• Funny side effect: if you ONLY enable ed25519 host keys, all the compromised Linux boxes can't even attempt to login lol~
• New bcrypt private key type, 500,000,000 times harder to brute force
• Chacha20-poly1305 transport cipher that builds an encrypted and authenticated stream in one
• Portable version already in FreeBSD -CURRENT, and ports
• Lots more bugfixes and features, see the full release note or our interview with Damien
• Work has already started on 6.6, which can be used without OpenSSL! ***

Crazed Ferrets in a Berkeley Shower

• In 2000, MWL wrote an essay for linux.com about why he uses the BSD license: "It’s actually stood up fairly well to the test of time, but it’s fourteen years old now."
• This is basically an updated version about why he uses the BSD license, in response to recent comments from Richard Stallman
• Very nice post that gives some history about Berkeley, the basics of the BSD-style licenses and their contrast to the GNU GPL
• Check out the full post if you're one of those people that gets into license arguments
• The takeaway is "BSD is about making the world a better place. For everyone." ***

OpenBSD on BeagleBone Black

• Beaglebone Blacks are cheap little ARM devices similar to a Raspberry Pi
• A blog post about installing OpenBSD on a BBB from.. our guest for today!
• He describes it as "everything I wish I knew before installing the newly renamed armv7 port on a BeagleBone Black"
• It goes through the whole process, details different storage options and some workarounds
• Could be a really fun weekend project if you're interested in small or embedded devices ***

Interview - Ted Unangst - tedu@openbsd.org / @tedunangst

OpenBSD's signify infrastructure, ZFS on OpenBSD

Tutorial

Running an NTP server

News Roundup

Getting started with FreeBSD

• A new video and blog series about starting out with FreeBSD
• The author has been a fan since the 90s and has installed it on every server he's worked with
• He mentioned some of the advantages of BSD over Linux and how to approach explaining them to new users
• The first video is the installation, then he goes on to packages and other topics - 4 videos so far ***

More OpenBSD hackathon reports

• As a followup to last week, this time Kenneth Westerback writes about his NZ hackathon experience
• He arrived with two goals: disklabel fixes for drives with 4k sectors and some dhclient work
• This summary goes into detail about all the stuff he got done there ***

X11 in a jail

• We've gotten at least one feedback email about running X in a jail Well.. with this commit, looks like now you can!
• A new tunable option will let jails access /dev/kmem and similar device nodes
• Along with a change to DRM, this allows full X11 in a jail
• Be sure to check out our jail tutorial and jailed VNC tutorial for ideas ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0 "Joule Edition" finally released!
• AMD graphics are now officially supported
• GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops are available
• Grub updates and fixes
• PCBSD also got a mention in eweek ***

Feedback/Questions

• Justin writes in
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OpenSSH 6.4 released

• Security fixes in OpenSSH don't happen very often
• 6.4 fixes a memory corruption problem, no new features
• If exploited, this vulnerability might permit code execution with the privileges of the authenticated user and may therefore allow bypassing restricted shell/command configurations.
• Disabling AES-GCM in the server configuration is a workaround
• Only affects 6.2 and 6.3 if compiled against a newer OpenSSL (so FreeBSD 9's base OpenSSL is unaffected, for example)
• Full details here ***

Getting to know your portmgr-lurkers

• Next entry in portmgr interview series
• This time they chat with Mathieu Arnold, one of the portmgr-lurkers we mentioned previously
• Lots of questions ranging from why he uses BSD to what he had for breakfast
• Another one was since released, with Antoine Brodin aka antoine@ ***

FUSE in OpenBSD

• As we glossed over last week, FUSE was recently added to OpenBSD
• Now the guys from the OpenBSD Journal have tracked down more information
• This version is released under an ISC license
• Should be in OpenBSD 5.5, released a little less than 6 months from now
• Will finally enable things like SSHFS to work in OpenBSD ***

Automated submission of kernel panic reports

• New tool from Colin Percival
• Saves information about kernel panics and emails it to FreeBSD
• Lets you review before sending so you can edit out any private info
• Automatically encrypted before being sent
• FreeBSD never kernel panics so this won't get much use ***

Interview - Justin Sherrill - justin@dragonflybsd.org / @dragonflybsd

DragonflyBSD 3.6 and the Dragonfly Digest

Tutorial

Building an OpenBSD Router

News Roundup

BSD router project 1.5 released

• Nice timing for our router tutorial; TBRP is a FreeBSD distribution for installing on a router
• It's an alternative to pfSense, but not nearly as well known or popular
• New version is based on 9.2-RELEASE, includes lots of general updates and bugfixes
• Fits on a 256MB Compact Flash/USB drive ***

Curve25519 now default key exchange

• We mentioned in an earlier episode about a patch for curve25519
• Now it's become the default for key exchange
• Will probably make its way into OpenSSH 6.5, would've been in 6.4 if we didn't have that security vulnerability
• It's interesting to see all these big changes in cryptography in OpenBSD lately ***

FreeBSD kernel selection in boot menu

• Adds a kernel selection menu to the beastie menu
• List of kernels is taken from 'kernels' in loader.conf as a space or comma separated list of names to display (up to 9)
• From our good buddy Devin Teske ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• PCDM has officially replaced GDM as the default login manager
• New ISO build scripts (we got a sneak preview last week)
• Lots of bug fixes
• Second set of 10-STABLE ISOs available with new artwork and much more ***

Theo de Raadt speaking at MUUG

• Theo will be speaking at Manitoba UNIX User Group in Winnipeg
• On Friday, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:30PM (see show notes for the address)
• If you're watching the show live you have time to make plans, if you're watching the downloaded version it might be happening right now!
• No agenda, but expect some OpenBSD discussion ***

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