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BSD News 09/06/14

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Last Week in BSD
Releases: FreeBSD, JabirOS, PC-BSD, DragonFly BSD
Other news: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, git, BSDnow, BSDTalk, BSDCan, portmgr@

Releases

FreeBSD 9.3-BETA1 Now Available

The first BETA build of the 9.3-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.

The image checksums can be found in the PGP-signed announcement email.

ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here:
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.3/

JabirOS 2.0.1 has been released

JabirOS 2.0-RELEASE needed some little corrections in bsdinstall program and some other scripts. We have edited codebase, and now, JabirOS 2.0.1 is here.

DragonFly 3.8 released

The 3.8 release of DragonFly is out! See the release page for a changelog and check your local mirror for download first.
Binary dports packages for 3.8 have been built; they are available for download. (link goes to release versions of the packages. Future updates will be in ../LATEST)

PC-BSD 10.0.2-PRERELEASE ISO Available for Testing

The next 10.0.2-PRERELEASE ISO is now available for testing and can be downloaded from
http://download.pcbsd.org/iso/10.0-RELEASE/testing/amd64/.
If you have a spare system or virtual machine, consider testing this image. If you find any bugs, report them at https://trac.pcbsd.org so we can take a look at fixing them before 10.0.2 is released later this month.

Other news

bsdtalk242 – PFSense with Chris Buechler

Interview with Chris Buechler at BSDCan 2014.File Info: 17Min, 8MB.Ogg Link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk242.ogg

AirPorts & Packages | BSD Now 40

On this week’s episode, we’ll be giving you an introductory guide on OpenBSD’s ports and package system. There’s also a pretty fly interview with Karl Lehenbauer, about how they use FreeBSD at FlightAware. Lots of interesting news and answers to all your emails, on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff
Call for Testing: ld.so Malloc Improvements
sendmail(8) Patch In -stable Fixes Local Snooping Vulnerability
OpenSSL Releases Bugfixes, Advance Notice To Some Vendors But Not OpenBSD
In Other BSDs for 2014/06/07

Interesting articles
BSDCan Trip Report: Michael Dexter
Getting to know your portmgr@ – Steve Wills
Unix: Why you should love nmap
Playing nice with others. git(1) and patches on #FreeBSD
Hacking on Receive Side Scaling (RSS) on FreeBSD

Wallpaper of the week

from: http://www.pcbsd.org/en/artwork.html

BSD News 19/05/14

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Last week in BSD
Releases: JabirOS,GhostBSD
Other news: Unix, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD,TrueNAS, portmgr@, iXsystems,

Releases

JabirOS is released for Cubieboard 1

More Information and Download : Link

JabirOS image is now available for Raspberry Pi

Link : JabirOS for Raspberry Pi

GhostBSD 4.0-ALPHA3 now available

After a long awaiting time the third ALPHA build of the 4.0-RELEASE release cycle is ultimately available on SourceForge for the amd64, i386 architectures.
The image checksums, ISO images and USB images are available here:
http://www.ghostbsd.org/download-4.0

Other news

iXsystems, Inc.’s TrueNAS Achieves VMware Ready™ Status

“We are pleased that iXsystems, Inc.’s TrueNAS qualifies for the VMware Ready™ logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware integration and interoperability standards and it works effectively with VMware cloud infrastructure, which will speed time to value within customer environments.” said Sanjay Katyal, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.

Preorders Open For The Book PF, 3rd Edition

The third edition of The Book of PF is now available for preorder from the No Starch Press site. There will also be an early access program for the very eager readers. Author Peter Hansteen (also a co-editor here) tells us that highlights of the new edition include a walkthrough of the new traffic shaping system, a bit more IPv6 material than previous editions and various updates and fixes to the text so it's in line with the recently released OpenBSD 5.5 and will hopefully be useful past OpenbSD 5.6 and some time into the future.

Frederic Culot takes over as portmgr-secretary@

It is with great pleasure that the FreeBSD Ports Management Team announces that Frederic (culot@) Culot will take over responsibilities of team secretary effective immediately.
Frederic became a ports committer in October 2010, and joined the ranks of portmgr-lurkers@ in March 2014 as the shadow secretary.

BSDCanned Goods | BSD Now 37

This week we're at BSDCan, ganging up on people and forcing them to give us interviews. Assuming we don't get arrested for harassment, we'll be back next week with your regularly scheduled programming.
For now, we've got some feedback emails to catch up on, as well as a prerecorded talk Matt Ahrens gave about ZFS.
We'll be back to tell you all about the conference next week, on BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

Code stuff
Updates for libpcap, file
Atheros updates for sleep
GSI CPU Autoselection
Freelist Recycling Tweaks in OpenBSD
PC-BSD: Weekly Feature Digest 29 — PBING
ral(4) updates
Portmaster tip: you are using the new version
In Other BSDs for 2014/05/17

Interesting article
Unix: Automating your server inventory
Green Platform Anti-Vibration Test
The First Ever LibreSSL Status Report (the first 30 days)

Pic of the week

as found at: https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/112370801182816491936/

Let's have a nice BSD week again ;]

BSD News 17/03/14

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[BSD] Get a free KVM VPS to play with! And write about it.

Last week in BSD

Releases: PC-BSD
Other news: JabirOS, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD, portmgr@, FreeBSD Foundation, BSDCan, Mirama, OpenSMTPD, BSDnow, GhostBSD

BSD News 21/01/14

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Last week in BSD
Releases: m0n0wall, pfSense
Other news: BSDnow, portmgr@, OpenBSD, ruBSD, DragonFly BSD, PC-BSD

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Releases

m0n0wall 1.8.1 released

Change log highlights (see the SVN change log for the full details):

add scheduler ("Croen") service with many different job types (enable/disable interface or shaper rule, Wake on LAN, reboot, reconnect WAN, execute command etc.)
improved IPv6 support, including IPsec, DHCPv6-PD, RDNSS and DNSSL, and NDP info on the ARP diagnostic page
major overhaul of wireless LAN support. On some cards, it is now also possible to create multiple APs at the same time. To reflect this change, the wireless settings have moved to the Interfaces: assign page, where WLAN subinterfaces can be created much like for VLANs.
DNS forwarder: add option to log DNS queries, add aliases (CNAMEs) and MXs
Add AES-256, SHA-256/384/512 and additional DH group options to IPsec
Make rule moving and deletion on shaper rules page work like for firewall rules.
Initial support for USB modems
enable CPU hardware crypto support
automatically reassign available physical network interfaces if none of the assigned interfaces in the configuration can be found on the system (i.e. for a new installation, or when moving an existing config to new hardware)
the "embedded" image is gone; generic-pc-serial should now be used for PC Engines and Soekris boards
console speed for serial images is fixed to 9600 baud (no longer tries to use BIOS preset value)
introduction of an automated build system that allows one to build m0n0wall from scratch with almost no manual intervention on a standard FreeBSD 8.4 system
countless bug fixes and improvements in UI and system configuration code

Refer to the installation instructions for information on how to install these files on the various platforms.

pfSense 2.1.1-PRERELEASE Snapshots Available

For those who are inclined to try such things, 2.1.1-PRERELEASE snapshots are up for testing at http://snapshots.pfsense.org/

Update URLs for use in firmware update settings:
http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_3/amd64/pfSense_RELENG_2_1/.updaters/
http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_8_3/i386/pfSense_RELENG_2_1/.updaters/

The current set of builds have the new Intel drivers for em/igb/ixgb/ixgbe (Thanks Ermal!) and should support i210 and i354 and others, and should hopefully fix issues that have been observed with ixgb/ixgbe drivers.

Give them a spin, especially if you have hardware that could benefit from the new drivers.

A list of changes between 2.1 and 2.1.1 may be found here:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/2.1.1_New_Features_and_Changes

Other news

Bhyve Mind | BSD Now 20

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It’s our big 20th episode! We’re going to sit down for a chat with Neel Natu and Peter Grehan, the developers of bhyve. Not familiar with bhyve? Our tutorial will show you all you need to know about this awesome new virtualization technology. Answers to your questions and all the latest news, here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

pfSense talk at “Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyokai” February 17

Isaac (.ike) Levy, Senior Unix System Administrator at National Hockey League (http://www.linkedin.com/in/dotike) will be presenting “pfSense Practical Experiences: from home routers, to High-Availability Datacenter Deployments” at the Tokyo FreeBSD Benkyokai (FreeBSD Study Session) Group on February 17, 2014.
http://atnd.org/events/47084
Ike states that his main objective in Tokyo is to get some real help with the Japanese translation of pfSense.
Ike recently committed “Phase 1″ (machine translation) of this effort, which you can view at GitHub.

Joe Marcus Clarke has stepped down

Joe Marcus Clarke, aka marcus@, has stepped down from his duties on theÂ FreeBSD Ports Management Team.
Joe was our longest serving member of the team. Among his manyÂ accomplishments was being the repocopy source of authority, instrumental inÂ championing tinderbox development and maintaining portlint.
On behalf of the Ports Management team, we would like to thank Joe for hisÂ many years of service and dedication.
Thomas
on behalf of portmgr@

ruBSD: interviews with Theo and Henning

Last December Russian tech giant Yandex organised first ruBSD event in Moscow. OpenBSD developers Theo de Raadt, Henning Brauer and Mike Belopuhov gave three talks on different topics. There were interviews with Theo and Henning recorded as well. Theo spoke about current adoption of mitigation techniques in other OSes and state of OpenBSD project. Henning gave a history overview of PF.
All talks and interviews available online and for download.
Theo de Raadt: Exploit Mitigation Techniques: an Update After 10 Years (slides, video and interview)
Henning Brauer: OpenBSD's pf: Design, Implementation and Future (slides, video and interview)
Mike Belopuhov: OpenBSD: Where is crypto headed? (slides and video)

32-bit DragonFly 3.7 and dports

There are no binary packages built for dports, on DragonFly 3.7, for 32-bit machines, at this time. Pierre Abbat found this out. You can build from source, of course, or just use 3.6 packages. Don’t forget -DBATCH to avoid getting asked for build options when building from source.

Code stuff
DragonFly BSD - Other network improvements
DragonFly BSD - Trackpad support summary
DragonFly BSD - Testing USB4BSD
DragonFly BSD - ACPI updates and power states
FreeBSD security advisories
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest
In Other BSDs for 2014/01/18

Interesting articles
Hal, dbus, and VMWare tip. Also pkg locking
BlueVM KVM and NetBSD I.
Unix: Writing more efficient shell scripts

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Last week in BSD

Releases: FreeBSD, PC-BSD
Other news: BSDnow, DragonFly BSD, AsiaBSDCon, OpenBSD, portmgr@, code

Releases

PC-BSD Next 10.0 Image Available

Kris has announced the availability of the next 10.0 image:
The next PC-BSD 10-STABLE image is now available for download!
New Features:

Includes FreeBSD 10-STABLE / 10.0-BETA3 from 11/20/2013
Includes the Gnome3 / Mate / Cinnamon desktops, replacing Gnome2.
Updated installer options for text-mode, including ZFS options
Improved PBIs support
Updated our Linux compatibility layer to Centos 6
Numerous bug-fixes

10-STABLE notable features:

Updated KMS / AMD driver support
ISO file is a hybrid USB file, and can be “dd“ed to a USB media.
New text-based installer
New UEFI loader on installation media
Able to select between GRUB/BSD loaders during installation
New desktops! Gnome 3, Mate and Cinnamon
And much more!

FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 now available
FreeBSD 10.0-RC1 Available

Changes between -BETA4 and -RC1 include:

Fix to a regression in bsdinstall(8) that prevents ZFS on GELI installation from working correctly.

Please note: a last-minute problem was found in 10.0-RC1 testing with this installation option that is still being investigated. Please do not select the GELI encryption option from the installer. Although the installation successfully completes, the GELI passphrase will not decrypt the GELI provider.

Build Hyper-V kernel modules by default for i386.
Update oce(4) driver to support 40Gbps devices.
Improve robustness of the Xen balloon driver.
Fix accounting for hw.realmem on the i386 and amd64 platforms.
Fix poweroff(8) on XenServer.
Fix powerd/states on AMD cpus.
Add support for BCM57764, BCM57767, BCM57782, BCM57786 and BCM57787.
Fix PKG_ABI detection in bsdconfig(8) after pkg-1.2.
Fix emulated jail_v0 byte order.
Fix hang on reboot with active iSCSI connections.
Fix a potential system crash if a jail(8) is created and destroyed on systems with VIMAGE.

Other news

Moving forward by going slightly backwards and to the right, UEFI booting on #FreeBSD

The FreeBSD Foundation has been working towards the future of booting in x86 and catching up to our friends in Linux-land by sponsoring work on a UEFI enabled boot loader.

BSDNow Episode 013: Bridging the Gap - OpenBSD Router Part 2

In BSDNow "Episode 013: Bridging the Gap" they bring us their usual round of general BSD news and an interview with one of the FreeBSD developers and co-founders, Jordan Hubbard, along with improvements and continuations on their "OpenBSD Router" tutorial.
The BSDNow show is recorded live on Wednesdays at 2pm Eastern Standard Time and then the live recording is edited into the video and audio files released the following Friday afternoon. Due to time constraints and live recordings, it's always best to check their website show notes and tutorial pages for updated information. As TJ said, "It's a community-driven project," so if you want to help out, you can send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv
Available audio and video recordings:
SD Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Youtube | Torrent | iTunes MP3 | Roku

Zettabytes for Days | BSD Now 14

This week is the long-awaited episode you've been asking for! We'll be giving you a crash course on becoming a ZFS wizard, as well as having a chat with George Wilson about the OpenZFS project's recent developments. We have answers to your feedback emails and there are some great news items to get caught up on too, so stay tuned to BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

DragonFly BSD: A bge(4) fix for some hardware

If you have a bge(4) network card and it’s giving you problems every time you configure it, there’s a fix on the way.

AsiaBSDCon 2013 FreeBSD videos

Sato-san (bsdconferences) has created a playlist of 15 videos from AsiaBSDCon 2013.

Interesting articles

Is Your Stack Protector Working?
Faces of FreeBSD - Reid Linnemann
Faces of FreeBSD - Brooks Davis
Getting to know your portmgr@ — Thomas Abthorpe
Getting to know your portmgr@ — Baptiste Daroussin

Code stuff

PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 12/6/13
In Other BSDs for 2013/12/07

BSD News 25/11/13

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Last week in BSD

Releases: DragonFly BSD
Other news: FreeBSD Foundation, portmgr@, NYCBSDCon, vBSDCon, pfSense, AsiaBSDCon, FOSDEM, FreeBSD, BSDnow, OpenBSD

Releases

DragonFly Release 3.6

Dports, which uses the FreeBSD ports system as a base, and the 'pkg' tools for installation, is now default on DragonFly. Over 20,000 packages are available in binary or source form.

Using the parallel building of the 20,000 packages in dports as a test case, contention in the kernel has been nearly eliminated. Improvements scale up with the number of cores in the system.

Support for newer Intel and ATI chipsets is present in the system. This may not work for every hardware combination, but a number of users have reported success with hardware-accelerated video using this update.

locales and libiconv work have brought DragonFly up to date on language support. Utilities should be usable in your native language.Availability

Two release options are now available for 32-bit as well as for 64-bit x86 machines. 64-bit installations are recommended if you do not need the Linux emulation layer. 32-bit images are only required by legacy, non-64-bit capable hardware such as early Pentium 4 or Athlon based machines.

Other News

Getting to know your portmgr@ — Erwin Lansing

In this interview we talk to one of the Annoying Reminder Guys, Erwin Lansing, after Joe Marcus Clarke, the second longest serving member of portmgr@.

Faces of FreeBSD - Colin Percival

We are pleased to be running our Faces of FreeBSD series again! Every week we’ll be sharing a story from someone involved in FreeBSD. It may be someone who’s received funding from us to work on development projects, run conferences, travel to conferences, or advocate for FreeBSD. Or, it may be from someone who contributes financially to the foundation. This story comes from Colin Percival whose company is a 2013 Silver Donor.

DragonFly: i386 dports maintainer wanted

John Marino isn’t interested in supporting the i386 architeecture for DragonFly and dports, so he’s not going to actively work on it. (Packages for DragonFly 3.6 are already built, so that’s not a problem for release.) If you feel like taking on a significant but interesting workload, check his message about the work involved.

NYCBSDCon 2014 Call For Papers And Exposés

OpenBSD developer Brian Callahan (bcallah@) wrote in to announce the NYCBSDCon 2014 Call For Papers (CFP) and Call For Exposés (CFE). The NYCBSDCon 2014 conference will be a day-long event held on February 8, 2014 at Suspenders Restaurant located at 111 Broadway just above Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, New York City. There are still some opportunities available to sponsor NYCBSDCon.

This year in addition to our usual CFP, we're also having something we've named a Call For Exposes (CFE). The NYCBSDCon Exposés will be demonstrations of BSD-based projects from developers and implementers.
As of now, I can tell you that I'm the one in charge of organizing the exposés and I'll be doing one. I'll be bringing Yeeloong and Octeon machines so attendees can get a first-hand look at the different OpenBSD/MIPS platforms and a chance to play with the hardware.
Please subscribe to the NYCBSDCon mailing list as it will have the most up-to-date information.

vBSDCon with Reyk Floeter (reyk@) and Henning Brauer (henning@)

At the end of October, very first Verisign vBSDCon was held near Washington D.C. at the Hyatt hotel in Dulles, Virginia. Reyk Floeter (reyk@) and Henning Brauer (henning@) were asked to give a joint presentation titled, "Inspecting Packets with OpenBSD and pf". Henning wrote in to tell us about his experience and give us the previous link to the presentation slides.

At BSDcan 2013 in Ottawa earlier this year, Michael Dexter got Reyk and myself together with Vincent Miller of Verisign, who was in the process of organizing vBSDcon. He asked us wether we could give a pf run-through presentation at vBSDcon. We quickly agreed on a way that makes it comfortable for Reyk and me. We flew over to IAD, the Washington D.C. international airport in Dulles, VA, where the conference was held. We found an amazingly well organized conference. Even though this was the first vBSDcon, it was obvious the team had experience in organizing events like that. Our talk [link to slides] was very well received, the audience was great, and I had a lot of fun on stage giving it with Reyk.

NYCBSDCon 2014 Date Change - Can't Compete With The Superb Owl

pfSense 2.1 on AWS EC2

We now have pfSense 2.1 available on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

AsiaBSDCon 2013 Videos Posted to YouTube

Sato-san has created a playlist of 15 videos from AsiaBSDCon 2013. Congrats to the organizers for running another successful conference in Tokyo.

FOSDEM 2014 Call For Presentations In BSD Developer Room

Benny Siegert (bsiegert<at>gmail<dot>com) wrote the following announcement for the FOSDEM 2014 Call For Presentations in the BSD Developer Room:

Hello all,
FOSDEM 2014 will take place on 1-2 February, 2014, in Brussels, Belgium. Just like in the last years, there will be both a BSD booth and a developer's room (on Saturday).
The topics of the devroom include all BSD operating systems. Every talk is welcome, from internal hacker discussion to real-world examples and presentations about new and shiny features. The default duration for talks will be 45 minutes including discussion. Feel free to ask if you want to have a longer or a shorter slot.
If you already submitted a talk last time, please note that the procedure is slightly different.

Read more...
vBSDCon Trip Report: John-Mark Gurney

[Phoronix] FreeBSD Is Getting Into The Magazine Business

The FreeBSD Foundation is sponsoring a new FreeBSD Journal publication that's about to begin publishing bi-monthly issues concerning BSD.

The FreeBSD Journal will be officially launching in January as a new web-based magazine focused exclusively on FreeBSD matters. The first issue for January/February 2014 covers the ZFS file-system, the ARM BeagleBone Black on FreeBSD, implementing system control nodes, FreeBSD managed services, and the Clang compiler, among other reports.

While there isn't yet a web-site with full details, etc, the FreeBSD Foundation backed web magazine can be found at FreeBSDJournal.com.

Collecting SSHells | BSD Now 12

This week we’ll be talking to Amitai Schlair of the NetBSD foundation about pkgsrc, NetBSD’s future plans and much more. After that, if you’ve ever wondered what all this SSH stuff is about, today’s tutorial has got you covered. We’ll be showing you the basics of SSH, as well as how to combine it with tmux for persistent sessions. News, feedback and everything else, right here on BSD Now – the place to B.. SD.

OpenBSD 5.4: Puffy on the Desktop

The OpenBSD project is one of the more interesting, though perhaps most overlooked, members of the BSD family. The OpenBSD operating system is probably best known for its impressive security record (only two remote security holes have been found in the default configuration in over a decade), but the project offers other important features. One is that OpenBSD comes with high quality and detailed documentation. In fact, the manual pages and website documentation are perhaps some of the best available in the open source world. Another great feature is the correctness, the clean implementation of OpenBSD. The operating system avoids clutter, avoids mess, avoids bugs of all sorts. This means that the core of OpenBSD is stable, secure and it is uncomplicated. These characteristics make OpenBSD a good operating system for web servers, file servers, routers and firewalls. In the past I tended to refer to OpenBSD in the context of server or network equipment, a less-flashy yet important realm. With the arrival of OpenBSD 5.4 I would like to examine how OpenBSD holds up in the role of a desktop solution.

Code stuff

In Other BSDs for 2013/11/23
Weekly Feature Digest 11/23/13

Thanks for reading! See you next week!

BSD News 18/11/13

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Last week in BSD

Releases: PC-BSD
Other News: sudo, FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation, OpenBSD, Vagrant, Veewee, portmgr@, EuroBSDCon, BSD Magazine, BSDnow, pfSense

Releases

PC-BSD: Second 10-STABLE Image Available for Testing

Kris has announced the availability of the next 10.0 testing image:
The second PC-BSD 10-STABLE image is now available for download!
New Features:

Includes FreeBSD 10-STABLE / 10.0-BETA3 from 11/8/2013
Switched to PCDM as the default login manager
New 10.X artwork & themes
Fixed a long list of bugs relating to PBIs
Fixed issues enabling the flash plugin out of box
Corrected some installation issues via the text-installer
Corrected an issue changing passwords via the User Manager
Other misc bugfixes

10-STABLE notable features:

Updated KMS / AMD driver support
ISO file is a hybrid USB file, and can be “dd“ed to a USB media.
New text-based installer
New UEFI loader on installation media
Able to select between GRUB/BSD loaders during installation
And much more!

Reporting Issues:
Found a bug? Please report it, in as much detail as possible, to our Trac database.

Other news

FreeBSD Foundation's Year-End Fundraising Campaign!

Donations can easily be made here: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/.

This year your donations helped FreeBSD by:

Funding development projects to improve FreeBSD, including: Native iSCSI kernel stack, Updated Intel graphics chipset support, Integration of Newcons, UTF-8 console support, Superpages for ARM architecture, and Layer 2 networking modernization and performance improvements.
Hiring two more staff members to help with FreeBSD development projects, security, and release engineering.
Educating the public and promoting FreeBSD. We are preparing the debut our new online magazine, the FreeBSD Journal. We created high-quality brochures to teach people about FreeBSD. We also visited companies to help facilitate collaboration efforts with the Project.
Sponsoring BSD conferences and summits in Europe, Japan, Canada, and the US.
Protecting FreeBSD IP and providing legal support to the Project.
Purchasing hardware to build and improve FreeBSD project infrastructure.

pfSense project: We’re looking for a new support person

Requirements

Native English speaker or equivalent fluency – this person will interact with customers all over the world, via phone, chat and email, using English as the common language. Successful candidate will likely be a native English speaker, though we know from speaking with our customers in Europe and elsewhere around the world that there are many non-native English speakers who communicate as effectively in English as any native speaker.
Must have reliable, good quality high speed Internet connectivity – this person will have an extension from our VoIP PBX colocated at one of our customers in eastern Canada. We know from experience that voice quality is acceptable up to at least 250 ms latency where there is relatively minimal jitter. The typical residential DSL or cable broadband service in first world countries anywhere in the world should suffice. The first Internet connection is the employee’s responsibility. Where a secondary connection is available at a reasonable cost, we will reimburse the full cost of the secondary Internet connection for purposes of redundancy and multi-WAN testing and experience.
Firewall support experience – must have experience supporting multiple vendors’ firewalls. Experience specifically with pfSense is highly desirable but not required, as anyone experienced in firewall support should be able to pick it up quickly.
Solid customer service skills.
Senior-level system administration skills on FreeBSD – while minimal actual system administration is involved (short of some involvement maintaining our hosting servers), such skills are key to being able to support and help maintain pfSense and derived products.
Solid network administration and troubleshooting skills – Proficient with IP routing, dynamic routing protocols (OSPF and BGP in particular), packet analysis with tcpdump and Wireshark, switch configuration and troubleshooting, general network troubleshooting, quality of service, and network design mostly for small to mid sized networks.
General computer security expertise
Some programming background – while not a programming position, everyone on our staff must at least have the ability to read PHP code and make minor modifications.
Self-motivated and able to complete tasks with minimal supervision and guidance – our entire team is always willing to help, and some time to get up to speed is expected, but we don’t have time for significant hands-on management of staff and don’t micromanage. Everyone is required to complete assigned tasks with minimal oversight.

Desirable qualifications

Experience in a consulting role highly desirable – our existence, as with any consulting-focused company, is dependent on highly detailed and timely time tracking.
Prior experience in work from home positions desirable (unless you’re going to be based in Austin, TX)

Responsibilities

Support – Phone, ticket and live chat support are a significant portion of this role. Most all support requests are setting up new installs, or adding things to existing installs. Very little of what we do is break/fix support, as short of network problems outside the firewall and occasional hardware issues, as anyone experienced with pfSense knows, once it’s up and running, it “just works.” Quality Assurance – assist in QA testing, and contribute to the development of more automated QA processes and procedures.

Company information
This position is with ESF LLC, the corporation behind the pfSense project. We’ve been in business for going on seven years, and have been offering support and related services for nearly six years. We’ve grown significantly every year, are stable and solely self-funded (we answer to our customers and the community, not investors).
If you’re interested, please do get in-touch.

The Gateway Drug | BSD Now 11

We sit down to chat with Justin Sherrill of the DragonflyBSD project about their new 3.6 release. Later on, we'll be showing you a huge tutorial that's been baking for over a month - how to build an OpenBSD router that'll destroy any consumer router on the market! There's lots of news to get caught up on as well, so sit back and enjoy some BSD Now - the place to B.. SD.

BSD Magazine (November 2013): Hast on FreeBSD

From the table of contents:

Configuring a Highly Available Service on FreeBSD – Part 1: HAST
IT Inventory & Asset Management Automation
FreeBSD Programming Primer – Part 10
PfSense + Snort: Fast approach
How Secure Can Secure Shell (SSH) Be?
Column
Maximising Website Runtime on Host Servers Running FreeBSD
PGDay.IT 2013

Download and read the magazine: Hast on FreeBSD – How to make storage highly availble by using HAST (pfd)

Talk Recordings

EuroBSDCon 2013 DevSummit video recordings
Videos of Absolute OpenBSD author, Michael Lucas, talk at mug.org

Code stuff

FreeBSD Family Code Commits – Week 45
OpenBSD adds boot(8) support for keydisk-based softraid crypto volumes
PC-BSD Weekly Feature Digest 11/15/13
In Other BSDs for 2013/11/16

Interesting articles

The Ports Management Team 2013-11-11
In this interview, we talk to another portmgr-lurker@, Antoine Brodin aka antoine@

Running Qemu VMs on FreeBSD
nice tutorial

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The hotplug-diskmount port is a plug-in for the OpenBSD hotplugd(8) daemon to automatically mount removable disks to the filesystem. It works with any disk types (SD cards, USB mass storage devices, card readers and CD/DVD drives). The hotplug-diskmount program is intended to be used in single user environment on desktop or laptop where the convenience of automatic mounting is really helpful.

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BSD News 11/11/13

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Releases: FreeBSD, GhostBSD, Security Router
Other News:DragonFly BSD, portmgr@ , OpenBSD, OpenSSH, b2k13 hackathon, BSDnow, PC-BSD

Releases

FreeBSD 10.0-BETA3 now available

The third BETA build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.

ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are available here or at any of the FreeBSD mirror sites.

Checksums for the installation images are available in the announcement email.

Changes between -BETA2 and -BETA3 include:

Several small fixes for the amd64 minidump code.
Add a 'pkg bootstrap' command which will bootstrap pkg(8) without forwarding any command to it after installation.
Fix make(1) warning output with 'make delete-old' and 'make delete-old-libs'
Add kernel side support for large TLB on BERI/CHERI.
Fix compatibility function for old daily_status_security_${name}_enable variables.
Add loader.conf(5) entries to import bootpool after boot when using full-disk encryption and ZFS.
Switch the default mtree to nmtree our new NetBSD derived mtree.
Remove the (unused) isf(4) driver.
Separate WITHOUT_CLANG and WITHOUT_CLANG_IS_CC.
Add atse(4), a driver for the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet MegaCore.
Fix a deadlock when trying to power off a USB device.
Support checking signature for pkg bootstrap from remote and for 'pkg add ./pkg.txz'
Fix long-standing issue with incorrect radix mask calculation.
Add support for using "pkg+http://" for the PACKAGESITE.
Add driver for POWER hypervisor interpartition ethernet.
Fix panic in the tap driver when a tap and vmnet interface were created after each other.

Pre-installed virtual machine images for 10.0-BETA3 are also available for amd64 and i386 architectures.

GhostBSD 3.5 “Levi” released

Eric Turgeon has announced, on behalf of the GhostBSD team, GhostBSD 3.5 Levi. Levi is the third release of the 3.* branch which improves GhostBSD 3.1 and introduces some new features.
Some of the new features are included in the last stable version are:

OpenSSL has been updated to version 0.9.8y.
DTrace hooks have been enabled by default in the GENERIC kernel.
DTrace has been updated to version 1.9.0.
OpenSSH has been updated to version 6.2p2.
Gnome 2.32 has been replace by Mate 1.6.
Xfce 4.10 is now part of desktop choice.
GhostBSD BSM theme with custom Faenza icon.
Mate, Xfce and LXDE contain a more uniform set of software.
Gimp is now install by default.
Shotwell is now install by default.
The installer GBI as been updated to 1.3.

The Coding Studio has a number of GhostBSD 3.5 screenshots, should you be interested to see how it looks without having to install it.

Security router 3.2 based on OpenBSD 5.4

Today we’ll release version 3.2 (winter) of our security router. The reason for the 3.1-to-2 bump is the update from OpenBSD 5.3 to 5.4; signalling the fact that despite having few new features, it represents a major bump in under-the-hood changes, which results in a very large “binary diff” compared to minor version updates.
OpenBSD 5.4 was released only a few days ago, but because the code has been mostly frozen for several months, we’ve had plenty of time for testing. There are several reasons for why we closely track the OpenBSD and FreeBSD project’s progress and releases;

Our products benefit from advances in those projects, such as new features and improved hardware support.
Because we offer root login and modularity, our users appreciate the fact that the base system isn’t outdated.
Modernisation of our own code; utilising better and more efficient system APIs, following their style and conventions, and making our daemons and utilities fit into OpenBSD as good as possible.
Because we share all our patches, we can minimise our number of patches because they are continuously incorporated into OpenBSD.

Other News

DragonFly 3.6 branched

Branched, not released. The release should happen in two weeks. One major bug has been squished, and remember the upgrade process from 3.4 to 3.6 is a little different from normal.

Getting to know your portmgr@ — Mathieu Arnold

In this interview, we take a short break from the usual, and interview a portmgr-lurker@, Mathieu Arnold. He was one of the founding members of perl@ back in the day.

DragonFly developer interview

DragonFly developer Francois Tigeot was interviewed on linuxfr.org. As you can probably guess from the names, it’s a French site, but don’t let that stop you if you’re an Anglophone.

OSPF over IPsec

Maxim Bourmistrov (maxim<at>unixconn<dot>com) wrote in to tell us about his Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) over IP Security Protocol (IPsec).

While looking for a solution for OSPF over IPsec, I found a lot of articles about how to do this over gre(4). The other possibility is to use gif(4) instead. I've tested both and was not quite happy with results. The gre(4) approach had some generic issues and the gif(4) approach had problems with multicast at times. Yet, I need to have "OSPF over IPsec" up and running.
Luckily, I remembered Theos' presentation about vether(4). While Theos' presentation was mostly written from developer perspective and not from administrators point of view, he left some clues about how this can be done.
The info below is how I do "OSPF over IPsec", or should I say "OSPF on top on vether on top of gif on top of IPsec".

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OpenSSH Security Advisory

b2k13 hackathon report: Henning Brauer (henning@) on Lazy IP Checksumming

Henning Brauer (henning@) just sent in his report from the b2k13 hackathon, but there's also a short interview with Henning over on ioexception.de which you might enjoy.

Berlin was a really convenient hackathon location for me, since getting there from Hamburg feels like a little longer S-Bahn ride. The fast ICE train makes it only a 90 minute trip. I arrived half a day later than intended due to work interfering, but I quickly got going.