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The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

The shell and its crappy handling of whitespace

News Roundup

Theo de Raadt on Zenbleed

OPNsense 23.7 “Restless Roadrunner” Released

[ILLUMOS GETS A NEW C COMPILER](https://briancallahan.net/blog/20230705.html

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FIXING THINKPAD X1 WIFI ON FREEBSD

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BSDCan schedule, speakers and talks

• This year's BSDCan will kick off on May 14th in Ottawa
• The list of speakers is also out
• And finally the talks everyone's looking forward to
• Lots of great tutorials and talks, spanning a wide range of topics of interest
• Be sure to come by so you can and meet Allan and Kris in person and get BSDCan shirts ***

NYCBSDCon talks uploaded

• The BSD TV YouTube channel has been uploading recordings from the 2014 NYCBSDCon
• Jeff Rizzo's talk, "Releasing NetBSD: So Many Targets, So Little Time"
• Dru Lavigne's talk, "ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD"
• Scott Long's talk, "Serving one third of the Internet via FreeBSD"
• Michael W. Lucas' talk, "BSD Breaking Barriers" ***

FreeBSD Journal, issue 2

• The bi-monthly FreeBSD journal's second issue is out
• Topics in this issue include pkg, poudriere, the PBI format, hwpmc and journaled soft-updates
• In less than two months, they've already gotten over 1000 subscribers! It's available on Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, etc
• "We are also working on a dynamic version of the magazine that can be read in many web browsers, including those that run on FreeBSD"
• Check our interview with GNN for more information about the journal ***

OpenSSL, more like OpenSS-Hell

• We mentioned this huge OpenSSL bug last week during all the chaos, but the aftermath is just as messy
• There's been a pretty vicious response from security experts all across the internet and in all of the BSD projects - and rightfully so
• We finally have a timeline of events
• Reactions from ISC, PCBSD, Tarsnap, the Tor project, FreeBSD, NetBSD, oss-sec, PHK, Varnish and Akamai
• pfSense released a new version to fix it
• OpenBSD disabled heartbeat entirely and is very unforgiving of the IETF
• Ted Unangst has two good write-ups about the issue and how horrible the OpenSSL codebase is
• A nice quote from one of the OpenBSD lists: "Given how trivial one-liner fixes such as #2569 have remained unfixed for 2.5+ years, one can only assume that OpenSSL's bug tracker is only used to park bugs, not fix them"
• Sounds like someone else was having fun with the bug for a while too
• There's also another OpenSSL bug that OpenBSD patched - it allows an attacker to inject data from one connection into another
• OpenBSD has also imported the most current version of OpenSSL and are ripping it apart from the inside out - we're seeing a fork in real time ***

Interview - Jim Brown - info@bsdcertification.org

The BSD Certification exams

Tutorial

Building OpenBSD binary packages in bulk

News Roundup

Portable signify

• Back in episode 23 we talked with Ted Unangst about the new "signify" tool in OpenBSD
• Now there's a (completely unofficial) portable version of it on github
• If you want to verify your OpenBSD sets ahead of time on another OS, this tool should let you do it
• Maybe other BSD projects can adopt it as a replacement for gpg and incorporate it into their base systems ***

Foundation goals and updates

• The OpenBSD foundation has reached their 2014 goal of $150,000
• You can check their activities and goals to see where the money is going
• Remember that funding also goes to OpenSSH, which EVERY system uses and relies on everyday to protect their data
• The FreeBSD foundation has kicked off their spring fundraising campaign
• There's also a list of their activities and goals available to read through
• Be sure to support your favorite BSD, whichever one, so they can continue to make and improve great software that powers the whole internet ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• New PBI runtime that fixes stability issues and decreases load times
• "Update Center" is getting a lot of development and improvements
• Lots of misc. bug fixes and updates ***

Feedback/Questions

• There's a reddit thread we wanted to highlight - a user wants to show his friend BSD and why it's great
• Brad writes in
• Sha'ul writes in
• iGibbs writes in
• Matt writes in ***