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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

Owning the Stack: Infrastructure Independence with FreeBSD and ZFS

News Roundup

Optimisation of parallel TCP input

Chosing between "it works for now" and "it works in the long term"

Losing one of my evenings after an OpenBSD upgrade

What drive did I just remove from the system?

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Top Ten Reasons to Upgrade to FreeBSD 13.2

History never repeats but sometimes it rhymes

News Roundup

Wayland on OpenBSD

OpenBGPD 8.1 released

Shoot yourself in the foot

Zenbleed: aka : The new fun for a while

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How to Upgrade OpenBSD and Build a Kernel

Let's see how to upgrade your OpenBSD system. Maybe you are doing this because the latest release just came out. If so, this is pretty simple: back up your data, boot from install media, and select "Upgrade" instead of "Install". But maybe the latest release has been out for a few months. Why would we go through the trouble of building and installing a new kernel or other core system components? Maybe some patches have been released to improve system security or stability. It is pretty easy to build and install a kernel on OpenBSD, easier and simpler in many ways than it is on Linux.

The History of man pages

Where do UNIX manpages come from? Who introduced the section-based layout of NAME, SYNOPSIS, and so on? And for manpage authors: where were those economical two- and three-letter instructions developed?

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VAX port needs help

The VAX is the oldest machine architecture still supported by NetBSD.
Unfortunately there is another challenge, totally outside of NetBSD, but affecting the VAX port big time: the compiler support for VAX is ... let's say sub-optimal. It is also risking to be dropped completely by gcc upstream.
Now here is where people can help: there is a bounty campaign to finance a gcc hacker to fix the hardest and most immediate issue with gcc for VAX. Without this being resolved, gcc will drop support for VAX in a near future version.

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My new FreeBSD Laptop: Dell Latitude 7390

As a FreeBSD developer, I make a point of using FreeBSD whenever I can — including on the desktop. I've been running FreeBSD on laptops since 2004; this hasn't always been easy, but over the years I've found that the situation has generally been improving. One of the things we still lack is adequate documentation, however — so I'm writing this to provide an example for users and also Google bait in case anyone runs into some of the problems I had to address.

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PFS tool changes in DragonFly

HAMMER2 just became a little more DWIM: the pfs-list and pfs-delete directives will now look across all mounted filesystems, not just the current directory’s mount path. pfs-delete won’t delete any filesystem name that appears in more than one place, though

• git: hammer2 - Enhance pfs-list and pfs-delete Enhance pfs-list to list PFSs available across all mounted hammer2 filesystems instead of just the current directory's mount. A specific mount may be specified via -s mountpt. Enhance pfs-delete to look for the PFS name across all mounted hammer2 filesystems instead of just the current directory's mount. As a safety, pfs-delete will refuse to delete PFS names which are duplicated across multiple mounts. A specific mount may be specified via -s mountpt.

Beastie Bits

• BastilleBSD Templates
• Tianocore update
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• Niclas - Regarding the Lenovo E595 user from Episode 340
• Erik - What happened with the video
• Igor - Boot Environments ***
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FreeBSD quarterly status report

• 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

• Recently, OpenBSD held one of their hackathons 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 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

• 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. ***

The future of 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 / @gvnn3

The FreeBSD Journal

Tutorial

Tracking -STABLE and -CURRENT (OpenBSD)

News Roundup

pfSense news and 2.1.1 snapshots

• 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 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

• 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

• Sascha Wildner committed some new ACPI code
• There's also a "heads up" to update your BIOS if you experience problems
• Check the mailing list post for all the details ***

PCBSD weekly digest

• 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! ***

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Faces of FreeBSD continues

• Our first one details Shteryana Shopova, the local organizer for EuroBSDCon 2014 in Sophia
• Gives some information about how she got into BSD
• "I installed FreeBSD on my laptop, alongside the Windows and Slackware Linux I was running on it at the time. Several months later I realized that apart from FreeBSD, I hadn't booted the other two operating systems in months. So I wiped them out."
• She wrote bsnmpd and extended it with the help of a grant from the FreeBSD Foundation
• We've also got one for Kevin Martin
• Started off with a pinball website, ended up learning about FreeBSD from an ISP and starting his own hosting company
• "FreeBSD has been an asset to our operations, and while we have branched out a bit, we still primarily use FreeBSD and promote it whenever possible. FreeBSD is a terrific technology with a terrific community." ***

OpenPF?

• A blog post over at the Dragonfly digest
• What if we had some cross platform development of OpenBSD's firewall?
• Similar to portable OpenSSH or OpenZFS, there could be a centrally-developed version with compatibility glue
• Right now FreeBSD 9's pf is old, FreeBSD 10's pf is old (but has the best performance of any implementation due to custom patches), NetBSD's pf is old (but they're working on a fork) and Dragonfly's pf is old
• Further complicated by the fact that PF itself doesn’t have a version number, since it was designed to just be ‘the pf that came with OpenBSD 5.4’
• Not likely to happen any time soon, but it's good food for thought ***

Year of BSD on the server

• A good blog post about switching servers from Linux to BSD
• 2014 is going to be the year of a lot of switching, due to FreeBSD 10's amazing new features
• This author was particularly taken with pkgng and the more coherent layout of BSD systems
• Similarly, there was also a recent reddit thread, "Why did you choose BSD over Linux?"
• Both are excellent reads for Linux users that are thinking about making the switch, send 'em to your friends ***

Getting to know your portmgr

• This time in the series they interview Bryan Drewery, a fairly new addition to the team
• He started maintaining portupgrade and portmaster, and eventually ended up on the ports management team
• Believe it or not, his wife actually had a lot to do with him getting into FreeBSD full-time
• Lots of fun trivia and background about him
• Speaking of portmgr, our interview for today is... ***

Interview - Baptiste Daroussin - bapt@freebsd.org

The future of FreeBSD's binary packages, ports' features, various topics

News Roundup

pfSense december hang out

• Interview/presentation from pfSense developer Chris Buechler with an accompanying blog post
• "This is the first in what will be a monthly recurring series. Each month, we’ll have a how to tutorial on a specific topic or area of the system, and updates on development and other happenings with the project. We have several topics in mind, but also welcome community suggestions on topics"
• Speaking of pfSense, they recently opened an online store
• We're planning on having a pfSense episode next month! ***

BSDMag December issue is out

• The free monthly BSD magazine gets a new release for December
• Topics include CARP on FreeBSD, more BSD programming, "unix basics for security professionals," some kernel introductions, using OpenBSD as a transparent proxy with relayd, GhostBSD overview and some stuff about SSH ***

OpenBSD gets tmpfs

• In addition to the recently-added FUSE support, OpenBSD now has tmpfs
• To get more testing, it was enabled by default in -current
• Should make its way into 5.5 if everything goes according to plan
• Enables lots of new possibilities, like our ccache and tmpfs guide ***

PCBSD weekly digests

• Catching up with all the work going on in PCBSD land..
• 10.0-RC2 is now available
• The big pkgng 1.2 problems seem to have been worked out ***

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