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NOTES
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap (https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow)
Headlines
FreeBSD 12.2 Release (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html)
The release notes for FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 12-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.
ZFS Webinar: November 18th (https://klarasystems.com/learning/best-practices-for-optimizing-zfs1/)
Join us on November 18th for a live discussion with Allan Jude (VP of Engineering at Klara Inc) in this webinar centred on “best practices of ZFS”
Building Your Storage Array – Everything from picking the best hardware to RAID-Z and using mirrors.
Keeping up with Data Growth – Expanding and growing your pool, and of course, shrinking with device evacuation.
Datasets and Properties – Controlling settings with properties and many other tricks!
News Roundup
Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/google_summer_of_code_20202)
Sys2syz would give an extra edge to Syzkaller for NetBSD. It has a potential of efficiently automating the conversion of syscall definitions to syzkaller’s grammar. This can aid in increasing the number of syscalls covered by Syzkaller significantly with the minimum possibility of manual errors. Let’s delve into its internals.
How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built (https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html)
In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastructure. I have setup the infrastructure with the help of Theo De Raadt who provided me the hardware in summer 2019, since then, OpenBSD users can upgrade their packages using pkg_add -u for critical updates that has been backported by the contributors. Many thanks to them, without their work there would be no packages to build. Thanks to pea@ who is my backup for operating this infrastructure in case something happens to me.
OPNsense 20.7.4 released (https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-4-released/)
This release finally wraps up the recent Netmap kernel changes and tests.
The Realtek vendor driver was updated as well as third party software cURL,
libxml2, OpenSSL, PHP, Suricata, Syslog-ng and Unbound just to name a couple
of them.
Beastie Bits
Binutils and linker changes (https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/11/03/25120.html)
28 Years of NetBSD contributions (https://github.com/NetBSD/src/graphs/contributors)
Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD (https://ifconfig.se/bluetooth-audio-openbsd.html)
K8s Bhyve (https://k8s-bhyve.convectix.com)
***
Tarsnap
This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.
Feedback/Questions
Sean - C Flags (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Sean%20-%20C%20Flags.md)
Thierry - RPI ZFS question (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Thierry%20-%20RPI%20ZFS%20question.md)
Thierry's script (https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/script.md)
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<p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br>
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow">Tarsnap</a></p>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD 12.2 Release</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 12-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</p>

<hr>

<h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/learning/best-practices-for-optimizing-zfs1/" rel="nofollow">ZFS Webinar: November 18th</a></h3>

<p>Join us on November 18th for a live discussion with Allan Jude (VP of Engineering at Klara Inc) in this webinar centred on “best practices of ZFS”<br>
Building Your Storage Array – Everything from picking the best hardware to RAID-Z and using mirrors.<br>
Keeping up with Data Growth – Expanding and growing your pool, and of course, shrinking with device evacuation.<br>
Datasets and Properties – Controlling settings with properties and many other tricks!</p>

<hr>
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<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/google_summer_of_code_20202" rel="nofollow">Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>Sys2syz would give an extra edge to Syzkaller for NetBSD. It has a potential of efficiently automating the conversion of syscall definitions to syzkaller’s grammar. This can aid in increasing the number of syscalls covered by Syzkaller significantly with the minimum possibility of manual errors. Let’s delve into its internals.</p>

<hr>
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<h3><a href="https://dataswamp.org/%7Esolene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html" rel="nofollow">How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastructure. I have setup the infrastructure with the help of Theo De Raadt who provided me the hardware in summer 2019, since then, OpenBSD users can upgrade their packages using pkg_add -u for critical updates that has been backported by the contributors. Many thanks to them, without their work there would be no packages to build. Thanks to pea@ who is my backup for operating this infrastructure in case something happens to me.</p>

<hr>
</blockquote>

<h3><a href="https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-4-released/" rel="nofollow">OPNsense 20.7.4 released</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>This release finally wraps up the recent Netmap kernel changes and tests.<br>
The Realtek vendor driver was updated as well as third party software cURL,<br>
libxml2, OpenSSL, PHP, Suricata, Syslog-ng and Unbound just to name a couple<br>
of them.</p>

<hr>
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<h2>Beastie Bits</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/11/03/25120.html" rel="nofollow">Binutils and linker changes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/NetBSD/src/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow">28 Years of NetBSD contributions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ifconfig.se/bluetooth-audio-openbsd.html" rel="nofollow">Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="https://k8s-bhyve.convectix.com" rel="nofollow">K8s Bhyve</a>
***</li>
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<h3>Tarsnap</h3>

<ul>
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<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

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<li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Sean%20-%20C%20Flags.md" rel="nofollow">Sean - C Flags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Thierry%20-%20RPI%20ZFS%20question.md" rel="nofollow">Thierry - RPI ZFS question</a>

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    <![CDATA[<p>FreeBSD 12.2 is available, ZFS Webinar, Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD, how the OpenBSD -stable packages are built, OPNsense 20.7.4 released, and more</p>

<p><strong><em>NOTES</em></strong><br>
This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by <a href="https://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" rel="nofollow">Tarsnap</a></p>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/relnotes.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD 12.2 Release</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>The release notes for FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE contain a summary of the changes made to the FreeBSD base system on the 12-STABLE development line. This document lists applicable security advisories that were issued since the last release, as well as significant changes to the FreeBSD kernel and userland. Some brief remarks on upgrading are also presented.</p>

<hr>

<h3><a href="https://klarasystems.com/learning/best-practices-for-optimizing-zfs1/" rel="nofollow">ZFS Webinar: November 18th</a></h3>

<p>Join us on November 18th for a live discussion with Allan Jude (VP of Engineering at Klara Inc) in this webinar centred on “best practices of ZFS”<br>
Building Your Storage Array – Everything from picking the best hardware to RAID-Z and using mirrors.<br>
Keeping up with Data Growth – Expanding and growing your pool, and of course, shrinking with device evacuation.<br>
Datasets and Properties – Controlling settings with properties and many other tricks!</p>

<hr>
</blockquote>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/google_summer_of_code_20202" rel="nofollow">Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for NetBSD</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>Sys2syz would give an extra edge to Syzkaller for NetBSD. It has a potential of efficiently automating the conversion of syscall definitions to syzkaller’s grammar. This can aid in increasing the number of syscalls covered by Syzkaller significantly with the minimum possibility of manual errors. Let’s delve into its internals.</p>

<hr>
</blockquote>

<h3><a href="https://dataswamp.org/%7Esolene/2020-10-29-official-openbsd-stable-architecture.html" rel="nofollow">How the OpenBSD -stable packages are built</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>In this long blog post, I will write about the technical details of the OpenBSD stable packages building infrastructure. I have setup the infrastructure with the help of Theo De Raadt who provided me the hardware in summer 2019, since then, OpenBSD users can upgrade their packages using pkg_add -u for critical updates that has been backported by the contributors. Many thanks to them, without their work there would be no packages to build. Thanks to pea@ who is my backup for operating this infrastructure in case something happens to me.</p>

<hr>
</blockquote>

<h3><a href="https://opnsense.org/opnsense-20-7-4-released/" rel="nofollow">OPNsense 20.7.4 released</a></h3>

<blockquote>
<p>This release finally wraps up the recent Netmap kernel changes and tests.<br>
The Realtek vendor driver was updated as well as third party software cURL,<br>
libxml2, OpenSSL, PHP, Suricata, Syslog-ng and Unbound just to name a couple<br>
of them.</p>

<hr>
</blockquote>

<h2>Beastie Bits</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2020/11/03/25120.html" rel="nofollow">Binutils and linker changes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/NetBSD/src/graphs/contributors" rel="nofollow">28 Years of NetBSD contributions</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ifconfig.se/bluetooth-audio-openbsd.html" rel="nofollow">Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="https://k8s-bhyve.convectix.com" rel="nofollow">K8s Bhyve</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3>Tarsnap</h3>

<ul>
<li>This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Sean%20-%20C%20Flags.md" rel="nofollow">Sean - C Flags</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/BSDNow/bsdnow.tv/blob/master/episodes/376/feedback/Thierry%20-%20RPI%20ZFS%20question.md" rel="nofollow">Thierry - RPI ZFS question</a>

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Headlines
Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications (https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf)
Netflix has released a report on some of their recent activities, pushing lots of traffic through TLS on FreeBSD
TLS has traditionally had too much overhead for the levels of bandwidth they're using, so this pdf outlines some of their strategy in optimizing it
The sendfile() syscall (which nginx uses) isn't available when data is encrypted in userland
To get around this, Netflix is proposing to add TLS support to the FreeBSD kernel
Having encrypted movie streams would be pretty neat
***
Crypto in unexpected places (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;amp;m=142944822223482&amp;amp;w=2)
OpenBSD is somewhat known for its integrated cryptography, right down to strong randomness in every place you could imagine (process IDs, TCP initial sequence numbers, etc)
One place you might not expect crypto to be used (or even needed) is in the "ping" utility, right? Well, think again 
David Gwynne recently committed (https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&amp;amp;m=142944754923359&amp;amp;w=2) a change that adds MAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code) to the ping timestamp payload
By default, it'll be filled with a ChaCha stream instead of an unvarying payload, and David says "this lets us have some confidence that the timestamp hasn't been damaged or tampered with in transit"
Not only is this a security feature, but it should also help detect dodgy or malfunctioning network equipment going forward
Maybe we can look forward to a cryptographically secure "echo" command next...
***
Broadwell in DragonFly (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/docs/newhandbook/BroadwellBoxes/)
The DragonFlyBSD guys have started a new page on their wiki to discuss Broadwell hardware and its current status
Matt Dillon, the project lead, recently bought some hardware with this chipset, and lays out what works and what doesn't work
The two main show-stoppers right now are the graphics and wireless, but they have someone who's already making progress with the GPU support
Wireless support will likely have to wait until FreeBSD gets it, then they'll port it back over
None of the BSDs currently have full Broadwell support, so stay tuned for further updates
***
DIY NAS software roundup (http://blog.brianmoses.net/2015/04/diy-nas-software-roundup.html)
In this blog post, the author compares a few different software solutions for a network attached storage device
He puts FreeNAS, one of our favorites, up against a number of opponents - both BSD and Linux-based
NAS4Free gets an honorable mention as well, particularly for its lower hardware requirements and sleek interface
If you've been thinking about putting together a NAS, but aren't quite comfortable enough to set it up by yourself yet, this article should give you a good view of the current big names
Some competition is always good, gotta keep those guys on their toes
***
Interview - Antoine Jacoutot - ajacoutot@openbsd.org (mailto:ajacoutot@openbsd.org) / @ajacoutot (https://twitter.com/ajacoutot)
OpenBSD at M:Tier (http://www.mtier.org/about-us/), business adoption of BSD, various topics
News Roundup
OpenBSD on DigitalOcean (http://www.tubsta.com/2015/04/openbsd-on-digital-ocean/)
When DigitalOcean rolled out initial support for FreeBSD, it was a great step in the right direction - we hoped that all the other BSDs would soon follow
This is not yet the case, but a blog article here has details on how you can install OpenBSD (and likely the others too) on your VPS
Using a -current snapshot and some swapfile trickery, it's possible to image an OpenBSD ramdisk installer onto an unmounted portion of the virtual disk
After doing so, you just boot from their web UI-based console and can perform a standard installation 
You will have to pay special attention to some details of the disk layout, but this article takes you through the entire process step by step
***
Initial ARM64 support lands in FreeBSD (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&amp;amp;revision=281494)
The ARM64 architecture, sometimes called ARMv8 or AArch64 (https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64), is a new generation of CPUs that will mostly be in embedded devices
FreeBSD has just gotten support for this platform in the -CURRENT branch
Previously, it was only the beginnings of the kernel and enough bits to boot in QEMU - now a full build (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2015-April/000918.html) is possible
Work should now start happening in the main source code tree, and hopefully they'll have full support in a branch soon
***
Scripting with least privilege (http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/)
A new scripting language with a focus on privilege separation and running with only what's absolutely needed has been popular in the headlines lately
Shell scripts are used everywhere today: startup scripts, orchestration scripts for mass deployment, configuring and compiling software, etc.
Shill aims to answer the questions "how do we limit the authority of scripts" and "how do we determine what authority is necessary" by including a declarative security policy that's checked and enforced by the language runtime
If used on FreeBSD, Shill will use Capsicum for sandboxing
You can find some more of the technical information in their documentation pdf (http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/shill-osdi-2014.pdf) or watch their USENIX presentation (https://2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/osdi14/moore.mp4) video
Hacker News also had some discussion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328277) on the topic
***
OpenBSD first impressions (http://blog.greduan.com/2015-04-19-mstobfi.html)
A brand new BSD user has started documenting his experience through a series of blog posts
Formerly a Linux guy, he's tried out FreeBSD and OpenBSD so far, and is currently working on an OpenBSD desktop
The first post goes into why he chose BSD at all, why he's switching away from Linux, how the initial transition has been, what you'll need to relearn and what he's got planned going forward
He's only been using OpenBSD for a few days as of the time this was written - we don't usually get to hear from people this early in on their BSD journey, so it offers a unique perspective
***
PCBSD and 4K oh my! (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/04/pc-bsd-and-4k-oh-my/)
Yesterday, Kris got ahold of some 4K monitor hardware to test PC-BSD out
The short of it - It works great!
Minor tweaks being made to some of the PC-BSD defaults to better accommodate 4K out of box
This particular model monitor ships with DisplayPort set to 1.1 mode only, switching it to 1.2 mode enables 60Hz properly
***
Feedback/Questions
Darin writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21kFuvAFs)
Mitch writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2nf4o9p4E)
***
Discussion
Comparison of BSD release cycles
FreeBSD (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#idp55486416), OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors), NetBSD (https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html) and DragonFlyBSD (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/releases/)
*** 
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<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://people.freebsd.org/%7Errs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf" rel="nofollow">Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Netflix has released a report on some of their recent activities, pushing lots of traffic through TLS on FreeBSD</li>
<li>TLS has traditionally had too much overhead for the levels of bandwidth they&#39;re using, so this pdf outlines some of their strategy in optimizing it</li>
<li>The sendfile() syscall (which nginx uses) isn&#39;t available when data is encrypted in userland</li>
<li>To get around this, Netflix is proposing to add TLS support to the FreeBSD <strong>kernel</strong></li>
<li>Having encrypted movie streams would be pretty neat
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142944822223482&w=2" rel="nofollow">Crypto in unexpected places</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>OpenBSD is somewhat known for its integrated cryptography, right down to strong randomness in every place you could imagine (process IDs, TCP initial sequence numbers, etc)</li>
<li>One place you might not expect crypto to be used (or even needed) is in the &quot;ping&quot; utility, right? Well, think again </li>
<li>David Gwynne recently <a href="https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142944754923359&w=2" rel="nofollow">committed</a> a change that adds <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code" rel="nofollow">MAC</a> to the ping timestamp payload</li>
<li>By default, it&#39;ll be filled with a ChaCha stream instead of an unvarying payload, and David says &quot;this lets us have some confidence that the timestamp hasn&#39;t been damaged or tampered with in transit&quot;</li>
<li>Not only is this a security feature, but it should also help detect dodgy or malfunctioning network equipment going forward</li>
<li>Maybe we can look forward to a cryptographically secure &quot;echo&quot; command next...
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/docs/newhandbook/BroadwellBoxes/" rel="nofollow">Broadwell in DragonFly</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The DragonFlyBSD guys have started a new page on their wiki to discuss Broadwell hardware and its current status</li>
<li>Matt Dillon, the project lead, recently bought some hardware with this chipset, and lays out what works and what doesn&#39;t work</li>
<li>The two main show-stoppers right now are the graphics and wireless, but they have someone who&#39;s already making progress with the GPU support</li>
<li>Wireless support will likely have to wait until FreeBSD gets it, then they&#39;ll port it back over</li>
<li>None of the BSDs currently have full Broadwell support, so stay tuned for further updates
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.brianmoses.net/2015/04/diy-nas-software-roundup.html" rel="nofollow">DIY NAS software roundup</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In this blog post, the author compares a few different software solutions for a network attached storage device</li>
<li>He puts FreeNAS, one of our favorites, up against a number of opponents - both BSD and Linux-based</li>
<li>NAS4Free gets an honorable mention as well, particularly for its lower hardware requirements and sleek interface</li>
<li>If you&#39;ve been thinking about putting together a NAS, but aren&#39;t quite comfortable enough to set it up by yourself yet, this article should give you a good view of the current big names</li>
<li>Some competition is always good, gotta keep those guys on their toes
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Antoine Jacoutot - <a href="mailto:ajacoutot@openbsd.org" rel="nofollow">ajacoutot@openbsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/ajacoutot" rel="nofollow">@ajacoutot</a></h2>

<p>OpenBSD at <a href="http://www.mtier.org/about-us/" rel="nofollow">M:Tier</a>, business adoption of BSD, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.tubsta.com/2015/04/openbsd-on-digital-ocean/" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD on DigitalOcean</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>When DigitalOcean rolled out initial support for FreeBSD, it was a great step in the right direction - we hoped that all the other BSDs would soon follow</li>
<li>This is not yet the case, but a blog article here has details on how you can install OpenBSD (and likely the others too) on your VPS</li>
<li>Using a -current snapshot and some swapfile trickery, it&#39;s possible to image an OpenBSD ramdisk installer onto an unmounted portion of the virtual disk</li>
<li>After doing so, you just boot from their web UI-based console and can perform a standard installation </li>
<li>You will have to pay special attention to some details of the disk layout, but this article takes you through the entire process step by step
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=281494" rel="nofollow">Initial ARM64 support lands in FreeBSD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The ARM64 architecture, sometimes called <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64" rel="nofollow">ARMv8 or AArch64</a>, is a new generation of CPUs that will mostly be in embedded devices</li>
<li>FreeBSD has just gotten support for this platform in the -CURRENT branch</li>
<li>Previously, it was only the beginnings of the kernel and enough bits to boot in QEMU - now <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2015-April/000918.html" rel="nofollow">a full build</a> is possible</li>
<li>Work should now start happening in the main source code tree, and hopefully they&#39;ll have full support in a branch soon
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/" rel="nofollow">Scripting with least privilege</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A new scripting language with a focus on privilege separation and running with only what&#39;s absolutely needed has been popular in the headlines lately</li>
<li>Shell scripts are used everywhere today: startup scripts, orchestration scripts for mass deployment, configuring and compiling software, etc.</li>
<li>Shill aims to answer the questions &quot;how do we limit the authority of scripts&quot; and &quot;how do we determine what authority is necessary&quot; by including a declarative security policy that&#39;s checked and enforced by the language runtime</li>
<li>If used on FreeBSD, Shill will use Capsicum for sandboxing</li>
<li>You can find some more of the technical information in their <a href="http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/shill-osdi-2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">documentation pdf</a> or watch their <a href="https://2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/osdi14/moore.mp4" rel="nofollow">USENIX presentation</a> video</li>
<li>Hacker News also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328277" rel="nofollow">had some discussion</a> on the topic
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.greduan.com/2015-04-19-mstobfi.html" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD first impressions</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A brand new BSD user has started documenting his experience through a series of blog posts</li>
<li>Formerly a Linux guy, he&#39;s tried out FreeBSD and OpenBSD so far, and is currently working on an OpenBSD desktop</li>
<li>The first post goes into why he chose BSD at all, why he&#39;s switching away from Linux, how the initial transition has been, what you&#39;ll need to relearn and what he&#39;s got planned going forward</li>
<li>He&#39;s only been using OpenBSD for a few days as of the time this was written - we don&#39;t usually get to hear from people this early in on their BSD journey, so it offers a unique perspective
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/04/pc-bsd-and-4k-oh-my/" rel="nofollow">PCBSD and 4K oh my!</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Yesterday, Kris got ahold of some 4K monitor hardware to test PC-BSD out</li>
<li>The short of it - It works great!</li>
<li>Minor tweaks being made to some of the PC-BSD defaults to better accommodate 4K out of box</li>
<li>This particular model monitor ships with DisplayPort set to 1.1 mode only, switching it to 1.2 mode enables 60Hz properly
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21kFuvAFs" rel="nofollow">Darin writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2nf4o9p4E" rel="nofollow">Mitch writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Discussion</h2>

<h3>Comparison of BSD release cycles</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#idp55486416" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD</a>, <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html" rel="nofollow">NetBSD</a> and <a href="https://www.dragonflybsd.org/releases/" rel="nofollow">DragonFlyBSD</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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<h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"><img src="/images/1.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise Servers and Storage for Open Source" /></a><a href="http://www.digitalocean.com/" title="DigitalOcean"><img src="/images/2.png" alt="DigitalOcean - Simple Cloud Hosting, Built for Developers" /></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/3.png" alt="Tarsnap - Online Backups for the Truly Paranoid" /></a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://people.freebsd.org/%7Errs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf" rel="nofollow">Optimizing TLS for high bandwidth applications</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Netflix has released a report on some of their recent activities, pushing lots of traffic through TLS on FreeBSD</li>
<li>TLS has traditionally had too much overhead for the levels of bandwidth they&#39;re using, so this pdf outlines some of their strategy in optimizing it</li>
<li>The sendfile() syscall (which nginx uses) isn&#39;t available when data is encrypted in userland</li>
<li>To get around this, Netflix is proposing to add TLS support to the FreeBSD <strong>kernel</strong></li>
<li>Having encrypted movie streams would be pretty neat
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142944822223482&w=2" rel="nofollow">Crypto in unexpected places</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>OpenBSD is somewhat known for its integrated cryptography, right down to strong randomness in every place you could imagine (process IDs, TCP initial sequence numbers, etc)</li>
<li>One place you might not expect crypto to be used (or even needed) is in the &quot;ping&quot; utility, right? Well, think again </li>
<li>David Gwynne recently <a href="https://www.marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=142944754923359&w=2" rel="nofollow">committed</a> a change that adds <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_authentication_code" rel="nofollow">MAC</a> to the ping timestamp payload</li>
<li>By default, it&#39;ll be filled with a ChaCha stream instead of an unvarying payload, and David says &quot;this lets us have some confidence that the timestamp hasn&#39;t been damaged or tampered with in transit&quot;</li>
<li>Not only is this a security feature, but it should also help detect dodgy or malfunctioning network equipment going forward</li>
<li>Maybe we can look forward to a cryptographically secure &quot;echo&quot; command next...
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/docs/newhandbook/BroadwellBoxes/" rel="nofollow">Broadwell in DragonFly</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The DragonFlyBSD guys have started a new page on their wiki to discuss Broadwell hardware and its current status</li>
<li>Matt Dillon, the project lead, recently bought some hardware with this chipset, and lays out what works and what doesn&#39;t work</li>
<li>The two main show-stoppers right now are the graphics and wireless, but they have someone who&#39;s already making progress with the GPU support</li>
<li>Wireless support will likely have to wait until FreeBSD gets it, then they&#39;ll port it back over</li>
<li>None of the BSDs currently have full Broadwell support, so stay tuned for further updates
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.brianmoses.net/2015/04/diy-nas-software-roundup.html" rel="nofollow">DIY NAS software roundup</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In this blog post, the author compares a few different software solutions for a network attached storage device</li>
<li>He puts FreeNAS, one of our favorites, up against a number of opponents - both BSD and Linux-based</li>
<li>NAS4Free gets an honorable mention as well, particularly for its lower hardware requirements and sleek interface</li>
<li>If you&#39;ve been thinking about putting together a NAS, but aren&#39;t quite comfortable enough to set it up by yourself yet, this article should give you a good view of the current big names</li>
<li>Some competition is always good, gotta keep those guys on their toes
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Antoine Jacoutot - <a href="mailto:ajacoutot@openbsd.org" rel="nofollow">ajacoutot@openbsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/ajacoutot" rel="nofollow">@ajacoutot</a></h2>

<p>OpenBSD at <a href="http://www.mtier.org/about-us/" rel="nofollow">M:Tier</a>, business adoption of BSD, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.tubsta.com/2015/04/openbsd-on-digital-ocean/" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD on DigitalOcean</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>When DigitalOcean rolled out initial support for FreeBSD, it was a great step in the right direction - we hoped that all the other BSDs would soon follow</li>
<li>This is not yet the case, but a blog article here has details on how you can install OpenBSD (and likely the others too) on your VPS</li>
<li>Using a -current snapshot and some swapfile trickery, it&#39;s possible to image an OpenBSD ramdisk installer onto an unmounted portion of the virtual disk</li>
<li>After doing so, you just boot from their web UI-based console and can perform a standard installation </li>
<li>You will have to pay special attention to some details of the disk layout, but this article takes you through the entire process step by step
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=281494" rel="nofollow">Initial ARM64 support lands in FreeBSD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The ARM64 architecture, sometimes called <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64" rel="nofollow">ARMv8 or AArch64</a>, is a new generation of CPUs that will mostly be in embedded devices</li>
<li>FreeBSD has just gotten support for this platform in the -CURRENT branch</li>
<li>Previously, it was only the beginnings of the kernel and enough bits to boot in QEMU - now <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-testing/2015-April/000918.html" rel="nofollow">a full build</a> is possible</li>
<li>Work should now start happening in the main source code tree, and hopefully they&#39;ll have full support in a branch soon
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/" rel="nofollow">Scripting with least privilege</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A new scripting language with a focus on privilege separation and running with only what&#39;s absolutely needed has been popular in the headlines lately</li>
<li>Shell scripts are used everywhere today: startup scripts, orchestration scripts for mass deployment, configuring and compiling software, etc.</li>
<li>Shill aims to answer the questions &quot;how do we limit the authority of scripts&quot; and &quot;how do we determine what authority is necessary&quot; by including a declarative security policy that&#39;s checked and enforced by the language runtime</li>
<li>If used on FreeBSD, Shill will use Capsicum for sandboxing</li>
<li>You can find some more of the technical information in their <a href="http://shill.seas.harvard.edu/shill-osdi-2014.pdf" rel="nofollow">documentation pdf</a> or watch their <a href="https://2459d6dc103cb5933875-c0245c5c937c5dedcca3f1764ecc9b2f.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/osdi14/moore.mp4" rel="nofollow">USENIX presentation</a> video</li>
<li>Hacker News also <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9328277" rel="nofollow">had some discussion</a> on the topic
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.greduan.com/2015-04-19-mstobfi.html" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD first impressions</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A brand new BSD user has started documenting his experience through a series of blog posts</li>
<li>Formerly a Linux guy, he&#39;s tried out FreeBSD and OpenBSD so far, and is currently working on an OpenBSD desktop</li>
<li>The first post goes into why he chose BSD at all, why he&#39;s switching away from Linux, how the initial transition has been, what you&#39;ll need to relearn and what he&#39;s got planned going forward</li>
<li>He&#39;s only been using OpenBSD for a few days as of the time this was written - we don&#39;t usually get to hear from people this early in on their BSD journey, so it offers a unique perspective
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2015/04/pc-bsd-and-4k-oh-my/" rel="nofollow">PCBSD and 4K oh my!</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Yesterday, Kris got ahold of some 4K monitor hardware to test PC-BSD out</li>
<li>The short of it - It works great!</li>
<li>Minor tweaks being made to some of the PC-BSD defaults to better accommodate 4K out of box</li>
<li>This particular model monitor ships with DisplayPort set to 1.1 mode only, switching it to 1.2 mode enables 60Hz properly
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21kFuvAFs" rel="nofollow">Darin writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2nf4o9p4E" rel="nofollow">Mitch writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Discussion</h2>

<h3>Comparison of BSD release cycles</h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html#idp55486416" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD</a>, <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html" rel="nofollow">NetBSD</a> and <a href="https://www.dragonflybsd.org/releases/" rel="nofollow">DragonFlyBSD</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <itunes:subtitle>This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait! This week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>This time on the show, we'll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we'll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can't wait! This week's news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
This episode was brought to you by
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Headlines
pfSense 2.1.4 released (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1377)
The pfSense team (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense) has released 2.1.4, shortly after 2.1.3 - it's mainly a security release
Included within are eight security fixes, most of which are pfSense-specific
OpenSSL, the WebUI and some packages all need to be patched (and there are instructions on how to do so)
It also includes a large number of various other bug fixes
Update all your routers!
***
DragonflyBSD's pf gets SMP (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-June/270300.html)
While we're on the topic of pf...
Dragonfly patches their old[er than even FreeBSD's] pf to support multithreading in many areas
Stemming from a user's complaint (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128664.html), Matthew Dillon did his own work on pf to make it SMP-aware
Altering your configuration (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128671.html)'s ruleset can also help speed things up, he found
When will OpenBSD, the source of pf, finally do the same?
***
ChaCha usage and deployment (http://ianix.com/pub/chacha-deployment.html)
A while back, we talked to djm (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline) about some cryptography changes in OpenBSD 5.5 and OpenSSH 6.5
This article is sort of an interesting follow-up to that, showing which projects have adopted ChaCha20
OpenSSH offers it as a stream cipher now, OpenBSD uses it for it's random number generator, Google offers it in TLS for Chromium and some of their services and lots of other projects seem to be adopting it
Both Google's fork of OpenSSL and LibReSSL have upcoming implementations, while vanilla OpenSSL does not
Unfortunately, this article has one mistake: FreeBSD does not use it (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-October/054018.html) - they still use the broken RC4 algorithm
***
BSDMag June 2014 issue (http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1864-tls-hardening-june-bsd-magazine-issue)
The monthly online BSD magazine releases their newest issue
This one includes the following articles: TLS hardening, setting up a package cluster in MidnightBSD, more GIMP tutorials, "saving time and headaches using the robot framework for testing," an interview and an article about the increasing number of security vulnerabilities
The free pdf file is available for download as always
***
Interview - Craig Rodrigues - rodrigc@freebsd.org (mailto:rodrigc@freebsd.org)
FreeBSD's continuous (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins) testing (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yBiPxS1nKnVwRlAEsYeAOzYdpG5uzXTv1_7i7jwVCfU/edit#slide=id.p) infrastructure (https://jenkins.freebsd.org/jenkins/)
Tutorial
Creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-iso)
News Roundup
Preauthenticated decryption considered harmful (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/preauthenticated-decryption-considered-harmful)
Responding to a post (https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/27/streamingencryption.html) from Adam Langley, Ted Unangst (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures) talks a little more about how signify and pkg_add handle signatures
In the past, the OpenBSD installer would pipe the output of ftp straight to tar, but then verify the SHA256 at the end - this had the advantage of not requiring any extra disk space, but raised some security concerns
With signify, now everything is fully downloaded and verified before tar is even invoked
The pkg_add utility works a little bit differently, but it's also been improved in this area - details in the post
Be sure to also read the original post from Adam, lots of good information
***
FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 is out (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/079092.html)
As the -RELEASE inches closer, release candidate 2 is out and ready for testing
Since the last one, it's got some fixes for NIC drivers, the latest file and libmagic security fixes, some serial port workarounds and various other small things
The updated bsdconfig will use pkgng style packages now too
A lesser known fact: there are also premade virtual machine images you can use too
***
pkgsrcCon 2014 wrap-up (http://saveosx.org/pkgsrcCon/)
In what may be the first real pkgsrcCon article we've ever had!
Includes wrap-up discussion about the event, the talks, the speakers themselves, what they use pkgsrc for, the hackathon and basically the whole event
Unfortunately no recordings to be found...
***
PostgreSQL FreeBSD performance and scalability (https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf)
FreeBSD developer kib@ writes a report on PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and how it scales
On his monster 40-core box with 1TB of RAM, he runs lots of benchmarks and posts the findings
Lots of technical details if you're interested in getting the best performance out of your hardware
It also includes specific kernel options he used and the rest of the configuration
If you don't want to open the pdf file, you can use this link (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkib.kiev.ua%2Fkib%2Fpgsql_perf.pdf) too
***
Feedback/Questions
James writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s24pFjUPe4)
Klemen writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21OogIgTu)
John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21rLcemNN)
Brad writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s203Qsx6CZ)
Adam writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2eBj0FfSL)
*** 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This time on the show, we&#39;ll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we&#39;ll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can&#39;t wait! This week&#39;s news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.</p>

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<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1377" rel="nofollow">pfSense 2.1.4 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense" rel="nofollow">pfSense team</a> has released 2.1.4, shortly after 2.1.3 - it&#39;s mainly a security release</li>
<li>Included within are eight security fixes, most of which are pfSense-specific</li>
<li>OpenSSL, the WebUI and some packages all need to be patched (and there are instructions on how to do so)</li>
<li>It also includes a large number of various other bug fixes</li>
<li>Update all your routers!
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-June/270300.html" rel="nofollow">DragonflyBSD&#39;s pf gets SMP</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>While we&#39;re on the topic of pf...</li>
<li>Dragonfly patches their old[er than even FreeBSD&#39;s] pf to support multithreading in many areas</li>
<li>Stemming from <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128664.html" rel="nofollow">a user&#39;s complaint</a>, Matthew Dillon did his own work on pf to make it SMP-aware</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128671.html" rel="nofollow">Altering your configuration</a>&#39;s ruleset can also help speed things up, he found</li>
<li>When will OpenBSD, the source of pf, finally do the same?
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://ianix.com/pub/chacha-deployment.html" rel="nofollow">ChaCha usage and deployment</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A while back, <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline" rel="nofollow">we talked to djm</a> about some cryptography changes in OpenBSD 5.5 and OpenSSH 6.5</li>
<li>This article is sort of an interesting follow-up to that, showing which projects have adopted ChaCha20</li>
<li>OpenSSH offers it as a stream cipher now, OpenBSD uses it for it&#39;s random number generator, Google offers it in TLS for Chromium and some of their services and lots of other projects seem to be adopting it</li>
<li>Both Google&#39;s fork of OpenSSL and LibReSSL have upcoming implementations, while vanilla OpenSSL does not</li>
<li>Unfortunately, this article has one mistake: FreeBSD <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-October/054018.html" rel="nofollow">does not use it</a> - they <em>still</em> use the broken RC4 algorithm
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1864-tls-hardening-june-bsd-magazine-issue" rel="nofollow">BSDMag June 2014 issue</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The monthly online BSD magazine releases their newest issue</li>
<li>This one includes the following articles: TLS hardening, setting up a package cluster in MidnightBSD, more GIMP tutorials, &quot;saving time and headaches using the robot framework for testing,&quot; an interview and an article about the increasing number of security vulnerabilities</li>
<li>The free pdf file is available for download as always
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Craig Rodrigues - <a href="mailto:rodrigc@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">rodrigc@freebsd.org</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins" rel="nofollow">continuous</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yBiPxS1nKnVwRlAEsYeAOzYdpG5uzXTv1_7i7jwVCfU/edit#slide=id.p" rel="nofollow">testing</a> <a href="https://jenkins.freebsd.org/jenkins/" rel="nofollow">infrastructure</a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-iso" rel="nofollow">Creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs</a></h3>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/preauthenticated-decryption-considered-harmful" rel="nofollow">Preauthenticated decryption considered harmful</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Responding to <a href="https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/27/streamingencryption.html" rel="nofollow">a post</a> from Adam Langley, <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures" rel="nofollow">Ted Unangst</a> talks a little more about how signify and pkg_add handle signatures</li>
<li>In the past, the OpenBSD installer would pipe the output of ftp straight to tar, but then verify the SHA256 at the end - this had the advantage of not requiring any extra disk space, but raised some security concerns</li>
<li>With signify, now everything is fully downloaded and verified before tar is even invoked</li>
<li>The pkg_add utility works a little bit differently, but it&#39;s also been improved in this area - details in the post</li>
<li>Be sure to also read the original post from Adam, lots of good information
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/079092.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 is out</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>As the -RELEASE inches closer, release candidate 2 is out and ready for testing</li>
<li>Since the last one, it&#39;s got some fixes for NIC drivers, the latest file and libmagic security fixes, some serial port workarounds and various other small things</li>
<li>The updated bsdconfig will use pkgng style packages now too</li>
<li>A lesser known fact: there are also premade virtual machine images you can use too
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://saveosx.org/pkgsrcCon/" rel="nofollow">pkgsrcCon 2014 wrap-up</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In what may be the first real pkgsrcCon article we&#39;ve ever had!</li>
<li>Includes wrap-up discussion about the event, the talks, the speakers themselves, what they use pkgsrc for, the hackathon and basically the whole event</li>
<li>Unfortunately no recordings to be found...
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf" rel="nofollow">PostgreSQL FreeBSD performance and scalability</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>FreeBSD developer kib@ writes a report on PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and how it scales</li>
<li>On his monster 40-core box with 1TB of RAM, he runs lots of benchmarks and posts the findings</li>
<li>Lots of technical details if you&#39;re interested in getting the best performance out of your hardware</li>
<li>It also includes specific kernel options he used and the rest of the configuration</li>
<li>If you don&#39;t want to open the pdf file, you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkib.kiev.ua%2Fkib%2Fpgsql_perf.pdf" rel="nofollow">use this link</a> too
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s24pFjUPe4" rel="nofollow">James writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21OogIgTu" rel="nofollow">Klemen writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21rLcemNN" rel="nofollow">John writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s203Qsx6CZ" rel="nofollow">Brad writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2eBj0FfSL" rel="nofollow">Adam writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This time on the show, we&#39;ll be sitting down to talk with Craig Rodrigues about Jenkins and the FreeBSD testing infrastructure. Following that, we&#39;ll show you how to roll your own OpenBSD ISOs with all the patches already applied... ISO can&#39;t wait! This week&#39;s news and answers to all your emails, 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"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source" /></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid" /></a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1377" rel="nofollow">pfSense 2.1.4 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense" rel="nofollow">pfSense team</a> has released 2.1.4, shortly after 2.1.3 - it&#39;s mainly a security release</li>
<li>Included within are eight security fixes, most of which are pfSense-specific</li>
<li>OpenSSL, the WebUI and some packages all need to be patched (and there are instructions on how to do so)</li>
<li>It also includes a large number of various other bug fixes</li>
<li>Update all your routers!
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-June/270300.html" rel="nofollow">DragonflyBSD&#39;s pf gets SMP</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>While we&#39;re on the topic of pf...</li>
<li>Dragonfly patches their old[er than even FreeBSD&#39;s] pf to support multithreading in many areas</li>
<li>Stemming from <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128664.html" rel="nofollow">a user&#39;s complaint</a>, Matthew Dillon did his own work on pf to make it SMP-aware</li>
<li><a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-June/128671.html" rel="nofollow">Altering your configuration</a>&#39;s ruleset can also help speed things up, he found</li>
<li>When will OpenBSD, the source of pf, finally do the same?
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://ianix.com/pub/chacha-deployment.html" rel="nofollow">ChaCha usage and deployment</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>A while back, <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_18-cryptocrystalline" rel="nofollow">we talked to djm</a> about some cryptography changes in OpenBSD 5.5 and OpenSSH 6.5</li>
<li>This article is sort of an interesting follow-up to that, showing which projects have adopted ChaCha20</li>
<li>OpenSSH offers it as a stream cipher now, OpenBSD uses it for it&#39;s random number generator, Google offers it in TLS for Chromium and some of their services and lots of other projects seem to be adopting it</li>
<li>Both Google&#39;s fork of OpenSSL and LibReSSL have upcoming implementations, while vanilla OpenSSL does not</li>
<li>Unfortunately, this article has one mistake: FreeBSD <a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2013-October/054018.html" rel="nofollow">does not use it</a> - they <em>still</em> use the broken RC4 algorithm
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://bsdmag.org/magazine/1864-tls-hardening-june-bsd-magazine-issue" rel="nofollow">BSDMag June 2014 issue</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>The monthly online BSD magazine releases their newest issue</li>
<li>This one includes the following articles: TLS hardening, setting up a package cluster in MidnightBSD, more GIMP tutorials, &quot;saving time and headaches using the robot framework for testing,&quot; an interview and an article about the increasing number of security vulnerabilities</li>
<li>The free pdf file is available for download as always
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Craig Rodrigues - <a href="mailto:rodrigc@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">rodrigc@freebsd.org</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s <a href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/Jenkins" rel="nofollow">continuous</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yBiPxS1nKnVwRlAEsYeAOzYdpG5uzXTv1_7i7jwVCfU/edit#slide=id.p" rel="nofollow">testing</a> <a href="https://jenkins.freebsd.org/jenkins/" rel="nofollow">infrastructure</a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-iso" rel="nofollow">Creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs</a></h3>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/preauthenticated-decryption-considered-harmful" rel="nofollow">Preauthenticated decryption considered harmful</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Responding to <a href="https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/27/streamingencryption.html" rel="nofollow">a post</a> from Adam Langley, <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_05-time_signatures" rel="nofollow">Ted Unangst</a> talks a little more about how signify and pkg_add handle signatures</li>
<li>In the past, the OpenBSD installer would pipe the output of ftp straight to tar, but then verify the SHA256 at the end - this had the advantage of not requiring any extra disk space, but raised some security concerns</li>
<li>With signify, now everything is fully downloaded and verified before tar is even invoked</li>
<li>The pkg_add utility works a little bit differently, but it&#39;s also been improved in this area - details in the post</li>
<li>Be sure to also read the original post from Adam, lots of good information
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-June/079092.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 is out</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>As the -RELEASE inches closer, release candidate 2 is out and ready for testing</li>
<li>Since the last one, it&#39;s got some fixes for NIC drivers, the latest file and libmagic security fixes, some serial port workarounds and various other small things</li>
<li>The updated bsdconfig will use pkgng style packages now too</li>
<li>A lesser known fact: there are also premade virtual machine images you can use too
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://saveosx.org/pkgsrcCon/" rel="nofollow">pkgsrcCon 2014 wrap-up</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In what may be the first real pkgsrcCon article we&#39;ve ever had!</li>
<li>Includes wrap-up discussion about the event, the talks, the speakers themselves, what they use pkgsrc for, the hackathon and basically the whole event</li>
<li>Unfortunately no recordings to be found...
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://kib.kiev.ua/kib/pgsql_perf.pdf" rel="nofollow">PostgreSQL FreeBSD performance and scalability</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>FreeBSD developer kib@ writes a report on PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, and how it scales</li>
<li>On his monster 40-core box with 1TB of RAM, he runs lots of benchmarks and posts the findings</li>
<li>Lots of technical details if you&#39;re interested in getting the best performance out of your hardware</li>
<li>It also includes specific kernel options he used and the rest of the configuration</li>
<li>If you don&#39;t want to open the pdf file, you can <a href="https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkib.kiev.ua%2Fkib%2Fpgsql_perf.pdf" rel="nofollow">use this link</a> too
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s24pFjUPe4" rel="nofollow">James writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21OogIgTu" rel="nofollow">Klemen writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21rLcemNN" rel="nofollow">John writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s203Qsx6CZ" rel="nofollow">Brad writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2eBj0FfSL" rel="nofollow">Adam writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <title>41: Commit This Bit</title>
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  <author>JT Pennington</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>This week in the big show, we'll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>This week in the big show, we'll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.
This episode was brought to you by
&lt;a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"&gt;&lt;img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"&gt;&lt;img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Headlines
FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-June/001559.html)
Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports
After years and years of wanting to switch, they've finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla
It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and 
There's a new workflow chart (http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/bugrelocation/workflow.html) for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things
The old "send-pr" command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)
This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful
***
DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014 (http://blog.brianmoses.net/2014/06/diy-nas-econonas-2014.html)
We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up
More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he's using for a budget NAS
Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc
With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it - $550 for all the parts
Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions
***
DragonflyBSD 3.8 released (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/06/04/14122.html)
Justin (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0
Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts
It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions
Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it's currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series
See the release page (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release38/) for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions
***
OpenZFS European conference 2014 (http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Publications#2014_OpenZFS_European_Conference)
There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure
Matt Ahrens, Introduction (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1czZs6vkQ)
Michael Alexander, FhGFS performance on ZFS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1HB507-xY)
Andriy Gapon, Testing ZFS on FreeBSD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-QDwVuBH4)
Luke Marsden, HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISI9Ppj3kTo)
Vadim Comănescu, Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xK94v0BedE)
Chris George, DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNHjWBQYQ8)
Grenville Whelan, High-Availability (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTYZykCeDo)
Phil Harman, Harman Holistic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApjkrBVlPXk)
Mark Rees, Storiant and OpenZFS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yl23EACns)
Andrew Holway, EraStor ZFS appliances (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4L0DRvKJxo)
Dan Vâtca, Syneto and OpenZFS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOW8bwUXxo)
Luke Marsden, HybridCluster and OpenZFS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM1s1aWlZE)
Matt Ahrens, Delphix and OpenZFS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRdzUOsieA)
Check the link for slides and other goodies
***
Interview - Benedict Reuschling - bcr@freebsd.org (mailto:bcr@freebsd.org)
BSD documentation, getting commit access, unix education, various topics
News Roundup
Getting to know your portmgr, Steve Wills (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/06/04/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-steve-wills/)
"It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Wills, the newest member of the portmgr team"
swills is an all-round good guy, does a lot for ports (especially the ruby ports)
In this interview, we learn why he uses FreeBSD, the most embarrassing moment in his FreeBSD career and much more
He used to work for Red Hat, woah
***
BSDTalk episode 242 (http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdtalk242-pfsense-with-chris-buechler.html)
This time on BSDTalk, Will interviews Chris Buechler (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense) from pfSense
Topics include: the heartbleed vulnerability and how it affected pfSense, how people usually leave their firewalls unpatched for a long time (or even forget about them!), changes between major versions, the upgrade process, upcoming features in their 10-based version, backporting drivers and security fixes
They also touch on recent concerns in the pfSense community about their license change, that they may be "going commercial" and closing the source - so tune in to find out what their future plans are for all of that
***
Turn old PC hardware into a killer home server (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2243748/turn-old-pc-hardware-into-a-killer-home-server-with-freenas.html)
Lots of us have old hardware lying around doing nothing but collecting dust
Why not turn that old box into a modern file server with FreeNAS and ZFS?
This article goes through the process of setting up a NAS, gives a little history behind the project and highlights some of the different protocols FreeNAS can use (NFS, SMB, AFS, etc)
Most of our users are already familiar with all of this stuff, nothing too advanced
Good to see BSD getting some well-deserved attention on a big mainstream site
***
Unbloating the VAX install CD (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/unbloating_the_vax_install_cd)
After a discussion on the VAX mailing list, something very important came to the attention of the developers...
You can't boot NetBSD on a VAX box with 16MB of RAM from the CD image
This blog post goes through the developer's adventure in trying to fix that through emulation and stripping various things out of the kernel to make it smaller
In the end, he got it booting - and now all three VAX users who want to run NetBSD can do so on their systems with 16MB of RAM...
***
Feedback/Questions
Thomas writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s211mNScBr)
Reynold writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21JA8BVmZ)
Bostjan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2kwS3ncTY)
Paul writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2VgjXUfW9)
John writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s202AAQUXt)
*** 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week in the big show, we&#39;ll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, 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"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source" /></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid" /></a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-June/001559.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports</li>
<li>After years and years of wanting to switch, they&#39;ve finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla</li>
<li>It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and </li>
<li>There&#39;s a new <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eeadler/bugrelocation/workflow.html" rel="nofollow">workflow chart</a> for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things</li>
<li>The old &quot;send-pr&quot; command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)</li>
<li>This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.brianmoses.net/2014/06/diy-nas-econonas-2014.html" rel="nofollow">DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up</li>
<li>More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he&#39;s using for a <strong>budget</strong> NAS</li>
<li>Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc</li>
<li>With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it - $550 for all the parts</li>
<li>Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/06/04/14122.html" rel="nofollow">DragonflyBSD 3.8 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug" rel="nofollow">Justin</a> announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0</li>
<li>Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts</li>
<li>It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions</li>
<li>Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it&#39;s currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series</li>
<li>See <a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release38/" rel="nofollow">the release page</a> for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Publications#2014_OpenZFS_European_Conference" rel="nofollow">OpenZFS European conference 2014</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure</li>
<li>Matt Ahrens, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1czZs6vkQ" rel="nofollow">Introduction</a></li>
<li>Michael Alexander, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1HB507-xY" rel="nofollow">FhGFS performance on ZFS</a></li>
<li>Andriy Gapon, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-QDwVuBH4" rel="nofollow">Testing ZFS on FreeBSD</a></li>
<li>Luke Marsden, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISI9Ppj3kTo" rel="nofollow">HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud</a></li>
<li>Vadim Comănescu, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xK94v0BedE" rel="nofollow">Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS</a></li>
<li>Chris George, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNHjWBQYQ8" rel="nofollow">DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation</a></li>
<li>Grenville Whelan, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTYZykCeDo" rel="nofollow">High-Availability</a></li>
<li>Phil Harman, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApjkrBVlPXk" rel="nofollow">Harman Holistic</a></li>
<li>Mark Rees, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yl23EACns" rel="nofollow">Storiant and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Andrew Holway, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4L0DRvKJxo" rel="nofollow">EraStor ZFS appliances</a></li>
<li>Dan Vâtca, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOW8bwUXxo" rel="nofollow">Syneto and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Luke Marsden, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM1s1aWlZE" rel="nofollow">HybridCluster and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Matt Ahrens, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRdzUOsieA" rel="nofollow">Delphix and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Check the link for slides and other goodies
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Benedict Reuschling - <a href="mailto:bcr@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">bcr@freebsd.org</a></h2>

<p>BSD documentation, getting commit access, unix education, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/06/04/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-steve-wills/" rel="nofollow">Getting to know your portmgr, Steve Wills</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>&quot;It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Wills, the newest member of the portmgr team&quot;</li>
<li>swills is an all-round good guy, does a lot for ports (especially the ruby ports)</li>
<li>In this interview, we learn why he uses FreeBSD, the most embarrassing moment in his FreeBSD career and much more</li>
<li>He used to work for Red Hat, woah
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdtalk242-pfsense-with-chris-buechler.html" rel="nofollow">BSDTalk episode 242</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>This time on BSDTalk, Will interviews <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense" rel="nofollow">Chris Buechler</a> from pfSense</li>
<li>Topics include: the heartbleed vulnerability and how it affected pfSense, how people usually leave their firewalls unpatched for a long time (or even forget about them!), changes between major versions, the upgrade process, upcoming features in their 10-based version, backporting drivers and security fixes</li>
<li>They also touch on recent concerns in the pfSense community about their license change, that they may be &quot;going commercial&quot; and closing the source - so tune in to find out what their future plans are for all of that
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2243748/turn-old-pc-hardware-into-a-killer-home-server-with-freenas.html" rel="nofollow">Turn old PC hardware into a killer home server</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Lots of us have old hardware lying around doing nothing but collecting dust</li>
<li>Why not turn that old box into a modern file server with FreeNAS and ZFS?</li>
<li>This article goes through the process of setting up a NAS, gives a little history behind the project and highlights some of the different protocols FreeNAS can use (NFS, SMB, AFS, etc)</li>
<li>Most of our users are already familiar with all of this stuff, nothing too advanced</li>
<li>Good to see BSD getting some well-deserved attention on a big mainstream site
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/unbloating_the_vax_install_cd" rel="nofollow">Unbloating the VAX install CD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>After a discussion on the VAX mailing list, something very important came to the attention of the developers...</li>
<li>You can&#39;t boot NetBSD on a VAX box with 16MB of RAM from the CD image</li>
<li>This blog post goes through the developer&#39;s adventure in trying to fix that through emulation and stripping various things out of the kernel to make it smaller</li>
<li>In the end, he got it booting - and now all three VAX users who want to run NetBSD can do so on their systems with 16MB of RAM...
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s211mNScBr" rel="nofollow">Thomas writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21JA8BVmZ" rel="nofollow">Reynold writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2kwS3ncTY" rel="nofollow">Bostjan writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2VgjXUfW9" rel="nofollow">Paul writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s202AAQUXt" rel="nofollow">John writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <itunes:summary>
    <![CDATA[<p>This week in the big show, we&#39;ll be interviewing Benedict Reuschling of the FreeBSD documentation team, and he has a special surprise in store for Allan. As always, answers to your questions and all the latest news, 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"><img src="/images/iXlogo2.png" alt="iXsystems - Enterprise servers and storage for open source" /></a><a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/bsdnow" title="Tarsnap"><img src="/images/tarsnap1.png" alt="Tarsnap - online backups for the truly paranoid" /></a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2014-June/001559.html" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD moves to Bugzilla</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Historically, FreeBSD has used the old GNATS system for keeping track of bug reports</li>
<li>After years and years of wanting to switch, they&#39;ve finally moved away from GNATS to Bugzilla</li>
<li>It offers a lot of advantages, is much more modern and actively maintained and </li>
<li>There&#39;s a new <a href="http://people.freebsd.org/%7Eeadler/bugrelocation/workflow.html" rel="nofollow">workflow chart</a> for developers to illustrate the new way of doing things</li>
<li>The old &quot;send-pr&quot; command will still work for the time being, but will eventually be phased out in favor of native Bugzilla reporting tools (of which there are multiple in ports)</li>
<li>This will hopefully make reporting bugs a lot less painful
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.brianmoses.net/2014/06/diy-nas-econonas-2014.html" rel="nofollow">DIY NAS: EconoNAS 2014</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>We previously covered this blog last year, but the 2014 edition is up</li>
<li>More of a hardware-focused article, the author details the parts he&#39;s using for a <strong>budget</strong> NAS</li>
<li>Details the motherboard, RAM, CPU, hard drives, case, etc</li>
<li>With a set goal of $500 max, he goes just over it - $550 for all the parts</li>
<li>Lots of nice pictures of the hardware and step by step instructions for assembly, as well as software configuration instructions
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/06/04/14122.html" rel="nofollow">DragonflyBSD 3.8 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug" rel="nofollow">Justin</a> announced the availability of DragonflyBSD 3.8.0</li>
<li>Binaries in /bin and /sbin are dynamic now, enabling the use of PAM and NSS to manage user accounts</li>
<li>It includes a new HAMMER FS backup script and lots of FreeBSD tools have been synced with their latest versions</li>
<li>Work continues on for the Intel graphics drivers, but it&#39;s currently limited to the HD4000 and Ivy Bridge series</li>
<li>See <a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release38/" rel="nofollow">the release page</a> for more info and check the link for source-based upgrade instructions
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Publications#2014_OpenZFS_European_Conference" rel="nofollow">OpenZFS European conference 2014</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>There was an OpenZFS conference held in Europe recently, and now the videos are online for your viewing pleasure</li>
<li>Matt Ahrens, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk1czZs6vkQ" rel="nofollow">Introduction</a></li>
<li>Michael Alexander, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak1HB507-xY" rel="nofollow">FhGFS performance on ZFS</a></li>
<li>Andriy Gapon, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-QDwVuBH4" rel="nofollow">Testing ZFS on FreeBSD</a></li>
<li>Luke Marsden, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISI9Ppj3kTo" rel="nofollow">HybridCluster: ZFS in the cloud</a></li>
<li>Vadim Comănescu, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xK94v0BedE" rel="nofollow">Syneto: continuously delivering a ZFS-based OS</a></li>
<li>Chris George, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScNHjWBQYQ8" rel="nofollow">DDRdrive ZIL accelerator: random write revelation</a></li>
<li>Grenville Whelan, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiTYZykCeDo" rel="nofollow">High-Availability</a></li>
<li>Phil Harman, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApjkrBVlPXk" rel="nofollow">Harman Holistic</a></li>
<li>Mark Rees, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41yl23EACns" rel="nofollow">Storiant and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Andrew Holway, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4L0DRvKJxo" rel="nofollow">EraStor ZFS appliances</a></li>
<li>Dan Vâtca, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPOW8bwUXxo" rel="nofollow">Syneto and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Luke Marsden, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM1s1aWlZE" rel="nofollow">HybridCluster and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Matt Ahrens, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaRdzUOsieA" rel="nofollow">Delphix and OpenZFS</a></li>
<li>Check the link for slides and other goodies
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Benedict Reuschling - <a href="mailto:bcr@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">bcr@freebsd.org</a></h2>

<p>BSD documentation, getting commit access, unix education, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2014/06/04/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-steve-wills/" rel="nofollow">Getting to know your portmgr, Steve Wills</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>&quot;It is my pleasure to introduce Steve Wills, the newest member of the portmgr team&quot;</li>
<li>swills is an all-round good guy, does a lot for ports (especially the ruby ports)</li>
<li>In this interview, we learn why he uses FreeBSD, the most embarrassing moment in his FreeBSD career and much more</li>
<li>He used to work for Red Hat, woah
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2014/06/bsdtalk242-pfsense-with-chris-buechler.html" rel="nofollow">BSDTalk episode 242</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>This time on BSDTalk, Will interviews <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense" rel="nofollow">Chris Buechler</a> from pfSense</li>
<li>Topics include: the heartbleed vulnerability and how it affected pfSense, how people usually leave their firewalls unpatched for a long time (or even forget about them!), changes between major versions, the upgrade process, upcoming features in their 10-based version, backporting drivers and security fixes</li>
<li>They also touch on recent concerns in the pfSense community about their license change, that they may be &quot;going commercial&quot; and closing the source - so tune in to find out what their future plans are for all of that
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2243748/turn-old-pc-hardware-into-a-killer-home-server-with-freenas.html" rel="nofollow">Turn old PC hardware into a killer home server</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Lots of us have old hardware lying around doing nothing but collecting dust</li>
<li>Why not turn that old box into a modern file server with FreeNAS and ZFS?</li>
<li>This article goes through the process of setting up a NAS, gives a little history behind the project and highlights some of the different protocols FreeNAS can use (NFS, SMB, AFS, etc)</li>
<li>Most of our users are already familiar with all of this stuff, nothing too advanced</li>
<li>Good to see BSD getting some well-deserved attention on a big mainstream site
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/unbloating_the_vax_install_cd" rel="nofollow">Unbloating the VAX install CD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>After a discussion on the VAX mailing list, something very important came to the attention of the developers...</li>
<li>You can&#39;t boot NetBSD on a VAX box with 16MB of RAM from the CD image</li>
<li>This blog post goes through the developer&#39;s adventure in trying to fix that through emulation and stripping various things out of the kernel to make it smaller</li>
<li>In the end, he got it booting - and now all three VAX users who want to run NetBSD can do so on their systems with 16MB of RAM...
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s211mNScBr" rel="nofollow">Thomas writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21JA8BVmZ" rel="nofollow">Reynold writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2kwS3ncTY" rel="nofollow">Bostjan writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2VgjXUfW9" rel="nofollow">Paul writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s202AAQUXt" rel="nofollow">John writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <title>32: PXE Dust</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>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
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Headlines
FreeBSD ASLR status update (http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2014-04-03/awesome-freebsd-aslr-progress)
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 (http://bsdly.blogspot.com/2014/04/bsdcan-tutorials-please-help-me-improve.html)
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 (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2014/04/04/msg000202.html)
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/x8664, 11233 binary packages built with clang for FreeBSD 10/x8664
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 (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2014/03/31/msg012873.html)
***
Only two holes in a heck of a long time, who cares? (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/index.html#127993)
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 (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128001.html) 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 (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg127995.html) of OpenBSD
It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux's poor security record, definitely worth reading (https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128073.html)
***
Interview - Dru Lavigne - dru@freebsd.org (mailto:dru@freebsd.org) / @bsdevents (https://twitter.com/bsdevents)
FreeBSD's documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics
Tutorial
Automatic, unattended OpenBSD installs with PXE (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/autoinstall)
News Roundup
pfSense 2.1.1 released (https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes)
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 (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1238)
Of course if you want to learn more about pfSense, watch episode 25 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2014_02_19-a_sixth_pfsense)
2.1.2 is already up for testing too
***
FreeBSD gets UEFI support (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&amp;amp;revision=264095)
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 (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/kernel/2014-March/094909.html)
Mr. Dragonfly release engineer himself, Justin Sherrill (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) 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 (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/04/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-24/)
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
Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s273oSezFs)
Jan writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2I3H1HsVb)
Eddie writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2wUTRowzU)
Zen writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2RA0whmwz)
Sean writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2pwE20Ov6)
*** 
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<h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2>

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<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="http://0xfeedface.org/blog/lattera/2014-04-03/awesome-freebsd-aslr-progress" rel="nofollow">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&#39;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&#39;s giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work</li>
<li>While we&#39;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">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 &quot;Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter&quot; and &quot;Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5&quot; - both scheduled to last three hours each</li>
<li>He&#39;s requesting anyone that&#39;ll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you&#39;d like to learn</li>
<li>There&#39;s also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he&#39;s looking to improve them</li>
<li>If you&#39;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">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 &quot;first class citizen&quot; 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&#39;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&#39;re also looking into <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2014/03/31/msg012873.html" rel="nofollow">signing packages</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/index.html#127993" rel="nofollow">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 &quot;what&#39;s the big deal&quot; about OpenBSD&#39;s slogan being &quot;Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!&quot;</li>
<li>Luckily, the community and Theo <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128001.html" rel="nofollow">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">security features</a> of OpenBSD</li>
<li>It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux&#39;s poor security record, definitely <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128073.html" rel="nofollow">worth reading</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Dru Lavigne - <a href="mailto:dru@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">dru@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/bsdevents" rel="nofollow">@bsdevents</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/autoinstall" rel="nofollow">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">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">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">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&revision=264095" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD gets UEFI support</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>It looks like FreeBSD&#39;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">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">Justin Sherrill</a> posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release</li>
<li>They&#39;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&#39;re even considering dropping i386
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/04/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-24/" rel="nofollow">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">Remy writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2I3H1HsVb" rel="nofollow">Jan writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2wUTRowzU" rel="nofollow">Eddie writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2RA0whmwz" rel="nofollow">Zen writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2pwE20Ov6" rel="nofollow">Sean writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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<h2>This episode was brought to you by</h2>

<p><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdnow" title="iXsystems"><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">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&#39;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&#39;s giving a presentation at BSDCan this year about his ASLR work</li>
<li>While we&#39;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">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 &quot;Building the network you need with PF, the OpenBSD packet filter&quot; and &quot;Transitioning to OpenBSD 5.5&quot; - both scheduled to last three hours each</li>
<li>He&#39;s requesting anyone that&#39;ll be there to go ahead and contact him, telling him exactly what you&#39;d like to learn</li>
<li>There&#39;s also a bit of background information about the tutorials and how he&#39;s looking to improve them</li>
<li>If you&#39;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">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 &quot;first class citizen&quot; 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&#39;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&#39;re also looking into <a href="http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2014/03/31/msg012873.html" rel="nofollow">signing packages</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/index.html#127993" rel="nofollow">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 &quot;what&#39;s the big deal&quot; about OpenBSD&#39;s slogan being &quot;Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!&quot;</li>
<li>Luckily, the community and Theo <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128001.html" rel="nofollow">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">security features</a> of OpenBSD</li>
<li>It spawned a discussion about ease of management and Linux&#39;s poor security record, definitely <a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg128073.html" rel="nofollow">worth reading</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Dru Lavigne - <a href="mailto:dru@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">dru@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/bsdevents" rel="nofollow">@bsdevents</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s documentation printing, documentation springs, various topics</p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/autoinstall" rel="nofollow">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">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">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">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&revision=264095" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD gets UEFI support</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>It looks like FreeBSD&#39;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">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">Justin Sherrill</a> posts some of his ideas for the upcoming release</li>
<li>They&#39;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&#39;re even considering dropping i386
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/04/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-24/" rel="nofollow">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">Remy writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2I3H1HsVb" rel="nofollow">Jan writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2wUTRowzU" rel="nofollow">Eddie writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2RA0whmwz" rel="nofollow">Zen writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2pwE20Ov6" rel="nofollow">Sean writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <title>22: Journaled News-Updates</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>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.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>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
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Headlines
FreeBSD quarterly status report (https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/077085.html)
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 (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;amp;sid=20140124142027)
Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons (http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html) 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 (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;amp;sid=20140127083112) 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 (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_6_1_3_netbsd)
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. (https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1)
***
The future of open source ZFS development  (http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-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 (mailto:gnn@freebsd.org) / @gvnn3 (https://twitter.com/gvnn3)
The FreeBSD Journal (http://freebsdjournal.com/)
Tutorial
Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD) (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd)
News Roundup
pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots (https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes)
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 (https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1198) 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 (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/gce-discussion/YWoa3Aa_49U/FYAg9oiRlLUJ)
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 (http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2014/01/22/13225.html)
Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html)
There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html) if you experience problems
Check the mailing list post for all the details
***
PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/01/pc-bsd-weekly-feature-digest-6/)
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
Tony writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21ZlfOdTt)
Jeff writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5)
Remy writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI)
Nils writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt)
Solomon writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS)
*** 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This time on the show, we&#39;ll be talking with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it&#39;s all about. After that, we&#39;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"><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" rel="nofollow">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&#39;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" rel="nofollow">www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year</a>)</li>
<li>There&#39;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&sid=20140124142027" rel="nofollow">n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Recently, OpenBSD held one of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html" rel="nofollow">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&#39;ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you&#39;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&sid=20140127083112" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">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&#39;re currently on</li>
<li>Confused about the different branches? <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1" rel="nofollow">See this graph.</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-open-source-zfs-development" rel="nofollow">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&#39;s in San Jose, California - go if you can!
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - George Neville-Neil - <a href="mailto:gnn@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">gnn@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/gvnn3" rel="nofollow">@gvnn3</a></h2>

<p><a href="http://freebsdjournal.com/" rel="nofollow">The FreeBSD Journal</a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">recordings posted</a> of some of the previous hangouts</li>
<li>Unfortunately they&#39;re only for subscribers, so you&#39;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" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here&#39;s the FreeBSD version</li>
<li>Nice big fat warning: &quot;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.&quot;</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&#39;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" rel="nofollow">Dragonfly ACPI update</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Sascha Wildner committed some <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html" rel="nofollow">new ACPI code</a></li>
<li>There&#39;s also a &quot;heads up&quot; to <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html" rel="nofollow">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/" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">Tony writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5" rel="nofollow">Jeff writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI" rel="nofollow">Remy writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt" rel="nofollow">Nils writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS" rel="nofollow">Solomon writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This time on the show, we&#39;ll be talking with George Neville-Neil about the brand new FreeBSD Journal and what it&#39;s all about. After that, we&#39;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"><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" rel="nofollow">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&#39;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" rel="nofollow">www.itwire.com/business-it-news/open-source/62855-freebsd-to-support-secure-boot-by-mid-year</a>)</li>
<li>There&#39;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&sid=20140124142027" rel="nofollow">n2k14 OpenBSD Hackathon Report</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Recently, OpenBSD held one of <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html" rel="nofollow">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&#39;ve been watching the -current CVS logs, you&#39;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&sid=20140127083112" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">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&#39;re currently on</li>
<li>Confused about the different branches? <a href="https://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1" rel="nofollow">See this graph.</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/archives/openzfs-future-open-source-zfs-development" rel="nofollow">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&#39;s in San Jose, California - go if you can!
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - George Neville-Neil - <a href="mailto:gnn@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">gnn@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/gvnn3" rel="nofollow">@gvnn3</a></h2>

<p><a href="http://freebsdjournal.com/" rel="nofollow">The FreeBSD Journal</a></p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/stable-current-obsd" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">recordings posted</a> of some of the previous hangouts</li>
<li>Unfortunately they&#39;re only for subscribers, so you&#39;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" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD on Google Compute Engine</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Recently we mentioned some posts about getting OpenBSD to run on GCE, here&#39;s the FreeBSD version</li>
<li>Nice big fat warning: &quot;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.&quot;</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&#39;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" rel="nofollow">Dragonfly ACPI update</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Sascha Wildner committed some <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2014-January/199071.html" rel="nofollow">new ACPI code</a></li>
<li>There&#39;s also a &quot;heads up&quot; to <a href="http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/090504.html" rel="nofollow">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/" rel="nofollow">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" rel="nofollow">Tony writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2BFZ68Na5" rel="nofollow">Jeff writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20epArsQI" rel="nofollow">Remy writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s213CoNvLt" rel="nofollow">Nils writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s21XWnThNS" rel="nofollow">Solomon writes in</a>
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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  <title>13: Bridging the Gap</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
  <author>JT Pennington</author>
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  <itunes:subtitle>This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we'll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We've also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.
Headlines
Getting to know your portmgr (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/18/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-erwin-lansing/)
In this interview they talk to one of the "Annoying Reminder Guys" - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD's portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)
He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD
Describes FreeBSD as "the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community."
In the next one (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/25/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-martin-wilke/) they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@)
The usual, "what inspires you about FreeBSD" "how did you get into it" etc.
***
vBSDCon wrap-up compilation (http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/11/20/vbsdcon-wrap-ups/)
Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place
Some from OpenBSD guys (http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&amp;amp;sid=20131121050402)
Some from FreeBSD guys (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/vbsdcon-trip-report-john-mark-gurney.html)
Some from RootBSD (http://www.rootbsd.net/vbsdcon-2013-wrap-up/)
Some from iXsystems (http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/blog/vbsdcon-2013.html)
Some from Verisign (http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/builders_and_archaeologists)
And of course our own wrap-up chat in BSD Now Episode 009 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_30-current_events)
***
Faces of FreeBSD (http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/faces-of-freebsd-each-week-we-are-going.html)
This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary
Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD
"I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use."
He's been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports
He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team
***
Dragonfly 3.6 released (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release36/)
dports now default instead of pkgsrc
Big SMP scaling improvements
Experimental i915 and KMS support
See our interview (http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug) with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long
***
Interview - Jordan Hubbard - jkh@freebsd.org (mailto:jkh@freebsd.org) / @omgjkh (https://twitter.com/omgjkh)
FreeBSD's founding and future
Tutorial
Building an OpenBSD router, part 2 (http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router)
Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions.
***
News Roundup
pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2 (http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1132)
We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free "public" AMI
Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details
Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud
***
Puffy on the desktop (http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131118#feature)
Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review
They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up
Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read
Ends with "Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn't mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave"
***
Two-factor authentication with SSH (http://cmacr.ae/openbsd/security/networking/2013/11/25/ssh-yubi.html)
Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys
Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD's login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well
Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised
Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read
***
PCBSD weekly digest (http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/weekly-feature-digest-112313/)
10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption
They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree - please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!
PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed
Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end
***
Feedback/Questions
Ben writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2ag1fA7Ug)
Florian writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2TSIvZzVO)
Zach writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20Po4soFF)
Addison writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s20ntzqi9c)
Adam writes in (http://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk)
Adam (https://twitter.com/redshirtlinux)'s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded here (http://bsdnow.cdn.scaleengine.net/bsdrouterproject.m4v).
*** 
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we&#39;ll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We&#39;ve also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.</p>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/18/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-erwin-lansing/" rel="nofollow">Getting to know your portmgr</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In this interview they talk to one of the &quot;Annoying Reminder Guys&quot; - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD&#39;s portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)</li>
<li>He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD</li>
<li>Describes FreeBSD as &quot;the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community.&quot;</li>
<li>In <a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/25/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-martin-wilke/" rel="nofollow">the next one</a> they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@)</li>
<li>The usual, &quot;what inspires you about FreeBSD&quot; &quot;how did you get into it&quot; etc.
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/11/20/vbsdcon-wrap-ups/" rel="nofollow">vBSDCon wrap-up compilation</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place</li>
<li><a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131121050402" rel="nofollow">Some from OpenBSD guys</a></li>
<li><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/vbsdcon-trip-report-john-mark-gurney.html" rel="nofollow">Some from FreeBSD guys</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rootbsd.net/vbsdcon-2013-wrap-up/" rel="nofollow">Some from RootBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/blog/vbsdcon-2013.html" rel="nofollow">Some from iXsystems</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/builders_and_archaeologists" rel="nofollow">Some from Verisign</a></li>
<li>And of course our own wrap-up chat in <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_30-current_events" rel="nofollow">BSD Now Episode 009</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/faces-of-freebsd-each-week-we-are-going.html" rel="nofollow">Faces of FreeBSD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary</li>
<li>Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD</li>
<li>&quot;I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use.&quot;</li>
<li>He&#39;s been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports</li>
<li>He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release36/" rel="nofollow">Dragonfly 3.6 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>dports now default instead of pkgsrc</li>
<li>Big SMP scaling improvements</li>
<li>Experimental i915 and KMS support</li>
<li>See <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug" rel="nofollow">our interview</a> with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Jordan Hubbard - <a href="mailto:jkh@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">jkh@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/omgjkh" rel="nofollow">@omgjkh</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s founding and future</p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router" rel="nofollow">Building an OpenBSD router, part 2</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><strong>Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions.</strong>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1132" rel="nofollow">pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)</li>
<li>In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free &quot;public&quot; AMI</li>
<li>Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details</li>
<li>Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131118#feature" rel="nofollow">Puffy on the desktop</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review</li>
<li>They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up</li>
<li>Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read</li>
<li>Ends with &quot;Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn&#39;t mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave&quot;
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://cmacr.ae/openbsd/security/networking/2013/11/25/ssh-yubi.html" rel="nofollow">Two-factor authentication with SSH</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys</li>
<li>Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD&#39;s login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well</li>
<li>Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised</li>
<li>Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/weekly-feature-digest-112313/" rel="nofollow">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption</li>
<li>They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree - please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!</li>
<li>PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed</li>
<li>Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2ag1fA7Ug" rel="nofollow">Ben writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2TSIvZzVO" rel="nofollow">Florian writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20Po4soFF" rel="nofollow">Zach writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20ntzqi9c" rel="nofollow">Addison writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk" rel="nofollow">Adam writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/redshirtlinux" rel="nofollow">Adam</a>&#39;s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded <a href="http://bsdnow.cdn.scaleengine.net/bsdrouterproject.m4v" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>This week on the show, we sit down for an interview with Jordan Hubbard, one of the founders of the FreeBSD project - and the one who invented ports! Later in the show, we&#39;ll be showing you some new updates to the OpenBSD router tutorial from a couple weeks ago. We&#39;ve also got news, your questions and even our first viewer-submitted video, right here on BSD Now.. the place to B.. SD.</p>

<h2>Headlines</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/18/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-erwin-lansing/" rel="nofollow">Getting to know your portmgr</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>In this interview they talk to one of the &quot;Annoying Reminder Guys&quot; - Erwin Lansing, the second longest serving member of FreeBSD&#39;s portmgr (also vice-president of the FreeBSD Foundation)</li>
<li>He actually maintains the .dk ccTLD</li>
<li>Describes FreeBSD as &quot;the best well-hidden success story in operating systems, by now in the hands of more people than one can count and used by even more people, and not one of them knows it! It’s not only the best operating system currently around, but also the most supportive and inspiring community.&quot;</li>
<li>In <a href="http://blogs.freebsdish.org/portmgr/2013/11/25/getting-to-know-your-portmgr-martin-wilke/" rel="nofollow">the next one</a> they speak with Martin Wilke (miwi@)</li>
<li>The usual, &quot;what inspires you about FreeBSD&quot; &quot;how did you get into it&quot; etc.
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2013/11/20/vbsdcon-wrap-ups/" rel="nofollow">vBSDCon wrap-up compilation</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Lots of write-ups about vBSDCon gathered in one place</li>
<li><a href="http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20131121050402" rel="nofollow">Some from OpenBSD guys</a></li>
<li><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/vbsdcon-trip-report-john-mark-gurney.html" rel="nofollow">Some from FreeBSD guys</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rootbsd.net/vbsdcon-2013-wrap-up/" rel="nofollow">Some from RootBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/blog/vbsdcon-2013.html" rel="nofollow">Some from iXsystems</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogs.verisigninc.com/blog/entry/builders_and_archaeologists" rel="nofollow">Some from Verisign</a></li>
<li>And of course our own wrap-up chat in <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_30-current_events" rel="nofollow">BSD Now Episode 009</a>
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2013/11/faces-of-freebsd-each-week-we-are-going.html" rel="nofollow">Faces of FreeBSD</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>This week they talk to Gábor Páli from Hungary</li>
<li>Talks about his past as a game programmer and how it got involved with FreeBSD</li>
<li>&quot;I met János Háber, who admired the technical merits of FreeBSD and recommended it over the popular GNU/Linux distributions. I downloaded FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE, found it reliable, consistent, easy to install, update and use.&quot;</li>
<li>He&#39;s been contributing since 2008 and does lots of work with Haskell in ports</li>
<li>He also organizes EuroBSDCon and is secretary of the FreeBSD Core Team
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release36/" rel="nofollow">Dragonfly 3.6 released</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>dports now default instead of pkgsrc</li>
<li>Big SMP scaling improvements</li>
<li>Experimental i915 and KMS support</li>
<li>See <a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_11_13-the_gateway_drug" rel="nofollow">our interview</a> with Justin Sherrill if you want to hear (a lot) more about it - nearly an hour long
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Interview - Jordan Hubbard - <a href="mailto:jkh@freebsd.org" rel="nofollow">jkh@freebsd.org</a> / <a href="https://twitter.com/omgjkh" rel="nofollow">@omgjkh</a></h2>

<p>FreeBSD&#39;s founding and future</p>

<hr>

<h2>Tutorial</h2>

<h3><a href="http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/openbsd-router" rel="nofollow">Building an OpenBSD router, part 2</a></h3>

<ul>
<li><strong>Note: there was a mistake in the video version of the tutorial, please consult the written version for the proper instructions.</strong>
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>News Roundup</h2>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1132" rel="nofollow">pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)</li>
<li>In keeping with the community spirit, they’re also offering a free &quot;public&quot; AMI</li>
<li>Check the FAQ and User Guide on their site for additional details</li>
<li>Interesting possibilities with pfSense in the cloud
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20131118#feature" rel="nofollow">Puffy on the desktop</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Distrowatch, a primarily Linux-focused site, features an OpenBSD 5.4 review</li>
<li>They talk about using it on the desktop, how to set it up</li>
<li>Very long write-up, curious Linux users should give it a read</li>
<li>Ends with &quot;Most people will still see OpenBSD as an operating system for servers and firewalls, but OpenBSD can also be used in desktop environments if the user doesn&#39;t mind a little manual work. The payoff is a very light, responsive system that is unlikely to ever misbehave&quot;
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://cmacr.ae/openbsd/security/networking/2013/11/25/ssh-yubi.html" rel="nofollow">Two-factor authentication with SSH</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>Blog post about using a yubikey with SSH public keys</li>
<li>Uses a combination of a OTP, BSDAuth and OpenBSD&#39;s login.conf, but it can be used with PAM on other systems as well</li>
<li>Allows for two-factor authentication (a la gmail) in case your private key is compromised</li>
<li>Anyone interested in an extra-hardened SSH server should give it a read
***</li>
</ul>

<h3><a href="http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/11/weekly-feature-digest-112313/" rel="nofollow">PCBSD weekly digest</a></h3>

<ul>
<li>10.0 has approximately 400 PBIs for public consumption</li>
<li>They will be merging the GNOME3, MATE and Cinnamon desktops into the 10.0 ports tree - please help test them, this is pretty big news in and of itself!</li>
<li>PCDM is coming along nicely, more bugs are getting fixed</li>
<li>Added ZFS dataset options to PCBSD’s new text installer front-end
***</li>
</ul>

<h2>Feedback/Questions</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2ag1fA7Ug" rel="nofollow">Ben writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2TSIvZzVO" rel="nofollow">Florian writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20Po4soFF" rel="nofollow">Zach writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s20ntzqi9c" rel="nofollow">Addison writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="http://slexy.org/view/s2EYJjVKBk" rel="nofollow">Adam writes in</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/redshirtlinux" rel="nofollow">Adam</a>&#39;s BSD Router Project tutorial can be downloaded <a href="http://bsdnow.cdn.scaleengine.net/bsdrouterproject.m4v" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
***</li>
</ul>]]>
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