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Applying the ARC Algorithm to the ARC

Advancing Cloud Native Containers on FreeBSD: Podman Testing Highlights

News Roundup

Running Web Browsers in FreeBSD Jail

Fixing pf not allowing IPv6 traffic on FreeBSD

Minitel: The Online World France Built Before the Web

Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

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• Sam - EDR Support

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Headlines

Debunking Common Myths About FreeBSD - Part 2

FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE Announcement
FreeBSD 14.0 end-of-life - You should have upgraded to 14.1 by now

OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.6

News Roundup

acpidumping

Install snac2 on FreeBSD – An ActivityPub Instance for the Fediverse

Installing Uptime-Kuma on a FreeBSD Jail

Managing dotfiles with chezmoi

Podman testing on FreeBSD

Undeadly Bits

• OpenSSH 9.9 released!
• OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts
• EuroBSDCon 2024 presentations are now up

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• rel4x - Secure by default

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What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?

Human Scale Software vs Open Source

News Roundup

How to run Visual Studio (VS) Code Remote over SSH on FreeBSD 13 and 14

Why are some emails from Charlie Root and others are from root?

Backward compatibility, even for settings, has real costs

Kyua graduates

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573 - Vedran - linuxulator

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FuryBSD 2020-Q3 The world’s first OpenZFS based live image

FuryBSD is a tool to test drive stock FreeBSD desktop images in read write mode to see if it will work for you before installing. In order to provide the most reliable experience possible while preserving the integrity of the system the LiveCD now leverages ZFS, compression, replication, a memory file system, and reroot (pivot root).

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FreeBSD Subversion to Git Migration: Pt 1 Why?

FreeBSD moving to Git: Why? With luck, I'll be writing a few blogs on FreeBSD's move to git later this year. Today, we'll start with "why"?
Video from Warner Losh

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News Roundup

FreeBSD Instant-workstation 2020

A little over a year ago I published an instant-workstation script for FreeBSD. The idea is to have an installed FreeBSD system, then run a shell script that uses only base-system utilities and installs and configures a workstation setup for you.

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nut – testing the shutdown mechanism

Following on from my recent nut setup, this is the second in a series of three posts.
The next post will deal with adjusting startup and shutdown times to be sure everything proceeds as required.

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login_ldap added to OpenBSD -current

With this commit, Martijn van Duren (martijn@) added login_ldap(8) to -current

• https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=159992319027593&w=2 ***

Beastie Bits

• NetBSD current now has GCC 9.3.0 for x86/ARM
• MidnightBSD 1.2.8
• MidnightBSD 2.0-Current
• Retro UNIX 8086 v1 operating system has been developed by Erdogan Tan as a special purposed derivation of original UNIX v1 ***

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• Luis - old episodes

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FreeBSD USB Audio

I recently got a Behringer UMC22 sound card for video conferencing and DJing. This page documents what I’ve learned about using this sound card, and USB audio in general, on FreeBSD.
tl;dr: Everything works as long as the sound card follows the USB audio device class specification.

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Kyua: An introduction for NetBSD users

Kyua's current goal is to reimplement only the ATF tools while maintaining backwards compatibility with the tests written with the ATF libraries (i.e. with the NetBSD test suite).
Because Kyua is a replacement of some ATF components, the end goal is to integrate Kyua into the NetBSD base system (just as ATF is) and remove the deprecated ATF components. Removing the deprecated components will allow us to make the above-mentioned improvements to Kyua, as well as many others, without having to deal with the obsolete ATF code base. Discussing how and when this transition might happen is out of the scope of this document at the moment.

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News Roundup

Keeping backup ZFS on Linux kernel modules around

I'm a long term user of ZFS on Linux and over pretty much all of the time I've used it, I've built it from the latest development version. Generally this means I update my ZoL build at the same time as I update my Fedora kernel, since a ZoL update requires a kernel reboot anyway. This is a little bit daring, of course, although the ZoL development version has generally been quite solid (and this way I get the latest features and improvements long before I otherwise would).

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Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster

As I was browsing the web and catching up on some sites I visit periodically, I found a cool article from Tom Hayden about using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) and mrjob in order to compute some statistics on win/loss ratios for chess games he downloaded from the millionbase archive, and generally have fun with EMR. Since the data volume was only about 1.75GB containing around 2 million chess games, I was skeptical of using Hadoop for the task, but I can understand his goal of learning and having fun with mrjob and EMR. Since the problem is basically just to look at the result lines of each file and aggregate the different results, it seems ideally suited to stream processing with shell commands. I tried this out, and for the same amount of data I was able to use my laptop to get the results in about 12 seconds (processing speed of about 270MB/sec), while the Hadoop processing took about 26 minutes (processing speed of about 1.14MB/sec).

FreeBSD Laptop Find Out Battery Life Status Command

I know how to find out battery life status using Linux operating system. How do I monitor battery status on a laptop running FreeBSD version 9.x/10.x/11.x/12.x?
You can use any one of the following commands to get battery status under FreeBSD laptop including remaining battery life and more.

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Beastie Bits

BSD Beer
Awk for JSON
Drawing Pictures The Unix Way - with pic and troff
Refactoring the FreeBSD Kernel with Checked C

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pfSense 2.1.4 released

• The pfSense team 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

• 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, Matthew Dillon did his own work on pf to make it SMP-aware
• Altering your configuration'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

• A while back, we talked to djm 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 - they still use the broken RC4 algorithm ***

BSDMag June 2014 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

FreeBSD's continuous testing infrastructure

Tutorial

Creating pre-patched OpenBSD ISOs

News Roundup

Preauthenticated decryption considered harmful

• Responding to a post from Adam Langley, Ted Unangst 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 too ***

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FreeBSD's new testing infrastructure

• A new test suite was added to FreeBSD, with 3 powerful machines available
• Both -CURRENT and stable/10 have got the test suite build infrastructure in place
• Designed to help developers test and improve major scalability across huge amounts of CPUs and RAM
• More details available here
• Could the iXsystems monster server be involved...? ***

OpenBSD gets signify

• At long last, OpenBSD gets support for signed releases!
• For "the world's most secure OS" it was very easy to MITM kernel patches, updates, installer isos, everything
• A commit to the -current tree reveals a new "signify" tool is currently being kicked around
• More details in a blog post from the guy who committed it
• Quote: "yeah, briefly, the plan is to sign sets and packages. that's still work in progress." ***

Faces of FreeBSD

• This time they interview Isabell Long
• She's a volunteer staff member on the freenode IRC network
• In 2011, she participated in the Google Code-In contest and became involved with documentation
• "The new committer mentoring process proved very useful and that, plus the accepting community of FreeBSD, are reasons why I stay involved." ***

pkgsrc-2013Q4 branched

• The quarterly pkgsrc branch from NetBSD is out
• 13472 total packages for NetBSD-current/amd64 + 13049 binary packages built with clang!
• Lots of numbers and stats in the announcement
• pkgsrc works on quite a few different OSes, not just NetBSD
• See our interview with Amitai Schlair for a bit about pkgsrc ***

OpenBSD on Google's Compute Engine

• Google Compute Engine is a "cloud computing" platform similar to EC2
• Unfortunately, they only offer poor choices for the OS (Debian and CentOS)
• Recently it's been announced that there is a custom OS option
• It's using a WIP virtio-scsi driver, lots of things still need more work
• Lots of technical and networking details about the struggles to get OpenBSD working on it ***

The Installfest

We'll be showing you the installer of each of the main BSDs. As of the date this episode airs, we're using:

• FreeBSD 10.0
• OpenBSD 5.4
• NetBSD 6.1.2
• DragonflyBSD 3.6
• PCBSD 10.0 ***

News Roundup

Building an OpenBSD wireless access point

• A neat write up we found around the internet about making an OpenBSD wifi router
• Goes through the process of PXE booting, installing base, using a serial console, setting up networking and wireless
• Even includes a puffy sticker on the Soekris box at the end, how cute ***

FreeBSD 4.X jails on 10.0

• Blog entry from our buddy Michael Lucas
• For whatever reason (an "in-house application"), he needed to run a FreeBSD 4 jail in FreeBSD 10
• Talks about the options he had: porting software, virtualizing, dealing with slow old hardware
• He goes through the whole process of making an ancient jail
• It's "an acceptable trade-off, if it means I don’t have to touch actual PHP code." ***

Unscrewed: a story about OpenBSD

• Pretty long blog post about how a network admin used OpenBSD to save the day
• To set the tone, "It was 5am, and the network was down"
• Great war story about replacing expensive routers and networking equipment with cheaper hardware and BSD
• Mentions a lot of the built in tools and how OpenBSD is great for routers and high security applications ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• 10.0-RC3 is out and ready to be tested
• New detection of ATI Hybrid Graphics, they're working on nVidia next
• Re-classifying Linux jails as unsupported / experimental ***

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