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FreeBSD 11 goals and discussion

• Something that actually happened at BSDCan this year...
• During the FreeBSD devsummit, there was some discussion about what changes will be made in 11.0-RELEASE
• Some of MWL's notes include: the test suite will be merged to 10-STABLE, more work on the MIPS platforms, LLDB getting more attention, UEFI boot and install support
• A large list of possibilities was also included and open for discussion, including AES-GCM in IPSEC, ASLR, OpenMP, ICC, in-place kernel upgrades, Capsicum improvements, TCP performance improvements and A LOT more
• There's also some notes from the devsummit virtualization session, mostly talking about bhyve
• Lastly, he also provides some notes about ports and packages and where they're going ***

An SSH honeypot with OpenBSD and Kippo

• Everyone loves messing with script kiddies, right?
• This blog post introduces Kippo, an SSH honeypot tool, and how to use it in combination with OpenBSD
• It includes a step by step (or rather, command by command) guide and some tips for running a honeypot securely
• You can use this to get new 0day exploits or find weaknesses in your systems
• OpenBSD makes a great companion for security testing tools like this with all its exploit mitigation techniques that protect all running applications ***

NetBSD foundation financial report

• The NetBSD foundation has posted their 2013 financial report
• It's a very "no nonsense" page, pretty much only the hard numbers
• In 2013, they got $26,000 of income in donations
• The rest of the page shows all the details, how they spent it on hardware, consulting, conference fees, legal costs and everything else
• Be sure to donate to whichever BSDs you like and use! ***

Building a fully-encrypted NAS with OpenBSD

• Usually the popular choice for a NAS system is FreeNAS, or plain FreeBSD if you know what you're doing
• This article takes a look at the OpenBSD side and explains how to build a NAS with security in mind
• The NAS will be fully encrypted, no separate /boot partition like FreeBSD and FreeNAS require - this means the kernel itself is even protected
• The obvious trade-off is the lack of ZFS support for storage, but this is an interesting idea that would fit most people's needs too
• There's also a bit of background information on NAS systems in general, some NAS-specific security tips and even some nice graphs and pictures of the hardware - fantastic write up! ***

Interview - Brian Callahan & Aaron Bieber - admin@lists.nycbug.org & admin@cobug.org

Forming a local BSD Users Group

Tutorial

The basics of pkgsrc

News Roundup

FreeBSD periodic mails vs. monitoring

• If you've ever been an admin for a lot of FreeBSD boxes, you've probably noticed that you get a lot of email
• This page tells about all the different alert emails, cron emails and other reports you might end up getting, as well as how to manage them
• From bad SSH logins to Zabbix alerts, it all adds up quickly
• It highlights the periodic.conf file and FreeBSD's periodic daemon, as well as some third party monitoring tools you can use to keep track of your servers ***

Doing cool stuff with OpenBSD routing domains

• A blog post from our viewer and regular emailer, Kjell-Aleksander!
• He manages some internally-routed IP ranges at his work, but didn't want to have equipment for each separate project
• This is where OpenBSD routing domains and pf come in to save the day
• The blog post goes through the process with all the network details you could ever dream of
• He even named his networking equipment... after us ***

LibreSSL, the good and the bad

• We're all probably familiar with OpenBSD's fork of OpenSSL at this point
• However, "for those of you that don't know it, OpenSSL is at the same time the best and most popular SSL/TLS library available, and utter junk"
• This article talks about some of the cryptographic development challenges involved with maintaining such a massive project
• You need cryptographers, software engineers, software optimization specialists - there are a lot of roles that need to be filled
• It also mentions some OpenSSL alternatives and recent LibreSSL progress, as well as some downsides to the fork - the main one being their aim for backwards compatibility ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• Lots going on in PCBSD land this week, AppCafe has been redesigned
• The PBI system is being replaced with pkgng, PBIs will be automatically converted once you update
• In the more recent post, there's some further explanation of the PBI system and the reason for the transition
• It's got lots of details on the different ways to install software, so hopefully it will clear up any possible confusion ***

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ALTQ removed from PF

• Kicking off our big PF episode...
• The classic packet queueing system, ALTQ, was recently removed from OpenBSD -current
• There will be a transitional phase between 5.5 and 5.6 where you can still use it by replacing the "queue" keyword with "oldqueue" in your pf.conf
• As of 5.6, due about six months from now, you'll have to change your ruleset to the new syntax if you're using it for bandwidth shaping
• After more than ten years, bandwidth queueing has matured quite a bit and we can finally put ALTQ to rest, in favor of the new queueing subsystem
• This doesn't affect FreeBSD, PCBSD, NetBSD or DragonflyBSD since all of their PFs are older and maintained separately. ***

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report

• The quarterly status report from FreeBSD is out, detailing some of the project's ongoing tasks
• Some highlights include the first "stable" branch of ports, ARM improvements (including SMP), bhyve improvements, more work on the test suite, desktop improvements including the new vt console driver and UEFI booting support finally being added
• We've got some specific updates from the cluster admin team, core team, documentation team, portmgr team, email team and release engineering team
• LOTS of details and LOTS of topics to cover, give it a read ***

OpenBSD's OpenSSL rewrite continues with m2k14

• A mini OpenBSD hackathon begins in Morocco, Africa
• You can follow the changes in the -current CVS log, but a lot of work is mainly going towards the OpenSSL cleaning
• We've got two trip reports so far, hopefully we'll have some more to show you in a future episode
• You can see some of the more interesting quotes from the tear-down or see everything
• Apparently they are going to call the fork "LibreSSL" ....
• What were the OpenSSL developers thinking? The RSA private key was used to seed the entropy!
• We also got some mainstream news coverage and another post from Ted about the history of the fork
• Definitely consider donating to the OpenBSD foundation, this fork will benefit all the other BSDs too ***

NetBSD 6.1.4 and 6.0.5 released

• New updates for the 6.1 and 6.0 branches of NetBSD, focusing on bugfixes
• The main update is - of course - the heartbleed vulnerability
• Also includes fixes for other security issues and even a kernel panic... on Atari
• Patch your Ataris right now, this is serious business ***

Interview - Peter Hansteen - peter@bsdly.net / @pitrh

The Book of PF: 3rd edition

Tutorial

BSD Firewalls: PF

News Roundup

New Xorg now the default in FreeBSD

• For quite a while now, FreeBSD has had two versions of X11 in ports
• The older, stable version was the default, but you could install a newer one by having "WITH_NEW_XORG" in /etc/make.conf
• They've finally made the switch for 10-STABLE and 9-STABLE
• Check this wiki page for more info ***

GSoC-accepted BSD projects

• The Google Summer of Code team has got the list of accepted project proposals uploaded so we can see what's planned
• OpenBSD's list includes DHCP configuration parsing improvements, systemd replacements, porting capsicum, GPT and UEFI support, and modernizing the DHCP daemon
• The FreeBSD list was also posted
• Theirs includes porting FreeBSD to the Android emulator, CTF in the kernel debugger, improved unicode support, converting firewall rules to a C module, pkgng improvements, MicroBlaze support, PXE fixes, bhyve caching, bootsplash and lots more
• Good luck to all the students participating, hopefully they become full time BSD users ***

Complexity of FreeBSD VFS using ZFS as an example

• HybridCluster posted the second part of their VFS and ZFS series
• This new post has lots of technical details once again, definitely worth reading if you're a ZFS guy
• Of course, also watch episode 24 for our interview with HybridCluster - they do really interesting stuff ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• Preload has been ported over, it's a daemon that prefetches applications
• PCBSD is developing their own desktop environment, Lumina (there's also an FAQ)
• It's still in active development, but you can try it out by installing from ports
• We'll be showing a live demo of it in a few weeks (when development settles down a bit)
• Some kid in Australia subjects his poor mother to being on camera while she tries out PCBSD and gives her impressions of it ***